Roy Moore

[Hypoxia]

In case anyone (like me) forgot, the Alabama special election is set for 12 December, next Tuesday, four days away.

Politics is a blood sport and this is a YUUGE match. Expect the fireworks, shitslinging, ratfucking, calumnations, and supercharged bullshit to ratchet-up exponentially now. Be not surprised by ballot-rigging, broken voting machines, lost ballot boxes, long long voter lines, many challenges, and maybe an asteroid strike if we're lucky. Or terrorist attacks.

Hmmm, my paranoid conspiratorialist muse whispers in my ear: Suppose the worst? Suppose it's rigged violently? What then?

 

[phrodeau]

Another blast from Roy Moore's past is getting attention today.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-alabama-senate-runoff-20170921-story.html

At Moore’s Florence rally (on September 17), the former judge outlined all the wrongs he sees in Washington and “spiritual wickedness in high places.” He warned of “the awful calamity of abortion and sodomy and perverse behavior and murders and shootings and road rage” as “a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins.”

In response to a question from one of the only African Americans in the audience — who asked when Moore thought America was last “great” -- Moore acknowledged the nation’s history of racial divisions, but said: “I think it was great at the time when families were united — even though we had slavery — they cared for one another…. Our families were strong, our country had a direction.”

Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah, America sure was great when people could have slaves.

 

[Adder4321]

It's nice to see a country other than my own go to shit for a change.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm sure you'd feel the same if you had a 16 year old daughter who Roy Moore was grooming...

That depends on what you mean by "grooming."

 

[richard_daily]

That depends on what you mean by "grooming."

So under what definition of "grooming' would you be ok with it?

 

[Hypoxia]

That depends on what you mean by "grooming."

I doubt he was picking lice from her hair and eating them.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Just so you know there is a statement out there from the former manager of that mall at the time saying Moore was never banned. You'll have to Google it .

Yeah, here is more about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8mONPi4Xh4

 

[Boxlicker101]

So under what definition of "grooming' would you be ok with it?

If my 16 year-old daughter went to a 32 year-old male hairdresser, I probably would not object, unless I thought he was charging too much.

 

[sr71plt]

A typically inane response, Box. But as you were boxed in and apparently realized you had screwed yourself on you position, I guess it was the best you could do.

 

[Boxlicker101]

A typically inane response, Box. But as you were boxed in and apparently realized you had screwed yourself on you position, I guess it was the best you could do.

I answered a question somebody asked me.

 

[richard_daily]

If my 16 year-old daughter went to a 32 year-old male hairdresser, I probably would not object, unless I thought he was charging too much.

Yeah, that's what Roy Moore was doing...

fucking idiot.

 

[sr71plt]

I answered a question somebody asked me.

Right. In typical idiotic fashion.

 

[Adder4321]

The clear solution is to never have any interactions what so ever with politicians. They're bad for your health and well being.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Yeah, that's what Roy Moore was doing...

fucking idiot.

He probably wasn't, but he wasn't doing anything else I know of that would meet the definition of "grooming."

 

[richard_daily]

He probably wasn't, but he wasn't doing anything else I know of that would meet the definition of "grooming."

So you'd be ok with a 16 year old in your family spending time with him.

Either you're an idiot, or you've got the same affliction that Moore does... Or both.

 

[Rightguide]

Yeah, that's what Roy Moore was doing...

fucking idiot.

It looks like Moore is going to be elected.

 

[phrodeau]

It looks like Moore is going to be elected.

Polls.

 

[Rightguide]

He probably wasn't, but he wasn't doing anything else I know of that would meet the definition of "grooming."

Can you imagine the ass ripping frenzy these assholes would be in if they knew the age of consent in Alabama up until 1880 was 10?

 

[phrodeau]

Can you imagine the ass ripping frenzy these assholes would be in if they knew the age of consent in Alabama up until 1880 was 10?

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. And now Americans are horrified at the news of child brides in Muslim cultures.

 

[Adder4321]

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. And now Americans are horrified at the news of child brides in Muslim cultures.

It's almost like peoples ideas and ways of thinking can change over time.

 

[richard_daily]

Can you imagine the ass ripping frenzy these assholes would be in if they knew the age of consent in Alabama up until 1880 was 10?

You smile like you'd like to take part in that sort of behavior.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if that's your desire.

 

[sr71plt]

Can you imagine the ass ripping frenzy these assholes would be in if they knew the age of consent in Alabama up until 1880 was 10?

So, you're admitting that, mentally, you haven't made it past 1880 yet?

Your post has no relevance to anything in the current world. So, business as usual with you.

 

[Boxlicker101]

So you'd be ok with a 16 year old in your family spending time with him.

Either you're an idiot, or you've got the same affliction that Moore does... Or both.

That would depend on what they were doing.

 

[Hypoxia]

He probably wasn't, but he wasn't doing anything else I know of that would meet the definition of "grooming."

Wikipedia: Grooming

The verb to groom may refer to:
* Child grooming, befriending a child, in the negative context of preparing them to accept abusive behavior
* Abusive power and control, grooming in any context using manipulative tactics to facilitate compliance of an abusive purpose.

See, you merely needed to look it up. An older, related meaning is to prepare someone for a position, like a staffer 'groomed' for leadership. You may have heard the usage.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Wikipedia: Grooming See, you merely needed to look it up. An older, related meaning is to prepare someone for a position, like a staffer 'groomed' for leadership. You may have heard the usage.

You omitted this part: Abusive power and control, grooming in any context using manipulative tactics to facilitate compliance of an abusive purpose.



That sounds rather vague. Of course I would not want any child who was a friend or family member to hang around with somebody who was going to beat them up. But since there's nothing in this thread about such actions, I didn't believe that's what was meant.