My heart is fucking pounding with rage right now, and I have tears in my eyes. I absolutely CANNOT believe how hard he’s fighting this. I fucking can’t. I listened to the whole thing with my hand over my mouth.

I know. Clearly he was mangling the facts, but I was only addressing his seeming belief that there was some version where what happened could be justified, which is a case I see a lot of guys attempt.

Also, the drugged 13 yr old girl still said no to Polanski, more than once. It wasn’t statutory rape. It was, in the immortal words of Whoopie Goldberg, “rape rape.”

he decided to wore a dashiki and kufi cap.

Also, it was also forcible rape: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/roman-polanski-grand-jury-transcript?page=27

I am a Democrat (and probably politically naïve.) Tell me why the Illinois Republican Party wouldn’t want to put forward someone, anyone, in the IL-3 primary. The postman, my mother. Anyone. The candidate would lose, of course in the general - but they’d be on the ballot. The Democrat wouldn’t run unopposed. And in…

Men thinking a 13 year old is too young to do any number of things, but plenty old enough to gratify adults sexually. There’s no limit to the ways a horny asshole will empathize with and prioritize the needs of other horny assholes.

I’ve given Tarantino a lot more leeway than I ever should’ve because I love most of his movies and he’s the first director that I can remember putting on a pedestal. Between this and putting Uma Thurman in danger, however... I can’t defend him anymore.

Why does Hollywood continue to give Polanski and Allen a pass?? Why are we watching these award shows?

Not only did she explicitly say she didn’t want it in her deposition testimony, not only was she drugged, but having sex with a 13 year old is also a crime in France, where Polanski fled, and in Poland, where he was born, (and it was for both of them in the 70s too.)

Time to dust off those Mount Prospect police cars!

You hate them?

Gloria Steinem tweeted that she was out campaigning for Marie today. I want her to win so badly. FYI she has a transgender teen daughter.

I hate Illinois Nazis.

He’s running unopposed in the GOP primary, and he’s unopposed for the nomination because it’s such a heavily Democratic district that no Republican would have a chance.

In the primary for the Republican ticket. He’ll be on the general ballot in November.

I think I remember Bill Maher saying something like that.

To be even more clear here, the Republican Party in Illinois has been dealing with this idiot for years and managing to keep him off of their ballots. This year he managed to claw his way in, partially because the Illinois 3rd is an incredibly safe Democratic seat that no actual Republican wanted to lose by 40 points…

Who was it who said “Not all Republicans are [racists/holocaust deniers/white supremacists/nazis], but most every [racist/holocaust denier/white supremacist/nazi] votes Republican?”