Doctor_Satan

I've seen Reddit do the same thing for years and always wondered why. It's super annoying.

It's more than likely true because this shit always blows up in their faces, but it won't matter if all we do is elect more milquetoast Zionist corporate Dems. If that happens, we will end up right back in this same spot in a few years.

It really depends on where I am. Winter in a city sucks. Winter in the mountains is awesome. Summer in Phoenix sucks. Summer on the Albanian Riviera is awesome.

It doesn't take much calculating at all. It's just easy to convince right-wing audiences that sexual misconduct allegations are all a conspiracy by the Deep State^TM^ to silence them. It's a pretty basic grift.

If you scroll down beneath the article, there are links to other articles. The graphic is from one called 'Markets tumble as China announces 34% retaliatory tariffs on US imports'. No idea why Lemmy decided to grab that particular image for this post, though.

Oh for sure. He's been soft-pedaling his right-wing transformation ever since the initial allegations went public years ago. The hard turn recently is probably exactly as you say, he knew charges were coming.

Ah yes, Martian script.

Dennis Miller was a great writer himself, and wrote all of the Weekend Update stuff that he did, and a bunch of sketches. It's ok to say he was once great at what he did, because he was. But I would recommend going back and watching Dennis Miller Live on HBO. I went back and re-watched it during the pandemic, and it's pure Libertarian garbage wrapped up in snarky wit and big words. So he's always been kind of a right-leaning douche, but 9/11 broke his brain and he dropped all the Libertarian pretense.

unless there is video and audio proof. how the fuck could someone be charged for this 20+ years later over “he said she said”?

Same way a cold murder case gets investigated when all the DNA has degraded. They rely on circumstantial evidence. Now, that word has been corrupted by procedural crime drama TV shows, but make no mistake, a LOT of criminal cases are successfully prosecuted based on circumstantial evidence, because it is still legitimate evidence even though it's not direct evidence. They'll go through his electronic devices and look at text messages and photos and retrieve voice mails, they'll conduct interviews with others who were told about the allegations at the time and see how those stories line up, and so on.

I'm not as familiar with this particular case as others are, but from the other comments I've read, it looks like the victim(s) had already filed police reports 20+ years ago, but those didn't go anywhere for whatever reason (lack of evidence, incompetent police work, etc). So that helps the case quite a bit.

Could i just pick a random person and say they raped me in 2002 and then they will go to prison?

Technically, yes. There have been cases where this has happened, although it is extremely rare. The police would investigate your allegations and almost certainly find them lacking, at which point you would be charged with filing false police reports, and most likely sued by the person you accused.

Here's a fun statistic: A man is more likely to be raped than to be falsely accused of rape. Just in case you were wondering how often the latter happens.

He's been a regular on Bro Brogan for years. That's where his shift to the right-wing began a few years ago, shortly after his sex pest behavior became public knowledge.

Were the allegations not brought to the police before the tv documentary?

I might be speaking out of my ass here, but it could be that the allegations were brought to the police first, but there wasn't enough evidence at the time for the police to file charges, and then the documentary investigation turned up more evidence than the police had.

And his right-wing transformation is now complete.