He said it. “Grab ’em by the pussy.” Billy Bush writes op-ed in response to Trump's denial about the Access Hollywood tape.

Courtesy of New York Times:  

He said it. “Grab ’em by the pussy.” 

Of course he said it. And we laughed along, without a single doubt that this was hypothetical hot air from America’s highest-rated bloviator. Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act. He was performing. Surely, we thought, none of this was real. 

We now know better.

Bush then goes on to talk about having read the stories by the women accusing Trump of sexual harassment or assault, and says how they are quite believable in light of his experiences with Trump.

President Trump is currently indulging in some revisionist history, reportedly telling allies, including at least one United States senator, that the voice on the tape is not his. This has hit a raw nerve in me. 

I can only imagine how it has reopened the wounds of the women who came forward with their stories about him, and did not receive enough attention. This country is currently trying to reconcile itself to years of power abuse and sexual misconduct. Its leader is wantonly poking the bear.

Bush then goes on to say that in 2005 Trump was a ratings winner for his show so of course everybody played along, and kissed his ass.   

None of us were guilty of knowingly enabling our future president. But all of us were guilty of sacrificing a bit of ourselves in the name of success.

However none of them suspected at the time that Trump would ever be elected president, and now that he has it is time to stop enabling his lies and time to start calling him out over them.

Here is the Access Hollywood tape for anybody who has forgotten.

Keep in mind that this video was shown far and wide, and STILL this POS convinced millions of you fellow Americans to vote for him.

Old golf magazine interview reveals Trump's love of the word "p*ssy."

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

In a previously unreported comment to the now-defunct Maximum Golf magazine, Donald Trump singled out a “young socialite” at his club at Mar-a-Lago by telling a reporter, “there is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy.” 

The remark never made its way to print, as a top editor of the magazine forbade the reporter from putting it in the publication. But the former journalist who wrote the article, Michael Corcoran, and another editor, both confirmed that it was said by Trump as Corcoran followed him around at his Florida golf club for a profile. 

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

 This interview took place in 2000, which would have meant that Trump was well into his fifties.

When I was an adolescent my pals and I used to refer to girls in such a vulgar fashion, but that did not follow too many of us very far into our adulthood. And certainly not into our forties and fifties.

And yet here is a full grown man, married twice by this time, still referring to women as nothing more than a disembodied sex organ.

Keep in mind that after the Access Hollywood tape came out (Which was recorded in 2005, making Trump even older than in the 2000 interview.) Trump said, "Anyone who knows me, knows these words do not reflect who I am."

Well now the entire country knows Donald Trump.

And yes these words absolutely reflect who he is, even today at 71 years of age.

Donald Trump has suggested that the Access Hollywood "p*ssy grabbing" tape is fake and is now doubling down on his support for accused pedophile Roy Moore.

Courtesy of the New York Times:

But something deeper has been consuming Mr. Trump. He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.) 

So Mr. Trump has been particularly open to the idea, pushed by Mr. Moore’s defenders, that the candidate is being wrongly accused, even as Mr. McConnell and a parade of other Republicans have said they believe the accusers. When a group of senators gathered with the president in the White House last week to discuss the tax overhaul, it took little to get Mr. Trump onto the topic of Mr. Moore — and he immediately offered up the same it-was-40-years-ago defense, according to officials at the meeting. 

Mr. Trump’s responses to the Moore revelations have been pronounced but not consistent. He accepted the candidate’s initial denials, and then was shocked at how tepid Mr. Moore appeared when asked during an interview with Sean Hannity whether he still maintained his innocence, according to one person close to the president. 

Privately, Mr. Trump has acknowledged that he is making a cold political calculus in the hope that the Republicans will hold on to the seat. A White House official on Saturday reiterated the president’s view that he believes Mr. Moore should quit the race if the allegations are proved true, but the official stressed that the candidate has denied them. 

Moore's denials closely approximate the same denials put forward by Donald Trump himself in response to the huge number of accusations of sexual harassment and assault that emerged during the campaign.

In some ways you could see Trump's desire to support Moore as a vindication of his own accuser's failure to derail HIS campaign.

Even his private denials that the Access Hollywood tape was real is just another attempt to control the narrative.

After all his 2016 victory was proof positive that a woman should never be allowed to stand in the way of a man's ambitions, right?

That is likely why Trump is now pushing hard for Moore's victory in Alabama, turning the election into an "us VS them" battle, in order to shift the focus away from Moore's past behaviors.

The last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY. Jones would be a disaster!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2017

I endorsed Luther Strange in the Alabama Primary. He shot way up in the polls but it wasn’t enough. Can’t let Schumer/Pelosi win this race. Liberal Jones would be BAD!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2017

The question to ask is who represents the "us" and who represents the "them?"

Because I think it is less about the Republicans VS the Democrats, and more about the Men VS the Women. 

Donald Trump Jr. attempts to use Harvey Weinstein controversy to smear Hillary Clinton, while apparently forgetting who his father is.

Weird, Hillary has been really quiet about Harvey Weinstein. You would think she would be all Over this. #WhatHappened?

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 7, 2017

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

The 39-year-old also liked posts about how the film industry had covered up Weinstein's advances toward women, how close Weinstein was with several high-profile Democrats and how Weinstein planned to sue the Times for not giving him enough time to respond to the allegations. 

Trump Jr. then seized upon another part of Weinstein's statement, where the executive wrote that he "came of age in the '60s and '70s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different." CNN journalist Jake Tapper wrote that "it's weird how many dad[s] grew up in the same exact era and never sexually harassed anyone," and Trump Jr. liked it. 

Wait, what? 

President Trump has been accused of harassment by several women—and, depending on how you interpret the 2005 tape, may have even admitted to it. In that conversation, recorded as the tycoon spoke with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, Trump bragged about a lady and said he'd "moved on her like a bitch." He added that he was attracted to beautiful women, and when he wants to seduce them, he "just starts kissing."

It should be pointed out that yesterday, during the time that Junior was posting all of this, it was the first year anniversary of the release of the Access Hollywood pussy grabbing tape.

That's why the video was played on a loop for 12 hours yesterday just outside the White House.

This kind of deflection reminds me of when Trump invited all of those Bill Clinton accusers to the debate in order to rattle Hillary.

However that failed and she mopped the floor with him that night.

This right here is yet another epic fail on the part of the Trumps.

Harvey Weinsein is indeed a terrible person, and he deserves everything that seems to be coming his way right now.

However I think Nate Silver summed it up nicely.

Hard to think of any difference between Weinstein & Trump other than one of them was his PARTY's NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 7, 2017

Hillary Clinton is NOT responsible for Weinstein's actions. And it is really not her responsibility to publicly condemn him.

I mean it's not as if he were her father, who she was attempting to provide cover for or anything.

Right?

Donald Trump's "Grab'em by the pussy" tape to run on a huge screen for 12 hours near the Washington Monument.

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

It was just a few minutes of audio and video, but it was so packed with vulgar, sexist and curse-laden language that some expected it to derail Donald Trump’s run for the White House. 

Now, just days removed from the one-year anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape’s release, a group devoted to fighting sexism wants to make sure President Trump and the rest of the country remember what he told Billy Bush while on a tour bus in 2005. 

The group, Ultraviolet, will splash the video across a screen almost 10 feet high and 16 feet wide set in between the White House and the Washington Monument on Constitution Avenue, and the images and the audio of Trump’s comments will run over and over Friday for 12 consecutive hours. The clip will start rolling at 9 a.m. EDT.

Wow, so that means this thing is currently running quite close to the White House.

I bet this is really making Trump's day.

Perhaps the one thing that will forever nag me is why this tape did not end Trump's candidacy the minute it hit the public airwaves?

Because it certainly should have. 

Joan Rivers compares Sarah Palin to a retarded person. Hey, wasn't Palin recently buddying up to Joan over the conflict in Israel?

Courtesy of Breitbart (Yeah, I know, ick!):  

Tuesday on "Access Hollywood Live," comedian Joan Rivers likened former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) to "retarded person." 

Rivers said, "Sarah Palin, I think she's not my all time favorite. You know how you have a car sign that says be careful handicap person. I think when they have a retarded person driving a car it should be a picture of Sarah Palin with a line through it." 

Host Billy Bush took on Rivers for the use of the word "retard" in her characterization: "You can't say the word, Joan." 

Yeah Joan, you can't say that word.

Besides comparing Sarah Palin to a retarded person, is an insult to people everywhere who are suffering with a mental disability.

I mean sure they have trouble understanding things sometimes, but they're not batshit crazy ex-politicians, who target unsophisticated morons and try to separate them from their money.

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Palin recently quote Joan Rivers in a video on that website of hers that everybody has forgotten about already because they happened to agree on Israel?

Why yes she did. (As did Bristol.)

That's the problem with quoting people who dislike you on your vanity website.

Eventually they are going to say something negative about you and the media is going to pick up on it, and rub it in your face. 

Palin also quoted Howard Stern so I imagine that he will have some choice epithets to fling her way shortly.

(Damn, did I just link to that dead guy's defunct website and Palin's pay-per-bitch blog? Sorry.)