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HIDING BEHIND A SKIRT
https://claytoonz.com/2018/09/27/hiding-behind-a-skirt/

During yesterday’s 80-minutes long rambling word salad of a press conference that may have actually been a public service announcement on the effects of mixing Rogaine with Diet Coke, Trump hinted that he’s open to ditching his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

In fact, there may be several Republicans kinda hoping today’s hearing with Kavanaugh and his first accuser, Christine Brasley Ford, is convincing enough to let him go without much political damage from their base, who are adamant about his confirmation. With more women making accusations against the nominee for sexual harassment, and even being involved in something called a “train rape,” his baggage has gotten so heavy that winning his confirmation may not be much of a win in the culture war at this point.

But, under the leadership of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the party as a whole is still trying to seat him on the court. Many don’t fear a legacy of putting Justice Rape Train on the nation’s highest court with a lifetime appointment. That’s not what they fear. What they do fear is coming off as insensitive to the very credible Brasley Ford in today’s hearing.

They’re right to be afraid. With several senators promising to confirm Kavanaugh, they’ve made it clear that it doesn’t matter what Ms. Ford says, or how poorly Kavanaugh comes off. Other senators have questioned why women wait so long to report, and others asking why they would even go to a party where they would be sexually assaulted, in addition to the president saying this is just a sham with fake accusers. McConnell gave a speech where he repeated the word “smear” several times. I was waiting for him to eventually create a new term in “smeary smears.”

Not wanting a reenactment of the late Senator Howell Heflin’s question to Anita Hill in 1991 of, “are you a scorned woman?”, the Republicans don’t plan to ask Ms. Ford any questions at all. For this, they’re bringing in a woman to question Ms. Ford. And, they’ve even messed that up with McConnell referring to her as a “female assistant,” and Joe Kennedy forgetting her name.

Her name is Rachel Mitchell, and this “assistant” has nearly 30 years experience working in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in Arizona. The Republicans will be present and you’ll find them hiding behind her skirt.

The Judiciary Committee has been around for 202 years and the Republican party has never had a woman serve on it. The Democrats currently have four,and two of them aren’t white.

Ms. Ford’s attorney sent a letter to Chuck Grassley, the committee chairman stating, “The central point is that there is no precedent for this Committee to bring in outside counsel for the sole purpose of shielding the members of the Committee from performing their responsibility to question witnesses.” He’s right. The all-white Republican men on the committee will not be doing the jobs they were elected to do tomorrow.

If the Republican men on the committee need an inspiration for courage, they can look across the aisle at their colleagues on the same committee, Dianne Feinstein, Amy Klobuchar, Mazie Hirono, and Kamala Harris.

Maybe then they can “man up.”

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Many countries have lived , and some still are , under malevolent, unhinged dictators before, but this is new for this country.
For its history your Nation has been led by men and women who, despite their varying flaws and deficiencies, some of which were quite disturbing—were by and large, normal human beings. Whatever darkness in them, they had at the very least, a baseline of humanity and decency that more often than not insured rational behavior.

This “man” is not normal.
He is unstable, malignant, devoid of integrity—and i just cannot believe he speaks for the majority of US citizens.

Nearly three million MORE people voted for his opponent Hillary Clinton than for him. Opponent that I did not much like but would have chosen any time over the orangething (Yes, I realize this is completely screwed-up). Millions more voted for other candidates, and sadly nearly 90 million of your people did not vote at all, which is what ultimately put the idiot in Office. The point is, the vast majority of US citizens are - rightfully so - not with him. He does not speak for the majority. His U.S. is not and cannot be your (as in majority) U.S.

We’ve seen the very hallmarks of who you are as a nation - once so admired by us in the rest of the world - tossed in the garbage; the celebration of diverse coexistence, the open welcome to the oppressed, the guarantee of unalienable rights for every person, the same access to health and opportunity and safety afforded to everyone, the freedom to speak without censor or restraint. At this moment these are all in great jeopardy.

Things we - as the rest of the world - wished and hoped to emulate and to have our leaders implement, like goodness, wisdom, and basic truthfulness, are no longer in play, and are eroding quickly.
This cannot be who you really are.
It may be who this man is.
It may be who those sharing power with him are.
It may even be the tens of millions who originally voted for him (though that support is vanishing quickly among those who not among the religious zealots and extremists).

But this is not America. It is not the steady, strong beacon of freedom for the whole world that it used to be. That some of us - in the rest of the world - sacrificed so much and worked so hard to be part of.
This cannot be the America so many of your valorous young men and women have fought and died for.
You need, you must fight and stand up to this mess you have created.
We, the rest of the world, will stand by you in your battle, and rebuild our trust in your original values.
But you need to fix this. Now
 
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