Lelwhat. I don’t think trolling this point is working out in your favor. But keep going: fully identify yourself as someone who thinks child rape is fine.

Oh agreed. I think its not nearly so calculating. I think he’s like a pet that keeps hitting the button to get the fish biscuit. He gets the fish biscuit enough that the incentive to just keep hitting the damn button is there. He has no endgame, no strategy.   He just has to barf out some assholery and blam: fish…

They’re also under investigation in Texas for criminal wrongdoing.  It may not result in an indictment, though.

They’re under criminal investigation in Texas, actually but if that results in indictments depends on how Texas wrote the statutes for this and if the grand jury feels it fits.  So, who knows.

They are under criminal investigation in the state of Texas. Whether or not that investigation will find that they were criminally liable for anything based on Texas law... remains to be seen?

They’re also being sued by USA Gymnastics or whatever will remain of that organization (circa 2016) for knowingly participating…

I think in all honesty he harps and then settles and then harps and settles on it because he knows that media will go into another frenzy about it. Fox will have another round of self-congratulatory keeping hope alive wankery and CNN/MSBNC/WaPo/HuffPo/Jez/Many Others freak the fuck out and keep the bandwidth on the…

Side thing but a thing that’s kind of driving me a little batty:

All the implied fucking that Midge is doing. She’s clearly banging Benji and bangs Joel. From a modern perspective which we are because we’re the audience viewing this, this is totally normal. She’s a woman with a sense of sexual agency.

But sexual agency…

They will probably explore this in Season 3 but this has all the hints of Abe being a red diaper baby. He was probably an idealist in his youth and an activist for socialist/Marxist/communist causes (three different concepts but all kind of mashed together often)- which is a pretty common thing that happened in his…

2 Girls, One Impossibly Fucked Up Attempt At Appropriation

The fraternity noping out him is hugely damning and also suggests that aside of this incidents: there were others.  Maybe not sexual assault incidents but he was not in good standing and was a pain in the ass and a problem. 

Considering that some of the presented evidence originated directly from him (i.e. text messages), that part at least was not a mystery.

Also as a former employee in that world (not UoC but another prestige university in the same tier), the burden of evidence is entirely on the victim who brought forward evidence that…

Of the 20 or so priests I’ve had significant interaction with in my life (school, social stuff, the assigned priest to the family parish), my honest estimation is that 70% of those gentleman were gay or queer identified folks.

Of that 3 or 4 were open, self-aware, and comfortable with their sexual orientation. I would…

He’ll sadly be in protective custody, I think as he’s enough of a public figure that the liabilities will probably require it. Even if not, financial crimes don’t usually go to the same federal units as mass murderers so he may end up in custody with a bunch of 50 year old white dude accountants who fucked up on…

I know of no 13 year old who is prococious enough to be equated “safely” with whatever’s going on with an 18 year old.   I’m sure they exist but the fact that they exist is even more reason why they shouldn’t be sleeping with 18 year olds.

When Rent first blew up, I think people were way more aware because Larson died right before it went bananas.   But Rent was famous in the mid-90s, it’s been 20+ years so there are lots of people who don’t know, don’t remember, or didn’t care/weren’t paying attention back then.

Point taken but they aren’t that stupid. There is no political upside to making her the flashpoint of ‘Look What Sharia Law Did That Pretty Little High Profile White Lady’ in a time when they’re teetering on the brink of a financial abyss and have only one ally in this charade about being caught red-handed in poorly…

Mental gymnastics predicated on the Kingdom never running out of money.

You’re reading into this a direction I’m not going. I’m not saying ‘no one is perfect’ because I’m looking to make excuses for anyone or defend anyone. Others may be, but at no point did I say that. I’m saying instead that a lot of people are extremely naive about the public faces of people they put up on pedestals…

I think there’s a difference between defending her and conceding that there are parts of her that are problematic but the parts where she’s done good make it easier for some to take her as a whole.

But what about the aftermath? Yes, you can point to the fact that Clinton was the subject of a failed attempt at impeachment but he kept his job. He also recovered and reformed his image. And despite additional accusations of questionably consensual sexual engagements with other women, remains largely coated in teflon.