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[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Would you call a rapist "deviant"?

Are you looking to defend rapists? Or deviants? Or just Republicans in general? I can't keep it straight.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Would you call a rapist "deviant"?

He would if it was a Republican rapist.

eta: stp

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
He would if it was a Republican rapist.

eta: stp

I'm sure the guy just wasn't good at math and thought it was supposed to be half MINUS 7 years.

Oh, wait.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The mind of a republican.

I am not registered Republican and have historically split my vote. In fact, I've voted for many Democrats.

Registered Libertarian, mostly out of disgust.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Registered Libertarian, mostly out of disgust.

I'm sure all will be right in the world once your party gets us back on the gold standard. And gets rid of all those jack-booted thugs at Treasury.

[SlaveNoMore]

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
How's your mayor doing these days? Reelected, right?

Gavin? He was caught this year, separately, in (i) sex, (ii) drugs and (iii) nepotism scandals.

And no one even bothered to run against him. Too busy protesting outside Pelosi's house, i guess.

To quote his own political strategist - "However many votes we get, we know the Bay Guardian will say it wasn't enough."

But it does lead to a second question, best expressed by local political consultant Mark Mosher, who asks, "What kind of a mandate do you have if you beat a guy named Chicken?"

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Gavin? He was caught this year, separately, in (i) sex, (ii) drugs and (iii) nepotism scandals.

How very republican of him.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I agree with that, but in the situations I'm familiar with no one confuses foster kids for natural children, or even step-kids. What the guy did was totally wrong, no question, but I don't think it was "deviant."

Why do you bother to dispute about things like this?

S_A_M

P.S. You are clearly wrong, although your argument is so subjective that I cannot disagree.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Gavin? He was caught this year, separately, in (i) sex, (ii) drugs and (iii) nepotism scandals.

And no one even bothered to run against him. Too busy protesting outside Pelosi's house, i guess.

To quote his own political strategist - "However many votes we get, we know the Bay Guardian will say it wasn't enough."

Yeh, yeh, yeh. He has a drinking problem and while he was splitting up with his wife slept with an attractive adult woman who worked for him and knew exactly what she was doing, but he didn't manage to violate any laws or even policies in the process. That's exactly like molesting teens under your care and your daughter's friends.

Exactly. The. Same. Thing.


(Hint - go back to Gerry Studds - the page may be taking down social security by now, but at least the teen page thing has some degree of comparability).

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
JFC. You never seemed stupid before.

never? am i on ignore ?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Gavin? He was caught this year, separately, in (i) sex, (ii) drugs and (iii) nepotism scandals.

I find his platform intriguing and wish to subscribe to his newsletter. (Hi Burger!)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
I'm sure all will be right in the world once your party gets us back on the gold standard. And gets rid of all those jack-booted thugs at Treasury.

It's like the GOP's nod to fundamentalists. The attraction for the Libertarian base is that the candidate be, at least to some small degree, crazy. And you can't lose your base.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
We can agree to disagree. They're distinguishable, but not so distinguishable to make it not a parent-child type of relationship. And he was deceiving them; under the circumstances presented, the girls were not consenting to sexual play. It's one thing for me to play gynecological patient with the noir boys, and another for me to undergo what I really think is a medical-type exam, but is not. That's at a minimum predatory, and maybe sexual assault, and to me predation and sexual assault are deviant. If he just fantasized about it, it might be different.

None of this would happen if we had cheap universal healthcare for these girls. That's the real tragedy.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
"What kind of a mandate do you have if you beat a guy named Chicken?"

A mandate is the only kind of scandal Gavin hasn't had, but chances are that's a matter of time.

[LessinSF]

The first two panels were worth it: