Right. They don’t have to be actually shown around to come back to haunt her. The fact that they were taken and exist and were shared is enough.

Oh look, the Intercept is now pretending to be critical of this dude.

Speaking of zero, that is my level of interest for engagement with people who repeat Trumpist talking points like justifying horrific shit because ‘that’s what people really think’, or gloating over and wishing a miserable death on other people because some of The Other Team are assholes.

“He just said out loud what a lot of people think” is not a defense to saying terrible shit. Especially when that terrible shit is pretty solid evidence that he still has zero empathy for other people.

But he isn’t 35, or even 25 right now. And right now is when he is running for re-election - having done pretty much nothing to repair the consequences of his behavior or show that he’s changed his character any. Speculating about how long it takes people to change and when and whether they should be forgiven and why…

That wasn’t a study, it was an online survey.

He’s also burned a lot of bridges on his way up.

Surely you can offer him thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.

It’s not about whether the photos get shared. It’s about slut-shaming her. No need to post the photos, rumors and salacious stories about her sharing nudes on purpose do enough damage.

Anything, really? There’s a whole range of idiotic and selfish behavior dumb young people do - and no, really, they’re NOT all bullying, vicious assholes. How weird that you think accountability and apology toward the other children who he hurt is about a “justice boner”

Then what the fuck is his problem? He thinks it’s OK to shoot and kill people as long as you put on a badge first?

His shitty behavior did not end five years ago, is the problem.

Let’s not forget that when he was initially claiming he’d step away, he blamed feminism for being mean to him.

It’s exactly what you would expect: push the guy as a progressive hero while minimizing what he did as “middle-school” mistakes; lie and claim the guy apologized and should be forgiven; throw a massive rage-fit when others disagree or call him on his shit.

I don’t think he’s going to “tiptoe” around anything. He’s going to blatantly admit the stuff he thinks is too far in the past, too minor, or too tied to Trump to get him in trouble, and he’ll lie about the details of the rest. I’m sure when he talks about Falwell he’ll be careful to cast himself in a way that avoids…

He got a boost because Greenwald has been shilling for him.

I doubt Cohen is worried about going to jail - he’s got an entire book coming out on all the shady shit he did for Trump, what’s reporting on the Falwells going to do that the rest of it won’t? And if he participated in a criminal conspiracy, well, that just means other people are in that conspiracy, too, and would…

Gavin did not always have the best judgment.

Why wouldn’t he? They’d have to go after the other participants in that scheme as well, and at this point there are bigger crimes.

“Creepy flirting” is a weird way to describe sexual harassment, but okay, I get it, you like Skullgirls a lot.