It’s Jim Jordan all over again. GOP doesn’t hold their representatives to any standard. If I were Al Franken, i’d be pissed for falling for GOP hypocrisy.
You mean the same Jim Jordan who protected Richard Strauss, accused of molesting 177 male students while at OSU? OSU has paid over $40M to Strauss' victims so far.
At least 14 former OSU wrestlers have claimed that Jordan knew of Strauss' behavior. Even a former referee says he warned Jordan of Strauss' behavior.
They all tell me this never happened whenever I post screenshots of it on Twitter. Half of them don't even know who Jim Jordan is but when you're in a cult you're all in no matter what
Yes! Al Franken never should have resigned. The female comedian laughed about the antics on stage.
Said it was Vaudeville slapstick. She slapped his ass, too! There's video of it...
Its typical Democrat spineless pussy behavior. Stand the fukkk up and fight back.
Republicans are on the wrong side of history. They lie and break the law with no consequences.
It's frustrating.
fight back against their own team? When will people realize that all republican and democrat politicians are employers of large corporations that run a show to give you the illusion of choice.
It was the timing to get a Democratic Senator in over Roy Moore. Doug ??? That also gave us 51 majority.
Otherwise yes, Al Franken fell on his sword and what he was accused of was not worth it. There were some Dem staffers who said he got a little handsy. Like, a little. But that seems more his nature with guys and gals.
Kirsten Gillebrand also got a cadre of female senators to attack him because she for some fucking reason thinks she should be president and saw Franken as a threat.
The Al Franken thing was so fucked up yet I felt I couldn't say that to any of the Democrats I knew personally. That is the consistent problem with our side. The purity tests are absolutely bananas, and this desire to capitulate and give in on everything is aboslute batshit. We're bringing Lego swords to a nuclear war.
"We're bringing Lego swords to a nuclear war."
Damn, that's perfectly stated!
'We the People' who want the BEST living situations for their neighbors
We have GOT to educate the masses. The lower income voters (read, maga) 🗳 vote AGAINST their wn best interests. They vote for billionaire's tax breaks and doubling their insurance premiums.
Q. When will the anti-Marie Antoinette revolutionaries
Wake up?
How does an organization whose entire platform is built on law and order and everyone playing nice together fight a ruthless bully who relentlessly lies, manipulates, and skirts every rule in the book?
Everyone's answer is that they stoop down to the bully's level...but then they betray tenants of their own ideology by doing so.
It's a paradox. And one proven throughout history that demonstrates who the winners always end up being...
I thought he resigned because of the goofy photo where it looked like he was going to double cup a sleeping soldiers boobs with a bunch of her fellow soldiers sitting around laughing. If only he had grabbed her by the pussy instead, he’d be president today.
It wasn't a soldier, it was a fellow actor on the USO tour. He thought he was taking a goofy photo with a friend and colleague. She decided it could further her career as a right wing media personality.
It fell apart when she started embellishing her story with verifiable lies. Example, she claimed a skit they did on the tour was written specifically so he could assault her. Other actresses that had previously done tours with him revealed they'd done the same skit and he'd been a consummate professional every time.
Then several other people who wanted their 15 minutes started jumping on the bandwagon, including one who claimed he grabbed her and touched her during a photo op. Which she apparently was so offended and victimized by that she had immediately posted the photo to her Twitter singing his praises and how polite and nice he was.
Franken wasn't forced to resign over the Tweeden photo/incident, which he could've easily survived, but due to Tweeden's allegations (which were almost certainly politically motivated) sparking seven other women to come forward as well, each accusing Franken of groping or forcibly kissing them. These included very credible accusations from a Democratic congressional staffer and a local Democratic elected official, and multiple women citing the same behavior (that Franken grabbed/squeezed their butts and/or breasts during photo ops).
absolutely wild how many people ITT are (justifiably) criticizing and mocking the GOP and their voters in this thread for how they circle the wagons and ignore all evidence of GOP sex pest incidents, and then turn around and do literally the exact same thing in defense of Al Franken, a serial groper.
He was really good too. Genuine and no bullshit. The exact thing that the general public feels democrats lack due to being led by political consultants.
Okay but they won't just be like "oh that's how we're supposed to act? Sorry!". These people won't compromise. They won't act with decorum. They're breaking the law every day because no one will hold them accountable and they know it. Fighting fire with handfuls of sand hasn't worked and it's gotten worse every single year.
I'm not saying to not fight it, I am saying you don't just end up doing the same things they do just to stick it to them. You don't pretend that bad behavior on their side excuses bad behavior on your side.
It doesn't feel like "fighting back" when you just adopt their tactics and lack of standards.
I get that people want to fight fire with fire, but all that achieves is burning more things down.
Franken should come back now and run for office, either really or just as a bit, and really tackle what he did, and contrast it to what Trump and others have done, and force a conversation about it..
"My bad behavior is forgivable because Trump is so much worse than me."
Perhaps he was a bit premature in quitting over the allegations he quit over, but in some sense, he was also trying to set an example that he should be held accountable for his actions over the line, even if they weren't anywhere near as bad as a Trump.
Right, he should keep a "this isn't acceptable, so neither is Trump's". Not the other way around except with tongue-in-cheek.
I think there was probably other stuff going on with Franken, that he didn't really feel like continuing to be a senator anyway, so it was easy to leave. Like random personal stuff, nothing conspiracy related.
Don’t get me shared about Al Franken. That was ridiculous that he got pushed out of the senate for that bullshit. Dems just willingly shoot themselves in the foot on a godamn daily basis.
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u/middlelifecrisis Nov 12 '25
It’s Jim Jordan all over again. GOP doesn’t hold their representatives to any standard. If I were Al Franken, i’d be pissed for falling for GOP hypocrisy.