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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 06:27 PM Jan 2018

So 3 prominent Canadian politicians resigned over sex harrassment charges; meanwhile Trump stays WTF

Seeing on Twitter worldwide that 3 Canadian politicians, 2 conservative and 1 liberal, just resigned over sex harassment charges, literally within minutes and hours of the allegations FIRST being made public. The dudes own parties kicked them out!

How come Trump, a serial rapist and harasser, survives the allegations against him, while any other man that did even a tenth of what Trump has done, admitted to on tape, is instantly brought down? Is it just the difference between America and Canada, Canada being a more liberal country has less a tolerance to rape and harassment than America, being more conservative, does?

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