dartsndeacs
THE quintessential dwarf
Sure. But Franken leaving would just empower the gropers on the right and they aren't going to budge.
A principled, non-partisan stance if I ever saw one.
Sure. But Franken leaving would just empower the gropers on the right and they aren't going to budge.
Charlie f'in Rose
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...81fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.a91b27434068
Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.
The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011. They ranged in age from 21 to 37 at the time of the alleged encounters. Rose, 75, whose show airs on PBS, also co-hosts “CBS This Morning” and is a contributing correspondent for “60 Minutes.”
There are striking commonalities in the accounts of the women, each of whom described their interactions with Rose in multiple interviews with The Post. For all of the women, reporters interviewed friends, colleagues or family members who said the women had confided in them about aspects of the incidents. Three of the eight spoke on the record.
opcorn:It's good all this is starting to happen now. Maybe we'll see some real swamp draining going into the primaries.
Pretty straight forward read. Can't say any of this is surprising. Definitely good that it's coming out into the light. The big question going forward is how did this ridiculous Congressional cover up process come to be? How do we dismantle it?
As far as Conyers, how did prominent a alt-right figure get his hands on documents detailing allegations against a prominent Dem Congressman? Is there an underground political battle to see who can implicate which party first?
destroy them all
lefty limited version of swamp draining? sort of skim the surface scum
As far as Conyers, how did prominent a alt-right figure get his hands on documents detailing allegations against a prominent Dem Congressman? Is there an underground political battle to see who can implicate which party first?
Of course there is. Now that we have seen how quickly accusations can reshape the political landscape via a senate election, this is going to become a big money industry. Even more so than before.
"Me too" isn't not just a tool of one party or political ideology. Both sides will be shown to have shamelessly abused their positions of power over women for decades. What will likely become a clear line in the sand is how each side handles purging these people from their ranks.
"Me too" isn't not just a tool of one party or political ideology. Both sides will be shown to have shamelessly abused their positions of power over women for decades. What will likely become a clear line in the sand is how each side handles purging these people from their ranks.
Even if his stuff is PG compared to Trump (and is it really? He grabbed a woman's ass in a photo-op), the general public is not making that distinction. It gives people like Trump and Moore people to point to as a reason not to step down themselves. What Franken did was wrong. The fact that it was "less wrong" than what other people did is irrelevant.
More importantly, the Democrats as a party should take a zero tolerance stance on this, regardless of whether Republicans do. It's the right thing to do and it shows a concern for women's rights. How can you be a progressive party if you're giving a pass to your own members who commit sexual assault?
Because Franken is a Democrat.
There's ugliness on both sides. Only one side is even talking about accountability.
Huh? I don't get this. It seems like Franken is getting a pass because he's a Dem if anything
apparently we have different meanings of the word "all"
I thought that your all was only referring to the gropers, who would unfortunately only constitute the surface scum of the swamp.
Are you saying only the lefties care about skimming the gropers? Just making sure I understand your point.
Getting a pass compared to what he would be getting if he was a Republican is what I meant. If it was a Republican, Democratic politicians would be up in arms. But because it's a Democrat, they largely haven't been, and neither have Republicans, probably because they know they have their assaulter in chief in the White House. Seems like everyone's content to kick the can down the road to an investigation.
you often pretend not to
gropers abound on all sides, left and right (so even Ph can understand)
lefty limited version of swamp draining? sort of skim the surface scum