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Is it time to release the Swalwell files? | Politico reveals how Democrat insiders covered up Eric Swalwell's sexual abuse for years - until a few brave female influencers refused to play along (www.politico.com)

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Both sides do it. And by "it" you know what I fucking mean.

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[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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Lol.

The file is a fucking metaphor.

The reality is: what did Joe Biden know and when did he know it?

What did Kamala Harris know and when did she know it?

Out of the hundreds of Democratic movers and shakers and party insiders who fawned on Swalwell for years, how many of them knew he was preying on young interns?

I'm old enough to remember how incredibly fucking angry I was at the Monica Lewinsky coverage in the '90s, where the good old boys on both sides of the aisle acted like Bill Clinton's crime was lying about a blowjob instead of fucking coercing a teenage employee into fucking him. How angry I was at myself for believing I could make change by supporting the right rich, powerful men, when those rich powerful men had been covering up Clinton's rapes for decades.

And it looks like history, not repeating, but rhyming. How Democrat Party insiders covered up the crimes of a popular, charismatic rapist, for almost ten fucking years. And how they would have kept covering it up for decades more, and how we could have had yet another fucking rapist in the White House, except that one single fucking influencer had the strength to scream into the void for months, to fight every effort by the Democratic Party to silence her, until enough decent people heard that truth that it could no longer be covered up.

We didn't have influencers in the '90s. Would that we did. One of the few bright points of the 21st century is that the truth really is out there. Despite all the efforts of the mainstream media and our technocrat overlords, there are still independent, decentralized, even federated soap boxes where actual human beings can speak actual human truths.

And who's going to be this generation's Joe Lieberman? Who's going to step up and say "I'm going independent, I cannot support a party that covers this shit up"?

Is it going to be AOC? Omar? Mamdani? Are any of these so-called leftist Democrats going to stand up and call for accountability, not just for Swalwell, but for those who enabled him?

Press X to fucking doubt.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

X. Se its the monica things where you go off the rails. Where the heck do you get teenager from and did you see her own statements around it? There are plenty of democratic fuck ups but I know what our biggest problem is. Heck most of their worst things come out of working with or being influence by the republicans.