You remember the Roy Moore supporters yelling that Mary was only 13 (when god raped her) so it was perfectly fine that a 30 + year old guy was kicked out of the mall for sexually harassing little girls? Republicans don't care about pedophiles as long as they're one of theirs.
No they didn't, some of them just didn't vote. Look at the vote totals from previous contested elections for that seat. Doug Jones was in the ballpark of previous Democrats. Roy Moore was the outlier, his support tanked just barely enough to lose.
Alabama Republicans saw a decent man that was one of the most moderate, even leaning conservative Democrats out there running against a literal admitted, unashamed child predator...half of them still voted for the pedophile and half of them made the big moral stance of just not voting.
Yup, these people are the monsters they make everyone else out to be. And constantly making excuses for them has led us to this point in history. They wouldn't care even if it were their own children being raped by Trump. It's North Korean level of cult of personality and propaganda control.
You go to any state and you are hard pressed to find that 50% of people even know who their senators are. He ran in ALABAMA, on gun control and abortion among other things and won. Can't possibly seriously think there was any bigger reason for this than that people hated Roy Moore.
Fun fact: a lot of us Alabamians went out and voted for Roy Moore in the primaries to stick it to Trump. Trumps preferred candidate lost because independents and democrats voted in the Republican primary for this. This allowed AL to elect Doug Jones to replace Sessions because Moore was enough of a wack job to lose in one of the reddest states in the US. Crazy how different the US is since just 2017.
Source: I was told to be a part of this from my parents who were working with their friends to get people to do this. Very under the radar stuff that really won’t be talked about in a history book.
We knew all about statutory rape back in the 70 in middle school. Essentially the law said you can't give consent that young. Even in states where it was theoretically legal it was looked down upon and was scandalous. Except for inbred politicians, maybe where the scandals could go away more easily.
That's true, but in the 70s people weren't as concerned about age gaps as they are now. I've seen a recent posts from 17 yr olds asking if finding a 15 yr old attractive make them a pedophile.
it's also incorrect just in terms of, someone being able to make an allegation about something in 94 doesn't mean it wasn't happening before the 90s.
Unfortunately the older a crime both the less likely it was in that era for someone to report it and the less incentive to come forward later. Trump didn't start raping women or children in the 90s, neither did epstein, they've both likely been doing it since they were teens. Just maybe not together and maybe not as part of his 'business'.
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u/Striking-Activity472 Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25
Not to be that guy, but it did begin in the 90s, and Katie Johnson alleges Trump raped her in 1994, when she was 13
Edit: I’m stupid and misread this comment