{"id":46222,"date":"2018-09-28T23:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46222"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:23:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T03:23:02","slug":"is-anyone-really-surprised-by-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46222","title":{"rendered":"Is anyone really surprised by this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As much as I want to say that I don\u2019t really pay much attention to the political climate of America, I feel like it\u2019s one of those things that people kind of grow into as adults, or maybe it\u2019s just me.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s because I\u2019m at the age where the decisions of politicians can actually affect me in some capacity that makes me a little bit more astute to them, or maybe it\u2019s the existence of social media that opens my eyes to people I know who are all more well educated and pay more attention to them than I do, which kind of passively makes me curious as well.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because I like to pretend like I\u2019m pretty well versed in current events, so I like to read or pay attention to the news on a fairly regular basis.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s all of the above.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, the events of the Brett Kavanaugh saga and the ascendancy to Supreme Court Justice have been something of a big deal in the world of Washington over the last few weeks, and I\u2019ve learned more about things than I probably really would\u2019ve wanted to.\u00a0 Frankly, there are far way more educated people in the topic of this whole story, but all I really know is that the president nominated this guy to replace a retiring Supreme Court Justice and because liberal America hates the president, they immediately hate his nominee.\u00a0 Immediately, the nominee\u2019s personal history is dug up in record time, and red flags are raised at the notion and multiple accusations that he has a little bit of sexual assault in his history and that perhaps he shouldn\u2019t be nominated for, y\u2019know, the highest court in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, it devolves into what everything devolves into these days, a bold line in the sand drawn, and a vitriolic battle between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives versus liberals, or whatever you want to call it that embodies the stark and harsh divide that represents the United States these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is though, and I try to be as objective as possible when it comes to stories like this, because I think it\u2019s way too easy for people to pick sides solely based on scuttlebutt of what their social networks sound like, and not necessarily their own independent thoughts.\u00a0 But frankly, whether or not the accusations are true of Kavanaugh\u2019s past behavior, the bottom line is that surely in the landscapes of America, exist people who are vastly more unanimously qualified to become a Supreme Court Justice than him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It would be like the president wanted Kobe Bryant on his team, but the people all pointing out his checkered past and his alleged rape scandal and fairly known infidelities; but all along, LeBron James was always available.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t really matter whether or not Kobe Bryant did any of the things he was accused of, because LeBron James is pretty squeaky clean in comparison, and would be arguably as qualified to fill the roster, if not better.\u00a0 Surely, there\u2019s someone equally or more qualified to be on the Supreme Court than Kavanaugh, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

But because we live in a society whose political atmosphere is more flagrantly and blatantly biased and nonpartisan than ever, even if there were a more suitable judge out there, it has to be Kavanaugh.\u00a0 And no matter how much logic and common sense that people discuss on the internet about why he shouldn\u2019t get pushed forward, somehow it still happens \u2013 the Republicans get their way.<\/span><\/p>\n

The real question I had after seeing the result though was, is anyone at all really surprised by this outcome?\u00a0 Because I\u2019m certainly not.<\/span><\/p>\n

America is hardly a place where decisions are made based on logic, debate and compromise anymore; it\u2019s all about the wins.\u00a0 And losses.\u00a0 How a decision in any political arena is declared a win for one party, and a loss for another.\u00a0 Nothing can be described as a decision being made where a mixture of Republicans and Democrats agree upon aspects of a debate, with the people they represent best interests in mind, where those who disagree with it can take some concession in some compromised condition that can be addressed or revisited later.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about how one party must win, and subsequently one party must lose<\/a>.\u00a0 And because with the ascendancy of the president, the Republicans have stacked the deck in their favor, and have embarked on this winning streak that frequently and perpetually leaves the Democrats on the losing side of just about everything, including this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, it\u2019s this mentality that I think really needs to be rectified for the country to have any semblance of civility or healing for the future.\u00a0 Conflicts can most certainly be settled without so much arrogance from the victors and so much contempt from the losers, but in this day and age, such ability for grace has long been forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, I can\u2019t offer up much more hope as far as the rise of Kavanaugh is concerned.\u00a0 At this point, I\u2019m bet money that even if there were video evidence of him sexually assaulting multiple women, he\u2019d still get the full support of the Republican party, and we\u2019d have a known sex offender representing the highest court in the land.\u00a0 What puzzles me the most among his supporters are all the women with power who are backing him, despite the fact that women that look just like them are coming out of the woodwork to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual deviancy.\u00a0 Fuckin\u2019 weird, politicians are, as well as spineless and sad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as I want to say that I don\u2019t really pay much attention to the political climate of America, I feel like it\u2019s one of those things that people kind of grow into as adults, or maybe it\u2019s just me.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s because I\u2019m at the age where the decisions of politicians can actually … Continue reading Is anyone really surprised by this?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,72,83,165],"class_list":["post-46222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-government","tag-observations","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46224,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46222\/revisions\/46224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}