Kavanaugh

6 X 2018: Kavanaugh, Trump, Senate

So now we have a perjurer on the Supreme Court, a compulsive liar in the White House, and a gang of con-men in the Senate. I guess this is the Devil’s Triangle.

Trump was ready, I’m told, to pay Dr. Ford $160,000 for her silence, but since the senators are on a retainer there was no need for Trump’s money. So the taxpayers have been boofed and must pay the bill. This is enough to make me want to ralph. And the show is just beginning, as Trump rouses up the misogyny and expansive ignorance of his base, many of whom like beer too.

3 X 2018: Trump: his School for Liars and his MCP Party

A. Is Kavanaugh showing off what he has learned in Trump 101, namely: Lie whenever you can, about everything you can, to whomever you can, or is he simply following his own instincts? Nurture or nature??

B. At his latest “rally,” Trump’s abusive treatment of Dr. Ford revealed a lot about his wildly applauding base. Commentators talk about Trump’s having taken control of the Republican Party, and that is true enough. But his real party is the MCP, Male Chauvinist Pigs Party. Gynophobia and attendant misogyny, transcending age and class, are the ties that bind Trump’s disparate base together. Nor does this include his male followers alone, for the MCP Party has a large number of female members, some of them more frightened and angry than men.

1 X 2018: Kavanaugh another affluent punk

I don’t know whether Judge Kavanaugh was a member of a fraternity, but his attitude and demeanor are surely those of a filthy-rich, hyper-entitled, self-centered little frat boy. He has probably bluffed or bought himself out of any number of scrapes he doesn’t remember,  maintaining all the while the pretense of easy-going wholesomeness.