So, now that the Trump regime's hemmed in FBI has conducted what will be called an investigation is complete and the Senate Republicans have allowed all one hundred Senators to have what they claim is one copy of it (and who knows if what is there will be exactly what the FBI has sent?) to review before the ridiculous schedule of putting Brett Kavanaugy, the liar, perjurer and sex criminal-sot on the Court we will know just how bad things are.
If Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski - not to mention all of the other Senators who have gassed in high tones about what is required for them to fulfill their duty - are honest, they will take the fact that the Trump regime working with Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley and Lindsay Graham to keep the FBI from so much as talking to Christine Blasey Ford and interviewing Brett Kavanaugh as an even better reason for not voting to confirm him. But I doubt that is what they are going to do. I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised but, I'm Irish, I don't trust that kind of hope.
The Senate Republican leadership and the Trump regime have taken what Flake and Coons and the others who called for the FBI to do the honest, thorough background check they should have, and tried to turn it into an opportunity to pretend that's what has happened. The fact that they didn't talk to myriads of witnesses who could have provided corroboration or refutation of the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and the largely evasive speeches of Brett Kavanaugh proves they ordered up something like that. It remains to be seen if it works.
About the only chance I can see for this to not be the whitewash ordered by McConnel, Grassley, Graham and the Trump regime is if Mark Judge spilled his guts to the FBI admitting that he and Kavanaugh did what they did because unless something that dramatic and simple happened, their not talking to many other witnesses would result in a phony botch of a report. And I highly doubt that Mark Judge has done that. And that doesn't even get to the assault on Deborah Ramirez whose account doesn't sound as if it was looked at much. Of course, the working-class townie Julie Swetnick, the victim of a largely class-based smear campaign hasn't figured into it at all. Though some of the people whose world brushed up against the Georgetown Prep boys have had some interesting things about their abuse of public school girls that could really open some eyes.
So I'm not holding out much hope as to the honesty of the investigation. We should know fairly early in the day. If Judge did flip on Kavanaugh, I would expect he would be withdrawn or remove himself. If that doesn't happen fairly early, my second guess is that Mitch McConnell either has the entire Republican delegation in his pocket and Kavanaugh will be put on the court. My third one is that McConnell knows it's not going to happen and he will try to use the failed nomination to its maximum political effect in calling out the Rent-a-Trumpers of the media and online trolling community to try to rally the Trump true believers to save the Republican majority in the Senate.
The reported pro-male backlash that is being whipped up by the Republicans relies on lots of people not valuing their daughters as much as their sons, the ridiculous notion that white boys, especially those of privilege, are at greater risk of being falsely accused of sexual assault than their daughters who are at actual far greater risk of being assaulted. Of the estimated one out of three or four girls who are assaulted, a minority of them report it and of those reports of sexual assault which do get reported, about seven out of a hundred are exaggerated or false. Daughters, grand-daughters, nieces, wives, girlfriends, friends who are women WOMEN THEMSELVES are far, far, far, more likely to be the victim of a Brett Kavanaugh or a Mark Judge than someone's boy is likely to be the victim of a false accusation. That is something the Republicans, their liars in the media and the degenerate Trump base are counting on Women AND Men of not realizing or caring about.
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