Melvin Q. Watchpocket

I think "MeToo turned men MAGA" is an unfortunate way of articulating something that offended me, a 3 time rape victim, about MeToo, which is how unbelievably easy it made it to destroy every dude except, somehow, the truly diabolical ones. Moira Donegan's list contained many alcoholic men I knew well & had never heard rapey things about (and I was in a position where I took in an inordinate amount of gossip). The list affected all of them badly but in different ways & I never heard anything more to substantiate the vague claims. None of those people turned MAGA to my knowledge because they were pretty serious leftists but I think it made them very cynical. Now, there were two or three guys on there I hated, did not like or trust, found to be basically repugnant -- but I should also say I had never heard allegations of SA, just inappropriate relationships with subordinates and snake behavior, and the list damaged their careers as well, and I don't feel sorry for them, but maybe that isnt justice. Similarly, peak woke took out a professor in my family who paradoxically is one of the wokest people I know. A lot of good people have been seriously damaged by false opportunistic accusations or misunderstandings escalated into hate crimes by mass hysteria...and what we learned from the Epstein files, and what we have learned from Israel, is that ...MeToo did not cause any of our *federal* law enforcement authorities to take SA survivors any more seriously, but it may have helped establish a blueprint for marginalizing and demonizing dissidents. I don't know how many Palestinians needed to die the most excruciating and sadistically wrought deaths to prove to normies that allegations of antisemitism were quite frequently lobbed in bad faith if not completely unfounded, but I do know it was orders of magnitude too many, and I do refuse to allow their deaths to have been in vain. Regarding platner I genuinely do not know what category he falls into. I just know that by the time he came along I was not asking for much anymore: a commitment to drastic change to our relationship with Israel, to ending all the wars and to not rhetorically flinching on those commitments. Knowing how difficult it is to espouse those positions in Washington I instinctively defended him. And knowing how difficult it is to espouse those positions I assumed his campaign had its shit together, and I still think it clearly did a lot of things well. But serious recent un recovered alcohol abuse must be a dealbreaker. I mean duh. One last thing: a large swath of maga women have had the quiet realization over the past year and a half that, as a good friends sister told her a few months ago, "the libs were right all along" about Trump. I do NOT understand how they uh missed this, I truly don't. At the same time, Trump 2 has been so exponentially more destructive and sadistic than Trump 1, and the establishment libs' reaction has been so .... Underwhelming and often bizarre, that I understand more acutely than ever before why so many people don't trust their narrative. I think that if nothing else part of MAGA is starting to grasp how much "the libs" truly despise "the left" and that would be a good thing if the left itself weren't so obviously divided on how to treat credible seeming but unfounded and unsubstantiated accusations leveled at an ideological ally with a massive PR and legal assist from the unlimited resources provided by a cabal of Americas very worst billionaires.

Because they are too preoccupied salivating over the latest irrelevant personal scandal being deployed to divide the anti-genocide left

Racicot: -Was asked by a friend whether she should set up another friend with platner. She answered elliptically. She said he was intelligent and didn't listen when drunk. She did not say he was a rapist. -Told Tapper "compliance is not consent." I would be interested to know whether this argument has ever held up in court, with a defendant who was blackout drunk. She didn't come forward the first time because she knew she didn't consider him to be a "rapist" because if she did see him that way she would have told her friend that was the case. She was emotionally blackmailed by Lyndsey Fifield who is a ride or die genocide cheerleader & professional liar, and most assuredly the promise of unlimited pro bono legal representation for her services to the Gratuitous Suffering & Death Lobby. I doubt she fully gamed out the sequence of events her new revelations would set off but Lyndsey Fifield absolutely did. One question is, did the funds that boosted him along the way game it out as well? Remember who funded Hamas to divert support from the PLO, people!! What was Seth Frantzman's role? Now Abundance Barbie shows up to scoff aipacfully at the desire of Platner's campaign team to have a role in choosing his replacement. These Demonicrat party hacks, the ones who appointed Epstein's best friend Larry summers, the man who oversaw the liquidation of Russia after which Scott bessent modeled the DOGE coup, the one who said unemployment needed to go to 10% in order to discipline the workforce into accepting shittier wages and working conditions, to run the economic policy component of project 2029, these ghouls will crush you, take everything you have and spit on your face. Grow a spine and please decide whether Graham Platner or someone with a similar level of baggage is worse than all that.