"Hillary Clinton Supporters Are Apparently Plotting To Falsely Accuse Bernie Sanders Of Sexual Assault"
https://lawandcrime.com/exclusive/appar ... l-assault/
Not funny
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Re: "Clinton Supporters Are Apparently Plotting To..."
This has been floating around for a bit. I think the proper reading of her comment is something to the effect of:
"Al Franken being taken down by a few accusers is BS. This could be done to anybody."
I don't read her as plotting a conspiracy of false allegations against Sanders. Rather she named Sanders because he's the darling of the people on the left who pushed Franken out.
Franken was a borderline case because what he was accused of wasn't as serious as many of the other accusations floating out there and the accusations, at least until the final straw, were more difficult to judge. On top of this, Franken was one of the more talented Democrats in the federal government. He won't be replaced by someone as good as him. This has left a segment of his supporters deeply upset that he is going down for this. I read her comment as an example of that bitterness. The generous interpretation is it being a complaint about lack of due process.
That said, I've been expecting any day now an alt-right type to manufacture false allegations of assault against a prominent liberal to own the libs and their "women must be believed" mentality. I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened yet.
"Al Franken being taken down by a few accusers is BS. This could be done to anybody."
I don't read her as plotting a conspiracy of false allegations against Sanders. Rather she named Sanders because he's the darling of the people on the left who pushed Franken out.
Franken was a borderline case because what he was accused of wasn't as serious as many of the other accusations floating out there and the accusations, at least until the final straw, were more difficult to judge. On top of this, Franken was one of the more talented Democrats in the federal government. He won't be replaced by someone as good as him. This has left a segment of his supporters deeply upset that he is going down for this. I read her comment as an example of that bitterness. The generous interpretation is it being a complaint about lack of due process.
That said, I've been expecting any day now an alt-right type to manufacture false allegations of assault against a prominent liberal to own the libs and their "women must be believed" mentality. I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened yet.
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Re: Never mind
Well god dang it. Now that you've erased that post, my reply is contextless.
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Re: Never mind
EAllusion wrote:I don't read her as plotting a conspiracy of false allegations against Sanders. Rather she named Sanders because he's the darling of the people on the left who pushed Franken out.
Someone mentally unstable can take it seriously. For me it is not right that Franken was forced to resign in the middle of the ethics investigation, just crazy.
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Re: Never mind
EAllusion wrote:Well god dang it. Now that you've erased that post, my reply is contextless.
Sorry, it's just that I don't want to talk a lot about this topic, I need to move on.
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Re: "Clinton Supporters Are Apparently Plotting To..."
EAllusion wrote:That said, I've been expecting any day now an alt-right type to manufacture false allegations of assault against a prominent liberal to own the libs and their "women must be believed" mentality. I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Yes I am very worried about that, and it can get out of control.
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Re: Not funny
Medía mired in mendacity. It's their own fault, the clickbait junkies.
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Re: "Clinton Supporters Are Apparently Plotting To..."
DoubtingThomas wrote:EAllusion wrote:That said, I've been expecting any day now an alt-right type to manufacture false allegations of assault against a prominent liberal to own the libs and their "women must be believed" mentality. I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Yes I am very worried about that, and it can get out of control.
Worry for the future no longer, because the future is now:
"Schumer calls cops after forged sex scandal charge"
So this has already happened some. So far it has been ferreted out, both in the Schumer and Blumenthal cases. That doesn't mean more cases won't pop up though.
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Re: Not funny
DoubtingThomas wrote:"Hillary Clinton Supporters Are Apparently Plotting To Falsely Accuse Bernie Sanders Of Sexual Assault"
https://lawandcrime.com/exclusive/appar ... l-assault/
No, it's funny.
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I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them
what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams
If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
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Re: "Clinton Supporters Are Apparently Plotting To..."
Xenophon wrote:
Worry for the future no longer, because the future is now:
"Schumer calls cops after forged sex scandal charge"
So this has already happened some. So far it has been ferreted out, both in the Schumer and Blumenthal cases. That doesn't mean more cases won't pop up though.
I was surprised that CNN last night was talking about potential problems