Is Diesel’s life destroyed? No, but the amount of the damage is not the point, is it? It is now a millstone around his neck and there are certain people who will absolutely not work with the guy because those accusations are out there. Is he doing fine even so? Sure. But that doesn’t mean that he should be stuck with that taint if these accusations are false.

Now I’m not saying they are for sure, but all too often these accusations are thrown out there and they are left as just that. And now we’re in a situation where our friend above who posted the Vin Diesel link, just throws it out there like oh well there’s a problem with Vin Diesel, when we really don’t know if there is or not. He’s been judged, and he has no opportunity or even means to prove his innocence-- I mean you can’t prove a negative anyway, and we’re all supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. But all too often these days in discussions like this somebody pops up and says oh well so and so has a problem, and we all convict the guy in our minds, and it doesn’t matter whether the accusation holds water at all.

All of that is well trodden ground. But we are still left with the big problem of giving carte blanche to accusations, like we’ve been through with the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism-- when you give the power to destroy someone’s reputation with an accusation alone, and the accusation is left there doing damage and is never followed up on, what kind of justice can you really have? Because 999 sexual assault accusations can be true and there can be that one where you just have a crazy evil person taking advantage of that carte blanche

Remember the lady who said that Biden tried to rape her in the hallway of Congress? And then she went on to write blog essays about how sexy she found Vladimir Putin? You still have people saying that Biden should be held to account for that ridiculous bullshit, some simply because they’re terrified to be seen as one who refuses to believe women no matter what the circumstances.

And I’m not suggesting anything like the return to the days of putting victims on trial, but accusations need to be able to sustain at least more weight than tissue paper before we casually destroy lives just so we can say we believed women.

Does Diesel have any track record of these kinds of accusations?

It says something, or at least suggests something, that the charges were dropped because she didn’t continue to file the proper forms on time. And then not only the sexual assault accusations, but the accusations that his sister helped in creating a “hostile work environment”? Stinks to high heaven of revenge accusations.

Any competent attorney would have made sure that that paperwork was filed on time, and she should have no problem getting a competent attorney with such a financially lucrative target.

And then of course there are the long running rumors that Diesel is gay, and just hasn’t come out because that doesn’t play well for an action star…

“Heart”?

Big difference is that there’s still debate over Dwyer’s guilt or innocence

I would never wish such a thing upon us, but there is some humor in imagining Thomas, Alito, Roberts, et al., stuck in the same room with the legendarily insufferable Cruz… FOR LIFE

This is what happens when you sell your soul to the devil. Remember during Trump one, when Kennedy stepped down to make room for Kavanaugh? And right after the Kavanaugh swearing, Trump and Kennedy are walking away from the podium, and Trump says something-- and Kennedy stops dead in his tracks, saying basically “Wait what?”

www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/…/4754791

I’m still waiting to hear about a lip reader telling people what was being said there, at least as much as can be seen. At the time the speculation was that Trump pulled strings to get Kennedy’s son out of some trouble (that I forget) in exchange for Kennedy stepping down early to make room for Kavanaugh. And in that clip it looks like mere seconds after the Kavanaugh announcement, Kennedy found out just how much Trump’s word was worth.

You see his hand go up, “Relax, guy!”

Right now I only have a problem with the Supreme Court. I’m okay with all the judges that keeps slapping down all the stupid unconstitutional s*** Trump keeps trying to pull. The Supremes are the ones who are doing end runs around the law to cover his ass. Well them, and Aileen Cannon…