Serial sex criminal and president of the United States Donald J. Trump asked that rhetorical question to rally his "base" of deplorables, louts, sexists and terrorist scum around Brett Kavanaugh, the Republican apparatchik Trump is trying to make a lifetime Justice of the Supreme Court. He was speaking to his favorite propagandist and loyal shill, Sean Hannity, one of Murdoch's Minions at Fox "News" and a career radical reactionary and polemical TV bully. The "question" was directed at Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who at the age of 15, in 1982, should have gone to the FBI.
It shouldn't be necessary to point out the numerous things that are dumb about this. But in brief: rape is generally a state crime, not a Federal one, so the FBI wouldn't be involved unless local police asked for help. Second, then as now, the vast majority of rapes- like around 90%- are NOT reported by victims, much less teen ones, much less rape attempts.
And Trump knows this. He has had years of experience sexually assaulting numerous women with NONE of them filing criminal complaints against him! He's full of shit, and his bad faith is stunning.
This is a criminal who we have on video boasting of grabbing women's "pussies" and forcibly kissing them. "They let you get away with it," he said on that video. He has bragged about walking in on naked contestants in the Miss Universe pageant he controlled, to ogle them. He is also a known serial adulturer. He has an extensive history of sexual crimes and misbehavior.
But "the" media hasn't mentioned any of this in the Kavanaugh-Ford affair! I think it is QUITE relevant!
Trump had more idiotic, malign, and dangerous things to say on Twitter today:
"I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!"
"The radical left lawyers want the FBI to get involved NOW. Why didn’t someone call the FBI 36 years ago?"
Radical left lawyers. A classic "McCarthyite" smear, designed as a clarion call to the millions of reactionaries who are the core of Trump's "base."
This is about far more than just the case of Kavanaugh and Ford. The deep problem with what Trump is doing is he is pushing the U.S. backwards socially and culturally. He is promoting primitive, sexist, repressive male supremacist attitudes towards rape and women and the violent victimization of women.
And he is determined to achieve his oft-stated goal of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe vs. Wade, thus abolishing the "right" to abortion. (More of a privilege that women have to struggle to get, especially poor women.) "It's going to happen," he has said repeatedly, cementing his tawdry alliance with the religious reactionaries of the U.S., the most hypocritical and sanctimonious mass of creeps in the country.
Wither the Democrats? As usual with reactionaries nominated for the Supreme Court, the dominant Democratic politicians surreptitiously grease the skids for the reactionary nominees, as I have explained in previous posts. (Just scroll down.) This time it was the awful Dianne "I love the secret police" Feinstein, who hid a letter from Ford she received in July. The excuse being peddled in "the" media for Feinstein is that Ford asked for anonymity. The trouble with that is that she also hid a letter from July from a lawyer notifying her of Federal employees with sexually derogatory information about Kavanaugh. There was NO request for anonymity in that letter. So "the" media simply ignores it.
Both political parties of the two-party cartel have been dedicated to making the U.S. more repressive throughout their history. The few "progressive" moves by them were done reluctantly and only because of intense public pressure. For example, what's so "progressive" about Nixon allowing Congress to create an Environmental Protection Agency? Polluters were destroying the environment and causing mass disease! That is objectively damaging even from the rulers' perspective!
In America, what is called "Liberalism" is merely pragmatism. What is called "Conservatism" is reactionaryism and even fascism.
It shouldn't be necessary to point out the numerous things that are dumb about this. But in brief: rape is generally a state crime, not a Federal one, so the FBI wouldn't be involved unless local police asked for help. Second, then as now, the vast majority of rapes- like around 90%- are NOT reported by victims, much less teen ones, much less rape attempts.
And Trump knows this. He has had years of experience sexually assaulting numerous women with NONE of them filing criminal complaints against him! He's full of shit, and his bad faith is stunning.
This is a criminal who we have on video boasting of grabbing women's "pussies" and forcibly kissing them. "They let you get away with it," he said on that video. He has bragged about walking in on naked contestants in the Miss Universe pageant he controlled, to ogle them. He is also a known serial adulturer. He has an extensive history of sexual crimes and misbehavior.
But "the" media hasn't mentioned any of this in the Kavanaugh-Ford affair! I think it is QUITE relevant!
Trump had more idiotic, malign, and dangerous things to say on Twitter today:
"I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!"
"The radical left lawyers want the FBI to get involved NOW. Why didn’t someone call the FBI 36 years ago?"
Radical left lawyers. A classic "McCarthyite" smear, designed as a clarion call to the millions of reactionaries who are the core of Trump's "base."
This is about far more than just the case of Kavanaugh and Ford. The deep problem with what Trump is doing is he is pushing the U.S. backwards socially and culturally. He is promoting primitive, sexist, repressive male supremacist attitudes towards rape and women and the violent victimization of women.
And he is determined to achieve his oft-stated goal of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe vs. Wade, thus abolishing the "right" to abortion. (More of a privilege that women have to struggle to get, especially poor women.) "It's going to happen," he has said repeatedly, cementing his tawdry alliance with the religious reactionaries of the U.S., the most hypocritical and sanctimonious mass of creeps in the country.
Wither the Democrats? As usual with reactionaries nominated for the Supreme Court, the dominant Democratic politicians surreptitiously grease the skids for the reactionary nominees, as I have explained in previous posts. (Just scroll down.) This time it was the awful Dianne "I love the secret police" Feinstein, who hid a letter from Ford she received in July. The excuse being peddled in "the" media for Feinstein is that Ford asked for anonymity. The trouble with that is that she also hid a letter from July from a lawyer notifying her of Federal employees with sexually derogatory information about Kavanaugh. There was NO request for anonymity in that letter. So "the" media simply ignores it.
Both political parties of the two-party cartel have been dedicated to making the U.S. more repressive throughout their history. The few "progressive" moves by them were done reluctantly and only because of intense public pressure. For example, what's so "progressive" about Nixon allowing Congress to create an Environmental Protection Agency? Polluters were destroying the environment and causing mass disease! That is objectively damaging even from the rulers' perspective!
In America, what is called "Liberalism" is merely pragmatism. What is called "Conservatism" is reactionaryism and even fascism.
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