Al Franken Reprises Real-Life Role as U.S. Senator in The Residence 7 Years After Resigning amid Scandal

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1. Scandal. As if that word holds any meaning, given what has transpired since Franken was forced to resign by his own party.

2. That was the beginning of the end

3. crazy that just 7 years ago Franken’s nothing burger scandal was seen as a big deal, and now look at the atrocities in washington today.

4. Scandal is doing some heavy lifting here. There was no scandal and he was a sacrificial lamb executed by Gillibrand to try to differentiate democrats from republicans. Look how that turned out.

5. The Truth (With Jokes) is still such an amazing book. America robbed themselves by letting Franken resign.

6. >Franken tells PEOPLE of playing a senator in Netflix’s new murder mystery

   Well that was some clickbait.

7. Don’t even call this a bloody scandal! Considering there is a rapist running the US and one republican after another resigns for child pornography and Franken resigned for a bad photo of misjudgment. He never should have resigned for this.

8. To be clear, for those of you who don’t want to read the article, he is reprising his role as a senator in a Netflix series. Unfortunately he will not be rejoining us politically

9. He should never have resigned! No one would have demanded that a republican do so

10. A big EFF YOU to Kirsten Gillibrand for kicking out Sen. Franken. I’m not sure what’s wrong with the Tri-State area but all their Dems are trash! And of course they just elected Bob Menendez’s son…

11. Thank fucking Christ, good lord is this an amazing sight for sore eyes. Sanity with balls enters the chat

12. He’s probably the one guy that shouldn’t have resigned and just let the ridiculousness of his perceived slight blow over. He should have just said he is not resigning and that’s it.

13. “Scandal” = being thrown under the bus

14. It’s his own fault. If he just actually raped a woman, he’d even get Republican votes and support

15. That scandal again: pretending to grab someone’s boob as a joke 30 years ago

16. Fuck Kirsten Gillibrand.

    She helped get him removed. She also voted for Trumps recent budget that emboldens him.

17. Damn I was so happy for 7 whole seconds before clicking on the article

18. He never should have resigned. And Gillibrand sucks.

19. Al, come on back. You shouldn’t have left. Just saying.

20. I wish Al would run again. We need him back in office

21. He’s smart, he matters and doggone it he’s good enough.

22. It was a manufactured scandal and he should have never been forced to resign.

23. How I miss the scandals of yore…

24. There’s an alternate universe where the nothingburger Franken scandal never hits, he continues to be one of the stars of the party and, as an entertainer turned bomb thrower pol, he becomes the 2020 presidential nominee as an antidote to Trump. He’s elected and re-elected, sparing us our present reality.

    I hope Gillibrand still loses sleep about it.

25. His issues don’t seem to carry as much seriousness based on the current climate of douchbaggery

26. It wasn’t a scandal, it was a bullshit Roger Stone hit job with Gillibrand leading the way to oust him. Fuck her.

27. It was bullshit, and he should never have resigned.

28. That was 7 years ago? Feel like 15.

29. Hated the Dems for what they did to him.

30. It’s been 7 years?! No, that can’t be right. It’s only been…shit

31. Maybe he should run for president. Apparently women like it when you grab them as long as you run for president after! They will vote and show up at all the rallies!

32. Put “scandal” in quotes please.

33. Gillebrand real quiet about appropriate behavior with DJT funding his continuing resolution government.

34. A scandal that was fabricated

35. Can he just be a real senator actually?

36. If anyone hasn’t seen Al Franken drawing the United States on a white board, asap on YouTube. It’s wild, he is so smart.

37. Just run again, Al. Who cares.

38. He should have never been made to resign. The Democrats always shoot themselves in the foot.

39. If Franken was a scandal, the Trump administration is the lovechild of genocide and cancer.

40. Man we need him.

41. I cheered when I saw him on the bench, leading the proceedings.

    Some great casting in this excellent show.

42. He was forced out because of an old photo. He fake Honka Honka ‘ed a female solder while doing a comedy tour way before he was ever a senator. The whole thing was a hit job and he did nothing that warranted his resignation.

43. He should run for president and come back to politics.

    We have Rapist in charge. How the hell a joke gone wrong will kill anyone’s career at this time.

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