Kennedy to retire - USSC will swing even further right

There were only two questions asked if she made things up. This is even bad by the unreliable hokum standards of polygraph tests.

 

"Did you get the house remodeling choices that you wanted by using the story?"

"F*ck yeah I did, he caved like a b**** once I made up that story!! So far that **** is batting 1.000 when it comes to getting my way!"

 

I didn't know this happened as recently as the 80s. Was it damaging for the average woman back then to at least file a police report if they were a victim of sexual assault? If so, what are some examples of consequences she could have fell victim to by doing such?

 

I have no idea if she is lying but she seems very clinical and technical in her answers.

 

It's very common for women to not report sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. Her not reporting the incident isn't an issue at all, the fact that there is no evidence and no corroboration is the problem.

 

I do think that it's kind of funny the 5 minutes of trying to figure out what happened then 5 minutes of sucking her dick, then 5 minutes of trying to figure out what happened, then 5 minutes of sucking her dick and so on.

 

Uhhh, yes? And she wasn't an average woman - she was a 15 (?) year old teen.

All the same consequences today. Having your private life in public. Being blamed for the assault. Victim-shaming. Mockery by her peers and being an outcast at school. While she came from a upperclass family, so did he. "He said, she said" was a lot more "he said, so she's lying" back then as well - you still see a lot of that today as well. Just look at the endless amount of research on the topic - if you're really interested, of course.

 

This thing is pure political theater whomever you believe. You can't really effectively cross-examine a witness in 5 minute increments particularly when the witness can eat up the time reading her own documents.

Either the Republicans have decided to drive this through irrespective of this hearing or they are going through this process to show they respect women's rights and then dump Kavanaugh.

The same is going to true of trying to cross Kavanaugh. 5 minute bouts of questioning just won't be very effective. The only difference is that politically the Democrats won't be bending over backwards to be respectful like the Republicans are in hopes of not further offending women.

 

The Senate GOP committee on rape victim questioning sure is a diverse lot!

 

So she's 100% sure that it was Kavanaugh and not anyone else, but she doesn't know when it happened, where it happened, or seemingly anything else. Seems legit.

 

The fact that she said she's "100% sure" is problematic. For the record, I believe this happened to her, but there's nothing corroborating that it was Kavanaugh and Judge.

 

That's probably why they are having a break now. Right after that strong of a response. I already forgot about Grassley's protest against obstructionist charge that he made sure to make before the break.

 

Agreed, that's going to come back to haunt her and it's going to make the fact that the claim is 100% unsubstantiated look that much worse.

 

What do you think an appropriate percentage is for a rape victim to remember her rapist?

I'll hang up and listen.

 

Fox News: “This is a disaster for Republicans.”

 

When you remember basically nothing else and claim that you know 100% who did it and that it couldn't have been anyone else, you sound like you are lying. If you can't say when it happened, where it happened, and you come up with a list of people who were there that say that they weren't there and that there was never a party like that and some that say that they never met the guy you claim was at the party....that only 6 people were at....

Yeah, context matters bucko.

 

So let's take the instance of child molestation. People who were molested as a child (and tried to forget about it), remember the assaulter; whether it be a priest, father, step-father, etc. They may have hazy memories of where and when it happened, but they definitely remember who assaulted them and never forget.

Maybe in your next life you will be molested, so you can see other perspectives, outside your little bobby bubble.