Posted on 09/26/2018 10:16:57 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update – Mid-day Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
[I received an email this morning containing the text below. If you don’t think many, many women are angered by the Democrats’ shameless, depraved assault on Judge Brett Kavanaugh, you might want to think again after reading this.]
=============== I stopped in to a local Chinese restaurant yesterday evening to grab an early dinner. I had been running some late afternoon errands after a busy day of work calls, and my husband was out of town. I was looking forward to a quiet, easy dinner alone with my iPhone, catching up on the news of the day.
A guy close to my age (mid-50s) came in with an older gentleman. I couldn’t tell if it was his father, an elderly uncle, or perhaps a neighbor, but it was clear that this man was kindly taking this older man out for dinner and some conversation, which I thought seemed like a lovely thing to do. The restaurant was busy but not too crowded, and people at the tables around me were having quiet conversations, none of which were loud or disruptive. It seemed like everyone was, like I was, just interested in a quiet and relaxing Tuesday evening dinner.
Until this man says to his older friend, loudly, “Well! It’s certainly going to be an interesting week of news with all of this Kavanaugh stuff!” Now, I’m not sure if he was speaking so loudly because the older man had a hearing problem, or whether he could barely contain his smug glee, but loud it was, impossible to ignore.
The older man said he didn’t know what the guy was talking about. “Wow, I guess you haven’t been paying attention to your old favorite, Fox News. There is a lot going on and I think the Democrats really have the Republicans on the ropes with this guy. What a terrible pick!”
The older man leaned in and wanted to know more.
“Well, it seems like this guy Kavanaugh was a real party animal in high school and college. Lots of excessive drinking. All of his classmates are coming forward and saying that he was a real wild man. Last week, a girl he knew in high school came forward. Apparently Kavanaugh jumped on top of her at a party, grabbed her boob, and put his hand over her mouth and said he was going to kill her if she didn’t let him have sex with her! Can you believe it???”
My blood pressure started to rise. I felt like I was going through a decision tree in my head, if I do this, then this. Or if I do this other thing, then this will happen. Or maybe I should just let it go. That’s where I had landed, until the guy, chortling gleefully, continued.
“THEN another woman, this time from college, has come forward and says that he was the leader of a rape gang! And his college roommate is saying that it’s all true! Can you believe it? So the other night Kavanaugh goes on TV with his wife, and tells Fox that none of this stuff could have ever happened, because he was a virgin in high school and well into his college years. Can you imagine? What a ridiculous story!” He was almost at a guffaw now. “This is going to absolutely KILL the Republicans once and for all. They are probably going to railroad him in there, but I don’t think the Republicans will ever get another woman to vote for them again.”
The older man seemed horrified. He said, “really, there is more than one person saying this? One in high school and then another in college?” “Yep!” his friend replied, with the same excited gleeful tone that I get when I talk about, say, really good homemade flour tortillas or salted caramel chocolate sauce. “Well, then, if there’s more than one it must be true,” the older man said, shaking his head rather woefully.
I was wrapping up my dinner and they were just getting started. I wanted to say something, but fresh from watching the footage of the raging mob attack Ted Cruz and his wife at a restaurant the night before, I thought better of it. Instead, I took my receipt and wrote the following note on the back:
“I have been assaulted once and subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace for most of my career.I persevered. And, to this day, I remember every detail of each instance and I would need ZERO time to prepare of gather courage to tell my story. You will be SHOCKED if you think that “all women” will vote as a monolith. We are furious. As a victim. As a woman. As a wife, a mother, and a sister. I DETEST what is being done to this man. You should, too. I think I recognize you. That’s all it takes, right?”
I then turned it over and said “I thought about shrieking this at you and making a scene, like they did to Cruz last night. But we are better than that. We just vote.”
I took it to my server, a young woman in her twenties. I asked if she would take it to this man after I walked out of the restaurant. She read it over, smiling and nodding (which surprised me.) She looked up after reading it and gave me a high five, and said “Yes, I sure will. Have a good evening. And thank you.”
Where we get our news matters. This man was so clearly in a bubble of one-sided accounts and like-minded people. It never dawned on him that anyone who might overhear the conversation would be offended, much less that they wouldn’t see things exactly the same way he did or know the same “facts” he did. There was not one iota of “what if these allegations aren’t true?”
And then I came home and looked up when early voting starts, just to make sure. I shared a photo of my note with several female friends, on both sides of the aisle, so to speak. The feedback was uniformly positive. This whole debacle has been demeaning to women, particularly to women who have lived through the evolution of women’s’ opportunities and roles in the workplace. It feels like we have taken all the real progress made over the past 40 years all the way back to the stone age.
But, more important than that, we are women who love the men in our lives. We can see how ominous this kind of mob rule in the public square, where an allegation is enough to sink a ship, actually is. I pray that the Republicans stand strong and vote to confirm this man.
And then, we need rise up and demand that the consequences for anyone making false sexual assault accusations, or any person or entity who is complicit in the perpetuation of them, are so brutal that we never allow this sort of thing to happen to any innocent American man ever again.
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That is all.
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The dems are doing the equivalent of a suicide kamikaze attack right before the mid terms.
They are making the entire species of human female look despicable.
I’m not even sure that despicable is a strong enough word.
Once you’ve KILLED YOUR OWN CHILDREN, then NO DEPTH is TOO DEEP TO SINK!
Yep...
Sane rational women are getting PISSED about this nonsense! They know this charade and political theater is harming REAL victims... They aren’t buying the crap...
But don’t worry, we’ll see poll after poll saying the public is behind Kavanaughs accusers.... nothing but gaslighting going on now...
I walked over to another side of my office floor about a half hour ago, and caught part of a conversation that three of my female co-workers (I am also a woman, BTW), were having. I could tell after a minute or so it was about the Kavanaugh accusations.
All three of them, including the youngest, were horrified at the accusers, saying that it was ridiculous to allege these things 30+ years after the fact, and that they were embarrassed for the women who were making these charges.
The women where I work are PISSED. My wife is PISSED.
This is no just an assault on Kavanaugh.
It’s an assault on his wife and kids.
Women are allowing themselves to be used to put the screws to other females.
How feminist of the accusers and their enablers.
[[ Women are Angry About the Assaults on Kavanaugh, and Getting Angrier]]
What they are really saying is: Women aren’t getting angry over these ridiculous absurd accusations, so we’re going to keep repeating over and over again about how women are getting angry until everyone believes women are actually getting angry”
I, too, am so angry at what they are doing to this man, his wife, kids and family.
These angry women are attempting to make ALL women look like we have been a victim at some point and need to come forward and take men out like gangbusters.
And theses angry stir crazy women doing these hatchet jobs will probably get away with it because they are women and if you look at them the wrong way, they will have your head on a platter.
I am so sickened by it all.
I don’t believe the even happened.
She made it up.
It has BS written all over it as the *conversation* is just too convenient.
And yes, women are angry about it.
We’re angry at the hit job and exploiting women who really have been sexually assaulted for political purposes and simply to destroy a man’s life and reputation.
It’s an attempt to overthrow the wishes of the 65 million plus who voted for President Trump.
I took it to my server, a young woman in her twenties. I asked if she would take it to this man after I walked out of the restaurant. She read it over, smiling and nodding (which surprised me.) She looked up after reading it and gave me a high five, and said “Yes, I sure will. Have a good evening. And thank you.”
...
I bet the server has heard multiple crazy people like this guy in her restaurant.
You bet it is. And these so-called feminists are leaving a trail of female roadkill to do it.
Last poll I saw said only 1 in 4 women believed her. I think we all know that 25% are all flaming Leftists who desperately want to believe her to suit their politics.
I am about as disgusted as I can possibly be.
I’ve had enough of this.
Those women Soros paid to do this are making me ashamed to BE a woman
It sounds like a variant of the ladies at the nail salon story from earlier this week.
-PJ
This entire business has been gaslighting from day one. When Trump nominated Kav, the signs were already made (hopefully they recycled the "Stop Coney Barrett" signs). If I were a dem operative, I would have stuck with Ford. It could have been a classic he-said, she-said. They must not be too confident in the nutty prof, so they're hurling more loony stuff, in a Groundhog Day type of stragegy. "Oh, that didn't work, today we'll try this..." Reeks of desperation, and everyone sees it by now (except the news media, including Fox News, who get off on this crap because it generates ratings). I'm turning them all off. Bring on the vote.
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