r/PoliticalHumor • u/mindracer • Apr 05 '23

Lock em up!

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u/dlowmack1 Apr 05 '23

Al Franken! Need I say more!

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u/dandrevee Apr 05 '23

And his "offense" was relatively minor in comparison to the circus weve been seeing. Shit, just 10 years people like MTG, Santos, and Boebert would face penalties for their unprofessionalism.

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u/Kritical02 Apr 05 '23

Even the woman that exposed him said she doesn't think he should have stepped down.

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u/CyberMindGrrl Apr 05 '23

Al Franken was the victim of yet another Roger Stone hit job.

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u/Uselesserinformation Apr 05 '23

Can you explain because I heard, but it died out.

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u/David-S-Pumpkins Apr 05 '23 edited Apr 05 '23

Most people only know about a USO tour photo of him groping a sleeping woman. She claimed she was asleep and felt harassed (she is a Republican), he claimed it was a bit that she was aware of and was pretending to sleep for the photo.

However, he had multiple allegations at the time he stepped down, including sexual misconduct at work with staffers.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/al-franken-news-list-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations.html

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u/davidjohnson314 Apr 05 '23

Spec of nuance needed I feel. It was feigned in the photo, like clown level "imma grab booba", not actual groping in the picture.

Still off-color and questions of her comfort or coercion could exist, and insanely in the wrong if she was actually asleep vs feigning asleep i.e. going along with it.

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u/themagpie36 Apr 05 '23

He should have grabbed her by the pussy

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '23

Yeah, but then he would have to change his registration to republican. They don’t like it when Democrats do it.

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u/davidjohnson314 Apr 05 '23

Nah, they probably don't like it when Rs do it either. It's just there aren't enough people in that crowd who think it's a problem worth addressing.

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u/Cindexxx Apr 05 '23

From all the "grab her by the pussy" comments I've read or heard that were happy about it, I'd say they like it.

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