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mac56

(17,567 posts)
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 12:50 PM Nov 2017

I can't help but think that the timing of the Franken accusation

is not an accident.

Something big is about to come down, I can feel it. And they've created a diversion.

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

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BannonsLiver

(16,387 posts)
2. The accuser is a Hannity/Fox News reject
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 12:51 PM
Nov 2017

If that were not the case it would give me greater pause. But I still wouldn't be in support of a resignation.

 

moda253

(615 posts)
5. CNN callingnit groping
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 12:55 PM
Nov 2017

When he isn't even actually touching her over a Flak jacket....

CNN fucked us in the 2016 elections and they will fuck us some moore.



Poor joke. Distasteful. Stupid beyond imagination. But what was the intent....

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
6. I'm sorry but this story is already falling apart...she is saying he made her uncomfortable...he
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 12:55 PM
Nov 2017

didn't force her to kiss him. Now I just heard it wasn't actual groping...just faux groping.

woodsprite

(11,915 posts)
7. I've been thinking that all week, with everybody and his or her brother accusing everyone
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 01:00 PM
Nov 2017

else of sexual harassment.

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
8. What? Women and Men have been empowered to speak out about incidents of ...
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 01:05 PM
Nov 2017

sexual harassment and assault after the fall of Harvey Weinstein. Some of your faves and some folks that you hate are going to get swept up in the process. It's gonna hit other national politicians soon and some will be Dems.

rzemanfl

(29,557 posts)
9. Franken is such a gentleman about it, saying it wasn't the way he remembers it, instead of
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 01:05 PM
Nov 2017

calling her a liar and invoking Gawd. The picture was an obvious joke, not an assault.

I cannot recall, in my seventy years on the planet, ever being able to French kiss a woman whose mouth was shut.

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