This is exactly what is needed. She should submit a signed letter to the Senate committee.

Check out Cristina King Miranda (@reinabori): https://twitter.com/reinabori?s=09

So what's going on here?

quote:
In a now-deleted tweet, a woman named Cristina King Miranda, responding to actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus regarding the letter circulated by alumnae of the Holton Arms school in Maryland, says she remembers Christine Blasey Ford, “knew both Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge,” and that the “incident was spoken about for days afterwords [sic] in school”:


"Cristina King, 1983" did sign the Christine Blasey Ford support letter. https://t.co/EAAF7I1vos https://t.co/41dE3xieTL

It looks like the tweet was deleted. I see plenty of discussion on this for it to be fake.

Link to tweet

But her name is reportedly on the letter.

It may have been deleted because Ford has clearly said that she told nobody at the time. A claim that the story was all over the school for days later would contradict her. On balance... I'm not sure whether it would help or hurt.

Maybe the drunken boys bragged about it.

might really need to stop an investigation. And, of course, ram the confirmation through before someone gathered up the courage to speak out.

could confirm they had been in the house together.

...talked about it after the boys came stumbling down and Christine had fled. Likely, they all knew.

Threats would be highly likely.

anyone because she said so. I doubt this was a big deal to the two drunks, such that they would think about it later, much less talk about it.

If it had been talked out a lot, it would have gotten back to her.

Five out of five pinocchios.

as she ran out the door.

And the other kids could have seen her looking disheveled, and the football players laughing, and talked about it.

Fucking Benghazi got TEN INVESTIGATIONS....this demands at least ONE.

It is either that or we need to shitcan this entire government and start from scratch...remove EVERYONE FROM EVERY OFFICE immediately and replace the entire thing....SCOTUS, House, Senate, Executive....shut this motherfucker down until we have a functioning, sane government.

Enough already.

Exactly this.

+1000000000

.... own up to it, and apologize.

That letter may be the Kiss of Death for Kavanaugh

Because the filth he brings to the supreme court is more important to republicans than the information that is coming out about his character. As a matter of fact, the reason republicans like this guy so much is because of his character, he is trash, just like the man-child and republicans in congress and senate.

This situation is getting out of hand, and I don't mean Kavanaugh, the government, if Muller doesn't do something fast and powerful I fear we are all going down the drain with the swamp that is in government today.

I keep saying it, this is exactly what happened in Venezuela, things got out of hand and then anything was too little, too late, I feel the investigation is dragging longer than it should. I am also convinced (out of gut), that many of the republicans in congress, and some in the senate have been compromised, and that is why people like Gowdy are running from the mess.

I also keep saying that the military can be corrupted, I hope I am wrong, but if/when the military sides with a corrupt government you have a dictatorship backed with force, and it is at that time that anything will be too little, too late.

I love it....perfect kiss of death...

but, not sure. I just googled "Kiss of Death gif" and it was second on the list after the usual Michael Corleone kissing Fredo GIF

Season 2 - Asylum. Frances Conroy was GREAT.

Season 1 was ok...the rest...ugh.

They played with the format and that season actually was *scary* for the first time in a while after they'd settled into "introduce 20 wacky characters in the first episode" mode. I missed the first episode of CULT last year so am waiting to binge it on Netflix, and I've got the first episode of ARMAGEDDON on the DVR waiting.

COVEN was *okay* - Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson saved it, FREAKSHOW and HOTEL each had good ideas but fell completely off the rails arc-story wise.

Interesting premise which sucks you only to watch the execution get worse and worse...one episode in the middle briefly captures you before the fall-off into crappiness.

Except last season...that one just sucked from the start.

Just so I'm up on the lore for this season. I hope binging it through is a better experience then having a week in between to consider plot holes!

Oh, and I'm a huge fan of Adina Porter who was great as the stealth dark horse surprise in Roanoke.

signed by 65 women vouching for Kavanaugh. They knew this story might come out and they prepared a defense.

They knew. - I wonder what else they know about this guy?

and did NOT see this tweet there?

Nothing here.

Check out Cristina King Miranda (@reinabori): https://twitter.com/reinabori?s=09

65 women in the U. S. whom Kavanaugh didn't attempt rape. There are a few more women in the country last I looked.

Is it being picked up by any press?

Check out Cristina King Miranda (@reinabori): https://twitter.com/reinabori?s=09

I missed that one.

it's loaded with comma splices.

That's bombshell information. I couldn't even find this quote in scanning the article. Talk about burying the lede...

I couldn't find it on her Twitter.

Check out Cristina King Miranda (@reinabori): https://twitter.com/reinabori?s=09

at least her newest tweet says so.

Do you have a link?

Interesting!

Ford has an excuse if she doesn’t want to expose herself to what would be coming... but this makes Miranda look like she was lying to draw attention to herself (or help defeat Kavanaugh). By extension... she damages Ford’s credibility too.

forthcoming.

Even if the FBI did investigate and find damning evidence, the Republican position is that the FBI is a hotbed of deep state liberal activists run by Hillary Clinton and cannot be trusted.

And an investigation by the main stream media? Fake News!

The GOP is going to push this nomination forward regardless. They hold all the cards and if a single one of them had any integrity, it would have surfaced by now.

impeachment of Kavanaugh after that. The GOP knows this and may yet compromise. The Me Too movement frightens them. they have time to get another nominee through before the winners in the 2018 election take office.

Why don't all the men and women who claim they heard about the attempted rape back in the day, agree to accompany Ford to the hearing on Monday?

It's entirely possible that any friends the 17-year-olds might have bragged or blabbed or were not exactly nice people themselves.

And we already have people tweeting that they heard the rumor. Seems like it makes sense that we create a perfect storm to give the Repubs a bad day.

Conservatives are already hanging with, forming friendships with conservatives by high school, liberals with liberals. Both of these men are strong conservatives, Judge at least aggressively misogynistic, and it's probable that anyone they bragged to would be the kind who could properly appreciate their story.

It's not about convincing the 38%. It's about building so much public opinion against their agenda that they have trouble pushing it forward,

She was just another girl who became damaged goods. He's was a prep school lordling who was entitled to do whatever he wanted. If he wanted to break her and turn her into a disposable commodity, that was his right.

That's how these people think.
Even the wives in that social status think that way - that's one of the reasons successful GOP women are too often so vicious to others of their own sex when it appears those women fail.
The fear that it will happen to them - that because of the culture they were raised in, deep down, they actually believe they're disposable pets, political pawns in the networks of "great men".
No matter their talents, their own leadership roles in business or community, or how much they were loved by their family and friends growing up, they were - and are - still raised to think that their tradition demands their final rewards are determined on how they stand in their future husband's social position.
They're raised to be Princesses, not Queens. Wives, not Women.

Haele

Amazing how thin the margin is between 'conservative' and 'full on monarchical/tribal primates with bloody fangs'.

Like, in nanometers. And they don't even realize it themselves, I think. Mostly.

Well, Trump does. He's just straight up Monster.

I'm not seeing this tweet on her timeline

No evidence of it.

Check out Cristina King Miranda (@reinabori): https://twitter.com/reinabori?s=09

Where I come from, you do NOT send your child to a Prep school unless you think they are NOT going to make it through college.

These 2 schools are elite but based on wealth and parental influence. Intelligence is not a major consideration. Yeah they all pretend it is all about the kid being special. But prep schools are really there to help rich people's children get into high end colleges and make it through.

Yes, kids coming out of prep schools are smart but only because they have been given so much opportunity.

Most of the off spring of the rich are Not sent to prep school....they are sent to very fancy high schools.

Just saying....

I'll update if I get an answer.

Link to tweet

I will self-delete soon, unless I get more answers.

kp

Link to tweet

To make that claim and back out.

Zero respect.

Her claim might be considering she doesn't want to back it up.

get back to me when your ass is on the front line.

I'm disappointed.

She says it “served its purpose,” but now does not want to “pursue” it?

the event happened during the summer. Would school be open "for days afterward" to talk about it?

I think I read that Blasey-Ford said she told no one about it until 2012. How would the kids be talking about it?

As in any human occurrence, there seems to be some loose ends and contradictions. Sometimes it is confusing.

wouldn't even know how if I was interest.
What I think she should do is irrelevant, it's what she thinks she should do.

And hers more so as a woman.

My daughter's, my wife. If she has the goods, she needs to stand strong.

that this is a real witness trying to act without outing herself. It also wouldn't be strange if an ordinary person drawn into this acted in a...less than professional manner.

Her life is literally in danger. Maybe she never thought she would get cast into the limelight, and wasn’t ready for it.

Few people could handle sudden attention like that.

I didn't go to Holton Arms - I went to BCC (Bethesda Chevy-Chase), a public high school. But I had many friends at Holton Arms and my family belonged to Columbia Country Club and we had a beach house in Rehobeth Beach. I knew many people who went to both Holton Arms and Georgetown Prep and went to parties where there would be kids from all these schools and the scary thing is - probably have even crossed paths at some point with both Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and also Brett Kavanaugh at these parties. I am 51 and graduated in 1984 from HS.

I remember how much alcohol was consumed at these parties and the boys from Georgetown Prep hitting on the girls drunk at these parties or on beach weekends. I believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. I don't know if she told many people, but even if she didn't, I am willing to bet there are people who remember Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge and that it wasn't his first and only time being drunk or trying to assault a girl.

I am praying that this letter is real and that there are many many women who come forward in the coming days...

I truly have chills knowing that a liar and a someone of very low moral and ethical standards may be put on the Supreme Court....I do care what someone did in Highschool....especailly sexual assault....

She said:

"Hi all, deleted this because it served its purpose and I am now dealing with a slew of requests for interviews from The Wash Post, CNN, CBS News. Organizing how I want to proceed. Was not ready for that, not sure I am interested in pursuing. Thanks for reading"

I’m sure we will be hearing more from her. How do you prepare to receive death threats, being doxxed, having to flee your home, like Blasley-Ford? I’m glad the media has contacted her, it will be the only way we hear her cooraborating story. Lord knows the Senate is worthless.
A Blasley-Ford supporter started a Go Fund Me to pay for security for her and her family and raised over $53,000 in two hours. Her story is resonating with the American people.

I believe the republicans will use this as a disgruntled date, because
she got stood up to the prom by Mark Judge.
Here's her chance to get even.

I don't believe this is the case, but I do believe it will be the
repug strategy.

Sickening what has become of our country.

I'm glad the soldiers in WWII didn't back down.

She needs to do what's right for her I guess.
I'm just extremely disappointed.

Make no mistake - Women who stand up to powerful men and their misconduct are punished-sometimes severely. The deeply entrenched power structure will not tolerate this type of challenge and deals with it swiftly and harshly.

Take a look at what had happened to Dr. Ford. She and her entire family have been driven from their home into hiding to escape death threats. Meanwhile, the alleged perpetrator’s wife is sweetly baking cupcakes for reporters. The contrast couldn’t be starker.

and is not forgotten

I loved her portrayal of the elite white male Catholic Washington society. When I read about him, I got that vibe. I knew the type as I attended an elite Catholic high school in the eighties. The boys were racist, sexist and creepy about women. Every time I see Kavanaugh I get flashbacks to the eighties. Sick of right wing religion meddling in politics. Also sickening how creepy white guys are selected and groomed to be future leaders.

This needs a team to go out and do multiple interviews to piece together the truth. Who better to do that than the FBI?

"No more circus. To clarify my post: I do not have first hand knowledge of the incident that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford mentions, and I stand by my support for Christine. That's it. I don't have more to say on the subject."

Link to tweet

So she's already done one or more interviews, and she is only disavowing "firsthand" knowledge. It will be interesting to find out how she learned about Dr. Ford's assault. My money is on the boys bragging about it.

Link to tweet

At the very least.a reopened background check should include an interview with her.

America is willing to forgive youthful stupidity - even in extreme examples like this. All he needed to do was apologize to the victim, and say that the person who did this isn’t him anymore. The story would have blown over in a week or so.

Instead, it has the potential to destroy him. It shows how lacking he is in moral character.

You really think women would have been fine with it if he had just said "sorry" now?

Nobody will ever be “fine” with what he did. My point is, someone with integrity would have at least tried to make amends for his actions, not cover them up. Then, America may have forgiven him for what he did.

I wasn't referring to Dr. Ford.

I don't believe that women in America would have thought his actions OK if he apologized for them once her letter
became public.

I am not saying dickhead did not do what he is accused of ...

However,

The school she went to is not some public HS with low paid teachers and shitty staff, it is a high end school. No one goes there that is not from money. If this was, "being talked about for days" in this kind of school there is no way the staff did not hear about it. If the staff heard about it there is no way the parents were not contacted. If the parents were contacted there is no way they did not talk to their daughter and ask WTF is going on?

You do not attempt to rape a rich families daughter and just skate ... you may walk from charges because you are richer, but no way in hell do you not get this recorded, somewhere. If it is true that "this was talked about for days" then the school's reputation is going to get slammed. I would imagine that is why it was pulled ... the staff from the school is still around, somewhere.

This would be a scandal that the school would have a very difficult time getting past. A prominent doctor that went to your school was attacked and it "was talked about for days" at your school ... why were no actions taken? Are girls safe at your school? Why should anyone spend $$$ to send their young woman there knowing the school will not protect her?

Something does not add up.

All sorts of things went on that were quite intentionally not told to parents or school personnel. The idea being that it was a really conservative school, and the kids want to preserve that squeaky clean image. Kids at these schools are very conscious of their future as leaders and attendees of fancy colleges - future careers are everything and something like this can ruin a student's prospects. I'm very familiar with the culture. Kids acted one way in public and another way in private. These are young adults - they're quite calculated in what they do. Sexual abuse is part of the male bonding culture in these schools - but you don't want the grown-ups to find out, then your career is toast.

All sorts of things go on in every school that are kept from a lot of people. I knew about all sorts of things that went on and few people knew.

Attempted rape at a prestigious all girls school is not one of them. This is not a Catholic high school like you speak of, this is a 42K a year school ... you do not go there with "a lot of rich" ... you are rich. 160K+ to attend four years of high school is a chunk of change.

If it was widely talked about one of the "goody two shoes" says something to someone ...

Also, incident was reported to happen during the summer. Easy enough to check if there was a summer school, and who was there.

Twitter is now deleted.

Sexual abuse is not "the culture" at any school, damn sure not a high end all girls school, and if it were so why would anyone spend $$$ to send a young woman to such a school?

You may disagree with my statement, that is fine. To me it just does not add up.

Or money.

Sexual abuse is certainly part of the culture at a lot of schools, especially sex segregated schools like this one. No one could send their daughter there because it was an all-male school. People in those cultures thought rape was funny back then. And yes, rapes were certainly not told to the "authorities" - parents and school officials. It was something that kids would keep to themselves. No one wants a bunch of priests or nuns talking to them about rape.

You don't tell parents because you don't want to shame the girl. Remember, this is the 1980s.

teenagers are quite capable of keeping things from their teachers and counselors and parents. They're actually pretty good at it. It's also a bonding experience for them (despite the occasional trauma) to keep their secrets. My parents still don't have a clue what i was up to in the late 80's...

That's a story about a group of federal employees who want to testify about his behavior when working for a since-disgraced judge. They aren't additional witnesses to these charges.

And the common thread I see is taking a credible accusation, and extending it to what looks like a better position, but in fact seems to be an unstable ledge off which it can be pushed.

I think trolls are fishing. Lets go with real people making real accusations, and verifiable evidence and reports.

A former classmate of Christine Blasey Ford tells NPR that she does not know if an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh took place as she first suggested on social media.

"That it happened or not, I have no idea," Cristina King Miranda told NPR's Nina Totenberg. "I can't say that it did or didn't."

That's different from what Miranda wrote Wednesday in a now-deleted Facebook post that stated definitively, "The incident DID happen, many of us heard about it in school."

Read the rest at: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/649787076/kavanaugh-accuser-classmate-that-it-happened-or-not-i-have-no-idea