The Party of Family Values…
I don’t know what to say. Clearly POTUS doesn’t care that he smacked around a couple of women and if HE doesn’t care it seems unlikely that the WSJ cares. This MAGA that the Deplorables keep touting is really just a return to a time when the white man reigned and women and people of color waited on them.
Ex’s in general should stay out of each other’s business.
But wife beating is okay because Rob Porter was a good christian conservative banging Hope Hicks, a christian conservative beauty queen whose hands were regularly on or near conservative hallowed ground when she was steaming Preshitident Skanky-Manslut’s pants to make him more manly.
Gee, the next thing you know WSJ will be giving op-ed space to pu**y-grabbing draft dodging racists with bone spurs!
Publishing his op-ed was definitely part of a rehabilitation move (what, the WSJ couldn’t get anyone else to spew the party line?) I wonder what big job he’s up for, or whether he’ll just be a TV pundit.
The editors at WSJ, when criticized about giving editorial space to a domestic abuser:
"SEE WHAT YOU MADE US DO!!!"
not when those exes are attempting to deny their wrongdoing and expecting to inflict it on society instead of just a selected target
“When did you stop beating your wives, girlfriends, dates…”
“Rob has yet to publicly show regret or contrition for his actions. Giving him a voice before he has done that critical work elevates his opinions above my and Colbie’s dignity,” she added, referring to Porter’s first wife who also accused him of domestic abuse.
I’m with her.
- sometimes there is ‘unfinished business’ that makes that a bit difficult
Which is generally the reason that both parties should stay out of the mess and not go around disparaging one another.
it seem like Rob used his superior size and strength to finish off all the business he was interested in. The only thing unfinished is his accountability.
Out of each other’s private lives? Not always sensible, if there are children.
Out of each other’s public lives? I don’t see why, if there are open questions about fitness and such.
This, mainly. I’m sure both of them have things they’d rather not play out in public, and it’s just nasty all around to have feuds like that.
It’s not like we don’t already know the key details about him-- and her op-ed added nothing to that, it’s just a complaint that he hasn’t publicly apologized, which people know anyway.
I dunno, just feels like a cheap shot at an ex you’re angry with.
Right. So I’m just supposed to ignore the ex, who became a card carrying (Sea Org graduate) Scientologist, and her interaction with our kids?
Sorry, batshit crazy or openly violent doesn’t get the ‘mind your own business’ pass, especially if there are kids involved.
I understand this view.
But I’ve seen photographs of what he did to her; what she’s saying did not come cheap.
No disagreement with that. But there’s always more to the story. Worked in a military legal office for a few years a ways back, so lots of divorces/domestic violence/etc.
And the physical part was usually the men. But the verbal and emotional part was very often the women, and that usually got short shrift because it’s not visible, whereas a bruise most certainly is.
There’s often a role that both parties play in escalating the situation to a point where a crime gets committed.
That’s why I just get a bad feeling when I see things like this playing out. They’re both better off just walking away and moving on with their lives. And any woman that dates this dude in the future is a fool, because clearly he’s got some major issues.
But what behavior would be sufficient to bar him from appearing as a respected public figure? Anything short of murder, if he’s a good-looking republican?