The power is being gripped ever more tightly by those who have power.

And that is what the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh is about.

And that is a kind of power that's going to have a mechanical value

when it comes to suppressing the insurgency.

One of the purposes of shaping this court for another generation

is to depress the mechanisms of change, to take away votes,

to take away bodily autonomy and therefore economic,

familial professional autonomy from women.

Hello and welcome to Wise This Happening With Me, your host, Chris Ace.

I don't even know where to start this one because there's too much to say.

And usually we have the benefit of the podcast being like off the news a bit.

It's kind of been like one of the things we thought about for Wise This Happening is

topics that are sort of a step back a bit from the news, a little more evergreen,

a little more 30,000 foot view.

This thing, which is now pumping through your headphones in this moment, is just the most

in the middle directly of the nuclear inferno that is what the current new cycle is.

And at the core, at the white hot core of that inferno is a kind of fury.

It's fury that is very particular, as we'll talk about it, it's the fury that comes through the

quivering voice of the young woman who held open a Senate elevator to tell Jeff Flake

on his way to a committee vote on Brett Kavanaugh that she was a survivor sexual assault,

that his behavior in dismissing or moving ahead, as it appeared to you,

was going to do at that moment with Kavanaugh's nomination was telling her that what happened

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