Is it Memory or Politics?

Both Brett and Ford drank a lot that night and both have memory loss. We all know that memory and booze don’t mix too well. Many drink specifically to forget their troubles. More young people drink to forget having to do what is right. Drinking is a release from judgement but at what consequence? Brett said that often he likes to drink and will drink till he is blackout drunk. What does that mean? When you are blackout drunk you can still be walking and talking but you might be totally amnestic to the event. You just don’t remember stuff.

The big culprit could be not how much they drank but how quickly they drank the booze. With memory and alcohol you have to consider how much time has passed. While a mild to moderately intoxicated person can remember things in the short term, their long term memories are much more difficult to retrieve. So, after 35 years the details can be hazy for both of them. Brett had an admitted habit of drinking and drinking often. There have been other women who said that he is an aggressive guy when he drinks. Does he even remember how aggressive he can get? Doctors say that memory works in that we take our senses of see, hear and feel and immediately turns into short term memory. Then it gets to be long term memory. Booze and long term memory does   not mix well. That is why in just days later you can have a hard time remembering something that was too vivid a few days ago.
 Scientists say that if you want to improve your memory the best thing you can do is to pay attention when something is happening. She probably knew that violence was happening even more than he was noticing his own acts of sexual violence. Sleep is important too because when you sleep your body consolidates your short term memories into long term memories. Those are the kind that you will have for the rest of your life.

The issue is not all about these two and their sexual encounter. It is about the chess game politics play into Supreme Court nominations. Both parties want to be represented with an equal amount of opinions to be the influence in passing the laws of the land. Trump could care less about sexual abuse. But he very much cares about his narcissism and his constant self-promotion and self-preservation at al cost. Right now there is the New York State derailing him over his involvement with the Russians and the Russian money flowing through his organization. The only place state laws can be derailed is from a decision from the Supreme Court. Trump wants to hire justices in his favor as quickly as possible.

The rush is on so he can vote on Gamble vs U.S. No. 17 -646 that comes up for a vote next month. This will protect the President of the United States   and others who took Russian money and Russian NRA money from being prosecuted at the state level. With a Supreme Court decision in his favor, Trump  can pardon them all and they walk, bought and paid for by foreign money.