Kavanaugh hearing

[Seabass]

Well, she's no longer anonymous:

California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... story.html

Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Since Wednesday, she has watched as that bare-bones version of her story became public without her name or her consent, drawing a blanket denial from Kavanaugh and roiling a nomination that just days ago seemed all but certain to succeed.

Now, Ford has decided that if her story is going to be told, she wants to be the one to tell it.

Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend — both “stumbling drunk,” Ford alleges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.

While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.

“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”

Ford said she was able to escape when Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling. She said she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... story.html

[Tero]

Yeah but Clarence Thomas pubic hair on coke can. He still got in. It just looks like women will rule, but only past November. For the remaining Trump term. Then men will be dusted off and run off as ”presentable” for 2020. Trump or some similar pig will be 2020 presidential candidate. Not Pence.

[pErvinalia]

Sexually assaulting someone is seen as a positive by Trump supporters. This will just make him more popular.

[Tero]

it will be pussy grabbers vs wimmin for 2020 elections. Already some now.

[Animavore]

And so, this weekend, within the space of a few hours, something remarkable happened. The salient question about Ford’s allegations became, in some quarters, not whether they are true, but rather whether they count as allegations at all. The cruelties she describes—the alleged acts of dehumanization that left her traumatized, she says, as a 15-year-old and, still, as an adult—might be “terrible,” yes, but they are also … simply part of the natural order of things. Boys, figuring out how to be men. Locker-room talk, made manifest. “Drunk teenagers playing seven minutes of heaven.” Who wouldn’t be implicated in that? Who doesn’t see himself, in some way, in this age-old story? If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried.

Americans talk a lot, these days, about norms. What will be preserved, in the tumult and chaos of today’s politics; what is worth preserving; what will fall away. Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was already, in the profoundest of ways, a matter of norms: It will determine, almost inevitably, whether the women of America maintain autonomy over their bodies. Here, though, in Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that a young Brett Kavanaugh compromised her autonomy in another way, another norm is being litigated: the way we talk about sexual violence. Whether such violence will be considered an outrage, or simply a sad inevitability. Whether it will be treated as morally intolerable ... or as something that, boys being boys and men being men, just happens.

Christine Blasey Ford, who knew the risk she was taking—the horrific treatment of Anita Hill, all those years ago, remains a fresh wound—came forward anyway. Preemptively dismissed, even in anonymity (as a drunk, as a liar, as a partisan stooge, and as simply mistaken), Ford made herself public to issue a warning about a person seeking concentrated power over the lives and bodies of women. Her claims have been met by some with urgency and clarity: They must be investigated, many in power have said. But those claims have also been met, revealingly, with a collective shrug by people who see themselves in him but cannot see themselves in her. They weaponize their apathy. They are all Spartacus. They defend each other. And they defend a world in which—as a point of anxiety but also, it seems, as a point of pride—they can all be accused of something.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainme ... ium=social

[pErvinalia]

Thank God MM isn't still around to pull out the old "gold digger" card.

[Animavore]

Is MM gone?

[pErvinalia]

It seems so. I think he got the sadz because everyone was calling him an old bigot.

[JimC]

It seems so. I think he got the sadz because everyone was calling him an old bigot.

Ageist!

[Sean Hayden]

What a shit show.

[Tero]

it will be the great pussy grabbing election. Hillary ran two years too early.

[Tero]

McConnel says there is no proof that Kavanaugh has a penis
http://karireport.blogspot.com/2018/09/ ... -that.html

[Scot Dutchy]

Well Trump has a mushroom according to Stormy.

[laklak]

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[Tero]