Jesus, I just got killed by my BF because I am not flipping out over Trump's tape.  She was going on and on how men don't talk like that etc... lol.  Shit, I hope she never hears my "guy talk" lol.

My phone blew up today after the “Trump said awful things in 2005” story broke.   As one of the stalwart Trump apologists this go-round, I guessed it was time to take my lumps and admit defeat. 

My HRC-voting friends couldn’t wait to throw this pie full of smoking gun in my face and rub it all over my moderate-voter “fiscal conservative, social liberal” nostrils.   I was finished, me and my orange buffoon candidate.   

That was, until I started actually thinking about it.   

Actual real thought, beyond the context of the absurd, misogynistic things Donald Trump said years ago while he was busy “not running for president.”   You know, the Donald Trump who doesn’t have ex-wives appearing before cameras bashing him or children who have much other than praise for a very devoted father.   But he says stupid, noteworthy things, even regarding his daughters.   

On the other end of the text messages and phone calls were friends of mine whose language, much like my own, has gotten highly “not live-mic worthy” over the years.

I admit it.   I say godawful things in private, on many topics.   So does every single person who suddenly morphed into a Sunday-dressed cleric and couldn’t wait to regale me with stories of Donald Trump’s filthy mouth.   

This campaign is completely devoid of any substance, as our regularly scheduled presidential election season has been replaced by a smarmy tabloid slugfest on both sides. 

On one side, you have a power hungry First Lady who transformed into an unremarkable Senator followed by a humdinger of a lousy term as Secretary of State.   She lost in 2008 to a a community organizer The Left can’t wait to escort into sainthood, nevermind the fact $9,000,000,000,000 has been added to our national debt and the #1 topics as he scoots out of office are our miserable state of race relations and the explosion of ISIS.   

It’s so bad we have lost our international respect, and our president is told to “Go to hell” you “son of a whore” by Rodrigo Duterte, the president of Philippines.  Duterte has vowed to “kill as many people as Hitler” if necessary to rid his country of a drug trade which has brought it to its knees.   Duterte, by the way, has a popularity rating in his nation far in excess of our president or either of our current viable candidates.   

While Hillary was designing her “Pivot to Asia” as SecState, Bill was dutifully traversing Asia collecting giant speaking fees on behalf of that delightful Clinton Foundation.   Just coincidence?   

Look at Asia now.   Our relations with Russia have taken a nose dive, yet apparently it’s a terrible thing to have good relations with Russia - just ask anyone inside the Trump campaign who has spent time doing business in that part of the world.   Philippines, which was our territory after the Spanish-American war, is now telling us they don’t need our military and we can go screw ourselves.   So much for that highly essential logistic partnership, they’ll “pivot toward Asia” and express a preference for a nation which is actually their mortal enemy, China.   

The world is very unconcerned with our pretend morality, telling us instead to reign in our police or they’ll send in international monitors to report on our descent into third world status - and sadly many of our inner cities qualify.   

Great job, Obama.   All you need to do now is bulldoze the White House as a final act of contrition, because the next president (likely Hillary) is going to preside over a miserable cleanup effort and a literal rebuilding of this broken nation.   Except she can’t pull it off.   We know this.   We have watched her for decades.   Can Trump?   Who knows.   We do know she cannot.   This fact motivates me.   

One of my friends asked me a few weeks ago:   “You usually seem so thoughtful, how could YOU possibly vote for Donald Trump?”   Oh, let me count the reasons.   

President Obama is leaving us with healthcare truly in shambles, the rise of Black Lives Matter and a debtload which he called “unpatriotic” while scolding George W. Bush for far less.   That crazy war Bush started?   Unfinished, not fixed, two terms later.   By many accounts, much worse.   Thanks, Obama.

On the other side of the campaign, you have one of the world’s most or least successful businessmen - depending on who’s counting the money or publishing decades old tax returns.   

He’s racist - he employs thousands of virtually every race, color, creed, origin, preference, you name it.   He’s so racist if you walk into virtually any major Trump property it looks like the lobby at UN.   No, he’s not racist, he’d like us to adhere to these nutty concepts called “immigration laws.”

I watched the legit immigration process this year as a Filipino native moved here.   It’s brutal, it’s time consuming, it’s invasive and most of all terribly expensive.   Everyone who walks in unnoticed and unaccounted for spits in the face of everyone who does it legally, and among the smartest things ever uttered was “immigration must benefit the receiving nation.”   

“Trump made his ties and promotional items in China and bought Chinese steel.”    All completely irrelevant, as he and his companies have to make decisions based upon profit and loss.   His goal is ultimately to make American industry stronger and more competitive, something which receives only shrill mention during campaigns and is promptly forgotten while our actual manufacturing employment plummets.   

BUT HILLARY IS FOR WOMEN AND TRUMP SAID HORRIBLE THINGS
This is all the rage today, this October surprise of Donald Trump’s naughty man-mouth.   My beloved hypocritical friends aside who bombed my phone all day with “Trump said grab p****”, let’s see how much good Hillary does for women.

FULL DISCLOSURE:   I have to be honest about this so there is no confusion where my loyalties lay.    I have checked, and both of my daughters are women.   Both of them.
Since it wasn’t politically expedient for her to be anything but an enemy to Monica Lewinsky, she decided to report that Ms. Lewinsky was a “narcissistic loony toon.”   

While her book Living History discusses how she “gulped for air” when Bill revealed his indiscretions, one wonders if she was still gulping air to spew all the hatred and discredit from years past when she was throwing Gennifer Flowers and Kathleen Willey down various flights of stairs.

Willey:   “She used moblike tactics to silence me.”

“Her tactics and the things that she set in motion against all the women like me, the ones you have heard of and the ones you haven’t heard of, and the ones who are so scared that fled the country, are terrorist tactics like I’ve never seen before.”

“I went through them. I lived through them. And I know exactly what I am talking about. She is the war on women. I don’t care what anybody says.”

Oh, but no.   Clinton is a saint for women because she agrees with partial birth abortion and believes it’s perfectly okee-dokee for Saudi Arabia to treat women like perpetual minorities, murder gay people and donate $25 million to her foundation.   

There are a lot of smart women who see through Hillary Clinton and were on the rush for Bernie Sanders, a white male avowed socialist who young women flocked to until he was bested by Hillary (and the Democratic Party home office.)   

Atlanta attorney Anoa Changa, 34, was one of these women who saw the truth of who Hillary actually is - and what her “glass ceiling” doesn’t mean for females in this country. 

“I reject this brand of feminism. I’m not only voting for my gender, I’m voting for other issues.”

“...there are a lot of issues that affect low-income women, immigrant women and women of color that her brand of doing things is not going to address.”

She also didn’t have much great to offer about President Obama:

“Yay, I get to look at someone who looks like me, but what does that mean when my life chances aren’t directly affected?”

So what are her comments today?     

Here is a female, black Atlanta attorney who seems to be placing her political bets based on thought rather than pure ideology.   

Is she voting Trump?   I’d say 0/10 chance of that.    She has terribly critical things to say about him, and about Hillary Clinton.   And rightfully so.

“Trump is disgusting. But please stop acting like you are some moral warrior for denouncing him. “   

“Black children under attack all over the country but by all means keep all this focus on Trump.  Defeat him and then what?  Back to normal?”

IF YOU WANT TO HATE DONALD J. TRUMP FOR SAYING HORRIBLE THINGS, you certainly can.

But here’s what no one can do:

1)   No one can vote for Hillary Clinton because she has lived with a strong, unyielding focus on women’s rights - personally, legislatively or otherwise.   

2)   No can vote for Hillary Clinton because she has been a consistent supporter and champion of LGBT rights, up to and including direct involvement in nations which murder gays while deeply objectifying women. 

3)   No one can make the claim that Hillary is even the leading choice for the next generation of feminists, because that mantle clearly belongs to Bernie Sanders (Note:  Not female).   

Young women especially are highly tuned to concepts which affect their future, and have grown up in a generation which is learning to sift bullshit at an early age.   
Gone are the days when young females worshiped the Gloria Steinam brand of feminism and cared much if Madeline Albright tells them they’ll go to hell for not supporting Hillary.   (Granted, the ‘special place in hell’ statement was tongue in cheek.   Which is not allowed.   Except if you’re on the left.)
Donald Trump’s statements from 2005 were misogynistic trash, rude and deserving of general repulsion.   

Yet, Hillary R. Clinton’s actions, for years, have been misogynistic trash, rude and deserving of general repulsion. 
Let’s make sure we keep our eye on the facts, and spread the thick layer of hypocrisy everywhere it needs to find a home.

Ya gotta love it. Bill cheats on Hillary and Hillary is a bad person because she didn't leave him LOL. She obviously cares about money, but who knows what her reasons were/are with Bill. I never been cheated on, but I have dealt with other issues and I know from personal experience that it can be hard to move on from someone who was originally so wonderful. It's not easy accepting they aren't the person you fell in love with and in her case built a life with.

Anyway Hillary staying with Bill is irrelevant. It isn't a misdeed and Trump has her beat in that categories by miles. If you want to call Hillary greedy for the millions she and Bill has made - fine, but that still pales in comparison to Trump screwing over the little guy every chance he gets for his own personal gain.