Re: trump nominees seem almost required to be accused of sexual impropriety (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:14:29 -0800 (PST)
 > 
 > The last democracy now! segment has sent me on this train of 
 > thought.(attached)

Ah, yes.  I can just see a snickering Margaret Atwood in my mind...

 >  > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:12:12 -0800 (PST)
 >  > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 >  > To: Tam <http://profiles.yahoo.com/t>
 >  > 
 >  > I see the trumpers using the Kavanaugh playbook with Hegseth for 
 >  > sure. It seems that the point is to name 
 >  > sexual assaulters to establish patriarchal hegemony, to silence 
 >  > those who object, to bully them. It's like we have to snuff out any 
 >  > female leadership, though we will allow a few women who are OK with 
 >  > sexual harassers.
 >  > 
 >  > https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/11/kimberly-guilfoyle-latest-trump-nominee-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/
 >  > 
 >  > ..."But making Guilfoyle an ambassador with her alleged history 
 >  > “does 
 >  > continue the pattern that we have seen among a number of Trump 
 >  > nominees, one that he does not consider (sexual misconduct) a 
 >  > disqualifying issue in any forum,” said Kathleen Dolan, a political 
 >  > science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee whose 
 >  > focus includes women and politics..... Guilfoyle has been an 
 >  > enthusiastic campaigner and fundraiser 
 >  > for Trump, and she supported his false claims that he won the 2020 
 >  > election over Joe Biden. Her nomination is a further indication that 
 >  > Trump wants to demonstrate “defiance” of these norms, perhaps point 
 >  > “a middle finger” and show “a new level of trying to own the libs,” 
 >  > Dolan also said.