Sexual Misconduct in Politics

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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,604
    stuckinline said:
    "I am leaving while a man bragged on tape about his history of the sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party. But this decision is not about me. It’s about the people of Minnesota," Franken said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/al-franken-latest/index.html
    Yep.
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,708
    people I've seen talking about Franken are right: "when they go low, and we go high, we still lose, so why do we continue to go high?". 

    it sucks to have to lower yourself, but if that's the only way to play the game on a level field, what else are you supposed to do?
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  • CM189191
    CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    JimmyV said:
    Franken to resign. Trump to remain in office. Moore to be elected.
    Day 1 - hit Moore with Ethics Investigation
  • pickupyourwill
    pickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    edited December 2017
    stuckinline said:
    "I am leaving while a man bragged on tape about his history of the sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party. But this decision is not about me. It’s about the people of Minnesota," Franken said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/al-franken-latest/index.html
    I have so much respect for Franken.   He's being accused of some stuff that probably many people in Hollywood and politics could easily be found guilty of as well if they were running for office.  A man that probably has this as the only dirt they could ever dig up in his life, yet he still resigns for having a moral compass and setting a good example to the country.   I hope his next job is one he loves.   I would imagine SNL is praising him right now but sad that we're losing a Democrat.  
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  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    people I've seen talking about Franken are right: "when they go low, and we go high, we still lose, so why do we continue to go high?". 

    it sucks to have to lower yourself, but if that's the only way to play the game on a level field, what else are you supposed to do?
    answer: have 5 to 10 accusers waiting in the wings to trot out tomorrow.

    Unfortunately, the democrats will forever have a Arkansas Bill problem. They can force Conyers and Franken to resign but they will never be able to claim purity during this.
    Hilliary being appointed the nomination certainly didn't help the cause.

    Trump this Trump that, it's been 14 months since the real P tape and people are still clinging to hope that it might dump Trump.
    signs of desperation are the news reports from "sources" claiming trump now denies its him on the tape after he already admitted it last year and chalked it up as locker room talk.

    Unseal the secret deals.
  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    pickupyourwill said:
    stuckinline said:
    "I am leaving while a man bragged on tape about his history of the sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party. But this decision is not about me. It’s about the people of Minnesota," Franken said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/al-franken-latest/index.html
    I have so much respect for Franken.   He's being accused of some stuff that probably many people in Hollywood and politics could easily be found guilty of as well if they were running for office.  A man that probably has this as the only dirt they could ever dig up in his life, yet he still resigns for having a moral compass and setting a good example to the country.   I hope his next job is one he loves.   I would imagine SNL is praising him right now but sad that we're losing a Democrat.  
    You think it's moral compass that lead Franken to resign today? moral compass
  • CM189191
    CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    pickupyourwill said:
    stuckinline said:
    "I am leaving while a man bragged on tape about his history of the sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party. But this decision is not about me. It’s about the people of Minnesota," Franken said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/al-franken-latest/index.html
    I have so much respect for Franken.   He's being accused of some stuff that probably many people in Hollywood and politics could easily be found guilty of as well if they were running for office.  A man that probably has this as the only dirt they could ever dig up in his life, yet he still resigns for having a moral compass and setting a good example to the country.   I hope his next job is one he loves.   I would imagine SNL is praising him right now but sad that we're losing a Democrat.  

    Not for nothing, but these allegations seem scurrilous at best. If I read correctly, 2 of the ladies accused Franken of putting his hand on their waist and squeezing during a photo op at the State Fair, which was likely in front of a huge group of people. Reeks of a hit job and now Rs smell blood in the water.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,708
    CM189191 said:
    pickupyourwill said:
    stuckinline said:
    "I am leaving while a man bragged on tape about his history of the sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party. But this decision is not about me. It’s about the people of Minnesota," Franken said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/al-franken-latest/index.html
    I have so much respect for Franken.   He's being accused of some stuff that probably many people in Hollywood and politics could easily be found guilty of as well if they were running for office.  A man that probably has this as the only dirt they could ever dig up in his life, yet he still resigns for having a moral compass and setting a good example to the country.   I hope his next job is one he loves.   I would imagine SNL is praising him right now but sad that we're losing a Democrat.  

    Not for nothing, but these allegations seem scurrilous at best. If I read correctly, 2 of the ladies accused Franken of putting his hand on their waist and squeezing during a photo op at the State Fair, which was likely in front of a huge group of people. Reeks of a hit job and now Rs smell blood in the water.
    yeah, I gather he's falling on his sword so as to not add to a democratic distraction. 
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    "I will be resigning in the coming weeks."

    So on the day he actually resigns, analog 10 Club members should receive their 2016 annual singles and Deep.

    "We're makin' a list and checkin it twice. All 2016 Analog Members will be receiving the package in the coming weeks. We apologize for the delay. Good things to come!"
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Kinda like "impending".
  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    unsung said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    unsung said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    RiotZact said:
    unsung said:
    Resignation before the weekend is over?

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/al-franken-two-more-women-groping_us_5a15a455e4b09650540ec295?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    Probably, considering he has owned up to it and most of his Democratic colleagues have called him out for it. As opposed to denying it (or, more accurately, lying about it) and having a bunch of spinless dickheads stick up for him in the name of towing the party line. 
    You mean like Randy Paul? Silence = endorsement. Or, birds of a feather flock together. Randy’s wife having her Tammy Wynett moment, how endearing.
    Psychotic obsession right there.
    right up there with your obsession with Hillary and Bill and all other democrats no longer in power. 
    You forgot women and minorities.
    You are an idiot.  GFY, you crossed the line.
    shocked uh oh GIF
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    The endless obsession with me needed to stop.  Get a life.  I'm not going to accept the lies anymore.  Libel is an easy thing to prove in this day and age.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,708
    unsung said:
    The endless obsession with me needed to stop.  Get a life.  I'm not going to accept the lies anymore.  Libel is an easy thing to prove in this day and age.
    on a message board? HAHA. how will you prove libel against your name and reputation when no one knows who you are, where you live, etc etc?
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  • CM189191
    CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    unsung said:
    The endless obsession with me needed to stop.  Get a life.  I'm not going to accept the lies anymore.  Libel is an easy thing to prove in this day and age.
    it's not libel, it's fake news
  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    If someone asks you to cut the shit on here, the person should be respectful enough to cut it. End of discussion. It's not too much to ask.


  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,604
    dankind said:
    "I will be resigning in the coming weeks."

    So on the day he actually resigns, analog 10 Club members should receive their 2016 annual singles and Deep.

    "We're makin' a list and checkin it twice. All 2016 Analog Members will be receiving the package in the coming weeks. We apologize for the delay. Good things to come!"
    :lol:
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,866
    unsung said:
    The endless obsession with me needed to stop.  Get a life.  I'm not going to accept the lies anymore.  Libel is an easy thing to prove in this day and age.
    :rofl:

    This is perhaps the funniest thing I have ever read on this board.  Mud slinging happens all around, all of the time on AMT, and you think that you have been wronged in a way that could amount to some sort of recompense for yourself...by something someone responded to you with referencing your strong political views, shared on the fan club message board of a band from the 1990s?

    I am sorry for you that you would be upset by anything anyone could write here --- it has happened to me and I am sorry I let it get the best of me on a few occasions as well.

    But thinking you are going to file a civil suit against someone for what he wrote here?  It defamed you?
    :rofl:

    This is so funny.

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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,604
    Let's all take a deep breath and remember that the President is a rapist and Alabama is about to elect a pedophile.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,866
    ^^ See, that is why the idea of Libel is ridiculous.  Someone disagrees with you consistently and you think inferences they make are libelous.

    Multiple people outright name the POTUS a rapist.

    This is meant to be a thread about Sexual Misconduct in Politics and it is really an extended Right vs Left argument, veiled in being about a thread about Sexual Misconduct.

    Too funny.

    (Goes back to AET.  :weary:  )
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,866
    btw, f tiny hands.
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