Now see, I make mistakes too. We all do. But my mistakes donât involve felonies. And any personal foibles of mine do not impact my work.
Is it time to retire the term âfamily valuesâ yet? Because it really does seem to mean âany values I have are detrimental to familiesâ.
he values family so much that he tries to start multiple ones?
I donât know, Cosa Nostra is all about family values. So is nâdrangheta. And then thereâs that happy family that runs North Korea. It just seems that these are the families that some politicians aspire to emulate.
Thom Hartmann on a recent show pointed out that Republican Indiana Rep Jud McMillin singlehandedly stopped a bill in the Indiana House that would have criminalized revenge porn. You canât make this stuff up.
No, itâs far too entertaining when it backfires
Obligatory: christ, what an arsehole.
ButâŚfreedom.
Unfortunately for many Republicans the next bit is âto be an assholeâ.
Major had an affair with Edwina Currie.
However, I have to say this; during the Major era I met Mrs. Currie a couple of times and I actually liked her a lot. Like Corbyn, sheâs actually pretty human for a politician. I canât really get that exercised about Major.
I propose it can still be used for buckets of fried chicken and pasta buffets.
So the most offensive things he did were conducted in the public eye. Privately he may have been screwing his mistress, but as a lawmaker tried to screw a lot of people.
What I donât get is that heâs resigning despite feigning innocence. Itâs like heâs already conceded that his stolen phone story just wonât fly.
I canât stop laughing!
Family values. Mmmm.
Very good point. Taking food out of the mouths of hungry children makes you a patriot, but getting laid is unforgivable.
In this case, he probably has little option because his excuse wouldnât actually address the problem even if it were true.
Whether he made a sloppy mistake when sending a message or whether his phone was actually stolen and somebody decided to have some lulz with its former owner; the message that went out speaks for itself, implicates him; and might well provide enough information for somebody to dig up the other person and have a chat with them.
The âstolen phoneâ/âhacked accountâ type excuse only works if it is only the presumption that you sent the message that is damning; not if the message itself either provides enough material to be seriously damaging in itself; or if it provides enough of a lead that corroborating evidence is very, very, likely to turn up once people know to look.
The worst thing about these Family Values a-hats, is that they are wrecking good peoples lives with their moral judgments while almost always doing worse things themselves. These people harp on and on about the âsanctity of marriageâ while on their 3rd marriage with a mistress on the side. They donât get a free pass because they arenât giving one to anyone elseâŚ
It also never hurts to remember that the (nasty; but very clever in a brutally callous sort of way) construction of âFamily Valuesâ as pretty much exclusively being a matter of sexual mores and naughty words in music and media has more or less utterly annihilated the discussion of âfamily valuesâ as an inconvenient economic matter, dimension of our penal policies, and so on.
Encouraging family formation and success is very much a matter of economics, income equality and inequality, working and scheduling conditions, and all sorts of other tedious-and-mostly-unpopular-with-the-plutocratic-wing stuff; but pretending that itâs basically about homos, slutty welfare queens, and absentee fathers is fantastic cover for doing any sort of overtly family-hostile stuff you want, without even having to acknowledge that your policies are related to âfamilyâ one way or the other.
I feel like the right thing to do in this situation is just calmly smash my phone with a hammer, stuff it in the bottom of a dumpster, go buy a new one, and send out a message apologizing for being out of touch for a few days since my phone was stolen. Donât even mention the possibility of Bad Stuff being sent until someone mentions it, then act surprised.
The âit was out of my control for about 24 hoursâ attempt is particularly mind boggling. So, this implies you recovered it⌠That suggests that you either have one of those âperson uses find-my-phone, does something dubiously sensible to try to recover itâ stories; or the Canadian police will have some record of its theft and subsequent recovery. Care to tell us about it?
I get the impression that this guy is, perhaps, not godâs gift to opsec.
