Al Franken accused of kissing and groping radio host. Will resign.

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ch33zw1z

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Lol at FDC still trying to take the moral high ground.

We want justice! *votes for Trump*

Tribalism at its finest.

Typical Christians, demand others live by a set of guidelines that they cannot.
 
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hal2kilo

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I disagree. This wont get swept under the rug. I want answers. Franken needs to resign. I will accept nothing less.
I see you really don't care about the sexual stuff, you just have an axe to grind about Franken. We all get it.
 

bshole

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Lol at FDC still trying to take the moral high ground.

We want justice! *votes for Trump*

Tribalism at its finest.

Typical Christians, demand others live by a set of guidelines that they cannot.

Agreed!

Hey cheese, not to derail but my son made the Nicolet varsity hockey team. He had his first game last week. I know you live in Milwaukee so if you like hockey, here is his schedule...

http://www.nicolet.us/activities/boys_hockey.cfm
 

J.Wilkins

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Not getting what you mean by the point about legality.

Voter participation has to be above 50% of the eligible voters to produce a legal election result, in the US the voter participation was 48% which is below that limit.


Farage hasn't just been linked to Trump, he's long been openly proud of his connections to him. He's Trump's mini-me. The odd thing being that he seems smarter than Trump (certainly far more articulate), yet has been electorally far less-successful.

The Farage-Putin friendliness puzzles me slightly, but I guess it's clear how their interests are aligned - it's just not a situation my younger self would ever have predicted. And the addition of Assange to that unholy alliance makes it seem weirder still.

Given the amount of funds that are given to the Nazi parties all over Europe by Russia it's not surprising at all, without a strong EU Russia can deal with individual nations, as it is he can't.

Even Trump gets that after asking Merkel about it ten times in two hours.
 

pmv

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Voter participation has to be above 50% of the eligible voters to produce a legal election result, in the US the voter participation was 48% which is below that limit.




Given the amount of funds that are given to the Nazi parties all over Europe by Russia it's not surprising at all, without a strong EU Russia can deal with individual nations, as it is he can't.

Even Trump gets that after asking Merkel about it ten times in two hours.


It's an odd sort of alliance, though, in that Farage presumably doesn't believe a divided Europe is a weaker Europe, he's clearly not conciously _intending_ to weaken the UK for Russia's benefit. It's a zero-sum enterprise in that one or the other of them is going to be disappointed by the outcome of their joint project. (and Assage and wikileaks are effectively siding with them with yet another incompatible objective in mind)
 
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That Al Franken is quite the "comedian"! And such a "sloppy, warm hugger" too!

https://pagesix.com/2017/11/20/new-..._medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_2258857

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zinfamous

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This is not about moral equivalency. If Franken is going to go around grabbing women by the buttocks and sticking his tongue down their throats, he should step down and let another democratic take his place so as to not disgrace the party any further.

I hope Chuck Schumer talks to him about doing just that.

this guy^ supports pedophiles. what a shameful excuse for a human.
 

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That Al Franken is quite the "comedian"! And such a "sloppy, warm hugger" too!

https://pagesix.com/2017/11/20/new-..._medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_2258857

Uhmm, here's Arianna's take on it from your own link. She apparently believes he is quite the comedian and that he did nothing wrong there. As she tweeted later herself, isn't the whole point of this to believe women when they talk about sexual assault? You would think we might want to take the 'victim''s word for it that she wasn't a victim?

“Al and I did a comedic sketch for Bill Maher’s ‘Politically Incorrect’ called ‘Strange Bedfellows,’ in which the whole point, as the name makes clear, was that we were doing political commentary from bed. This shoot was looking back at the sketch, and we were obviously hamming it up for comedic effect.

“I’ve been great friends with Al and his wife Franni for over 20 years and there has never been anything remotely inappropriate in our interactions.”

You should probably read articles before posting them, haha.
 
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Arianna defends Franken who clearly has his hand on her breast (yet others who were at the photo shoot have a different version of events than her recollection). Meanwhile 4 other accusers didn't find his kind of "humor" to be so funny. How many more will there be?
 

zinfamous

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Arianna defends Franken who clearly has his hand on her breast (yet others who were at the photo shoot have a different version of events than her recollection). Meanwhile 4 other accusers didn't find his kind of "humor" to be so funny. How many more will there be?

I don't know man, but it's weird that you trust the accounts of others over the apparent victim's accounts. ...oh, I guess that does follow with your tendency to dismiss the apparent victim's accounts (the children molested by Roy Moore), when they don't align with your support of GOP rapists and molesters, at any price, at any time, for some undisclosed reason. ...at least there is consistency here. Real victims? No! Fake victims? Also, No!
 
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I don't know man, but it's weird that you trust the accounts of others over the apparent victim's accounts. ...oh, I guess that does follow with your tendency to dismiss the apparent victim's accounts (the children molested by Roy Moore), when they don't align with your support of GOP rapists and molesters, at any price, at any time, for some undisclosed reason. ...at least there is consistency here. Real victims? No! Fake victims? Also, No!
There's clearly a pattern here....the fucker is handsy as hell.
 

jmagg

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Funny guy Frankens shock comedy escapades before his political life should not take him out. The people voted him in after all. Post politics, out the door.
 

fskimospy

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Arianna defends Franken who clearly has his hand on her breast (yet others who were at the photo shoot have a different version of events than her recollection). Meanwhile 4 other accusers didn't find his kind of "humor" to be so funny. How many more will there be?

To quote Arianna Huffington again: (my bold added)

I think I’m a better judge of how I felt in that satirical photo shoot with Al Franken than the recollections of an anonymous bystander. I thought the point of this moment was to believe women’s accounts of their own experiences.

Interesting how you don't want to believe the 'victim' when the 'victim' tells you things you don't want to hear. Huffington felt there was nothing wrong with his behavior and that should be the end of that. Page Six should be ashamed of themselves for leading with such a sensationalist headline when inappropriate conduct was directly denied by the person they painted as the victim of it. Then again, that's the New York Post for you.
 
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zinfamous

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There's clearly a pattern here....the fucker is handsy as hell.

OK, so he's handsy. It seems he is generally handsy for comedy's sake, at least in the incidents of which he is accused. Is it great comedy? Not to me, not at all. But so far we have the initial accuser with all the photos that has already accepted the apology and moved on (possibly because it seems her intentions were dubious, at best...possibly). This one with Huffington, well, obviously that isn't a thing.

So, he's handsy. Why is this a thing that GOP insists on pushing? Anything to distract from their clearly tacit approval of a blatant and unapologetic child molester (Roy Moore) and blatant, unapologetic, and clearly proud rapist and sexual predator in their beloved president? Basically none of this is good for the GOP. The more they go after someone like Franken, the more they look like clowns.

Here's something: why not push more on Cornyn? This one looks pretty bad if you ask me, and on top of that, exposes a long-standing congressional "fund for rapists and predators" that the taxpayers have been seeding such that their elected representatives can go on secretly molesting women of all types, above the law. What the hell is that about? Why doesn't this have more legs? Seems like an equal opportunity, bipartisan target to honestly deal with this very real problem of molestation, predation, and rape.

It's as if there is a desire to make this political, and above dealing with it in an honest attempt to actually fix the problem.
 
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Women around the world are thankful for DSF's concern trolling. His full throat-ed condemnation of a "handsy" Democrat while ignoring a child molester and a president who admitted to sexual assault fills them with confidence that he really understands the point they are trying to make with the #metoo campaign.

For the record with Franken owning his actions and apologizing without equivocation I'm good with waiting for an ethics investigation. Conyers should step down and whatever shit the House compliance office has covered up with confidential settlements needs to come out. Moore needs to drop out, and the GOP needs to come to terms with the fact that it elected a pig of a man and figure out how to prevent that from happening again.
 

pmv

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Arianna defends Franken who clearly has his hand on her breast (yet others who were at the photo shoot have a different version of events than her recollection). Meanwhile 4 other accusers didn't find his kind of "humor" to be so funny. How many more will there be?


I already objected to the idea that the woman Franken almost-groped could somehow be discredited by pictures showing her snogging some military bloke who has raised no objection. Now you seem to also have this idea that consensual physical contact is somehow unacceptable. Are we seriously now in a world where any kind of physical contact with another human being is defacto wrong _even if both parties are fine with it_? How about sticking with the example where someone objected, rather than trying to defend a line-of-attack that just makes you look ridiculous?
 

WHAMPOM

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I want details from the women, was it a pat or cup or squeeze or full five finger grope to make up my mind about proper consequences. Nothing less will do. You don't think it strange all the Frank accusers are Trump supporters?
 
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I want details from the women, was it a pat or cup or squeeze or full five finger grope to make up my mind about proper consequences. Nothing less will do. You don't think it strange all the Frank accusers are Trump supporters?

I see that repeated a lot. Nobody has actually provided any proof to back it up. I supect that would be difficult to prove for at least 2 of his accusers given that their names have not been publicly released. <shrug>