re: If Platner isn’t being criminally charged for rape, he shouldn’t drop out

I just think that if you’re going to make that accusation then it needs to move into some sort of legal proceeding to either criminalize him or vindicate him at the least. Can’t just say, “there was a rape” and then just shuffle along like nothing happened.

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Can’t just say, “there was a rape” and then just shuffle along like nothing happened.

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What year is it?! Not on my calendar - on yours….? Wait I wanna play some tiddlywinks with it, guessing game.

I’m guessing your calendar left off at ‘82. No silly, 1982, not 1882. Scratch that, switching to ‘88, and this time I do mean 1888. I kid again. Seriously though, your premise is quite heavily flawed, especially for how short it is. Counterpoint 1: having touched on it above, seriously this time I would point out that in present day times, yes, it’s routine for rape allegations to be leveled, many, many times with no practical resolution of the truthfulness or not of the accusations/charges. Counterpoint 2: to use a pop culture trope, that’s not how it works, that’s not how any of this works. In other words, that’s not how it works - the criminal justice system, criminal court process and related procedural requirements, that is.

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He's not calling the shots on that deal
When they send in the rape accusation, its to get you out, mostly by your own side

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Exactly. Now that he has dropped out, no charges will be pursued and the people who backed him during that campaign up until this week will act as if he never existed.

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You can bet (with heavy leverage) Swalwell's exit was not free, nor was Platner's.

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And certainly that’s not an unreasonable notion to subscribe to. But I’m saying neither is it an unreasonable notion that the fully Democrat controlled state - radical Democrat prosecutors with literal African hyena rabies all foaming at the mouth, particularly the ones who would be deciding whether and what charges to bring against him (oh, and with probably just a tad (lol) of input from Democrat high rollers and shot callers), all hypothetically speaking of course, certainly would not have any moral or principled qualms about squashing him like bug.

Let’s say they were to communicate to him “Drop out or you will regret it,” and he were to tell them to bugger off, IMO it wouldn’t be all that difficult for them, under the relevant and current circumstances, to force him by criminal prosecution extortion.

Some news sources say he hasn't dropped out and could step right back in. If his supporters want him to.

C'mon, man!

I agree.

Screw the DNC and stay in the race.

Or

Stay in the race and screw the DNC.