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More fake photos doing the rounds.

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[–] ekZepp 77 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Ofk a bunch of shitty weirdos sexists would have come up with something like that. Guys just...

Please, no Trump as escort photo ok? My stomach can't handle that.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Please, no Trump as escort photo ok? My stomach can't handle that.

I'll be honest, the thought had never crossed my mind until you mentioned it. Now though...

starts Photoshop

[–] ekZepp 44 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Hi, it's the Don'tRemindMe bot. We have received your request and will periodically inform you that we are NOT reminding you of Trump being dressed as an escort. Since you defined ever, we will keep informing you forever.

Am I a good bot?

[–] I_Has_A_Hat 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Photoshop? What is this, 2010?

starts Midjourney

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

We want horror, not cosmic horror.

[–] MeatPilot 12 points 4 months ago

Donald Tramp?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

The query: "Donald Trump lying on a satin sheet covered bed in a gaudy bedroom with two naked prostitutes standing on each side of him on the bed and peeing on Donald Trump's face"

[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rightist are some weirdass mental degenerates.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this really any crazier than the 2008 smear that attempted to assert Barack Obama was a gay prostitute by the name of Barry Sorento back in the 1970s? Or the attempt to claim Nancy Pelosi's husband's assailant was his secret gay lover engaged in a spat? Or the litany of accusations by right-wing AM radio freaks, insisting that Hilary Clinton was having lesbian affairs all over Little Rock while her husband was governor?

It's the same playbook every fucking time. We just have AI image generators now, so we can plaster a very obviously artificially generated image of Kamala's face superimposed over some random California sex workers and pass that around on Facebook for the next three months.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

The biggest tell is that Kamala was in her twenties in the 90s, so any of these photos that would have been taken would have either been taken on a shitty little analog camera or it would have been a polaroid. You're not going to get 4k high-resolution photograph of her doing sex work back in the 90s because the technology simply did not exist.

Of course, the action never happened in the first place and you can't photograph something that doesn't exist.

You can Photoshop it, but you can't photograph it.

[–] Thrillhouse 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Obviously it’s not true.

But -

Why is it shameful to have been an escort?

I’d like the Rs to answer that instead, as well as:

  • Why is it shameful that people who have vaginas need tampons?
  • Why is it acceptable to denigrate women who haven’t physically had children - no matter what the reason for that is? (The reason is no one’s business)
  • Why is it acceptable to attack women who haven’t borne children and then deny IVF to the women who actually want to have them?
  • Why is it acceptable to let the women who are trying to have children die or risk disability or risk infertility if they have a miscarriage for lack of access to abortion care? (Abortion is the treatment for miscarriage)
  • Why do all of these chuds find it hilarious when they dress in the shittiest drag on the face of the planet, but want to ban talented artists from performing drag?

All of the answers seem to be that unless you fit the very narrow minded definition of what these people “deem” to be a “woman,” you should be shamed, abused and punished.

It seems to me that they don’t regard women or trans people as people with their own self determination, but instead as property or “less than” to be controlled and abused and punished as they see fit.

Oh they “let” R women have high profile jobs but they need to be either rich/powerful enough that they don’t dare try to denigrate them (see: Devos, Thomas) or completely compliant with whatever crazy direction the Heritage Society/Trump/Fundamentalist Christianity dictates.

Let’s not forget Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becky. It’s ok for her to go bang a pool boy outside the confines of “godly marriage” but only because that’s what HE wanted and only because it was secret. All of the students at Liberty University could barely date or talk to the opposite sex.

I’m so tired of the hypocrisy. Neighbours, you gotta get your house in order. It bleeds up here to Canada and now we have to deal with our own psychopaths who have been taking notes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It does feel that the only way Canada will improve again is if the US starts being better than Canada, removing our excuse of, "At least we're not as bad as the US!"

[–] TSG_Asmodeus 6 points 4 months ago

...if the US starts being better than Canada, removing our excuse of, "At least we're not as bad as the US!"

Dude, don't fucking tell them! Now our well hidden favourite pastime is out in the open.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I think the answer for all of that is they are sensitive little fucking snowflakes and everything you listed hurts their little feelings

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why is it shameful to have been an escort?

Everything that is illegal is immoral.

[–] Thrillhouse 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh no honey. (I’m assuming I didn’t catch the /s)

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You dropped this: /s

You're welcome. Love you.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I guess they are targeting the uptight religious fundamentalist demographic. I think for most Democrats, it wouldn't be a problem, even if it was true.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Man, how low can they go?

They are pretty much calling her Clarence Thomas!

[–] DrMorose 4 points 4 months ago

Wasn't that original statement made about Boebert? They just changed the name?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Projection. They're letting their fantasies leak into their politics. This is like them going after pictures of AOC's feet. Keep it in your private rooms and you can dream whatever you want.

[–] Nuke_the_whales 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're so weird and obsessed with her. It's like they hate her, but they wanna fuck her. Bunch of weirdos.

[–] thermal_shock 22 points 4 months ago

AOC treatment.

[–] acosmichippo 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it doesn't even look like her.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't even look like the same ethnicity.

[–] acosmichippo 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

clearly this was before she turned black.

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 4 months ago

Looks like before she turned desi as well

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Frankly it being true would make me like her more.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 14 points 4 months ago

I will turn this Internet around!

[–] Anticorp 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hey man, if someone was smart and crafty enough to go from being a street hooker, to being the Democrat front-runner for the Presidency of the United States, that just makes me want to vote for them more. They must be an absolute genius, and the most determined person on the face of the planet. Of course I know that's not what happened, but for people like me, it's not the insult that the right thinks it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Alexandra Hunt (PA-03) almost did the same. I loved her "Elect Hoes" campaign.

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I’d love an all American Wu Zetian

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Even if she was, it shouldn't be a problem.

[–] Phegan 7 points 4 months ago

This is their best attempt to win? This is becoming unhinged, even by their standards

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The photos with Trump and Epstien are real though.

[–] ThePantser 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

She's hot, she should be the president. She's got my vote.

[–] Th3D3k0y 6 points 4 months ago

Slutty AI Kamala is working for me

[–] buddascrayon 3 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately the right-wing nut jobs think that Snopes is a leftist propaganda site so it's not going to convince any of them that this isn't true.

[–] Etterra 3 points 4 months ago

That's not even a good fake. I mean, red pilled idiots will probably believe it. Also the same boomers who told us all his kids not to believe everything you see on TV, those same ones will fall for it.

[–] carl_dungeon 3 points 4 months ago

On the other hand, trump really is a little whore for Putin and anyone else

[–] HappycamperNZ 3 points 4 months ago

Still a better escort than Trump ever would be