Hmm
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/apr/25/for-trump-lookalike-crops-mean-more-than-social-me/
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Is this really going to be a political thing ? My godâŚ
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2043864044030046602
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Can I interest you in a hyderabadi biryani?
The real question is why is John Stewart in the picture !
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On Sunday Swalwell announced he was suspending his campaign for Governor because the accusations were too much of a distraction and it was not his campaignâs job to fight them. Yesterday he announced he is resigning from Congress.
There were already 3 congresspeople about whom a debate was swirling about expelling them, 1 Dem and 2 from the GOP. Swalwell made is a balanced 2 & 2 and that seemed to accelerate conversation about a bispartisan effort to expel these people. He and Rep Gonzales (the guy whose sex pesting was associated with his staffer killer herself) have jumped before they were pushed.
No word on what this means for the 2 who have not yet jumped but dont expect this to be the final word. I am very skeptical of Ruben Galliago, one of the popular outside picks for the Dem Presidential nomination (he fought woke by being a Mexican who banned the use of Latinx from his campaign staffâŚsuch bravery) and his famous closeness to Swalwell and his own checkered personal history seems like there are skeletons of his own waiting to be exposed.
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Why do people think they can run for governor when they have these skeletons?
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Maybe because the President has a graveyard full.
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Yeah I didnât think of that.
Entitlement. On some level I donât think they really understand they have done anything wrong. Like anyone in power, they will excuse themselves anything. I work really hard, so why shouldnât I fuck the intern?
And then there is the possibility that the skeletons are precisely the reason why running for office - with the power and the privilege that comes with it - is desirable.
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I think the same level of narcissism that makes them think they can do it in the first place
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How similar is this to the Al Franken situation? From what I remember there seemed to be a number of high profile Republicans under fire for their misbehaviours and although a Democrat, Frankenâs departure was expected to lead to others being pressured to follow but I donât recall it doing so?
Yeah its a useful callout, but this is very different. What Swalwell has been accused of it at best disqualifying abuse of power and bad judgement and at worse illegal and deserving of jail time. The speed with which those close to him abandoned him speaks to the credibility of the accusations.
Franken was very much a sacrificial lamb demanded by a couple of the female candidates running for president thinking it would demonstrate a seriousness in how we expected people to behave towards others that would be a powerful contrast to Trump. It was poorly calibrated though. No one took it seriously and I think most viewed it as cynically opportunistic given the reality of what he was accused of.
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The tattoo 
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I would say entitlement applies to all layers - it is more exposed in politicians as they are at the cross roads between power, access to power and enabling power and are in the public light. There are plenty of âregularâ people that flout the laws at every opportunity and justify it to themselves that they are saints!
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I did like how she didnât react to his comment on trans people.
She wonât be appearing again as she made him look a bit dumb.*
*This isnât hard.
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