The Politics Thread

[Juliajms]

So Bush senior is accused of groping a 16 year old. Ugh.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41974116

[NothinButAttitude]

[JaneAusten]

There was a new accuser announced this AM who is having a press conf at 2:30 ET. Suddenly McConnell and all the GOP-senate robots stand along

 

Most disappointed in Collins. I thought she was an independent thinker

[NothinButAttitude]

 

No one in the GOP is an independent thinker. They all think in unison with rare occurrences of being a leader every now and then. 

[Juliajms]

That was obvious from the start.  There is no way this guy only went after four teens. There is no doubt a long trail of victims.  Meanwhile these women live in a place that is very hostile to them, even more so then the average victim, so it might take awhile for them to come forward.  I imagine it's going to be a long couple of weeks for the GOP.

[marceline]

 

I'm still waiting to find out that he's got some boys in his past. People that homophobic tend to be pushing down urges.

[DRW50]

 

I really thought he was going to stick by Moore to the end.

 

If (to be honest I think it's "when") Moore wins, if he doesn't drop out before then, he's going to make life hell for McConnell. 

[DramatistDreamer]

By the way, her name is Beverly Young Nelson.

 

Woman Comes Forward With Detailed Allegation of Sexual Encounter With Moore When She Was 16

 

 

[Juliajms]

I had that same thought for slightly different reasons.  I don't know the psychology, but it seems like a lot of these guys who go for underage will go for male or female.  Whatever the reason, I will definitely not surprised if there are some male victims.

[DRW50]

I think Ben Shapiro is smug, narrow-minded, bigoted, and awash in pseudo-intellectualism that leaves him with no room to breathe, but lately I have watched some of his Youtube podcasts, mostly just as background noise. The last one I saw was about Roy Moore, where he said he thought Moore should drop out and seemed to believe the allegations against him. 

 

I went to the comments section, which usually has a lot of mindless "libtard" type comments and "Ben for President" nonsense, and about 90% of it was bile against him. I mean bile.  People using anti-Semetic slurs against him. So much more. Just vile stuff.

 

For all the talk of how the right allows debate while the left is against "free speech," the right is actually more and more beholden to the worst viewpoints imaginable, and ANYTHING that ever goes against this is met with a heavy fist. 

[DramatistDreamer]

As an aside, I continue to wonder whether those allegations against Assange might resurface in the wake of the unmasking of sexual predators era that we are living in.

 

Speaking of allegations, I think this one has been floating around for months but here this article details the correspndence between Dummy Jr. and Wikileaks. Has anyone read this article?  

 

The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

 

 

[Vee]

Wikileaks - of all organizations - is now whining that this is being taken out of context. Ohhh my.

Meanwhile:

 

 

[dragonflies]

Ann Coulter stays filth and gets dragged LMAO

 

 

This is her moronic tweet

 

 

[DRW50]

Disgusting. 

 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/locals-were-troubled-by-roy-moores-interactions-with-teen-girls-at-the-gadsden-mall

 

I can't remember who here mentioned the blogger with no experience in a courtroom who will soon be a federal judge, but it gets even more ridiculous:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/trump-judge-brett-talley-nomination.html?_r=0

[Vee]

Oh, Donnie:

 

 

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