> My parents called the police, a detective came out and interviewed my sister.
And this is what is supposed to happen. Unfortunately, there wasn't a conviction (two of the proverbial 10 guilty free), but your sister has far, far, far more credibility than if she contacted law enforcement in 2040 when one of them was in the public spotlight, or about to be promoted. Everything about her and your parents behavior in that situation is very consistent.
> she called The Washington Post, contacted her congressman, and wrote a letter to her senator in July. Right after Kavanaugh was nominated.
Exactly. Assume -- just for a minute -- that Ford is lying.
At what point would she have accused Kavanaugh? 1982? 1983? 1984? 1985? 1986? 1987? 1988? 1989?...2012? 2013?...Jan 2018? Feb 2018? Mar 2018?...Or July 2018?
Obviously that she waited until July 2018 doesn't prove she's wrong. It's just circumstantial.
> Especially his explanation of “Renate Alumnius”.
Agreed. Or Ford's explanation of a phobia of flying so intense she nearly couldn't leave her hometown.
>And this is what is supposed to happen. Unfortunately, there wasn't a conviction (two of the proverbial 10 guilty free), but your sister has far, far, far more credibility than if she contacted law enforcement in 2040 when one of them was in the public spotlight, or about to be promoted. Everything about her and your parents behavior in that situation is very consistent.
Yes she does. That's not the point of my story. The point is that many women today see the end result and they don’t think it’s worth the public shame.
30 years ago in 1982 when a rape investigation could end up with the victim being accused of wanting it because they dressed too slutty.
It’s not about what women should do it’s about what they actually do. The evidence shows that they are very likely not to immediately report assaults.
>Exactly. Assume -- just for a minute -- that Ford is lying.
At what point would she have accused Kavanaugh? 1982? 1983? 1984? 1985? 1986? 1987? 1988? 1989?...2012? 2013?...Jan 2018? Feb 2018? Mar 2018?...Or July 2018?
If she was lying. She was lying in 2012. The potential motive of wanting to sink a SCOTUS nominee, didn’t hold in 2012. And since she didn’t do so publicly, the potential publicity motive didn’t hold then either.
Her testimony isn’t proof, but it’s strong enough evidence that I would pass on the candidate if I were interviewing him for a job.
>Agreed. Or Ford's explanation of a phobia of flying so intense she nearly couldn't leave her hometown.
This explanation?
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Mitchell: I ask that because it’s been reported by the press that you would not submit to an interview with the committee because of your fear of flying. Is that true?
Ford: Well, I was willing—I was hoping that they would come to me. But then realized that was an unrealistic request.
Mitchell: It would have been a quicker trip for me.
[Both laugh.]
Ford: Yes. So, that was certainly what I was hoping, was to avoid having to get on an airplane. But I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends, and get on the plane.
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It sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I hate flying, but I fly 2 or 3 times a year for work because they pay me a lot of money to do it. I won’t do it if I can avoid it, but with sufficient motivation I will.
> Now, DeVarney also said in her August conversation with Blasey Ford, Blasey Ford told her a story about how when she was remodeling her home with her husband, she sort of insisted to her husband that every bedroom had to have a door that led to the outside space because otherwise she would feel trapped.
> Now, just a disturbing and noteworthy detail from what she told me, she said that in the years of knowing Blasey Ford and being friends with her, she already knew that she had a hard time being in enclosed spaces and she also did not enjoy flying for this reason because, in her words, an airplane was the ultimate closed space where you cannot get away.
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> Mitchell: When you were here in the mid — mid-Atlantic area back in August, end of July, August, how did you get here?
> Ford: Also by airplane. I come here once a year during the summer to visit my family.
> Mitchell: OK. In fact, you fly fairly frequently for your hobbies and your — you’ve had to fly for your work. Is that true?
> Ford: Correct, unfortunately.
> Mitchell: I also saw on your C.V. that you list the following interests of surf travel, and you, in parentheses” Hawaii, Costa Rica, South Pacific islands and French Polynesia.” Have you been all to those places?
> Ford: Correct.
> Mitchell: By airplane?
> Ford: Yes.
> Mitchell: And your interests also include oceanography, Hawaiian and Tahitian culture. Did you travel by air as a part of those interests?
> Ford: Correct.
Yes, of course you can be afraid of flying and still fly.
But to be so frightened to request that multiple Congressmen flys across the country to see you, when you already fly multiple times every year...
It's not impossible, just improbable, or spun. Like Renate Alumnius.
> she said that in the years of knowing Blasey Ford and being friends with her, she already knew that she had a hard time being in enclosed spaces and she also did not enjoy flying
So it's well known to her friends that she doesn't like flying. If she's been lying she's been doing it for some time. It's not something she made up for this situation.
>But to be so frightened to request that multiple Congressmen flys across the country to see you, when you already fly multiple times every year...
It doesn't seem improbably to me. I would literally do the exact same thing.
Despite flying multiple times per year. If a group of people asked me to fly out to meet them, I'd request that they fly out to meet me instead. Particularly if this group of people was likely going to be hostile anyway.
Only if they refused, and I was sufficiently motivated, would I agree to fly out to meet them.
I can fly. I don't like to fly, and if there's a way around it I'll take it. This seems to be exactly what she's saying.
And this is what is supposed to happen. Unfortunately, there wasn't a conviction (two of the proverbial 10 guilty free), but your sister has far, far, far more credibility than if she contacted law enforcement in 2040 when one of them was in the public spotlight, or about to be promoted. Everything about her and your parents behavior in that situation is very consistent.
> she called The Washington Post, contacted her congressman, and wrote a letter to her senator in July. Right after Kavanaugh was nominated.
Exactly. Assume -- just for a minute -- that Ford is lying.
At what point would she have accused Kavanaugh? 1982? 1983? 1984? 1985? 1986? 1987? 1988? 1989?...2012? 2013?...Jan 2018? Feb 2018? Mar 2018?...Or July 2018?
Obviously that she waited until July 2018 doesn't prove she's wrong. It's just circumstantial.
> Especially his explanation of “Renate Alumnius”.
Agreed. Or Ford's explanation of a phobia of flying so intense she nearly couldn't leave her hometown.
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