"If Graham’s stepping away, I am very, very interested and think I’m the best person to replace him," said Jackson, the former Maine Senate president.
  • velma@sh.itjust.works
    72·
    11 days ago

    I hate to say this, but the accuser sure picked an interesting time to come forward.

    She came out with enough time for another candidate to be chosen. It was now or never.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      12·
      11 days ago

      Now or never or… during the primary when people could have had time to choose a new candidate.

      • velma@sh.itjust.works
        32·
        11 days ago

        She has explained why she hesitated to come forward.

        “One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” she said. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          42·
          11 days ago

          She explained why she was reticent to come forward. That’s not an answer about why not earlier. She had other options and ended up at a very specific political window.

          It could be simple avoidance of an unpleasant task until the last possible moment or it could be in response to the Republican’s accusation not taking off or it could be she was intentionally pressured to release when establishment politicians could insert their own choice. But this wasn’t the only option and its timing may impact millions of lives.

          • velma@sh.itjust.works
            33·
            11 days ago

            simple avoidance of an unpleasant task

            You reducing reporting rape down to this is…inaccurate.

            But this wasn’t the only option and its timing may impact millions of lives.

            It was going to impact many lives regardless because Platner decided to run knowing he had all of this in his past.

            • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              42·
              11 days ago

              Going to the public and recounting a traumatic event is an unpleasant task. Fuck off with these stylistic gotchas like there would be some magic words that you’d accept to describe a basic human response to something they don’t want to do.

              • velma@sh.itjust.works
                34·
                11 days ago

                It’s traumatic but ok. I was willing to level with you here and have a conversation but clearly you just want to be rude.

                • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  52·
                  11 days ago

                  Fuck off. I don’t think you’ve been looking to have a conversation since this story broke. You’ve decided there’s only one acceptable response, which based on the “he’s a secret Nazi” responses seems like it was already in place before the new allegations, and anyone else with other concerns in a breaking story impacting the entire nation must be a rape apologist.

                  • velma@sh.itjust.works
                    23·
                    10 days ago

                    As if you’re open to conversation on this yourself? Youve decided the only answer to this is conspiracy theories.

                    No, I’m not patient with people who want to outright victim blame and pretend like it’s crazy for a man seeking power to force himself on a woman.