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Instead of investigating Swetnick's claims, the White House counsel’s office has given the FBI a list of witnesses they are permitted to interview, according to several people who discussed the parameters on the condition of anonymity. They characterized the White House instructions as a significant constraint on the FBI investigation and caution that such a limited scope, while not unusual in normal circumstances, may make it difficult to pursue additional leads in a case in which a Supreme Court nominee has been accused of sexual assault.
这都是 Don McGahn 一手操纵的。一边对着大众喊“你们要求调查,我们调查了。” 一边卡住 FBI 的调查。如果 Kavanaugh 是清白的,他们怕什么呢?Two sources familiar with the investigation said the FBI will also not be able to examine why Kavanaugh’s account of his drinking at Yale University differs from those of some former classmates, who have said he was known as a heavy drinker. Those details may be pertinent to investigating claims from Ramirez who described an alleged incident of sexual misconduct she said occurred while Kavanaugh was inebriated. Ramirez's lawyer said Saturday that she had been contacted by the FBI and would cooperate.
If you think i'm angry now, wait till i get on the supreme court and you will all pay.
欣慰的是,总的来说社会还是在进步,至少我们知道这就是date rape!Here are the basic ideas embedded in this plot:
• Girls who drink are asking for it. Girls who have sex are asking for it. Girls who go to parties are asking for it. They are asking for it even if they only drink and have sex and party with their monogamous boyfriends. Whatever happens to that kind of girl as a result is funny.
• Boys are owed girls. A good guy will help his nerdy bro to get a girl. Her consent is not necessary or desired.
• To avoid being the kind of girl who gets raped, you need to earn male approval. If you earn male approval, other girls might be raped, but you won’t be, and that will prove that you are special.
• Once you earn male approval, it can be taken away — as Caroline’s goes away once Jake tires of her — and then you’ll go from being the kind of girl who doesn’t get raped to the kind of girl who does.
• A good guy can participate in this whole system and remain an unsullied dream guy.
• The kind of girl who gets raped has no right to complain about what happens to her. Also it isn’t rape.
That’s how mainstream culture presented rape, and thus affirmed rape culture, in 1984.
怎么说呢,超级保守派女人可怜又可恨?“I’m a victim of sexual assault,” Conway said. “I don’t expect Judge Kavanaugh or Jake Tapper or Jeff Flake or anybody to be held responsible for that. You have to be responsible for your own conduct.”
Reached by phone on Tuesday, Ford’s father, Ralph Blasey Jr., offered a brief endorsement of his daughter. “I think all of the Blasey family would support her. I think her record stands for itself. Her schooling, her jobs and so on,” he said before hanging up. Moments later, after picking up the phone a second time, he added: “I think any father would have love for his daughter.”
For the Blaseys, it is all intertwined. Ford’s parents raised their children in the same affluent Maryland suburbs as the Kavanaugh family. Her father belongs to the same exclusive all-male golf club as Kavanaugh’s father. And like the Kavanaughs, Paula and Ralph Blasey are registered Republicans. Not only is their party taking Kavanaugh’s side; many of their neighbors are, too.
It was unclear whether Ralph and Paula Blasey would attend the hearing, as Anita Hill’s parents did in 1991 when she testified against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
昨天开车时听到 NPR Politics Show 上 Nina Totenberg 说星期四的听证会开始之前,她看见 Blasey Ford 的妈妈忽然出现在听证会房间里,Christine 的表情瞬间变化,然后两人拥抱。我在新闻上搜了半天也没找到她父亲有没有来的报道。Ford’s husband, Russell, explained in an interview with The Washington Post last week that Christine moved to California in part to get away from “the D.C. scene.”
“She didn’t always get along with her parents because of differing political views,” Russell Ford said. “It was a very male-dominated environment. Everyone was interested in what’s going on with the men, and the women are sidelined, and she didn’t get the attention or respect she felt she deserved.”
The GOP effort to slam through the Kavanaugh nomination is a flashpoint because it reveals the essence of today's GOP: a belief that some people are better than others, and should rule the rest of us. That has been the heart of GOP since 1980; the Kavanaugh case exposes it. 1/
In 1981, Reagan said "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." He meant that regulations protecting workers + the environment hampered businessmen's freedom, and taxes to pay for the bureaucrats to enforce regulations redistributed wealth. 2/
What exactly did "redistributing wealth" mean? It's rooted in American history. Reagan rode to power on a specific image, that of the American cowboy. 3/
That image arose with the cattle industry in the late 1860s, in the midst of Reconstruction, when the Republican federal government put money from new national taxes into an effort to protect black Americans' safety and enable them to compete in the post-Civil War economy. 4/
Southern Democrats, who were murdering ex-slaves and cheating them of wages, howled that taxes "redistributed wealth" from hardworking white men to lazy black people. They held up the cowboy as the perfect American: an individualist who asked nothing of government. 5/
This image was false. The money in the cattle industry went to the rich bosses; cowboys were underpaid. And the government invested more in the West than in any other region. But the image stuck because of the era's contrast between the "free" West and the "corrupt" East. 6/
The myth said that cowboys were hardworking white men (reality: 1/3 were POC), who lived in a male world (reality: women worked in West), and took care of their loving wives at home. That image stood against the East, where POC-- and women-- demanded access to opportunity. 7/
In this image, the demands of POC and women for equality proved that they were inferior: they wanted government to give them stuff paid for by white men. This would destroy society by elevating the wrong folks. White men really were superior, and must control society. 8/
WWII and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s resurrected this image. Opponents insisted that equal rights for POC and women were a redistribution of wealth-- socialism or communism-- as government paid for programs, and bureaucrats (and troops), to expand opportunity. 9/
That money came from tax dollars, which meant, in their minds, a redistribution of wealth. See this bumper sticker from JFK's defense of James Meredith's admission to Ole Miss: 10/
And this North Carolina Ku Klux Klan billboard from 1970: (the caption reads: "Help Fight Communism and Integration." 11/
Defending "individualism" against "communism" meant exalting that individualist symbol, the cowboy. In 1959, there were 26 Westerns on TV. These white men defended "right" against "savages" and had "their true loves waiting" at home. /12
(The Blues Brothers sent this up brilliantly in 1980, just before Reagan's election, contrasting the blues of African American origins, gone to Chicago, and Rawhide itself:) /13
We have looked a lot at how this individualist vision denigrated POC, but it also denigrated white women who wanted opportunities outside the home. They, too, were smeared for asking government to give them benefits (regulations and programs) that would cost tax money. /14
Activists became mythological bra-burners. Women participating in society became "special interests." When Mondale tapped well qualified Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 to be his running mate, 60% of Americans thought he was catering to a "minority." /15
After 1987, talk radio ran with this image. Rush Limbaugh championed Reagan and Bush saying "all my Heroes have been cowboys," and howled about "feminazis." Then Fox personified this, with scantily clad blonde white women who acted weaker than the dominant men around them. /16
Women who spoke out were isolated, doubted, denigrated, because female submission was a vital part of the era's individualism. Women were just not as good as men. (Men, too, had to conform to winner-take-all dominance, or be labeled a "loser.") /17
Evangelical churches emphasized individualist politics... and women's submission to men. Women who took on public roles as equals to men were vilified. (See, for example, Pelosi, Nancy, and Clinton, Hillary, two names the GOP automatically uses to rally the base.) /18
Women's lives have become increasingly circumscribed and dangerous. The FBI says a "mass shooting" is 4+ deaths, and 54% of such are domestic violence. (But searching "mass shooting" and "domestic violence" turns up a different debate: whether abusers murder strangers.) /19
(That study is here. It is astonishing that this flies so far below the radar.) /20
https://t.co/sWMPIwYM1o
Indeed, women's definition as either wives and mothers and sex objects or as greedy unAmerican harpies has become so acceptable that in 2016 voters elected a man who admitted to sexual assault over a woman who claimed an equal role in American society. /21
Kavanaugh makes the principle behind GOP "individualism" unmissable. How dare a woman question Kavanaugh's fitness for the SC, when GOP Senators want him? He has been groomed for the SC, while she has, one might say, "no rights which [a] white man is bound to respect." /22
That quote is from the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which read black Americans out of society and established that slaveholders could run the country as they wished. And, like that moment, this one has galvanized Americans who oppose turning the nation into an oligarchy. /23
For this is what Kavanaugh represents: the idea that a few elite leaders should run the country on their own terms, taking whatever they want. Don't think of your daughters or wives alone, because they are coming for everyone: your healthcare, your social security, your pay. /24
And now that real Americans who care about equality and democracy are pushing back, these oligarchs are using classic abusive tactics- screams, and threats- to get their way. This pattern will not stop until we, the people, stand up and refuse to accept it any longer. /25
是的! 多谢Knowing 科普!:admir001:Knowing wrote:我八卦帅哥大家都看到了所以都马上理解了Ronan Sinatra 的笑话对吗?我很窃喜很欣慰!
对国会宣誓后撒谎也是犯罪咩。同样道理,如果 Kavanaugh 真没强暴未遂,而且敢跟 FBI 说话,或者他承认年轻时干过后来追悔莫及,或者承认年轻时喝醉了不记得做过,这些都不见得立刻 disqualify him。但是疯狂嘶吼“我没干我没醉”然而又不敢跟 FBI 说话 ... 够爷们儿
4. If Monica Lewinksy says you inserted a cigar into her vagina while you were in the Oval Office area, would she be lying?
5. If Monica Lewinksy says that you had phone sex with her on approximately 15 occasions, would she be lying?
6. If Monica Lewinksy says that on several occasions in the Oval Office area, you used your fingers to stimulate her vagina and bring her to orgasm, would she be lying?
7. If Monica Lewinksy says that she gave you oral sex on nine occasions in the Oval Office area, would she by lying?
8. If Monica Lewinsky says that you ejaculated into her mouth on two occasions in the Oval Office area, would she be lying?
9. If Monica Lewinksy says that on several occasions you had her give oral sex, made her stop, and then ejaculated into the sink in the bathroom off the Oval Office, would she be lying?
10. If Monica Lewinsky says that you masturbated into a trashcan in your secretary’s office, would she be lying?
争取到了投票权就要用啊!现在有了投票权,上街好像不是很有用。但是感觉上现在的上街抗议提供的主要是参与者的心理安慰。其实拉选票草根运动更有用。纽约客前一阵写过一篇文讲这个https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... protestingJun wrote:美国女同胞需要一场 civil rights movement. 小打小闹证明没用。当年争取投票权有人进监狱有人绝食,黑人民权运动有人进监狱有人被暗杀。没有一样权利是能轻易得到的。
打得起来的。但是比较乐观或者说更悲观的看法是,大家这么懒,连投票都懒得去的话,估计对革命也没兴趣。。。所以应该打不起来。。。
是的,我也这么想Jun wrote: 昨天看见 Howard Dean 的推,冷笑说高院的公正性早就在 Bush v Gore 和 Citizens United 判决时自我否定了,并不是今天才腐烂的。嗯,同意,今天发生的一切没有一件事是新鲜的,都是进一步的腐烂而已。
这一次把遮羞布拉掉了。april wrote:如果说Jane Mayer的那本Dark Money和川皇当选后这两年让我彻底明白Executive and Legislature branches有多烂。Kavanaugh这出闹剧(很快要转悲剧)让大家看到其实司法这最后一根顶梁柱其实也早就烂了。大家一直不肯承认而已。。。至少从Clarence Thomas开始吧。。。27年前。。。
haha,这两个案子都是我以前所在的律所的合伙人Ted Olson 辩的。他在Kavanaugh提名时也早早表态,在TIME杂志发表文章“A Disgraceful Process” 谴责民主党。American Bar Association 要求FBI调查,Ted Olson公开宣布退出ABA,ABA又公开说我们有权利代表律师们表态。昨天看见 Howard Dean 的推,冷笑说高院的公正性早就在 Bush v Gore 和 Citizens United 判决时自我否定了,并不是今天才腐烂的。嗯,同意,今天发生的一切没有一件事是新鲜的,眼下法院和国会的腐烂只是高潮,而高潮是几十年慢慢达到的,绝不是一天两天达到的。
幻儿详细掰一掰,他们怎么物伤其类的?我好奇死了。。。幻儿 wrote:haha,这两个案子都是我以前所在的律所的合伙人Ted Olson 辩的。他在Kavanaugh提名时也早早表态,在TIME杂志发表文章“A Disgraceful Process” 谴责民主党。American Bar Association 要求FBI调查,Ted Olson公开宣布退出ABA,ABA又公开说我们有权利代表律师们表态。昨天看见 Howard Dean 的推,冷笑说高院的公正性早就在 Bush v Gore 和 Citizens United 判决时自我否定了,并不是今天才腐烂的。嗯,同意,今天发生的一切没有一件事是新鲜的,眼下法院和国会的腐烂只是高潮,而高潮是几十年慢慢达到的,绝不是一天两天达到的。
我之前看到时代杂志文章的时候还有点诧异,为啥他去搅这个浑水,现在我cynical的觉得怪不得他在最高院赢了那么多次,这善缘算是结下了,以后Kavanaugh还能不投桃报李?
有一个法学院教授联名信反对Kavanaugh的,我的好几个法学院老师实名签署了这封信,但是更多的教授保持沉默。
有一些在联邦法院做clerk的同学朋友们说,联邦法官们很不满这次提名的走向,主要是物伤其类吧。感觉这次民主党得罪了很多法官。。。
唤醒吃瓜群众很重要。Jun wrote:现在才来讲 Supreme Court now has a legitimacy problem 的吃瓜群众乃至评论员们都是老年痴呆症患者。我不是 constitutional scholar 也不是律师,但是连我都知道 Supreme Court 早已成为共和党的政治工具。我也不想看上去太悲观,把事情说得多可怕多黑暗似的,下面列一些过去几年的重大裁决,有兴趣的同学可以去查查已经发生了什么,高院是个什么地方。别以为通过了一个同性恋结婚案就是什么什么了。Again,不是川普一手造成的。
Bush v Gore
Citizens United
Shelby County v Holder
District of Columbia v Heller
all recent gerrymandering cases