So Brett Kavanaugh; serial sex offender or much-maligned judicial giant-to-be? Personally, I don’t really care. But others do. Many many others. Who seem to be divided thus: if you’re a democrat anti-Trumpster, then Brett is the devil incarnate, guilty of much molestation and more machismo manhandling as a young man. Whereas if you’re a Republican, then Brett is the best thing since the last great sex offender fiasco and is being mercilessly manipulated by media malignishness. Whatever the charges, the presumption of guilt or innocence appears to run along strictly partisan lines.

Did he do it? Who the fuck will ever know? It happened over 30 years ago. Not sure exactly what the ‘FBI inquiry’ can achieve on that front. But a more important question was what, exactly, did he do? And this really is the crux of the matter. He didn’t rape anyone, that much we do know. But if he sexually assaulted someone/some people in a way that was beyond mere drunken gropage, that involved physical overpowering, humiliation of and fear in the victim, then its altogether very different from just kids hi-jinks.

We’re never going to know. His wife was by his side (as they always are, at least at the beginning of the scandals) meaning presumably that he hasn’t been a bad husband, or at least, he’s had the decency never to be caught being a bad husband.

And thus, as in virtually all sexual offence allegations, it comes down to his word against her word. Or in this case, his word against their word. As there are a few women who’ve all come out of the woodwork to make what must only be seen as fairly weak and limp allegations of not a whole helluva lot which took place in the pre-iPhone era and thus can’t be viewed on YouTube.

He was certainly no Harvey Weinstein. In fact, in reality, he wasn’t even as proven and admitted a sex offender as Donald J. Trump. Who was clever enough to make sure his juvenile boasting made it onto film.

As I’m not a member of either the Republican nor Democrat party I feel I can be more impartial. And therefore make my decisions on more scientific grounds. Which are basically that as soon as Brett Kavanaugh opened his mouth at the inquiry I hated the man and immediately wanted to find him guilty. He was too loud, too aggressive and too Godly for my taste. Therefore he did it. Anyone who invokes God’s name in an angry and arrogant rant must be presumed guilty. It’s a peculiarly American thing to do.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx