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Has any political plan ever backfired as spectacularly as the #MeToo Movement?


#MeToo came about in 2017 in the hopes it would draw out women with claims that Trump sexually assaulted them.

8 years later, Trump has no verifiable claims against him, but countless powerful Leftist celebrities like Neil Gaiman have had their lives totally destroyed by the exposure of their sexual misdeeds.

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The goal was to expose predators. It has done that.

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The timing of the movement tells us the ulterior motive was to get Trump.

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Nonsense. Started 2006!

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Nah, I don't remember it in 2006; 2017 sounds right.

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2017 was when the hashtag went viral. The Me Too movement was more than ten years old at that stage and had been prominent even before the 2016 election which exposed Trump's taped admission that he sexually abuses women and gets away with it because he's famous. Something that was completely independent of the Me Too movement.

Are you telling us that it's about the hashtag and not the movement? If so then that's the weakest most pathetic fucking snowflake. shit I've heard all week.

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Trump's taped admission that he sexually abuses women and gets away with it because he's famous
No, Trump said if you're rich/famous, women throw themselves at you and you can do whatever you want!
https://youtu.be/FSC8Q-kR44o?feature=shared&t=93

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That's what many rapists say about women in general.

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How many rapists are rich/famous?

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You're fucking dense, you know that?

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Because he's a predator with several verdicts of sexual assault against him.

He admitted that he's a sexual assaulter. It was revealed during his 2016 election campaign.

What motivates shitsuckers like yourself to defend him and deny or deflect for him?

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No, he did not. Two dudes making some crass, unPC jokes in a locker room together is in no way a confession of sexual assault. You're acting retarded.

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"There are 26 credible claims of sexual abuse against Trump, and one of those also cost him $83 million dollars."

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Except that MAGATs like you came to the defense of those celebs because they're men and the accusers were women. Weinstein, Cosby, etc, you guys doubted the accusers. Don't pretend otherwise, I was here and saw the posts defending those creeps.

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I'm a Trump fan, but I never thought that the #metoo movement was designed specifically to target him. Rather, it seems like it grew out of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Fall 2017, and in the aftermath it was a way of "outing" other successful, "respected" men who had gotten away with (alleged) sexual harassment.

Since Trump has long had a reputation for being a playboy of sorts, allegations of sexual harassment against him weren't exactly scandalous in the way they were scandalous for other professional men. The whole Stormy Daniels story seemed like a side story more than anything else.

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