Actually, there is a difference. Trump hasn’t managed to start two wars that have killed approximately a million people. He didn’t destabilize an entire region resulting in the creation of a new terrorist organization (ISIS). He hasn’t started an illegal torture camp. He hasn’t tanked the economy. Bush did all of…

Fuck them, indeed. Trump is grotesque, but that doesn’t change the fact that Bush Jr is a war criminal. Too many Americans have terrifyingly short memories. Gore Vidal was right.

Actually, it’s estimated that approximately 1 million people have died in the Iraqi civil war he caused.

Save it. Trust me on this.

Based on her letter and subsequent statements it’s unclear (to me, at least) whether she ever encountered Kavanaugh before that evening.

Very true. 

Take a breath? Nice condescension.

I’m so tired of public officials who:

And if it happens before age 50, it’s just a youthful indiscretion. Hardly worth mentioning, really.

Is it that accusers equate sexual harassment with sexual assault, or is it that powerful men see all allegations as misguided overreactions and therefore categorically worth dismissing?

They can jump a stump.

I strongly suspect that these “indications” that he is seeing from women, exist only in his head.

Was she there between 1992-1995? 

Do you think she pulled Mark Judge’s name out of a hat? How did some random professor just happen to know the following about an equally random conservative writer:

Logically, you’re right. Given that Mark describes Brett as quite the drunken party animal, you’d think the parties would blend together and be difficult to recall.

Your actual point is equally unimpressive. The women weren’t claiming their experience as “proof” of anything. They were merely stating that, given their own terrible experiences, they knew assault was common place at prep schools of that era. They stand in solidarity with her because they suffered similar traumas.

I’m not shocked that Penn hates #MeToo, but to tell McElhone that she doesn’t know what influenced her own performance? I didn’t realize mind-reading was a special power bestowed on misogynists.

Oh, I think we’re very nearly there. Kavanaugh told Orrin Hatch this morning that he believes Ford may be telling the truth, but she has him “confused” with another man.

Oh, I think he’s very worried.

Exactly. Brett can’t remember all sorts of things. Like how he paid off $200,000 of debt. Or if he spoke to the president’s lawyer. Or even suggesting that Roe v Wade could be overturned. And yet somehow, as you point out, he can distinctly remember not being at this one party, on this one night, around 30 years ago.…