16th November 2017, 7:44 PM
We all had a fun time gloating about Roy Moore, then just like that, BAM, Al Franken disappoints us all. He's admitted it straight up, and that photo of him groping that woman you can find easily online is just sickening.
Not that this has ever really been a secret, but we've got a serious problem here. And yes, Bill Clinton is a rapist if we are consistent with our standards of evidence here (multiple women accusing him). Republicans keep bringing him up as some "whataboutism" when we criticize Trump, but I don't get that. We're decrying him too, it doesn't excuse Trump's terribleness.
The democratic party can really get the moral victory here if they are willing to bite that bullet and once and for all denounce any of their own members, even their very most popular ones, that are now being exposed for being utter creeps. Bill Clinton and Al Franken have both done a lot of good, but you know what? There's so very many more people out there that are just as willing and able to do just as much good WITHOUT being sexual abusers.
Not that this has ever really been a secret, but we've got a serious problem here. And yes, Bill Clinton is a rapist if we are consistent with our standards of evidence here (multiple women accusing him). Republicans keep bringing him up as some "whataboutism" when we criticize Trump, but I don't get that. We're decrying him too, it doesn't excuse Trump's terribleness.
The democratic party can really get the moral victory here if they are willing to bite that bullet and once and for all denounce any of their own members, even their very most popular ones, that are now being exposed for being utter creeps. Bill Clinton and Al Franken have both done a lot of good, but you know what? There's so very many more people out there that are just as willing and able to do just as much good WITHOUT being sexual abusers.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)