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Where Is Christine Blasey Ford?
When the Kavanaugh hearing was over, I expected to see Dr. Ford everywhere: a cover story interview on People Magazine, feature story on “60 Minutes,” “The Today Show,” “CBS Evening News,” the Sunday news shows, and on, and on, and on. I thought she would be telling her story everywhere, screaming about how she was wronged, demanding further investigations, threatening lawsuits, and so on. There would be personal interest stories on her husband and family on various news shows. Interviews with long-time friends. The media would use her continued presence to keep this story in the news until the midterms.
My expectations were wrong, apparently. Dr. Ford seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. I wonder why that is?
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I’m of the other opinion. She was already a liberal activist, and I believe she was willingly recruited for, and willingly participated in, the hit job on Kavanaugh because of her high school connection with him. There are too many indicators which show this is more than a “he said-she said”.
Did anyone ever dig up whatever she sanitized from her social media before this all started?
Mad Libs?
Double meaning there.
The evidence points to the fact that the democrats have been holding on to her story since at least 2012, when Romney first brought Kavanaugh’s name up as a potential SCOTUS. Something else I found strange in Ms. Fords testimony is that she says that her husband told her that during their marriage counseling session, that she had said Kavanaugh was the perp. But apparently she has no direct memory of this. So I guess if push came to shove, and she was called out on a witness stand, she can say “I have no memory of saying Kavanaugh was the one, my husband said I did.”
I don’t think there’s any reason to even believe that. She never signed a release allowing her therapist to discuss the case. So far as the evidence goes, one should easily conclude that even that claim was a lie.
I don’t think Ford wanted confidentiality. She chose to hire attorneys who were partisan hacks. She chose to contact the Washington Post.
She wanted to be the wonder woman who changed the trajectory of the US Supreme Court.
She had some memory of a sexual assault and decided to graft Brett Kavanaugh’s name on to it. That’s where the mid-1980s becomes the early 1980s and eventually 1982. She changed the story to make Brett Kavanaugh the assailant.
Lots of people are willing to make up lies in order to advance their political agenda. Ford was/is a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Yes, she has been very careful.
I too am intrigued that there has been no apparent interest in that information.
Yes, worded carefully to make it sound like the adult Judge Brett Kavanaugh assaulted a 15 year old girl. Not fellow teen ager Brett Kavanaugh.
I surmise that if the everyday Christine Blasey Ford were exposed for all to see in her natural habitat one would find your run of the mill politically involved hard Left Bay Area university town college professor.
This would be confirmation for many of us watching the antics of Leftist activists in general and their outlandish behavior during the Kavanaugh hearings in particular, that it is quite possible this lady made the whole thing up to derail Kavanaugh with an unscrupulous utterly immoral lie.
Because to the Left ruining a man with a disgusting lie to keep the fifth vote from overturning Roe is well worth it.
Huh. Wish we’d had centuries of practice with our practice that could be thrown out the window to adopt an enlightened Spanish one.
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Where did she go? Depends. Was she lying or was she not lying? If she was lying then she’s disappeared because the operation was a bust and her continued presence has only downside. If she wasn’t lying, then perhaps she really did not want infamy and she’s looking for privacy now that her fear of not being believed has been realized.
I have intuitions and speculation, but nothing more and I don’t think either will be productive for anyone.
I think that Ms Blasey Ford is persona non grata in any Democrat events or media appearances.
There is a hard rule in the US that it is best not to make people care about politics, because when they do someone is going to get flattened. The Democrats made the electorate care, and suddenly they want to change the subject. Ms Blasey Ford is disappeared, Republicans are obviously overreacting to the manifestations of people really really caring about this issue.
And now Hillary! shows up, again. The groans are audible from the West Coast. Good thing this generation doesn’t remember Jimmy Hoffa and what happened to him, it might give them ideas.
This thread has made me think of another side to Ford’s performance on the stand. I just thought her shaky and whimpering voice was bad acting. But instead of PTSD, it could instead be fear in the moment while perjuring herself on national TV, the focus of all news outlets, 24-hour coverage, with the serious consequences lurking in her mind if she didn’t pull it off. That’s a lot of stress, just not post trauma.
It is simple, her story was supposed to sink Kavanaugh, and lock in control over both the Senate and the House, but a funny thing happened, it backfired and the polls moved the wrong way, indicating Rs will keep the Senate, maybe add a seat or two, and losing the house was a bit less likely, and the Ds will likely gain fewer seats, OOPS, going wrong way, drop her like a rock quickly, down the memory hole, Ford? Who? no such person. Should things change they’ll bring her back.
That is why we make fun of Spanish folks,( Russian too I suppose, that’w why their novels are so hard to follow?) with proud lines going back a long way, they use all of them, at least those in living memory. It causes problems in our ignorant immigration officials who don’t know which name is the real one. I like the system. Ours removes us from our lineage, were just put here autonomously.
That only applies if it’s Democrats being flattened.
I prefer to think of it as we are individuals and not dependent on our ancestors for our status. We are free to know who they are and honor them if we wish but our customs put a lot more emphasis on who we are, not who we’re related to. That is healthier for most people. The other system benefits autocracy and castes.
The Russian system is different, and does not result in a proliferation of surnames. It is more patriarchal than the English system, because a child’s name includes both the father’s individual name and the father’s family name.
A Russian has a first name and a family (last) name, which follow the same conventions as in English, except that surnames have a masculine and feminine form. For example, if a man’s last name is Ivanov, his son’s last name will be Ivanov also, while his daughter’s last name would be the feminine form Ivanova.
The middle name in Russian is the “patronymic,” based on the father’s first name and a suffix (often “vich” or “ov”) . So all of a man’s children have the same middle name, subject to variation for the masculine and feminine form. Here’s an illustration.
A man is named Fyodor Pavelovich Karamazov. His first name is Fyodor (Russian for Theodore). His patronymic is Pavelovich, meaning son of Pavel (Russian for Paul). His family name is Karamazov.
Say he has a son named Ivan (Russian for John). The son’s full name would be Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov.
Say he has a daughter named Katerina. The daughter’s full name would be Katerina Fyodorovna Karamazova.
Of course, Fyodor did have a son named Ivan but did not have a daughter named Katerina. However, Ivan did marry a woman named Katerina.
Of course, in novels they usually add a nickname…
It’s a mystery. But it might have something to do with wanting to stay out of jail for committing perjury. Anything she adds to the story at this point could land her in hot water.
They didn’t in the dossier .
Well, there’s another set of rules for constructing diminutive forms of proper names, if I recall correctly.
You know too much about Russian names. Are you a colluder?
That’s because stripper and escort name rules were in play for the dossier. Strictly one name only – preferably the name of semi-precious mineral like Onyx or Jade.
Or Sapphire. Diamond’s also good. Ruby is much more rare than IRL.
Hmmmm “Blazy”
Could work. I wonder how she paid all her student loans?
Perfect.
What high school connection? He went to an all-boy school, she apparently went to an all-girl school and it seemed that those two particular schools did not usually interact in sporting or social events.