StrangeSox

He retracted his earlier statement to the AP and has issued a longer one

QUOTE (Tony @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 04:38 PM) Charlie Rose, come on down, you're the next contestant on Dirty Old Man! CBS fired him this morning

Not worth it's own thread, but Robert Mugabe, who ruled over Zimbabwe for 37 years, resigned after a coup and threats of impeachment.

Yeah, this seems like something that can be 100% verified fairly quickly.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 21, 2017 -> 08:43 AM) John Conyers, the ranking member on the House Judiciary committee, apparently has a long history of harassment including settlements. He's flatly denying ever having settled a sexual harassment claim. The source of the documents supplied to Buzzfeed was right-wing social media guy Mike Cernovich, who originally rose to prominence promoting "Pizzagate" nonsense, so I guess it's wait-and-see if the claims are legitimate. e: but also according to Buzzfeed, sometimes the members aren't notified when there's a settlement (paid out of taxpayer funds)? The whole system in Congress seems extremely bad.

AS THE F.B.I. CLOSES IN, TRUMP’S LAWYERS ARE SCRAMBLING TO KEEP HIM CALM The White House is projecting optimism that the investigation will soon conclude, but experts think it’s “just getting started.”

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 05:10 PM) Not sure if this is the best place for it, but DOJ has sued to stop ATT/Time Warner merger. Makan Delrahim, head of DOJ antitrust division, was a lobbyist for Comcast. Comcast previously acquired NBC Universal in a similar deal. Will be interesting to see why it was okay then, but bad now. They've also simultaneously relaxed television station ownership rules so that the right-wing Sinclair media group can buy Tribune Co. I wonder if we'll see Trump's own tweets used against him in court rulings again.

John Conyers, the ranking member on the House Judiciary committee, apparently has a long history of harassment including settlements.

Net neutrality will probably be dead by the end of the year: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11...or-december-14/

Doomsday on Ice Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by the end of this century.

Don Jr met with a Kremlin ally in May 2016 https://t.co/BJMxVDQQSz

Trump to revoke protected status from tens of thousands of Haitians, giving them 18 months to relocate their lives.

RIP fake Obama-IRS scandal https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/201...scandal-at-last

His Secretary of State thinks he's a "f***ing moron" and his National Security Advisor mocks his intelligence as that of a "kindergartener" in closed-door meetings.

White House to declare NK a state sponsor of terrorism They were added to the list originally in the 80's and removed in 2008 in an attempt to restart nuclear talks.

Trump voter panelist: "If Jesus Christ gets down off the cross and told me Trump is with Russia, I would tell him, 'Hold on a second. I need to check with the President if it's true.'"

My thought is that sexual harassment/assault is bad when it happens to men as well.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 10:50 AM) I love that we are taking a time machine back to the 90's to distract from the actual president's legal issues. It is the Daily Mail, but the article claims to have contacted Clinton's lawyers and verified that they know there are lawsuits coming. Bill's long been a scumbag. I wouldn't exactly be shocked about new allegations.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 10:44 AM) I agree with this, but Lavar Ball was ridiculous (not that it should surprise anyone). For sure, but he's just some bozo with a couple of sons who are good at basketball. The other guy is the President of the United States of America.

The first thing they did in their press conference after getting home was to thank Trump. That the President is begging for this sort of validation is still beyond pathetic. The rest of the world knows how petty and easily influenced he is if you just puff up his ego a bit.

NYT WH Correspondent Glenn Thrush has been suspended pending investigation of multiple allegations against him Exclusive: NYT White House correspondent Glenn Thrush’s history of bad judgment around young women journalists

There is good reason to be concerned about this becoming politically weaponized with made-up allegations (we saw that already with bs twitter claim against Blumenthal), but so far these stories all appear to be well-reported and well-sourced including people that were told when the alleged sexual misconduct happened. I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be extremely skeptical of some 'reporting' by Breitbart, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. In the mean time, these allegations seeing the light of day and people facing at least some sort of consequences for it is good. It'd be nice to have a functional justice system where we didn't have to rely on media and popular pressure for something to happen, but this is better than nothing.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 09:15 AM) Let's prepare for a never-ending parade of dips*** politicians being accused of touching women's asses now. Let's prepare for their gross asses getting tossed out of power instead of it being swept under the rug.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 09:15 AM) No, this is so cynical. There is an opportunity here to actually change things. Your comment is so similar to the "So ALL cops are bad!? we get it" comments. If the people that take advantage of their power, for one, are held accountable for this behavior maybe it stops. But now that there are so many stories where people are putting their name on the line as accusers we hit a point where we just say "we get it, all men are bad, blah blah get over it". No, let the offenders face real consequences. Nothing was truly being solved by just paying out victims silently. Yeah, the story just went from, "it was one woman from before he was a Senator. She accepted his apology and he called for an ethics investigation; let's see where this goes" to "at least two women including one while he was actually in office." Even beyond the sexual allegations and Franken himself, this has national political implications for major policies given how tenuous everything is in the Senate right now. Of course this is going to be a national story.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 09:11 AM) Does it really need to be a national news story? Really? We all just figured out that men, particularly those with influence, are inherently dirtbags? It's a story about a well-known US Senator who just faced an allegation last week. That seems worthy of being a national story.