I just selected that frame because it was the funniest but then
I mean if I was the victim of baseles paid partisan lies I’d be upset too.
Well, Christine Ford handled herself with dignity, poise, and grace, so you can follow her example.
Glad to know you support the whole “Toxic Masculinity” thing then.
Again more from the cherry picked photos from the hearing This is why I despise when people take one frame and try to make a claim from it without any context.
What does this photo tell you? What was being asked of Judge Kavanaugh during this still? Does it fit the narrative the left is pushing about how he acted during the Senate interview?
How about this one? What emotions are conveyed by him?
How about this one?
As for the right where they’re trying to show Dr. Ford as a complete faker I have some photos of her from the Senate hearing.
Point being I am fucking done.
DONE
With the partisan bullshit from both the left and the right. This was an extremely emotionally fueled hearing from both Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford. A photo is can tell a story, but the story it tells a different story to different people.
Thank you for that lineup. I’m always very aware of how… ‘selective’ people are with the pictures they choose to show, and it bugs me.
Here’s the thing about the “both sides” argument in this situation, though:
You have two potential stories here, with two different actors in each one. In one of them, a college professor decided that she could take down a Supreme Court Justice pick by substituting him into a sexual assault that took place in her childhood, contacted Democrats, was confident enough that she could fool a lie detector, and continued asserting herself for months until she sat in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a prosecutor, then sat there on live TV in front of America and held her poker face the whole time, despite the death threats and harassment. She didn’t say “Actually, I’ve been playing you, hahaha”, she didn’t get caught in a lie, she maintained her composure and her dignity–and was then followed up by a man of integrity and virtue who grew up wealthy and privileged and yet maintained his moral compass to the end, and then decided to fumble and mumble his way around answers because he was an awkward nerd in high school.
Or, in the other one:
A sexual assault survivor saw that her attempted rapist was being considered for the Supreme Court, and decided “No, even though I’ve gotten past it in the past thirty-six years because I had to, I need to bring this all up again because it’s the right thing to do”, and stepped up to the plate–meanwhile, her attacker, who was so drunk that he didn’t even remember committing the assault and found it to be Just Another Party anyway, is suddenly faced with the prospect of losing everything he’s worked for in his life because his teenage years of being rich and untouchable suddenly caught up with him, and he had to fight to cling to the golden opportunity for power, fame, and wealth that lay ahead of him–but that was suddenly turning to smoke in his hands. A lifetime of respect and admiration suddenly wavering because his parents can’t buy silence anymore…
So you need to think about the likelihood of these scenarios.
Do teenagers do stupid things?
Yes.
Do stupid things become stupider and more dangerous when drunk people do them?
Yes.
Did Brett Kavanaugh drink when he was a teenager?
Yes.
There is no equivalence here. Why haven’t we heard stories about Ford blaming people in her life for when things go wrong? Why haven’t we found a money trail or learned about her acting past? You can’t tell me that Breitbart and Fox haven’t been poking around her past; do you really think that anyone could hold up such a charade for so long when dealing with the United States Government?
Of course not.
The reason why you can’t run a “both sides” argument with this situation is because when you actually look at both sides trying to find the truth–and not, as so many often do, in an attempt to “see that both sides are correct”–you can see that one person is telling the truth, and the other is telling lies. An honest man in Kavanaugh’s position should not be frightened–especially when Trump was elected President and so many others have continued to thrive and remain untouchable. Do you think Roy Moore shook him up that much? Nah.
So here’s the truth, that is not open to debate: Brett Kavanaugh is a spoiled, wealthy brat who was granted the best education money could buy, made all sorts of connections, wielded power and privilege to his own benefit throughout his life, said all the right things to make Republicans roll out a red carpet for him–and now, suddenly, is being told “No”. As with any child who throws a temper tantrum in this situation, he has a meltdown. And as with many sex-and-power-hungry men bigger than the women who tell them “no”, he’s going to bully and force his way forward until he gets what he wants.
Kavanaugh’s a monster, and doesn’t deserve sympathy. Be sorry for his victims, and the millions of victims across the country.
And understand that in life, people do evil things.
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