StrangeSox

Lol imagine trading away Khalil Mack

Mack is very good at football Trubisky, on the other hand, is bad

Lmao this will end poorly

What's the Venn diagram between the people saying this about kav and the people who advocate for trying juveniles as adults and blame Tamir Rice for his own death

McConnell has zero shame

...how is Kavanaugh denying that he was at a specific party when the claim of exactly when and where it took place hasn't been made yet? This guy is a serial liar at least for Sen. Hatch, it doesn't actually matter if he did it or not:

fwiw this is why I still think not just drafting him #3 but trading a ton to draft him #2 was insane

Let's say the "cynical" version, that she's deliberately timed this to sink Kavanaugh's nomination to the SC, is true. Let's even grant that it somehow diminishes the seriousness of sexual assault charges in general, at least in some people's views. So what? Unless you're accusing her of lying and starting to create a trail of the accusation years ago, what does that matter? Even if it had been Feinstein's team that dug this up and then strategically held off until after the confirmation hearings (which makes no sense, but for the sake of argument...), would that really matter? Shouldn't we still have a full public investigation into the allegations to either make sure we don't put an attempted rapist on the SC for life, or so that we clear his name? It's all just another way of telling an alleged victim to sit down and shut up.

SCOTUS is undoubtedly more important a position than DC Circuit. I wouldn't disagree at all that she thinks that this high-profile, decades-of-precedent-setting position is worth the risk/challenges in her life and that the DC Circuit position wasn't. I don't see why that's supposed to be unreasonable or damage her. Coming out this way means she's going to be dragged through the mud publicly for a bit and, more likely than not, harassed for the rest of her life. Calculating when it's worth it to bring that on yourself with public accusations isn't nefarious. Like bmags said, this position for Kavanaugh is very high-profile and he'll be in the public for decades to come if confirmed. I don't think any of us could name the rest of the DC Circuit judges beyond Kavanaugh or Garland. Now that Richard Posner's retired, I couldn't tell you the names of any of the 7th Circuit judges that cover Illinois. Yes, these are still important positions, especially the DC one, but SCOTUS is that much more important. Many, if not most, sexual assaults go unreported. That doesn't make them "unimportant." This was important enough that she sought therapy for it and it's stuck with her for decades. Making the decision on when to make a public accusation doesn't speak to the importance of the crime of sexual assault, it speaks to what our society puts accusers through.

It'll be interesting to see exactly what wikileak's response is here because of how they constantly defend their method of just dumping everything with zero curration or protection for innocent people. Leaked filed are, in general, good imo. How wikileaks goes about it is bad, and their potential underlying motives also bring into question whether they're just an information clearing house for others.

Yeah, it's about him being an unethical hack, not a criminal. Conservative writer Ben Domenech hasd a similar scandal a few years back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Domenech

It's her saying she wasn't willing to come forward and face the attacks and never-ending scrutiny over an appeals court appointment 12 years ago. She is well within her rights to decide that things may have changed in the last 12 years for a variety of reasons or that a lifetime SCOTUS position is worth her life being changed forever while the lower court position was not.

Democrats forced both Franken and Conyers out of office over the allegations against them.

It's a political process. These allegations are being made against a political appointee. That doesn't make them less serious or credible. And despite getting the basic facts wrong at least twice now on this page, you're still assigning motives and actions to people without any basis. Maybe...stop doing that since you keep getting it wrong? Maybe consider that women have good reasons to not want to come forward with allegations, especially high-profile ones?

this whole family is pure trash:

maybe acquaint yourself with the basic timeline before you keep attacking her or the motives/actions you imagine her to have? Feinstein kept the letter private at Ford's request. It was only when other Senate Dems learned that Feinstein had some sort of letter and pressured her that she referred it to the FBI. Then reporters dug. She is willing to testify because Republicans are asking her to. It would have been more damaging to release that letter ahead of the confirmation hearings and ask him about it under oath, anyway.

1) the entire process is political start to finish. whining about "politicizing" it makes zero sense. 2) she sent the letter to Feinstein months ago. there weren't any congressional aides that tracked her down. at least get the basic facts straight before you start attacking her with a bunch of imagined bullshit. 3) I didn't say anything about victim-blaming. I said she's being attacked and being told to shut up. thank you for providing another solid demonstration of my "terrible take," jenks.