{"id":17691,"date":"2018-09-28T11:08:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17691"},"modified":"2018-09-28T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:08:57","slug":"its-fatiguing-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/28\/its-fatiguing-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Fatiguing, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader wishes to make a point clear concerning the late appearance of <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/25\/its-fatiguing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual misconduct allegations<\/a> in the Kavanaugh nomination for <em><strong>SCOTUS<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why are these assault accusations showing up at the last minute? Because the people making them didn&#8217;t want to relive the trauma, because they didn&#8217;t want to become public and the target of so much hate, vitriol and actual death threats. They&#8217;d rather have had Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination fail on its own accord, but couldn&#8217;t stand by when it looked like a serial criminal was about to get a life appointment to the Supreme Court. In the case of Ramirez, it turns out that a group of Yale grads who know her have been yakking about the Kavanaugh nomination since it was made in July in private email amongst themselves &#8212; they were appalled. What could they do? Did they want to go public? What facts did they have at their disposal after 35 years? So, no, it&#8217;s not the mid-terms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nor did I wish to insinuate anything against the women in question. Taken out of context, few people would contest that interpretation, but as a group, it&#8217;s easy for the conspiracy theorist to see a malicious pattern.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I read an essay over the weekend which claimed that the real point of the Kavanaugh nomination was not only to get someone who would kowtow to the Federalist Society&#8217;s warped right-wing view on politics, someone who would be corporate-personhood&#8217;s shill, but to simply ram someone down our throats who we all knew was a bad actor to simply show the GOP&#8217;s power and for them to bask in the &#8220;win&#8221; of making us all live with a serial sexual criminal as a justice. It&#8217;s about winning, the crushing of your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of conspiracy theorists, this concerted attack does seem like something Russia might want to have happen to us, no? It might work if people keep sticking to their <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/23\/book-review-the-persuaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">System 1<\/a> thinking, too, but I think we&#8217;ll soon figure it out and stop that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader wishes to make a point clear concerning the late appearance of sexual misconduct allegations in the Kavanaugh nomination for SCOTUS: Why are these assault accusations showing up at the last minute? Because the people making them didn&#8217;t want to relive the trauma, because they didn&#8217;t want to become \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/28\/its-fatiguing-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17692,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691\/revisions\/17692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}