As a liberal who is dying for Trump to get impeached or run out of office, this thread is hard to follow and digest. This is our base? Seriously?
This whole thing has made otherwise reasonable, intelligent, not-too-partisan people go off the freaking deep end. Are you fellow liberals listening to yourselves?
Dissecting a two-word yearbook entry from 1983 and hypothesizing about its meaning 35 years later? And maybe, maybe, maybe with this slanted interpretation he *might* have perjured himself?
Alleging that there are "corroborating witnesses" when there are, without any question, no corroborating witnesses?
Setting forth an Alex Jones-style conspiracy theory about a calendar entry from July 1, 1982 (when all named by Ford could not corroborate)?
What about the entry in Brett's calendar for July 1st 1982? That corroborates 1) a party, 2) beer, 3) a house 4) near the country club, 5) the presence of Kavanaugh, 6) the presence of Judge and 7) the presence of PJ. The calendar doesn't mention Dr Ford but neither does it exclude her and there are no credible theories about how she would have known about such a party if she hadn't been there. The calendar puts it beyond reasonable doubt that she knew about the party and was present at it.
Oh, and the calendar doesn't mention either that she was shoved into a room, sexually attacked and put in fear of her life, but her account of that event was credible and powerful - I haven't heard anyone deny that she credibly stated that she was attacked. And her remembrance of an otherwise unremarkable party is itself corroboration that something traumatic happened to her there.
That calendar entry is utterly damning. And there is no credible or reasonable other explanation for it than Dr Ford's. Which of course is why when the hearing got to the calendar the Republicans promptly and spectacularly sent it careering off the rails.
What? Do you understand how off the damn rails you are? No, no, no, no no. The bolded statements are just laughably inaccurate. Ford's team would have jumped ALL OVER the 07/01/1982 date, and screamed to the absolute high heavens, if they could have proven that was the date in question.
I'm just at a loss you guys. I feel like Democrats mentally toyed with the base and got our hopes up that we could take back the Senate and get a more moderate nominee appointed. But it all started crumbling, so then things went into silly season (Did he drink? Did he perjure himself about his high school yearbook?)
I don't like admitting this, but anyone who followed this closely without a crazy partisan lens (e.g., took the time to also make sure they were reading WSJ or similar sources to get the right's perspective on things) knows this was all bullshit smear tactics attempting to embarrass and force the nominee to withdraw.
This is an absolute embarrassment, and I'm embarrassed that fellow Democrats are still rambling on about such nonsense.