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Back in the good ol' days, you could give your secretary a hearty slap on the ass (before firing her for getting too old or putting on a couple of pounds), complain to your colleagues about those uppity n-words that moved in next door, and polish off a fifth of Jack before lunch.
This is my point. The views of Republicans and Democrats are asymmetrical, so the responsibility is going to be asymmetrical.
     
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I don't know what you're talking about, but I have to assume it was something the Clintons did.
No, this is even older - this is something one of the Kennedys did back in the... I want to say seventies? Even earlier? It is an old chestnut that gets brought up every now and then.

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That NYT article is kinda shit.
It is terrible. The writing is poor, it tries to link two unrelated events and is intentionally misleading. Which is a shame, because I would have loved a good article about the topic.
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Feb 22, 2018, 02:40 PM
 
Kinda heavy story about Brendan Fraser.

https://www.gq.com/story/what-ever-h...social_twitter
     
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Interesting.
     
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In one sense, there isn’t anything especially notable about this story when compared to the others, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say as a guy, I can identify more easily with the experiences of guys.
     
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Feb 22, 2018, 08:00 PM
 
I like him and am glad his life is back on track. The story with the horse was cool.

What is perhaps remarkable is that for a guy, the ass-grab experience is more shocking and unusual. If every woman who had her ass grabbed went into a spiral, well, that'd be a lot of spiraling.
     
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I took it as he seems to think he was blacklisted, but rationalized it by blaming himself, which caused the spiral.
     
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Tangentially related: http://www.kmov.com/story/37240190/g...marital-affair


How has this guy not resigned? (Because conservatives don't really care about family values?)
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/new...air/365117002/
A St. Louis grand jury has indicted Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on a felony invasion of privacy charge for allegedly taking a compromising photo of a woman with whom he had an affair in 2015, the city circuit attorney’s office said Thursday.
The indictment states that on March 21, 2015, Greitens photographed a woman identified only by her initials “in a state of full or partial nudity” without her knowledge or consent. The indictment said Greitens “transmitted the image contained in the photograph in a manner that allowed access to that image via a computer.”

The penalty for first-degree invasion of privacy in Missouri is up to four years in prison.

Greitens was taken into custody in St. Louis and released on his own recognizance, said Susan Ryan, a spokeswoman for Gardner.
At least five Republican legislators and several Democrats called for Greitens to step down after he admitted to the affair. He has said he will not resign.
This guy is going to dare them to impeach him.
     
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Feb 23, 2018, 11:33 AM
 






Fun notes:
- This was a grand jury indictment, so not the result of Single Female (liberal!) Lawyer.

- He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, got a PhD in politics, Navy seal Officer, and extensive volunteer work in Rwanda and Cambodia.
     
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Feb 23, 2018, 03:00 PM
 
Yeah his resume is stellar. I believe he's a former Democrat? Though that may be Missouri democrat
     
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Thanks!
     
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My pleasure!
     
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Feb 24, 2018, 03:05 AM
 
So, how exactly was this blackmail supposed to work?

“If you talk about the affair with me I’ll totally release the pictures showing you had an affair!”
     
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Feb 24, 2018, 12:43 PM
 
^^^

The pictures he took didn’t incriminate himself. But they would be embarrassing for her.

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Feb 24, 2018, 03:23 PM
 
I get what you’re saying, but to what extent does the photo embarrass her beyond it being proof she was involved in a sexual encounter she’s admitted to participating in? Her response to the photo can be “I must have stuttered when I said ‘I ****ed the governor’ the first time”.

Presumably the Governor would have released the photo through a cut-out, but it still seems a little wacky to run a “pretend it never happened” gambit by releasing evidence of it happening, even if he’s not in the picture.
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Down. Goes. Schneider?
     
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This was a few days ago, but John K. went down hard.
     
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Apr 3, 2018, 11:25 AM
 
who?
     
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John Kricfalusi?
     
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Is that the ren and stimpy guy?
     
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Apparently so.
     
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Apr 3, 2018, 01:49 PM
 
He is a straight up creep predator.
     
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Apr 3, 2018, 02:31 PM
 
Yeah. Ren & Stimpy.

In hindsight, considering his art, I guess it’s not too hard to believe there’s something wrong with him, but I never caught an actual rumor.

Of the people who have gone down, I probably like his work the most, though his prime was 20-25 years ago.

I like Louis CK a lot, but those rumors I heard, and I started intentionally distancing my fandom from him long before it blew up.
     
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Apr 3, 2018, 02:46 PM
 
Thing is it was pretty open, to people in the office, etc.
     
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Apr 3, 2018, 02:58 PM
 
That’s what took me off guard. I’m usually in the loop with that sort of shit.
     
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Apr 4, 2018, 02:44 PM
 
Anyone who watched Ren & Stimpy should not be surprised.

Bookmark this for when it comes out Justin Roiland is out there too
     
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Apr 4, 2018, 02:59 PM
 
I’m mainly surprised I didn’t hear about it earlier.

Speaking of sexuality in Ren & Stimpy, I’m a little surprised he’s straight.
     
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Apr 4, 2018, 06:58 PM
 
https://www.mediaite.com/online/term...o-keep-sealed/
Attorneys for Andrea Mackris, a former Fox News producer who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against O’Reilly in 2004, argued the settlement she reached with O’Reilly required her to “lie — even in legal proceedings or under oath – if any evidence becomes public, by calling evidence ‘counterfeit’ or ‘forgeries.'”
No wonder it was so expensive.
     
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Apr 4, 2018, 07:58 PM
 
Is it even legal to require someone to lie under oath?!?
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Is it even legal to require someone to lie under oath?!?
That's the argument that the agreement is void in this suit.
     
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Generally the 1st Amendment is taken to mean that compelled speech is illegal. That is what those canaries in privacy statements (where a company says "we have not yet been compelled to give out customer personal information without a warrant", so everyone can see when the statement disappears) come from.
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Some ****ed up shit in here... I won't quote it.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/polit...208375284.html
The woman and Greitens had several sexual encounters over the next few months in 2015, she testified. Some were consensual. Others were not.

On at least three occasions he hit her.

The explosive allegations were among the findings of the bipartisan investigative committee of the Missouri House that has been looking into allegations of wrongdoing against the Republican governor.

The committee – five Republicans and two Democrats – concluded that the woman's testimony is credible.

The committee also interviewed two of the woman’s friends who say she told them a similar story at the time, as well as the woman’s ex-husband.
He said the attacks against him are part of a "political witch hunt."
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I just read SAG banned auditions in hotel rooms and residences.
     
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Apr 27, 2018, 09:11 AM
 
Yup. How many years ago did we start that thread about him?
     
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Apparently, America’s Dad went into a loud, obscenity-filled tirade against the judge, when the verdict was read.
     
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Yup. How many years ago did we start that thread about him?
The last post in the original lounge thread was 2016.
     
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45/47
     
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Heard rumblings about that. NBC sure can pick ‘em.
     
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Interesting how so many of these accusers now work for Fox News. Chess, anyone?
     
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Interesting how so many of these accusers now work for Fox News. Chess, anyone?
I predict this implied accusation will age very poorly.
     
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Apparently, America’s Dad went into a loud, obscenity-filled tirade against the judge, when the verdict was read.
Not the judge. The prosector. Apparently the latter wanted an 80 year old nearly blind man's bail revoked because of his wealth and private plane. Cosby let him know in no uncertain terms that he doesn't have a private plane. And the judge refused to revoke his bail.

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Yes, rich 80 year old nearly blind men aren't capable of fleeing the country.
     
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^^^

It's not that he isn't capable of fleeing. It's that nothing in his behavior has given any indication that he is an actual flight risk. That's why the judge refused to revoke Cosby's bail.

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Isn't he under house arrest?
     
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^^^

Absolutely.

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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar View Post
Isn't he under house arrest?
there's house arrest, then there's house arrest Charlie Sheen style..
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Absolutely.

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Doesn't that mean he's a flight risk?
     
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Isn't he under house arrest?
Does he have to wear an ankle monitor?
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