I wanted to scoff at this as hyperbolic, but I suppose the extent to which the US feels like prison has entirely to do with where one is on the privilege spectrum. For a trans woman and ex-con like Manning, it probably does feel a lot more like a prison than it does for someone like me.

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

The moment she said, “You have to be responsible for your own conduct,” the light turned green.

“I feel very empathetic, frankly, for victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment and rape. I’m a victim of sexual assault”...

But only if you have a penis, otherwise gtfo with that and get back in the kitchen, you hysterical broad. O_o Seriously, he is behaving like all the worst stereotypes of why conservatives say women shouldn’t be in power. (Except the day drinking to get through his job interview, that’s just an ugly Irish stereotype…

If it’s done by a middle aged+ white guy. No woman or person of color could get a way with acting like that. 

I’m not stanning them. I agree. Susan Collins is an expert at pretending she has a conscience. 

If our post-2016 reality has revealed anything, it’s that a good portion of the US electorate values being overly emotional, easy to anger, vindictive, and clearly partisan to the exclusion of rationality, fairness or a functioning democracy.

God, that was SUCH complete bullshit. Everything I know about Kavanaugh, from the fact that he tried to force an undocumented teenager (a victim of sexual assault, no less) to give birth, to the many lies he’s told during confirmation hearings, to the sheer hypocrisy of him wanting his personal life kept private after…

Yes, it would be different. People still wouldn’t want him seated for a whole host of other reasons (like him perjuring himself and refusing to say who paid off his debt) but you can’t possibly think that nothing about yesterday would have been different had he acknowledged this years ago.

Even if he were somehow completely innocent and fully exonerated of all accusations, I still don’t understand how anyone could have watched yesterday’s hearing and come away thinking “I want this guy on the Supreme Court.” He is overly emotional, easy to anger, vindictive, and clearly partisan. I can’t ever remember…

saaaaaaame, girl. same here. i am so filled with rage and loathing that i literally cannot think straight. i’ve been alternating between reading everything on the interwebs about the hearings and then scrolling through makeup tips on pinterest to bring my blood pressure back out of the danger zone. (i am not…

It was amazing watching him lie so blatantly and with such anger. Like his explanations for “Renate Alumnus”, as if a group of fratty boys all wanted to memorialize their friendship with this one girl they knew, she was just that special. I would have just kept coming back to that point over and over. 

“I believe that YOU believe this happened”

As many people on Twitter point out, abusers cry. My abuser cried. Crying is sometimes what abusive men do because they don’t have a handle on their feelings or behavior; they’re angry and confused and scared. It’s so similar to when a child cries during a temper tantrum. They know enough to understand right from…

FUCK THIS PRUNED BALLSAC PIECE OF SHIT. I cannot stand him. I cant even stand his fucking face.

Admittedly, I did not listen to Dr Ford’s part of the hearing, I was at work and I knew it would just upset me. I did listen to part of Kavanaugh’s because I was curious about how he would defend himself against her detailed (and entirely believable) accusations. I expected a professional to come out and sit down and…

I have not been able to get any work done this week because I have not been able to tear myself away from what someone on Twitter humorously and tragically calls “the season finale of America.”

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski need to ask themselves, would I ever be allowed to act and look like this on national television? The answer is NO FUCKING WAY.

I believe that was the basic message of Trump voters. And here we are looking at a really and truly fucked America.