Roy Moore is a *fucking child molesting loser*

[Cartmann99]

Has it really only been a week since the first allegations came out about Roy Moore?!? I know I've said this before, but my sense of time is totally screwed up. It feels like last Thursday was at least a month ago! 

[Howl]

I suspect there are still quite a few women who are having a conversation with themselves, and maybe with their husbands, about coming forward.  His behavior (stalking teen girls at the mall) seems obsessive to the point of stalking.  It can't have magically gone away when he got married.  

[onekidanddone]

Another good one.  I love her.

 

[Cartmann99]

*sighs loudly*

 

[GrumpyGran]

17 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

*sighs loudly*

 

That should be interesting disgusting sad. Just kind of wondering where their husbands will be during this.

[Cartmann99]

 

Yes, that flyer is for real. Here's Kayla Moore's Facebook page. 

https://m.facebook.com/kaylamoor/posts/1921805404502102#

I can't take grown women afraid of the word "sexual" seriously. 

 

[RosyDaisy]

I have a cousin who is going to attend this abomination. WTF is she thinking???

[GrumpyGran]

9 hours ago, RosyDaisy said:

I have a cousin who is going to attend this abomination. WTF is she thinking???

I'm pretty sure none of my relatives there will attend that because she and her pedophile husband aren't their kind of Christians. I even doubt any of my family will vote for him. There will probably be a write-in or two and a stay-at-home. I do have one nephew who may vote for Jones.

And @RosyDaisy, if polls are to be believed, you might be getting a Democratic Senator. But still a lot of time left. Hope Doug is squeaky clean.

[VixenToast]

10 hours ago, RosyDaisy said:

I have a cousin who is going to attend this abomination. WTF is she thinking???

I thought the same thing of my cousin, when she brought her 13 year daughter old to a Trump rally last year, after the pussygate scandal. Why the fuck would you...? Anything as long as it's Republican, right? 

[Cartmann99]

54 minutes ago, VixenToast said:

Anything as long as it's Republican, right? 

The Twelfth Commandment clearly states that only Republicans are allowed in heaven. 

[GrumpyGran]

2 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

The Twelfth Commandment clearly states that only Republicans are allowed in heaven. 

What does the eleventh say?

[Cartmann99]

10 minutes ago, GrumpyGran said:

What does the eleventh say?

Thou shall not be a left laner. 

I spent a lot of time in the car as a child, so this is seared into my brain because of my late father.

When you are on the interstate, don't park your butt in the left lane, so that cars going faster than you have to pass you on the right. Make your pass, and then get back over in the right lane, so that you don't impede the flow of traffic, or cause an accident.

 

[LeftCoastLurker]

19 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

Thou shall not be a left laner. 

I spent a lot of time in the car as a child, so this is seared into my brain because of my late father.

When you are on the interstate, don't park your butt in the left lane, so that cars going faster than you have to pass you on the right. Make your pass, and then get back over in the right lane, so that you don't impede the flow of traffic, or cause an accident.

 

Commandment 11.5:

On a two lane road, those who insist on driving slow, do NOT speed up when a passing lane occurs which then doesn't allow those behind you to pass and THEN once back to single lanes SLOWS DOWN AGAIN!!!!

 

[Alisamer]

15 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

Has it really only been a week since the first allegations came out about Roy Moore?!? I know I've said this before, but my sense of time is totally screwed up. It feels like last Thursday was at least a month ago! 

I know right? This year is flying by so, so quickly. I know part of it is that it just happens to seem that way as you get older, but my brother-in-law and I were talking about this last weekend and we think part of the issue is we are used to having only a very few political scandals a year, especially up high (like the presidency...). And this year there's one or two most DAYS, so it seems to be moving faster as well as being difficult to keep up with. 

[Cartmann99]

23 minutes ago, LeftCoastLurker said:

Commandment 11.5:

On a two lane road, those who insist on driving slow, do NOT speed up when a passing lane occurs which then doesn't allow those behind you to pass and THEN once back to single lanes SLOWS DOWN AGAIN!!!!

You are giving me flashbacks to the mountain road we used to take to get to my in-laws. 

After Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, watching the reporters show us what the roads looked like made my stomach churn. My brain knew they weren't going to get run over, but my gut was totally panicked when they would be standing out there in the suicide lane. 

[Cartmann99]

It's going to be a very ugly scene when Kayla Moore's denial stops working for her.

 

[GrumpyGran]

1 hour ago, LeftCoastLurker said:

Commandment 11.5:

On a two lane road, those who insist on driving slow, do NOT speed up when a passing lane occurs which then doesn't allow those behind you to pass and THEN once back to single lanes SLOWS DOWN AGAIN!!!!

 

Commandment 12.6

Verily I say unto thee, when traveling on a four-lane divided highway, in the far right lane thou shall not speed up and travel at the same speed as a passing car, both proceeding ten miles under the posted limit, thereby blocking both lanes of travel. Should neither of you yield, I will cast you both into the fires of Hell.

6 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

It's going to be a very ugly scene when Kayla Moore's denial stops working for her.

 

They watch a lot of movies, don't they?

[RosyDaisy]

RosyDaisy[/mention], if polls are to be believed, you might be getting a Democratic Senator. But still a lot of time left. Hope Doug is squeaky clean.

I hope so. I pray to God and Rufus that Doug Jones wins.

[Cartmann99]

1 hour ago, GrumpyGran said:

They watch a lot of movies, don't they?

Well, you know how it is. If you admit to yourself that your guy is a pedophile, then you don't get to leave your job at the factory and marry Richard Gere.

[Cartmann99]

 

[onekidanddone]

5 hours ago, GrumpyGran said:

What does the eleventh say?

Ye shall blather banal platitudes on Twitter while grifting for dollars and bulling a transgender teenager.

[candygirl200413]

They're really about this whole "I rather have a GOP pedophile than a Democrat" argument among the Alabama GOP.

[VixenToast]

1 hour ago, candygirl200413 said:

They're really about this whole "I rather have a GOP pedophile than a Democrat" argument among the Alabama GOP.

Which is abhorrent and morally repugnant. I am horrified.

[fraurosena]

I'm putting this here because it's connected to the #metoo sexual harassement accusations, and because of the hypocrisy of the R's reaction to them if it concerns a fellow R or one of the despised D's.

A Twitter Account With Two Fake IDs Accused a Democrat of Assault. Then Pro-Trump Sites Ran With It.

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A woman claiming to be from Connecticut made an explosive allegation of sexual assault against Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Friday. Her account quickly made its way through conservative chat forums, where contributors roundly called for the Senator to address the allegations and be held accountable for them.

But it is not entirely clear that the woman making the charge actually exists. In fact, a quick search shows that the account ripped off bio photos of women in Texas and London and misspelled the name of the accuser’s Connecticut hometown. The account was quickly shut down once the accusation went viral on rightwing media, with the user then emerging to claim she’d been hacked. After that, the account was suspended.

And in a statement to The Daily Beast, Blumenthal’s office strongly denied the charge.

It began at 5:56 pm, on Thursday, when the initial tweet was posted. In it, “Linda Flores” said that she had “waited almost 40 years to tell my story” about how she was “an intern at a law office with @SenBlumenthal & was sexually assaulted by richard countless times.”

“Told the story to my husband has been eaten me alive since,” Flores tweeted.

>screenshot of tweet<

The picture accompanying the account was of a cowboy-hat wearing woman posing cheek-to-cheek with her goateed husband. A reverse Google Image search of that photo revealed that it was actually a different Linda Flores—a Linda Flores Olson who served as the former Executive Director of the Houston Hispanic Forum.

When reached by The Daily Beast, a spokesperson for the Houston Hispanic Forum told The Daily Beast that Olson is no longer working for the nonprofit, but said she had nothing to do with the Twitter account.

“She's aware of the tweet. That is a fake account,” the spokesperson told The Daily Beast.

Hours later, the picture on the Linda Flores account had been changed to a picture of another woman who was not, it seems, actually Linda Flores. A reverse Google Image search revealed that woman pictured was actually Sarah Brook, an HR specialist in the U.K. whose Twitter and LinkedIn accounts predated the creation of “Flores’” account by several years.

According to the LinkedIn page, Brook is employed at Genesis Housing Association which did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast. Brook, likewise, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Brook appears to still have a real Twitter account where she identifies herself as a commercial HR director based in London. The picture on the account matches the one on her LinkedIn page.

>screenshot of twitteraccount<

The “Linda Flores” account continued to tweet accusations at Blumenthal, including responding to a video clip of him saying that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore was unfit for office.

“That’s extremely rich senator blumenthal;” the person alleging to be Linda Flores wrote. “If sexual harassment is grounds for removal then you’ll be unemployed shortly stay tuned I have a big surprise-well not really you remember what you did to me & how you tried to silence meThose days are over!”

The “Flores” account had several other questionable features. It was created earlier this week and tweeted only a handful of times. “Flores” also claimed she was from “Chesire, Ct,” which does not exist. It is Cheshire, Connecticut, and there is no Nexis search result for a Linda Flores from Cheshire.

By Friday afternoon, the account had been locked. But shortly thereafter, it was reopened, with Flores tweeting:

"Thank you everyone for the outpouring of support. My account has been on the receiving end of numerous hacks including posted pictures of people unaffiliated with me. Per advice of my legal counsel I am deleting my account more will follow. #metoo"

After the piece was published, Olson tweeted that the account using her picture was fake.

By that point, however, the accusations of sexual assault against Blumenthal found their way around the Internet, illustrating the ease with which such charges can spread, and the degree to which a profoundly important and consequential #MeToo moment can become weaponized for political purposes.

A post titled “NEW ACCUSER AGAINST DEMOCRAT SENIOR SENATOR FROM CONNECTICUT, RICHARD BLUMENTHAL!!” made its way to the front page of Reddit’s r/the_donald, the most active pro-Trump forum on the web, only an hour after its posting. It was appended by a moderator with a “You’re Fired” tag and remained on The_Donald’s front page at press time.

The popular far-right disinformation Twitter account Imperator_Rex3 spread the accusation as well. Imperator_Rex3 was one of the strongest drivers of disinformation against one of Roy Moore’s accusers, pushing a tweet by the now-deleted user Umpire43, who claimed accusers were offered $1,000 by The Washington Post to go public.

Drew Liquerman, who identifies himself on Twitter as the chairman and founder of Scotland’s GOP, tweeted about the false accusation and amplified it. And Guy Benson, the Political Editor of Townhall.com, wondered if Linda Flores would get a “fair hearing.” He later deleted the tweet.

>screenshot of tweet<

Blumenthal has long been a target of Trump and Trump’s allies. The president has attacked him over Twitter, calling him a con artist and a cry baby, for embellishing his service in the Vietnam war.

 

Everyone needs to be vigilant and wary. Not every accusation is real. Bots are out there and attempting to influence people and politics. I hate that this happens, as it could very well take away from the agency of actual victims coming out with their stories. 

[AmazonGrace]

13 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

 

Uh what? Proud? WHy is child molestation even illegal in Alabama if they're proud?