This mix is a cocktail from hell, BUT WE'RE STILL IN THIS FIGHT
After voting to push Kavanaugh's nomination forward in committee, GOP Senator Jeff Flake called for the FBI to re-open Brett Kavanaugh's background investigation. It's being said that protesters confronting him, asking him their being sexually assaulted doesn't matter is what prompted Flake to make this request.
However, Flake has been playing both ends against the middle for a while now. He wants to be anti-Trump while voting in step with what Trump wants 90% of the time. And yesterdays maneuvers? Moving Kavanaugh closer to the Supreme Court while looking all concerned and upset, then asking for the FBI probe was the best way to look like he's supporting Dr. Blasey-Ford and remaining party loyal.
Gee, I wonder if he plans on running for president some day soon? Other than that, there's no reason for someone who is retiring from the Senate to play these kinds of games.
1980s RAPE CULTURE
As I've said before, every single man in the Senate knows what 1980s rape culture was like even if they didn't call it "rape culture."
I remember having short but intense arguments with men in college at an Ivy League school, supposedly intelligent right? In that era if a young woman was raped on a date in the 1980s, men in courts, male cops, boys on campus would argue there's no such thing as "date rape"
Over and over again their argument was, "If she didn't want to have sex then why did she say yes to going on a date with him." Over and over again, males said "There's no such thing as date rape."So do you now understand what men were commonly getting away with in the 1980s?
Do you understand why it wasn't really safe for a girls to go to a college bar, frat house, or a house party unless in pairs or in packs --if she wasn't a date?
Do you understand women in college weren't afraid of random men on the street but guys they were going to classes with?
Do you understand that guys could drink three or six beers and then blame their rape-like grabby approach to women on the alcohol?
Do you understand that every single man in congress knew a guy in college that was aggressive about getting girls drunk enough that they couldn't fight back against unwanted sexual contact -- if he wasn't THAT GUY himself?
Do you understand that this attitude I'm describing is decades and decades old and that this is why Bill Cosby was able to do a comedy routine that involved drugging a woman in order to have sex with her?
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The rape culture of the 1980s, explained by Sixteen Candles
Read More: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/27/17906644/sixteen-candles-rape-culture-1980s-brett-kavanaugh
Except for Kavanaugh putting his hand over Ford's mouth to stop her screaming, Kavanaugh's behavior was common as dirt for the average have-the-world-by-the-ass white frat boy.
Christine Blasey Ford was completely credible
As for Brett Kavanaugh, who was too cowardly to even watch Dr. Ford make her statement and resistant to having an FBI investigation done, I think he doth tearfully protest way too much.
But, Kavanaugh, formerly/currently a GOP operative, is a white man being put forth by the GRAB EM BY THE PUSSY PRESIDENT. So, I think he's going to wind up on the Supreme Court for life (if Kavanaugh doesn't wind up being impeached and removed from the bench). But I think this happening so close to midterms is going to cost republicans just enough votes to give democrats a short at taking over the Senate. I'd say I'm hopeful but not that optimistic on that particular score.
Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court may yet compromise the institution forever. But if the democrats do wind up taking over the House and the Senate, most of Trump's plans should be dead in the water
-- including his attempts to undermine the Russia investigation.
All we can do now is protest while we wait and see...then vote those who offend us out of office.
VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES
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