Men behaving badly: The never ending story
Electronman
Too much of a good thing is never enough
http://time.com/5019182/george-hw-bush-g…
No excuse for groping an underage girl (or boy, for Kevin Spacey) and no excuse for non consensual sex with any woman. But, I'm not sure where this movement is going? Should we expect to obtain written and signed consent and verify a dancer's age before a lap dance?
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It will only get worse as government get bigger and circles the wagons to protect its own.
Child molesters should be publicly hung in the town square as should be drug dealers, murderers
I'm not talking about kids. Kids need protection from these pigs.
same thing with Weinstein - the same stories over and over again.
No wonder we can't solve any problems; we can't even see the problems for the polarizing political trees!
The press covered up for Eisenhower, JFK, and LBJ. Then, they openly defended Bill. That’s where the precedent was set that it was okay to harass if your politics were correct. Remember that when Trump was acting like a pig, he was a registered Democrat.
Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd used to have what they called waitress sandwiches during lunch. It was widely known, but never reported.
Now I see all of these accusers coming out many years later. Why now. It make me believe that at the time they thought that it was no big deal but now that they are out, they want something for it.
I tend to fall on the "innocent until proven guilty" end of the justice spectrum but when you get multiple independent accounts of a recurring pattern of behavior, it certainly adds credence to accusations that would otherwise be no more than "he said, she said."
This from a self-professed "libertarian." And I do see that he lists a bunch of "hypocritical liberals," public figures who have touched women and children inappropriately, etc., but conspicuously fails to mention Roy Moore. None of the folks on Tiredtraveler's list are Christian conservatives who want to police your bedroom, but Moore is, so wouldn't that make him the biggest hypocrite of all? If the allegations are true, Moore is at least as big a hypocrite as Gender-Equality warrior Harvey Weinstein, right?
Anyway, I think the story about Bush is just pathetic. The part where she's "uncontrollably sobbing," give me a break! I have known people who were raped as infants and they don't break down in tears when they talk about it now. So fucking lame. How traumatic can it really be to have your ass grabbed?
Personally, I believe almost all of the stories. About Weinstein, Moore, Trump, Bush, Spacey, etc. AND I DON'T CARE!! Because the alleged victims didn't act appropriately. If someone touches you without permission, the correct response is to swat their hand away and say "hey don't do that." If someone whips his dick out and jerks it into a potted plant in front of you, the correct response is to say "Hey, if you're going to keep doing that then I don't want to be in your movies anymore. I'll just go back to waitressing." If someone has 'consensual' sex with you as a minor in your teens, the correct response as a grown-up is to acknowledge that it was consensual, that you knew what you were doing, and get over it already. And if someone actually rapes you or tries to rape you, the correct response is to immediately go to the police and submit a rape-kit if possible.
This nonsense where they wait 15 years and then go to the press has got to stop. And I'm telling you, this witch hunt will eventually get to the strip club industry. Mark my words.
Thank you, yes, I totally agree. These Hollywood scumbags and George HW Bush and Trump, etc., were totally blindsided by these accusations (most of which are probably true), and we'll all be blindsided, too, when the #MeToo movement decides that strip clubs are dens of molesters and that anyone who visits one is automatically guilty. I'm not sure exactly how the shit will hit the fan, but it will eventually. If they're going after people for just jerking off, we can't be too far behind.
or g.h.w. bush or slick willy clinton
I think what he means is that it's coming to the fore now because the party that claims to speak for all women (the democrats) has a new enemy who has been repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct (Trump).
And the exceptions even fit a pattern. George Herbert Walker Bush is 94 years old.confined to a wheelchair and limited in his movements. When people want a picture with him he has two responses - both yes. For a male, he asks they sit next to him where a picture shows their upper bodies and head closer and relatively even.
For a female he simply raises his right arm (his left is more limited) in an open gesture so they may stand next to the former President and get a picture. But he can hold that arm up only for a limited time, and when he must rest it - the best height he can get is usually the woman's butt. So he makes a slightly off color joke and almost all women realize that nothing is happening, other than an old man trying to politely allow pictures and put her at ease when he can't hold his arm up anymore. Only someone determined to be offended, or trying too hard to join the #metoo club, would be offended!
Judge Moore is another of the exceptions. I noted that none of the accusers claim rape or anything that would have been criminal in the 70's. Damaging to his campaign, grabbing attention away from Hollywierd self destruction and Clinton Russia news, but nothing that could lead to charges against the women for making false criminal accusations (even though statute has expired, it is technically possible to charge the women with a false complaint for publicly claiming Moore committed a crime). All five accusers stop short of a criminal offense in their claims. Convenient, and proof that the D.C. elite have learned from their attacks on Herman Cain, Donald Trump and others.
I don't know that all the allegations against Roy Moore are false, I don't claim inside knowledge. I do see the timing. I do know that Moore campaigned in Alabama for local or state office 6 times, each time a contested election, he also ran two primary campaigns, was a public servant for over 40 years, and has had the New York Times and Washington Post investigating for anything to "destroy" Moore for the past ten years (they claim they were out to get him in their own editorials). It is beyond reason that no one could have uncovered any hint of this behavior until 28 days before his US Senate election.
Especially when you consider that another "accuser," a woman attorney, insists that "everyone knew" (her words) about Roy Moore chasing underage girls. The Moore accusations are overblown theater created by either the Demo's or Mitch McConnell.
I want to get back to reading about Hollywierd icons perversely abusing young actors and actresses. I am really not interested in the questionable claims of overweight middle aged cows.
Sounds like you guys are simply more likely to believe negative claims about people who don't agree with you politically than about people who do. Partisanship has its limits, don't you think? Quick side note: the irony, of course, is that the leader of your movement, Donald Trump, was always a squishy moderate with lots of ultra-liberal views for decades. To say with a straight face that Paul Ryan is a Rino while implying that Donald Trump is a true-blue conservative strains credulity.
With Trump, it is different. He is a showman and has always offered a long line of bullshit. I do recall that the illicit recording included the line, "When you're a star, they let you do anything. . . . Grab them by the pussy." But contrary to the hype, he never actually said he did grab anyone by the pussy.
Do I deny he did that - no, I simply point out that he didn't exactly state he did. Then all the women were collected by Gloria Allred for a group accusation that Trump groped, raped, accosted, or looked at them crosseyed. When two or three of the claims were proven false ( groped on an airplane trip and eyewitness reports they were not even sitting together, and attempted rape in his Trump Tower apartment when he was NOT in New York, plus another I think) a lot of people realized that it was a political smear. Doesn't mean Trump is innocent, just means that other nasty people in D.C do terrible things.
PoolyD, I think even without "Grab them by the Pussy," the distraught Hillary supporters would have found something else. I am confident of that because DONALD TRUMP. That guy puts out more lightening rod remarks in a day than all prior Presidents did in their entire lifetime. The dude is creepy - and I voted for him. Better than the alternative.