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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSwalwell should drop out of the CA Gov race, but not resign from the House
Rs will scream for his resignation. His response should be I stand accused, not convicted. The convicted rapist tRump should be the one resigning.
I know
FarPoint
(14,836 posts)Roger Stones finger prints are all over this faux scandal...
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EdmondDantes_
(1,914 posts)What year are we in? That's an absurd claim.
What kind of person takes advantage of someone who is too out of it to consent?
Contradictory behavior is common in women under stress. I know the headspace. Where when you are around enough misbehavior or feel trapped in a hostage situation, you feel caught between systems that do not give a shit and equally scary mob backlash behavior that you just know will in the long run work against women even more. As your expectations of society degrade you get -or okay I did -you get stupider and more and more dazed.
I am lucky to have gotten out of it. And mine was a different type of hell - machinic hell.
We have seen this too many times to not wise up from the left. Shitty behavior or stupidity only seems to work for the right and that too the most dishonest, corrupt type of right (whicg is all that is there anymore)
. It doesnt mean it should be what Merrick Garland considers due process (he actually helped break my own tendency to grovel to the system, however unreasonable, out of a desire to avoid the style of rule breaking the right uses. Especially as an mj user always stressed by the legal status of mj).
I am lucky in being a loner who doesnt like socializing. I thought that was the one plus of the pandemic.
But that is not most people. And so for me it has mostly been creepy machines. Creepy humans are way worse and way more stressful. Creepy machines are more disorienting as thats more unfamiliar. I am finally catching up.
I support these women. Anonymous female complainants should have more support rather than being viewed as shadier somehow.
Who would want to put up with some mens rights dimwit casting asparagus like this and getting all twitchy if they end up doxxed and outed themselves.
EdmondDantes_
(1,914 posts)If you're referring to the claim that Roger Stone said something, that's because this was brewing on social media for weeks in liberal circles.
https://www.smobserved.com/story/2026/04/06/news/social-media-circulates-allegations-of-inappropriate-sexual-relationships-with-interns-ndas-involving-rep-eric-swalwell/9761.html
It also ignores the contemporaneous corroboration and the texts and one victim getting STI and pregnancy tests after the attack.
Nixie
(18,000 posts)for any sexually active person.
EdmondDantes_
(1,914 posts)Oh and she told people in her life at the time and got Swalwell to send inappropriate texts. Oh and got other independent people to do the same.
Anything at all to avoid believing victims.
Nixie
(18,000 posts)If she was drunk (the word used in the article), how does she explain what happened to the police. But police have rape kits. Semen samples and a doctor examination plus a police report help her allegations more than STI and pregnancy tests. Every sexually active person takes those tests at some point.
Raven123
(7,848 posts)The accusations should be taken seriously, investigated and go from there.
Deep State Witch
(12,737 posts)Go too.
FascismIsDeath
(199 posts)I think he probably did something bad at this point but there is a due process in Congress and it should play out. He should definitely drop out of the Governor's race, if he doesn't, that lets me know that his ego and levels of stupidity are both very high.
ABC123Easy
(303 posts)He should NOT drop out of the CA Governor race NOR the House.
This is nuts. He stands ACCUSED not CONVICTED. Don't his constituents deserve to have these accusations investigated?
Why is any dem for Al Frankening our best candidates?
This is idiocy. Let's investigate the accusations like the adults we are.
ABC123Easy
(303 posts)That Trump directed Kash Patel to go after Swalwell and find something on him? Are you also forgetting Roger Stone and what he has done numerous times?
This is a circular firing squad
Sibelius Fan
(24,817 posts)eShirl
(20,305 posts)madville
(7,849 posts)To probably expel Swalwell and that Texas Republican at the same time, read about it yesterday. It would be an even trade with no impact on voting power in the House.
Theres also another Florida Republican that is accused of something and that female Democrat who is indicted federally for stealing COVID money, they might oust all 4 at the same time.