Ted Lieu: "allegations of Donald Trump raping children ... of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. "

[Ol Janx Spirit]

13. Sink to? Sally Hemings might like a word. IMO the real hope was that we had finally risen above...

...this kind of thing.

John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams were the only two of the first twelve presidents who never owned slaves. As such you can rely on there having been all sorts of cruelty condoned--if not directly perpetrated--by those statesmen of the past.

Enslaved people, including children, were subjected to systemic sexual violence, physical abuse, and murder as methods of maintaining a racial hierarchy and generating profit. These acts were not legally considered crimes against the enslaved, as they were legally classified as property.
https://allin.tulane.edu/content/timeline-history-sexual-violence-us#:~:text=Content%20warning:%20sexual%20assault%2C%20anti-Blackness%2C%20racialized%20murder,they%20built%20crumbled%20after%20emancipation.

And, it is not a coincidence that the current Administration is trying to erase this history.

It is sad, but it is not altogether surprising that we would find ourselves under the yoke of cruelty once again. Human nature proves time and again that it is not as kind as I believe we like to think it is.