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Re: Roy Moore elected at republican primary

#21  Postby kiore » Nov 10, 2017 2:35 am

Where are his Russians? So far he is only a sexual predator, homophobic, racist. NB Religious nutcase is a given.
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Re: Roy Moore elected at republican primary

#22  Postby Stein » Nov 10, 2017 11:57 pm

Welcome to Trump's own United States made great again. Actually, Roy Moore is even more qualified now than before. Why? Well, in the newly great United States, those who squash the underdog, as Moore may have done by possibly hounding a 14-year-old, effectively vindicate yet more the prerogatives of the alpha male. The alpha male is where it's at, baby, and if Moore really did go after that girl, then the newly great U.S. is only more ready and willing than ever today to reward such conduct by giving public office to the MAN who reminds everyone that he is top dog and is ready to celebrate that by going after whoever is vulnerable. Yeah! Remember: victims are only losers. They don't count. The more we make life hell for them, the more glorious that is, because that celebrates the alpha male ethos that the U.S. has now become. Come celebrate this new Trump world with me, where the only guys who are worth a damn are those on top, and to hell with everyone else. Yeah! Right? RIGHT?

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Re: Roy Moore elected at republican primary

#23  Postby Seabass » Nov 12, 2017 4:54 am

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#24  Postby aban57 » Nov 12, 2017 10:09 am

I'd like to talk to these people he mentions on that video, and ask them if they would accept a 32 y/o guy kissing their own 14 y/o kid. And then show their hypocrisy to the world.
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#25  Postby NuclMan » Nov 12, 2017 5:49 pm

aban57 wrote:I'd like to talk to these people he mentions on that video, and ask them if they would accept a 32 y/o guy kissing their own 14 y/o kid. And then show their hypocrisy to the world.


If the alternative meant supporting a democrat, I think they would be consistent.
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Re: Roy Moore elected at republican primary

#26  Postby Seabass » Nov 12, 2017 9:39 pm

Evangelicals are fun.

Nearly 40 percent of Alabama evangelicals said in a new poll that they are more likely to vote for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore following allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

A JMC analytics poll found that 37 percent of evangelicals surveyed said the allegations make them more likely to vote for the GOP Senate candidate in the upcoming election.

Poll: 37 percent of Alabama evangelicals more likely to vote for Moore after allegations
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#27  Postby Seabass » Nov 12, 2017 10:41 pm

The latest poll, conducted by JMC Analytics, found that Moore's opponent, Doug Jones, has a four-point lead — 46 percent of Alabamans indicated they would vote for Jones, while 42 percent said they would elect Moore.
New Alabama poll shows Democrat Doug Jones in lead over Roy Moore
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#28  Postby The_Piper » Nov 13, 2017 6:21 pm

McConnell is saying Moore should step down.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/mitch-mcconnell-roy-moore/index.html
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#29  Postby Seabass » Nov 13, 2017 9:05 pm

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#30  Postby Seabass » Nov 13, 2017 9:44 pm

50 pastors sign letter of support for Roy Moore
In their letter, the pastors said Moore was an "immovable rock in the culture wars,"
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#31  Postby Macdoc » Nov 13, 2017 11:14 pm

The guy I toast now I think .....this smoking gun

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#32  Postby CdesignProponentsist » Nov 13, 2017 11:34 pm

aban57 wrote:I'd like to talk to these people he mentions on that video, and ask them if they would accept a 32 y/o guy kissing their own 14 y/o kid. And then show their hypocrisy to the world.


More accurately you should ask if they would accept their 14 y/o daughter's hand or face being forced onto a 32 y/o's bulging tighty whities while she struggles to get away. Since this is what they are really saying is okay.
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#33  Postby Seabass » Nov 14, 2017 12:18 am

Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore’s Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall
This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people—including a major political figure in the state—who told me that they had heard, over the years, that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls. Some say that they heard this at the time, others in the years since. These people include five members of the local legal community, two cops who worked in the town, several people who hung out at the mall in the early eighties, and a number of former mall employees. (A request for comment from the Moore campaign was not answered.) Several of them asked that I leave their names out of this piece. The stories that they say they’ve heard for years have been swirling online in the days since the Post published its report. “Sources tell me Moore was actually banned from the Gadsden Mall and the YMCA for his inappropriate behavior of soliciting sex from young girls,” the independent Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson wrote on his Web site on Sunday. (Wilson declined to divulge his sources.) Teresa Jones, a deputy district attorney for Etowah County in the early eighties, told CNN last week that “it was common knowledge that Roy dated high-school girls.” Jones told me that she couldn’t confirm the alleged mall banning, but said, “It’s a rumor I’ve heard for years.”
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#34  Postby Shrunk » Nov 14, 2017 12:46 am

Macdoc wrote:The guy I toast now I think .....this smoking gun

http://digg.com/2017/beverly-young


Appalling story, but I'm not sure what this changes.
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#35  Postby proudfootz » Nov 14, 2017 12:50 am

CdesignProponentsist wrote:
aban57 wrote:I'd like to talk to these people he mentions on that video, and ask them if they would accept a 32 y/o guy kissing their own 14 y/o kid. And then show their hypocrisy to the world.


More accurately you should ask if they would accept their 14 y/o daughter's hand or face being forced onto a 32 y/o's bulging tighty whities while she struggles to get away. Since this is what they are really saying is okay.


This would make an awesome reality game show! :thumbup:
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#36  Postby Shrunk » Nov 14, 2017 12:54 am

CdesignProponentsist wrote:
aban57 wrote:I'd like to talk to these people he mentions on that video, and ask them if they would accept a 32 y/o guy kissing their own 14 y/o kid. And then show their hypocrisy to the world.


More accurately you should ask if they would accept their 14 y/o daughter's hand or face being forced onto a 32 y/o's bulging tighty whities while she struggles to get away. Since this is what they are really saying is okay.


I think most of his (shockingly large number of) supporters would say is that this never happened and the women are lying.
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#37  Postby The_Piper » Nov 14, 2017 1:52 am

Seabass wrote:Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore’s Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall
This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people—including a major political figure in the state—who told me that they had heard, over the years, that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls. Some say that they heard this at the time, others in the years since. These people include five members of the local legal community, two cops who worked in the town, several people who hung out at the mall in the early eighties, and a number of former mall employees. (A request for comment from the Moore campaign was not answered.) Several of them asked that I leave their names out of this piece. The stories that they say they’ve heard for years have been swirling online in the days since the Post published its report. “Sources tell me Moore was actually banned from the Gadsden Mall and the YMCA for his inappropriate behavior of soliciting sex from young girls,” the independent Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson wrote on his Web site on Sunday. (Wilson declined to divulge his sources.) Teresa Jones, a deputy district attorney for Etowah County in the early eighties, told CNN last week that “it was common knowledge that Roy dated high-school girls.” Jones told me that she couldn’t confirm the alleged mall banning, but said, “It’s a rumor I’ve heard for years.”

The YMCA?! All in broad daylight while he was ADA, allegedly. :doh:
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Re: Roy Moore elected at republican primary

#38  Postby Seabass » Nov 14, 2017 3:36 am

Roy Moore's alleged pursuit of a young girl is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical circles
We need to talk about the segment of American culture that probably doesn't think the allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore are particularly damning, the segment that will blanch at only two accusations in the Washington Post expose: He pursued a 14-year-old-girl without first getting her parents' permission, and he initiated sexual contact outside of marriage. That segment is evangelicalism. In that world, which Moore travels in and I grew up in, 14-year-old girls courting adult men isn't uncommon.

I use the phrase "14-year-old girls courting adult men," rather than "adult men courting 14-year-old girls," for a reason: Evangelicals routinely frame these relationships in those terms. That's how I was introduced to these relationships as a home-schooled teenager in the 1990s, and it's the language that my friends and I would use to discuss girls we knew who were in parent-sanctioned relationships with older men.

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#39  Postby Macdoc » Nov 14, 2017 4:31 am

Senate Republicans ask Moore to withdraw as new accuser steps forward
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led a chorus of establishment Republicans on Monday urging Roy Moore, the party’s Senate candidate in Alabama, to quit the race as a fifth woman came forward with allegations Moore had sexual contact with teenage girls decades ago.


Beverly Young Nelson said Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16 and he was a prosecuting attorney in his 30s. At a New York news conference, the tearful Nelson said Moore groped her, tried to pull her shirt off and shove her head in his lap, then warned that “no one will believe you” if she told anyone.


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#40  Postby Seabass » Nov 14, 2017 5:59 am

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