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When I heard Franken asking legal-type questions of people under oath as part of the Russian-election-manipulation-investigation fustercluck, I’d swear that guy was brain-damaged. It was the worst rambling garbage I’ve ever heard. Dead serious, this guy sounded worse than a 7th grade girl on the debate team right after her boyfriend dumped her AND she failed a mid-term math test. I don’t expect everybody in the world to speak like Ryan Seacrest or be a practicing lawyer, but you’d think that a guy in that position would at least consult a lawyer (gonna tell me that his congressional office doesn’t have one on retainer?!) and get some pointers on how to do this without looking like a complete corndog. What’s sad is that he probably did.

If I was in that position, I would type up my questions, have a lawyer go over them and redline any changes, then I would take that paper in and read the questions verbatim. It comes off wooden and monotone but it sure beats coming off like a blithering idiot.

I think all of the alcoholic drinks, bong-hits, and lines of coke that Franken did over the years have caught up to him. He’s insisting that he’s innocent of his sexual assault accusations and is anxious to defend himself. He’s forgotten that he’s already publicly confessed to a bunch of them, publicly apologized, and he was photographed doing several of them!! I wouldn’t hire this idiot to clean my bathroom, he would probably bomb the place with industrial chemicals and kill every living thing on my block.

I actually liked Jesse during his campaign in the 1990s, mainly because he wasn’t afraid of anybody and he was pissing off the right people. But soon after getting elected, he went off the deep end and has only managed to sink.

I really think that becoming a public figure drove him nuts. He was a wrestler and a sometimes-actor that actually got some decent roles. Alright, he’s not Marlon Brando, but there’s a whole lot of people that try their whole lives to be an actor and don’t get 5 seconds of screen time in Hollywood. That stuff gave him a small taste of being a public figure but nothing like being an actual state governor, especially one that was outrageous and had media following him around to see what kind of wacky shtuff that he was going to try next. It didn’t take him long before he got sick of the media following him around 24/7 and had no problem making him look like an idiot, which was a very short trip. Then he hit a phase where he couldn’t shut up about his military service and kept getting caught in lies about what he did—and where. After talking about being a SEAL in Vietnam, it was proven that Jesse never served in combat in Vietnam. He also earlier claimed that a health problem with blood clots in his lungs was caused by being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, which was also proven to be a lie. That’s a clear case of stolen valor and admitting to it had to have carried a real sting, as it should.

I think being a controversial public figure drove him nuts and that’s why he spiraled so bad.