Politics Al Franken accused of sexual misconduct

Wait...this is real? I read the first few posts super fast and thought it was a joke.

She's good enough, she's smart enough and gosh darnit I WANNA JUMP HER

 

It's why I was fairly quick after reading Louie CK's apology to say that 1)what he did was disgusting and wrong, and that 2) I will be able to forgive him because he showed true contrition and his statement seemed honest and sincere.

 

Not good enough, Al:

 

Thing is, it's not really up to YOU to forgive him...

 

I'm on board with all accusations of the like being investigated. I just don't want pre-determined outcomes.

 

It is for me.

 

The power base in DC will come down to who's left after they get rid of the creeps.....now we'll see if we have 3 decent humans left to vote in Congress or the Senate when all said and done ....I never thought Franken was funny either

 

It's crazy that some of the first thoughts that seem to go through folk's heads when one of these things gets revealed is either, "What a piece of crap. Of course people on that side of the political spectrum are creeps"; or "What a piece of crap. Damn, and he's on my side of the political spectrum. How do I deal with this?" It would be enough just to stop with, "What a piece of crap." Sexism, misogyny, and perv behavior aren't political traits, they're just plain sick behavior.

 

In Al's case..this was probably before his political career but fact is...no matter your political leanings...power and fame give false senses of entitlement to all these men.

 

This is a better response than the quote on the picture above (but no mention of the forced kiss):

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/al...ent-allegations-i-feel-disgusted-with-myself/

 

He has indeed been called out by members of his party. And by liberal sites (all over Daily Kos).

One bitter thing I learned, and learned the hard way.

There are no political boundaries to men acting like pigs. Men can claim to be bible-believing Christians, observant Jews, professionals doing a job, liberals, conservatives, supporters of women's rights, progressives, socialists, revolutionaries, atheists, intellectuals. Any fucking category you can name. And still act like pigs. I apologize to pigs for the comparison.

I was sexually assaulted by a "revolutionary" man and by a doctor during an employment physical and by a liberal idealist and NO I will NOT fucking entertain you with the details, the point is that I "thought" either their profession or their professed politics meant they could be trusted to treat women/girls (in one case I was 15) with some degree of respect. I was wrong.

Yeah, sure, Franken has been great in the Senate. I love watching him make science deniers squirm, he has introduced progressive measure. Guess what? I don't fucking care.

He has said he will comply with an ethics investigation. I do think it is gross hypocrisy for Republicans to demand Franken submit to ethics investigation but not Trump. But I will let the investigation find out what it may.

Don't tell me you're a fucking progressive so it's OK to grope a sleeping, or waking, woman. Don't tell me it's a fucking joke because I am NOT laughing.

 

Whea! We're returning to the 1950s!

The purge is on! Sexual repression is back! Thanks, Womens Lib! You aren't the first fake leftist movement in history, created by intelligence agencies to move the country backward.

The gays who think they further their cause by destroying the heterosexual revolution will soon find that they totally depend upon it for their newfound freedom.

 

History circles in cycles. This rotten country is sinking right back into the hole which we leftists of the 60s worked so hard to climb out of.

The generation being born now will experience the 1940s-50s social system all over again.

 

Meds, bro. Meds.

 

The accusers "forced kiss" situation/description is pretty bad, honestly.

 

This political purge is how freedom dies. It'll take a generation for freedom to reach bottom, with you gays plunging first. Then the cycle repeats. A generation yet unborn will go through the 60s again, with gays tagging along behind, regaining freedom. Then the powers-that-be will again persuade manhaters to fight the heterosexual revolution, upon which lesbians and gays depend for whatever limited freedom they can get.

 

We do need to go back and look at Simon's drawings. I think Franken and Mike Meyers were on SNL at the same time.

They might have new meaning in hindsight.