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Christine Ford’s story isn’t over
Vox ^ | Oct 7, 2018, 9:00am EDT | Anna North

Posted on 10/07/2018 7:55:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The cost of coming forward with her allegations against Brett Kavanaugh was enormous. But it won’t be in vain.

“Why suffer through the annihilation if it’s not going to matter?”

Christine Blasey Ford said she asked herself that question this summer, when she decided not to come forward publicly to say that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were in high school.

She ultimately reversed her decision, speaking to the Washington Post about her allegations (which Kavanaugh denied) and then testifying at a hearing last week. But throughout that process, her question to herself has resonated. After the hearing, Katie McDonough of Jezebel wrote of “the sensation of Ford receding from view — her hours of testimony, another woman publicly reopening wounds out of a sense of responsibility and a fragile belief that it might actually mean something — obliterated by the rage of powerful men.”

“Ford,” McDonough wrote, “had predicted that future and called it by its name: annihilation.”

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To: StoneRainbow68

I hear Ezra Klein’s frooty lisp....


41 posted on 10/07/2018 12:16:57 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why has she not been arrested for her lies to the FBI?


42 posted on 10/07/2018 12:48:47 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: Bernard

her story is one of a liar and it is the worst kind of liar - one who destroys the reputation of an honorable man. God will not be kind with that woman!!

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”


43 posted on 10/07/2018 2:25:34 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Christine Ford is a SURVIVOR of a grope????

I am sorry but this whole thing is such a stupid joke. It is not ok to grope women. BUT WOMEN ARE STEONG ENOUGH TO GET OVER SUCH A MILD OFFENSE, SHEESH.


44 posted on 10/07/2018 2:28:36 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: jonrick46
Underscores the meaninglessness of a Ph. D.

Piled high and deep.

45 posted on 10/07/2018 2:42:46 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: jonrick46

The note is signed “Christie Blasy”, but her name appears on many other documents as “Chrissie Blasey”. Forgery?>


46 posted on 10/07/2018 6:35:00 PM PDT by OldeGoat
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