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CNN found corroboration for key elements of each of the women’s claims, including the former staffer who said she was sexually assaulted.

I think that part's the exclusive

I feel like if this was just a GOP plot they would hold off until Swalwell won the primary and the Dems were stuck with him

Hasn't he taken AIPAC money?

It's more than allegations, this person worked for Swalwell, people saw them together, theres copies of texts they sent a friend at the time saying Swalwell assaulted them, and medical records showing this person got a pregnancy and STI test around that time too. It's circumstantial evidence and not smoking gun stuff, but it's more than just allegations.

Not really, could be that this person just hoped this would go away and tried to forget about it but when they saw his name in the news and realized he could become governor and do what they claimed he did to someone else they felt the need to act

I know most people don't care at all or have ever thought critically about life and how things work beyond what they were groomed to understand.

There's a small cloud passing over us right now and you're convinced the sun stopped existing. I bet you haven't even met most people, there's like 8 billion of them.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Episcopals

Still, I think every schism probably had people saying "But we already have [religion]" before they went down

Whether or not there are decent evangelicals was kinda beside my point (I was just imagining historical parallels), but I agree and it's definitely worth repeating

there's also a bit of a difference in that voting is connected to where you live,

So just like paying taxes

Automatic voter registration that would cover 99% of eligible voters would be easy if we made that checkbox an opt out and put it on more government paperwork (e.g. tax filings, Medicaid applications, public school student registration stuff, etc.), we just lack the political will to do it

We're gonna get a schism and the Church of America because Trump is basically Henry VIII but somehow even more disgusting

I'm kinda tempted to whip out that community meme with a "human rights violations I can stand, but I draw the line at market destabilization!", but I'm pretty sure we're imprisoning and brutalizing more Latinos and other migrants than China is Uyghurs and other marginalized communities over there at this point

The first step of the campaign was getting the average person to hate "politics" "the government" "Washington dc" etc., vague ideas instead of specific people and policies

Then it's easy to sell people on the basic idea that "the government is too dumb and evil to help anyone even if it tried, but it can punish your enemies pretty good"

Would you rather they weren't concerned and talked about something else? The problem here is the god damned politicians who keep blowing off stories like this.