Heheh, well, you like what you like!
Yeah... Lots of folks are talking about taking the high road (insert wanking-off gesture here), but regardless of appearances, it’s still what needs to be done.
Ugh, the purity-test trolls are The Literal Worst.... Save your blood pressure, skim the replies on any Franken article.
I like the Senator, but a woman likes to be able to decide for herself whether she wants to be a prop in somebody’s act.
Yeah— he’s the one who wanted to challenge Susan Collins to a duel after her vote helped sink the Trumpcare fiasco.
Expecting our members of Congress to not be sexual predators is absolutely not a purity test, its a basic level of decency. He will resign, Mark Dayton will pick his interim (Democratic) successor, and that person will likely run for the remainder of Franken’s 2015-2021 term in 2018, supported by Amy Klobuchar’s…
Literally all I know about him is that he wanted to shoot some “female senators” for not voting for the worst healthcare bill they could shit out, and now this mess.
Splinter commentariate seem to compromise an uncanny number of DNC apologist who are more than happy with ethical relativism so long as it benefits their partisan views. Splinter = power politics at its worst. I can’t control much other than acting with integrity and voting for candidates who do the same. We are still…
I’m for having some basic ideological stances you need to support to be a Democrat. Do you absolutely need to support a $15 minimum wage increase and single payer health care? Maybe not. But fuck yes you need to support women’s rights and be anti sexual assault.
Goddammit awready, WHY IS THERE NO REPUBLICAN PURGE?? Those people not calling for their removal have absolutely no soul and no decency.
Ha! I was like omg srsly until #3. Thanks for making me chortle on a shit day!
Franken’s behavior put the seat in play in 2020. C’est la vie.
You wanna redeem yourself Franken? Do a Bannon and go raise fucking money for us and our causes now. Flip the motherfucking script and become our vengeance.
Fuck Franken. Thanks a lot.
He was a comedian, albeit one that I never found particularly funny. He’s clearly joking in the one picture that I saw, and grabbing someone’s butt during a photo in the past sounds like a juvenile attempt at humor as well...it hardly seems like sexual predatory behavior, or some weird power trip.
The sad thing here is that the knee-jerk response I’ve been seeing to all this (i.e. BUT WHAT ABOUT TRUMP AND MOORE?) is short-sighted political scoring, not a genuine concern about people in power being held accountable for sexual harassment and assault. Yes, Trump and Moore are clearly in a league well beyond…
The commentariat of Jez/Splinter/et al has not been great in the whole Franken saga, to say the least. (To be clear, there have been great, smart posts here on Jez, but way too many people willing excuse his behavior. Splinter has been a pretty solid clusterfuck of apologists all along.)
lol remember when everyone here was defending that SNL women letter?
No matter what happens the seat will be in play in 2020. But Dayton has a fairly deep bench of female candidates that he could give a boost by appointing one of them to fill the seat.