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.
===============
That is all.
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Dude, I’ve known this woman for years and have photos of the hand-written receipt. Piss off if you don’t like it.
This alone ought to make feminists livid. When real assaults occur, the accused can point to this and say his accuser's story is all a fantasy.
LOL! Good ole Johhny!
Perfect.
....”Once you’ve KILLED YOUR OWN CHILDREN, then NO DEPTH is TOO DEEP TO SINK!”....
Yes Indeed!
....”Once you’ve KILLED YOUR OWN CHILDREN, then NO DEPTH is TOO DEEP TO SINK!”....
Yes Indeed!
If I read your comment correctly you need to find a better class of women to hang out with.
Every woman I know is furious about what is being done to Kavanaugh.
If they were decent women I might be embarrassed....but they’re not.
Heck we’ve got a porn star and her porn attorney still center stage in political circles......that by itself is telling of the state of our political leaders and the media blood suckers.
That is exactly what my wife said about it last night.
I’m angry.
The demonrats over played their hand and We, the People are angry. There will be a red wave Nov. 6.
Ford, Dianne and the rest of the demonrats have set “women empowerment” (whatever the heck that is) back 50 years.
Right. American popular culture took over American politics... and everything else.
The problem is that American ‘popular culture’ is vomit.
Don ‘t believe me? Turn on prime time TV, listen to the radio, pick up a magazine, go to the movies.
Our culture is neck deep in crud...and if you notice much less object... you are ‘you know what’!!
Agree. The left finally has gone too far in the eyes of middle america. Not only do independent women no longer believe the dems they are pi##ssed off at them. Which is why republicans are polling better than dems and why the whole dem estasblishment is about to be slapped down on nov 6th. Stock up on popcorn. Then vote like your existence depends on it.
My wife is so pissed off at the demrats and she thinks that all honorable women should stand up and permanently vote the bastards out of office...
Imagine your son, brother, husband, or father being accused of being the leader of a “gang-rape gang” in high school, for the purpose of only to destroy their career. No courtroom needed. No presumption of innocence. No threat of perjury.
They’ve basically distorted the normal, “boys and girls experimenting with drugs, alcohol, and sex in high school” to “he spiked their drinks and had them gang raped” - without ANY evidence to go from one to the other. Without any girls coming forward claiming this was the case at the time or filing a police report.
From the yearbook it seems there were plenty of girls engaging in these activities all by their own choice.
The degree of this distortion puts the democrats in a category of EVIL. This isn’t “just politics” and trying to “win votes”. This is active lying to destroy an individual. A very good man no less.
It is disgusting. Liberals, or I should say “leftists”, are so hate-filled and bigoted toward everyone else they’re just fine with this. This guy in the article is so full of hate he doesn’t even QUESTION the information or the presentation of it. He WANTS it to be true and drinks the cool-aid just as it is given to him. What is scary is that there’s loads of them. What is worse is that many are white males that believe their virtue signalling will save them from the rabid extremists on the left. One day they’ll be pleading they’re “one of them” when they’re being targeted for just being a white male. They’re FOOLS.
Have you searched YouTube for “Walk Away” videos?
They only question is just how many are doing this? There has to be hundreds of videos and these are only the ones who made a video.
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When everyone is a rapist nobody is a rapist.
When everyone is a Nazi nobody is a Nazi.
When everyone is a fascist....
This is why it is so disgusting...it belittles the real victims and empowers the real perpetrators.
Except for a few Female GOP Senators of course.
Do we need to review all the FR threads that began with "I received an email..."
You didn't mention in your post that the email was from a long-known friend, just that you received an email. Many debunked stories here begin with chain emails that people got.
All I said was that there was a similar story a few days ago, but the setting was a nail salon. Maybe next time, you can add a little bit more provenance to the emails you relate?
-PJ
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