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madaboutharry

(40,208 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 12:56 PM Sep 2018

Julie Swetnick witnessed Brett Kavanuagh on line in a "train."

outside a bedroom where a girl was being raped.

She states she was gang raped at a house party where Brett Kavanaugh was present.

If you aid and abet a rape, you are a rapist. Just like the guy who drives the getaway car from a bank robbery is a bank robber.

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meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
6. LOL
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:06 PM
Sep 2018

And I would not doubt that will be the alternative explanation by Kavanaugh and all of his Republican gang members.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
2. You know their first question to her is "why didn't you try to stop it or call the police"....
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:01 PM
Sep 2018

These toads have all the answers.

TheBlackAdder

(28,183 posts)
14. That's what I wonder. Also, why return to more parties? Did she want to fit in or advance socially?
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:41 PM
Sep 2018

.

Perhaps she didn't realize they were being drugged and raped until it happened to her.

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redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
15. Women at that time were terrified of not fitting in with "the boys" you could not advance
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:43 PM
Sep 2018

your career if you didn't "go along". I'm not defending it, just trying to explain it. What pisses me off is that we live in a man's world and are expected to play by their games but when we do, we pay dearly for it. I am hoping all three of these women are strong stock, this will get ugly. They are taking on the biggest old boys network in the world.

Bluepinky

(2,268 posts)
4. But he can't be a rapist, he said he's not.
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:05 PM
Sep 2018

He said he was a virgin though high school and beyond and was a church-going lad. Next thing you know, he’ll say he was an altar boy and walked around with a halo over his head.
It’s all those bad liberal girls being mean to him.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
5. If there is any chance that Kavanaugh could be criminally prosecuted,
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:06 PM
Sep 2018

Ms. Swetnick really need to consider insisting upon filing a criminal complaint. It will be hard for the Rethugs in Congress to support Kavanaugh if he actually faces criminal charges.

 

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
8. What's your response to people who claim
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:11 PM
Sep 2018

she witnessed multiple parties where these things happened, but kept going to them until she was attacked? Does that make her complicit?

IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)
9. She was a teenager who did not understand the dimension of what she was witnessing.
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:12 PM
Sep 2018

Meanwhile, the abusers knew exactly what they were doing.

maxsolomon

(33,310 posts)
10. Do people know that this was not an uncommon thing?
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:12 PM
Sep 2018

It wasn't common, but it wasn't unheard of. My wife tells stories of this occurring at parties in the 70s.

I never saw anything like this, but I'm not a drunken, privileged, sexist fratboy asshole. I was called a faggot by those guys.

ALBliberal

(2,339 posts)
11. I'm aware of at least one train at a party I was at
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:23 PM
Sep 2018

in the late 70s. I also remember the talking and joking about pulling trains on girls. It was part of the party vernacular of the times. The guys that joked about it were considered the lowest of the low.

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