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ProudLib72

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7. I thought the same

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Thu Dec 7, 2017, 11:31 AM

Dec 2017

When I saw the phrase "zero tolerance" being used in connection with Franken, I thought, "And how has that worked out in schools?" We've had a lot of moronic decisions made about students based on zero tolerance, more than enough to realize the policy makes zero sense. Yet we are applying it to Congress?! I guess if the rethugs can have their trickle down economics then we can have our zero tolerance. I just wish we had chosen another failed idea that actually served our needs the way the rethugs did.

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The Al Franken flap has produced a good thing. [View all] LAS14 Dec 2017 OP

It should NOT be I believe the women janterry Dec 2017 #1

Exactly SHRED Dec 2017 #4

+1, if we wanted to accept things as the come with no discernment we'd be republicans uponit7771 Dec 2017 #17

It's not about sex, it's about power. zaj Dec 2017 #2

In can we SAS this with the McMartin witch trials nm bagelsforbreakfast Dec 2017 #3

Allegations of sexual misbehavior should be like commenting about bombs on an airplane. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2017 #5

Are you saying the default should be to assume the women are lying? oberliner Dec 2017 #6

Welcome to Full Ignore. eppur_se_muova Dec 2017 #8

If "the default should be to believe the woman" is idiocy - what should the default be? oberliner Dec 2017 #9

It should be to pay careful attention to the facts. All of the facts. LAS14 Dec 2017 #12

It should be to take the charges seriously dsc Dec 2017 #18

As a woman, I'm kind of tired of that. Pacifist Patriot Dec 2017 #14

I thought the same ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #7

Same Senators have decried zero tolerance in other contexts. delisen Dec 2017 #11

Even Manson got a day in court....... Bengus81 Dec 2017 #10

trying to disappear H Clinton and Franken - two delisen Dec 2017 #13

How about we judge people we like the same way we judge people we dislike . DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2017 #15

It's also made my 2020 primary choice really fucking easy BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #16

Victorian/Puritan has nothing to do with it, RandomAccess Dec 2017 #19