You can’t just pretend you have a point to sound smart.

He’s not American. I think you probably understand that, and you’re trying to make a point with an example, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what that point is.

They’re risking their lives and freedom to oppose Putin, and in doing so, they help demonstrate how monstrous Putin’s regime is in a high profile way, for the world to see. They don’t have to be genius strategists, or muckraking journalists, or political philosophers to make a difference. They are taking very, very…

How can this actually be someone’s take on the victims in this case? He is using his celebrity/infamy to try to highlight the corruption and profoundly evil nature of his country’s government, directly relating to his and his friends’ safety. To think that they are running on the World Cup pitch to simply commit a…

They have about the same number of meaningful insights as any other punk band/art collective/sentient Twitter bot. What they say or do is not the problem. That they were likely poisoned by their own government for what they say and do is the issue. That, IGAF about.

considering he married a woman who at age 17 ran a stop sign and killed a guy, I guess he’s got a blind spot for, uh, teenage crime

There 4 women in the group and one man. All students. He went down the line and asked where we were from. I am from Iowa and he asked me what county. I told him and he asked me if I knew a certain family in that area.

I was ready for that party listening to the hearings in 1991, and I’m 27 years’ worth MORE ready now.

Unless it’s Bill Clinton. In that case they go after him with all the firepower they can muster. 

In a country where having fancy titles matters more to people than individual character, it does.

Not her credibility, but to show she has more to lose than the average person were she untruthful.

That should be sufficient grounds for him to not be confirmed. And the “baseball tickets” that caused him to have $60-250k in debt that magically disappeared. But, Kavanaugh was cooked up in some right wing laboratory and they’re determined to try to jam him on to the court.

As someone for whom high school is somewhat a traumatic recollection of hellish days, let me be clear that while this is an adult woman making this accusation (which I wholeheartedly believe), the victim was her at 15 years old. This shit leaves emotional scars that can last a lifetime. When the GOP attacks this…

Of course it matters to them. They tried to impeach a democratic president for lying under oath about oral sex. Hey, maybe it wasn't the lies but being a democrat. Nah, they can't be that hypocritical, can they?

This is very true. When I was 19 I was raped by a guy I knew. When I went to the doctor after the incident, the Doctor asked if I was drinking and I said yes. He looked at me and said, well what did you expect, you can’t blame a guy if you were drunk. I cried and told him that I had said no, but the doctor said…

Posted this in a different article, but the addition of the data that Ms. Ford went to Holton Arms puts an even more decided spin in favor of the accuser on it:

The funny thing about ____ is that it works in FAVOR of boys.

Indeed. Related:

The funny thing about alcohol is that it works in FAVOR of boys— “he was just drunk, boys will be boys, everybody does it”— but it works AGAINST girls— “why was she drinking in the first place? how much did she have to drink? was she a regular drinker?”

Take a step back, for a second, and imagine if the story was that Dr. Ford was super duper drunk this night instead of Judge and Kavanaugh. Defenders of Kavanaugh here are saying that we should take the word of two blackout drunk teenagers over the word of one woman who was sober.