Oh, I still have tons of questions. It comes off as saying “you just thought you were happy” to a grieving widow but really, the only reason her husband wasn’t arrested was that he extended the grooming period of her and her entire family until she was of legal age.

I read the piece as well, and I found some problematic things in it.

That's a good boy, lick it clean.

I've a full bladder for you, Daddy.

Do you think that the U.S. Senate is more likely than the House to vote 2-1 to expel someone for the offense of groping women? No? Then what substantive point are you making?

It’s been pointed out to me that it would have been a 2/3 vote of the Senate, which seems EVEN LESS likely to expel a gropey boi, so I don’t see how that’s a great point either. *shrug*

She said she had to dodge out of the way when he tried to kiss her, not just that he “looked like he wanted to kiss her”.

ACE roleplay? That is different.

Ooooooh...

A detailed article with evidence that the New Yorker piece fucked up.

This comment and the one above it by veraps are excellent. As a long time credible journalist, it’s weird trying to figure out Mayer’s motivations on this piece. It really does look like the hill she was willing to die on. But why? It almost makes one think that perhaps she had a personal stake in rehabilitating him,…

I know due process is not only applicable in a court of law, and nothing about my comments indicates I am solely talking about due process in the context of a court case.

No, the point of due process is to protect legal rights. Franken was only denied due process if Schumer took action to interfere with a legally protected right of Franken. He didn’t. Franken has no right whatsoever for the members of his caucus to refrain from calling for his resignation. Even if Schumer requested…

And Ted Kennedy helped pass anti drunk driving laws. We see time and time again politicians take principle stands in passing bills and then turn around and do those same shitty things in their personal lives. This is not new. There is no disconnect between Franken being against sexual harassment and still being a…

The process that is due before the Senate minority leader “calls on the entire democratic caucus” to demand your resignation is zero. That action in no, way, shape or form would have impaired any substantive legal right of Franken’s. 

I also feel like his behavior in the photo was not acceptable either, which Tweeden said she felt uncomfortable with. That is a straight up case of sexual harassment in the work place, right there. That people don’t get that even with the pantomiming the boob grabbing, it’s a sexualized joke that the recipient was not…

I hope you appreciate the gesture.

It’s just bizarre that she framed it as “the untold story” behind Tweeden’s allegations, when almost none of the story she was telling about Tweeden was new. It was all rehashed in depth at the time; the idea that it was politically motivated, and spread by people with political agendas, and that parts of her story…

I read the article. I’m very liberal in my politics, liked Franken & loved that he backed Jeff Sessions into a corner. I believe the women. He obviously is one of those touchy feely grabby guys just like Bush senior was. I play cards with a group & one of the husbands is always trying to hug me & put his arm around…

Let me preface this with saying, I would have liked to see Frankin go through the ethics process if for no other reason to see if we as a society can come up with gradations of punishment for gradations of transgressions.