I can’t find that portion from the live stream. I’ll have to pull up a transcript later. My recollection is that she said something like “it must have been them [the friends Ford told]”, but I may be mistaken.
I listened a little this morning. I didn’t make students who were clearly listening during class stop listening. I got in my car and heard some lunatic ranting when the radio came on. I was shocked when I realized the unhinged, belligerent aggressive guy was in fact Kavanaugh.
As to cruel nicknames from a few pages back: I had an occasional drink in high school. Never drunk, never tipsy, never talked about it. But a rhyming nickname similar to “Boozin’ Susan” was bestowed on me nonetheless–though not by my friends or anyone who knew me. Anyone who has received a nasty nickname knows that protesting it only entrenches it, and that it is painful even though not accurate.
“Devil’s Triangle” is now on the front page of urbandictionary.com. Their definition:
“A threesome with 1 woman and 2 men. It is important to remember that straight men do not make eye contact while in the act. Doing so will question their sexuality.”
Urban Dictionary: Devils Triangle
This reads remarkably similar to me as that other story you linked to earlier today about Ford’s high school yearbook, which you didn’t characterize as smearing.
Are you back to “being aghast at the thought of judging people by the company they keep”?
Kavanaugh is an idiot, nominated by another idiot. These allegations don’t disappear, even if he withstands committee/confirmation votes.
All he demonstrated to me in this charade is that: a) he does not have the judicial temperament to sit as a judge in traffic court, let alone on the SCOTUS; and b) he really, really, really does not want an impartial investigation into the allegations of the accusers.
He’s a carbon copy of the occupant of the Oval, down to the Pursed Lips of Self-Entitlement.
This is art.
Imagine what he’s like during one of his blackout drunk phases. I mean he got “aggressive” over a game of dice during one of them.
By the way, both Trump and Cornyn used the term “search and destroy” to describe the Democrats within seconds of the hearing ending, so it’s pretty clear they had their minds made up ahead of time.
Kavanaugh also used that phrase, IIRC. Coordinated messaging between the WH, GOP Senators, and Judge Kavanaugh.
Which parts are similar, in your eyes?
Are those quotation marks intended to indicate that you are repeating something I’ve posted?
If she had a “reputation”, to me that makes her story all the more credible. It goes to motive, I can see Kavanaugh targeting her if he thought she was easy
Oh, cry me a river. Trump does worse to innocent people every single freaking day. The Republicans are OK with the way he trashes the lives of FBI officials, journalists and anyone else that defies him. So I’m not buying the persecution complex.
Ted Cruz is a good example of the above. Donald Trump has
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Repeatedly called him a liar, and coined the “Lyin’ Ted nickname for him.
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Publicly accused his father of complicity in the Kennedy assassination.
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Repeatly insulted his wife’s appearance.
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Arranged for a media outlet to publish a hit piece accusing Cruz of having multiple extramarital affairs.
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Had the same media outlet dig up an old story about Cruz’s wife “shutting down” and being assisted by police during a bout of clinical depression.
And Trump pulls stuff like this all the time. The accusations of uncivil behavior being thrown at Democrats are ridiculous, all things considered.
So … do we know when the committee will vote?
ETA: and is anyone expecting something other than an 11-10 approval?
That was excellent.
I suppose you are going to say that maybe such articles did appear on that newspaper, and that’s tragic; but accusations that Gorsuch wrote them must be a case of mistaken identity caused by so much time going by?
I mean, who can really rely on a memory of where someone might have found those articles - just saying “somewhere in New York” doesn’t give Gorsuch a chance to refute that someone read them!
The whole “Devil’s Triangle” and “Boofing” explanations are pretty damning.
Kav forget there’s this thing called Google?
He’s definitely lying about the yearbook references about Renate alumni. He’s definitely lying about the references to his vomiting being about his weak stomach for spicy food. He’s definitely lying about having been blackout drunk at some point in his life.
If the Senators really wanted to get to the truth of this, they could subpoena Mark Judge as well as ask the other accusers to testify under oath.
That may well be plausible, doesn’t take much to get a “nickname” amongst high school guys. I mean, fuck just one armadillo…
…I’ve been avoiding all of this this morning, but I caught a 30 second snippet of Ford testifying. And I teared up.
This process is so heartless. She is so fucking brave.
I’ll give props to the person who decided to bring in outside counsel to question Ford on behalf of the Republicans. From what I am hearing in this thread: if the people in the room had been given an opportunity to question her the optics would have been fucking atrocious. (And they are bad enough at the moment, although I think the base are loving every minute of this.)
I suspect that behind the scenes once they got a sense of exactly how it was probably going to go down they made the decision to bring in someone from the outside. Because they aren’t completely stupid.
“definitely” must not mean the same thing in your world.