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• No way he could have set it up that way, but the whole Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination fiasco felt to me like Trump was rubbing our noses in it.

Martin Winfree
December 5, 2018
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Well, I really feel like a politician now; I promised you two more Political Analysis posts Monday and Tuesday, and they didn’t get out. But actually, this is working out pretty good. Three more on Trump this week, and then a break when I put up a half dozen posts on Saturday about six of my favorite science fiction movies that you could call “Half Time”. Then on Monday, Part VI, what I call “Equal Time” where I talk about my early history as a Goldwater Republican that will continue through the rest of the week; including some info about me that I am ashamed of. No, not being a Republican; much worse than that. For you Trump supporters, please hold off on the body slams until you read Part VI. (Bob Paxton, you think I’ve been trolling? That hurts!) A lot of the stuff next week is about Trump also; it isn’t all history.

This one is short, but not sweet:

POLITICAL ANALYSIS, PART III:

No way he could have set it up that way I guess, but the whole Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination fiasco felt to me like Trump was rubbing our noses in it. First off, the high-minded horseshit that we should wait a full year with a Supreme Court seat unfilled until after the election that Mitch McConnell used as an excuse to deny so much as a hearing on Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland suddenly didn’t matter in the case of Kavanaugh. And there is no doubt in my mind that Kavanaugh was guilty of sexual assault exactly the way that Christine Blasey Ford laid it out. As we learned in the news recently, Ford is still feeling the effects months later (death threats and all the rest of it), having raised $600,000+ in a GoFundMe account that she wound up using for personal protection for her family and beefed up home security – showing just how little things have changed after all since Anita Hill brought her own testimony against Clarence Thomas all those years ago.

Besides Christine Blasey Ford’s compelling testimony (I was in the hospital at the time for a heart cath procedure and saw it all), the account rang true as just the kind of thing that an entitled preppie like Kavanaugh would do while he was drunk on his ass. As the cherry on the cake, we even have the spectacle of Kavanaugh’s good friend having the ironic name of Mark Judge who wrote a book in 1997 called Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk that included descriptions of Kavanaugh’s antics under the barely veiled pseudonym of “Bart O’Kavanaugh”.

Meanwhile, Trump himself has a Cosbyesque crowd of women who have come forward with sexual assault claims against him that feel just as credible considering Trump’s idiotic statement about grabbing women by the pussy. And Trump cavalierly dismissed the accusations against him in the same way that Kavanaugh did about Ford’s sworn testimony.