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Which is why Al Franken is still a senator. What did he do that was positive?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Frankenstein resigned from the Senate after his so-called tryst. Frankly, good riddance to bad rubbish! I didn’t care for him even when he was on SNL.
And if you think i’m Being harsh on Democrats, I feel the same way about Dennis Hastart, the Salamander, and McCain. I’m equal opportunity on ANY politician, federal, state, or local.
I was being sarcastic. Al Franken resigned because the Democrats aren't hypocrites, was my point.
I think you bring up a very good point here and I think the media gets this wrong. My opinion is that the average moderate republican or independent, and perhaps even some democrats, "middle America" has determined that the media is hysterical. 92% negative coverage of Trump. There's that joke I get a kick out of: "If Trump cured cancer, liberals would blame him for putting oncologists out of business." Going apoplectic about the way he tosses a roll of paper towels, etc. Middle America sees through that for what it is: hyperbolic unrealistic hysteria.
I think the media and the anti-Trump global machine would actually be more effective if it toned down its hysteria to a reasonable and believable level. That would give a solid Democratic opponent a realistic opposing platform to run on.
"Admittedly, Trump has done some good things. Props to him on [Fill in the blanks], but you know what? My platform is better because........"
Rather than
"This is beyond a no brainer to vote for me. SATAN wishes he was Trump. Satan is Trump's beeyotch! Satan is like Mother Theresa compared to Trump!" And on and on and on and.....
That might be very cathartic for those that hate him beyond hate to an irrational degree, but most people simply do not live like that. They just don't. I think that whole approach might backfire.
I am a minority. You have the luxury of voting third party without it rounding back and striking you. For me, voting third party is giving a stronger possibility to the side that seeks to oppress me for the way I was born. Or in other words - voting third party or protest voting actually impacts me and my life due how I was born.
Considering many minorities hate him since he's fueling the fire that's causing more attacks against those like me - that's not irrational at all [see FBI hate crime statistics on page 1]. Actually hate him wouldn't be entirely accurate since I view him as a symptom of an insidious disease - I don't hate the man, I can't bring it in me to hate another human being. But, as a minority I do detest and loathe from the very bottom of my soul what he stands for.
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I am a minority. You have the luxury of voting third party without it rounding back and striking you. For me, voting third party is giving a stronger possibility to the side that seeks to oppress me for the way I was born. Or in other words - voting third party or protest voting actually impacts me and my life due how I was born.
There's a lot of overt and oppressive racism among the plutocracy?
It seeps into every aspect of society and all economic levels of life. These people - they don't attack based upon wealth, they attack based upon how one was born. Should I remind people how "safe" the liberal Oslo camp was from the likes of Anders Behring Breivik for example - bombed a building then went about killing the children of government representatives due to his hatred for multiculturalism and immigration.
Being rich does not shield you from society's ills. Even if it did, which it doesn't, I have empathy - I care about those who were born like me that are in more precarious situations. I care about other people. So not only would I put myself more at risk, I would put my people at risk as well which is something I would never do.
Not to mention, despite Trump supporters wanting to deny it up and down. The orange ogre did say countries weren't send the "right" people and he only said "some" (some means not all, some is less than many) are good people. I happen to be from South America. So not only did the orange turd go after my people for being queer and an immigrant, he went after my family as well.
I don't hate the man, I can't bring it in me to hate another human being. But, I do detest what he stands for.
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It seeps into every aspect of society and all economic levels of life.
Being rich does not shield you from society's ills. Even if it did, which it doesn't, I have empathy - I care about those who were born like me that are in more precarious situations. I care about other people.
That makes sense.
I can understand, for example, Oprah fighting for disadvantaged minorities since she's a minority. I would be confused if Oprah also said she's disadvantaged because she's not.
You said: "seeks to oppress me" and "impacts me and my life"
I was asking the question because I don't know the answer since I'm not a member of the plutocracy and your statements made it sound like the plutocracy is or can be racially oppressive against you since you're a minority.
I am a minority. You have the luxury of voting third party without it rounding back and striking you. For me, voting third party is giving a stronger possibility to the side that seeks to oppress me for the way I was born. Or in other words - voting third party or protest voting actually impacts me and my life due how I was born.
I'm a bit confused. On one hand it sounds like you are saying that you're a downtrodden minority, and on the other hand you've said that you're one of the wealthy elite.
Ok. Imagine the "Religious Freedom" bill that many conservatives are dreaming about comes to pass due the courts turning hard right. "Christians can now choose whom they serve - if they don't agree with how you were born, they are able to kick you out for it."
Many are also seeking to allow companies to fire people based upon their sexuality. Trump's administration has even shown that they'd go along and have no issue with this -
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/02/26/court-rules-you-cant-fire-someone-for-being-gay-after-trump-administration-claims-its-legal/
So yeah, these people are seeking to oppress me and those like me. For these not to - there would have to be little to no homophobia among the upper class which is simply not the case.
To go with a firmer example from the past that I helped (in very small part) to overcome - no amount of money would have allowed me to get married to a man if that happened to be who I fell in love with.
Money does not allow you to bypass or get around laws standing in the way. If the Religious Freedom bill comes to pass and it is used against me - all I can do is be one of many trying to bring a case to the Supreme Court and try to change the bill. Money does allow me that opportunity since I can afford the legal fees to do so, but it does not allow me to bypass it.
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Spooky, I don't doubt that you've experienced oppression both as a minority and as a gay man.
This is just my perception, but sometimes you come across as claiming hierarchy of victimhood for those reasons. Look at the site you're on though. Many of us here, myself included, were picked on both verbally and physically for years and mercilessly harassed and oppressed, regardless of and no less significant of our races or sexual orientations. I think we would assist each other more if we shared a solidarity in our equally valid but different struggles.
Anyone who is with Trump or the hard right is no friend or ally of mine and never will be.
That's not so say you are a Trump supporter or hard right nor that there isn't common ground since I frankly have no idea where you align nor do I know what the "differences" you are citing are. Without knowing what these differences are, it is hard to form a proper response.
If you simply mean Republican - I'm friends and family with many and of these many they are also against Trump. I see Trumpism (or rather extremist nationalism) as a force outside of Republicanism.
Also, if I was claiming hierarchy of victimhood I wouldn't readily say that there are many who have it worse off as I did before and will again now.
Interesting side-fact: showing how prevalent bigotry even is among upper class - a childhood friend of mine (and I desperately wish I was exaggerating) became a literal Neo-Nazi relatively recently with beliefs that would even horrify some of Trump's most adamant supporters on this site or I would at least hope so.
MAGNA -
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're talking about you and me assisting each other, right? Or do you mean Democrats and Republicans assisting each other? Due to the personal manner in which you started the reply and saying "we" rather than the party names it sounds like you're talking about you and me. But I may be wrong with that.
Also note to Magna, best to cut out the middle man (not saying you're going through someone, just the only person I care to discuss with in this is you). To me, you and I aren't debating since there isn't really an argument to be had between us other than we potentially view Trump differently which comes down to subjective.
Back on topic though, are you saying Democrats and Republicans or you and I assisting each other (and if so, with what - as said it's difficult to form a proper reply without the details).
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Which is why Al Franken is still a senator. What did he do that was positive?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Frankenstein resigned from the Senate after his so-called tryst. Frankly, good riddance to bad rubbish! I didn’t care for him even when he was on SNL.
And if you think i’m Being harsh on Democrats, I feel the same way about Dennis Hastart, the Salamander, and McCain. I’m equal opportunity on ANY politician, federal, state, or local.
I was being sarcastic. Al Franken resigned because the Democrats aren't hypocrites, was my point.
They forced him out because they did not want to look like hypocrites. The picture of him emerged shortly after #MeToo started. There are some democrates that have had second thoughts and never liked him being forced out in the first place. The thinking goes something like this, yea what he did was wrong, it was his comedic instinct gone too far, he is no Harvey Weinstien, this is another example of us taking a knife to a gunfight, he would have been an effective candidate against Trump because he would have used his comedic talent to fluster Trump.
Franken urged to reverse his resignation
“I think we acted prematurely, before we had all the facts,” said a third senator who has also called for the resignation, and has since expressed regret directly to Franken. “In retrospect, I think we acted too fast.” The senator asked not to be named because of the political sensitivity of the issue among Democrats.to reconsider resigning, including two who issued statements calling for the resignation two weeks ago and said they now feel remorse over what they feel was a rush to judgment.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who urged Franken not to step down to begin with — at least not before he went through an Ethics Committee investigation — said the Minnesota senator was railroaded by fellow Democrats.
“What they did to Al was atrocious, the Democrats,” said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast to post on Tuesday.
The feeling that Franken should reconsider has gained some steam outside of the Senate, too, among Democratic donors and others, including a former Republican governor of Minnesota, Arne Carlson.
“I and many other people — and specifically feminists — feel that it’s not too late, that he should not resign, and that the rush to sweep him out was ill-conceived, and we think that he has been supportive of women and women’s issues,” said Emily Jane Goodman, a retired New York state Supreme Court judge who’s helped start a Feminists for Franken group on Facebook. “Although we do deplore any kind of gender-based misconduct, we think at the same time he is entitled to a fair hearing.”
The group directly counters Gillibrand’s statement that there should be no gradations made in assessing problematic sexual conduct: “We believe it is crucial to make distinctions and to respond proportionally,” the group’s mission statement reads.
The still-raging controversy over Al Franken’s resignation, explained
I know this because they still email me about it.
Backlash The implications of sending Al Franken packing are starting to become clear on Capitol Hill. And they are troubling.
The whole thing happened with startling speed—no deliberations, no process, and no pause for thought, it seemed. The main actors against him got increasingly worked up—and they struck at the first opportunity. The entire episode, from when the first complaint about Franken was aired to when he announced unhappily that he’d leave the Senate, took three weeks; his self-appointed prosecutors turned on a dime, at first supporting and then throwing process (consideration by the Senate ethics committee) to the wind. There wasn’t even a meeting of the party caucus to deliberate and discuss. (Male Democratic senators with misgivings didn’t want to get in the way of the women.) A group of Democratic women senators got up a head of steam; its ringleader, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, declared, a doctrine of “zero tolerance.” “Enough is enough!” became not just an expression of exasperation but a policy.
What’s particularly disturbing about the Franken affair is that a senator was driven from the seat he was elected to because he’d become inconvenient. The death knell came with the seventh—or was it the eighth?—complaint about Franken touching or patting or whatever some woman’s bottom, or in one case (following the original charge of his forcing his tongue down the complainer’s throat) asking for a kiss. Almost all of these charges were of actions before he came to the Senate and several were anonymous. But it was less these acts—immature and jerky, to be sure—that threatened to overturn the verdict of the voters of Minnesota, than the fact that the charges were continuing to be brought. (An option would be to demand good behavior or else, and leave it to the next election.)
What was the inconvenience caused the Democrats by the sudden spout of complaints about Franken? Well, you see, the Democrats—Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer weighed in, probably sounding Franken’s doom—didn’t want to have to answer the “what-about” question when they attacked the Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore for the documented charges against him of pedophilia or when they attempted a new assault on Donald Trump’s predatory behavior toward women in the past.
DONALD TRUMP’S ‘KRYPTONITE’ IN 2020 ELECTION COULD BE ‘RIDICULE’ BY AL FRANKEN, BILL MAHER SAYS
The one thing that gets under his skin, besides red dye No. 2, is being made fun of,” Maher said, then referenced how Trump “seethed” when Obama made fun of him at the Correspondents’ Dinner.
“The hair on the back of his neck stood up, which was fascinating to watch since it’s been transplanted to the front of his head,” Maher said of Trump’s unusual hairdo
“I believe Al,” Maher said. “Are Democrats going to permanently send away one of our A-list warriors for being a waist grabber? He didn’t drive her off a bridge and leave her to drown. Can we get some perspective?”
“It’s time to get Al off the bench so he can come back and do what he does better than any other Democrat: taking down rightwing blowhards. I want to see Al Franken debate Donald Trump,” said Maher, adding, “And by the way, so do you.”
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