Another person who lives in NC here:
Madison Cawthorn and Mark Robinson are two scary as f*ck people who both won in NC. On the other hand, there is a great D who won again in the state senate named Jeff Jackson who I think would make a great politician on the national stage. |
Isn’t it clear to you why? Men, particularly conservatives, think sexual assault is a joke and there is always something wrong with the woman making the allegation. Haha! PP was clever and hilarious with the Kavanaugh bit above because Cosby and Weinstein were innocent. Oh men, you’re so hilarious. |
People never want to believe accusations against people they like/support. DH and I were talking about this the other day because we're both former Catholics and I went to school with Cardinal McCarrick's niece. One reason JP-II didn't believe the accusations was that he thought McCarrick was a good guy and he was from a country where anti-Church powers would use false accusations against the Church to turn people against it. So someone who thinks false accusations of assault are common (and many conservatives I know do think this) will just assume these women are trying to ruin Cawthorn's (or Kavanaugh's, etc) career. Of course these same people believe 100% that the accusations against Democrats are true. |
To be clear I'm not trying to defend the Pope, just explaining part of his thought process. I think he made horrible mistakes and they shouldn't have rushed through his canonization. |
No he doesn't. |
I think people are too stupid to realize his accident that caused his paralysis was NOT military related. |
Yes, I think it has gotten progressively worse with each passing election, but I think part of it is that the veneer of decency has been peeled away from the GOP. If someone wants to be uneducated and almost wholly without life experience just because they will creep on women and be full of hatred, they’re in. |
That’s because he lies to those people. From the Jezebel article linked upthread: “Cawthorn paints himself as a promising young man with plans to become a Marine until the 2014 car accident that left him partially paralyzed. “He planned on serving his country in the Navy with a nomination to the U.S. Naval Academy,” one of his campaign ads states, until “tragedy struck.” Almost every single news article about Cawthorn mentions that he was nominated to the Naval Academy by his former boss Mark Meadows, now White House Chief of Staff; it’s easy to then assume that he was accepted by the Naval Academy. But it turns out, according to a 2017 deposition Cawthorn gave as part of his unsuccessful lawsuit seeking $30 million from the auto insurance company that had already paid him $3 million, he was actually rejected by the Naval Academy, and was informed of his rejection before his car accident.” |
Wow. |
I bet the accident was drunk driving, right? |
Wow. The poor colonel ![]() |
This guys needs to be arrested for sedition. |
Still happy the Air Force colonel/judge lost to a never-employed, no-education 24-year-old? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. |