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Simple Minded wrote:
I'm gonna retreat to my safe space now, curl up in the fetal position, and suck my thumb for a while.

noddy wrote:

Simple Minded wrote:
I'm gonna retreat to my safe space now, curl up in the fetal position, and suck my thumb for a while.

is that a manly thing or a multi gendered thing ?

i sure hope thumb aint a code word, these slangs can get out of hand.

Mr. Perfect wrote:

Heracleum Persicum wrote:
Once upon a time, an American couple in New Port Beach hired a baby sitter from Hong Kong (an ugly Cantonese) .. the cantonese babysitter, hitting the ground giving BJ and the rest with the husband .. by year's end, Joe divorced his wife and married the babysitter, Bingo, "Green Card" in the mail.

This is completely in your imagination.

Simple Minded wrote:
Applying Occam's Chainsaw, it would follow that fake fake news is really true news.

Tweeden’s story rang true to me. I’d told myself I was the only one. I’d been groped by Franken in 2009.

It happened at a Media Matters party during the first Obama inauguration. It was a great time to be a Democrat. Not only had we just elected the first African American president of the United States, but Franken’s race had triggered a recount, leaving lefties giddy that we would soon have a supermajority in the Senate.
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This year’s pervert purge has inspired many to look at uncomfortable truths about their heroes, their co-workers, and their values. The New York Times’s Michelle Goldberg repented of her support for Bill Clinton, writing a piece with a battering ram as a headline, “I believe Juanita.” For me, it’s been sinking in that the working white women who felt condescended to by affluent feminists voted, by significant margins, for an admitted sexual predator over the lady who’d not believe them if they were abused by someone she liked. Their choices don’t seem so ridiculous to me any longer.

Democrats sold our soul. Nothing makes that more clear than how women voted in the 2016 election.

I’m also no longer defending Bill Clinton. I’m ashamed I ever did. But I’m not condemning or admonishing Hillary. I think we all make the choices that seem right at the time. I don’t feel like pummeling her with my privilege of hindsight. But there’s a rot in the Democratic Party. It’s not just bad men and exhausted women; it’s that we chose Bill over the women. And that original sin lost us the election of what we all assumed would be the first female president of the United States. And Trump, who boasted he could “grab ‘em by the pussy,” being in the White House doesn’t make that untrue. It just makes it a painful irony.

Mr. Perfect wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... oo/547691/

Tweeden’s story rang true to me. I’d told myself I was the only one. I’d been groped by Franken in 2009.

It happened at a Media Matters party during the first Obama inauguration. It was a great time to be a Democrat. Not only had we just elected the first African American president of the United States, but Franken’s race had triggered a recount, leaving lefties giddy that we would soon have a supermajority in the Senate.
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This year’s pervert purge has inspired many to look at uncomfortable truths about their heroes, their co-workers, and their values. The New York Times’s Michelle Goldberg repented of her support for Bill Clinton, writing a piece with a battering ram as a headline, “I believe Juanita.” For me, it’s been sinking in that the working white women who felt condescended to by affluent feminists voted, by significant margins, for an admitted sexual predator over the lady who’d not believe them if they were abused by someone she liked. Their choices don’t seem so ridiculous to me any longer.

Democrats sold our soul. Nothing makes that more clear than how women voted in the 2016 election.

I’m also no longer defending Bill Clinton. I’m ashamed I ever did. But I’m not condemning or admonishing Hillary. I think we all make the choices that seem right at the time. I don’t feel like pummeling her with my privilege of hindsight. But there’s a rot in the Democratic Party. It’s not just bad men and exhausted women; it’s that we chose Bill over the women. And that original sin lost us the election of what we all assumed would be the first female president of the United States. And Trump, who boasted he could “grab ‘em by the pussy,” being in the White House doesn’t make that untrue. It just makes it a painful irony.

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Another poseur article. The Atlantic used to be the premiere magazine and now...

Heracleum Persicum wrote:.

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He right ..

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Simple Minded wrote:

Heracleum Persicum wrote:.

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He right ..

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Interesting he said "I will be resigning...." not "I am resigning." He has not resigned yet. Will be interesting to see if he stays.... if Roy Moore wins.

Dems gotta sacrifice some pawns in order to take down the Repub king.

First party to nominate Monica in 2020...... she has Oval Office experience....

Nonc Hilaire wrote:Franken should not resign. Bad personal behavior is not sufficient reason. Minnesota voters can decide next election.

This trend towards public shaming of men behaving badly is a good development, but resigning from office is not justified short of criminal acts.

Doc wrote:
Franken is going to say Well if Moore wins I will resign when he does.(Maybe even say he will resign if Trump resigns. If Moore Loses the vote Franken will say it is up to the people of Minnesota to decide

Some of the women’s stories date back to the 1980s when Trump’s personal relationships were fixtures of the New York City tabloids; others begin after he returned to the public eye with his NBC series The Apprentice. Their accounts describe a wide range of alleged behavior, including lewd remarks, overt harassment, groping, and sexual assault. One woman, Summer Zervos, is currently suing the president for defamation after he repeatedly called her and the others liars. What follows are details from each accuser—listed alphabetically—and the president’s corresponding defense.

Roy Moore accuser admits she wrote part of yearbook inscription attributed to Alabama Senate candidate

Never Trump Ex-Jeb Bush Staffer Admits Planting Anti-Roy Moore Story in Washington Post

Trent Franks announced Friday that he would resign from Congress immediately after accusations emerged that he had offered $5 million to a female employee to be a surrogate mother for his children, and that she and another female employee worried that the lawmaker wanted to have sex as a means of impregnating them.

Mr. Franks, Republican of Arizona and one of the House’s most ardent social conservatives. .

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When her bill came up on the floor of the New Mexico House of Representatives the next day, March 20, 2009, it failed by a single vote, including a “No” by the lawmaker, Representative Thomas A. Garcia.

As Ms. Alarid watched from the House gallery, she said, Mr. Garcia blew her a kiss and shrugged his shoulders with arms spread.

Charges of harassment are cascading through statehouses across the country, leading to investigations, resignations of powerful men and anguish over hostile workplaces for women that for years went unacknowledged. Amid this reckoning, one group of victims has stood apart: political lobbyists.

Part of a frequently disparaged profession, female lobbyists have emerged as especially vulnerable in legislatures and in Congress because, unlike government employees, they often have no avenue to report complaints and receive due process. Lobbyists who have been harassed are essentially powerless in their workplaces, all-dependent on access to mostly male lawmakers for meetings and influence to advance legislation and earn their living.