@cteavin: I only get a little glimpse of what must be near round the clock coverage in the 24-hour news cycle of this. Me, I'm not a fan of people, mostly women, coming forward to say they were raped. If there's no proof it becomes he said, she said and the current cultural norm is to believe the victim. Also, there are (petty?) decades-old grievances coming to light. A good example of this is a woman who still holds a grudge that Ben Aflac (whom I despise as a person) grabbed her boob on TV. Let it go. Or, am I wrong? I wish they media would do more to distinguish incidences of sexual assault.    For instance, there is a  massive difference between someone using a crowbar to break into someone's home and hold a knife to their throat and rape them….  and someone coming onto a movie mogul to get a part in a movie - and when the mogul takes advantage of the situation by patting one's ass or making a suggestive remark, etc.  instead of just walking away or not having the encounter in the first place.  Since supposedly "everyone" knew that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted actresses, why would an actress ever allow themselves to be caught in a compromising position with him?    By the way, it was Harvey's brother BOB that finally exposed Harvey for being a monster.

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9959 If you wanna see.

@raphjd: Every day, Hillary's list of those who caused her to lose gets bigger. Sadly, the crazy bitch hasn't realized that she is main cause.   Hell, she believes she's the victim in all this and that she is totally innocent. OI, BITCH.   GET DOWN OFF THE CROSS, WINTER IS COMING AND I NEED THE FIRE WOOD. You nailed that one EXACTLY.. Hillary is making a martyr of herself.  She should win an academy award for being a drama queen.

@aadam101: Sick people are less likely to have the ability to pay.  Let's say little Charlie Gard was an American and he survived.  He will be sick his entire life and need lots of medical care.  Assuming ObamaCare is repealed the moment he turns 18 he will need to find his own insurance.  How will he afford it?  The poor kid will have spent 18 years fighting for his life only to die at age 18 because he doesn't have the ability to pay? That's silly….. Those are outlier cases, Aadam. I believe such people can be taken care of through Medicare/Medicaid, no? (You work in healthcare, so I'm asking.) Here in Japan, we all get a physical once a year – mandatory no matter your field. There's a fun word METABO which is a corruption of metabolism. If your waist is, gosh, I think it's 98cm or more you're considered overweight (aka METABO) and your company must pay more for that employee's health care. This is supposed to incentivize employers to make sure their employees take care of themselves. #TheMoreYouKnow Being that so much of the US is overweight it's not a bad idea to make people who don't meet certain criteria to pay more, kind of a alternative sugar-tax.

@Frederick: I expected the divisive attacks to END once the election was over, but if anything, they INTENSIFIED! Then let it go. Just because someone speaks to you in a way you don't like doesn't mean you have to respond in turn. You're a grown man. If you feel someone has disrespected you call them out respectfully – remind them that there is an actual flesh and blood human being on the other end of the screen -- or ignore the comment and be the better person.

@cteavin: @Frederick: It's not just that.. the POTUS was in the middle of an interview when he was interrupted by some idiot who played the "Retreat" recording.  That was no accident. Possibly, but that's speculation. One of my best friends from uni (now) believes in bigfoot. (sigh) We can mistake all kinds of things for causation and come to the wrong conclusions. Me? Just the facts. This kind of stuff is delicate and needs to stop. Some of the bigfoot stuff is non-native orangutans that have gotten into the wild.  They were someone's pet or escaped from a zoo. As for Trump, the media seem to be ignoring the story of the interrupted interview… so it was just one moonbat report that one of our resident moonbats is hanging onto like a dingle berry.  The rest of the media are making up some other fake news.

@sutieday: Donald Trump is to address the annual conference of an anti-LGBT group which has been classified as a hate group. The US president will become the first sitting president to address social conservative activists and elected officials at the Value Voters Summit in Washington DC on Friday. President Trump has addressed the event which is hosted by the Family Research Council three times in total and did so last year as the Republican presidential candidate. The Family Research Council opposes and actively lobbies against equal rights for LGBT persons. The conservative Christian group campaigns against same-sex marriage, same-sex civil unions, LGBT adoption, abortion, embryonic stell-cell research, pornography and divorce. I'll take a stab at this. The Southern Poverty Law Center (TSPLC) is the organization that labeled this a hate group. They've also denounced Maajid Nawaz (personal hero) and put him on a hate list for speaking up against Jihadism, himself a former Jihadist, and in favor of a more moderate Islam. TSPLC is also being sued by several different individuals and organizations for these kinds of lists which label individuals and groups racist, sexist, Islamaphobic, etc. So maybe to be less inflammatory we could be discussing why Trump chose to speak at an uber-Christian organization. Well, they are American. They represent a voice in the United States. That voice is one under a larger Christian tent. Personally, I don't care if he goes. I think we as gay individuals would be wise to get a seat at the table with Trump rather than to sit on the sidelines in pink hats pissing him, and his administration, off. (I'm radical like that.)

@royalcrown89: @cteavin: @royalcrown89: It's impossible to focus on getting rid of military grade assault weapons because the NRA controls Republicans and Democrats are split between wanting to ban all guns and wanting to create registries as if we're in a socialist country or something; maybe it truly is the cost of freedom. Making new laws is somewhat pointless because the laws on the books are not being properly enforced already. Seems to me the solution is to get the lobbyists out of Washington and do away with that ruling from the Supreme Court that Corporations are People. These would be longterm goals and I don't think American people have the attention span to carry them through, so you might be right: Having guns readily available might be the cost of this version of freedom (there's more than one). The odd thing to me about present-day America is that there are more restrictions in getting a gym membership and buying medicine in bulk than voting and purchasing a gun. How did that happen? We got here by years and years of both sides not wanting to deal with the problem or finding a way together to make it worse. Neither side seems to want to get rid of lobbyists and other special interests, and that ruling by the Supreme Court is heavily supported by the Republican party who could easily pass legislation to say corporations are not people but refuse to at this time. Remember, it was a 5-4 decision of the more right-leaning justices against the more left-leaning justices that decided corporations are people so in that light one side was the problem. However, overall, we got here because of both sides. Uh.. that is the definition of a corporation.  Having a corporation limits the liability of specific people - and allows a company to continue after the executives die, retire, resign, etc.  There is a downside also.. in that the executives in charge get taxed as a corporation, and again as individuals.  If the business was not a corporation - they would only get hit with with a corporate tax. Also, you mentioned that the Supreme Court is packed with republicans.  Well, whose fault is that?  In the past 24 years.. we had 8 years of Clinton and 8 years of Obama.  It's going to get much more republican because the moonbats were so sure that Hillary was going to win, that the senile moonbats such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not retire during Obama so they could find another moonbat to replace them.  There are 3 moonbat justices that are so old and senile that they won't last the 4 or 8 years of Trump.

@cteavin: @aadam101: I would rather eat Hillary's snatch then get anywhere near a naked Trump. OMG, I just realized what could actually force me into committing suicide. If those were my two choices, I'd just leave this world permanently. :blownose: That reminds me of the question I have asked moonbats many times, but never gotten an answer.  If not Trump.. who?  They typically reply "ANYBODY!" without specifying anyone.  It's funny that even though they only had two choices - Trump or Hillary - none of them have the guts to say that they would prefer Hillary.  I did hear one mentally disturbed bitch democratic strategist say yesterday that she wishes Obama was president - which is ironic - because Obama has already completed 2 terms and can never be president again.  Oprah can't be president because the Russians have nude photos of her when she was 350 pounds having sex with Gayle King - and they could blackmail her.

@cteavin, you make a great point about the cherry picking and this thread makes a great point overall. Where is that line? I believe conservatism is severely needed to stop governmental overreach into our freedoms (especially guns and the freedom to love), but that it should be done in a manner to protect all Americans and not just those who are seen as worthy of that protection. Like Frederick said, it is just like the attacks on free speech by the left. They like to believe they're advocating for free speech but they're actually advocating for limited speech tailored to their points of view.

This is me not caring about the alleged sexism but being very happy that he's getting kicked out of Hollywood after ruining so many movies. #WhateverItTakes #SaveOurMovies #TheseWomenCouldHaveSaidNo :cheers: