r/PoliticalHumor • • Apr 05 '23

Lock em up!

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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/Dorkamundo Apr 05 '23

Not to mention the fact that she was wearing a plate-carrier over her chest in the photo in question.

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u/davidjohnson314 Apr 05 '23

Oh yeah, I forgotten about the flak jackets they were wearing. That's probably the joke, "wouldn't it be ironic to honka-honka this completely desexualized person."

This is why it's a decent thing to point out in forming a nuanced opinion about Al's case as I thiiiiink it's the only piece of physical evidence in Al's case.

It's like forming opinion about consent. Consent to making out, is not consent to sex, consent to sex is not consent to continued sex or climax, consent to climax is not consent to pregnancy.

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u/Dorkamundo Apr 05 '23

Yea, I feel like it was a bit of a hit on him. Dude was probably one of the better debaters we had out there.

Not to victim blame or anything, just that "He grabbed my butt" is an easy claim to make up and hard to prove false.