The following Tucker video exemplifies a solution to a problem I repeatedly bemoan.
When the number of handles is few, a single or multiple slanders are given life, amplified by all the vassals of the schemers. In an unforgiving society, too many are ready to presume that where there is smoke there MUST be fire. See Trump or Kavanaugh or Gaetz for examples. Or suspect Justice Roberts as a terribly important target whose responses have affected American life terribly.
More power to men who imitate JFKJr’s approach. I say that despite my dislike of many of the things he has said in the past. I pray he has repented of the worst. So should you.
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“The man who will not be blackmailed cannot be blackmailed.”
Trump’s greatest asset is that none of the accusations against him matter any more, since his laundry has been publicly aired for several decades, and sane people (who realize they are not hiring him to babysit their kids) still like what he has to say and offer them. I laugh when I hear people accuse him of “sexual assault” (like the woman who was offended that he asked for her phone number in an elevator accusing him of “rape”) while defending Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and countless others against much more credible accusations.
Trump is a “liar” for saying things that the media doesn’t agree with. Trump is a “failure in business” for managing to turn a million-dollar loan into many billions (according to the people who still can’t manage to pay back their own student loans for that “Gender Studies In Pre-Mohammed Mesopotamia” PhD). Trump is an “insurrectionist” for telling people to peacefully protest (but Maxine Waters is “brave” for telling followers to “get up in their faces”). And on and on. I have to wonder how many times that little boy cried “Wolf” before a real one showed up and no one cared.
Asking for forgiveness (if having repented) is disarming, as long as children were not involved.Casting the first stone and all.
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I understand this reluctance and have thought like it before.
Now I ask you to recall the infamous quote attributed to Stalin:
Now invert that, to read, one child harmed, a million protected a Godsend.
Were someone being blackmailed and said get lost, and suffered the consequences but remained in power long enough to prevent the destruction of millions, who are we to not recognize his sacrifice (of facing the consequences) and leave it to God to determine what else he must endure?