All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[mojotastic]

Supressors are already legal Paul.

[mojotastic]

But they actually portray him as building walls to keep those who are different out! Trump himself hadn't been told to talk about a wall yet in 2014.

Then the FBI should hire the guys of the lego movie to investigate Trump.

[InformationGeek]

So Roy Moore may have tried seducing women as young as 14 when he was in his 30's back during the 1970's. Remember, this man once wrote that the state must criminalize homosexuality "to prevent the subversion of children toward this lifestyle."

It was early 1979 and Moore — now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat — was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation, Corfman and her mother say, and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing.

“He said, ‘Oh, you don’t want her to go in there and hear all that. I’ll stay out here with her,’ ” says Corfman’s mother, Nancy Wells, 71. “I thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl.”

Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number, she says. Days later, she says, he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.

I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” she remembers thinking. “Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over.” Corfman says she asked Moore to take her home, and he did.

Two of Corfman’s childhood friends say she told them at the time that she was seeing an older man, and one says Corfman identified the man as Moore. Wells says her daughter told her about the encounter more than a decade later, as Moore was becoming more prominent as a local judge.

Aside from Corfman, three other women interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s, episodes they say they found flattering at the time, but troubling as they got older. None of the women say that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact.

Wendy Miller says she was 14 and working as a Santa’s helper at the Gadsden Mall when Moore first approached her, and 16 when he asked her on dates, which her mother forbade. Debbie Wesson Gibson says she was 17 when Moore spoke to her high school civics class and asked her out on the first of several dates that did not progress beyond kissing. Gloria Thacker Deason says she was an 18-year-old cheerleader when Moore began taking her on dates that included bottles of Mateus Rosé wine. The legal drinking age in Alabama was 19.
Of the four women, the youngest at the time was Corfman, who is the only one who says she had sexual contact with Moore that went beyond kissing. She says they did not have intercourse.

In a written statement, Moore denied the allegations.

“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” Moore, now 70, said.

The campaign said in a subsequent statement that if the allegations were true they would have surfaced during his previous campaigns, adding “this garbage is the very definition of fake news.”

None of the women have donated to or worked for Moore’s Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, or his rival in the Republican primary, Luther Strange, according to campaign reports.

And oh boy, this isn't the end. Surprise, surprise, Moore decided to get ahead of things before this news story dropped and went crying to Breitbart. They posted this article:

[Jack Dracula]

Oh yeah. With the first ever transgender candidate winning in Virginia and Seattle having their first openly gay mayor, some right-wingers are probably crapping their pants.

My thoughts and prayers go out to them in their time of tragedy.

[Kevinroc]

So Roy Moore may have tried seducing women as young as 14 when he was in his 30's back during the 1970's. Remember, this man once wrote that the state must criminalize homosexuality "to prevent the subversion of children toward this lifestyle."




And oh boy, this isn't the end. Surprise, surprise, Moore decided to get ahead of things before this news story dropped and went crying to Breitbart. They posted this article:

Sadly I think this could actually help Moore.

[PaulBullion]

Sadly I think this could actually help Moore.

He is running in the one state where that kind of behavior polls well.

[JCAll]

Oh wow, the chainsaw bayonet UsA today reported actually exist.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljd_hUxCfI

Cool

Gears of War is a strange source of inspiration.

[PaulBullion]

A lot of Republicans are actually turning their backs on Moore. The special election is in little over a month...

[Kevinroc]

A lot of Republicans are actually turning their backs on Moore. The special election is in little over a month...

They "turned their backs" on Trump after the Access Hollywood tape came out where he bragged about sexual assault.

[InformationGeek]

A lot of Republicans are actually turning their backs on Moore. The special election is in little over a month...

They turned their backs in the sense that they will only do that IF the allegations are proven true.

[PaulBullion]

They "turned their backs" on Trump after the Access Hollywood tape came out where he bragged about sexual assault.

I remember them more making excuses, calling it "locker room talk."

[Darkspellmaster]

In other potential "Flip" news, it's starting to look like Illinois' current GOP governor might be facing a primary. While it feels like it will be largely "State Politics" as opposed to "Protest", I wouldn't be all that surprised if Illinois winds up with a Democratic governor next time out.

Trainer's already running sneer ad's on JB Prosper, but not by name. He's already using the old, Mike Madigan is a devil, routine that he likes to trot out during this time.

So far for te running for Repbulicans:

Jeanne Ives, State Representative

William J. Kelly, radio host and perennial candidate

Ray Tranchant, immigration activist

Bruce Rauner, incumbent Governor

Sam McCann, State Senator

Kyle McCarter, State Senator

And for Dems:

Daniel Biss, State Senator

Bob Daiber, Madison County Regional Superintendent

Tio Hardiman, former director of CeaseFire and candidate for Governor in 2014

Chris Kennedy, former Chairman of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and member of the Kennedy

Robert Marshall, physician and perennial candidate

Alex Paterakis, civil engineer and business owner.

J. B. Pritzker, venture capitalist and philanthropist

That's who is running.

[PaulBullion]

John McCain:

says sex allegations against Roy Moore "disqualifying" "He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of.”

[mojotastic]

. I also vaguely remember that he is in favor of legalizing silencers.

I remember you not knowing how "silencers" work and you saying you dont care about if those people become deaf.

[worstblogever]

John McCain:

Mitch McConnell did exactly the same.

Holy f***. If the Democrats end up with Doug Jones winning because Roy Moore tanks for being a pedophile in the late 70s/early 80s... the math is there for them to so much more easily retaking the Senate. They would need Kyrsten Sinema to win in Arizona to take Jeff Flake's seat over Kellie Ward, and Jackie Rosen to win in Nevada and take Dean Heller's seat... and they flip it. That's it. The polling currently shows them very able to do that, provided they hold court (The only seat the GOP have a major shot at flipping in polling is Claire McCaskill's in Missouri, but it's still unknown if Jason Kander tries to primary her, or who the GOP put up to try and take her out). Democrats won't even need Beto O'Rourke to unseat Ted Cruz in Texas any more, and that's neck and neck.

I mean, unless the GOP wants to become the party that looks the other way for a pedophile 2018, after shrugging when they had a sexual predator on a ticket in 2016.