What Do You Mean WE, White Man?

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September 29, 2018

To the Republican’ts on the Senate Judiciary Committee…

To be fair, the white Democrats were obviously much less useless than their counterparts from across the abyss aisle.  Thankfully, they at least learned something from their disgraceful performance during the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas fiasco. 

It might appear, since Jeff Flake changed his support-Kavanaugh vote to better-bring-in-the-FBI-first, that a white man did something.  As it turns out, Flake changed his tune after being verbally accosted by Maria Gallagher and Ana Maria Archila – who at one point scolded Flake to, “Look at me when I’m talking to you!”  Flake, to his credit, had the good sense to follow those instructions and take his medicine – though he tried to hide and tried to escape, but he could not.  It seems that medicine had powerful effects, and Boozy Brett’s future is once again uncertain.  Gallagher and Ana Maria Archila – sexual assault survivors who, strangely enough were women, chastised Flake for over five minutes.  Not long after that, Flake and the Democrats worked out a compromise, and Kavanaugh’s full-Senate vote will have to wait until the FBI takes a crack at investigating this foul mess.  

Gallagher and Archila may have given us a 21^st Century Rosa Parks moment.  Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony was no mean feat either.  The number of people helped by the National Sexual Assault Hotline was 201 percent above average on the day she testified.  Donald Chrump brought racists and neo-Nazis out of the woodwork; Christine Blasey Ford brought rape victims out of the shadows.  If this democracy and our national decency are to be salvaged, it is clearly women’s work.

Maria Gallagher and Ana Maria Archila

So, in the end a white guy finally acted, but only after being shamed into it…by two women.  Even Chrump was forced to say that Dr. Ford’s testimony was “compelling.”  I doubt he knows what it means, but his handlers made him say it, and he had to order the FBI to investigate – despite Chrump previously having said, “Well, it would seem that the FBI really doesn't do that.  They've investigated about six times before, and it seems that they don't do that.”  Huh?  With any luck, Brett Kavanaugh will not only lose his bid to defile the Supreme Court, but will be impeached from his current post for perjury, and then jailed for sexual assault.  Move over Bill Cosby.

Obviously, Chrump meant to say, “Well, it would seem that the FBI really does do that.”  He has the best words; he just has no idea what they mean or how to use them in a sentence.  Now that the FBI is being permitted to try their hand at investigating, I hope they put some of their best women on the case.

I. Mangrey reporting.