but shouldn't it have been the russiagate that evicted him from office instead of a scandal from his personal life? Russiagate was using his job to liable a coworker and should have been reason for immediate dismissal. we are not in charge.
No different than Cuomo getting tossed as NY governor for being handsie with the ladies instead of for ordering that covid sick old folks get sent back to the old folks home to spread it and relieve the overcrowding.
Yes. Always a sex scandal, which as repulsive as it is, has nothing to do with them doing their jobs.
As for the issue of doing their jobs, we have fraud, insider trading, murder, kickbacks, never ending war, economic hardship, bio-warfare, propaganda, FISA violations, censorship, etc. All proven in public, but no charges filed.
I'm similarly happy to watch Swalwell get outed. What gets me is that the none of the accusations have been verified, and the legacy media is usually very strict when it comes to publishing gossip involving Democrats. This leads to the inevitable questions of why Swalwell, and why now?
It seems that the Democrat Party officials needed one or more of their candidates to withdraw from the "jungle primary" for Governor, because the two highest finishers -- who would become the only two candidates on the ballot in the November general election -- might end up being Republicans. Apparently Swalwell wasn't being very cooperative, so the Party Central Committee gave the green light to their apparatchiks in the media to launch "Operation Me Too". See Alex Berenson's excellent Substack piece on the subject: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/it-is-impossible-to-be-too-cynical-e6e
You left out a bunch of good ones- the current Gonzales story, Larry Craig, Katie Hill, Chris Lee (NY), and the grandpappy of them all, Senator Bob Packwood.
Larry "I am not gay" Craig, good call. Cruising in the Minneapolis airport men's room.
Somewhat related is Henry Hyde, who trashed Clinton over his scandals, and then it was revealed that Hyde had been fucking around on his wife. His response? "This was a youthful indiscretion." Youthful--apparently youthful to Biden and Trump, but not anyone else. Happened when the motherfucker was 42 years old.
Ah yes, those who remember and know factual history sometimes realize the mosaic painted for you to absorb as subscriber is not complete. A subset is fair and valid for sure, but is the selected mosaic presented a true and unbiased representation of actual history? A true unbiased subset?
Subtle bias in embedded in text, verbal and video communications by covert propagandists calling themselves journalists takes a lot of different forms, including silence. Watching even body language as others talk or make a point is a source of data.
Track the numbers on who are chosen for "good" or "naughty" lists and track the adjectives and the number of words and force of the arguments and your opinion of so called "journalists" will change dramatically.
Remember the narrative building takes a lot of time and the counter-narratives die quietly, just like Matt painfully found out when his beloved political friends and allies turned on him as he approached the truth.....
Why Tracey and why the sudden change away from Kirn? Why now? What triggered it?
My favorite Congressional sex scandal was Wilbur Mills and stripper Fanne Fox "The Argentine Firecracker" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanne_Foxe). Seems quaint today.
Damn, I bet some foreign government could compile a similar list, perhaps after a little bit of "nudging," and then hold that information over their heads. That would ensure loyalty to whatever country held the blackmail material!
What a great idea. Said foreign government could use an American rich asshole who provided young women for his rich and powerful friends on his private island.
Old is new again! It feels like we've somehow gone back in time to 2017.
So some/many/most (?) of these women - it sounds like from their own testimony - were willing participants ... right until the price was right to make them feign victimhood. The Gavin Newsom machine will roll over anyone who gets in its way.
I truly don't care about this guy... one way or the other (he's in CA I'm in PA and he's a LONG way from the White House). But I really have no patience for a #MeTooReDo. The level of fever-dream driven female-infantization & male-vilification that happened in 2017 doesn't need to happen again in 2026.
For the record:
* I don't care if my politicians put their hand on another's back (etc). I truly don't.
* I don't care if my politicians play a little "I'll show you mine / you show me yours." I truly don't.
* I don't care if my politicians obtain a BJ in the limo. I truly don't.
* I don't care if my politicians sleep around. I truly don't.
* I believe women have agency: therefore, anyone who was willing participant THEN has zero credibility when they complain TODAY.
* Likewise, given women have agency, the only stories worth discussing when it comes to sex scandals - as far as I'm concerned - is actual, quantifiable coercion and/or quid pro quo AT THE TIME.
Anything less, is just noise (or in this case, both intra- and inter- partisan bickering) and simple power politics (often the product feminist fever dreams).... which does zero for the electorate.
For every congressperson that makes the tabloids for sexual transgressions there are probably ten or more that you never hear about. Ethics disappeared from Washington a long time ago. As bad as cheating on your spouse is, our porcine pols cheat the American people every day they are in office.
Matt if you are looking for an expose, Pelosi's involvement might be interesting. These stories, minus the date rape drug details, were rampant in the Bay Area years ago. Inexplicably, Pelosi not only shepherded Swalwell's career, she saved him from the Fang Fang fallout. The joke use to be Swalwell was her Walmart version of Newsom, for when Nancy felt the urge to go slumming.
DC sex scandals are hardly rare, but rarely is the timing so convenient for the Party of the accused. The CA Dem Party faced the real prospect of Nov ballot without a Dem Governor's candidate. Dems had to frag a frontrunner, to consolidate support. Swalwell was their only possibility. Steyer is billionaire. The Dem Party has no leverage over him, because he does not require a dime of their money. Porter is truly loathsome, but the CA Dem Party was never going to politically frag a female candidate. That left Swalwell.
It will be the ultimate political irony if Reps pull off a Nov. CA Governor's upset. Another outcome is also interesting. Swalwell is broke with 3 little kids. Even if he is not convicted of rape, the CA Bar will take his law license.
Employment prospects will be sparse, with one possible exception. Swalwell spent nearly 2 decades in Silicon Valley politics. Presumably, he knows where a few proverbial bodies are buried. A mea culpa tell all, after a stint in sex addiction rehab, might sell a few books.
Nope. That crowd only “writes” books when they’re running for office. Meanwhile, the same powers-that-be who annihilated Swellwell in a matter of days (raise your hand if you still believe this wasn’t a political hit job designed to thin the gubernatorial herd) will quietly pay him hush money. There will be no tell-all book. Maybe he will take up art. Or speaking. Or “consulting.”
I'm sitting in a doctors office reading/watching. The staff is eyeing me a bit guardedly as I laugh at this shit! They prolly want to send me to a different kinda drs care!
Just tell them you are reading about politicians caught in sex scandals. They'll laugh and nod their heads knowingly and ask you which one is your favorite.
Any active member of Congress (elected) caught having an affair (married scenario) or having an intimate relationship (any type/category of “sex”) with any member of his/her staff loses their elected position, as well as any staff member involved.
Swift consequence. No court, no he said/she said — simply consequence.
Here’s what’s funny… these accounts make Sen Al Franken’s grab and grope antics look like patty cake… and yet, again because Klobuchar was licking her Senatorial chops, Franken was ousted in record time. It’s not the severity of the behavior, it’s the political agenda. The end justifies the means. I may have to needlepoint that!
Same with Christina Blassey Ford….i didn’t find her the least bit credible with her Kavanaugh story… and Senator Feinstein’s staff choreographed that whole charade.
She was about as credible as my dog would be! I thought she seemed heavily sedated. There was a long stretch where she had a thick strand of hair hanging over her eye. It was literally underneath her eyeglasses! It was driving me crazy but she just stood there and never reacted to it.
Nothing gives me greater pleasure than seeing the downfall of a Russiagate promoter in Swalwell.
but shouldn't it have been the russiagate that evicted him from office instead of a scandal from his personal life? Russiagate was using his job to liable a coworker and should have been reason for immediate dismissal. we are not in charge.
No different than Cuomo getting tossed as NY governor for being handsie with the ladies instead of for ordering that covid sick old folks get sent back to the old folks home to spread it and relieve the overcrowding.
Essentially, mass murder.
Yes. Always a sex scandal, which as repulsive as it is, has nothing to do with them doing their jobs.
As for the issue of doing their jobs, we have fraud, insider trading, murder, kickbacks, never ending war, economic hardship, bio-warfare, propaganda, FISA violations, censorship, etc. All proven in public, but no charges filed.
Thankful for the great Russiagate reporters like Matt. https://liberterianoverwatch.substack.com/p/russiagate-revisited?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=48h772
One down and one to go in Adam lying Schiff.
The sad part is the joy will fade over time. Sigh.
Nope, it will last a very long time indeed.
I'm similarly happy to watch Swalwell get outed. What gets me is that the none of the accusations have been verified, and the legacy media is usually very strict when it comes to publishing gossip involving Democrats. This leads to the inevitable questions of why Swalwell, and why now?
It seems that the Democrat Party officials needed one or more of their candidates to withdraw from the "jungle primary" for Governor, because the two highest finishers -- who would become the only two candidates on the ballot in the November general election -- might end up being Republicans. Apparently Swalwell wasn't being very cooperative, so the Party Central Committee gave the green light to their apparatchiks in the media to launch "Operation Me Too". See Alex Berenson's excellent Substack piece on the subject: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/it-is-impossible-to-be-too-cynical-e6e
Ballsy post. This is why Congress has a taxpayer-funded hush-up fund. We are nothing but tax cattle for them: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/dear-american-tax-cattle
So glad i'm canadian as our politicians never do things like........never mind.
Carry on
Even the former PM's girlfriend is now being accused of sexual assault.
Which begs the question--how would Katy Perry sexually assault someone?
Was she? hadn't heard that.
Id be happy to let her try on me i think
An incident in Melbourne in 2010, apparently.
Her accuser was another woman. Not many details around it, at least not yet.
Enough details to make me throw up in my mouth a little bit at least.
04/16/26: By singing? An audio vasectomy?
No doubt Sophie will clear it all up in her memoirs… eventually.
I guess this is the “hard news” we were promised?! 🤣
Uncalled for.
And funny
04/16/26: Place both hands above the keyboard and on the desk where they are plainly visible before saying that, please.
You left out a bunch of good ones- the current Gonzales story, Larry Craig, Katie Hill, Chris Lee (NY), and the grandpappy of them all, Senator Bob Packwood.
Packwood. Exculpatory name!!🤣🤣
What about Weiner??
04/16/26: "Weiner" was funny the first 100,000 times (you had to be there).
Larry "I am not gay" Craig, good call. Cruising in the Minneapolis airport men's room.
Somewhat related is Henry Hyde, who trashed Clinton over his scandals, and then it was revealed that Hyde had been fucking around on his wife. His response? "This was a youthful indiscretion." Youthful--apparently youthful to Biden and Trump, but not anyone else. Happened when the motherfucker was 42 years old.
You beat me to it! You posted your comment while I was googling "wide stance senator."
I was surprised it was only 2007. I would have guessed 80s or 90s.
Youthful indiscretion, yeah, that's a classic!
I loved the "wide stance"
Great memory, but you left out Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House. Apparently his thing was younger boys...
Ah yes, those who remember and know factual history sometimes realize the mosaic painted for you to absorb as subscriber is not complete. A subset is fair and valid for sure, but is the selected mosaic presented a true and unbiased representation of actual history? A true unbiased subset?
Subtle bias in embedded in text, verbal and video communications by covert propagandists calling themselves journalists takes a lot of different forms, including silence. Watching even body language as others talk or make a point is a source of data.
Track the numbers on who are chosen for "good" or "naughty" lists and track the adjectives and the number of words and force of the arguments and your opinion of so called "journalists" will change dramatically.
Remember the narrative building takes a lot of time and the counter-narratives die quietly, just like Matt painfully found out when his beloved political friends and allies turned on him as he approached the truth.....
Why Tracey and why the sudden change away from Kirn? Why now? What triggered it?
My favorite Congressional sex scandal was Wilbur Mills and stripper Fanne Fox "The Argentine Firecracker" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanne_Foxe). Seems quaint today.
Did the words "Barney Frank" and... the other word used in cross reference here never appear in print together? That would be surprising.
Damn, I bet some foreign government could compile a similar list, perhaps after a little bit of "nudging," and then hold that information over their heads. That would ensure loyalty to whatever country held the blackmail material!
What a great idea. Said foreign government could use an American rich asshole who provided young women for his rich and powerful friends on his private island.
Now, THAT would be a scandal.
04/16/26: Now, really. Utterly out of the question. No possible way. Pure fantasy.
You sly dog. Come on, say it loud, say it proud.
It's Qatar!
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-qatar-bought-america
Who were you thinking of?
The same thing everyone else was thinking.
Why does Swalwell’s face always look dirty?
04/16/26: Covid 199999999999999999999999999. From Fang Fang.
Old is new again! It feels like we've somehow gone back in time to 2017.
So some/many/most (?) of these women - it sounds like from their own testimony - were willing participants ... right until the price was right to make them feign victimhood. The Gavin Newsom machine will roll over anyone who gets in its way.
I truly don't care about this guy... one way or the other (he's in CA I'm in PA and he's a LONG way from the White House). But I really have no patience for a #MeTooReDo. The level of fever-dream driven female-infantization & male-vilification that happened in 2017 doesn't need to happen again in 2026.
For the record:
* I don't care if my politicians put their hand on another's back (etc). I truly don't.
* I don't care if my politicians play a little "I'll show you mine / you show me yours." I truly don't.
* I don't care if my politicians obtain a BJ in the limo. I truly don't.
* I don't care if my politicians sleep around. I truly don't.
* I believe women have agency: therefore, anyone who was willing participant THEN has zero credibility when they complain TODAY.
* Likewise, given women have agency, the only stories worth discussing when it comes to sex scandals - as far as I'm concerned - is actual, quantifiable coercion and/or quid pro quo AT THE TIME.
Anything less, is just noise (or in this case, both intra- and inter- partisan bickering) and simple power politics (often the product feminist fever dreams).... which does zero for the electorate.
I agree with 95% of this.
In Swalwell's case, the woman he raped says he drugged her drink.
That's a crime I do care about and would gladly castrate him for myself. No anasthesia.
She implied that he drugged her drink. Hearsay. That said Swallwell can fuck right off…
She didn't imply. She accused him directly. That's how any court would take it in testimony.
I agree with your “For the record” points, Lance. I’d like a standard to be: police report or medical record or it didn’t happen.
And if you’re old enough to drink, you’re old enough to know when to stop and to take responsibility for what happens to you when you don’t.
So every time a boss sexually harasses a subordinate, unless there is a crime or visit to the hospital, no harm, no foul?
What does one do when someone puts a drug in their drink?
What year do you think it is?
Go to the police or go to the doctor. Drugging someone is a crime. So is rape.
Sexual harassment in the workplace is not a crime.
Then report it to HR when it happens.
Ain't no HR in the halls of Congress.
Taking a wild guess that you never had any sexual harassment awareness training. Ever.
Physical force and coercion are REAL!
Not for the woman who sucked his member in the limo ...
Thanks for identifying yourself, unempathetic psychopath.
No empathy? Are you serious? She willingly gave him a blowjob. And you think she is a victim?
#YouToo!
I didn't say SHE was a victim. My comment stands as you don't seem to get it.
You seem to be dumber than a fence post. Is English your second, partial language?
For every congressperson that makes the tabloids for sexual transgressions there are probably ten or more that you never hear about. Ethics disappeared from Washington a long time ago. As bad as cheating on your spouse is, our porcine pols cheat the American people every day they are in office.
Matt if you are looking for an expose, Pelosi's involvement might be interesting. These stories, minus the date rape drug details, were rampant in the Bay Area years ago. Inexplicably, Pelosi not only shepherded Swalwell's career, she saved him from the Fang Fang fallout. The joke use to be Swalwell was her Walmart version of Newsom, for when Nancy felt the urge to go slumming.
DC sex scandals are hardly rare, but rarely is the timing so convenient for the Party of the accused. The CA Dem Party faced the real prospect of Nov ballot without a Dem Governor's candidate. Dems had to frag a frontrunner, to consolidate support. Swalwell was their only possibility. Steyer is billionaire. The Dem Party has no leverage over him, because he does not require a dime of their money. Porter is truly loathsome, but the CA Dem Party was never going to politically frag a female candidate. That left Swalwell.
It will be the ultimate political irony if Reps pull off a Nov. CA Governor's upset. Another outcome is also interesting. Swalwell is broke with 3 little kids. Even if he is not convicted of rape, the CA Bar will take his law license.
Employment prospects will be sparse, with one possible exception. Swalwell spent nearly 2 decades in Silicon Valley politics. Presumably, he knows where a few proverbial bodies are buried. A mea culpa tell all, after a stint in sex addiction rehab, might sell a few books.
How *did* he weasel out of the Fang Fang fallout? I never understood that.
Nope. That crowd only “writes” books when they’re running for office. Meanwhile, the same powers-that-be who annihilated Swellwell in a matter of days (raise your hand if you still believe this wasn’t a political hit job designed to thin the gubernatorial herd) will quietly pay him hush money. There will be no tell-all book. Maybe he will take up art. Or speaking. Or “consulting.”
Why would he be disbarred if not convicted of a crime?
Not particularly interested in these. Would much prefer coverage of abundant financial graft on both sides of the aisle.
"What was the alleged penis alleged to be doing in the alleged videos?" - Attorney for Eric Swellwell
I'm sitting in a doctors office reading/watching. The staff is eyeing me a bit guardedly as I laugh at this shit! They prolly want to send me to a different kinda drs care!
Just tell them you are reading about politicians caught in sex scandals. They'll laugh and nod their heads knowingly and ask you which one is your favorite.
Yes. Even what is visible is fat and disgusting. Why ever would that turd think anyone would want to see that???
The photo of Barton is hilarious. Thank goodness what he is so proud of was “redacted.” (For the mental health of us all.)
“There was Eric the Snapchatting guy, and then there was Eric my boss,” a former staffer said. “It was like two different people completely.”
Yes, Penis Out Eric versus Penis In Eric.
How about this:
Any active member of Congress (elected) caught having an affair (married scenario) or having an intimate relationship (any type/category of “sex”) with any member of his/her staff loses their elected position, as well as any staff member involved.
Swift consequence. No court, no he said/she said — simply consequence.
I would rather see people arrested for the fraud they have been committing upon the American taxpayers.
Here’s what’s funny… these accounts make Sen Al Franken’s grab and grope antics look like patty cake… and yet, again because Klobuchar was licking her Senatorial chops, Franken was ousted in record time. It’s not the severity of the behavior, it’s the political agenda. The end justifies the means. I may have to needlepoint that!
That was insane and infuriating. It rendered her utterly despicable to me for the rest of time. He should've fought her.
Same with Christina Blassey Ford….i didn’t find her the least bit credible with her Kavanaugh story… and Senator Feinstein’s staff choreographed that whole charade.
She was about as credible as my dog would be! I thought she seemed heavily sedated. There was a long stretch where she had a thick strand of hair hanging over her eye. It was literally underneath her eyeglasses! It was driving me crazy but she just stood there and never reacted to it.