I continued to be amazed that they ran Al Franken out of town over much, much less than this.
Al Franken was a threat because he was popular and progressive.
So the Dem party lied to him, they told him that they couldn’t afford the circus of a hearing (that they could have just not had) so they told him to resign, then they’d do the investigation and clear his name so he could run again.
As soon as he resigned, the same Dems told him that there was no point in a hearing.
He got kneecapped by his own party and people still try to act like it wasn’t a big deal.
The neoliberals running the party aren’t on our side, they were bought off long ago.
I think it was also a timing and a party composition issue. Dems were scared because women and feminists are a big part of their coalition, and the Frankenstein story happened at the height of MeToo so they were more worried about backlash.
Republicans have a consistently popular leader who is widely known to be a sexual predator so it’s apparent that there’s little danger from their base regarding this. The only reason Gaetz got any scrutiny at all for this is because he’s a shithead who is personally disliked by many of his party in congress.
I agree completely, except I don’t think ‘bought off’ is the best way to characterize the rich consistently acting in their own interests. Democratic party leadership doesn’t need a bribe or inducement to attack working people and the left, it’s the job they signed up for.
I agree completely, except I don’t think ‘bought off’ is the best way to characterize the rich consistently acting in their own interests
A lot of politicians aren’t “rich” when first elected especially for the House the only way to get rich is shady shit like campaign corruption or insider trading.
The party leadership are defending themselves because like we were just shown, they won’t let anyone into the VIP area if they’re not dirty.
They know Connolly won’t do the job, because he’s corrupt too.
You can’t fight corruption from the bottom up, that’s what Biden just tried to do with 1/6, they never got close to anyone who caused it.
For corruption you got to work top down. That’s what AOC would have done, and that would have been going after Pelosi because every Republican would vote with AOC to do that.
I’m still mad at that, it was totally unnecessary and a weak virtue signal at best
So he’s saying he dated children, sent them money, but did not have sexual contact with them?
Did he inhale?
Isn’t that grooming? Isn’t that illegal? Or at least somehow be illegal? Someone needs to get this pervert.
I love that this guy talks about his 30’s like most people talk about their late teens/early 20’s.
And his dance around framing this sounds like a lawyer advised him, “don’t say anything, but if you do, stay vague like this and deny deny deny”. Although, the “OK, sure I might have “dated” and bought gifts for girls that were underage, some maybe I never even interacted with other than them asking out of the blue for money/gifts” seems both sad/bad way to explain it away.
My 30’s were an era of working very hard – and playing hard too. It’s embarrassing, though not criminal, that I probably partied, womanized, drank and smoked more than I should have earlier in life. I live a different life now.”
Yeah, at 30, I already had a wife, kid, a regular career, and was pretty much set on maintaining a stable lifestyle for the rest of my life. He must have had the mentality of a five year old at 18.
