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Michael, the Corey Lewandowski/Fields contretemps was not Corey Lewandowski hitting a woman, that fact has been known for a long time. I am not sure why Bethany pushes that canard. The video shows he took hold of her arm and moved her out of the way. She then blew it up into knocking her down.
If you and Bethany had read the comments from her post on this, and the Mona Charen post on this, you would see that the reason for refusing a clearance to someone is not revealed by the agency denying it. Funny, it took two days from the revelation of his wife beating to the resignation of Rob Porter. Yet, it took multiple decades before anyone on the left would dare to push out Harvey Weinstein or say anything critical about Chappaquiddick. Also, as noted by @skipsul, being taken in by a sociopath is common to both men and women.
Weird how people can look at a video and see completely different things. All Lewandowski had to do was apologize for acting like a stupid brute.
Brute may be going a bit far. He acted rude and should have apologized. But he sure didn’t knock her down, and was not doing violence to her. Porter, on the other hand was a brute, and I am glad that when it became known he left ahead of the about-to-be-firing.
Michael, your recitation of the multiple momentary government shutdowns gives me an idea: it’s time for a reboot/remake of the hilarious classic The Mouse that Roared. In the original, the chain mail-clad longbowmen successfully invaded during an Eastern Seaboard nuclear preparedness drill. Nuclear preparedness – how passé. Now, with multiple five hour government shutdowns, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick could stage multiple operations, in every federal installation. They could row into Pearl Harbor in their longboats. Capture Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park and hold it for ransom. Heck, they could even occupy the trout pond on the National Mall and Bring the Capital of the Free World to its Knees!
Dr. Chloe Carmichael hits on something important when she talks about how some women are complicit in patterns of abuse that go on for years and years, and that it “infantilizes” women to deny this. Quite often, spousal abuse is followed by a sort of honeymoon period, in which the husband or male partner is especially attentive and thoughtful.
Now, women tend to be more “people smart” than men. They will usually understand the psychological ramifications of their relationships better than do men, who are usually stumbling around in a fog. Or, in other words, women will tend to know exactly what buttons to push to drive a man out of his skull. (Sudden image of Katharine Hepburn breaking Cary Grant’s favorite golf clubs over her knee, as he storms out of the house in The Philadelphia Story.)
For some women, that honeymoon period — as opposed to being neglected and ignored — may be worth a brief episode of abuse. The “dominant“ male may actually be dancing on strings he cannot perceive.
Michael Graham speculates that the Trump administration keeps people on that other administrations quickly let go because they are having problems attracting well qualified people. I’ve heard this about the Trump campaign, which hired people Manafort and Papadopoulos because they could not find better people.
Trump had trouble getting good people at first, because his candidacy was perceived as a joke. But when he began to firm up his position as front runner, well, people naturally gravitate to power.
And now, of course, he’s in the White House, so he shouldn’t have any trouble at all. The exception might be people from entertainment and journalism, fields where working for Trump might damage ones future career.
Of course, against that they can weigh the possibility of writing a best-selling exposé!
I have read that is some fields, potential appointees believe that it will be held against them if they work in the Trump administration. In some areas Trump is hated with an unprecedented passion.
The most distressing thing about the emotional support hamster story is the callous way the woman decided to kill her pet, because it was inconvenient for her to miss the flight. These people not only have no brains, they have no hearts. It is unsurprising that they think it is ok to kill babies.
Re Mr. Porter, was he arrested? Charged with a crime? Convicted? I have no use for abusers, but absent a conviction, why is he to be driven form his job? It seems very unjust, especially when people divorce, sometimes they will accuse each other of all kinds of things to increase their chances of getting a more favorable settlement, or revenge, or whatever.
I am getting pretty tired of lynch mobs-we are supposed to be living in a society based on the rule of law, not rumor, innuendo, and unsubstantiated claims.
The level of proof for a security clearance is not that of a criminal conviction. There is no “right” to get a security clearance, nor is there a “right” to a White House job.
I can’t imagine how any hamster could possibly be more valuable than any reason for flying on a commercial airliner.
Objectively, it isn’t. But the “victim” who is suing the airline is saying it is.
As is Mrs. Ink.
From her own perspective, the victim chose to kill the more valuable hamster in favor of the less valuable airline flight. There are no damages. She had the more valuable property and destroyed it voluntarily.
I agree with Michael Graham that this is not a sign of a healthy society.