Ah yes.
A prime opportunity arises to demonstrate the difference between the moral values of we dirty fucking liberal hippie Democrats and the moral values of Republicans and their voters:
Link: Chaos engulfs Eric Swalwell's campaign as sex assault allegations emerge: report - Raw Story
"The gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is seeing a wave of resignations, in anticipation of a potentially ruinous story alleging sexual misconduct by the longtime congressman.
According to Politico, "Members of senior leadership have departed the campaign, including Courtni Pugh, a strategic adviser who served as Swalwell’s top liaison to organized labor groups. Pugh confirmed her resignation, but declined to comment further. Two other people, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal campaign dynamics, confirmed there have been at least four departures."
The resignations, per the report, happened "just before the San Francisco Chronicle published a report Friday afternoon reporting that a former staffer claims Swalwell had sexual encounters with her while working for him, and that he sexually assaulted her twice when she was too drunk to consent.""
Sexually assaulting an inebriated female is the same offense that got DonOld's cartoonish 'War Secretary' Pistol Pete Hegseth into hot water a few years ago.
It was quite fortunate for ol' Pistol Pete that his Fox "news" salary at the time was sufficient enough to afford him the ability to pay off the woman with a cash settlement and get her to sign an NDA about the incident. I say fortunate, because the police report from the incident sure as hell suggested Hegseth had raped the woman.
But here's the point I want to make.
First and foremost - fuck Eric Swalwell if the allegations against him are true, and reports I have read so far indicate they probably are. Democrat and friend of liberals, and allied Drumpf antagonist or not, that kind of predatory behavior and betrayal of trust is not acceptable ever, more so by those in positions of power and public influence such as the Governor of a major state, the political post Swalwell aspires to. What a colossal fucking dickhead and and even bigger disappointment he is.
I fully expect the majority if not all Democrats to pressure Swalwell to exit Democratic politics altogether should these allegations be proven to be true. Because that would be the properly moral thing to do. Whether Swalwell will have the inner moral courage and personal decency to depart quietly remains to be seen.
Now - on the other end of the moral values political spectrum - the American people's White House is currently occupied by Donald Trump, an individual who has openly bragged about sexually assaulting women at random ("grab them by the pussy"), who has committed adultery with every one of his wives, who pays porn actresses for sex, who has openly fantasized about having sex with his own daughter, who has been credibly accused of sexual assault by more than 25 women, who was determined by a US court of law to be a 'rapist,' and who at present time is highly suspected of being a child rapist based on the fact that of the 3.5 million 'Epstein Files' child sex ring documents released so far, DonOld's name is mentioned over one million times in them with the only other person getting more mentions being Jeffrey Epstein himself.
Most of Drumpf's predatory sexual activity occurred prior to his ascension to the White House and most of it was publicly documented. Now with the steady-drip release of the 'Epstein Files' it has become increasingly clear just how depraved an individual that DonOld not only has been most of his execrable adult life, but quite likely still is to this day.
And yet Drumpf's supporters are consistently steadfast in their view that the individual who bragged to then Access Hollywood co-host Billy Bush that he had the right to sexually assault unsuspecting women by "grabbing" their vaginas because he was a "star," continue to remain in that exalted American office, with many of them wishing his putrid presence could be permanent.
And that is why I could not give less of a shit whenever I hear some conservative Trump Republican voter/supporter lecturing myself, or anyone else for that matter on the subject of "moral values" or "family values," or proselytizing their "Christian values." I am not the least bit interested in listening to the reproaching views about Eric Swalwell from the same people who have turned blind eyes and deaf ears to the bursting totality of Drumpf's criminality and voluminous reports of his lifelong, vile sexual proclivities.
What possible manner of value could exist in "moral values" which permit one to worship, support, and yes, vote for a mobbed up convicted felon, charlatan, and criminal sex fiend like Donald Trump anyway? I would stipulate that those are quite simply valueless values, unworthy of possessing, and I don't believe it can be stated it any more bluntly than that.
---TFG
