Sen. Grassley and the old men hanging on by their fingernails to a world slipping away.

[madaboutharry]

Sen. Grassley comments on the floor of the Senate, angrily complaining about "The Resistance" serves as an example of what this fight is really about.

Grassley, and men like him, long for the far away world where everyone "knew their place." It is as simple as that.

Now, this most recent wave of women demanding to be taken seriously as dignified human beings, has put these men back on their heels. It cuts to not only the institutional roadblocks and glass ceilings women have been fighting against for a century, but it cuts to the personal conduct of these men. And they don't know how to adjust. Change is always tough, especially when it is about yourself.

[global1]

1. I Just Heard Some Of Grassley's Speech On The Floor Of The Senate....

and his references to the Dems about 'dark money' and ' the fix was in from the start'. My first thought was that Sen. Schumer could make exactly the same speech that Grassley made and just change the terms 'Dems' to 'Repugs' and it would be accurate.

Everything the Repugs say that the Dems did or are doing - the Repugs actually did.

[Squinch]

2. Grassley doing that, and Hatch flicking his hand as if to flick away the protesters.

They want to keep their position where they can dismiss us and flick us away.

And if we let them, we deserve whatever we get.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Grassley and Hatch are both in their 80s and their attitudes are fossilized.

That's not to say all old people are troglodytes like they are (a lot of DUers are also senior citizens), but those guys are not only old, they've been privileged and powerful for most of their lives. And they don't like it that the power and privilege of men like them is being eroded.

Fuck 'em.

[Aristus]

4. I'll be fifty on the 17th of this month.

I keep leaning further and further to the left as I get older. And I was pretty far-left to begin with. What a difference a thirty-year age-gap can make.

The sooner these fossils are put back in the ground, the better...

[Merlot]

5. Imagine kav when he's older, he'll be just like these old guys.

kav is just as "fossilized" as these old men.

And there are a lot of kavs out there to replace the old ones that die.

[Different Drummer]

6. Sadly, this is true.

I am a little bit older than Kavanaugh and a lot of the people I know who are of the same age are similarly fossilized.