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Kaleva

(40,365 posts) Wed Dec 6, 2017, 04:08 PM Dec 2017

When you worship someone, it's easy to turn a blind eye. [View all]

When just about every female Dem in the Senate suggests Sen. Franken ought to resign, then it's time for him to go. There's little point in discussing it.

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When you worship someone, it's easy to turn a blind eye. [View all] Kaleva Dec 2017 OP

What does worship have to do with it? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2017 #1

Exactly. dalton99a Dec 2017 #3

If Franken resigns tomorrow, a progressive Dem opposed to the tax bill will be in office by Monday brooklynite Dec 2017 #18

That is what will very likely happen Kaleva Dec 2017 #22

I don't think so atreides1 Dec 2017 #32

and when every white person in town says that the black man raped the white woman lapfog_1 Dec 2017 #2

yep nini Dec 2017 #7

Yeah, he was "no angel", y'know? hatrack Dec 2017 #12

Did that just happen?! ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #25

All our heroes are problematic -- which should really make us rethink why we want heroes WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #4

Why not investigate before the hanging? nini Dec 2017 #5

But then there would be a wait to moralize. BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #9

I would like to see Al Franken offer to take a polygraph test under the condition Snotcicles Dec 2017 #6

NO! beaglelover Dec 2017 #8

"Worship"? You have got to be fucking kidding me . . . hatrack Dec 2017 #10

What you say has nothing to do with the allegations. Kaleva Dec 2017 #14

Better than being hopelessly naive. BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #17

It's not naive to know that Franken's time is up. Kaleva Dec 2017 #20

Well at least you feel better. Cheering all the way, I'm sure. BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #26

Welcome to ignore, clown. hatrack Dec 2017 #19

+1 geardaddy Dec 2017 #34

I don't understand why he posts here in the first place. demmiblue Dec 2017 #36

We call allegations by anonymous people flotsam Dec 2017 #43

It is not worship Bettie Dec 2017 #11

Oh, it's you. demmiblue Dec 2017 #13

yup Skittles Dec 2017 #40

Make no mistake. Adrahil Dec 2017 #15

Stabenow, Warren, Feinstein, Duckworth, Hirono and others are right wing? Kaleva Dec 2017 #16

Nope, they are dupes, being played. Adrahil Dec 2017 #21

You are projecting Kaleva Dec 2017 #24

Once it happens... Adrahil Dec 2017 #28

Not when you have people cheering on our defeats BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #30

I'M not ging up! These weak knees are! Adrahil Dec 2017 #31

I was talking about the OP. BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #37

I do not support that. Adrahil Dec 2017 #38

And you aren't??? atreides1 Dec 2017 #35

Next up will be Bill Clinton. Bannon's machine will get more Dems oasis Dec 2017 #23

I'm sure Freepers have found this thread ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #27

Could it be they are the ones turning a blind eye to the shakiness of the Tweeden case, the one... brush Dec 2017 #29

Right, and all the Senators are people that don't represent me are the ones trying to take him away. geardaddy Dec 2017 #33

What a load of bullshit. NRaleighLiberal Dec 2017 #39

Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Roy Moore and Steve Bannon Pathwalker Dec 2017 #41

IF they know something we don't they should come forward...otherwise angstlessk Dec 2017 #42

Worship? I didn't "worship" Charlie Manson but he deserved a trial.... Bengus81 Dec 2017 #44

They did it entirely for political reasons, though. alarimer Dec 2017 #45