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Every day it seems like another GOP has been busted for CSAM or actual rape and abuse. I think these are just the ones who get caught and that there are hundreds more. It is a business and someone must have taken over for Epstein.

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

...It's not even close to the majority of people in the GOP. It's not even a particularly large minority

Jesus fucking christ.

Even if it was 100 people every single day that were being, caught, arrested, or convicted for CSAM or sexual misconduct of some kind with a minor, and every single one of them was in the GOP, that's still 365,000 out of about 140,000,000, which is .2%, on an annual basis. Two tenths of one percent is about fifty percent away from being a majority.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where on Earth are you getting 140 million from?

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

People that are registered Republicans, consistently vote Republican, or hold Republican views make up a little under half of the overall population, current population in the US is around 340M (last time I checked, it's been a minute), so 140M is a fairly conservative (ha!) guess at how many people would more-or-less be Republican, or lean Republican.

Oh, and the flip side of that is that there are a larger number of people that are registered as Democratic voters, consistently vote Democratic, or tend to lean Democratic in their views, even if they don't vote/don't vote consistently.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

No Republican candidate has ever gotten anywhere close to 140 million votes. Your numbers are a wild overestimate. Half the country is not Republican nor is half the country Democrat.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well then he's getting them wrong I guess

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It must be the chinese GOP than.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It must be because no Republican has ever come close to getting 140 million votes.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Your math isn't mathing. He isn't talking rank and file Republicans. He's just talking about their leadership and policymakers. That's totally different. Mr Trump can be friends with Epstein all day long and that couldn't possibly reflect poorly on the rest of the republican party. He's only their elected nominee for president.

Get your "not all men" horseshit out of here.