Helsinki--the Tipping Point?

[Dill]

(07-18-2018, 10:35 AM)bfine32 Wrote: See when we board the hyperbole train we lose any rational discussion. I view his words of "grabbing women" on a bus as a reality star to be nothing more than bluster. This is the exact say way I viewed dude's words to his lover about how he was going to stop something. I do not view them as rape or sexual assault. Of course if you were talking about Hillary's reaction to actual sexual harassment or rape then I apologize as that is not hyperbole. 

I'll have to take folks at their word when they haven't spoken about women in a braggadocios manner in private conversation with a friend. And I don't need any White Knights telling me they have not; we've been down that road, Any actual actions he took are a totally different matter.

I have seen no one in this forum excess Trump's words or actions in his summit with Putin, but you cannot stop folks from what they perceive as defense.  As for my character, I just looked in the mirror and was pleased. 

Would it be fair to say that the POTUS boards the hyperbole train rather frequently, daily even?  Shouldn't that be a more serious problem than a few journalists or occasional congress person? It means we cannot have rational discussions about policy, doesn't it? Then throw in the constant lies about and character assassination of opponents. Your best response to this so far is that you don't really defend Trump as you find hyperbole in his critics.

And I don't see why your "view" of Trump's claimed assault should be more credible than anyone else's.  Those braggadocios you have met in private conversation--do they have 19+ women accusing them of assault?  You just made a decision to look the other way--before you looked into your mirror.