I guess there does need to be a dedicated thread Topic for this .
As I mentioned previously, the danger may be that Women will fail to report Crimes in the future.
Interesting to note that Dr. Ford has an absolute right, and the funding, to pursue her allegations in Court. She has just announced that she has no further plans to do so.
Someone break this down for me. I can only digest so much bs.
Well, after Dr.Ford felt so compelled to Testify at the Kavanaugh Hearing, she has now announced that she does not want to pursue her claim , legally through Court.
How else would you proceed?
Legally , through Court. IF you had any credible evidence that would convince a Jury or Judge.
And that is the point. There is only the purpose of delaying and political motives, if your true motive is Justice, Dr. Ford should have maybe proceeded a lot sooner with this.
Wait so she just drops this bomb on him. And is now saying sheâs just not going to peruse it?
Correct. She just stated that She does not wish to see Kavanaugh Impeached , or removed from the Bench.
Can he counter sue her? I fucking would. If thereâs no legal basis for him to take legal action against her Iâd be pissed.
Time will tell . Hopefully an investigation will take place to look at to whom was responsible for leaking the letter from Ford to the press . And whether there was any collusion to embellish her account by anyone
Pure, naked partisanship. Character assassination and doxxing⌠they just keep going lower and lower.
A lot of lies have been exposed, and a lot of illusions have evaporated. And thatâs fine by me. Desperate gaslighting wonât work. Now that the enemy has outed itself, America will have an honest and open fight.
The long march through the institutions is finally meeting some real pushback. This may have been a bridge too far.
The midterms probably wonât settle this. Not enough time for the voters to digest the implications. Feinstein sat on that letter for a reason. Now both bases will be riled up at the same time.
Pity the moderates and the centrists. They will be irrelevant for the foreseeable future.
The far-right politics of this user-base is vomit-inducing.
The left is self imploding. Anyone with half a brain is seeing it. Only the real looneys are with them.
By what Metric to you determine Far -Right? Politics is a mixture of both Left and Right and one would hope that , even if you disagree with an opposing view, you can argue your point. no need to accuse posters of being Far Right. just make your argument .
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You may be deemed âFar Rightâ for just pointing that out in the New World.
Itâs open war between the âFar Rightâ and the far wrong.
Both bases are energized, but the Dem base is narrowing. It may have lost an entire gender.
Seriously⌠why would any self respecting male vote Democrat after all that?
Itâs the party of women now. Not even all women, but a particular type. Specifically, itâs the party of the sort of woman who reinforces all the worst sexist stereotypes against women.
I have a feeling self respecting and sane women will also hesitate to vote Dem.
This reminds me of Jordan Petersonâs theory of Jesus as archetype.
I am not sure any reasonable person from either Party would condone this much bad Reporting. Is this normal? Am I now an extremist if I show this ?
1. âDevilâs Triangleâ
Multiple media outlets accused Kavanaugh of lying about the term âdevilâs triangleâ in his high school yearbook, which Democrats claimed was a reference to a group sex act. When asked by Democratic Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Kavanaugh said that âdevilâs triangleâ was a drinking game played with quarters and three cups. The Huffington Post called Kavanaughâs explanation a âlie.â Seven witnesses â including the classmate credited in the yearbook for inventing the game â have corroborated Kavanaughâs account of âdevilâs triangle.â Politico on Thursday published a video that cited the website Urban Dictionary to suggest Kavanaugh was lying. Politico later deleted the video and issued an apology for its âoutdated information.â
2. Media outlets claim Kavanaugh described birth control as âabortion-inducing drugsâ
Multiple media outlets claimed Kavanaugh described some forms of birth control as âabortion-inducing drugs.â HuffPostâs article, âBrett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As âAbortion-Inducing Drugsâ At Confirmation Hearing,â has been shared 110,000 times. The Cut (a New York Magazine website) titled its article: âBrett Kavanaugh Calls Birth Control âAbortion Inducing Drugs.ââ In fact, Kavanaugh was citing the defendantâs description while explaining his dissent in the case, which went against the plaintiff. PolitiFact rated âfalseâ Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harrisâs claim echoing the misleading reporting.
3. New Yorkerâs first-hand source knocks down its second-hand source on second accuser
The New Yorkerâs Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow have faced criticism over their sourcing in reporting on the second allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez accused him of drunkenly displaying his penis in her face at a party. Neither she nor the New Yorker included any other attendee at the party who could corroborate her story. The New York Times later reported that Ramirez herself had told classmates she wasnât sure if Kavanaugh was the one who had exposed himself. The only corroborating witness in the story was a former Yale classmate who told the New Yorker that he remembered hearing about Kavanaughâs exposure from a party attendee. The classmate, who remained anonymous in that story, said he was â100 percent sureâ that he had been told of Kavanaugh exposing himself to Ramirez, he told the New Yorker. Mayer repeatedly touted the unnamed source â later revealed to be current Princeton Theological Seminary professor Kenneth Appold â in defending the storyâs accuracy. When the New Yorker got in contact with the attendee Appold said told him about the incident, that person had no recollection of the event ever occurring. âNo one made Farrow hitch his wagon to these deeply embarrassing and wildly irresponsible Kavanaugh hit jobs,â the Washington Examinerâs Becket Adams wrote in a column. âNo one forced Farrow to treat Appold as a serious and credible source. This is all of Farrowâs own choosing.â
4. NYMag spreads Avenattiâs gang rape claim, not it falling apart
New York Magazine spread Michael Avenattiâs claim to have âsignificant evidenceâ that Kavanaugh was involved in drugging and gang-raping girls during high school. The magazine published a series of articles on the topic including, âNew Accuser Says Kavanaugh Was Present When She Was Gang-Raped in High School,â âMichael Avenatti Implicates Kavanaugh in Pattern of Teenage Sexual Assaultâ and âJulie Swetnickâs Allegations Likely to Finish Off Brett Kavanaugh.â Avenatti has yet to produce any evidence, and Democrats have distanced themselves from Avenattiâs claim. Avenattiâs client, Julie Swetnick, contradicted her sworn statement in an interview with NBC News, which could not find any corroborating witnesses or evidence to support her claim. Swetnick was also revealed to have made dubious claims in a 1994 lawsuit, reportedly had a restraining order filed against her by an ex-boyfriend and was sued for sexual harassment. But those facts undermining Swetnick and Avenattiâs credibility have yet to make it into NYMagâs coverage. When Avenatti produced an anonymous second âwitnessâ â who produced no evidence â NYMag covered it, without mentioning Swetnickâs credibility issues. The magazine did not return an email seeking comment.
5. NBCâs âfourth allegationâ crumbles
NBC faced scrutiny after reporting the Senate was pursuing an investigation on a âfourth allegationâ of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. The allegation in question was an anonymous letter allegedly from a woman who claimed to have heard that Kavanaugh pushed his girlfriend âup against the wall very aggressively and sexuallyâ as they left a bar in 1998. The letter cited no evidence and provided the names of zero witnesses and was among multiple claims about which Senate Judiciary Committee investigators asked Kavanaugh as part their due diligence. NBC entitled its original story: âSenate probing new allegation of misconduct against Kavanaugh.â Kavanaughâs 1998 girlfriend, now a federal judge, wrote a signed letter to the judiciary committee the same day as the NBC story. She disputed that Kavanaugh ever treated her the way the letter described. âTo the extent the attached letter is referring to me as the âfriend who was dating him,â the allegations it makes are both offensive and absurd,â Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in the letter, which was first obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. NBC has not yet updated its story to note Freidrichâs signed statement challenging the anonymous, evidence-free letter as of publication.
6. âFifth accuserâ recants
Senate Judiciary Committee investigators, in the course of doing their due diligence, also asked Kavanaugh about a Rhode Island manâs claim that Kavanaugh and Judge sexually assaulted his friend on a boat in 1985. Like NBCâs âfourth allegation,â the man presented no evidence for his claim. Senate investigators noted several tweets from the manâs Twitter account, allowing reporters to identify him on Twitter as âJeffrey Catalan.â The man recanted his accusation and said he âmade a mistake.â CNN and The Hillâs initial coverage reported on the allegation without noting that the man leveling it had recanted. The New York Daily News hasnât updated its story treating the recanted allegation more seriously. âBrett Kavanaugh questioned about alleged sexual assault on Rhode Island boat in 1985,â is how the paper titled its coverage. The paper has not covered the manâs retraction as of publication.
7. NBCâs perjury prayer
NBC published an article Monday night that challenged Kavanaughâs testimony under oath that he hadnât heard of former Yale classmate Deborah Ramirezâs accusation against him before a Sept. 23 article in The New Yorker. Ramirez accused Kavanaugh of drunkenly exposing himself to her at a party during college, though she herself was reportedly unsure if Kavanaugh was indeed the alleged flasher. NBC cited text messages showing members of Kavanaughâs team working to prepare a response to the unproven allegation before The New Yorker published its article. NBC presented the texts as evidence that Kavanaugh misled the public in his testimony. But the article, which has since been updated, was misleading for two reasons. First, the networkâs original story left out part of Kavanaughâs sworn testimony in which he said he had heard Ramirez was âcalling around to classmatesâ to ask if they remembered the details of her allegation. (To date, none of the attendees from the alleged party have yet corroborated Ramirezâs account.) âThey couldnât â the New York Times couldnât corroborate this story and found that she was calling around to classmates trying to see if they remembered it. And I, at least â and I, myself, heard about that â that she was doing that,â Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 25. Second, NBCâs portrayal of Kavanaughâs comments â that he swore to have heard nothing of the story before it was published on Sept. 23 â clashed with the fact that Kavanaugh was quoted in that same Sept. 23 New Yorker article.
8. Kavanaughâs excessive drinking
Kavanaugh conceded in his sworn testimony that he sometimes drank too much alcohol during high school. âI spent most of my time in high school focused on academics, sports, church and service. But I was not perfect in those days, just as I am not perfect today,â Kavanaugh said. âI drank beer with my friends, usually on weekends. Sometimes I had too many,â Kavanaugh said. But media outlets at times represented his testimony to indicate that Kavanaugh testified that he hadnât drank excessively, even though he confirmed that he did. TheNYT corrected a story that claimed Kavanaugh âsaid he did not drink to excess.â HuffPost, which did not return a request for comment, claimed âformer Kavanaugh acquaintancesâ have âpublicly refuted his claims that he did not drink excessively, one of several lies he may have told during his Senate testimony last week.â Another HuffPost article claimed that during Kavanaughâs testimony, âhe lied under oath â a lot â especially about his excessive drinking.â Those articles left out Kavanaughâs admission that he did indeed drink excessively in high school.
9. Brian Karemâs scoop that wasnât
CNN contributor Brian Karem claimed in the local paper he runs, The Montgomery Sentinel, that investigators in Montgomery County, Maryland, were probing another âallegationâ against Kavanaugh. Local police denied any such investigation.
Bonus : The New York Times issued an apology after a writer who previously stated her opposition to Kavanaugh reported that Kavanaugh once was accused of throwing ice across a college bar.
Whatâs mine is settled law, whatâs yours is negotiable. In factâŚ
Gender traitors! Bonus: racism.
You said it, not me.