• Hayduke@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    What a dickhead. May justice be applied where necessary.

    Perhaps one of the most important takeaways here is that at no point did the democratic party promote unyielding defense or support for Swalwell. Flawed as they may be, they don’t have the level of “party over people” that republicans demonstrate when something similar happens. Remind your conservative acquaintances of that.

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      17 hours ago

      Apparently this was a known thing around Washington and they just cut him loose when they needed to.

      Both parties cover this shit up.

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        7 hours ago

        Ah yes, handled exactly the same way as trump. No differences to be seen whatsoever.

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          6 hours ago

          Did I say that? No. I said both parties cover up sexual assault. The Democrats buried Epstein until it would no longer inconvenience the Clintons, don’t fool yourself.

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah but this eating our own while Republicans stay in office only benefits R’s.

      I know Gonzales “retired”, but that is by and large the exception AND only happened after Dems experienced an equal loss of one, leaving the House math unchanged. We need to stop taking the high ground while the rules are unequally applied.

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    22 hours ago

    The accuser, appearing on CNN in shadow, told Pamela Brown:

    “I remember the next day, I can see flashes of that evening, of him on top of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me. It was a lot more aggressive — it was aggressive.

    “Did you say no?” Brown asked her.

    I’m sorry, but why does this even need to be asked? When it comes to consent, anything less than an enthusiastic “yes” is auto-fucking-matically a “no”.

    Victim-blaming scumbag.

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    17 hours ago

    can’t believe all the outlets say ‘misconduct’ too. hate to link CNN but the interview is so clearly rape. sounds like roofies. disgusting, wish media would use more descriptive language too.

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    21 hours ago

    Democrats are stupid. They could have just pretended it didn’t happen and then have the DOJ cover it up and blame brown people and Joe Biden for their problems.