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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Moore ahead
Moore has regained the lead in Alabama. I told you that a thoughtless, non-nuanced embrace of the "Believe women" movement would result in Franken leaving the Senate and Roy Moore being elected. Happy?
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Trump has been accused of yanking chunks of hair from his ex-wife's head and forceably stabbing her with his penis while he was doing it. Did Al Franken or the media bring this up when Trump called Franken a serial groper? Nope. Why? BECAUSE: WUSSES.
Of course we're not happy! I for one never doubted your prediction. Interesting how the right will cry about the "liberal media", yet once again we are presented with ample proof that that is a false accusation.
There's a term for what Alabama republican voters are doing so voting Moore is palatable. I think it's rationalizing but better known as assholery. Will Democrats use Moore as a baseball bat to the heads of republican candidates come 2018 or will they Kumbaya policy nobody cares about again.
Did you see Stephen Colbert's math last night regarding Moore's wife? Apparently Moore first saw his wife when she was 15 years old in a dance recital and remembered her name when he met up with her 8 years later at the age of 23. Moore doesn't explain why he was at the dance recital, just that she was very pretty.
I don't know why can't we walk and chew gum at the same time. Supporting women and defending men who are targeted for political reasons are not mutually exclusive.
Not to throw shade on your central argument, but this poll has Moore's lead cut by 9 points since before the revelations. That is not the trajectory of a winning candidate. He will probably still win, but the fact that the seat is even a contest shows Moore and the Republicans aren't getting away with this without consequences.
I still say Franken will survive. Doing an ethics probe instead of resigning will give Democrats a face saving way to expose the agenda of his accusations. Of course, the media won't care, but it at least it gives the Democrats a way out.
Moore will win by a comfortable margin, though not so comfortable as it would have been without the accusations. In the end, a win is a win.
A national dialogue about sexual harassment and sexual abuse was always going to devolve into a witch hunt. In this country, EVERYTHING quickly degenerates into "Goody Proctor is a witch" -- and no, I'm not just talking about sex. I'm talking about everything. It's just who we are. We are a nation of smug assholes who participate in witch hunts in order to convince ourselves of our own virtue.
A sex-based witch hunt is always going to help the Republicans, and not because Democrats are more likely to be abusers. Democrats are simply more likely to turn against their politicians. Democrats are more likely to assume that ALL male politicians are inherently evil. I honestly think that some feminists would prefer a situation in which only females are allowed to run for office. Feminism is not as popular in red states, which means that voters in those states will be more likely to rationalize away a vote for Roy Moore.
I'm amazed that more Democrats didn't see this outcome. It was clear to me way before the first Franken accusation, and even before Moore was accused. Even when the first Weinstein revelations hit, I could see what was going to follow. It was as clear to me as if it had already happened.
Calling Moore a "pedophile" is the dangerous precedent here. 16 is the age of consent in Alabama for decades, and Moore is being called a pedophile by both the establishment in the GOP, and Dems, and parts of the media.
That is something that could easily turn against Dems. Especially since quite a few Dems support lowering the age of consent below 16.
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Trump has been accused of yanking chunks of hair from his ex-wife's head and forceably stabbing her with his penis while he was doing it. Did Al Franken or the media bring this up when Trump called Franken a serial groper? Nope. Why? BECAUSE: WUSSES.
Of course we're not happy! I for one never doubted your prediction. Interesting how the right will cry about the "liberal media", yet once again we are presented with ample proof that that is a false accusation.
There's a term for what Alabama republican voters are doing so voting Moore is palatable. I think it's rationalizing but better known as assholery.
Will Democrats use Moore as a baseball bat to the heads of republican candidates come 2018 or will they Kumbaya policy nobody cares about again.
Did you see Stephen Colbert's math last night regarding Moore's wife? Apparently Moore first saw his wife when she was 15 years old in a dance recital and remembered her name when he met up with her 8 years later at the age of 23.
Moore doesn't explain why he was at the dance recital, just that she was very pretty.
I don't know why can't we walk and chew gum at the same time. Supporting women and defending men who are targeted for political reasons are not mutually exclusive.
Not to throw shade on your central argument, but this poll has Moore's lead cut by 9 points since before the revelations. That is not the trajectory of a winning candidate. He will probably still win, but the fact that the seat is even a contest shows Moore and the Republicans aren't getting away with this without consequences.
I still say Franken will survive. Doing an ethics probe instead of resigning will give Democrats a face saving way to expose the agenda of his accusations. Of course, the media won't care, but it at least it gives the Democrats a way out.
Moore will win by a comfortable margin, though not so comfortable as it would have been without the accusations. In the end, a win is a win.
A national dialogue about sexual harassment and sexual abuse was always going to devolve into a witch hunt. In this country, EVERYTHING quickly degenerates into "Goody Proctor is a witch" -- and no, I'm not just talking about sex. I'm talking about everything. It's just who we are. We are a nation of smug assholes who participate in witch hunts in order to convince ourselves of our own virtue.
A sex-based witch hunt is always going to help the Republicans, and not because Democrats are more likely to be abusers. Democrats are simply more likely to turn against their politicians. Democrats are more likely to assume that ALL male politicians are inherently evil. I honestly think that some feminists would prefer a situation in which only females are allowed to run for office. Feminism is not as popular in red states, which means that voters in those states will be more likely to rationalize away a vote for Roy Moore.
I'm amazed that more Democrats didn't see this outcome. It was clear to me way before the first Franken accusation, and even before Moore was accused. Even when the first Weinstein revelations hit, I could see what was going to follow. It was as clear to me as if it had already happened.
Calling Moore a "pedophile" is the dangerous precedent here. 16 is the age of consent in Alabama for decades, and Moore is being called a pedophile by both the establishment in the GOP, and Dems, and parts of the media.
That is something that could easily turn against Dems. Especially since quite a few Dems support lowering the age of consent below 16.
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