A lot of people think that living alone and unloved while eating microwave ravioli in friont of the TV would leave you with ample free time, but they’d be wrong.
I don’t get the point here. Yeah, fuck Bill Clinton, too. It’s not relevant right now, but, yeah, fuck him and his horndog ways. He’s every bit a jagoff, if not moreso.
I don’t see how that makes any difference in regards to the current conversation re: Kavanaugh and what he did. Fuck that guy, too. I’m glad I’m raising my daughters now, rather than in the period where this sort of shit was just unmarked upon and par for the course. Fuck your rosy colored view of the past.
Gahhh! So little time, so much dumbassery!!!
I don’t think it does! I’m not saying Clinton’s wrongs give anyone else the “right” to commit some other wrong, what I’m saying is that the outrage over Kavanaugh seems phony and manufactured given the same people’s benign reaction to Clinton’s behavior with and toward women.
Either that, or the outrage is merely selective, being tamped down to virtually nothing when Democrats treat women badly and amped up to the skies when a Republican is the miscreant…or even alleged miscreant.
Either way, the outrage loses impact when its level is so obviously partisan.
Yawn. Call me whatever you want, Starving “for victims” Artist. You’re nothing more than a miserable old fuck who will live out the rest of his days lamenting that we don’t live in a time where sexual abuse is hushed up anymore, and women just smiled politely and kept their mouths shut. Why you lament that, well, let’s just say I have my suspicions, **Starving “for chances to discuss child rape” Artist. ** And I’m certainly not going to take part in your pathetic attempt to set up a gotcha post later on. You’re a pathetic piece of rotting garbage and I would spit on your grave if ever given the opportunity.
People have different values and opinions. Getting upset about them not sharing yours is not going to make them change them, however abhorrent they are. I would find it much more useful to just say “I disagree and find that appalling” and leave it at that than try to convince someone that they should have the same opinion and values as you.
:dubious: Did you not happen to notice what happened to Al Franken? Anthony Weiner? Eric Schneiderman? All successful Democratic politicians who got vigorously kicked to the curb by liberals recently as a result of sexual-abuse scandals about them.
Going back nearly a quarter-century to focus on controversies about the Clinton scandals only reveals the weakness of your position when it comes to addressing how conservatives/Republicans and liberals/Democrats deal with sexual misconduct nowadays.
OH, FFS! I’ll bite.
SA:
Bill Clinton was an ass to cheat on his wife. On the husband front, he fails. And whether you judge a person by one sexual mishap (seems like you would usually forgive any kind of Bill Clinton), he was CiC for 8 years. He had a limit. He was not grilled by Congress and media and appointed to decide the highest court decisions for as long as he wants.
This is a bit different when you’re appointing someone who will undoubtedly be judging on cases and law on women’s rights and equal rights. His past matters for this appointment.
What? Are you stupid? I was thourougly outraged at the time. Disappointed and embarassed. If things had of been like they should’ve been, he would have been caught up earlier. But guess who made the rules? Old white guys who felt it was their right to abuse and denigrate woman and people of color. Your days are numbered. Change or get left behind.
Well, I’m sorry about this, puly, because I like you. But why aren’t you stating you’re glad your daughters aren’t growing up in the 90s when shit like Bill Clinton did was par for the course.
See? More partisanship! You say fuck Bill Clinton but almost no one from the left did at the time, and no one here so outraged over Kavanaugh (or me, for that matter) uttered so much as a peep about Clinton, either at the time or now. I’ve never been able to detect more than a tiny bit of lip service paid to the wrongful way Clinton behaved toward women, yet people are going utterly ballistic over Kavanaugh, who, even if guilty as charged, is a rank amateur compared to Bill Clinton.
The hypocrisy/double-standard is breathtaking.
You do realize that Clinton hasn’t been President for 18 years, right? Attitudes about this behavior have changed since then. Just ask Al Franken.
At some point, surely this act passes way beyond the boundaries of “being a jerk.” Can’t we ban this shithead already? Please, pretty please?
Then you really weren’t paying attention back in the '90s. The reason that people don’t discuss Bill Clinton’s behavior towards women much nowadays is that, as Moriarty pointed out, it’s been nearly two decades since Clinton held office.
If Bill Clinton were to be, say, nominated for a Supreme Court vacancy, you can rest assured that his past history would be raked over the coals to an extent that would make the scrutiny of Kavanaugh look like a rubber-stamp.
You seem to be referring to Clinton’s episode with Monica Lewinsky. I’ve been talking about his out-and-out rape of Juanita Broaddrick, who, after he finished, coldly advised her to put some ice on the bruised lip his kisses gave her. (Well, that, and tangentially his treatment of all the other women who came forward to detail his behavior toward them. You may recall the term “Bimbo eruptions,” which was coined to describe the incidents when women would come forward to complain about how he’d treated them.)
Oh, you’re just out of popcorn. 
Wait until page 43 or 44 of this thread. That’ll happen around noon tomorrow.
Please point to the posts on this board with regard to Franken that come even remotely close to the abuse currently being hurled toward Brett Kavanaugh.
“Or is all this pro-feminist outrage merely politics?” 
:dubious:
Oh, I get it: you didn’t really care that Bill Clinton may or may not have raped a woman; you were just using it for political gain. So now it’s inconceivable to you that anyone could really care about rape as an issue or event, so the other side must be doing the same thing your side did; right?
:rolleyes:
I note with hilarity that you on the one hand are arguing that women should “get over” rape while trying to use something that happened over 20 years ago to justify your own dismally anti-social words and actions.
You’re even worse at the “liberal hypocrisy wolfcry game” than Bricker is.
So much for the board wanting to hear dissenting opinions, huh?
You guys just really can’t brook spirited opposition, can you?
I don’t understand. I am glad they are not growing up then (and I was a Bush supporter/Republican back then, anyway). I though that was implicit in my statement. I am glad they are growing up now. I’d probably be even happier if they were growing up twenty years from now. Every year away from the past is better for them.
It would be nice to have a literal ostracism here— say, conducted by a monthly poll— for people who haven’t formally broken any rules but nevertheless are worthless fucks the board would be far better without. I mean, does anyone honestly think that Starving Artist has contributed anything in his tenure here (or on earth, for that matter)? He’s too stupid and humorless even to be an effective troll. There’s literally no reason to keep him here.
As I’ve already said, the reason I’m bringing up Clinton is to highlight the hypocrisy and double-standard that comes into play regarding the outrage should the miscreant be Democrat vs. Republican.
And the reason I’m doing that is because it makes the anti-Kavanaugh outrage seem phony…or at the very least, manufactured.