Good for her!

On a smaller scale, the same thing that happened to Corey happened to me and my family. My ex-husband was a city councilor where we lived. It’s a small position, but it does determine the police department’s budget. When my young male relative came forward to say that he was molested, he filed a police report,…

Gormk speaks from his ass. Rape has not been asserted, never implied, and by no means accused. The statement is hyperbolic and damaging to both victims of such a crime and simple discourse regarding Franken’s case.

The statute of limitations was 3 years at the time. It isn’t that no one was listening; it was that legally they could do nothing.

I know many Jezzies are millennials; you probably don’t know that, in 1993 when this tape was recorded, the statute of limitations for child sex crimes was three years. To its eternal credit, California attempted to change this following the Jackson case, and the Supreme Court rightly said you can’t retroactively…

Also worth asking is how perennial asshole-right fixer Roger Stone knew and tweeted about the allegations hours before they became public.

It’s certainly possible that her POV is informed by denial of something that happened to her personally, but at the same time your friend’s position is basically the default one in our society, so she could have just picked it up from hearing other people give those same defenses.

Well in fairness, Democrats spent 9 months of bipartisan commissions to evaluate health care proposals and begged any Republican anywhere to support them fruitlessly (in spite of many months of public promises by prominent Republicans). And on the other hand, Republicans spent 9 days writing a bill in secret and…

Humans touch each other, a quick squeeze during a photo is not unusual and can easily be intended as friendly. Humans also try to kiss each other and get turned down.  I’m all for punishing bad people but putting Franken on the cross is misguided at best. It seems his lesson has been learned. In this case - time to…

True. I initially dismissed him because of obvious sketchiness, but duh, hello, sketchiness is a side effect of abuse, not dis-proof.

Yes, I’m happy for Corey, too, but let’s not forget that he gave this statement while defending a pedophile. The fact that Corey Feldman has been vindicated doesn’t change the fact that he helped defend Michael Jackson. Just because he didn’t molest you, Corey, doesn’t mean he didn’t molest others. It kinda sucks that…

I’m ablifelong blue dot in a red state, and I’ve veen working in Democratic campaigns since I was a child in the late 1970s, after the great re alignment. Dad was an elected Democrat, Grandma was party chair. And at 45 years old I’m feeling something I never felt before: Reoublican envy. God they get everything, don’t…

Same, same, same. He’s had to carry this terrible weight for decades. His life was shattered but somehow he picked up the pieces and kept going. Like many of others, he has suffered silently with flashbacks, shame, constant replays of what he was “supposed” to do differently.

Wait wait wait...when did Mountain Dew become evil? I missed a memo or something at my regular snowflake meeting. Also, I don’t really follow Nascar, but Dale Earnhardt Jr is a national treasure, and he drives the Mt. Dew car.

i agree. we can’t afford to lose him.

1) Gillibrand was fine pandering to racists to Upstate New York ( re: immigration and prison reform) but hey.

Yeah. I could have articulated that more artfully. I’m just trying to make the point that we need to be careful and people’s political views shouldn’t get in the way of finding out the truth. And, yes, you’re correct that most of the high-profile cases lately have been corroborated and stand up to scrutiny. And in…

Ah, yes. Purity.

Can we please as a public make the reasonable transition to believing all women by completing a thorough investigation? Everything about the allegations against Franken wreaks of dubious bs scrounged up by Republicans who wanted to hit our most popular senator. If the allegations prove true then of course he should…