A Question For The GOP Judicial Committee Members

Finally, a woman of color has been nominated to serve on the SCOTUS. It only took 233 years to accomplish this but by golly, it has happened. Now we finally have the chance to have a Supreme Court that truly looks like America! But this nomination process has uncovered a nasty truth in America — racism and homophobia. It would seem that there are some white, male, ass wipe GOP senators who are out to prove my theory. I guess it is not enough that the nominee is highly educated, well-spoken, very sophisticated, not to mention a beautiful woman.

Aren’t those the qualifications that conservative white men expect when vetting someone for confirmation? You know, the things that make her appear to be — not black? Hell, that was the process when they finally nominated a black man to SCOTUS. If you close your eyes and listen to him, he sounds white (however, it helped that he was also Republican). Surely, having met most of the standards would enable this latest nominee to be a slam dunk.

Ah, but the old white guard found a couple of lines of questioning that they could hang their hats on, first, the lady judge’s adjudication of sex offenses to minors, and second her support of Critical Race Theory (CRT). I can explain the CRT issue very quickly here. In this country, we are scared to death to teach our children (especially white) about other cultures. We have many different cultures in this nation, but it is the expectation (again of old white men) that every culture here should be homogenized into one smooth functioning praxis that never objects to the beliefs of their white masters. You know — America!

Regarding the child porn issue, let me be very clear that I find any situation where children are abused whether it’s porn, prostitution, physical abuse, or any violation of an underaged person to be the most repugnant and sickening act on earth. Having said this, I have also read numerous articles by psychologists and psychiatrists who have evidence of some brain maladies in those who perpetrate such crimes. It is a sickness that must be dealt with swiftly and effectively but also with some human reasoning. As a side note, I would also point out that mental health services and care have almost been eliminated in this country by (you guessed it) — Republicans.

This brings me to my question for these “concerned” GOP senators (many of which believe they are experts in child porn — hmmm?), why are you, such hypocrites? You question an obviously qualified judicial nominee about her pedophilia sentencing history, yet you do not question those in your own party that has committed similar offenses. What do I mean by this? Let me give you an example. There is this dashing young, white GOP senator from Florida who recently decided that it is ok to date an underaged 17-year-old woman (aka a child). In fact, he even took her across state lines. If I remember correctly, that is a Federal crime.

Oh sure, you say he was tricked by a Swarmy, high-priced pimp who willingly fell on his own sword in this matter when confronted. I mean how could this senator, who by the way, is one of the biggest supporters of the Orange (former) POTUS, no stranger to “underaged women” himself, possibly know this was a child (being very facetious here)?

There is a photo that looks like it is straight out of a school yearbook, of the young girl at the time of this deviant act. She looked so young one would wonder how a well-educated man (attorney) wouldn’t inquire about her age. And I will come clean here, I was not educated in one of the most expensive, east coast law schools. I am just a poor, flyover-country guy who had to pay for his own education, yet this all seems to be suspicious to me.

I digress, shouldn’t the question be asked of these elitist, white GOP senators of why this dashing young Republican has not been impeached? Or perhaps why the Senate Majority Leader (a stodgy old white slaver) refuses to investigate the fine, upstanding Senator who resembles a model for an Arian Master Race magazine? According to articles on this subject, the young girl was an intern working in Washington. I am not certain of the circumstances of her employment, but surely her age was documented somewhere.

Now to be fair, I understand that there have been old white Democrats who have been involved in similar incidents. Just keeping it real here. However, in this instance, it is GOP members that are the hypocrites as they seem to believe that pedophilia has a different definition and set of rules for them. I guess they feel it is ok to challenge those they oppose on this subject while turning a blind eye to those they favor.

In addition to questioning the nominee’s history of adjudication, the right-wingers also wanted to draw out her stance on gender identity. A question, “can you provide a definition for the word woman” was asked by a female GOP senator who sounded like an old white guy politician. To ask that question in a hall of constitutional governance is beyond fucking silly. The question also shows the obvious homophobic disposition of Republicans and their fear of future LGBTQ cases that could be presented to the SCOTUS.

The ridicule and absurdity continued later that evening on a conservative cable news network when one of its hosts dedicated his show to attacking the judicial nominee. The alleged comedian condemned the candidate because he say’s “she does not know how to define what a woman is”. The show’s panel all laughed in agreement with this narrow-minded nimrod. Some of the idiots on his show even admitted to flunking biology in school — explains a lot! I would recommend to the panel that they do some neurobiology research on orientation and identity.

I believe there are some questions that the qualified nominee could ask her right-wing detractors for example, “how do you define child versus underaged women”? Or perhaps, can orientation and preference be determined biologically during neurodevelopment? They can’t answer that one because most of them flunked biology. But again, this lady nominee is way too classy to lower herself into the level of dog shyte that now defines the Republican Party. I do believe that she would be justified in asking these questions of the white GOP standard-bearers.

So, while the dashing young Senator gets away with a despicable act and crime, the GOP has the unmitigated gall to question the nominee’s verdict history. The Grand Old Party might be better suited to cleaning up the history in their own house. Maybe the nominee could ask the lady GOP Senator how she would define hypocrisy.

I will come clean again, I want this highly refined lady on the Supreme Court, because she is another barrier to the dismantling of Roe v Wade. The Republicans seem hell-bent on taking away the rights of a woman to choose things regarding their bodies. If they get their way, they will eliminate abortion and legal rights, thus setting us back to the stone age. Maybe, while the GOP is at it, they can repeal the Civil Rights Act because people of color shouldn’t have legal rights, like voting. Oh, wait they are already doing that through redistricting.

Look, all I am saying here is that it really seems to be hypocritical to question a judge about their adjudication and sentencing of pedophiles when you won’t even investigate another member of your political party for the same crime. Then to try to blindside the nominee with a gotcha question regarding gender definitions in the hopes of discrediting any of her decisions regarding LGBTQ or preventing her confirmation is simply asinine.

It is time that all of our institutions reflect America by the representation of all colors, creeds, and cultures. Isn’t multiculturalism what makes America great? Maybe white right-wing republicans and their complicit conservative media can learn the value of other cultures. Here’s to the first African American Woman Supreme Court Justice, welcome Your Honor! As always, this is just my opinion.

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