cold case

neutrality is not really possible here...i thought some degree of certainty was...this too has fled...i am prepared to believe that ms. ford's accusations are true...kavanaugh strikes me as being as cretinous as anything else that has crawled out of the slime of this administration and the toadying ratfucks in congress...thirty-six years ago i wasn't in the room when these events are alleged to have occurred...i was somewhere else up to my ass in my own problems...i cannot say empirically that someone is lying...the new york times said, "the two very different versions of the truth unfolding in the heated atmosphere of gender divides, metoo, and the trump presidency could not be reconciled."...the "truth" is subjective and there will always be opposing narratives of events...be empaneled on a jury some time if you want a clear-cut experience of the slippery nature of what actually happened and whose version ( and they are versions...equally believed ) of events you will choose to believe...i had thought that whatever happened in 1982 the senate would hold its nose and confirm because there are very powerful interests that want this guy on the court...this was somewhat upended by der furhair's acquiescence to an fbi investigation...did not expect that...after thinking a bit i still wonder...if i am not mistaken his time frame for a inquiry is "less than a week"...to investigate a thirty-six year old cold case that will doubtlessly produce conflicting versions and "less than a week" is not a lot of time to ferret out what may be fact...so...could be the end of brett kavavaough's supreme court bid...could be a whitewash and business as usual...i read somewhere that flake had "pulled the senate back from the brink"...bullshit...they are still the same contemptible grasping venal corrupt small town whores they always were..they are politicians...it is endemic...what he did was point out that they were in an uncomfortably public place on this and it is an election year...that may put paid to brett...the successor appointee will be no less conservative and will face a possibly marginally different senate...there are always surprises with nominees...you can't trust a jurist...they'll turn on you like cornered badgers...the system is structured to resist change with increasing force as the challenges to it become more fundamental...it does not like change from below and this is a populist issue...whomever becomes the next justice they won't be earl warren...the new deal is dead and corporate interests are ascendant..they are consquentialist...they are about now...not 1982...past behaviors stand second to ideology...to presume that confirmation is an impossibility would be foolish...the system is not especially geared towards being responsive to "the will of the people"...its creators had a very limited republic in mind...you can protest...congress is free to ignore it...we will see next week.