I've made a lot of jokes about Ford and her sequelae'd hippocampus and stuff, but being serious for a moment… Life can be horrible, and people are victimized all the damn time, men and women. We are sometimes attacked emotionally or physically, abused, bullied, and treated wrongly in various levels of severity from mild to horrific. However, if something bad happens to you, you have to fight back. Sometimes that means standing up for yourself right then and there. Other times it means you have to report it and if you let it go by unchallenged for 36 years - and you have no proper memory of the event whatsoever and there is no evidence or corroboration whatsoever - then you have to fight back in a different way by healing and moving on with your life and doing so does not make you weak. However, you should not be believed just because you say something happened. You need evidence, period. You need evidence because the accused are innocent until PROVEN GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. The accused doesn't even need to mount an impassioned defense. In fact, they don't have to say a damn word! These are universal human rights that we have fought for thousands of years to be recognized. You don't get to destroy someones life by unsubstantiated allegations. Time to put on your big girl pants.
They aren't credible allegations. She cannot recall important details and her stated witnesses do not recall and refute her allegations. No investigative body - be it the FBI, the Senate committee, or Maryland detectives would be able to work with a prosecutor to bring this to trial let alone even get a warrant for an arrest. Don't take my word for it, take the word of a SEASONED, IMPARTIAL, HIGHLY DECORATED prosecutor working in the Special Victims Division of Maricopa County in Arizona.
a vote now for leaving committee with or without recommendation and then goes to floor almost immediately where we see lots of bullshit and clown games over the weekend and then a filibuster vote break and then a straight up or down vote for confirmation
theres nothing more to investigate, they've been given wise guidance by the female prosecutor, a really damn good subject matter expert, that this crap would never be enough to bring an arrest, charges or a trial.
does anyone know what the number for quorum is on the committee? Do they ALL have to be there? Or can some dickheads be absent
they don't have to follow that lol, mcconnell will just say fuck you and call a vote
It's to the floor, now its up to MCCONNELL
Trust MCCONNELL, Q?
See, it's up to Mitch McConnell.
TRUST MITCH MCCONNELL??????????????????????????????
McConnell can say F that and call the vote anyway and even if Flake votes No it means nothing, as theres other yes's like Manchin. If even all D's and Flake vote NO then Pence can still tie break the 50/50
ITS NO LONGER UP TO GRASSLEY ITS NOW UP TO SENATE LEADER MCCONNELL
Q needs to let us know whether to trust Mitch McConnell or not