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Decorum!

Unfortunately even though most people don't 'support' it- it's a spectacle that gets headlines and clicks, and those further incentivize more spectacle. She's not doing it for the few people that would say they support it, she's doing it for the attention of people that don't.

Because his name is 'Biden' and a significant number of people operate at a sort of Pavlovian word-association level.

Well, Ivanka and Jared collected paychecks and used government positions to benefit themselves, so Hunter MUST be doing corrupt stuff.

It's because conservatives have zero imagination. All they do is project their own crimes into their opponents assuming everyone is as evil and guilty as they are.

"Hunter Crime Family" is laughable when we have a literal ex president crime family. Accusations Hunter took foreign bribes is pathetic when it's almost certain the entire trump family is in Putin's pocket.

Same people who lose their mind over hunter ignore jared and Ivanka actually being hired into the white house, a crime, not filling out their sf86, a crime, and profiting off of what they knew from being in the white house.

Indeed her name is Margarine "Trailer Park" Trash Greed.

Also, I've got some reading to do as not-a-lawyer, but I'm doing a big think on this and how it may/can/should apply:

https://withoutmyconsent.org/50state/state-guides/district-of-columbia/statutory-criminal-law/#criminal-nonconsensual-pornography-dc-code-22-3051

There's no damn way throwing around actual nudes can apply under speech and debate.

Correct me if I'm wrong but releasing nudes against someone's will especially ones that aren't sent to you is a crime.

Georgia 16-11-90 nonconsensual pornography.

While I respect the sentiment, Charles Sumner was once beaten within an inch of their life on the floor of Congress for delivering a scathing abolitionist speech.

We're not quite at our lowest point yet, but it is scary how close we are coming.

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm

Should have been removed years ago. What a disgrace.

She's yet another reason why we need regular psych evals for people in office. You should be mentally fit to hold the position.

She had no opponent. He dropped out because he was getting death threats.

Also yes, white Southern conservatives are broken people who only feel better when someone else is suffering.

My guess is the only way this is gonna change is when people like her get dragged into the street and beaten to death by a crowd

Coverage of politics became commodified and sensationalized in the name of ratings and advertising dollars and coupled with intense competition for viewer attention this has led to the news becoming more of a form of entertainment than anything informative.

At the same time, voter apathy drives politicians to search for new ways to create interest, promote themselves, and generate a following.

This promotes more and more sensational behavior, which is further played up by the media, which raises the bar for the kind of things a representative from a flyover red state hardly anyone cares about has to do to maintain a presence on the national stage.

Repeat that cycle a few times and now congress is looking at Hunter Biden's nudes.

I would suggest 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman for further reading.

Afraid not, this is a completely different unrealistic fantasy horror universe.

My guess is, the reason why politics are not an outsized portion of your life over there has something to do with your country not having an angry, empowered, and vocal minority disproportionately overrepresented in government making regressive laws to strip away human rights and sell off ever more of your life to rent seeking corporations.

It's everyday with these people here. If they got everything they wanted today they would come up with a new list of horrible shit to demand tomorrow. We are a police state and a third of us seem to think the boot isn't stepping on us hard enough.