Democrats absolute should strive to be a big tent party, and it’s a slap in the face to use “big tent” as an excuse to support a white, Christian male who fights to take away women’s rights. Big tent doesn’t mean all beliefs are welcome, it is that it is welcoming of all genders, races, ethnicities, and religions, and…

It would seem to be incredibly easy counter to that with “every dollar spent supporting an anti-choice Democrat, is a dollar spent helping to criminalize abortion.”

But Bustos still isn’t ready to disavow anti-choice Democrats. She said in her statement that she still believes in “our big tent Democratic caucus” and warned progressives that “every dollar spent trying to defeat one of our Democratic incumbents is a dollar that we cannot spend defeating Republicans.”

Thanks for saying this. I wish I could give it enough stars to make it the first comment people see on this article!

1. She explains her reasons for continuing to work with Weinstein in the NYT article

It’s pretty gross. AVClub comments can tend to trashfire - a lot of sweaty fanboys with no social skills - but it is usually not this bad. I’m thinking they called Steve Wynn at the RNC to see if they could crosspost it over there before he stepped down.

The withheld footage and the active abuse in the name of “stunt double” (that he has done to other women on other sets) is the damning shit, and pretty much prove that what she’s saying is correct.

I’m just spitballing here but these are my guesses:

That sounds like a stretch. Even assuming the absolute worst about Tarantino, if he wanted to arrange a stunt to flat out kill someone... that would be possible. You wouldn’t bet on something unpredictable like a car losing control and hitting a tree.

Folks, read the article here first:

interesting that he asks her husband for forgiveness. Did he ask Thurman or maybe I missed that part?

A story about men in positions of power being abusive and sexual predators. People use that story as a platform to expound on their feelings about Tarantino’s and Thurman’s movies.

Lotta weird fan boys and arm chair critics in here sticking up for QT who have obviously never been on set, or to an occupational health ans safety meeting

You’re a real dense stupid ass motherfucker, aren’t you?

Anyone else think the car accident was Tarantino trying to get her killed at the behest of Weinstein?

I think it just further illustrates Tarantino’s less-than-healthy treatment of and psychological relationship with Thurman

He used himself as a stunt double for those particular shots (which didn’t need stuntmen, so he chose to do them for his jollies), but he wouldn’t provide Thurman with a stunt double for a shot that absolutely required one (and if they were shooting in Hollywood - under studio, union, and insurance company supervision…

It’s just kind of creepy that he would WANT to be the person doing the assaulting rather than letting either the other actor or a stunt coordinator do it. It sounds like he was getting off on it.

I had to read this sentence about ten times to figure out what the hell it was saying.

“Mr. Weinstein acknowledges making a pass at Ms. Thurman in England after misreading her signals in Paris,”