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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:40 pm

"He was an immature high schooler. So were we all. That he wrote or said stupid things does not make him a sexual predator." -- sen Orrin Hatch
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:42 pm

Coons: "Have you ever forgotten an evening after drinking."
Kavanaugh: "I don't remember."
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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

Post by pErvinalia » Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:55 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
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"He was an immature high schooler. So were we all. That he wrote or said stupid things does not make him a sexual predator." -- sen Orrin Hatch
That's like 42's "everyone lies" defence. And no, we weren't all immature high schoolers.
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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

Post by laklak » Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:04 pm

Strom Thurmond, now there was a southern Senator. Listen up now, you heah me, boyah? Last of the Big Daddys. Sired him a mulatto daughter off a black, 16 year old housemaid when he was 22. Here's a quote from his 1948 run for the Democratic Presidential candidacy:
Strom wrote:There’s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches.
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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

Post by Tero » Thu Sep 27, 2018 11:25 pm

Grab them by the pussy!
Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting," he tweeted. "Democrats’ search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!"

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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

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...Before Dr Ford’s testimony was even over, reports emerged that conservatives were distressed by how credible and sympathetic she appeared. The Fox News host Chris Wallace declared her testimony a “disaster” for the Republicans. Part of why Dr Ford seemed so credible and so empathetic was that she seemed to embody a very popular performance of femininity. Extraordinarily competent but also modest, deferential, solicitous, polite, and visibly nervous in the face of male authority, Dr Ford was a vision of womanhood that our culture finds more palatable than the angry, strident or frustrated affect that the Me Too movement has sometimes been characterized as having...

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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

Post by Seabass » Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:18 am

“I WAS ASHAMED”: AFTER FORD’S ACCUSATION, HOLTON-ARMS ALUMNAE WRESTLE WITH THEIR OWN TRUTHS—TOGETHER
Seven Holton alums recently shared their experiences of sexual assault with me. Many had not spoken of the incidents since they occurred in high school or shortly thereafter. All of them said that they had not widely shared their stories out of shame, embarrassment, and fear of backlash. And they all felt compelled to come forward now to support their fellow alum, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and to change the culture of silence and misogyny they’ve experienced.
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People started texting, Facebooking, tweeting, e-mailing, calling immediately,” said Maggie Quiroga Mainor, who graduated from Holton-Arms, one of an elite network of private schools outside of Washington, D.C., in 1974. “Whether we agree or disagree or hated each other as classmates, we would unite behind even our worst enemy in our class, if we felt like someone was being treated the way we saw her being treated.”

“Her,” in this case, meant Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a fellow Holton alumna, who friends called “Chrissy,” and whose letter accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault made its way to Senator Dianne Feinstein in July. Months later, Ford reluctantly disclosed her story to The Washington Post, describing how Kavanaugh had drunkenly cornered her in a bedroom at a party with his friend, pinned her down and attempted to remove her clothes, and covered her mouth and turned up music to muffle her screaming. On Thursday, Ford is expected to testify about her experience before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Ford’s story ignited a national news cycle. More locally, it lit up the Holton alumnae network almost immediately, in part because the community is so tightly knit: each class is made up of about 65 young women, many of whom are still in touch, some of whom still live in the area. Many of the 1,800-odd members of the private Holton alumnae Facebook group immediately rallied behind their fellow classmate, whose story has dominated the national discourse—even as it spurs an equally crucial dialogue in the suburb she once called home.

To many Holton students, Ford’s description of the party she attended in 1982 felt familiar. Beginning in middle school, there were parties with young men from surrounding schools like Georgetown Prep, Landon, and St. Albans every Friday and Saturday night, at big houses set back from winding, dimly lit streets. There was money to get alcohol. Parents were absent. The homes had pools and movie theaters and sweeping yards. They were teenagers in a candy store. “It was a highly professional culture of parents, many of whom self-selected those schools to be a big babysitter . . . a lot of them just parked the kids and left,” one 1980s Landon alum who socialized with Ford in high school told me. A woman who graduated from Holton in 1988, and lived down the street from Ford, recalled students from the boys’ schools pulling up to parties with duffel bags full of alcohol. “I never went to a party where there wasn’t alcohol; it was a drunk fest,” she said. “You’re living in a bubble where a lot of the families are exceedingly wealthy, a lot of parents are not tuned in to their kids, and, a lot of times, parents were away and the mice would play.”

In interviews with more than a dozen alumni from area schools who graduated between the mid-1970s and the early 2000s, I repeatedly heard stories of parties spiraling into debauchery, with drunken, unsupervised teenagers coupling off with various degrees of privacy. Because the students came from a handful of schools, it was not uncommon for the party’s host to be a stranger. Indeed, many of the people I spoke with said they couldn’t necessarily pinpoint a particular house or give an address. “I remember my parents would say, ‘Whose party are you going to?’ And I’d say, ‘I have no idea,’” the Holton alumni who graduated in ’88 told me. “You’d just drive there and look for all the cars.” Another Holton alum, who was on the cheerleading squad with Ford, told me that the squad’s captains warned them not to go anywhere without two other people, and that if they were alone and drunk with local boys, the boys would say something had happened, whether it did or not. “This was like an organized sport,” she recalled. “It was very clear that they would pick out a girl and start complimenting them.”

Many witnessed moments like the one Ford described, or heard about them, or experienced them firsthand. “When I first read the story on Sunday, I said, ‘Of course this happened,’” a woman who graduated from Holton in the early 2000s told me. “This happened so much that there was nothing difficult to believe about what she’s saying. How could anyone doubt this? It felt personal to a lot of us, because her story is so similar to a lot of ours, and so the attacks on her felt personal.” (Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the claims against him. “I have never sexually assaulted anyone—not in high school, not ever,” he told Fox News on Monday. “I’ve always treated women with dignity and respect.”)

Less than a day after the Post published its interview with Ford, Sarah Wolfolds, another Holton alum, posted a link to a Google Doc in the Facebook group. It was an open letter in support of Ford, demanding a “thorough and independent investigation before the Senate can reasonably vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination,” and thanking Ford for coming forward. “Dr. Blasey Ford’s experience is all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton,” it read. “Many of us are survivors ourselves.” A week later, more than 1,100 alumni had offered their signatures—more than half the total number of people who have graduated from Holton-Arms since Ford’s commencement. Along with the signatures, a handful of alums began to post their own stories of sexual assault. “I was date-raped at a New Year’s Eve party in college,” Julie Jakopic, an organizational strategist who grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated from Holton in 1978, wrote on her Facebook page last Monday, a day after Ford’s interview was published. “I was ashamed. We had friends in common. I told no one for a decade. Not until I was in training to become a sexual assault counselor. I learned in that training that my delay and most delay is normal. You blame yourself. Society blames you. Why tell anyone? Today, I remember the date because it was New Year’s Eve of my sophomore year. I remember the house because it was his fraternity house. I remember only his first name. I remember what I was wearing and never wore again. Do you believe me? Then you should believe Dr. Ford.”

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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

Post by laklak » Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:40 am

Animavore wrote:
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Burn!
You wanna mess with Michelle?
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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

Post by laklak » Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:51 am

The entire goddamn circus was disgusting. Fuck all those posing assholes.
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Re: Kavanaugh hearing

Post by Cunt » Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:09 am

I've never heard of Kavanaugh before this, and wouldn't have an opinion either way, except that this smear campaign was so blatant.

And what about the Avenetti witness? He tweeted about big news...shouldn't it have come out today?
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