Careers ruined or at risk from accusations of sexual misconduct

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(09-29-2018, 09:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-29-2018, 12:46 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-28-2018, 09:40 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-28-2018, 02:08 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: 4th woman sends anonymous letter about an assault in 1998





Denying sexual assaults is typical. That's what Kavanaugh is doing. Lying to congress disqualifies a supreme court nominee.

The problem is that the Trump regime and his GOP stooges can steamroller someone like Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court. This is what happens when the majority Party, even if it has but a shaky majority, acts with blind obedience instead of conscience, when it acts with contempt for due process in the name of power.

Due process? There is no such thing as due process in Blue America these days. Have fun living under mob rule.

The Senate Judiciary Committee chose to ask the FBI for more of a background on  Bret Kavanaugh... which left-leaning Lawrence O'Donnell praised for demonstrating that the American political process works best when it is inefficient enough to slow the processes that could bring momentous change.

Yes, I do not want another reactionary in the Supreme Court, but elections have consequences, and we the American swine who voted for Donald Trump and Reactionary majorities in both Houses of Congress and most state legislatures deserve such. People who vote for Donald Trump deserve to return to his idea of American greatness, a time in which seventy-hour workweeks and forty-year lifespans were the norm for industrial workers, farm laborers, retail clerks, and miners.  The problem is that the children of such people deserve far better because they are innocent of such folly. America became better than Trump's idea of national greatness because Americans got better, made the appropriate sacrifices, and got better. Nothing could force such better than the Great Depression that demonstrated that the economic elites of the 1920s had failed catastrophically. Nothing could so discredit the gutter racism pervasive in Western Christian Civilization as could its most vehement expression in Adolf Hitler, and America at its best did its share to defeat the vilest cause to have ever existed.

Should Bret Kavanaugh be rejected (or withdraw his nomination), then Donald Trump will find some other reactionary who believes that women are little more than baby-factories and that 95% of the people exist to suffer for 2% of the American people. We do not need a drunkard in the Supreme Court, we do not want someone who expresses hyper-partisan conspiracies that have him as the focus of a sinister plot, and we do not want someone so devoid of a moral compass that he can trivialize a sexual assault that he may be proved to have done. Above all we do not need a jurist who believes that he can sacrifice stare decisis (the key judicial doctrine that states that legal precedent must hold even when such is inconvenient -- indeed, especially when such is inconvenient) for the transitory advantage of the political leadership of the time. This man does not have the temperament to be a Justice of the US Supreme Court.

Maybe good cause exists for the Senate Judiciary Committee allowing a one-week window fr investigating allegations of sexual misconduct. Donald Trump got power in accordance with existing structures in American politics, and we are stuck with the results. We the American swine, who have devoured the pearls cast in front of our shouts, deserve the worst that Donald Trump does. We deserve oppression  by people who think of the common man as livestock at best and vermin at worst. Don't fool yourself about the heirs, the executives, and the political operatives who rule us at least until January 2019 and have great power until at least January 2021. They have nearly everything, and we can expect to have nothing more than what they think will make those elites richer and more powerful while securing their positions of dominance and wealth. Those elites would set up Nazi-style labor (if not extermination, which would kill off workers that they need) camps if they could get away with it to maximize exploitation.

Bret Kavanaugh is someone with which I would have no trust in defining what due process is.

Mob rule? The mob rule that Obama supported? You live in a fantasy world, as there was no such thing. If you want to contemplate what mob rule is, just imagine our political system imploding due to its complete loss of credibility.

With all the damning information it really was a miracle that Kavanaugh got accepted to sit on the nation's highest court. The only reason I could think of that this could have possibly happened was that apparently there wasn't sufficient evidence that he was actually the one who performed the dastardly deed, which if proven was much worse than what Clarence Thomas was accused of before he was seated. Meantime, more and more Catholic priests are being accused of sexual misconduct and barred from the priesthood. And, both Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein have pretty much gone down in flames along with the likes of Matt Lauer.

I recently asked a psychic reader for her take on movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, and she seems to think that they will be as fleeting as the Occupy movement was. We shall see.