Trump is shocked, shocked
It’s like Bernie Madoff accusing someone else of being a lying cheating fraudulent thief:
President Trump, who was dogged by sexual misconduct allegations during his 2016 campaign, took aim at longtime critic Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Thursday night, after Franken was accused of forcibly kissing and groping a woman 11 years ago.
“The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words,” Trump wrote on Twitter, misspelling the apparent reference to the 19th-century novel “Frankenstein.”
Novel? Oh don’t be silly, he has no idea there’s any such novel. He thinks it’s a movie.
Eleven women came forward during Trump’s presidential campaign to accuse him of unwanted touching or kissing over several decades. Trump called the charges “pure fiction” and “fake news” and referred to the women as “horrible, horrible liars.”
Polls showed that a clear majority of voters came to believe that Trump had committed the kind of behavior described by his accusers. But the specific allegations did little to budge an electorate that had become almost tribal in its divisions.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said last month that all the women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment are lying.
As if there were any way she could possibly know that, and as if there were no public fully-visible reason to believe the women.
Now, fess up, Ophelia. You know that only Democrats engage in morally reprehensible behavior. You know that’s because we are immoral libertines, and want to force everyone else to be immoral libertines like us. Trump, when he grabs ’em, it’s okay, because he’s a celebrity and they like it when you do that. When Franken grabs ’em, well, he’s not a celebrity (oh, wait)…well, they don’t like it when he does that.
It’s long been a feature of our politics that Democrats get hit hard for immoral behavior (in some cases, behavior that isn’t actually immoral, but is perceived as such by the fundamentalist base of the opposition, i.e. Republicans). Republicans get defended by their party, and if there is no way to make the allegations go away, they send them to a day of therapy, then everything is better. Clarence Thomas was not an isolated case.
But Democrats are all guilty of everything to begin with, so they need to be pummeled, and hard, and called stupid juvenile names. I’m not defending Franken, mind you, it was wrong, bad, not good, loser, what he did. He deserves negative attention and censure; the problem is, this seems to be a one-sided thing, with Republicans getting elected, appointed, etc, and coming into a situation where they have more opportunities to treat women as the party obviously believes women should be treated (except by Democrats).
ETHICS MADE EASY. By D. Trump.
(All my own work, done all by myself.)
Draft 1. Don’t do as I do; do as I say. (No. Something about that just ain’t right.)
Draft 2. Don’t do as I do; do as my staff in a news conference say I did not do. (Now we’re getting somewhere….)
Draft 3. Don’t do as I do; do as I say I wish I hadn’t been caught out saying I did, and my staff in a news conference said it was fake news, and not to look too hard under that rug. (Lookin’ good. Let’s go with that.)
He probably thinks Frankenstein is the name of the monster.
“He probably thinks Frankenstein is the name of the monster.”
Geez, can we get a spoiler alert?
Ha!
But he wasn’t “dogged”, was he? Allegations were made…. and then more or less completely ignored. His being “dogged” would imply that the allegations were relentlessly pursued by the people who could make them stick. But they weren’t. They were barely a blip on the long-range radar.
He knows he’s gotten away with it and is perversely delighted at another abuser (hopefully) having to face the music when he (most likely) will not. It’s what he lives for.
To be fair, “Frankenstien” rhymes with the current pronunciation of “Weinstein”. It’s easy to get confused.
Wankenstein? Or would that be LCK?