#ExxonKnew leader Eric Schneiderman resigns in disgrace amid physical abuse allegations

I have a suspicion that the issue may be both more and less complex than we think. Because I’ve been reading Chesterton.
Theorising before the facts are in is, of course, fatal to the deductive mind (S. Holmes (paraphrased)), while Feynman tells us that we need to start any investigation by guessing. I wonder whether the answer is simply that Mr Schneiderman moves in the sort of circles which worship and blindly follow the latest crazes.
This would explain why he attacks oil companies, and also why he is the target of sexual assault allegations. His female colleagues are simply following the latest fashion and accusing him of assault. They will probably accuse him of bullying as well, and incorrect recycling of plastic.
This comment is made, of course, with no data to go no. But it has the merit of being the most parsimonious explanation…

@ur momisuglyMango
Yep, I miss the old fella too. Come back Richard all is forgiven. The BBC’s science pages are almost completely worthless these days. As is the level of debate. Very glad you’re still with us though. I really do miss the good old days. We used to have a better class of alarmists to debate with. These days they just scream and post links to dana and the boys on sks. It’s hardly worth blogging any more. Still, mustn’t let the $#&*)(#@ur momisugly grind me down.

This slime is the latest in a long list of leaders of the left, not ordinary rank and file type folks: Thought leaders, political leaders, entertainment leaders, business leaders, media and press leaders…and they are pretty much all the most sanctimonious of the liberal scolds. Think of it, so many of them are without exaggeration clamorous moralizing scolds and wickedly depraved sociopaths.
The Jimmy Swaggert Effect on steroids.
I think we might as well take it is a given that the loudest and most sanctimonious of the virtue signaling finger pointers are in fact the ones who are desperately buying up indulgence credits in a desperate bid for absolution for their sins.
No need to wait for them to be caught. Or called out.
It is all of the loudest and most self righteous.
Schneiderman is a special case, infected with a very virulent strain of the JSE malady.
The lurid details being revealed are not simply scandalous…this guy is a multiple felon.
“She told me that her boyfriend of a year, Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York, has been choking, beating, and threatening her for the entirety of their relationship and that several times he threatened to have her killed if she ever tried to leave him. She said he knows that she has a lot of really damning information about him, his alcoholism, sexual deviance, and drug use, and she worries about her safety.”
Racist, woman beating, drug abusing, thieving, alcoholic rapist.
And his resignation and lame not really denials look damning.
“Manning Barish says that Schneiderman also took prescription tranquillizers [sic], and often asked her to refill a prescription that she had for Xanax, so that he could reserve “about half” the pills for himself. (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that he has “never commandeered anyone’s medications.”) Sometimes in bed, she recalls, he would be “shaking me and grabbing my face” while demanding that she repeat such things as “I’m a little whore.” She says that he also told her, “If you ever left me, I’d kill you.””
“Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him Master, and he’d slap me until I did,” Selvaratnam claimed. “He started calling me his ‘brown slave’ and demanding that I repeat that I was ‘his property.’”
“The slaps started after we’d gotten to know each other,” she told the New Yorker. “It was at first as if he were testing me. Then it got stronger and harder. It wasn’t consensual. This wasn’t sexual playacting. This was abusive, demeaning, threatening behavior.”
She further alleges that Schneiderman would “hit me until I agreed” to engage in a threesome with another woman. Something she never did.
“The abuse escalated,” the New Yorker reports. “Schneiderman not only slapped her across the face, often four or five times, back and forth, with his open hand; he also spat at her and choked her.”
“He was cutting off my ability to breathe,” she claims. Things escalated to a point where “we could rarely have sex without him beating me.”
She also says that he drank too much, took sedatives, and often forced her to drink with him. “In the middle of the night, he staggered through the apartment, as if in a trance,” is how the New Yorker describes it. “The next morning, she says, he’d seem fine, but often berated her for not having kept him away from the alcohol.”
Things only worsened after President Trump won the presidency. Selvaratnan says that he had counted on “forging an ambitious partnership with a White House led by Hillary Clinton.” On the night before Trump’s inauguration, Schneiderman was forced to cancel a public appearance. “He told me that he’d been drinking the night before he fell down. He didn’t realize he’d cut himself, and got into bed, and when he woke up he was in a pool of blood,” Selvaratnam says.”
No, nothing to do with his political leanings.
All a coincidence.
It could be anyone from either party.
It just never is.