way past the time the person says NO. It gets out of hand because the instigator can't understand what NO means.

out their top people in a PR push to defend Kavanaugh/ muddy the issue.

You have my permission. The target here certainly deserves a stiff dope slap, at a minimum.

Alas...smacking people is wrong.

It's going to take a lot of people with pitchforks to clear away the giant manure pile at the White House.

Your only response is...it didn't happen, he categorically denies it, end of story.

To say anything else is really dumb.

Sounds like something Giuliani would say. When will these people learn to just shut the hell up? They only make things worse when they try to fix it.

They believe they are too clever to get caught, so they layer on the bullshit, thinking big words and obfuscation will bolster their initial lie. It often works, especially if they are lying to someone they have bullied before. Kavanaugh is in some deep shit here.

Trying to fix lies with more lies. In a time when we are bombarded with breaking news 24/7, keeping quiet could be the best strategy. Often less is more.

Don't tell them what we know, let them go about their business. Loose lips sink ships and all that.

Though I don't think they'll be paying me any mind! Their arrogance tends to blind them from anything resembling the truth.

Sharp cookie. I like you!

You just made my day!

And...I doubt anybody in TrumpWorld could spell "obfuscation."

Anyone who still supports this party is a deplorable. Also, they'll never gain my respect back.

It's a long way from Lincoln's party...

Case closed. He's out.

No way does that psycho want to testify under oath about this.

“There has been no talk within the ranks about pulling the nomination and going with an equally conservative—if not less controversial—pick, even if it would remove a major complication from the Republican agenda just 50 days before the midterm elections. To do so, aides and operatives insist, would be a disaster of much greater magnitude: inviting Democrats to launch more aggressive challenges to future judicial nominees and depressing the very base of conservative voters needed in November.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-if-we-ditch-kavanaugh-were-signing-our-own-death-warrant?ref=home

and who is on the Federalist Society "good guys" list.

It might be hard to find another one ready to uphold dictator privileges for the President.

And Brat Kavanaugh knows a thing or two about privilege.

How low does a person have to sink to be a partner in this filth? Looks like plenty of them are willing. Did they all come from the same scuzzy pod?

Standards have fallen.....

if this is his position now, that he survives this.

Remember that Kavanaugh has already testified, under oath, to the Judiciary Committee, that nothing of the sort happened, he wasn't there, and neither was his buddy Mark. Now we're on "rough horseplay"? Tell us more: What was the safe word?

Isn’t that the usual third explanation?

I didn’t do it

I was just kidding

She asked for it

Source?

But, y'know, boys will be boys.

Nowadays, not one day passes where you don't want to throw up at the offensive and insane stuff that seems acceptable today. If you go down this route, you need to have such a rotten soul.
There is one central difference between the accusations and playing around: consent.

If you find yourself on the side that is so desperate for reasons to excuse attempted rape, you have lost and you need to reconsider. And I wish an interviewer would simply ask those creeps what they would do if their own young child would tell them a similar story. Would they ask their child whether they might have just mistaken it for rough horseplay? Or that the child should still consider the otherwise nice character of the attacker? This is such insane nonsense.

People are really good at justifying things to themselves. There was a recent study that found about 1 in 3 college men said they would "force" a woman to have sex but about 1 in 8 if the word "rape" was used instead.

Are there other witnesses to the incident that have recently come to light?

He'll withdraw his name from nomination before Monday. Even Trump seems to be distancing himself from Kavanaugh now.

The only thing that can prevent his withdrawing is that Ford refuses to show for the Monday inquisition. Then the Repugs will say - it was all an 11th hour attempt to knock out Kavanaugh and it was a bogus accusation. They'll say her not testifying is proof that it was all made up and then they would proceed with the confirmation.

But still my money is on his withdrawing before Monday.

You are done, preppy rapist.

Resign your nomination.

of any kind is the kind of stuff that happens on the playground when you're 7-year-old boys, and the worst that happens is a bloody nose, some scrapes, and the boys perfectly happy with life.

Not at that party (even though the party was not specifically identified).

It was just rough horseplay.

What's next - she consented to the rough horseplay?

Link to tweet

Yeah, I'd say that was implid consent, since her org is an arm of the Federalist Society.

and who launched a ‘confirm Kavanaugh’ website and ads for him. It’s looking more and more like they knew there was a chance of something like this coming out and had prepared for countering it. And of course, they are funded by dark money.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/17/brett-kavanaugh-accuser-testify-senate-committee

Thanks, suffragette.

but if I was, she attacked me. I'm not the aggressor, she's the aggressor.

and it won't work for Kavanaugh either.

After all, it’s just horseplay.

off her clothes.

the victim had her mouth covered while loud music was playing, WTF!!! in an attempted rape with another person there in attendance.

Rough horseplay???? WTF. Is this a boys will be boys thing, fuck that.

"Just horsing around in the locker room" or something like that. Didn't end well.

It's from the Trump playbook.

The next step is to claim that she was pursuing HIM, but he spurned her, so she made up these accusations.

I say ENOUGH

Anybody with me?

Anybody else sick of their country being taken over by nazi filth and PUTIN?

We also had a "brother" school where I did take one class, but I couldn't name 65 boys - then or now!

Suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Side effects may include, lying, racism, dry mouth and explosive mouth diarrhea.

of Mark Judge's attempted rape and he jumped on her to try to protect her!

What if that happened to one of his daughters, would he tell her to stop crying it is just "horseplay"????

It sounds like you are throwing darts to see what will stick in the bulls-eye!

I've been running errands with MSNBC on the radio. While moving from one place to another, I've heard:

1. Kavanaugh doesn't remember her.
2. Kavanaugh doesn't think he ever went to the party.
3. Kavanaugh doesn't think he ever met her socially or otherwise.
4. Kavanaugh now thinks it was "rough horseplay"?

Is attempting to take off ones swimsuit part of horseplay? Was he "riding" the horsey? Did the horsey say "Neigh"...maybe "Nyet"?

All he needs now is for Ghouliani to advise him.

Get this guy out of consideration. I'd guess he is about to lose his chance for a lifetime job, his old job, his wife and family. What a jerk!


WOW! We're having our own mini-hurricane w/wind and sheets of water.

continue to shill for these assholes? Like 99% of us, I’m sure she has had the experience of unwelcome remarks, touching, innuendo, or worse. Does she not know what it feels like? Does she not remember?

It’s the same wild-ride, gish-galloping style, with the bomb tucked smack in the middle. So Conwayesque, it’s uncanny.

Horseplay, locker-room talk, no collusion, well-oiled machine, the best people, “Electoral College landslide,” on both sides, her emails, closed door w/Putin, WHEN DOES IT STOP?

At this point, I now cannot tolerate any Republican in any office ever again. Their either crazy, or silent, which is worse.

Which is it:

He was not at the party;
He was at the party but it was just "rough horseplay"
He may have been at the party but nothing happened.
He doesn't remember. Anything. What's Georgetown Prep

They are doing exactly what their name says they'll do.

Robert Chambers, the "preppie killer" from the late 80s in NYC? Jennifer Levin was killed and his defense was "rough play". It didn't work for him, and it won't work here either.

This type of "excuse making" is the shittiest form of humanity I can think of.

I know it's not all "Perry Mason", but sheesh - never hire one of these idiots.