Today in feelings that don't wash off:

Wai-wai-wait, so I know that Sarah Sanders is the White House Press Secretary and her job is speak for the administration, but did you see the thing about her calling all the women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual harassment liars?

Pictured: Sarah Sanders on how Trump's accusers are attention-
seeking liars and the President is, and always has always had respect
for women. Huh? No, I don't know how she lives with herself either. 

The exchange went like this: Jaqueline Alemany from CBS asked Sanders:

Holy shit, these reporters must be
sick of the phrase 'fake news.' 

"At least sixteen women accused the president of sexually harassing them throughout the course of the campaign. Last week, during a press conference in the Rose Garden, the president called these accusations 'fake news.' Is the official White House position that all of these women are lying?"

-Alemany who, in fairness,

must have known she was 

in for some bullshit answer

Aw, remember him? When he tried to
tell us the Inauguration was the biggest
one ever? That was cute, wasn't it?

A straight forward, specific question with no room to evade, right? Let's say yes. Then the Press Secretary, with the usual dismissive aplomb she rolls out whenever reporters have the temerity to ask her a question:

"Yeah, we've been clear on that from the beginning and the president's spoken on it."

-Sarah Sanders, giving

it the ol' Spicer try

Ok, first of all Sarah Sanders has literally made a career out of being unclear about everything she's ever said from behind the podium, but here she is agreeing that yes, it's the official White House Policy that the women accusing the President of sexual harassment are liars which...holy shit, right? 

Hey, remember back when Trump literally
made a career out of objectifying women? 

"Never....feel...clean...again..."

-White House Staff

What I want to know, is how does anyone who works at the White House, from officials down to cooks and clerical staff, scrape together the will to go in every morning when they work for a President who, in addition to being under investigation by pretty much everybody for everything from conflicts of interest to colluding with Russia to steal the election, has to have an official policy of calling the many women who have accused him of sexual harassment, liars? I mean, they must want to shower immediately after they get home.

Pictured: exactly how likely it
is that these sixteen women
are all just making this up.

Look, I don't know any of the people involved, and for all I know these sixteen women could be lying. They're not, but it doesn't strain the laws of physics as we know them. It's sort of like how aliens could have built the pyramids. Like, I can't really prove they didn't, but it's still preposterous. The fact that the Billy Bush tape came out during the campaign and he still won the electoral college suggests that neither Trump nor his supporters give a shit about how he treats women. 

Of course this man is guilty of countless incidents of sexual harassment. Of course he is. He's just managed not to get called out on it. That's not the same thing as being innocent.

It is however the same thing as being rich and powerful so...here we are.