it’s a very convenient way of interpreting information if you are inclined to support rape culture.
Remember this thread "Sometimes The Bad Guys Win (WARNING: NOT funny. Disturbing) ". I’m putting the link in a spoiler because the thread describes a gang rape that he witnessed as a 15-year-old at a house party:Sometimes The Bad Guys Win (WARNING: NOT funny. Disturbing) - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board
There was no doubt that everyone at that party knew exactly what happened, yet no one said anything.
Isn’t he the one in this thread who swore he’s read every post? I’m not going back to see if I’m wrong. Regardless he certainly didn’t read that one.
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That’s not remotely true.
Concur. I’ve been drunk plenty of times, but never so much that I didn’t know what was going on at the time, or had any gaps in my memory the next day.
Now weed, OTOH, was a different story, which was why I gave it up decades ago.
Can you please provide the cite for your “rape club” assertion? You were adamant that people be precise in their use of the term affidavit, so I’m sure you wouldn’t have used the term rape club unless Kavanaugh’s accuser used the term. Otherwise, it would seem you were trying to diminish her credibility through slander and hyperbole.
Are you seriously equating a culture of entitled, rich bros feeling they can get away with deplorable behavior with conspiracy theories? in 20-fucking-16 the same type of man got 6 months for attempted rape. Need I name Brock Turner? You believe in the early 1980s these men had more fear?
And no one said he ran a rape club, Mr. Need to Be Precise with our language. Would you like to call me hysterical next? Because my post certainly doesn’t speak to losing my cool as some others I could point to.
I wonder if bringing in Rachel Mitchell is meant to make it easier for Senate Pubbies to break with Judge K. The initial thought was that the panel of old white man-senators were too cowardly to question a woman about her assault allegations. But now I’m wondering if they’re just too cowardly to question Kavanaugh when they know he’s a dirtbag, and that they know he’s an absolute trainwreck of a nominee that they don’t want to pass through, but they are deathly afraid of the base.
But…if they bring in a woman, a Republican, a sex crimes prosecutor, well maybe her line of questioning on ol’ Brett, combined with his line of bullshit, makes it absolutely *impossible *for them to vote “Yea.” But since they didn’t do any of the heavy lifting, they don’t have to have any blood on *their *hands, neither Judge K’s nor Dr. Ford’s.
Just a random thought that crossed my mind while sitting on the can today.
That would actually make a lot of sense, but would require some Republican senators to be decent people. Curious myself how it’ll play out.
I don’t think decency has anything to do with it. They see the writing on the wall as far as polling with almost everyone, everyone besides their deplorable base that is. K is becoming less and less popular with Americans by the minute, and Republicans might be looking to lose women voters by the tens of thousands if K goes through.
But they’re fucking cowards so they outsource their dirty work to their “female assistant.”
Possibly another one.
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Jeff Flake made a decent speech on the floor of the Senate which implored people to remember that everyone involved in this current situation are human beings. I like that line of thinking. And I hope that the human being Brett Kavanaugh feels sick when he looks at his daughters for the rest of his life. I also hope his human being wife feels sick when she looks at him.
Dr. Blasey’s statement is quite powerful. I suggest people read it (linked above).
The idea of him as a blackout drunk comes from his high school drinking buddy. But OK that’s fair. As long as we know it wasn’t a democratic conspiracy.
He was a heavy drinker and a lot of circumstantial evidence points to overdoing it habitually. Alcohol lowers inhibitions. Those in his position may end up throwing up. I don’t want the scotus nominees to lie about this just because that’s what you do to get on the court. It’s a different era now. To someone like that I say “Maybe you didn’t pass out but you don’t get a pass onto the scotus.”
Fiveyearlurker, posted this a few posts ago, but I’d like to expand on it…
Senate probing new allegation of misconduct against Kavanaugh
C’mon man. Enough is enough.
How do you say enough in Italian again? Oh yeah… #Basta.
What I hear, each Senator gets five whole minutes to interview, interrogate, hound or hector. No follow ups, no extensions, five minutes and the hammer comes down. So does their designated questioner get their five minutes each? If she’s using Senator Throckmorton’s five minutes, does that mean she’s asking his question? So, that we can identify which Senator is responsible for which question?
Also, if one answer takes up the whole five minutes, well, that’s it, isn’t it? The witness can offer as much improvisational word salad as they can. They can use the time honored ploy of fully answering a different question than the one asked, and thereby escape a uncomfortable point. Seems to me the five minute rule expressly favors Kavanaugh.
So, anyway, if the surrogate asks a question with a heavy dose of sluttish innuendo, we get to know which Senator asked it? “This bathing suit you describe, was it provocative, or only very, very sexy?”. Because its his five minutes she’s spending?
It’s all a very carefully calibrated leftist conspiracy, don’t’cha know? We gave each of these women rigorous training in the basement of the Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor, and released them at intervals calculated to cause the most disruption in the vetting process.
It looks as though the answer is yes (or more precisely, they may be Mitchell’s questions rather than the senator’s questions, but we will know on which Senator’s time she asked them):
Ford will be sworn in under oath and have the opportunity to give an opening statement with no time limitation.
After that, questions will begin.
Each senator will then have the opportunity to ask questions of Ford, but any senator may defer to another committee member or to staff counsel. That would be Mitchell for the Republicans.
At Ford’s request, each senator will have five minutes of questioning. Also, in response to her request, the committee will limit questioning to one round.
You kid, but I’ve been reading right wing websites just to see what they think (taking one for the team, one might say) and they really do think this is all a Democratic conspiracy.
Nate Silver just posted on Twitter that this may be a good example of a case where the more one hears evidence opposing one’s deeply held views, the stronger one believes in those views.
Newest GOP Senate tactic is to release obviously non-credible allegations by anonymous sources in order to muddy the waters.