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The Porn Industry Is Terrified of Ted Cruz, Thinks Donald Trump Is a Joke
The Daily Beast ^ | April 22, 2016 | Aurora Snow

Posted on 04/23/2016 4:30:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Now that the 2016 presidential election season is in full swing, which candidate(s) are people in the adult industry supporting?

Every election year is a nail-biter for pornographers, who are wracked with worry over potential persecution from the next presidential administration. Demonizing the porn industry under the guise of protecting the public’s morality is an old politician’s trick. Charge XXX producers with obscenity, collect fines and put a dent in the debauchery.

“Obscene” porn is illegal but not all porn is obscene. Content that was considered extreme 15 years ago might be closer to the norm now. In the late ‘90s it wasn’t acceptable to film sex acts with helplessly bound performers; nowadays, it’s a mainstream concept.

No one wants to go to jail over consensual, legal porn. But it’s happened before.

And in 2016, when the line between kinky fetish and obscenity has become increasingly blurred with respect to different age groups, a progressive administration may be more crucial than ever for the adult industry and consumers—especially at a time when states like Utah have declared porn a public health hazard.

“This election doesn’t matter to me as much as when I had a porn company and could potentially go to prison if the wrong person were elected,” said Tom Byron, AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame recipient.

Byron has been in the porn industry for over three decades, working under five different presidential administrations. Under the Clinton administration, adult companies were able to relax as the DOJ was more focused on prosecuting child pornography than obscenity. That all changed when George W. Bush took office. Bush blamed the Clinton administration for allowing adult films to become more offensive than ever and vowed to put a stop to it....

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To: dforest

Cruz has already let it be known to gay donors that gay marriage wasn’t in his top priorities.

But with Trump it’s all out in the open. We’ll have pervs in our bathrooms and he’s all for it.


21 posted on 04/23/2016 5:21:45 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: lucky american

I don’t consider toilets a top priority in this election.

At least for President.

Trump said the States can work it out.

Ted will say anything and change positions on a dime to get elected.

LOL


22 posted on 04/23/2016 5:25:21 AM PDT by dforest (Ted took your money and is laughing all the way to Goldman Sachs)
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To: jpsb
Really 2D? You are pathetic.

He passed up pathetic a few miles back. At this point he is basically a joke, and not a very good one at that.
23 posted on 04/23/2016 5:28:42 AM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: nesnah

It’s all they have left. Cruz has lost on all the issues, and especially on issues that matter to real people like immigration.

Comstockery is all they have left.


24 posted on 04/23/2016 5:31:54 AM PDT by Velvet_Jones
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is the porn industry even a constituency that anyone care about?


25 posted on 04/23/2016 5:38:41 AM PDT by Iowa David (Cruz 2016 - Before it's too late)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
On the flip side - terrorists and illegals are more afraid of Trump.

Cruz wants to "go into folks bedrooms and dens" which is a place the Feds have no business doing unless actual harm is being done (hint: morality of adults is none of the Fed's business unless the actions result in harm to others) and there are already laws to handle any coercion/trafficking, etc. While it is good to have a person believe in the Bible in charge of things, that person can't use the Bible as a cudgel - else we have a Christian version of Sharia Law.

I'd rather that terrorists and illegals be afraid of our President than the porn industry....

26 posted on 04/23/2016 5:39:08 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The “porno” opinion....just what I’ve been waiting for...now we can move forward with the election. /sarc


27 posted on 04/23/2016 5:54:06 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Diogenesis

I hear there is secret video of Rafael Cruz on a grassy knoll in Dallas back in the day, wearing only a sunglasses & trench-coat.


28 posted on 04/23/2016 5:58:18 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Pearls Before Swine
What was it Reagan said (albeit in a somewhat different context)? “If it moves, tax it.”

Probably wrong, and even if it's right, it's grotesquely out of context.

My recollection of statement is something along the lines of "Unfortunately, the modern role of government is 'If it moves, regulate it; if it doesn't move, tax it'".

29 posted on 04/23/2016 6:15:23 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Planned Parenthood AND the porn industry all hate Ted Cruz.

Huh.

30 posted on 04/23/2016 6:31:21 AM PDT by Slyfox (When someone tells it like it is, is it the truth?)
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To: DuncanWaring

You’re right, I skipped a step!


31 posted on 04/23/2016 6:38:33 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz’s perfect family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3QqDs6yiU

Ted inhaled cocaine.


32 posted on 04/23/2016 6:42:27 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

““Obscene” porn is illegal but not all porn is obscene. Content that was considered extreme 15 years ago might be closer to the norm now.”

And that’s one of the reasons why porn is so destructive.


33 posted on 04/23/2016 7:14:34 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Slyfox

Except Ashley Madison.
They were happy to sign him up.


34 posted on 04/23/2016 7:24:36 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd
Ashley will sign a separate piece peace with the "blind chick" porn people.


35 posted on 04/23/2016 7:58:30 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: FrankR

Been on pins and needles until now.


36 posted on 04/23/2016 8:01:08 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Flick Lives

It depends on what the rat looks like. R Cruz has discriminating taste.


37 posted on 04/23/2016 8:03:33 AM PDT by going hot
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To: TexasCajun

Gee, anyone think hildabeast’s hubby knows about perks at Mar-a-Lago through connections with the same people who provided those perks at the casinos in AC? I guess it’s hard to identify a teenage prostitute, eh?


38 posted on 04/23/2016 11:32:16 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: dforest

in response to your tagline...

Title:Study: Trump investments underperformed in 2015

“Trump also argued that several of his individual stock picks, like Apple and Goldman Sachs, have done very well for him.

“I hit the market exactly perfectly,” he said.”

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/274178-trump-investments-underperformed-in-2015

Title:Know Who Else Has Received Loans from Citibank and Goldman Sachs? Donald Trump.

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/01/21/know-else-received-loans-citibank-goldman-sachs-donald-trump/

“He’s made the nonsensical claim repeatedly that Ted Cruz can’t “protect people” from Citibank or Goldman Sachs or whoever, because he has taken out loans from them or personally guaranteed loans to his campaign from them.”

“As for Goldman Sachs, Trump is himself a shareholder in Goldman Sachs, which means he has a direct financial interest in its success. One would think that would make Trump even less enthusiastic about protecting me from Goldman Sachs (whatever that means) than Cruz would.”

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/01/21/know-else-received-loans-citibank-goldman-sachs-donald-trump/


39 posted on 04/23/2016 11:38:55 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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