It's now up to three accusers fingering SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh for sexual assault, drunken behavior, and sheer privileged rich white boy evil.
And now the Republicans, instead of cutting their losses and getting a replacement nominee, have doubled down on defending Kavanaugh as a virtuous saint despite all the eyewitness testimony that proves just maybe he was a drunken lout from his teen years until Gods help us NOW.
The Republicans now feel the imperative to force - against a growing majority's wishes - a suspected sexual predator onto the Supreme Court not because of the issues - there's ten other judges who will overturn Roe just as easily as Kavanaugh could - but out of sheer pride. How DARE WOMEN AND LIBRULS TELL US Who Can Be A Justice. How DARE Democrats accuse us of lacking morals or empathy. How DARE the Reality of the World Stand Against US.
They are defending the indefensible now. In order to protect Kavanaugh they have denied, ignored, refused, insulted, defamed, and shamed every woman who has stepped forward to claim what Kavanaugh did to them years ago even matters today.
But what Kavanaugh did to them DOES matter today.
He assaulted young women out of anger and lust and arrogance, driven by a sense of privilege that protected him from ANY accountability. He's lying about all that today, trying to protect himself from ANY accountability.
This is a man who is fighting to gain a seat on a judicial bench that will pass not just legal judgment but also moral and social judgment on others. A man who will do ANYTHING to avoid legal and moral and social judgment on himself.
This is not a man we should trust with that power.
And yet, the Republican Party as a whole is poised to grant him that power and privilege.
Because THEY want that power and privilege for themselves.
The rest of us are fucked.
Just like Kavanaugh's alleged victims.
1 comment:
Well, he's the one who said that sitting presidents shouldn't be bothered by indictments and stuff, so it's easy to see how Fergus would want him, specifically.
If he had just said "Yeah I partied in my teens and did some questionable stuff, but did not do what I'm accused of here", he would be more believable, but his church boy virgin act is belied by every bit of evidence in existence, and he's a serial liar already.
The perjury should be enough to keep him off of SCOTUS before the rapey stuff even gets considered.
Note to Republicans: Women are human beings. Get over it.
-Doug in Oakland
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