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Let's check back in a year if any of this sticks.
They'll certainly be getting job offers elsewhere in the party. Probably ones that pay better too.
Hell, Trump might promote them.
They were vying for a Trump endorsement and now they'll probably get one.
Hell frame it as "having mercy on poor victims"
They will all be rich and in positions of power. This kind of shit gets celebrated in this country. Once things die down the outrage machine will kick in and they will say that private, out of context conversations don’t matter, that is unless the can come up with a barely plausible story that it was all fabricated (they are already trying to say it was AI).
It won’t matter that it’s transparent and obvious to everyone. Most people don’t pay enough attention and will forget all about it. It will seem like a distant memory and the “reasonable” people will lecture us about the necessity of forgiveness.
Then they will be caught with an underaged intern or some shit and nothing will come of it since they are just public people with pressures on them that we just can’t understand.
Yeah, I’m a little cynical.
That's not cynical, just realistic.
It can be two things.
That was my first thought, those people will be back in the machine when the news dies down.