Day Twenty-Five Reminder: A Cavalcade of Sex Pests

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It's always important to take into mind the character of our elected officials and their appointees, and one common thread that underpins the "character" of this menagerie of ghouls and creeps of all varieties is that of rape, predatory sexual behavior, and, of course, garden-variety misogyny.

Case in point: Republican appointee for the position of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. We have known of Hegseth's sexual predation (up to assault and potentially including rape) for weeks now since his meteoric "rise" into the national spotlight, as granted by the television-addled rapist-elect who plucked him from a relatively obscure position as a contributor on Fox News. In a "prayer call" he attended with members of the Republican Administration on Tuesday, November 19th, he rather presciently warned that this "battle is just beginning."

The endless shoes-for-dropping continue: on Friday, November 29th, the New York Times obtained a letter penned by Hegseth's mother, Penelope Hegseth in 2018, elucidating some of the more reprehensible actions and aspects of his character and offering a glimpse into how even his family members view him.

A fragment from the letter obtained by the NYT:

"I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out..
You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.

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I don’t want an answer to this… I don’t want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But… On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say… get some help and take an honest look at yourself…"

These are comments from the man's OWN MOTHER on behalf of the way he treated multiple women and partners in his past, including his ex-wife (and mother of three of his SEVEN children), Samantha, and should be disqualifying as it is. Between his multiple divorces and fraught relationships with his children and families, his COMPLETE lack of experience, his overt embrace for white-Christofascist and borderline Nazi beliefs and his utter disregard for half of the populace, I can't see how anyone could possibly vote to confirm such an odious, repulsive, leathery husk of a man; then again, I would not be surprised if it were to happen. Fortunately, this news is fairly conclusive and damning; while it's far from a sure thing, it leaves room for Senators like Murkowski and Collins to do the right thing for once (though I wouldn't hold my breath) and at the very least damages the optics and ability of the DoD to function with such an inexperienced and incompetent man as its Director.

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Edit: To make it absolutely clear: this is a man who has in the past openly expressed the "opinion" (through articles published by the Princeton Tory school newspaper of which he was editor, no less) that raping an unconscious woman is "not rape" because "she didn't say no." This is a grown man who neither understands nor even cares about the concept of 'consent.' It's surreal and beyond description.
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Day Twenty-Five Reminder:

Take from it what you will.

I'm tired of mourning the loss of my rights; the indignance of watching the "man" who not only was pivotal in taking those rights away but additionally committed such indisputably revolting and dehumanizing acts be rewarded for it cannot be adequately described with words.

Between the skirting of political norms and laws without repercussion and the overt plans to use the Justice Department and National Intelligence apparatus to target specific minority groups, organizations, and political opponents, there should be no doubt that we should all be prepared for the empowerment of paramilitary groups in addition to sections of the military and law enforcement to be used to forcibly suppress dissent and persecute those who might.

Since the plans for extrajudicial power grabs and expansion of Executive power for corporate gain have been laid bare — and the majority of those in the Republican Administration's close circle have either been involved in predatory sexual behavior (including pedophilia and human trafficking), covering it up, or both — we have no reason not to believe that these people will use any means necessary, absent morals, to commit arson upon this country's institutions from within. I believe all citizens who care for what our liberal democratic system of government purports to stand for should do the same in its defense.

To me, any single part of this is instantly disqualifying, and I struggle to see how anyone could possibly defend abstaining from voting against, much less voting *for* this repulsive, impotent, thin-skinned, hateful, criminally vile rapist monster. Every day until he is either disgraced and out of office or dead in the ground.