Angry Partisan Thumb: Bill Clinton's 1978 Rape of Juantia Broadderick Was "Empowered" by the Republicans' Defense of Clarence Thomas Thirteen Years Later in 1991

Okay, #FakeNews "Republican" (actually, he claims to be a "Proud Independent," which is also #FakeNews) and ABC Political "Analyst" Matthew Dowd doesn't talk about the Juanita Broadrick rape. But surely he knows that Clinton's abuse of women long predates the Clarence Thomas hearings...?

Apparently not. By his telling, Clinton was "empowered" to do things in the past by things that would only happen in the future.

According to Dowd, the only reason Justice Thomas was confirmed to sit on the court was that of tribal politics. "I think until we take off our jersey and say some things are not about our Jersey. Some things are not about the tribe that we're in," he pontificated. "We saw this in '91, then the Republicans gave up their values in order to get Justice Thomas on the court."
"They basically called Anita Hill a nut and a liar in order to get Justice Thomas on the court. They empowered Bill Clinton," he continued to proclaim, devoid of any facts or reason. "But in order to get those things, they decided the ends justify the means. They decided that a tainted person was better to get what they wanted."

Here are some people who cannot take their partisan shirts off and call out sexual assailants:

Love how the gang here is omitting the fact Tweeden also stated Franken of shoving his tongue down her throat against her will. pic.twitter.com/B25Mn5safg
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) November 17, 2017

Notice they refuse to note that Leeann Tweeden also alleged that Franken committed the sexual battery of sticking his tongue into her mouth, not only unexpectedly but previously explicitly forbidden.

She said "NO" even to a fake stage kiss; he decided to force his tongue into her mouth anyway.

Here's another guy who can't take off his partisan shirt and call out his own tribe: Matthew J. Dowd himself, who, despite my badgering, continues insisting that Al Franken owned up to what he did:

For all those calling for Al Franken to resign, have you also called for President Trump and Justice Thomas to resign? Franken blames himself, Trump and Thomas blame the women. Huge difference.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) November 16, 2017

No, he didn't. This is the standard liberal line, from Matthew Dowd to FoxNews "analyst" AB Stoddard: Al Franken admitted what he did.

No, he didn't. Tweeden had photographic proof he groped her; he "admitted" that, which could not be denied. There was a fucking picture of him caught red-handed, as it were.

He refuses to admit the even more egregious part of her allegation, that he forcibly tongue kissed her.

"He just put his hand on the back of my head and mashed his face against me," Tweeden said in a news conference Thursday. "It happened so fast. He mashed his lips against my face and stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. All I can remember is that his lips were really wet and slimy."
Franken has not only not admitted that act but has said he has a different memory of the moment.
"I certainly don't remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann," Franken said in his first statement after the news broke.
Later, in a more extensive statement -- one in which he discussed the photo at length --- Franken said, "While I don't remember the rehearsal for the skit as Leeann does, I understand why we need to listen to and believe women's experiences."
On Friday, Franken addressed the subject for a third time, in an email to Tweeden. He apologized for the photo, but said, again: "I remember that rehearsal differently."

Franken added, on the rehearsal incident, that "What's important is the impact on you and you felt violated by my actions. For that I apologize." The email was a classic I'm-sorry-if-you-were-offended apology that did not admit the behavior alleged.
In none of the statements did Franken say what his memory of the incident is.

He's calling her a liar. That's what you're saying when you say your "memory differs."

Because there's no proof on that one.

Just her claim.

Which counts as proof against Roy Moore, but not against Al Franken, for some reason I can't even guess at.

And I think the forcible tongue-kiss is the worst offense. I suspected women would say the same thing, so I put up a poll on Twitter:

Obviously these are both bad, but ladies, tell me, which of these disturbing things is *more* disturbing?
— TheOne&OnlyExpert (@AceofSpadesHQ) November 17, 2017

691 votes, 91% saying the forcible tongue kiss is the more egregious violation, only 9% saying the groping was the worst one.

A friend relayed to me the input of his wife. She said the tongue-kiss was worse, "and it isn't even close."

I suspect that's because of the penetrative, wet, biological agent aspect of it.

I also suspected that because I tried imagining what I would think was worse, if a gay guy did the same to me. (I say "Gay guy" because an unwanted sexual battery from a woman, while unwanted and maybe even gross, wouldn't really be a huge deal either way. I'd just push her away and say "Stop.")

Some guy pulling a Terry Crews on my junk -- a brief squeeze -- versus a tongue-in-your-mouth forcible kiss? As my friend's wife said: Not even close.

Not happy about either, but the latter is definitely worse.

But the media -- Matthew Dowd, Dave Wiegel, Gloria Borger, that partisan robot Josh Marshall, FoxNews' AB Stoddard -- all insist on pretending the latter just wasn't alleged at all, so they can claim that Al Franken "manned up" and admitted his sins.

So many Al Franken memes to choose from. I dont know what to do. pic.twitter.com/OAL2Bgg2Z6
— Adorable Deplorable (@OliMauritania) November 17, 2017

pic.twitter.com/2BtQyRZYoK
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) November 17, 2017

Posted by: Ace at 02:57 PM

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1 I can't even with Matthew Dowd!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 02:54 PM (W+vEI)

2 I get the feeling that progs have issues with time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2017 02:56 PM (ycWCI)

3 Franken's apology for the butt grope was a variation of "I'm sorry you felt offended." Not sorry for any action, only the reaction --- for something he doesn't remember.

Here's a thought: he does this often enough that it is not memorable.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 02:56 PM (W+vEI)

4 Sticking your tongue down someone's throat.

Comedy.

Gold.

What a humorist.

Oh, and that Bill Clinton?

When it comes to the Clinton Foundation, never has so many, given so much, to an impeached rapist.

Fact.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 20, 2017 02:58 PM (ATVNj)

5 Why, it's almost as if the MSM is composed entirely of leftist Democrat activists with bylines.

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at November 20, 2017 02:59 PM (LISuA)

6 I knew it! Time travel DOES exist!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 20, 2017 02:59 PM (so+oy)

7 Franken now claims he doesn't remember the new photo being taken and also why his hands smelled like ass after the photo op.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 20, 2017 02:59 PM (r9UYA)

8 Sometimes one has to forcibly tongue. It's the only way.

Posted by: Hope Solo at November 20, 2017 02:59 PM (vg8iE)

9 Prog Morality has always been:

GOOD = "Anything that I do or that My Friends do - we are all Good People so anything we do is by definition, Good.

BAD = "Anything that my enemies do, or that my friends enemies do, because they are all Bad People, and by definition anything that they do or say is Bad. (if they were Good they would be our friends, of course)

They keep reflexively going back to that, and they cannot figure out why it doesn't seem to be working this time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2017 03:00 PM (k1TUh)

10 Bill Cosby: I admit that I asked women into my dressing room but I refuse to admit I drugged them and raped them.

Matthew Dowd: Good on you, Bill Cosby, for owning up to your crimes!

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at November 20, 2017 03:00 PM (LISuA)

11 Matthew Dowd should wear a fedora.

Posted by: LASue at November 20, 2017 03:00 PM (hZ+us)

12 Media delenda est.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at November 20, 2017 03:00 PM (AM1GF)

13 Prog "analysis" is nothing more that excusing/defending fellow Progs because any action is permissible because of the feelz:

D = good (wants Prog utopia)
R = doubleplus ungood (obstacle to utopia)

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at November 20, 2017 03:01 PM (YQ4mh)

14 I'm pretty sure Weinstein was also the fault of Republicans.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 20, 2017 03:02 PM (4Vu64)

15 My mother always told me "Wear clean underwear, you might meet a politician,"

Posted by: Mom's Lessons at November 20, 2017 03:02 PM (2ubCU)

16 HaMThat snerdley one is hilarious.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:02 PM (LiyEm)

17 That Snerdley photo is hilarious.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 20, 2017 03:02 PM (dZ756)

18 Folks let's not over analyze this:

Men and Women together= sex and hanky panky

It's called biology

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 20, 2017 03:03 PM (5y11N)

19 "The Human Thumb" still makes me laugh every time I see it. And it covers so many smug, lefty assholes: Matthew Dowd, Egg McMuffin, Brian Stelter, Ben Rhodes, Glenn Thrush....

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (OD2ni)

20 Folks let's not over analyze this:

Men and Women together= sex and hanky panky

It's called biology
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 20, 2017 03:03 PM (5y11N)

But putting vimin on Subs is a great idea? Said nobody with a 1/2 a brain

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (5y11N)

21 I don't understand why men refer to their sexual apparatus as junk. Mine certainly isn't "junk" (at least not to my girlfriend; it's been years since anyone else was in position to evaluate it). I think of mine more as treasure, to be *buried* in that special cave....

Posted by: SFGoth at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (dZ756)

22 Goddam Republicans! Look what you made me do!!!

Posted by: Bill from Chappaqua at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (O5Q3r)

23 Folks let's not over analyze this:

Men and Women together= sex and hanky panky

It's called biology
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It's called icky!!!

Posted by: Shep! at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (vg8iE)

24 What was Trump supposed to apologize about?The fake accusations or saying that women throw themselves at him in a private conversation?

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (LiyEm)

25 Wait -- the unwanted tongue thing is a problem?

Oops.

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at November 20, 2017 03:05 PM (RD7QR)

26 16 HaMThat snerdley one is hilarious.
Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:02 PM (LiyEm)

17 That Snerdley photo is hilarious.
Posted by: SFGoth

Veritable proof time travel does exist in the comments!

SFGoth went back and corrected Steevy's comment!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2017 03:05 PM (5kNms)

27 Snerdley pic needs a ficus tree in the background. That can represent all the perverts in Hollyweird. Subtly.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 20, 2017 03:05 PM (4Vu64)

28 Al Gore: I admit I got a massage in my hotel room, because there exists proof of that fact, but I entirely deny I asked the masseuse for a happy ending.

Matthew Dowd: Al Gore is an example of a great American politician, honest and forthright!

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at November 20, 2017 03:05 PM (LISuA)

29 "We saw this in '91, then the Republicans gave up their values in order to get Justice Thomas on the court. They basically called Anita Hill a nut and a liar in order to get Justice Thomas on the court. They empowered Bill Clinton."

You knew that they would try to finger Republicans for Perveygate...but depicting Justice Thomas as patient zero in this fiasco is the sort of time travel kabuki that is stunning in its chutzpah.

Posted by: LizLem at November 20, 2017 03:06 PM (hvf9s)

30
Men and Women together= sex and hanky panky
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First if it happens it should at least be consensual.

Second, ya'll probably shouldn't be treating your private parts like you'd treat a handshake.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:06 PM (VbWoj)

31 26 What correction,he left out the Ham...

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:07 PM (LiyEm)

32 Posted by: SFGoth at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (dZ756)

LOL

I'd like to relate a story about this topic, but I cannot. Not the ONT. Bit still, lmao at your comment.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 20, 2017 03:07 PM (4Vu64)

33 I am sick to death of these lying pigs saying that Clarence Thomas was some kind of predator or assailant. Even if you believed Anita Hill's stories --- which 85% of people who actually watched the hearings, including a majority of Dem watchers, did NOT --- all Thomas ever did was tell a few dirty jokes and ask her out.

A few years later and after a fullcourt press by the media, that stupid bitch is the second coming of Harriet Tubman and Thomas is a some kind of sex offender.
Drives me crazy.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 20, 2017 03:07 PM (0jtPF)

34
My mother-in-law (God bless her soul) used to refer to my wife and I as Mr. and Mrs. Clean. Before there's any tongue there's a regimen of tooth brushing, flossing, and cinnamon flavored mouth washing.

Too much? I think just about right.

Al Franken is a pig.

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 20, 2017 03:07 PM (ajiE5)

35 As the Clintons have instructed by their long past behavior ...
"never admit, always lie, then keep changing the lie to keep up with the hard evidence"

Hillary did this with her private server ... just yoga and wedding plans ... she thought the "c" was alphabetizing ... wipe like with a cloth? ...

Now she is doing it with the Uranium One evidence "debunked long ago". Always deny and turn the accusations on your accuser, right to the bitter end.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 20, 2017 03:07 PM (/aIFg)

36 It's called icky!!!
Posted by: Shep! at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (vg8iE)

Word.

Posted by: Will Folkes at November 20, 2017 03:07 PM (zRgl5)

37 It is an incredibly stupid time to be alive but at least we get some laughs out of it...

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:08 PM (LiyEm)

38 So it's only sexual assault when the left says so.

They'll split pubic hairs until the cows come home.

Yet they simultaneously wonder how a predator like Bill Clinton escaped justice for so long...

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:08 PM (2P0Ao)

39 The even sadder thing was SNL actually covered Le Affair Franken but in a tsk, tsk, Al you really should know better, bullshitty way.

Not the usual caustic venomous way that they go after Republicans.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2017 03:08 PM (71/k8)

40 He's calling her a liar. That's what you're saying when you say your "memory differs."

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Glen "Dead Duck" Thrush issued a our-memories-differ statement today.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 20, 2017 03:08 PM (Nwg0u)

41 18 Folks let's not over analyze this:

Men and Women together= sex and hanky panky

It's called biology
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 20, 2017 03:03 PM (5y11N)

I had forgotten how pretty Ms. Tweeden is.

http://tinyurl.com/ycthla2c

Still, the grope and tongue (hereafter known as the 'Franken') is a bridge too far on an unwilling lady. What's the point?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2017 03:08 PM (ycWCI)

42 "We saw this in '91, then the Republicans gave up their values in order to get Justice Thomas on the court. They basically called Anita Hill a nut and a liar in order to get Justice Thomas on the court. They empowered Bill Clinton."

BS. It was a last minute false smear concocted by hardcore lefty law professor and friend of Hill. In hindsight, it was funny having to see Teddy K sit there stone faced while sexual harassment was discussed.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:09 PM (OD2ni)

43 You knew that they would try to finger Republicans for Perveygate...but
depicting Justice Thomas as patient zero in this fiasco is the sort of
time travel kabuki that is stunning in its chutzpah.
==================================

And yet, Democrats persist to this day in assuming everyone in polite society agrees Thomas put a pubic hair on Anita Hill's coke can. As Justice Thomas said so powerfully, "The hearing was a high tech lynching".

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at November 20, 2017 03:09 PM (LISuA)

44 If you were #AssaultedByADemocrat, you can demand #Reparations?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Vyx at November 20, 2017 03:09 PM (aT+Bx)

45 Please,I never even hit on Anita Hill.I like white women.
Clarence Thomas

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:10 PM (LiyEm)

46 37 It is an incredibly stupid time to be alive but at least we get some laughs out of it...
Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:08 PM (LiyEm)

I laugh so I do not cry. -Abraham Lincoln

(Iirc)

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 20, 2017 03:10 PM (4Vu64)

47 The Franken Bayonet could be put to good use during the conquest of Canada.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 20, 2017 03:10 PM (r9UYA)

48 Wasn't Clarence Thomas single, and Anita Hill also single. at the time? Even if you take Anita Hill's claims at face value, they were bungled pick-up attempts between unmarried adults, right?

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 20, 2017 03:11 PM (OIiRj)

49 Prison sucks, I thought there would be horsies.

Posted by: Tony the Weiner at November 20, 2017 03:11 PM (HgMAr)

50 But we're forgetting to the left Al is on of them, and Moore is "Ewww".

Posted by: Iblis at November 20, 2017 03:11 PM (9221z)

51 Left protects Bill Clinton in order to get elected president.

Left protects Franken to keep his seat.

Accuses Right of hypocrisy.

o_O

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:11 PM (2P0Ao)

52 I agree with the poll taken. that the tongue kiss was forced sexual assault.

But the 'joke' boob grabbing was meant to humiliate her. And possibly even intimidate her. It was an aggressive act also. After the assault to have her happen upon a photo like that compounds the assult. Its like reliving it all over again. Its like your rapist showing up outside your window a few days later. IMHO.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 20, 2017 03:11 PM (VezBU)

53 "Glen "Dead Duck" Thrush issued a our-memories-differ statement today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,"

Thrush is really pathetic. He schtick was to invite young female co-workers out for drinks, get them drunk and put the moves on. Fuckin loser.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:11 PM (OD2ni)

54 They basically called Anita Hill a nut and a liar in order to get Justice Thomas on the court.

Quite right! How dare we have observed that someone documentedly stalking Justice Thomas between jobs and in whom he showed no demonstrated interest might be a nut and a liar.

That Thomas fellow, on a half-remembered anecdote of alleged intent in an alleged incident of a pube on a Coke can? RRRAAEEEEEEPPPPPPPEEEE. Uh.

Posted by: Sporkatus at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (HtLSE)

55 The even sadder thing was SNL actually covered Le Affair Franken but in a
tsk, tsk, Al you really should know better, bullshitty way.
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Executives always cover these things up.

Why? The employee sex pervs make the firm money.

So even if there's a lawsuit, the cost of the lawsuit < money sex perv is making them.

"Economics."

Posted by: Vyx at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (aT+Bx)

56 >>>
It's called icky!!!
Posted by: Shep! at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (vg8iE)

Nice one.

Posted by: m at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (V+b9T)

57 Please,I never even hit on Anita Hill.I like white women.

Clarence Thomas

Where do the Caucasian women congregate?

Posted by: Clarence Thomas at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (O5Q3r)

58 42 In fairness to Ted,he was just stoned drunk...

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (LiyEm)

59 You knew that they would try to finger Republicans for Perveygate...but
depicting Justice Thomas as patient zero in this fiasco is the sort of
time travel kabuki that is stunning in its chutzpah.
==================================

We should one up them and go back to JFK. But that'll probably backfire. He was assassinated. So second thought, do NOT go back to JFK.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (4Vu64)

60 I saw Unwanted Tongue open for KISS at the Meadowlands

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (AURKQ)

61 Which counts as proof against Roy Moore, but not against Al Franken, for some reason I can't even guess at.
_________________

Allow me to explain the difference: we want to keep Franken in office, and we want to keep Moore out of office.

See how simple it is?

Posted by: The Dim-o-crat/MSM complex at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (fqUgw)

62 >>> The even sadder thing was SNL actually covered Le Affair Franken but in a tsk, tsk, Al you really should know better, bullshitty way.

Teh_Donald had a clip this weekend of Chris Farley going on the House floor and pretending to be Newt, when Newt was speaker. It was hilarious and adorable, not mean spirited in the slightest. Gah I miss the days of SNL when it was good. And miss Farley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSqcaAQti4g

Posted by: LizLem at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (hvf9s)

63 So in the end, even though Bill Clinton WAS guilty and should have been impeached, it still was a vast right wing conspiracy theory.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:12 PM (39g3+)

64 Except that Hill's testimony was an unfounded allegation and largely seen as contrived by most honest observers.

And it never involved sexual groping allegations.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:13 PM (2P0Ao)

65 I knew it! Time travel DOES exist!

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https://youtu.be/ag8E-p4v_24

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 20, 2017 03:13 PM (Nwg0u)

66 Is this the same Matthew Dowd whose sister makes drunken references of having given head to?

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 20, 2017 03:13 PM (y7DUB)

67 Executives always cover these things up.

Why? The employee sex pervs make the firm money.

So even if there's a lawsuit, the cost of the lawsuit

"Economics."
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This is why the US government pays the claims made against congress and senate, because they are the ones making the government money. . .

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:14 PM (RdM2b)

68 "48 Wasn't Clarence Thomas single, and Anita Hill also single. at the time? Even if you take Anita Hill's claims at face value, they were bungled pick-up attempts between unmarried adults, right? "

I suspect that was close to the truth. She did follow him from the DoE to the EEOC which implies there was some affinity there. The worst part is that he helped get her a job at DoE after she flamed at the law firm she went after her first year out of law school.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:14 PM (OD2ni)

69 Repost from the weekend.

DNC Reunion photo.

http://neveryetmelted.com/ wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DemocratMolesters.jpg

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 03:14 PM (tbOMB)

70 66 Is this the same Matthew Dowd whose sister makes drunken references of having given head to?
Posted by: Captain Hate at November 20, 2017 03:13 PM (y7DUB)

Well, that escalated quickly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2017 03:14 PM (ycWCI)

71 Angry Adulterous Thumb: Bill Clinton's 1978 Rape of Juantia Broadderick Was "Empowered" by the Republicans' Defense of Clarence Thomas Thirteen Years Later in 1991

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Layers and layers of fact checking.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 20, 2017 03:14 PM (Nwg0u)

72 Probably should be noted that Matthew Dowd is/was dating Maria Shriver, so it's not all that surprising he may have a Kennedy-esque take on sexual assault.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:15 PM (W+vEI)

73 C'mon the Thomas hearings crap was like a hundred years ago nobody can be expected to remember anything. Fuck it, what are those Kardashians up to?

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at November 20, 2017 03:15 PM (vXmve)

74 67
Executives always cover these things up.

Why? The employee sex pervs make the firm money.

So even if there's a lawsuit, the cost of the lawsuit

"Economics."

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This is why the US government pays the claims made against congress and senate, because they are the ones making the government money. . .

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:14 PM (RdM2b)

lol

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 03:15 PM (tbOMB)

75 I'd definitely vote for the wet and slimy tongue as well. Disgusting. You can only imagine that his breath smells like moth balls, flaming cheetohs, and ass.

Posted by: Cheri at November 20, 2017 03:15 PM (oiNtH)

76 You knew that they would try to finger Republicans for Perveygate...but depicting Justice Thomas as patient zero in this fiasco is the sort of time travel kabuki that is stunning in its chutzpah.
Posted by: LizLem at November 20, 2017 03:06 PM (hvf9s)

Remember, Kennedy wasn't assassinated by a communist angry about our treatment of communist Cuba -- Kennedy was assassinated by a climate of Right Wing Hate.

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at November 20, 2017 03:15 PM (RD7QR)

77 Jack Cashill at American Thinker lays out some facts on the Anita Hill smear job on Thomas; worth a read to see just how weak and lame the whole thing was:

http://tinyurl.com/y7dyclls

But that's totes the same as Rapalicious Billy Goat Jeff.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 20, 2017 03:16 PM (0ogQG)

78 Trying smear Justice Thomas again. Surprise surprise. Fucking POS.

Posted by: thathalfrican - the calm before the storm at November 20, 2017 03:16 PM (90k0F)

79 Probably should be noted that Matthew Dowd is/was dating Maria Shriver, so it's not all that surprising he may have a Kennedy-esque take on sexual assault.
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You CAN NOT be SERIOUS.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:16 PM (119A+)

80 Didn't Anita Hill follow Thomas to a second job?

If you're being harassed, and there are other jobs available, who does that?

Posted by: bonhomme at November 20, 2017 03:16 PM (zGsgt)

81 It's way past time to adjust to the fact that liberals don't care about anything except their war on America. Expecting them to admit to any wrongdoing by another liberal is silly and a waste of time.

The ones you get are the ones you charge and convict, period.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:16 PM (3myMJ)

82 Because there's no proof on that one.

Just her claim.

And since her claim has support with both photographic proof and admission about a previous claim, she's got a lot of credibility. I believe her when she says it happened. Franken can't even come out and say "no, never happened" just "my memory is bad"

Teh_Donald had a clip this weekend of Chris Farley going on the House floor and pretending to be Newt, when Newt was speaker.

I remember that skit and it was great. It made fun of stuff happening instead of people. It poked at funny activity, not savagely attacked ideological enemies. It was about entertainment, not winning the narrative. That's what comedy is supposed to be.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:16 PM (39g3+)

83 Hill was indeed a stalker and tried to use Thomas as a career springboard. When she failed and Knew Thomas was an honest person, she made up the allegation which were demonstrably unsubstantiated.

That was he plan "b" for fame.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:17 PM (2P0Ao)

84 Logically, it would be in the Democrats' best interests for Franken to resign. MN has a D governor, so they wouldn't be losing a seat, and it would help their case against Roy Moore, which would gain them a seat. Also, it would set a precedent that would prep the battlefield for some very effective fake accusations that they will surely find against Trump in 2020.

Thankfully logic usually eludes them

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at November 20, 2017 03:17 PM (mynhJ)

85 91% saying the forcible tongue kiss is the more egregious violation
..........

I don't always stick my unwanted tongue down others throats, but when I do, it's during a herpes outbreak.

Posted by: Sen. Al Canker at November 20, 2017 03:17 PM (HgMAr)

86 72 Probably should be noted that Matthew Dowd is/was dating Maria Shriver, so it's not all that surprising he may have a Kennedy-esque take on sexual assault.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:15 PM (W+vEI)

Maria Shriver having a good day:

https://media.tenor.com/images/a346c02e153bf71823a1baec4a86b30f/tenor.gif

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at November 20, 2017 03:17 PM (RD7QR)

87 Unwanted toungue kiss?

But first, . . .

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 03:17 PM (tbOMB)

88 The entire "he admitted it so therefore he should be let go " argument baffles me. So admission of guilt > denial now? You are a good guy who should be allowed to stay in office if you admit to your wrongdoing??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:17 PM (39g3+)

89 Hillary, I live in your head.

Posted by: The Blue Dress at November 20, 2017 03:18 PM (bc2Lc)

90 New York delis need a new Al Franken sandwich. Its tongue on a roll and they ram it down your throat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:18 PM (39g3+)

91 It's obvious that Bill Clinton's behavior was empowered by Ruben's masterpiece Rape of the Sabine Women. Rowr.

Posted by: Neal F Hyde at November 20, 2017 03:18 PM (VWzSH)

92 75 I'd definitely vote for the wet and slimy tongue as well. Disgusting. You can only imagine that his breath smells like moth balls, flaming cheetohs, and ass.
Posted by: Cheri at November 20, 2017 03:15 PM (oiNtH)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE COMBINATION OF NAPHTHALENE, CHILI PEPPER, AND SCAT ARE A HORRIBLE COMBINATION!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM (ycWCI)

93 Liberal playbook when caught red handed.

Act surprised.
Admit nothing.
Deny everything.
Blame someone else.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM (VezBU)

94 "80 Didn't Anita Hill follow Thomas to a second job?

If you're being harassed, and there are other jobs available, who does that?
Posted by: bonhomme"

Yes. She followed him from the DoE to the EEOC.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM (OD2ni)

95 64 Except that Hill's testimony was an unfounded allegation and largely seen as contrived by most honest observers.
________________

I watched some of it, and I just thought it was stupid.

Thomas allegedly made a lame-ass joke about a pubic hair on a coke can? So what? Is Anita Hill such a delicate snowflake that some silly office banter about that and "Long Dong Silver" was enough to send her to her fainting couch? Grow the hell up already. This woman was supposed to be a lawyer, and an adult, not an 8-year old child.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM (fqUgw)

96 Hi morons. Just had the tech phone screen. I think I did well. I just missed one question about Javascript. Next step would be an in-person interview.

Thanks for your prayers and well-wishes.

Posted by: boulder hobo, climbing out of the terlit at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM (6FqZa)

97 Love the Snerdley thing - although I would have also put Menendez in the pic too, in the back, facing away from us, looking over his shoulder, with cash in one hand, a thumbs up in the other, banging a pre-teen sex slave; and Harry Reid and Podesta with their arms around little boys, learing. Oh - and let us not forget Spitzer- Wheer to put him . . . decisions, decisions

Hmmm - better rev up that photo shop program, and I'm gonna need me some more bandwidth.

Posted by: Publius Redux at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM (Fb9aZ)

98 Maria Shriver having a good day:

________-
I larfed.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM (jXwi6)

99

The Left's defense of Franken needs to be coined as the Just The Tip Defense.

Posted by: Soothie at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (YUajH)

100 There is a sea of dumbshit nobodies who have a blue check on Twitter, but not Snerdley? I guess they don't want to admit that one of the closest friends and important employees of that vile racist Limbaugh is black. Well, not really black because, republican.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (BoMuO)

101 I don't understand why men refer to their sexual apparatus as junk.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (dZ756)

Because they stupidly adopted a word used by blacks to refer to a male sex organ?

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (3myMJ)

102 Is this the same Matthew Dowd whose sister makes drunken references of having given head to?
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Please please please tell me this is a joke.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (vg8iE)

103 What exactly are they saying Trump should apologize for? The 'pussy grabbing'? He already did for that one..

Posted by: IC at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (a0IVu)

104 I get the feeling that progs have issues with time.

And reality, too.

And observable science, logic, mathematics, theology and maturity.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (tRaq7)

105 >>C'mon the Thomas hearings crap was like a hundred years ago nobody can
be expected to remember anything.

Ah, but we citizens are very aware of what that circus was about because we've been required to take sexual harassment awareness classes at work since then.

Here's what it should be: If any of these men or women are caught doing something we citizens have been told by HR is a no-no then they are sexual harassers.

Sorry, the new-ish rules apply to all AND they can't pretend they didn't know. No --- it's been a few decades, and they've been celebrating Anita Hill's bravery since then. You don't get to still claim ignorance, or comedy, or "I'm sorry if YOU were offended" blah blah blah!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (W+vEI)

106 And it never involved sexual groping allegations.

Even if you believe everything she claims, and some of it might be true, it still never rose to the level of sexual harassment. There has to be a component of extortion for it to be sexual harassment, not merely unwelcome hitting upon. And nowhere in her testimony do I recall her stating that she
said that she wanted him to stop nor that any sort of penalty was implied or suggested by refusal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:21 PM (39g3+)

107 What's really distressing is the thought that there are people buying in to this bullshit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 20, 2017 03:21 PM (NWiLs)

108 Matthew Dowd has a motto emblazoned on his Twitter page: Country Over Party. When I derided him for his hypocrisy in his do-or-die defense of Al Franken, he blocked me near-instantaneously.

I wasn't surprised that Dowd blocked me for insulting him but I was surprised at the speed in which he did it. The guy must hover over his Twitter page in his every spare moment.

Posted by: troyriser at November 20, 2017 03:21 PM (7IUXx)

109 In hindsight, it was funny having to see Teddy K sit there stone faced while sexual harassment was discussed.
Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:09 PM (OD2ni)

Those hearings were great television. I got a kick out of old Dixiecrat turned Republican Strom Thurmond --supporting Thomas--asking him about hard it was for his grandfather to vote in the old days.....

Posted by: JoeF. at November 20, 2017 03:21 PM (7uYFy)

110 The pretzels the left will twist themselves into is sight to behold.

Low IQ people are far more tribal and the democrat party is as tribal as you can get.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 20, 2017 03:21 PM (3BFzK)

111
Thanks for your prayers and well-wishes.
Posted by: boulder hobo, climbing out of the terlit at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM (6FqZa)

Excellent, and expected.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:21 PM (3myMJ)

112 Hi morons. Just had the tech phone screen. I think I did well. I just missed one question about Javascript. Next step would be an in-person interview.

Thanks for your prayers and well-wishes.

Was the answer "Javascript is the devil?"

Good Luck!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 03:21 PM (BoMuO)

113 Thomas allegedly made a lame-ass joke about a pubic hair on a coke can? So what? Is Anita Hill such a delicate snowflake that some silly office banter about that and "Long Dong Silver" was enough to send her to her fainting couch? Grow the hell up already. This woman was supposed to be a lawyer, and an adult, not an 8-year old child.
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This all happened the summer between my fifth and sixth grade years. I can remember the "pubic hair on a Coke can" and "Long Dong Silver" testimony like it was yesterday.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (vg8iE)

114 Does Dowd remember the 'waitress sandwich' that was done by the drunken assembly of Ted Kennedy and the other fat slob Chris Dodd.

These people have no shame. At least the waitress didn't end up drowning although the horror of it probably lasts a lifetime.

Posted by: Cheri at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (oiNtH)

115 "Hill was indeed a stalker and tried to use Thomas as a career springboard. When she failed and Knew Thomas was an honest person, she made up the allegation which were demonstrably unsubstantiated.

That was he plan "b" for fame.
Posted by: Marcus T "

IIRC, Hill's former BF testified that she was a stalker. He was hilarious. He was taking no shit from Joe Biden and Paul Simon, who were leading the charge for the Dems since Teddy had to be quiet.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (OD2ni)

116 >>> Probably should be noted that Matthew Dowd is/was dating Maria Shriver

Gross! Who does something like that?

Posted by: The Biden son screwing his dead brother's wife at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (hvf9s)

117 89
Not much room in there, what with all the prions.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (a7/+c)

118 The left is trying to change the dialogue to be about Thomas. Don't help them by re-hashing it.

Keep it focused on Franken, and that damn slush fund that I am not hearing any details about.

If columnists on right start re-hashing the Thomas thing, we are stupid. We lose once again. The left owns the conversational topic. It's insane.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (4Vu64)

119 @76

It wasn't a climate of Right Wing Hate and it certainly wasn't Oswald.

It was more than likely some rogue elements of the FBI, CIA mixed in with elements of the MIC.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (71/k8)

120 Question: How do you know when you are well and truly screwed?

Answer: Poll: Dems Increasingly See Biden As 2020 Savior

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (Nwg0u)

121 What's really distressing is the thought that there are people buying in to this bullshit.
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You can fool some of the people all the time . . .

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (i97Zw)

122 All of this has nothing to do with party affiliation, but everything to do with the fact that both parties, the Uniparty, are the party of misandry.

The ship has not turned and continues to pick up speed towards the same destination.

Posted by: Monk at November 20, 2017 03:23 PM (g4lFK)

123 Has that wise Fox News sage and Democratic strategist twenty-something Jessica Tarlov given us the benefit of her wisdom? Has she had a chance to defend everything Democrat while yelling over other panelists who call her bullshit?

I thought Fox News couldn't better the sneering Tamara Holder but they came up with two Obama gals, Jessica AND Marie Harf.

Posted by: Decaf at November 20, 2017 03:23 PM (te/Nx)

124 >>Except that Hill's testimony was an unfounded allegation and largely seen as contrived by most honest observers.

And yet HR departments were made to take it all very seriously.
You want us to be responsible for preventing a "hostile work environment," then Congress does, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:23 PM (W+vEI)

125 Maybe they should have gone with Packwood.

Oh wait. He resigned.

Instead they are trying to refloat old turds that sank long ago.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:23 PM (2P0Ao)

126 If our prayers and well wishes keep getting morons jobs we should charge a fee...

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:23 PM (LiyEm)

127 121 What's really distressing is the thought that there are people buying in to this bullshit.
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You can fool some of the people all the time . . .
Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (i97Zw)

Especially when they're willing participants in their own deception.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 20, 2017 03:23 PM (NWiLs)

128 There is a sea of dumbshit nobodies who have a blue check on Twitter, but not Snerdley?

Yeah the verified thing on twitter baffles me. There are people less famous than me (and I'm NOBODY) who are verified on there. Huh??

I don't want a blue check mark, particularly with their new policy of "we're watching you everywhere on the internet and will not allow you to log on if you don't let us use tracking cookies" they are planning on implementing.

I just can't work out their process or the qualifications. I get the impression that you have to have someone they approve of suggest your name, or be so hugely famous they can't say no.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:23 PM (39g3+)

129 values were not "given up" in order to seat Justice Thomas.

...instead, the whole world was subjected to pure bullshit, and crappy outrageous theatre from the opposing side.

also, this guy needs to go for getting the timeline wrong.

Posted by: concrete girl at November 20, 2017 03:24 PM (MF4DY)

130 Question: How do you know when you are well and truly screwed?

Answer: Poll: Dems Increasingly See Biden As 2020 Savior
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Honestly the kiddy perv footage with biden is nuclear. With Trump lobbing shots it would be one of the most watchable things in history.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:24 PM (TPfts)

131 120 Question: How do you know when you are well and truly screwed?

Answer: Poll: Dems Increasingly See Biden As 2020 Savior
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (Nwg0u)

He can run with Kamala Harris and call it the Joe/Cameltoe ticket.

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at November 20, 2017 03:24 PM (RD7QR)

132 Clarence Thomas was truly nothing, even if you wanted to believe everything Anita Hill charged him with, it was basically unprofessional. Not assault or rape.

Posted by: Maritime at November 20, 2017 03:25 PM (lKmt3)

133 Hard drugs + Hard liquor + brain cancer + Twitter = a fun time for all!

Posted by: Matthew Dowd at November 20, 2017 03:25 PM (SkuXa)

134 "I am sick to death of these lying pigs saying that
Clarence Thomas was some kind of predator or assailant. Even if you
believed Anita Hill's stories --- which 85% of people who actually
watched the hearings, including a majority of Dem watchers, did NOT ---
all Thomas ever did was tell a few dirty jokes and ask her out.

Drives me crazy.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille"

Yep, same here. The whole story has changed with time because the MSM controls the narrative and Dems and LIV's are too stupid and lazy to go find the truth. The worst of Anita Hills accusations were barely worthy of mentioning to your friends over a drink.

Now we are also hearing about Trump never having acknowledged or apologized to all the women he has harassed and assaulted. Because There Aren't Any!!! And again the Dems and LIV's can be counted on to not bother spending a couple minutes to find out the truth.

Posted by: Ripley at November 20, 2017 03:25 PM (MxEKc)

135 I vaguely remember that the first time Arnold saw Maria Shriver he slapped her on the butt and said, "You've got the best ass I've ever seen."

So, she married him.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:25 PM (3myMJ)

136 "Those hearings were great television. I got a kick out of old Dixiecrat turned Republican Strom Thurmond --supporting Thomas--asking him about hard it was for his grandfather to vote in the old days.....
Posted by: JoeF"

My favorite was that old Southern Dem from Alabama Howell Heflin. He looked like he had no clue what was going on and kept saying "I am in a quandary here."

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:25 PM (OD2ni)

137 "113 Thomas allegedly made a lame-ass joke about a pubic hair on a coke can?"

I almost forgot how much that allegation annoyed me. They were both black. Every hair on both their bodies was a pubic hair.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2017 03:26 PM (k1TUh)

138 "115 "Hill was indeed a stalker and tried to use Thomas as a career springboard. When she failed and Knew Thomas was an honest person, she made up the allegation which were demonstrably unsubstantiated.

That was he plan "b" for fame.
Posted by: Marcus T "

IIRC, Hill's former BF testified that she was a stalker. He was hilarious. He was taking no shit from Joe Biden and Paul Simon, who were leading the charge for the Dems since Teddy had to be quiet.
Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (OD2ni)"

Precisely. They should replay that stuff.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:26 PM (2P0Ao)

139 Hard drugs + Hard liquor + brain cancer + Twitter = a fun time for all!

I sometimes wonder if Twitter users are being controlled by an eldritch brain fungus.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:26 PM (6FqZa)

140 How many kohns is Dowd's Tweet?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 20, 2017 03:26 PM (ul9CR)

141 Bob Packwood, who was no prize let me clue you, being condemned by rapist and murderer Ted Kennedy, rapist and molester Chris Dodd, former Klansman Robert "sheets" Byrd and the rest of the Democratic Party detritus really took the cake. Shocked, they were shocked to find he was handsy with the ladies!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:26 PM (39g3+)

142 "What's really distressing is the thought that there are people buying in to this bullshit."

Nobody buys this bullshit. They know the truth and don't care.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:27 PM (3myMJ)

143 So now we're bringing Kollege Kangaroo Kourt to politics, because it worked so well on Kampus.

The case against Franken has traction only because there's a picture.

We're throwing out a thousand years of the wisdom of our common law, including the presumption of innocence. There's a reason why we have a statute of limitations.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 20, 2017 03:27 PM (cAXIk)

144
The left hand of Der Gropenfranken did not cross the red line between comedy (outside) and molestation (inside). You rubes aren't edjimakated enough to discern this subtle point.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 20, 2017 03:27 PM (dGXW9)

145 If anyone, and I mean anyone, put their filthy tongue in my mouth without permission, I would have their useless asses locked up and have the key thrown away. Assault with a possibly deadly weapon these days, what with AIDS and who knows what else.

Concealed carry is real, and it matters, ladies.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 20, 2017 03:28 PM (7UW64)

146 How does Bo Snerdley not warrant a Official Blue Checkmark of Officialness?

Posted by: josephistan at November 20, 2017 03:28 PM (7HtZB)

147 >>I am sick to death of these lying pigs saying that

Clarence Thomas was some kind of predator or assailant.

Me, too. It was ridiculous when she made the claims, but seeing her in the Smithsonian African-American museum, given the HBO courageous life story treatment, etc. is disgusting.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:28 PM (W+vEI)

148 They were both black. Every hair on both their bodies was a pubic hair.

Um, yeah. You know not everybody here is white, right? That's pretty f'd up.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 20, 2017 03:28 PM (ul9CR)

149
My favorite was that old Southern Dem from Alabama Howell Heflin. He looked like he had no clue what was going on and kept saying "I am in a quandary here."
Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:25 PM (OD2ni)

Foghorn Leghorn in human form

Posted by: JoeF. at November 20, 2017 03:28 PM (7uYFy)

150 How does Bo Snerdley not warrant a Official Blue Checkmark of Officialness?

Posted by: josephistan
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Pretty sure its because Twitter can't believe he's a black man.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:29 PM (5leEm)

151 "I don't understand why men refer to their sexual apparatus as junk. Mine certainly isn't "junk" (at least not to my girlfriend; it's been years since anyone else was in position to evaluate it). I think of mine more as treasure, to be *buried* in that special cave....
Posted by: SFGoth at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (dZ756)"

-----------

You romantic, you.

Posted by: Decaf at November 20, 2017 03:29 PM (te/Nx)

152 My memory is a little fuzzy. Was it Justice Thomas who was accused of rape, groping and getting a BJ from a girl young enough to be his daughter in the Oval Office?

Or did I get that wrong?

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:29 PM (2P0Ao)

153 We're throwing out a thousand years of the wisdom of our common law, including the presumption of innocence. There's a reason why we have a statute of limitations.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 20, 2017 03:27 PM (cAXIk)

I don't care much about the legalities of the situation.

All I care about is using whatever ammunition is at hand, credible or otherwise, to destroy the career of a barbarian politician and his reputation in the public square.

Their rules. Not mine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 20, 2017 03:29 PM (AURKQ)

154 Oh and the whole "you Repubs started this whole sexual harassment thing" that we Democrats did, even back in the 70s, by confirming Clarence Thomas?

Ahem . . . no . . .

The current Reign of terror exposing any and all sexual misogyny of the Dems, and Hollywood, etc. is the reductio ad absurdum of the Democrats ginned up "War on Women" thing that they, themselves, started by offering up a clearly mentally unstable, partisan, weirdly stalking, obviously made up, liar like Anita Hill to smear a man of integrity from the hearing rooms of the Senate. No one believed her, Matthew Dowd, because she was obviously lying.

I, for one, hope all the reign of terror against Dems continues until the idiot Dems run up the white flag and cry uncle. A win by Moore would go a LONG way to doing that. Has Allread turned over the forged yearbook yet?

Yep - didn't think so.

Posted by: Publius Redux at November 20, 2017 03:30 PM (Fb9aZ)

155 Is this the same Matthew Dowd whose sister makes drunken references of having given head to?
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Please please please tell me this is a joke.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (vg8iE)

Nope. A month or so ago there was a pre ONT thread where some strange tweets from MoDo were being discussed.

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 20, 2017 03:30 PM (y7DUB)

156 Two weeks ago: Roy Moore is the debil and should resign.

Last week: Don't believe your lying eyes about Gropey Groperson, Al Franken.

Yesterday: Bill Clinton should have resigned.

Today: Clarence Thomas time warped and made Bill Clinton do it, and it's OK to grope women, so long as you admit what is already proven.

This is winning.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 03:30 PM (tbOMB)

157 Now we are also hearing about Trump never having acknowledged or apologized to all the women he has harassed and assaulted. Because There Aren't Any!!! And again the Dems and LIV's can be counted on to not bother spending a couple minutes to find out the truth.

Don't you remember those dozen or so women Gloria Allred trotted out of the blue in October? Sure most of them had less credibility than Sam Giancana's lawyer, but they all said he did such terrible things as suggest they are fat and pat them on the rear end!!!!!1!1!!! And there was that girl who said Trump raped her when she was 13!!!!11!1!!!

Sure, almost all of them totally vanished after the election. Sure the girl has tried to sue Trump like 8 times and 8 times had judges throw her case out for utter lack of credibility or substance.

But he must apologize!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:30 PM (39g3+)

158 Why are there no reports on that Congress sexual slush fund? Did I miss that story?

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 03:31 PM (4Vu64)

159 I still think that Franken did more things to Ms Tweeden that weren't photographed, or that the photographer (his brother) never released.

Posted by: josephistan at November 20, 2017 03:31 PM (7HtZB)

160 Anita Hill is a "squirrel" on CNN in 3,2,1

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:31 PM (2P0Ao)

161 Susan Collins is the only remaining Republican Senator who voted Not Guilty on the 1999 Clinton impeachment vote.

Thanks Maine!

Posted by: Under Fire at November 20, 2017 03:31 PM (r9UYA)

162 118 The left is trying to change the dialogue to be about Thomas. Don't help them by re-hashing it.

Keep it focused on Franken, and that damn slush fund that I am not hearing any details about.

If columnists on right start re-hashing the Thomas thing, we are stupid. We lose once again. The left owns the conversational topic. It's insane.
Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 20, 2017 03:22 PM (4Vu64)

Say what the Democrats say: "That's old news. Can't we just move on?"

Posted by: rickl at November 20, 2017 03:31 PM (xjiRE)

163 How does Bo Snerdley not warrant a Official Blue Checkmark of Officialness?

It's the Blue Checkmark Of Approval By The Democratic Party. He doesn't want it. You don't want it. It marks the deep-state's commissars.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:32 PM (6FqZa)

164 Thanks for your prayers and well-wishes.

Posted by: boulder hobo, climbing out of the terlit at November 20, 2017 03:19 PM

Outstanding BTH!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 20, 2017 03:32 PM (p+Wdc)

165 I have a question. Of all the pervy pervs on the Left who have been accused, have any denied it completely? (Apparently there's something out there today about Glenn Thrush but I have been trying to work at work so I don't know) Because it seems like they all admit at least part of it. Okay, no, Weiner was "hacked". Okay apart from that. I might be misremembering but it seems like they all admit to something whereas Roy Moore and Trump both denied that they did anything at all. That's rather a major difference, isn't it?

In other news, I'm just going to leave this here:

http://bit.ly/2z5NB3T

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 20, 2017 03:32 PM (mf5HN)

166 http://tinyurl.com/yd3pa4c4

According to Daily Mail she is dating that freak.

Posted by: Infidel at November 20, 2017 03:32 PM (4ZKcy)

167 Matthew Dowd has a paper asshole.

Posted by: Jake from State Farm at November 20, 2017 03:32 PM (Jj+59)

168 "Um, yeah. You know not everybody here is white, right? That's pretty f'd up. "

Sorry for the offense, I forget that things that aren't a big deal to me are a big deal to some. I have a brother in law who's white with kinky dark hair, I've called him pube-head for years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2017 03:32 PM (k1TUh)

169 They were both black. Every hair on both their bodies was a pubic hair.

Do you not actually know any black people?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:32 PM (39g3+)

170 Ouch, I think Brit Hume references Dowd's own history of having an affair with Maria while working as a consultant for Arnold:

If you've ever wondered what the phrase "zeal of a convert" means, Matt Dowd's current behavior is a great example.

Zing!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:33 PM (W+vEI)

171 Wait wtf, there's new allegations about Bill Clinton too?

Sure, why not.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 20, 2017 03:33 PM (mf5HN)

172 Two weeks ago: (story 1)
Last weekstory 2)
Yesterdaystory 3)
Todaystory 4)

This is winning.

Someone should write a book about that.

Posted by: scott 'win bigly' adams at November 20, 2017 03:33 PM (6FqZa)

173 "Oh, his hands aren't actually touching her in that photo, so it's totes OK"....

?!?!?!?!

Sure. Run with that one. And don't bother bringing that chicken back when you're done with it, you can keep it. Really, I insist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 20, 2017 03:33 PM (AURKQ)

174 THANK YOU PIXY 0.7 ALPHA!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:34 PM (6FqZa)

175 "Some guy pulling a Terry Crews on my junk -- a brief squeeze --" Ace

I believe this maneuver is called a "Takei"

Posted by: Grimaldi at November 20, 2017 03:34 PM (UsgfL)

176 I still think that Franken did more things to Ms Tweeden that weren't photographed, or that the photographer (his brother) never released.

Other people on that plane know, and should step up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:34 PM (39g3+)

177 My favorite was that old Southern Dem from Alabama Howell Heflin. He
looked like he had no clue what was going on and kept saying "I am in a
quandary here."

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:25 PM (OD2ni)

Foghorn Leghorn in human form

Famous for saying, after seeing pictures of Teddy banging some young thing on his boat, "Ah see Senatuh Kennedy has done changed his position on offshore drillin!"

Posted by: tu3031 at November 20, 2017 03:34 PM (O5Q3r)

178 They had gotten Bork so they thought they could get Clarence Thomas.Thank God he fought them off (being black helped),he has been as reliable a conservative on the court as anybody could hope for.

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:35 PM (LiyEm)

179 "Oh, his hands aren't actually touching her in that photo, so it's totes OK"....

Please keep in mind that Dave Weigel is short, fat, ugly and has bad skin. He has a lot of anger.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:35 PM (OD2ni)

180 Hey Franken defenders. If you use a fake gun to rob a store....that's armed robbery.

If you fake a picture of you grabbing boobs...you grabbed boobs, fuck off.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:35 PM (3myMJ)

181 FFS, now they're analyzing this groping picture like it's the fucking Zapruder film.

You can clearly see her tits sway back...and to the left. Back...and to the left.

And what about the second groper in the grassy barracks?

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at November 20, 2017 03:35 PM (oZ6kz)

182 http://tinyurl.com/yd3pa4c4

According to Daily Mail she is dating that freak.

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Well it was a wedding. She took a guy from work cause she didn't want to go alone. Probably paid him. Skeletor head and all.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (fk+kO)

183 >>"Oh, his hands aren't actually touching her in that photo, so it's totes OK"....

Yeah, that's an excellent defense some Lefties make. /sarc

Do that to a co-worker of yours and thenpost the pic in the breakroom/kitchen and see how HR responds...

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (W+vEI)

184 Yeah four more girls, claiming Bill Clinton sexual mistreatment, young ones. More recent stories, too. Who knows if its true or not.

But really, would it surprise anyone? Why stop? He has never paid a price for what he's done over the years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (39g3+)

185 83 Hill was indeed a stalker and tried to use Thomas as a career springboard. When she failed and Knew Thomas was an honest person, she made up the allegation which were demonstrably unsubstantiated.....

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:17 PM (2P0Ao)
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Yeah, I think she was the stalker.
But I don't think it was ONLY for career purposes.

I had a black (and Dem-voting) cow-orker at the time of the hearings. She was convinced that Anita Hill was a woman scorned, that she was bitter because Thomas was NEVER interested in her romantically and was furious when he married a white woman.

Said cow-orker sympathized with Hill for that and did not like Thomas, but she thought the hearing was a load of carp.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (0jtPF)

186 Thomas is the best Constitutionalist on the Court since Taft. I've said before that Rush can keep Scalia's brain; I want Thomas'

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (6FqZa)

187 >>Well it was a wedding. She took a guy from work cause she didn't want
to go alone. Probably paid him. Skeletor head and all.

Dating for year - started before she divorced Arnold.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (W+vEI)

188 Morrisey did NOT get the memo that defending Spacey and Weinstein is career suicide. Ah well he had a pretty good run. More proof not eating meat messes with your brain.

Posted by: LizLem at November 20, 2017 03:37 PM (hvf9s)

189 Do that to a co-worker of yours and thenpost the pic in the breakroom/kitchen and see how HR responds..

Exactly. This gets you fired anywhere except congress. Because you know if Franken goes up for reelection, those idiots up there will vote for him again. He fights for us, who cares???

Really? What has he actually done for you?

shut up! He's funny!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:38 PM (39g3+)

190 "178 They had gotten Bork so they thought they could get Clarence Thomas.Thank God he fought them off (being black helped),he has been as reliable a conservative on the court as anybody could hope for.
Posted by: steevy"

The fact that Thomas demanded to address the Judiciary Committee the night of Hill's testimony was very powerful and showed they were trying to railroad him.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:38 PM (OD2ni)

191 In other news, I'm just going to leave this here:

http://bit.ly/2z5NB3T

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 20, 2017 03:32 PM

Never. Not. Funny.

I had Outside all over my driveway and practically knocking on my door Saturday. The local flock of turkeys apparently doesn't care that Thanksgiving is Thursday. Bastards know they're safe to crap all over my car.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 20, 2017 03:38 PM (p+Wdc)

192 Dating for year - started before she divorced Arnold.
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still paying him. I think only BSG considers that a date.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:38 PM (IZQY8)

193 "All I care about is using whatever ammunition is at hand, credible or otherwise, to destroy the career of a barbarian politician and his reputation in the public square.

Their rules. Not mine.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 20, 2017 03:29 PM (AURKQ)"

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They use every weapon so why should we tie both our hands behind our backs, be the proverbial gentlemen, while they are free to use nukes?

I say, have at them. I haven't laughed so much in ages.

Posted by: Decaf at November 20, 2017 03:38 PM (te/Nx)

194 Let's not forget the Time Magazine sex survey back in 1994, where hetero men on average had twice as many sexual partners over the course of their lives than hetero women.

What do you mean "it takes two"?

Posted by: Prof. M Cloggenstein at November 20, 2017 03:38 PM (BGi20)

195 Wait,Maureen Down blew her brother the thumb??

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:39 PM (LiyEm)

196 Say what the Democrats say: "That's old news. Can't we just move on?"
Posted by: rickl at November 20, 2017 03:31 PM (xjiRE)

Or as I say to people, that is not what we are talking about right now. And trying to make a connection between the two is disingenuous.

The keep going with your point. Don't pause and let them refute it and get in an argument about it. Own the topic.

Don't take the bait. The right cedes the topic all the fvcking time. They need debate classes or something.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 03:39 PM (4Vu64)

197 She was convinced that Anita Hill was a woman scorned, that she was bitter because Thomas was NEVER interested in her romantically and was furious when he married a white woman.

I think that's exactly what it was. She acted more like a woman angry at the guy for what he didn't do than what he did.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:39 PM (39g3+)

198 Nope. A month or so ago there was a pre ONT thread where some strange tweets from MoDo were being discussed.
Posted by: Captain Hate at November 20, 2017 03:30 PM

In the end, all threads are pre-ONT.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 20, 2017 03:39 PM (ctuyM)

199 Was anyone one the road crew wondering this AM.

"How am I going to get my corgi to work today"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyR97akVbSM

Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2017 03:39 PM (FhXTo)

200 Dating for year - started before she divorced Arnold.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (W+vEI)

The smoldering ruins of camelot.

Arnold bangin' the maid and Maria shtuppin' some low level party apparatchik.

How droll.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 20, 2017 03:39 PM (AURKQ)

201 *then*

Not the

Dammit

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 03:39 PM (4Vu64)

202 194 Umm,they were from Canada and only here on vacation...

Posted by: steevy at November 20, 2017 03:40 PM (LiyEm)

203 That Dowd is a total conservative.

Posted by: Wyn Bildo at November 20, 2017 03:40 PM (VDQek)

204 I wonder if Journolist Nina Burleigh's offer still stands?

"I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs."

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 20, 2017 03:40 PM (cAXIk)

205 Morrissey's audience consists of

- Latinos, who don't care about sexual harassment like whites do (apologies to the Hispanic caucus of the Horde but it's true)
- old fans of the Smiths who know he mouths off about stupid bullshit and are used to it
- gays, to whom this is mostly Someone Else's Problem

I doubt what he says here is going to hurt him much.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:41 PM (6FqZa)

206 "But he's clearly not making contact w her body. That's why there are shadows behind his hands."
............

Study the picture much, perv? How many times have you fapped to it, Josh?

Posted by: wth at November 20, 2017 03:41 PM (HgMAr)

207 ""Oh, his hands aren't actually touching her in that photo, so it's totes OK"....

that's what a six year old does to his older sister ... gets real close and says "I'm not touching you I'm not touching you" ... then he gets smacked and the rule is further explained to him. ha

Posted by: illiniwek at November 20, 2017 03:41 PM (/aIFg)

208 Arnold bangin' the maid and Maria shtuppin' some low level party apparatchik.

Neither one showing any sense of class or taste. I never saw the attraction in Maria Schreiver anyway, she always looked like you'd come away with bleeding wounds from a hug.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:41 PM (39g3+)

209 Somewhere, probably at his Irish vacation home, Chris Dodd is congratulating himself for getting out early.

Extra credit- Who remembers Wilbur Mills?

Posted by: Jake from State Farm at November 20, 2017 03:41 PM (Jj+59)

210 It is hard to see what the Democrats even were trying. Hold out Judge Roy Moore (whom I have started to suspect could be innocent, for God's sake) as a typical Republican pig to woo back white women? Ya know, the same white women Democrats dismissed as ungrateful whores after they voted for Trump a few months ago/?

Whatever the intent/strategg was, it has failed miserably. Just today, Katie Pavlich's leftist co-panelists berated her when she mentioned Ted Kennedy "left a woman to drown." Actually, pursuant to Massachusetts statutes at the time, Kennedy murdered her, but the Party of Rape still can't own up to that one, apparently.

The Democrats and Left were so reliant on public trust of their propaganda organs that they can't recalibrate now that most people realize the media is a partisan farce. This is an epic fail but is just the start for them.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at November 20, 2017 03:42 PM (Xd+/P)

211 "Why are there no reports on that Congress sexual slush fund? Did I miss that story?

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 03:31 PM (4Vu64)"

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Amazing, isn't it? I wonder which Dems McConnell and Paul Ryan are protecting. If it was just Republicans they would have already been exposed, so to speak.

Posted by: Decaf at November 20, 2017 03:42 PM (te/Nx)

212 23andme says I'm only 0.2% Hispanic (they didn't say what % I'm gay) so I'm mainly in the second of those three.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:42 PM (6FqZa)

213 Shit, my attitude on that pic would start a small war. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 20, 2017 03:42 PM (aMlLZ)

214 What's all this about a PUBey haiuh on a CO-cola?

Posted by: Howell Heflin at November 20, 2017 03:43 PM (398bZ)

215 If there was any truth to Trump groping or assaulting any woman we would have heard about a long time ago when he was just considering running for POTUS. Do you think HRC and her cabal would have let that go if there was any there there? Allred slithers out from under her rock to help any Dem cause with the truth being damned. I am sure that she justifies this as the 'ends justify the means'.

Posted by: Cheri at November 20, 2017 03:43 PM (oiNtH)

216 Rapo Franken's gotta go!

Posted by: Wonker at November 20, 2017 03:43 PM (Z3sbq)

217 But really, would it surprise anyone? Why stop? He has never paid a price for what he's done over the years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (39g3+)

Oh, I suspect that tinyBill has paid a huge price for all that strange.

Probably shoots black goo instead of.....

There are some things even penicillin can't quite kill.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 20, 2017 03:43 PM (7UW64)

218 "I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs."

Heck, Carlos Mencia did much the same bit: being president is hard, its such a hard job we should all be ready to go down on him, out of gratitude or some such. It didn't make any sense at the time, but the guy has good delivery and timing, despite being a hack.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:43 PM (39g3+)

219 I hate Leftists

Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2017 03:43 PM (aC6Sd)

220 surely he knows that Clinton's abuse of women long predates the Clarence Thomas hearings.

LOL. Anachronisms have long been prevalent in films, so he's only extending it into "news" media.

Surely this isn't the first time; nor will it be the last since we can't shame those who 1) have no shame 2) are utterly ruthless and think they have none to topple them. He who controls the present controls the past....

Posted by: pascal at November 20, 2017 03:43 PM (EhTUH)

221 This is an epic fail but is just the start for them.
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Yes - and its great fun isn't it.

I'mma gonna let you finish MSM but let me start a fire and pop some popcorn first.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:44 PM (faA+Z)

222 I rate Johnny Marr as even stupiderer as a political commentator than Moz is.

At least Rourke and Joyce know when to STFU.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:44 PM (6FqZa)

223 I have an important tweet out there, yo.

Y'all are ungrateful for not reading it yet!

Posted by: Shawn King at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (ctuyM)

224
Dating for year - started before she divorced Arnold. Posted by: Lizzy at November 20, 2017 03:36 PM (W+vEI)

Evidently they're still not divorced.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (lKyWE)

225 @186

Scalia had a weakness for LE arguments vis a vis the fourth amendment and he gave stare decisis far too much weight.

Clarence is the rock of the court.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (71/k8)

226 A comment about a female co workers perfume or complement on her outfit will get you fired.

If you're going to "pretend" to squeeze the funbags, you might as well cop a feel. Because you'll probably be executed at dawn in the company cafeteria.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (2P0Ao)

227 So the black, female VP of diversity at Apple is fired because she said: There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they're going to be diverse too because they're going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation".
"Diversity is the human experience, I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT."

Scandalous.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (BoMuO)

228 Why are there no reports on that Congress sexual slush fund? Did I miss that story?

The fact that the press is not digging into that suggests the primary beneficiaries are people they want to protect. If it was all guys like Sessions and Sasse and Cruz, they'd be all over it like ugly on an ape.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (39g3+)

229 Four new Clinton allegations.

Only four?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (tbOMB)

230 Shit, my attitude on that pic would start a small war. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 20, 2017 03:42 PM (aMlLZ)

And?...

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (3myMJ)

231 Amazing, isn't it? I wonder which Dems McConnell and Paul Ryan are protecting. If it was just Republicans they would have already been exposed, so to speak.
Posted by: Decaf at November 20, 2017 03:42 PM (te/Nx)

It makes me think the whole Uniparty is involved (both sides of aisle). Still should be unveiled. My taxpayer money should not be used for this, along with all else that sucks.

Guess we need Ronan Farrow to look into. The one journalist America appears to have.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (4Vu64)

232
So Matty Dowd thinks that us unpeople are defending the black guy because of tribal politics???

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (veoSD)

233 Wilbur M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79MomSaA8I

it's long

Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2017 03:46 PM (FhXTo)

234 So the black, female VP of diversity at Apple is fired because she said: There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they're going to be diverse too because they're going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation".
"Diversity is the human experience, I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT."

Scandalous.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (BoMuO)

The most shocking part of the story is that the woman got that far in that type of job in the first place and still managed to hold such a sane view of things.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 20, 2017 03:47 PM (KUaJL)

235 So the black, female VP of diversity at Apple is fired

Well, they are implying she quit but... yeah, probably let go. Because she suggested diversity of thought is at least as important as diversity of appearance.

That is a hatefact, a mistruth that they cannot allow.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:47 PM (39g3+)

236
We should deploy Al Franken to North Korea with the objective of forcibly tongue kissing and ass fondling-

Kim Jong-Un.

I'm pretty sure that would take care of two birds with one stone-

they'd buy a beach house on Fire Island and that would be that.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 20, 2017 03:47 PM (NyJwR)

237 "Diversity is the human experience, I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT."

Scandalous.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (BoMuO)

Confirmation hearings in 3.... 2.... 1....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 20, 2017 03:47 PM (AURKQ)

238 The fact that the press is not digging into that suggests the primary beneficiaries are people they want to protect. If it was all guys like Sessions and Sasse and Cruz, they'd be all over it like ugly on an ape.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (39g3+)

But don't we have press on the right too? Don't they do any investigative reporting? You mean they all just opine? I need one of those jobs then.

.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 03:47 PM (4Vu64)

239 194 Let's not forget the Time Magazine sex survey back in 1994, where hetero men on average had twice as many sexual partners over the course of their lives than hetero women.

What do you mean "it takes two"?
Posted by: Prof. M Cloggenstein at November 20, 2017 03:38 PM (BGi20)
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Well, Sandra Fluke.
Oh, wait. She wasn't around then, was she?
Okay. Madonna.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 20, 2017 03:48 PM (0jtPF)

240 The most shocking part of the story is that the woman got that far in that type of job in the first place and still managed to hold such a sane view of things.

My guess? They saw black woman and presumed her position on everything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:48 PM (39g3+)

241 they'd be all over it like ugly on an ape.

You better not mean gorillas. We are beautiful anyway. *raspberry*

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 03:48 PM (4Vu64)

242 I had Outside all over my driveway and practically knocking on my door Saturday. The local flock of turkeys apparently doesn't care that Thanksgiving is Thursday. Bastards know they're safe to crap all over my car.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 20, 2017 03:38 PM (p+Wdc)

I passed a dead fox on the road yesterday which now makes four dead foxes that appear to have been hit by a car I've seen since I moved here.

How badly do you have to fail at being a fox to get hit by a car?

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 20, 2017 03:48 PM (mf5HN)

243 We need photoshops of all the heavyweight Democrats doing the 'boob-squish-while-you-sleep' thing.

Since they think it's totes OK .

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:49 PM (3myMJ)

244 223 I have an important tweet out there, yo.

Y'all are ungrateful for not reading it yet!

Posted by: Shawn King at November 20, 2017 03:45 PM (ctuyM)

Don't you mean..... Talcum X?

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 20, 2017 03:49 PM (7UW64)

245 But don't we have press on the right too? Don't they do any investigative reporting?
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So there's only one party, and their media organ is on every channel. All the back and forth is just a show. This is yet another data point in that thesis.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:49 PM (KrxKT)

246 So judging from recents pics, Lena Dunham is no longer fat and ugly. Just ugly.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:49 PM (OD2ni)

247 Four new Clinton allegations.

Only four?

Today.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 20, 2017 03:50 PM (tRaq7)

248 Let's not forget the Time Magazine sex survey back in 1994, where hetero men on average had twice as many sexual partners over the course of their lives than hetero women.

----

This actually means that a lot of dudes are eskimo brothers, even though they probably don't know it, doesn't it?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 20, 2017 03:50 PM (KUaJL)

249 But don't we have press on the right too? Don't they do any investigative reporting?

Evidently not, based on what I've seen. The right has a lot of people who write columns and bitch but few who actually do anything. Plenty of position papers and donations but no money spent to actually get anything done.

I mean, the left spends money all year long to promote their cause. Sure, most of that is actually our money in the form of taxes given to them in grants etc, but still.. they get work done.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:50 PM (39g3+)

250 So, who are the media setting up to cover for here? I can't imagine that Franken is the worst offender in the Senate, or Congress. Somebody else must be in line to be outed for their filthy behavior.

Can we start a grope-pool, sorta like a deadpool?

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 20, 2017 03:50 PM (7UW64)

251 Someone should hook up Denise Young Smith with James Damore. I MEAN TO START UP THE SAME COMPANY. Although the other way might work out well too :^x

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:50 PM (6FqZa)

252 I passed a dead fox on the road yesterday which now makes four dead foxes that appear to have been hit by a car I've seen since I moved here.

How badly do you have to fail at being a fox to get hit by a car?
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That does sound unusual. Was there perhaps the sound of bugles, horses galloping and dogs barking nearby?

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:51 PM (v7DwS)

253 Can we start a grope-pool, sorta like a deadpool?

Will I need gloves ?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:51 PM (6FqZa)

254 >>>And yet, Democrats persist to this day in assuming everyone in polite society agrees Thomas put a pubic hair on Anita Hill's coke can. As Justice Thomas said so powerfully, "The hearing was a high tech lynching".
Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at November 20, 2017 03:09 PM (LISuA)

I remember listening to Nina Totenberg report this on NPR at the time in HUSHED TONES--the Coke can thing--and thinking to myself it was obviously fake because the people who concocted it didn't even understand the meme (should've been a bottle, for those too young to remember). As obviously fake as Dan Rather's Microsoft Office documents supposedly created on a Selectric.

Posted by: Caliban at November 20, 2017 03:51 PM (SwuwB)

255 You better not mean gorillas. We are beautiful anyway.

Well gumdrop ones are at least

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:51 PM (39g3+)

256 Say, you weren't wearing johdpurs were you?

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:51 PM (sxwiq)

257 Ut oh.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:51 PM (3myMJ)

258 Animals don't really "get" how fast cars are. Or that they're going to keep coming right down the road.

Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2017 03:51 PM (FhXTo)

259 Someone noted upthread that not all the morons here are black.

I thought we were all black with a grey background, unless someone breaks the formatting.

["In the barrel, all morons are black."]

Maybe its different in other browsers - I'm using chrome...

Posted by: Parker at November 20, 2017 03:52 PM (ZfzDM)

260 Well, they are implying she quit but... yeah, probably let go. Because she suggested diversity of thought is at least as important as diversity of appearance.

Insert Apple's 1984 commercial here.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 20, 2017 03:52 PM (tRaq7)

261 246 So judging from recents pics, Lena Dunham is no longer fat and ugly. Just ugly.

Chubby. Chuggly.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 20, 2017 03:53 PM (r9UYA)

262 "I passed a dead fox on the road yesterday which now makes four dead foxes that appear to have been hit by a car I've seen since I moved here.

How badly do you have to fail at being a fox to get hit by a car?
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around"

Were there any hot British ladies on horses nearby?

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:53 PM (OD2ni)

263 Morrissey's audience consists of

- Latinos, who don't care about sexual harassment like whites do (apologies to the Hispanic caucus of the Horde but it's true)
- old fans of the Smiths who know he mouths off about stupid bullshit and are used to it
- gays, to whom this is mostly Someone Else's Problem

I doubt what he says here is going to hurt him much.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:41 PM (6FqZa

Morrissey is headstrong and runs around saying stupid things. On the plus side, he gives two fucks about what anyone thinks and his music is still pretty good.
Btw, I never got why Latinos "get" him, but apparently they do.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 20, 2017 03:53 PM (7uYFy)

264 Well, they are implying she quit but... yeah, probably let go.
==============
They approached her with a document and a check. You sign the document you get the check. The document says what they want it to say.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:54 PM (KrxKT)

265 The wild turkeys are nesting on my property. They are defiant as hell and walk out in front of my car.

I think they are laughing. I'm pretty sure one gave me the turkey equivalent of the finger.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:54 PM (VpIIl)

266 The unwanted tongue thing is a problem?

Posted by: Grandma at November 20, 2017 03:54 PM (2ubCU)

267 Sally Kohn today:

Time for Al Franken to go.

Wrong is wrong. And the Democrats need to show they strongly AND CONSISTENTLY stand for women's rights.

Some of them are being reasonably consistent at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:55 PM (39g3+)

268 "The wild turkeys are nesting on my property. They are defiant as hell and walk out in front of my car."

I have a lot of Wild Turkey in the kitchen. Hic.

Posted by: Hillary at November 20, 2017 03:55 PM (OD2ni)

269 and his music is still pretty good.

Can confirm. "Stayed In Bed Today" was released, what, last week and is an earworm.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 03:56 PM (6FqZa)

270 "267
Sally Kohn today:

Time for Al Franken to go.

Wrong is wrong. And the Democrats need to show they strongly AND CONSISTENTLY stand for women's rights.

Some of them are being reasonably consistent at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:55 PM (39g3+)"
Wait "Sally Kohn is a woman??Who knew?

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 03:56 PM (VpIIl)

271 The wild turkeys are nesting on my property. They are defiant as hell and walk out in front of my car.
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I hope you are not a jogger.

Turkey's will reflexively chase a runner. As long as you keep running they will keep chasing you.
They are really dumb.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:56 PM (vOvzS)

272 Does the Left know what groupies are?

Posted by: Denny Crane! at November 20, 2017 03:56 PM (roZeO)

273 Even if you believe everything she claims, and some of it might be true, it still never rose to the level of sexual harassment. There has to be a component of extortion for it to be sexual harassment, not merely unwelcome hitting upon. And nowhere in her testimony do I recall her stating that she
said that she wanted him to stop nor that any sort of penalty was implied or suggested by refusal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:21 PM (39g3+)

I bolded the part where you are totally wrong. That's dangerous to spread that opinion, because it is only your opinion. Even the lowly janitor can engage in harassment of a sexual nature. He's not offering some 'step up the ladder' but he sure can make a womans life hell.

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 20, 2017 03:57 PM (ajiE5)

274 I am sincerely sorry that whatever you imagine might have happened has caused you to feel bad.

Posted by: Senator GropeyTongue D. MN at November 20, 2017 03:57 PM (oR5ks)

275 250
So, who are the media setting up to cover for here? I can't imagine that Franken is the worst offender in the Senate, or Congress. Somebody else must be in line to be outed for their filthy behavior.

Can we start a grope-pool, sorta like a deadpool?

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 20, 2017 03:50 PM (7UW64)

Gropers or gropees?

For gropees? Laura San Giacomo (Just Shoot Me), because sheer gravity.

For gropers? Alec Baldwin.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 03:57 PM (tbOMB)

276 "Some of them are being reasonably consistent at least.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor "

I suppose. But I wonder if Sally would be taking this position if Minn had a Republican governor.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 20, 2017 03:57 PM (OD2ni)

277 I see Allahpundit is still firmly on the #nevertrump train.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 03:58 PM (BoMuO)

278
My guess? They saw black woman and presumed her position on everything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:48 PM (39g3+)

That's kind of how Chocolate Fonzie made the varsity basketball team at the Punahou School. They just looked around at the only black kid in the school and assumed he could nail a layup. It certainly wasn't for his actual b-ball skillz (when he played during those photo-ops at the White House, he thew up more bricks than a master stonemason)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 20, 2017 03:58 PM (veoSD)

279 One of my friends in HS had a VW Dune Buggy we called the squirrel killer. At least 10 suicided under that car. May have been the sound or the skinny front tires and wide rears that confused them.

Posted by: X-ray at November 20, 2017 03:59 PM (VDQek)

280 249 But don't we have press on the right too? Don't they do any investigative reporting?

Evidently not, based on what I've seen. The right has a lot of people who write columns and bitch but few who actually do anything. Plenty of position papers and donations but no money spent to actually get anything done.

I mean, the left spends money all year long to promote their cause. Sure, most of that is actually our money in the form of taxes given to them in grants etc, but still.. they get work done.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:50 PM (39g3+)

Well, wtf am I reading them for? Joke's on me. This is really pissing me off. Mostly b/c I've been a fvcking fool. We should have more Project Veritas, and Ronan Farrow. Remember all the Stories about the networks that buried the Weinstein story...for years.

A Uniparty & Uniparty press, with a sit-on-our-asses opposition press gets us nowhere. Maybe my apolitical friends are right. Don't bother.

Fvck. I feel like a fucking fool.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 03:59 PM (4Vu64)

281 @231

I'm surprised it hasn't been FOIA'd already.

There is no privacy issue or national security aspect so these fuckets need to cough up that list toot sweet.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2017 03:59 PM (JYlR2)

282 Wait "Sally Kohn is a woman??Who knew?

I thought he was dating that nice Rachel Maddow fellow.

NTTAWWT...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 20, 2017 03:59 PM (tRaq7)

283 Wait "Sally Kohn is a woman??Who knew?

Well for certain values of "woman"

Even the lowly janitor can engage in harassment of a sexual nature. He's not offering some 'step up the ladder' but he sure can make a womans life hell.

Yeah but I wouldn't call that sexual harassment, because that's "give over the goods and you can have a promotion/don't lose this account." Its bad, but its a different kind of bad. It was only in the 90s with the Thomas hearings that the feminists tried to expand the definition to mean pretty much any unwanted attention from a man, however it was meant.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:59 PM (39g3+)

284 OT- Do they have early voting in Alabama senate race?
Or do they do it the right way- vote on election day or don't vote?

Posted by: Glenn John at November 20, 2017 04:00 PM (LilNs)

285 I think it's important that we all take a few moments to reflect on all these new accusations.

Hahahahahahaha! Ahhhahahahaha! *breathes* Ahhhahahahaha! *wipes tears*

Posted by: Johnny at November 20, 2017 04:00 PM (Se2s/)

286 How badly do you have to fail at being a fox to get hit by a car?
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around

Wheeeeee! Since I never get hit by a car, I'm a fox!

Hubba hubba!!!!!!

Posted by: Wendell the Manatee at November 20, 2017 04:00 PM (ctuyM)

287 "I hope you are not a jogger.

Turkey's will reflexively chase a runner. As long as you keep running they will keep chasing you.

They are really dumb.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 03:56 PM (vOvzS)"I always keep an eye on them in the morning. I no longer hunt, but if I did they would all be sitting next to cranberry sauce. Bastards.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 04:00 PM (VpIIl)

288 281
@231

I'm surprised it hasn't been FOIA'd already.

There is no privacy issue or national security aspect so these fuckets need to cough up that list toot sweet.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2017 03:59 PM (JYlR2)

Judicial Watch already on it, I thought I'd read.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 04:01 PM (tbOMB)

289 HA- AP: Yes, right, it's just one guy and he's exaggerating for effect. (I think.) But it's a reminder as Mueller moves towards Trump's inner circle that congressional Republicans have a major, major problem on their hands if the special counsel finds anything incriminating Trump himself.

If you don't believe this Russia thing is a complete fabrication at this point, you are an insufferable nevertrump asshole who deserves to burn down with the rest of the GOPe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 04:01 PM (BoMuO)

290 If I recall correctly Antia Hill was a Harvard law grad that followed the harassing toxic masculinity of Clarence Thomas because she...get this...did not think a black female Harvard law grad in the '80s could find any other work.Always beleive a womyn so perhaps that is true. As an aside in the '80s if you wanted a surefire guarentee of a job in any company or if you wanted to work in any city state or federal job in the eighties just reinvent yourself as a black female with a law degree from Harvard or Yale. She must have skipped that class. And the sexual harassment, again if I recall correctly. Thomas stated that he " thought there was a pubic hair on his coke can. ' I shit you not. Congresspeople were fucking 17 year old pages that the parents sent to Washington, Ted Kennedy was making sweaty corpulent mansandwiches with Chris Dodd in restaurants and Thomas stops the world with a mention of a short and curly.

Posted by: Mac at November 20, 2017 04:01 PM (fOoQ8)

291 I wonder if Sally would be taking this position if Minn had a Republican governor.

My guess is she'd be singing an entirely different tune. But that's just my admittedly uncharitable guess.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:01 PM (39g3+)

292 74 I am sincerely sorry that whatever you imagine might have happened has caused you to feel bad.

Posted by: Senator GropeyTongue D. MN at November 20, 2017 03:57 PM (

Perfect. This is exactly the boiler plate they are using.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:02 PM (4Vu64)

293 I almost hit a coyote the other day. He was just wiley enough.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 04:02 PM (BoMuO)

294 292
74 I am sincerely sorry that whatever you imagine might have happened has caused you to feel bad.

Posted by: Senator GropeyTongue D. MN at November 20, 2017 03:57 PM (

Perfect. This is exactly the boiler plate they are using.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:02 PM (4Vu64)

To their credit, it is a step up from the Clinton model.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 04:03 PM (tbOMB)

295 $100 says Mitch McConnell groped a male page.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2017 04:04 PM (VpIIl)

296 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 03:59 PM (39g3+)

Don't take this the wrong way, but are you high? That's the only reasonable assumption I can make.

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 20, 2017 04:04 PM (ajiE5)

297 I'm surprised it hasn't been FOIA'd already.

There is no privacy issue or national security aspect so these fuckets need to cough up that list toot sweet.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 20, 2017 03:59 PM (JYlR2)

Judicial Watch already on it, I thought I'd read.
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Imagine the stuff we wouldn't know about if it weren't for judicial watch.

I say again . . .
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So there's only one party, and their media organ is on every channel. All the back and forth is just a show. This is yet another data point in that thesis.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 04:04 PM (jIfNY)

298 That's kind of how Chocolate Fonzie made the varsity
basketball team at the Punahou School. They just looked around at the
only black kid in the school and assumed he could nail a layup. It
certainly wasn't for his actual b-ball skillz (when he played during
those photo-ops at the White House, he thew up more bricks than a master
stonemason)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 20, 2017 03:58 PM

Yeah? What about that 120+ fastball I threw?

Those dumbbells didn't lift themselves, either.

Posted by: B. Hussein Soetoro at November 20, 2017 04:04 PM (ctuyM)

299 People in the entertainment industry live in a different atmosphere, practically a different galaxy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 20, 2017 04:04 PM (aMlLZ)

300 I almost hit a coyote the other day. He was just wiley enough.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 04:02 PM (BoMuO)

What were you driving? A Plymouth Roadrunner?

Posted by: JoeF. at November 20, 2017 04:04 PM (7uYFy)

301 I could tell there was no disciplined concept for #MeToo.

Now, if somebody comments "What is this? A pubic hair?" After having asked for a date, it's way too much for the people-who-don't-really-get-what-happens-in-life to handle.

You're just as bad as 26 trips down to pedo island.

Posted by: Axeman at November 20, 2017 04:05 PM (vDqXW)

302 I am SICK of seeing these tweets from the retarded left that have 42K "Likes" and 20K re-tweets?!!??

HORSESHIT!!!

Those numbers are from fuckin' bots. Sad!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at November 20, 2017 04:05 PM (jjaLl)

303 Judicial Watch already on it, I thought I'd read.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at N

Okay, that's some good news. Ty.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:05 PM (4Vu64)

304 My guess is she'd be singing an entirely different tune. But that's just my admittedly uncharitable guess.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:01 PM (39g3+)

Well ... this is EXACTLY the type of doubting of People Of Estrogen that created this toxic mess in the first place. I lay this problem squarely at the feet of White Men.

And if you do not like it ... tough.

Posted by: ScoggDog at November 20, 2017 04:05 PM (p2jI/)

305 Don't take this the wrong way, but are you high? That's the only reasonable assumption I can make.

That's a pretty strong way of putting it.

So you believe that sexual harassment at the work place does not require any sort of coercive element? Because I think if you read the laws you'd find that you are in error.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:05 PM (39g3+)

306 Quite a few years ago, maybe even a decade ago, I read a short story in a horror anthology about a world in which political correctness had gotten so out of control that it was legal to kill anyone who offended you for any reason. The protagonist lived in an apartment and spent all of his day in a silent apartment with no television or radio running and without shoes so as to not piss off the neighbors. He only went out at night because you had much less of a chance of running into someone who might take the slightest offense.

I don't remember how the story unfolded, but it sure seems we're heading in this direction. It's getting to the point where you could lose everything because someone misconstrued a conversation you had with them five years ago.

Now I know what we're seeing here goes far beyond this. Grabbing an ass or forcing a kiss is far more than a lame come on attempt, but does anyone think it won't go that far?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 20, 2017 04:06 PM (4ErVI)

307 Since unwanted kissing is now sexual assault, I suppose women will be held to the same standards as men in this area, yes?

Or will men get charged with assault/battery when they push the woman off of them and defend themselves from being sexually assaulted?

I believe we all know the answer to this, the latter. And it's playing right into the feminist agenda, like their agenda of it being a crime for straight men to not want to fuck trannies.

Posted by: Monk at November 20, 2017 04:06 PM (g4lFK)

308 295 $100 says Mitch McConnell groped a male page.

I've heard the same thing and told three other people.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 20, 2017 04:06 PM (r9UYA)

309 Saw the Cards Against Humanity story about buying land at the border to keep Trump from putting up a wall. Everone is bringing up eminent domain and the fact that CAH has hired a lawyer that specializes in eminent domain cases.
Two things:

1. Easements.
And the one thing that will shut down the argument before you can open your mouth?
2. NatSec
Government claims national security and it's game over.
And yes, the border falls under national security.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2017 04:07 PM (5kNms)

310 Don't take this the wrong way, but are you high?

Dude, that's out of line.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 04:07 PM (6FqZa)

311 I am SICK of seeing these tweets from the retarded left that have 42K "Likes" and 20K re-tweets?!!??

Yeah but you get what you pay for with that kind of fake account shenanigans. If 15,000 bots like your post, then only those bots actually like it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:07 PM (39g3+)

312 303
Judicial Watch already on it, I thought I'd read.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at N

Okay, that's some good news. Ty.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:05 PM (4Vu64)

I misread/misrecalled. And it's worse.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/ judicial-watch-fighting-get-details-congressional- sexual-harassment-settlements/

Judicial Watch saying that if the payouts are for Congresscritters (somewhat in dispute), we may not see it, because - get this - FOIA does not apply to Congress, paraphrased.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 04:09 PM (tbOMB)

313 302 I am SICK of seeing these tweets from the retarded left that have 42K "Likes" and 20K re-tweets?!!??

HORSESHIT!!!

Those numbers are from fuckin' bots. Sad!

I think I read that the guy who created the "Like" mechanism regrets it. I too think it is damaging for a few different reasons. It was one of those articles I was going to read later, and then lost it.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:09 PM (4Vu64)

314 Congresspeople were fucking 17 year old pages that the parents sent to Washington, Ted Kennedy was making sweaty corpulent mansandwiches with Chris Dodd in restaurants and Thomas stops the world with a mention of a short and curly.

Posted by: Mac at November 20, 2017 04:01 PM (fOoQ

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It's a good thing Barney Frank stuck to prostituting pages out to his men friends rather than violate people with a mention of pubic hair.

Posted by: Axeman at November 20, 2017 04:09 PM (vDqXW)

315 I still can't believe that Leftards are parsing that groping pic of Diaper Boy saying, "Look, look, he didn't actually touch her boob so it's not bad and you're just a H8ter! So there!"

Are they genuinely that stupid? Do they not see how that looks to the rest of us?

I'm rather disappointed that Tweeden didn't grab him by his junk after he stuck his tongue down her throat and said, "You POS. If you ever touch me again, I'll tear this little thing off."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 20, 2017 04:09 PM (tRaq7)

316 I'm all the proof you need

Posted by: The Shadow ( on the boob ) at November 20, 2017 04:09 PM (Co9e8)

317 306 Quite a few years ago, maybe even a decade ago, I read a short story in a horror anthology about a world in which political correctness had gotten so out of control that it was legal to kill anyone who offended you for any reason. The protagonist lived in an apartment and spent all of his day in a silent apartment with no television or radio running and without shoes so as to not piss off the neighbors. He only went out at night because you had much less of a chance of running into someone who might take the slightest offense.

I don't remember how the story unfolded, but it sure seems we're heading in this direction. It's getting to the point where you could lose everything because someone misconstrued a conversation you had with them five years ago.

Now I know what we're seeing here goes far beyond this. Grabbing an ass or forcing a kiss is far more than a lame come on attempt, but does anyone think it won't go that far?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 20, 2017 04:06 PM (4ErVI)

I see this happening within a couple of years. Hell, it's already happening but nobody is talking about it because it's happening to straight white men.

Posted by: Monk at November 20, 2017 04:09 PM (g4lFK)

318 There appears to be a Foxes With Special Needs crosswalk that your neighbors are ignoring.

Posted by: Jake from State Farm at November 20, 2017 04:09 PM (Jj+59)

319 So you believe that sexual harassment at the work place does not require any sort of coercive element?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:05 PM (39g3+)

Absolutely. At root sexual harassment is actual harassment of a sexual nature. More than once. Multiple times.

To infer that the lowly janitor is not capable of sexual harassment is a dangerous opinion on your part. If some janitor was harassing my wife I'd be suing the pants off the corporation that allowed that.

Please don't give bad information to men and women. If you want to study the issue and get back to me, please do. I'm well versed in this.

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 20, 2017 04:10 PM (ajiE5)

320 The way I understand it is:

Sexual harassment by law requires some level of intimidation or coercion, it is an attempt to force sexual action by threat or offer of reward. Sleep with me and I'll make sure you get that new job. Don't sleep with me and you'll be out on the street and I'll give you a bad name all over town.

If there is no element of coercion, its more like just plain harassment or assault. Its a different crime. Maybe I'm wrong, that's just always what I've heard and understand it to be, legally.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:10 PM (39g3+)

321 295 $100 says Mitch McConnell groped a male page.

I've heard the same thing and told three other people.
Posted by: Under Fire at November 20, 2017 04:06 PM (r9UYA)

If this is true and it comes out....

Posted by: JoeF. at November 20, 2017 04:10 PM (7uYFy)

322 Fourteen million dollars of those pay outs involved Mitch McConnell and the Crazy Buttsecks.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 20, 2017 04:10 PM (4ErVI)

323 To have diversity, first you must have agency. Everything about Black Politics claims they have none.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 20, 2017 04:10 PM (YV+SU)

324 Nice. 1 more fox, call Yor, we make winter coat.

Posted by: Yor, the Hunter from the Future at November 20, 2017 04:10 PM (Jj+59)

325 Hell, it's already happening but nobody is talking about it because it's happening to straight white men.
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This is why i avoid all new hires like the plague for at least 6 mos. if they are crazy they usually show it before then.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 04:11 PM (TPfts)

326 "Or will men get charged with assault/battery when they push the woman
off of them and defend themselves from being sexually assaulted?"

Well they can be kicked out of college for staying passed out while a chick gives them a BJ.

Posted by: X-ray at November 20, 2017 04:11 PM (VDQek)

327 Nov. 20 (UPI) --President Donald Trump said Monday he plans to re-designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism and boob grabbing.

I may have made part of that up.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 04:11 PM (3myMJ)

328 Mueller is still a threat to Trump (and the republic) regardless of Trump having nothing to do with any Russian collusion. They can create problems out of thin air ... no doubt have done it many times before in helping the Clintons out of trouble. (I wonder why they really wanted to get Martha Stewart?)

Hillary was half right, that a challenge of the election (by Trump she thought) was a threat to our "democracy". It really is a threat with Hillary doing it, because she has her whole syndicate on the inside working to sabotage the will of the people. Border control is being stymied, leaks abound, top people won't act on Trump's (the people's) directives.

That would seem to include the efforts past and present of some old guard FBI types that have a hand in all the old subversive actions and subterfuge.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 20, 2017 04:12 PM (/aIFg)

329 Saw the Cards Against Humanity story about buying land at the border to keep Trump from putting up a wall. Everone is bringing up eminent domain and the fact that CAH has hired a lawyer that specializes in eminent domain cases.

And the border wall isn't exactly on the border. Sometimes it is quite far in. Woe is he who is trapped on the other side. If you think you are going to buy land on the border to stop the fence, you might be in for a surprise.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 04:12 PM (BoMuO)

330 To infer that the lowly janitor is not capable of sexual harassment is a dangerous opinion on your part. If some janitor was harassing my wife I'd be suing the pants off the corporation that allowed that.

You seem to think that there is only one crime here. I'm saying there is more than one crime, and you're bundling them together into one heading. Not that the janitor that harasses women by grabbing his crotch and making lewd comments is blameless but that he's guilty of a different crime. Does that makes sense to you?

I mean its not speeding if you double park. Its not arson if you cheat someone out of their life savings. Different crimes, both bad, but different legal headings.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:12 PM (39g3+)

331
Dude, that's out of line.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 20, 2017 04:07 PM (6FqZa)

I don't think so. I did a quick check of matches on that name and it's over 10% of the comments. That's bizarre. Plus he's disseminating very dangerous information to both men and women in a climate that is very dangerous for men right now.

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 20, 2017 04:13 PM (ajiE5)

332 Maybe I'm wrong, that's just always what I've heard and understand it to be, legally.
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that would be logical.

however, logic generally only takes you so far in the law. Especially when the plaintiff's bar is trying to make a buck . . . so things get a little less logical over time. Things evolve. They make less logical sense and more mercantile sense.

Posted by: simplemind at November 20, 2017 04:13 PM (sxwiq)

333 The only moral equation on the Left is to ask, "Does this benefit or hurt the great cause today?"

Benefit, it's fine - today. Hurt, it's bad - today. Neither, judgement withheld - today. That's it - period. Everything else is just Twitter bait for the SJW Bubbettes.

Posted by: geoffb at November 20, 2017 04:13 PM (zOpu5)

334 I misread/misrecalled. And it's worse.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/ judicial-watch-fighting-get-details-congressional- sexual-harassment-settlements/

Judicial Watch saying that if the payouts are for Congresscritters (somewhat in dispute), we may not see it, because - get this - FOIA does not apply to Congress, paraphrased.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 04:09 PM (tbOMB)

Well flounder, at least you gave me 60 seconds of happy.

There must be a way around it. Or to raise such a stink that people clamor for it. No one can want their tax money to go to this.

It should go to the Supreme Court. But ya need a champion to push it. People need to see how bad the swamp is.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:14 PM (4Vu64)

335 If there is no element of coercion, its more like just plain harassment or assault. Its a different crime. Maybe I'm wrong, that's just always what I've heard and understand it to be, legally.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:10 PM (39g3+)
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Thanks to feminism, they've added implied coercion. Like if you sleep with your boss you can later charge that you were raped because the power differential implied that you would lose your job if you didn't.

Apparently, this applies to the guy running the 7-11, but not to the most powerful man in the world taking a bj from an intern.

Posted by: Axeman at November 20, 2017 04:14 PM (vDqXW)

336 This is part and parcel of the "Peaceful, loving, honorable-to-a-fault fem-worshiping Dems are taking care of their totes individual and not at all systemic problems while the Nazis, I mean Republicans are completely ignoring their Culture of Corruption(tm)" troupe that is utterly unsupported by any facts or logic but must still be accepted completely as Gaia's-honest TRUTH or your the ultimate h8r.

File under: How You Got Trump
Cross-reference under: How You Will Get More Trump

Posted by: DocJ at November 20, 2017 04:14 PM (NYS7S)

337 nood, because nobody said it yet

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 20, 2017 04:14 PM (KUaJL)

338 Sally Kohn today:

Time for Al Franken to go.

Wrong is wrong. And the Democrats need to show they strongly AND CONSISTENTLY stand for women's rights.

Preach it sister.

Posted by: Mary Jo Kopechne at November 20, 2017 04:14 PM (326rv)

339 There's our answer.

We start a GoFundMe to buy land along the Mexican border and put up our own damn wall.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 04:15 PM (3myMJ)

340 things get a little less logical over time. Things evolve. They make less logical sense and more mercantile sense./i]

That I'll buy, sure. There was a definite push in the 1990s to make everything a guy does that a woman doesn't like (at some point) to be considered sexual harassment. Compliment her hair, ask her on a date, help her put her coat on, look at her too much etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:15 PM (39g3+)

341 As I said recently, "This wall of crap has never fallen on any woman in the history of America like it's fallen on me"

Spare change?

Posted by: Kathy Griffin at November 20, 2017 04:15 PM (ctuyM)

342 girthy thrush up...(heh)

Posted by: IC at November 20, 2017 04:15 PM (a0IVu)

343 Not that the janitor that harasses women by grabbing his crotch and making lewd comments is blameless but that he's guilty of a different crime. Does that makes sense to you?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:12 PM (39g3+)

No. Grabbing sexual organs is harassment of a sexual nature. He's not exposing a smelly foot. That would be simple harassment.

Every man needs to understand this.

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 20, 2017 04:16 PM (ajiE5)

344 Listen, fuck all this legal mumbo-jumbo you all are spouting.... just answer this: can I tongue random strangers or not??? It's a simple question, but I keep getting mixed signals!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at November 20, 2017 04:17 PM (jjaLl)

345 Judicial Watch saying that if the payouts are for Congresscritters (somewhat in dispute), we may not see it, because - get this - FOIA does not apply to Congress, paraphrased.
Posted by: flounder

Congress specifically exempted themselves from FOIA. Now you know why.

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2017 04:17 PM (9TU00)

346 Well flounder, at least you gave me 60 seconds of happy.

There must be a way around it. Or to raise such a stink that people
clamor for it. No one can want their tax money to go to this.

It should go to the Supreme Court. But ya need a champion to push it. People need to see how bad the swamp is.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:14 PM (4Vu64)

Buyer beware. No refunds. I am good for at least two and a half minutes of happy. At participating locations. While supplies last. Void where prohibited.
In all seriousness, Congress is not bound by insider trading laws, and it exempted itself from obamacare. I am not surprised.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 20, 2017 04:17 PM (tbOMB)

347 And the border wall isn't exactly on the border. Sometimes it is quite far in. Woe is he who is trapped on the other side. If you think you are going to buy land on the border to stop the fence, you might be in for a surprise.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 04:12 PM (BoMuO)

How much land? The fence doesn't have to be straight. Ya can zig zag around it. Not rocket science. Disappointed in Cards for Humanity.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:17 PM (4Vu64)

348 Welcome to the fray, CRT. Your opinion is WRONG - to.. someone. Sometimes it feels like a thankless, uphill fight. Sometimes you ARE wrong. Most of the time it's a back-and-forth and honestly that benefits us all. I'm glad you're here.

Posted by: Johnny at November 20, 2017 04:18 PM (Se2s/)

349 You seem to think that there is only one crime here. I'm saying there is more than one crime, and you're bundling them together into one heading. Not that the janitor that harasses women by grabbing his crotch and making lewd comments is blameless but that he's guilty of a different crime. Does that makes sense to you?

I mean its not speeding if you double park. Its not arson if you cheat someone out of their life savings. Different crimes, both bad, but different legal headings.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 20, 2017 04:12 PM (39g3+)

What in the name of heaven above are you yammering on about?

Seriously, you aren't even wrong about this. I don't know what you think you are describing but it's not sexual harassment law.

There's also the fact that sexual harassment in the work place carries civil remedies, not criminal.

I have no idea what you think you're describing but it bears no resemblance to the actuality of the matter.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 20, 2017 04:19 PM (mf5HN)

350 "So you believe that sexual harassment at the work place does not require any sort of coercive element? Because I think if you read the laws you'd find that you are in error."

Twenty-plus years in industry, I've known one case of firing over sexual harassment.

The receptionist. And, yes, she deserved it.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 20, 2017 04:21 PM (q29T2)

351 at the Continental, a Politico hangout in Rosslyn, Virginia

Now I know why that place gave off such a douchebag vibe

Posted by: Jean at November 20, 2017 04:21 PM (9TU00)

352 Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 20, 2017 04:19 PM (mf5HN)

Thank you for stepping in. I was hoping you would.

I don't want to throw my credentials around, because Internet and anyone can make stuff up, but you have actual raptors.

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 20, 2017 04:21 PM (ajiE5)

353 The receptionist. And, yes, she deserved it.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 20, 2017 04:21 PM (q29T2)

But were they real? And were they spectacular?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at November 20, 2017 04:22 PM (jjaLl)

354 340,
"That I'll buy, sure. There was a definite push in the 1990s to make
everything a guy does that a woman doesn't like (at some point) to be
considered sexual harassment. Compliment her hair, ask her on a date,
help her put her coat on, look at her too much etc."

Wasn't that codified by Biden as Senator?

Posted by: geoffb at November 20, 2017 04:22 PM (zOpu5)

355 >>>didn't even understand the meme (should've been a bottle, for those too young to remember).

I did not know that.

Posted by: m at November 20, 2017 04:22 PM (V+b9T)

356 Since unwanted kissing is now sexual assault, I suppose women will be held to the same standards as men in this area, yes?

Or will men get charged with assault/battery when they push the woman off of them and defend themselves from being sexually assaulted?

I believe we all know the answer to this, the latter. And it's playing right into the feminist agenda, like their agenda of it being a crime for straight men to not want to fuck trannies.

Posted by: Monk at November 20, 2017 04:06 PM (g4lFK)

Yup. My attitude is pretty clear on this. Women get away with shit that men would be in prison for.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at November 20, 2017 04:22 PM (aMlLZ)

357 Men, it's simple.

Do not put your hands on a woman who is not related to you, or whom you are dating. Do not shove your tongue in their mouths. Actually, do not put your tongue on her anywhere. Do not stick your nose in her hair. Do not slide your foot up her leg.

No touching. Pretend the nun or teacher is putting the ruler in between you and the other person so you don't touch. Even then, there are restrictions b/c of respect.

Do not grope or touch women in the workplace. Probably not men either, but we are talking women here..

It is simple. Even my kindergarten boyfriend knew this.

Don't touch.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 20, 2017 04:25 PM (4Vu64)

358 101 I don't understand why men refer to their sexual apparatus as junk.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 20, 2017 03:04 PM (dZ756)

Because they stupidly adopted a word used by blacks to refer to a male sex organ?

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 20, 2017 03:20 PM (3myMJ)
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And where did you get that golden nugget of nonsense from...?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at November 20, 2017 04:26 PM (d4Jry)

359 "But were they real? And were they spectacular?"

She was a mousy little foul-tempered bitch who made comments about an intern's spectacular sweater puppies, and apparently repeatedly arranged for "girl's nights out" that started at her apartment -- where she would greet the other partiers naked.

The only other firings close to were the two lesbians making out while they were supposed to be on billable time.

And, yeah, that was the same job.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at November 20, 2017 04:26 PM (q29T2)

360 Nice. 1 more fox, call Yor, we make winter coat.

Posted by: Yor, the Hunter from the Future at November 20, 2017 04:10 PM

Oh, I say!

Posted by: The Fox at November 20, 2017 04:27 PM (p+Wdc)

361
The entire Clarence Thomas soda can thing revolved around one word, 'pubic'. The left knew that using a hair associated with the vicinity of a sexual area then threw the ball clearly into the court of 'sexual' harassment.

Not saying it did or didn't happen, and Thomas has been a great judge. Just saying anything of a sexual nature guys should stay the hell away from in the workplace. Far, far away. So far away you're in the next county.

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 20, 2017 04:34 PM (ajiE5)

362 Weigel is such a coward. How long did it take him to figure out a way to put forth a defense of Franken that he could (implausibly) characterize as a criticism?

Posted by: anotheranon at November 20, 2017 04:46 PM (dOFfJ)

363 Just saying anything of a sexual nature guys should stay the hell away from in the workplace. Far, far away. So far away you're in the next county.

And the Military makes absolutely clear the consequences of drinking and driving, or drinking and having any kind of "incident" and yet, here we are.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 20, 2017 05:12 PM (BoMuO)

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