how low can they go?

Pretty fucking low as it turns out. It's not bad enough that a contender to a US Senate seat has been accused of sexual aggression against minors by multiple women, that the population of the town was quite familiar with his predations, but the freaking evangelicals are making all kinds of excuses for him as if that makes it OK news flash: doesn't matter what the bible says, it's against the fucking law and the governor of Alabama says she believes the women but voting for a sexual predator is better than voting for a Democrat what the fuck! and they even sent a woman out to infiltrate the press with a fake story of rape against Moore in a bid to discredit his actual accusers. But, hey, our president, an admitted sexual predator himself, is totally unconcerned.

So men who don't comprehend that women deserve respect and are not there for their sexual pleasure whether we like it or not are losing their jobs left and right in a sudden frenzy to be distanced from behavior they knew was going on all along and didn't care. Entertainment moguls and actors and TV news and entertainment regulars, politicians on both sides of the aisle, prominent men are finally being called out. Paul Ryan makes a speech about how intolerable this behavior is as if it's come as a surprise to him. This has to stop, he says as the father of a daughter. Anyone taking odds on if he actually tries to do something or if this is just another version of 'thoughts and prayers'?

All the political high and mighties of the male gender are demanding those guilty of such to resign from their political positions while they ignore the guy in the Oval Office who fucking bragged about it while they do their sneaky best to deprive the common citizen of health care, do away with freedom of the internet, get rid of consumer protections, and revise the tax code in favor of the very rich (any tax break we peons get will be eaten up by the things we can't deduct anymore) while they slash the social programs that help put food on the table of the working poor and cut SS and Medicare to offset the loss of revenue. Our teachers won't be able to deduct the money they spend out of their own pockets on classroom supplies anymore and our college graduates won't be able to deduct the interest from their loans anymore but, hey, the rich will be able to deduct their private jets and get huge tax cuts so they can take even more money out of circulation and hoard it in offshore accounts.

Welcome to the new America.