Posted on 09/23/2018 9:56:06 AM PDT by george76
It took the French Revolution ten years (1789-1799) to go from an idealistic fight for freedom to the one-man rule of Napoleon, but these are fast-moving times and the #MeToo movement has gone from the necessary correction of monsters like Harvey Weinstein to an all-out assault on the rule of law and hatred of the entire male sex in about eighteen months. (Well, it was men who came up with the Magna Carta.)
Think I'm exaggerating? How about the nauseating misandry of the senator from Hawaii, Mazie Hirono? Not only, in the eyes of Ms. Hirono, is Brett Kavanaugh automatically culpable without verifiable corroboration or evidence of any sort beyond a vague accusation nearly four decades old, but all men should "shut up and step up."
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Proof of the abuse is completely unnecessary. An accusation will suffice. (Where is Torquemada when we need him?)
And she's not alone. That Queen of Hypocrisy Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, longtime buddy of the very Harvey Weinstein and idolator of super randy sex abuser Bill Clinton and his enabling wife, now excoriates Kavanaugh as what we might call "Son of Weinstein," if we were making a horror movie.
Meanwhile, the three then high schoolers -- Mark Judge, Patrick J. Smythe, and close Ford friend Leland Ingham Keyser ... have all now issued sworn formal denials of having been there or knowing anything about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Schumer would have every reason to want to destroy #MeToo, as it has literally taken out some of his very close dining/drinking buddies :
CBS Charlie Rose, NBC Matt Lauer, NBC Mark Halperin, NBC Matt Zimmerman, Sen. Al Franken, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (!), Democrat billionaire donor Harvey Weinstein, Dustin Hoffman (6 women, ya'll), New Republic/Atlantic Leon Wieseltier, NYT's Glenn Thrush (an abominable douchebag of a human being), MPR/NPR Garrison Keillor, NPR News Director Michael Oreskes, NPR Chief News Editor David Sweeney, NPR Board Chairman Roger LaMay, #PhoneJob O'Reilly (yup, you better believe it), NY Ballet Peter Martins, NY Metropolitan's James Levine, and celeb chef Mario Batali.Every last one photographed with Chuck Schumer.
A lot? A LOT?
It's been the perfect tool to destroy Leftists! They have been OVERWHELMINGLY the sexcapaders, and we have done an unspoken perfect job of destroying their careers, and the careers of people around them.
In fact, it makes you wonder how close some of these #MeToo cases have come to Schumer himself.
I absolutely believe that Schumer holds the destruction of #MeToo on the same level as deleting Kavanaugh from SCOTUS.
Schumer was close, CLOSE to Charlie Rose. Schumer had broken bread with almost everyone I named in the post above (including bread baked by Mario Batali).
There is not enough popcorn in the world to get me through this week.
The thing about the “MeToo” movement is that all of those caught up in it have been serial offenders. Thus the name MeToo.
With Kavanaugh it’s a “JustMe.” Because so far...there hasn’t been a MeToo to come forward. Yet.
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Did you mean “Me Two?”
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That would also make sense.
What I hope and pray is that Feinstein and Ford are destroying LIEberal Democrats!
And RUINING any chance of a Democrat victory in November.
They SUREASHELL have provided Republicans a number of spectacular reasons to get out and vote on November 6th!
Here is what I posted on the Senator Hirono thread a few minutes ago:
“LIEberal hysteria and LIEberal LIEs and LIEberal plans for America’s demise if they win in November are ALL the reasons we need to ensure that these INSANE people are not placed in charge of the US or any local, county or state government EVER AGAIN!”
Enjoy the show.
On top of everything else, the facts that this so called attack supposedly happened over 36 Years ago and all Parties mentioned were Teenagers seem to have evaporated.
They act like this happened within the last few years.
I was bullied in High School by three 12th Graders when I was a Sophomore. Of the three, I only remember one because he lived next door to me when I was younger. The other two, including the instigator could walk up to me today, even if they didn’t age a day and I still wouldn’t recognize them.
The good news is, my Older Brother happened to run into the ex next door Neighbor and put an end to his participation under penalty of an ass whipping.
I can’t wait for Schumer, Blumenthal and Flakes me too accuser comes out of the woodwork.
Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Les Moonves, Charlie Rose, Al Franken, Mario Batali, Louis CK, Mark Halperin -- a lot of men who weren't conservative or Republican got taken down along the way.
Of course - the "movement" had to gather credibility before it could be turned into a partisan, political weapon. Didn't you think it was a bit odd that the militant, "smash the patriarchy" feminist crowd would attack so many men who are known leftists? They took down executives, celebrities, even a Senator - and none of them chose to put up a legal fight despite having ample wealth to do so.
The only one who seemed inclined to put up a fight (for a while) was Franken. Remember, too, his case was not one of "serial offenses"; it was just that one stupid photo of him pretending to grope the sleeping woman through her Kevlar vest. He lost a senate seat over a crude joke, all because the feminists frowned on his shenanigans.
Yes, I absolutely believe that the "Me Too" incidents were all part of an effort to "set the stage" for later, partisan attacks.
She is making a mockery of survivors. Real survivors. She is turning women or men who are really working thru trauma and not empowering them, she’s belittling them.
. . . at this point, IMHO, the least worst resolution would be for McConnell to call the question at the next session of the full Senate.The remaining members of POTUS Trump’s list of potential nominees should immediately form a union by sending out an open letter to the Senate with the joint commitment that none of them needs the job. And that, therefore, the confirmation process will be dignified, as befits a SCOTUS justice.
The nominee will not do anything more towards obtaining confirmation than answering written interrogatories from senators, will not appear on television, and will not allow his/her name to remain in consideration if the senate or any of its committees holds televised hearings about the nomination.
I’ve had ideas like that too, so don’t get me wrong.
At this point I’m going to just wait and see how big a fiasco the Republican leadership can turn this into.
She made a mockery of the process, and they made it possible.
. . . and so, I submit, did Kavenaugh. He enabled it by committing to participating in another meeting. He should have announced that his participation in the proceedings was at an end - and left the room. That would have been a rebuke to Feinstein - but also to Grassley. Grassley would have had to either conduct the committee vote on schedule, or risk being seen as hopelessly weak by conducting a one-sided “inquiry” into a “he said, she said” situation.If the rest of Trump’s listed SCOTUS possibilities had already established the precedent of the letter I now propose, the whole thing would have been unthinkable.
Didn’t understand that last part about the letter.
I think the nominee is kind of on the hook, once the charge is made.
Ironic, no?
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