(October 1, 2018 at 2:15 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The political devisiveness over this issue is honestly super annoying. The side people take seem to all come down, at least in a lot of cases, to whether they are Republican or Democrat.
Can't we have some Republicans who believe she is telling the truth? Can't we have some Democrats who believe it is a possibility he is innocent due to honest mistaken identity? If the parties were switched, and this guy was a Democrat, and his accuser a Republican woman, would all the Democrats still believe he is guilty? Would all the Republicans still believe her account may not be 100% accurate?
Multiple women came forward accusing Bill Clinton of rape/sexual assault. And his wife, the most recent Democratic presidential candidate whom half of America voted for, defended her husband and silenced the women. Do the Democrats believe those women? Do the Republicans only believe them because they accused a Democrat?
And then we have Divinity on here blatantly saying "All Republicans are evil. All of them." ... and then getting a plethora of kudos for it. Seriously? Are we Democrat/Republican first, and human later?
I'm not a registered Republican, but I have voted for 2 Republicans in the past - McCain and Romney. I have yet to vote for a Democrat. Am I evil? Is my family evil for voting Republican? Are there not more dimensions to a person besides their political affiliation? No side wants to consider that the other side may just have a different way of looking at something, which doesn't automatically make them evil people. And no side wants to consider that maybe they themselves have their own moments of hypocrisy and bias.
This is beyond ridiculous. We should just have a civil war already and get it over with.
What should be annoying is that only one party is stuck in the past.
Nobody is suggesting going back to the days of prohibition in all this. But I lived in that era myself, and Crappynuts is lying his ass off.
Back then it WAS about getting hammered and bagging the cheerleader or prom queen. CONSENT is what he is accused of not asking for. And I don't give a fuck what decade you live in, you still need CONSENT.
Having been falsely accused of throwing a rock at a car in middle school, and a having an entire student body and staff assume my guilt because of what a driver said, and having them hate me because I ruined a day of reward for the entire private school, because the principle took us all into the cafeteria and demanded someone confess, MEANING ME, yes I know what it is like to be falsely accused.
BUT, that is NOT what we are talking about long term. It isn't a matter of assuming guilt or valuing mob rule. LONG TERM it still remains that women are treated as less, and are on average far less likely to be believed than a man.
Look alone, at how Trump has talked about women over the decades? Multiple divorces, two known confirmed affairs but ON TOP OF THAT, has far more accusers of assault than Colonel Jessup Kegmiester.
Anyone ignoring Ford, or claiming that she had something happen but a case of mistaken identity, IS FULL OF FUCKING SHIT. Ford has witnesses that in a court of law are what build a pattern called "prior bad acts" as to which she herself does not have to be witness to.
That fucker couldn't tell a simple truth that everyone who went to high school or college in the Animal House, Porky's, Revenge Of The Nerds', MTV spring break, era. I could give one fuck less if he got drunk off his ass. I do give a fuck that that Ford is "believed" with an "asterisk".
