i think crime victims, especially sexual assault victims, should be provided with their own legal counsel by the state/crown so that they can know their rights and be informed about their case properly. victims should have their own legal advocates in the courtroom separate from the prosecutors that they don’t have to…

The prosecutor might not have told you because evidence rules prevent them from bringing up previous convictions during the case (it prejudices the defendant by removing the presumption of innocence basically). They might keep those convictions from witnesses until the trial is over, so it doesn’t come out and then…

*Sigh* It boggles my mind that people still think that the ruining of lives starts with the perpetrator facing consequences, rather than when they perpetrated the crime... which should rightfully be considered the point where they ruined their own goddamn life (but who cares about that), and more importantly they…

I know! I keep hearing my liberal friends go “Ha! 10 points! Suck it!” And I’m like, uh no. 10 points is nothing after that amazing convention. 10 points is depressing. 10 points is a morning drinking whiskey out of a mug pretending it’s coffee.

I don’t normally look to my husband for validation of my thoughts and feelings, but I grew up in an extremely conservative home who’s TV had a Fox News logo literally burned into it and he lived in Egypt in the 70s and 80s, keeps regular contact with his classmates that now live all over the world and are almost all…

there are no words...i am so sorry that this society has conspired in such a way to as debase you like this, through no fault or act of your own.

My family in Sweden asked me the same question. They are absolutely stunned that Clinton has such a narrow lead. I’ve been following politics for decades now and never in my lifetime have I seen anything like this. Hell, I can remember entire political careers wither and die from just one misplaced comment. It really…

At least a million, you mean. Yeah.

It makes me want to cry because you’re not off the mark here. There is at least one asshole out there making these kinds of arguments in real life.

I’m sorry that happened to you. I am glad you stuck through it and made them actually do their jobs. It’s literally the thing they are paid to do. FFS!

Clinton is only ahead by ten points. She should be ahead by a million points. WTF is wrong with people?

Bitches, stop it. You are ruining people’s lives. Major athletes are involved here. Jesus fucking Christ, his dad might even own a house in the hamptons. Rape is a thing you sign on for when you are born as a female human. Get the fuck over it. /s but not really.

I can believe it. Back when I reported my own rape, the reporting officer asked me no less than 3 times if I was sure if that was what had happened and then when I got down to SVU, the detective that took the next report treated me like I was wasting his time. I felt like a piece of shit and wanted to drop the whole…

YES. If nothing else disqualified him from the presidency, his contempt toward the military would. And it’s not even principled contempt, just ignorant dismissiveness. From his “own private Vietnam” (avoiding STDs from all the sleeping around he did during his deferments) to the crack about McCain not being a hero to…

Your dad is a total badass. And I’m guessing he is very proud of you too.

The thing he said about people not getting captured being the real heroes- basically. It makes me react viscerally, I’m not being hyperbolic here, my drops and I get nauseated.

Well said Court. Well said.

I’m gonna get up on my soapbox and I don’t care. My father is a retired Colonel in the Marine Corp who was a platoon leader in Vietnam in 1968 at 21 who lost 50 of the 100 men whose lives he was in charge of. He was head of security of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, four days after my mom walked out on him. He…

It’s highhhh noon.