Initial feelings on the Ford testimony?

i think she comes across as completely credible. She also comes across very human.

do you remember everything or nothing?

I remember dramatic incidents from very early childhood days but i really can't tell what i ate last Monday for breakfast.

that being said: I have no reason to believe that she goes through this painful ordeal just for fun and giggles

yeah something happened to her for sure.
not sure who did it at this moment though.

These kind of chicks are not helping girls either

she did state she is 100% certain her assailant was kavanaugh

2 fascinating questions to this beyond the accusations for me.

1. why would repubs bet the whole thing on kavanaugh? because this is a shitshow for repubs broadcast live.

2. is kavanaugh going to take trump's advice and come out fighting with his testimony?

i feel bad for the guy on cspan taking all the calls from rape victims. He better not misspeak i imagine they will get a ton of reports from rape victims now.

BTW let's be clear for the average person rape is rape. I imagine groping is different when looked at by the law. This is nuts that this is a public show

let's not forget her testimony includes kavanaugh covering her mouth with his hand to quiet her screaming as he forced her down with his body weight.

What I find nuts is that judges for the highest court are chosen for their political bias.

yeah this is not a court, just a debriefing. I think everyone is under oath though.
So anyone lying in that room will be in big shit, unless they are a senator, those dudees can do what they want..lol

Is so weird to see the back and forth between D and R

i meant picking judges for the supreme court in general.

if this wasn't such a highly political thing (which it shouldn't be IMO), it wouldn't end up being such a shit show.

also there should be term limits, that also would take a lot of pressure out of this

I feel she is being honest, but she is a bit "ditzy".

This is not a very easy process. It's not a matter of calling your local representative on a Monday and it's live in front of Congress on Wednesday. It just doesn't happen that way. From what she just said this process started with her before he was nominated while he was on the short list. She contacted a number of friends for advice and there is a lot to consider. Someone like this has to consider if they even want to turn their life upside down by moving forward with with this. If they decide to move forward, they have to decide if they want to hire an attorney, if they should contact a reporter, their local representative, then she has to be vetted (is this person crazy? a criminal?), then they document everything, then they start looking into if the claims are true.

Take politics out of this. If your local school board was having a vote to hire a new high school principal and suddenly multiple women came forward saying this man had sexually assaulted them twenty years ago, would the school board continue to move forward with a vote? Or would they stop everything and call the police and demand an investigation? You know without a doubt the school board would stop everything and have an investigation. Yet for some reason we aren't doing this here. This is for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the country, and we need to have a MUCH higher standard than a local county school board.

Again, take politics out of it. When a forty year old man comes forward and claims a priest molested him when he was a teen, no one says "Maybe he was confused" or "maybe he doesn't remember what happened correctly" or "there is no evidence of this". That doesn't happen. Instead they call the police and have an investigation. Every time.

Some people are claiming the Democrats are "playing political games". I disagree. They pushed a Supreme Court nomination through last year and none of this happened. Before the accusations, this was a bad candidate. He lied under oath multiple times during his confirmation, and before the accusations he was most unpopular nominee of all time.

It's odd how with the last nomination the Republicans weren't remotely interested in filling a Supreme Court - In fact, they demanded we wait until after the election. Now suddenly they want to push this nomination through as quickly as possible. Bullshit. They want to push this through because they want this man on the Supreme Court to protect their President in the event the Mueller investigation lands in the lap of the Supreme Court.

A President accused multiple times of sexually assault women is putting a man on the Supreme Court who has been accused of sexually assaulting mulitple women. This is fucking disgusting already.

it's a shit show because repubs clinged to kavanaugh, not because some amount of political bias is human nature in everyone, even SC judges. our system doesn't deny that basic human condition.

It shouldn't be a political thing. Both parties should work together to nominate people. That's not difficult at all.

If I understand correctly, it's the President's office who picks the nominees. It shouldn't work that way. It should be Congress - both sides - making a short list of people that they ALL agree on, and then having the President pick from that list.

Also, I am hearing a lot of discussions about term limits for Supreme Court Justices. I agree with this. At a certain point of time people at the highest levels of government are out of touch with the American Public. Hillary Clinton said during her campaign that she hadn't driven a car in thirty years - she gets driven by her security team. I'm sorry, but if you cannot hop into your car and drive around the corner to your local yogurt place with your kid you shouldn't be running the country or making judgement on laws on average citizens. These people - which is nearly everyone in Congress - are completely out of touch with what the average American goes through.

Some talking points for people.
try to leave politics at the door
1) Whether she could hear conversations from inside the bathroom, whether they happened, whether she could not hear or just not understand

2) Door was locked / got off bed and ran out of locked room?

3) Number of people in the room, number of people at the party, genders of people at the party

4) Doesn't remember who drove her to party

5) Where the house was (Near the country club, between my house and the country club)

6) Who did she speak to about this ("people on the beach", just her therapist and her husband)

7) Afraid of flying / I fly to Hawaii and French Polynesia regularly, flew back from grandma's funeral

8) Doesn't remember when the polygraph was taken (day of grandma's funeral, could have been next day)

9) Doesn't remember who paid for the polygraph

10) Doesn't remember if she was recorded during polygraph

11) Supposedly told her life story during polygraph / report shows only 2 questions

12) Whether she had been drinking (No, yes I had a beer)


https://streamable.com/kl8nr

It's stunning how the Republicans at this hearing have zero interest in what happened, and are much more interested in the timeline of her coming forward. The ONLY thing they should be discussing is how this man pinned her to a bed and assaulted her.

So you say he is guilty without ever being charged or tried?

This hearing sponsored by Coke

I went to a party more then 35 years ago ...

I remember this chick with real dark nipples visible thru her sheer white tight blouse ....
I don't remember her name,
I don't rememberr her face
I don't remember if I knew her
I think I got there either on foot or bus ( student )
I remember theyre were other people
I may have slept there , not sure
I don't know how I got to my parents house and when exacly

...But I do remember her nipples : that made an impression on me ....

I am waiting to hear from the other side of the coin before I make a decision.

Ray
Hardlinks.org

it might help you if you were to post examples of nipples poking through tight white blouses, to find a similar one, it could be therapeutic

No. I'm saying it's insane that multiple women have come forward claiming he had sexually assaulted them and for some reason we aren't stopping to have an investigation. How is that possible? What is the hurry? With the last nomination the Republicans demanded we wait an entire year before we even considered a confirmation hearing for a nominee, but now suddenly there is this huge urgency.

Again, if this was a school board trying to hire a high school principal and such accusations suddenly came to light, they would stop everything and have an investigation.

Why is the President telling us the FBI cannot do an investigation when we know they can - they did with Anita Hill. It's routine for the FBI to re-open an background investigation when new information comes forward. Why aren't they holding an investigation?

Do you know why they aren't interested in an investigation? With this new information coming forward people are claiming Kavanaugh was a party animal and intoxicated more often than he was sober. A new investigation into Kavanaugh will make him look very bad, and when this new information comes out in an investigation he won't be confirmed.

The Republican party demanded dozens of investigations into Hillary Clinton for no reason. Now they don't want to have any investigations. It doesn't work this way. You cannot demand investigations for no reason other than political purposes for a witch hunt, and then deny investigations when someone accuses a nominee of sexual assault.

Hold an investigation. It's just that simple.

By the president's own admission he can not see it from the victim's (Ford) point of view. He' views the accusations differently than the rest of us. His words. He cannot be unbiased and should be removed from any decisions.

By the time a nominee has amassed 3 sex crime accusations against him, it's time to move on to the next candidate, an investigation is ridiculous at this point in this circus.

The repubs have jumped the shark clinging to kavanaugh, and on live TV

Republicans never care about the crime, when its Republicans committing the crime, they only care about how to attack the person who told everyone.


The more and more I think about it, the entire Republican party should be dismantled under a RICO case as a orginized crime ring. They are all criminals and traitors.

The fucking jugaloos committed less crimes than the current Republican party and they got turned into a criminal gang status..

If they try to ram this guy through, he will leave by lead poisoning...someone will shoot the fuck out of him, its a given..

if you were kavanaugh, at what point would you have demanded an FBI investigation into 3 women's claims that you are a serial sex criminal? in order to clear your good name?

Trump could have avoided all this bullshit by nominating a conservative black female judge

Immediately! but sadly all he is doing is crying (literally) during his testimony. Probably because he realizes he is fucked

it's a horrible moment in American history. I'm flummoxed that repubs would drag Americans through such a disgrace.

You know what absolutely amazes me is that people still don't realize that being around or associated with Chump will eventually end in a total cluster fuck ?

I just don't get this at all. This is a lifetime appointment to the highest court in our country. This is very, very serious. Now is the time to dot the i's and cross the t's.

This is why I am no longer a Republican. I saw what their party was about during the Whitewater investigation. They took six years to investigate something where the Clintons did no wrong doing, and they asked questions about interns that had no nothing to do with the investigation. They weren't interested in the truth. They were interested in making the President look bad. That was their ONLY intention.

All of the investigations we had into Hillary Clinton were more of the same. They weren't interested in getting at the truth, but instead they wanted to make Hillary Clinton look bad. I was all for the investigation, but if we are going to hold an investigation let's hold an investigation. I've said this before on GFY. We needed a full investigation into Hillary Clinton, as well as former Secretaries of State who have had the same exact email server set up, and also we need to investigate members of Congress who do something similar. If there is wrong doing at ANY level, I want to know about it. But that is not what was important to the Republican party.

Now suddenly they don't have to have any investigations at all. This is a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the country. We do not just slop this in.

Whoever's handling him has convinced him that the Dems' demand for an FBI investigation is a delaying tactic so he won't be on the SCOTUS for the start of its session.

How about immediately?

If someone is accusing you of sexually assaulting a woman wouldn't you want to prove your innocence immediately? Even more so in this case - Do you think Kavanaugh wants this hanging over his head for the next thirty years as he sits on the Supreme Court?

If he has nothing to hide....

In the United States, we are innocent until proven guilty. But without an investigation and without a trial, we will never know if he is innocent or guilty. The Republican party wants us to give a man a lifetime appointment to the highest court of in the country without knowing if he is innocent or guilty...

If he has nothing to hide... Oh wait. He does have something to hide. He might be completely innocent of these charges, but he doesn't want the world he was a raging alcoholic and a pervert when he was a young man. He doesn't want the truth to come out. Even if he has done nothing wrong, he doesn't want stories about his parties coming out.

Time to empty Congress and all State houses of all politicians and vote in new, competent and sharper people. These hearings just expose what a joke the whole Congress is.

The best ones are the Republicans who claim it's no big deal because he was a kid and it was a long time ago.. Umm well hello he's a adult now and seems to still be lying about it..

The tea party did this... They voted out all the incumbents and voted in a bunch of idiots.. That is exactly why Congress is like it is today, because idiots voted in a bunch of idiots..

Republicans had no issues holding Obama's nomination for 18 months.

When it comes to Kavanaugh it's all about withholding documents, no investigations & rushing a bite before midterms.

Shady & corrupt Republicans

Why the hell are you talking about FACTS AND REASON? Don't you know you're supposed to use your FEELINGS AND INTUITION???? What's wrong with you!?

Do you understand all you know about victim memory? Can you recall the most traumatic event of your teens and fill in all the blanks avout it people on the internet point out that you left out, etc? Assuming you had a truly traumatic event happen to you during your teens.

She's a another left wing crack pot working for the Dems. This is a Political hit job.

I watched until 2:00 then had a doctor appointment. She was credible, seemingly honest and had patience. I know from personal experience you don't always remember every detail of a horrific trauma. She has nothing to gain but a lot to lose. She and her husband and kids had to move. Her parents had to move. If he's appointed, she's going to be looked at as a liar.

Anita Hill was credible yet Thomas was elected.

The thing is that he may have been a drunk molestor at 16 and then grew up and became a decent, moral citizen. Should he be given a chance to prove he's changed or do we judge him on three known mistakes thirty-five years ago? Maybe there are others ..

Or, do we believe people don't change and he's still immoral? Do we forgive drunk actions or do we disbelieve women too embarrassed to report sexual assault?

This isn't simple. Some people want him prosecuted for sexual abuse and underaged drinking. Imagine if he's headed to jail instead of the Supreme Court ...

She wasn't so sure according friends just a week ago. Took some convincing I hear..

The facts that she couldn't remember that surprised the fuck out of me (and should you) were: How she got to the party and how she got home.

I am going to visit a friend I met in 1971, and even though I was definitely blackout drunk, I know EXACTLY how I met her and how I got in the situation. So that in of itself causes me to doubt her.

Kind of like how I heard a guy testify that his buddy bought a Coors, then a Budweiser. Didn't happen.

He did

He immediately asked for an investigation after the first one; the second and third were such bullshit (wasn't the 3rd a 4chan hoax?)

You haven't figured out that Gene is going for Troll of the Year?

Fox news...

How about this... She didn't want to come forward. She just wanted to let them know anonymously, hey, this dude tried to rape me and ran with a crowd of idiots.

But then everything got leaked. Then she figured, fuck it, my name and story are already out there. I should just testify.

So who leaked it? Not the Republicans. They would have rather bought her off. Diane Feinstein? I'm pretty sure it was her or one of her aids who knew, if I leak this, she'll end up testifying. If I don't, he's a shoe in for the Supreme Court.

Republicans leaked it to make her pay dearly for telling the truth. Just like Republicans tried to make her pay today for telling the truth. There's a pattern of Republicans trying to destroy women that come forward. Nothing new. They did it with Anita Hill too

Really? It just looked like a live-action version of GFY to me