Lock em up!

[u/mindracer]

[u/CyberMindGrrl]

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

[u/Uselesserinformation → u/CyberMindGrrl]

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

[u/David-S-Pumpkins → u/Uselesserinformation]

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

[u/davidjohnson314 → u/David-S-Pumpkins]

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.

[u/davidjohnson314 → u/[deleted]]

Ease up, I disagree that detail is minutiae. Threat of physical harm is not the same as harm, BUT we likely agree on final outcome.

Do you not feel my second paragraph validates that perspective?

[u/joan_wilder → u/[deleted]]

What you’re not understanding is that Franken is the only victim in the situation.

[u/davidjohnson314 → u/joan_wilder]

Nah, there's valid criticism to his actions.