Great piece. Thanks for this. Does the Times go into the possible legal ramifications for Trump from the reporting? I don’t think his political base will care (hard to get people to even notice with the Kavanaugh nomination happening), but hoping the courts do.

All I took away was, wow, they really have an appropriate stock image for everything.

Q: What’s the easiest way to end up with $1,000,000?

Anyone with a smidgen less entitlement would have withdrawn their name by now. This guys a fucking sociopath. A raging drunk sociopath. 

That’s not how being a manager works. You’re responsible for the appearance of your staff. If I wore assless chaps to work (even though my dress code doesn’t specifically outlaw assless chaps) it would be someone’s job to tell me not to do that because although some establishments are fine with assless chaps, this one…

“She’s not technically violating our dress code—it just doesn’t look very professional.”

Kavanaugh should not be held accountable for Kellyanne Conway having been abused by another man.

He also lied when he claimed he had no connections to Yale, because his grandfather was an alum.

Basically he said high school references to him puking are not because he drank too much, but because he has a weak stomach - and as an example he obliquely referenced ketchup on spaghetti (I guess something that has made him vomit?). He separately mentioned spicy food as making him puke. Basically everything makes…

This is all giving me horrible anxiety and yet I can’t stop listening to/reading the livestreams.

What a disaster.

This dude really likes beer, apparently.

He’s SUPER good at being told “no,” too.  This much is clear.

Compelling evidence that he’s definitely not a belligerent drunk amirite?

That’d be a waste of good pie.  Let’s use fruitcake instead.

Her statement is hard to read, and, importantly, incredibly specific and damning. She mentions other witnesses willing to speak, she’s worked in the government for years and holds multiple security clearances, and she submitted a sworn affidavit.

Because I got away, I convinced myself there was nothing to report. I convinced myself that because it was attempted rape, not completed, no one would care. I didn’t tell anyone for 4 years and even then I played it off as not a big deal. We tell ourselves all kinds of things so that we don’t have to be a victim. I…

He’s gonna show it now, isn’t he? :-(

OMFG. Ten bucks says he’s now going to use that effing Presidential Alert thing to send us all dick picks to show us how big and presidential it is. 

“I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart...