I’m guessing these are examples of “Certain women [who] should be struck regularly, like gongs”…
Well, isn’t this just a pickle for Mitch McConnell. The crowing glory of his career might just go down in flames. Couldn’t happen to a nicer traitor. womp womp
Happy to see some kind of public support for Ford.
She is one lone individual who will be in the line of some unimaginable, incoming fire from the Senate and elsewhere.
Since the Women’s March you get the feeling the decent majority are moving to assert themselves, and today feels the same. Melville wrote a poem after Lincoln was assassinated called “The Martyr,” in which he described the people weeping but about to “bare the iron hand.” “Beware the People weeping/ When they bare the iron hand,” is the last line. They put a sexual harasser on the Supreme Court. Now they want to put a rapist. Enough is enough.
Betcha if you were to call the women who signed this letter, you wouldn’t receive any “no comments” or hang-ups like the purported 65 Kavanaugh “supporters.”
There is something so fishy about that 65 women letter. Such a nice round number. Seriously, even with 900 in my HS graduating class, I don’t think I had even 65 acquaintances, let alone friends. And he went to an all-boys school no less!
What’s fishiest about it is how quickly it appeared. It’s not like he had female classmates. So where did all these women from different prep schools “suddenly” materialize. This smells of advance planning — somebody suspected this shit might just hit the fan. Which is why most signers are ducking calls and questions.
There’s an implicit threat/promise in this new letter. I bet some of the perps are nervous.
Sorry, what new letter? The letter of support or something else?
Yep, the letter of support that says
Dr. Blasey Ford’s experience is all too consistent with stories we heard
and lived while attending Holton. Many of us are survivors ourselves.
Can someone help me understand the numbers used in this article? The report mentions “dozens of signatures” while the letter itself cites “200+” from 1967 to 2017.
Thanks. Thought I may have missed some new development.
There will be plenty of guys who were Kavanaugh classmates that will be vigorously dodging the press over the coming days.
My interpretation is signatures have been added since the letter’s release.
I thought it might be the number of signatures from around the time she and Kavanaugh were in school since the 200+ signers covered a longer period of time, but going back to the huff piece I couldn’t even find the word dozen used there so who knows.
Doctor Blasey’s letter was in Kavanaugh’s FBI file, so it was known to all the Senators on the committee for two months. What’s fishy are the signatories. I’ll bet if their backgrounds were researched they would all have some connection to various Ruthugliklan political campaigns or fundraising efforts.
Somebody elsewhere commented that many of them either hung up or said “No comment” when they were contacted. Sounds about right.
What’s going to be hilarious is when they all turn out to be struggling property managers between the ages of 23-45 and their stories coalesce around a common thread: “The White House called and said The Trump Organization wanted me to be its exclusive real estate agent for the Tri-state area. All I had to do was sign an NDA and this letter and the job was mine.”
Starting Salary: $15K per month.
Just find myself coming back to this term and liking it.
Yeah, but Ford is gonna have Hirono, Harris and Angus King to keep those sons of bitches honest.
Wow, complete sentences, every line speaks to the purpose and thoughtfully composed. Amazing what a real education can do when support for a fellow classmate is needed.