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.
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It will be interesting to see.
Personally, I think most democrats and republican voters are long since crystallized and hardened into their positions. It’s just where the central fringe moderates in each part, as well as the ‘independents’ and un-affiliated libertarians that I wonder about. Even if you are getting your information from the MSM and drive-by sound bites, I feel it’s got to be hard to buy into how frivolous and weak the accusations seem to be.
What’s going to be interesting is how any public hearings play out. If they are anything like the partisan freakshow we saw during the previous hearings, we are sure to get lightening-rod sound bytes again that will only serve to to feed each side of the propaganda machines the narrative they want to project.
How critical are people thinking? How skeptically are they questioning the apparent veracity of all this?
It’s a bit hard to gauge when you listen to the pundits. I personally have faith in people to see through the BS.
It’s very troubling, and if I was a woman, I would also be ashamed.
This is a pitiful display.
Completely overplayed their hand...
Hold the hearing Thursday, let Ford speak, assuming she even shows up... and then vote on Friday... send it to the floor and be done with this circus.
No sane woman that isn’t a complete partisan hack is buying this... NONE...
But don’t worry they’ll make sure the polls say they are...
A deranged wind.
I think all we can do is pray.
#MeToo was beginning to make progress in getting businesses to clamp down on sexual harassment in the workplace. These baseless and clearly politically motivated attacks will set women back years.
My wife hates the Donald for some absurd reasons so she is probably against Kavanaugh too.
I don’t bother asking.
The Democrats are doing exactly what they did in Wisconsin when Walker took away a lot of their free stuff. In Wisconsin the symbol of solidarity was a blue fist, go figure.
i personally know several women that are infuriated about all of this ... for MANY reason:
1. they know it’s nothing but an obvious bogus ploy to sink Kavanaugh ... and ruin the reputation of a good man ...
2. they KNOW there’s a BIG difference between actual sexual assault and a couple of teen children SUPPOSEDLY wrestling on a couch with their clothes on ...
3. the above two items SERIOUSLY damage the situations of women who have actually suffered actual sexual assault ...
4. Ronan Farrow totally ruined his credibility by promoting the BS claims of Deborah Ramirez as equal to those against Moonves and Weinstein, thereby tarnishing legitimate claims of despicable behavior of those two ...
5. Continuously promoting the bogus and marginal claims of marginal women who have obvious political and financial axes to grind reflects badly on all women ...
If they are that upset they should prove it by doing the Kate Spade Rope Dance.
They are also scaring the crap out of every man, R or D who can see his own career, dreams, family being torn apart by this kind of allegation by some woman from decades past.
The Rule of Law is the backbone of America. Presumption of innocence.
My mother is livid at the accusers and Democrats. And she used to be a Democrat.
I think you might have misread the story. These are women angry at the accusers and the Democrats.
Females may be creating a situation where they will be necessarily ostracized for the purpose of self preservation.
No one needs this.
“Women are angry” ?
ALL women, or some women? You have to be specific.
What they are angry about is that their lives are empty because no man would go anywhere near them for fear of being accused of rape 26 years later.
You might want to read the article before posting.
Now and again...I sometimes work as a health care professional....I've had my ass slapped many times, by women...over the last 28 plus years...
I've had very suggestive things said to me.....
I've been brushed up against...when there was no need for it..many times.
Women can get away...with way more stuff...than dudes can.
bkmk
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