Mary Trump

More than 25 woman have braved the withering assault of Trump's media power to come forward and tell us what a fuckin' jerk he is.

25.

How many others are keeping their counsel because the risk is just too great?

Think about why upwards of 60% to 90% of Sexual Assault cases go unreported.

Today's Brando

A quick refresher on the whole rape thing:

ICYMI

Today's Beau

On Gov Cuomo, and learning about not being a dick - almost literally.

Justin King - Beau Of The Fifth Column

What you're really asking is: "How can I get away with it?"

BTW, if Cuomo did anything for which he deserves to burn, then let that fucker burn.

And here's the consent thing Beau mentioned:

How To Prevent Rape

1. Don’t put drugs in a woman’s drink
2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone
3. If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, always remember not to rape her
4. If a woman steps into an elevator with you, don’t rape her
5. Should you encounter a woman who’s asleep or otherwise unconscious, the safest thing to do is not rape her
6. Don’t break into a woman’s house, and don’t pounce on a woman in the parking garage, so as not to rape her
7. Remember, some women will go alone to the laundry room or storage lockers - avoid raping them
8. Buddy System - often, a friend is all you need to help you not rape
9. Be honest - state your intentions so the woman doesn’t get the mistaken idea that you won’t try to rape her
10. Always carry a Rape Whistle. If you’re about to commit rape, blow the whistle and wait for somebody to come and stomp your punk ass ’til there’s nothing left but a greasy spot on the pavement

Stoopid Repub Tricks

Just need to get this off my chest:

I'm sick-n-goddamned-tired of these entitlement-laden fat-cat legacy pukes. They need to be thrown out with the rest of the hog slop - they're stinkin' up the whole fuckin' joint.

Marc Fisher and Perry Stein, WaPo:

As Christine Blasey Ford tells it, only one person can offer eyewitness confirmation of her account of a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh: Mark Judge, Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Prep.

Ford says Judge watched Kavanaugh attack her at a high school party in the early 1980s and then literally piled on, leaping on top of her and Kavanaugh. Judge says he does not remember the party and never saw his buddy behave like that. Ford’s legal team has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to compel Judge to testify.

A review of books, articles and blog posts by Judge — a freelance writer who has shifted among jobs at a record store, substitute teaching, housesitting and most recently at a liquor store — describes an ’80s private-school party scene in which heavy drinking and sexual encounters were standard fare.

Judge wrote about the pledge he and his friends at the all-male school on Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, Md., made to drink 100 kegs of beer before graduation. On their way to that goal, there was a “disastrous” party “at my house where the place was trashed,” Judge wrote in his book “God and Man at Georgetown Prep.” Kavanaugh listed himself in the class yearbook as treasurer of the “100 Kegs or Bust” club.

“I’ll be the first one to defend guys being guys,” Judge wrote in a 2015 article on the website Acculturated. He described a party culture of “drinking and smoking and hooking up.” During senior year, Judge said he and his pals hired a stripper and bought a keg for a bachelor party they threw to honor their school’s music teacher.
"...guys being guys"...because they'd drink too much and do stoopid things. Oh well, whutcha gonna do? Hey, how 'bout them Red Sox, huh?

Try to think about the effect that has on young girls growing up, and what effect it might have on young boys.

And that's just the obvious basic stuff that you have to assume even a complete bonehead would start to understand eventually. But here we are - not again, but still.

Feel free to go out and find a Leftie Equivalent - 10 stoopid quotes from Dems about rape.  Because, of course - the Dems are just as bad - it's the Evil Duopoly!!! 

I'll wait here.

To Be Clear

Overheard on FB and Twitter:

"Conservative Evangelicals" are calling for a boycott of Keurig's products because Keurig's parent company is pulling its ads from DumFux News in response to Sean Hannity's on-air attempts to justify Roy Moore's sexual contact with under-aged girls.

They're against Keurig because Keurig is against PEDOPHILIA - this is who these people are.

Roy Moore Pickup Lines

"Hey, girl - wanna see my little gun?"

"Want to go to dinner with me, darling? Kids eat free on Tuesdays." #RoyMoorePickupLines

— Arthur Vandelay (@Arthur_6985) November 11, 2017

Come back to my place and I'll show you a "little Moore"#RoyMoorePickUpLines pic.twitter.com/ap4jK6k6sy

— (((Paul Green))) (@bigsexy_tote) November 11, 2017

 

"On a scale from 1 to 10, how old are you?"#RoyMoorePickupLines

— Arthur Vandelay (@Arthur_6985) November 11, 2017

 

#RoyMoorePickUpLines

Don't you just love Ted Nugent?

— Doody Giuliani (@DoodyGiuliani1) November 11, 2017

 

Make A Start

Jim Jeffries, with a perspective that sounds almost universal - or should.

"I thought I was a pretty good guy, what with all the not-raping I've done..."

Ms Conway

From Policy Mic:

On Tuesday, the Democratic Coalition Against Trump unearthed remarks Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's new campaign manager, made in January 2013 suggesting that rape is women's fault. If they weren't so weak, Conway suggested, they'd be able to fight off their attackers.

"If we were physiologically — not mentally, emotionally, professionally — equal to men, if we were physiologically as strong as men, rape would not exist," Conway said on the PBS show To the Contrary at the time.

"You would be able to defend yourself and fight him off."

I wonder if all the men who've been raped know it wasn't possible for them to have been raped.

Today's Metaphorical Thingie

And here's a list of schools under federal investigation for mis-handling rape allegations:

• Allegheny College
• American University
• Amherst College
• Arizona State University
• Barnard College
• Berklee College of Music
• Bethany College
• Boston University
• Brown University
• Butte-Glenn Community College District
• California Institute of the Arts
• Canisius College
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Catholic University of America
• Cisco Junior College
• College of William and Mary
• Colorado State University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• CUNY Hunter College
• Dartmouth College
• Davis and Elkins College
• Denison University
• Drake University
• Elizabethtown College
• Elmira College
• Emerson College
• Emory University
• Florida State University
• Franklin and Marshall College
• Frostburg State University
• Full Sail University
• Grand Valley State University
• Guilford College
• Hamilton College
• Hampshire College
• Harvard College
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Idaho State University
• Indiana University-Bloomington
• Iowa State University
• James Madison University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Kansas State University
• Knox College
• Langston University
• Marion Military Institute
• Marlboro College
• Michigan State University
• Minot State University
• Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Morgan State University
• New York University School of Medicine
• Northeastern University
• Occidental College
• Oglethorpe University
• Oklahoma State University
• Pace University-New York
• Pennsylvania State University
• Pointe Park University
• Polytechnic Institute of New York University
• Regis University
• Saint John's University
• Saint Mary's College of Maryland
• Saint Thomas Aquinas College
• San Francisco State University
• San Jose-Evergreen Community College District
• Sarah Lawrence College
• Stanford University
• SUNY Buffalo State College
• SUNY College at Brockport
• SUNY Purchase College
• SUNY Stony Brook University
• SUNY University at Albany
• Swarthmore College
• Temple University
• Texas A&M University
• University of Akron
• University of Alaska System of Higher Education
• University of California-Berkeley
• University of California-Davis
• University of California-Los Angeles
• University of California-San Francisco
• University of California-Santa Cruz
• University of Chicago
• University of Colorado-Boulder
• University of Colorado-Denver
• University of Connecticut
• University of Delaware
• University of Denver
• University of Hawaii-Manoa
• University of Idaho
• University of Iowa
• University of Kansas
• University of Kentucky
• University of Massachusetts-Amherst
• University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
• University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• University of Richmond
• University of Rochester
• University of South Florida
• University of Southern California
• University of Texas-Pan American
• University of Tennessee
• University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington-Seattle
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
• Valley Forge Military College
• Valparaiso University
• Vanderbilt University
• Vincennes University
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Washburn University
• Washington and Lee University
• Washington State University
• West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
• Western Washington University
• Westminster College
• Whitman College
• Wittenberg University

So yeah - it's a problem.

Lance The Boil

When it seems like the world's all fucked up, one thing we have to stop and consider seriously is that maybe the world's just all fucked up.

Eventually, ya gotta get all that putrefaction out. If you don't drain the abscess, it just gets worse.

The UVa rape thing:

...At that same moment, she says, she detected movement in the room – and felt someone bump into her. Jackie began to scream.

"Shut up," she heard a man's voice say as a body barreled into her, tripping her backward and sending them both crashing through a low glass table. There was a heavy person on top of her, spreading open her thighs, and another person kneeling on her hair, hands pinning down her arms, sharp shards digging into her back, and excited male voices rising all around her. When yet another hand clamped over her mouth, Jackie bit it, and the hand became a fist that punched her in the face. The men surrounding her began to laugh. For a hopeful moment Jackie wondered if this wasn't some collegiate prank. Perhaps at any second someone would flick on the lights and they'd return to the party.

"Grab its motherfucking leg," she heard a voice say. And that's when Jackie knew she was going to be raped.

The Bill Cosby rape thing:

If Shonda Rhimes had a show called How to Get Away With Rape, it would only need one episode, and it would be a short one.

The hot-shot lawyer main character would give her client this advice: be a respected figure in your own community and target victims with lower status than your own. If you follow those rules, people will be uncomfortable with the consequences of believing your victims. They will not want to do that work. In fact, they will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid it.

Show over; roll credits.

On Tuesday, Janice Dickinson became the 15th woman to accuse Bill Cosby of raping, drugging, or sexually assaulting her, and the fifth to do so publicly. These women tell a similar story: that they met Cosby when they were young women. That he spent time with them under the guise of professional mentorship. And that he, at some point, drugged their drinks and assaulted them while they were incapacitated.

First:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke

And then:
"It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of the pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering. . . . In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization. After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened; the victim lies; the victim exaggerates; the victim brought it on herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on. The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail" --Judith Herman, 1997, Trauma and Recovery (pg 7-8)