We’re conditioned to blame it on ourselves, but please believe it was not your fault your trauma was dismissed.

Really?? I s2g, there was ANOTHER speech (maybe like....2-3 months ago?) where he brought up ELTON JOHN and it made absolutely no sense whatsoever, hold on....

I have had to relive my trauma in front of the entire world, and have seen my life picked apart by people on television, in the media, and in this body who have never met me or spoken with me.

I BELIEVE YOU, CHRISTINE

Came for the phalaropes, left disappointed.

Except those three weeks in May when he was grounded for god knows what reason*.

Where is the other side of the calendar? Show me dem birds!

All but one of the Little Rock Nine are still alive (Jefferson Thomas passed away at age 67 of pancreatic cancer), and we can presume that the children who jeered and threatened and spat on them as they entered the school are mostly all still alive. And voting. I imagine many of those white children felt a deep sense…

The same “unsubstantiated boasting” happened to me.

Relevant; someone in the rawstory comments posted this;

“If I had done that...”

One the classmates interviewed said he thought about it every time Kavanaugh’s name came up.

Oh! Me! It happened to me, too!

I am so sorry this happened to you. It happened to me, too.

As a lawyer, that struck a chord with me as well. He can admit he made mistakes in his youth - e.g., I drank too much when I was young; I may not have always treated women with the respect they deserve; etc. - and still credibly deny that he ever assaulted anyone. But the fact that he’s unwilling to concede even…

Renate Schroeder Dolphin, was named on his yearbook page, part of a group of football players’ “unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests,” the Times gently put it.

Selective decency/selective outrage.

I’m just sitting back and enjoying watching Avenatti lob grenades at Trump and the GOP.