Im afraid im not going to make it.........

[ancianita]

42. Channel that fear toward clarity. Fear means you have something to defend.

The next time you're confronted by any Minnesotan with doubts, remind them of what TygerBright said here recently:

Al Franken did not, in any context, seek to

-- sexually assault a 14 year old girl.
-- induce nine women who didn't know each other to come forward with essentially the same story about preying on women FAR too young for the preyer.
-- brag about grabbing women by their pussies.
-- walk into the dressing room of a teenage beauty contest and ogle girls and very young women.
-- speak about his own daughter in the most disgusting ways not just once, but on multiple occasions, in multiple venues, and in highly public settings.
-- ignore the allegations of more than a dozen women who did not know each other yet made very similar allegations of groping, hands up skirts, vagina touching, and more.
-- refute what is increasingly being shown to be spurious charges at best, if not outright lies.
-- even breathe a HINT of a negative statement against his questionable accuser.
-- deflect the focus on him by publicly dissing others accused of similar actions

On the other hand, unlike Republican sexual predators, he did in the present context . . .

-- quickly acknowledge the accusations, even as the accuser has shown herself to have a political and personal agenda well beyond the allegations made.
--offer a public apology.
--deliver a hand written personal apology.
-- call for the Senate to do an ethics probe into the incident.
-- quietly withdraw from the controversy and allow the accuser to speak unrefuted.

Remember the contextual facts behind these women's claims. Stand with the those who admit human mistakes in understandable past contexts, rather than those who deny/deflect their actual factual sexual acts in any past context.

Anger is a genetic gift that helps us defend what's beautiful, good and true. Anger helps the good survive. Don't be afraid. You're going to be okay.