Yesterday I wrote about how the GQP is trying to reinstate discrimination against the LGBTQ. I also have been keeping up to date with how they are trying to return us to the Stone Age when it comes to women and people of color. There are two stories that have hit me and both topics appeared in my news feed today.
The first has to do with how the Rethuglicans on the Judiciary Committee treated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ), President Biden’s nominee to replace Justice Breyer on the Supreme Court. I couldn’t bear to watch the televised hearings because of the Rethugs on the Judiciary Committee, a rogues’ gallery all: Senators Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Hawley, Sasse, Cotton, Kennedy, Washburn, and Tillis. Some of those clowns (Cruz, Hawley, and Cruz) are implicated to some extent to the coup attempt on January 6th. I have NO idea why they haven’t been removed from the Judiciary Committee of all places, never mind the Senate.
I used to respect what used to be the GOP (Grand Old Party). Democrats and Republicans used to work together on many bills in the long distant past. Some of the partisanship and divisiveness started in the 1990s, I think, but it certainly worsened when Barack Obama was in office. And what a coincidence: he’s black, well educated and well spoken. I don’t care what some people say, there is systemic racism in this country. White people, especially the GOP legislators, seemed mortally offended that a black man was POTUS. The blatant obstruction began. It was obvious the GOP agenda was to block all of Obama’s legislation. One of the most obvious accomplishments stolen from Obama was his nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. The Majority Leader at the time, Moscow Mitch O’Connell, refused to even hold hearings for Garland. The GOP became, for me, Rethuglicans and some are the GQP because of their affiliation with QAnon.
There was a so-called promise to treat Judge Jackson with dignity. She is the first black woman to have been nominated to the Supreme Court and her qualifications are outstanding. She is more qualified to serve than any member of the Supreme Court. Well, the dignity didn’t last long and their maltreatment of this intelligent, professional judge was totally malignant. There were stupid questions. What is the definition of a woman? Are you fukkin kidding me? There was an undue focus on minor cases. There was whining about the confirmation hearings of weeping, beer boufing Brett Kavanaugh. Ted Cruz continually interrupted Jackson as she tried to answer questions, started yelling at her, had a hissy fit and walked out. The Rethugs acted like a bunch of racist babies.
Personally, it’s my opinion that those senators (all white, by the way, and all male but one) are secret white supremacists. Maybe they don’t run around waving the Confederate flag but I do believe that they don’t like to see people of color achieve offices of power and that’s why they threw their support to TFG, truly the worst POTUS in history. That’s also why TFG’s appointments to SCOTUS were all white butt kissers to the party: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
While she was being attacked, KBJ remained calm. She answered their questions and demonstrated how much she knew about the law and the Constitution. Instead of respecting her, that whole group of Rethugs denigrated her. On the Democratic side, only Cory Booker of New Jersey, stood up for her against their onslaught with a very moving message of support. That crew of Rethugs, every single one, refused to support KBJ’s nomination.
And, shamefully, only three red senators (Collins, Burkowski, Romney) in the whole Senate voted to confirm KBJ. She is now a Justice of the Supreme Court, well deserved, and she never should have suffered the indignities thrown on her by the Rethugs.
Were the Rethugs so opposed to KBJ just because she’s black? No, I think it’s also because she’s a woman. The red states in this country have all been on the move to limit voting rights for people of color and to reinstate white male control of a woman’s health. I may be going too far but I really do believe these laws are rooted in white male supremacy. Some laws are like those of the Jim Crow days. Some are flat out outrageous: it’s illegal to offer food or water to voters waiting in line to exercise their rights.
The other story that grabbed my attention was the one about a movement called Tradwife. What is that? Well, it seems harmless: it’s a group of women who are married and choose not to work, instead fulfilling the roles of traditional housewives from 50+ years ago. It seems innocent enough except that many favor turning back on women’s rights. Even more dangerous than the desire to becoming submissive to their husbands, there’s some crossover into the more frightening right wing conspiracy and white supremacy movements sweeping the country.
On Tuesday, TB took my MIL Lucille to a pre-op appointment with a cardiologist. The doctor introduced himself formally to TB, assuming that he would speak for his mother! That is how medical appointments are treated in that doctor’s culture. It’s also the way it used to be for women until the 1970s. Now we’re supposed to go back to those days? NO!
I read The Handmaid’s Tale and was sickened by it. Now I can see it may come to pass.
I am reading a book written with Jane Goodall, called The Book Of Hope. I need cope to cope with all of these horrible things going on in the US. All I can do is continue to speak out against all these evil shenanigans by people in power and VOTE. Everyone needs to VOTE.
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