Al Franken
So, he’s gone, under rather a lot of pressure. He appears to have done bad things he should not have done, though as such accusations go they do not rise to the level of Moore or Trump or Conyers, let alone Weinstein.
I suppose this is a good thing. He did wrong, he is gone.
I’ll never entirely understand my fellow humans’ ethical and moral priorities though. This is apparently a terrible crime that requires him to bugger off immediately, but voting for the Iraq war or the Patriot Act or many other things that are far worse isn’t.
Yeah, he didn’t sexually molest as part of his job, I guess, and Senators who voted for Iraq voted for far more deaths and rapes in the pursuit of their duties or something.
I just don’t know. Franken did some bad stuff.
I just wish we had more red lines, and they included finding supporting aggressive war like Iraq (or Libya) completely unacceptable.
Perhaps we’ll get from “You shouldn’t kiss women who don’t want to be kissed” to “You shouldn’t vote for aggressive wars that will get far more women raped and killed.”
Perhaps.
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