DC Tom

Looked it. I didn't dig too deeply in to it, becase at this point, who the !@#$ knows?

I would be entirely unsurprised if this ended up being true. I would also be entirely unsurprised if they were Republican plants intended to short-circuit the hearing tomorrow and make it easier to confirm Kavanaugh. I would ALSO be entirely unsurprised if they were DEMOCRATIC plants intended to confuse things and delay the vote even MORE (because now there CLEARLY needs to be an FBI investigation, to figure out what's going on). What a complete !@#$ing clown show. Or cluster!@#$. A complete clownster!@#$. And as an aside: there's going to be more calls for an FBI investigation. Because now that we have two other guys confessing to the crime, it's certainly their job to investigate a crime not in their jurisdiction that Kavanaugh wasn't even involved in, for Kavanaugh's hearing.

They are never going to realize that he only has so much power over them because they take him so seriously. Imagine if, when he said "Thank you, Mr Trump," that the target of that had actually laughed at the joke rather than treating it as a serious and childish demand? Instead of being rocked back on their heels by shockingly rude and self-centered behavior, they would at worst be on an equal footing in being in on the joke with him. (At best, by laughing at his narcissism, they'd rock him back on his heels, like we do with OC, and take control of the press conference.) They can't do it, because the media's so insular they've created and reinforced amongst themselves such a rigid tribalistic world-view that they simply can't question it, because they're so embedded in it they can't even recognize it. It's the worst sort of bias there is - the bias of having all your assumptions confirmed as "fact" by only knowing people having the same assumptions.

There is also a Facebook post of hers from Gorsuch's nomination saying something to the effect of "Why doesn't someone come forward with a fake rape accusation to stop this." Of course, the flip-side of that is to believe she's lying, you have to explain that she's been planning this since 2012 - which is beyond the realm of credulity. Or that this is a conspiracy between three people at least - her, her husband, and their therapist, who all would have contributed to a fiction that she "remembered" this in therapy in 2012. Which is only slightly less insane. And holy hell, if it does conclusively come out she made this whole thing up...instead of "highlighting the issue," she will have, with one high-profile lie, managed to damage the credibility of every rape victim in the country. One thing I don't have insight in to is how gossip is generated and spread on the Hill. Almost all my experience, and that of everyone I know, is in the executive branch. I know exactly one former House staffer...and he's a weasely little spud I'd rather not talk to again.

Oh, give me a !@#$ing break. You were in the "We should draft a QB with every pick until we find one!" crowd. That's almost as dumb as "winning hurts the franchise."

Good point, keep up the good work!

If he's not pleased with their performance in practice, he should see a game... I, for one, would like to welcome you to the community of Buffalo Bills fan. After a couple of days here, you'll under stand that the above is...well, it's how we roll.

He's no one's "boy" here. We've pretty well chased out all the true MAGA dolts. For most here, his only real saving graces are "He's not Hillary" and "He !@#$s with the media." He's certainly not DR's boy, since DR is a liberal - or used to be, back in 2016.

You should know it's the one subject I have almost no sense of humor about. Not just from knowing so many victims, but from once having been accused as well to the point of having an arrest warrant issued. Which, for the record, it was dismissed very quickly when they discovered that I was provably 400 miles away at the time. Turned out to be, believe it or not, a case of mistaken identity: I was casually familiar to the woman from a few years back, she was raped by someone breaking in to her house at 2am, and the suspect bore a passing resemblance to me (6'4", dark hair, about 200 lbs). But being surprised and assaulted at two in the morning, it's very easy to have an impression cemented by trauma into a powerful but inaccurate memory. The accusation was false, even if the victim was being completely truthful. Which, again, is why sexual assault is so difficult to prosecute - victims are always certain, even when factually incorrect. Trauma does that. And why accusations should not be reflexively believed in the absence of objective evidence. Even if the victim isn't lying about being assaulted - and most don't - they can often get confused on the details (or lie about them - accusing someone else because they don't want to hurt or are afraid of their real assailant.) Don't forget: this slow-roll of criminal charges to !@#$ up a legislative hearing doesn't mean the charges are false. It means the Democrats are monstrously abusing the accusers' rights themselves. Feinstein's a raging dumbass for opening this can of snakes. She should have advised - strongly - that Ford file a criminal complaint in the proper jurisdiction, and used THAT record of a criminal accusation in the confirmation hearings. It would have been more powerful, less disputable, less confusing, and far less reprehensible than this grotesquerie she's unleashed.

Did your rapists?

!@#$ it, I'm nominating him for an IgNoble Prize in Literature, for taking trolling to new and unheard of heights.

Just lucky, I guess. That, and sexual assault is a hell of a lot more common than people realize, even after discounting all the bull **** "It was consensual at the time, but I regret it now" and "I didn't want to say yes, but didn't want to argue about it" or "I wanted to have sex, but he wouldn't unless I wore his favorite eye shadow" stories. On a strict definition of "By use of physical force or abusive emotional manipulation, I was refused control," it probably runs on the order of 25% of women I've known. Me. He's accusing me of being a serial rapist. Guess I'll never be a Supreme Court Justice.

Hey, not just attempted rape, but attempted manslaughter. Strange no one's talking about that... It's a well-coached letter. There's one simple question that I'd ask that would cement this once and for all: "What song was playing?" I've known a sadly large number of rape victims, and "he turned the music up so no one would hear me scream" is fairly common. But I have never known one who's testified to that to fail to remember the song that was playing. Ever. Other details may be hazy, but they always remember the song that triggers their PTSD.

More like "Your vote, or your lunch...will be interrupted by protesters."

I'm pretty sure there's some attempted violence in his future. If I had to place bets...someone tries to assassinate him. But a not-too-distant second is someone assaults his daughters on the principle of "Let's see how he feels about his behavior now!"

You do, by the standard of "Someone said it, so it must be true" that you're applying to Kavanaugh...

It's what he's always done in office: steal the spotlight, make himself the target, and drive the narrative and coverage without his detractors even noticing.

The homework thread gang rape was far more brutal, I thought.

Yes. You'd be shocked at how much thoroughly mundane information stays classified simply out of bureaucratic inertia. There's files from World War 2 classified until well into this century that likely contain some of the least interesting secrets you'll ever see.

And Trump answered "I just did," I hope? I hope Trump steadfastly avoids calling a female reporter for the rest of the press conference, just to !@#$ with Acosta. Acosta is a blithering idiot of such magnitude that other blithering idiots are saying "We're not with him."

I missed the story where Judge's girlfriend talked about Judge talking about gang rape. I also missed the story where Judge's girlfriend's story about Judge's story indicts Kavanaugh in any way.

He doesn't even know enough to say "I have to check my call logs" or mail logs or email? I mean, he's a lawyer. He has to keep these records, at the very least so he can bill 15 minutes for a 2 minute phone call, right? Right? Avenatti, you're a !@#$ing whore. I like how you make reasonable points, then level-up your idiot score with garbage like this. It's STRICTLY he said/she said. There is no objective evidence, not after 36 years. None of these questions will be answered, they'll just be exploited for political gain.

Tell that to Bill Cosby. Really...victims of sexual assault aren't all that easily predictable in behavior. That sort of trauma can do unpredictable things to a psychology. About the only generalization you can reliably make is that victims who don't exhibit agency early on won't in later years...and those who do usually handle the trauma much better. Which is why it's better to encourage and support assault victims to report at the time of the assault, instead of grossly abusing Title IX or pulling this "political hack job 36 years later" bull ****.

Step 1: "Wait..."

Oversimplified...but you're not actually wrong, either.