Yeah, it kind of broke my heart too.  But we must be honest with ourselves and face the truth.  Sometimes men we like aren’t as wonderful as we thought they were.

It is impossible for Republicans to win Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district because the Republican Party is incapable and unwilling to appeal to educated and diverse voters like the voters that make up Minnesota’s 5th.  

In the lead-up to his resignation, women in the Senate were asked “every day, multiple times a day” about Franken.

He did the right thing in resigning. Had he not, he would have been an albatross on the Democrats back every time he was even remotely tangential to a similar issue. The Kavanaugh hearings were already a farce, but can you imagine how much of a farce they would have been with Franken on Judiciary?

I agree, and it is not sour grapes. The big ones always look fake. I’m really not into stones at all though, prefer plain gold. Which is why I love the band, but hate the stone.

I think it’s a popular opinion, but I can’t be sure. But I do know this ring is ugly.

A diamond this large should be in a necklace, and the setting should be less...hideous.

This is ugly as fuck.

All snark aside, I seriously wonder if more women will come out as he continues his comeback.

A brown diamond is about half a step away from being a charcoal briquette.

“I was confused about where these allegations against me were coming from, but I did what I thought was best for the movement/the party/Minnesota, which are more important than my Senate career” is a savvier starting point than “I was framed and they treated me so unfairly.”

You could also debate whether Franken’s resignation helped the Democrats win the Doug Jones seat over Roy Moore. And it certainly helped them have a cleaner interrogation of Kavanaugh. (Franken was on the Judiciary Committee and would have otherwise been in that room.) Franken also—despite his popularity with a…

Agreed. Yet again, to explain the situation with Franken, all we have to do is go back to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “Fear of a Black President”:

He (and his defenders in that piece) really seem to believe that his intentions matter more here than their effect on the victims. And they just . . . don’t.

I’m so sick of people invoking “due process” when talking about #metoo. Due process is a legal term. It has a specific meaning. There is no such thing as “due process” for someone who has been accused of sexual misconduct but is not being charged with a crime - they either face consequences or they don’t, largely…

He (and his defenders in that piece) really seem to believe that his intentions matter more here than their effect on the victims. And they just . . . don’t. If you’re a man in the 21st century kissing women at work, it’s not their job to figure out whether that’s because you’re a lech or a socially awkward dork. If…

There were 8 different women who came out. Knowing how disincentivized women are from telling their stories, there are bound to be more. It would have been easier to keep him if congress actually has actionable plans for consequences for their offenders. But they have a history of just sweeping things under the rug.…

As treatment for melanoma is considered medically necessary by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, as a taxpayer I commend her fashion sense.

don’t take these tests, unless, of course, you want to pay a bunch of money to share your most private info with some tech company in exchange for some bogus bullshit about where your genes are from

I wouldn’t even call the babe article “allegations of sexual misconduct” there was nothing legally actionable there. Using this language to frame the whole narrative makes it about “sexual assault” (which the narrator was clear didn’t happen). It was never about that for me personally (and I think most people?), but…