Thread by @AlexandraErin

So, the walk-out/speak-out that happened at 1:00 PM today wound up being pretty pivotal in at least one way. #BelieveSurvivors, #CancelKavanaugh, and Deborah Ramirez are trending (Ramirez with a whopping 323K tweets) after being pushed out by the morning cycle.

Twitter is registering more tweets for Deborah Ramirez than Rod Rosenstein. That's amazing. Everybody who tweeted her name should feel a little proud.

Like, "just" tweeting about something and getting something to trend is not the only thing that has to be done for real change to happen, but in the modern world it's a barometer of where the conversation is, where public will is.

Her admitting to uncertainty gives the ring of veracity. A liar would be sure. Her account still places Kavanaugh at a party where the kind of sexual assault/"horseplay" he denied happening around him occurred, and others identified him as the culprit.

https://twitter.com/nfltexanchick/status/1044298097147478016

The fact that both Ramirez and Blasey Ford have been open and honest about the limits of their own perceptions and recollections is a good sign that their accounts weren't even exaggerated for effect. A manufactured account would have details like time and place.

I would not expect a con artist to name witnesses that even she admits would have no particular reason to remember the events. That would be beyond a rookie mistake.

Even the disparity between how the therapist wrote it down and how Christine says it happened speaks to this. If she were trying to spin another unrelated event into an accusation against Kavanaugh, she wouldn't have "changed" the details that were documented.

I suggest you re-read her account. She's very clear that Kavanaugh was there next to her but that she wasn't sure whose penis was in her face. So she can't swear that it was him, and she didn't. Just that he was there, and people said it was him.

https://twitter.com/nfltexanchick/status/1044301383397257224

Again, I would expect a liar with a rehearsed story to be very clear on the sequence of events and who did what, when. They'd have all the details nailed down. Deborah Ramirez told reporters what she knew, and was clear about what she didn't.

And I don't want to downplay what Deborah Ramirez experienced, but even if it wasn't Kavanaugh, that he was there and then denied any involvement or contact with that kind of "horseplay" (sexual assault) is disqualifying by itself.

Other details in the story from people who knew Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge paint a story that is consistent with the experiences of Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez. Kavanaugh was, in his mind, a "party boy", which by his definition of a good time is a gang rapist.

And even if there is not sufficient evidence for any one case to secure a criminal conviction decades later, there's obviously too much of a cloud over him for him to ever serve as a credible justice on the highest court of the land.

"She smiled with him in pictures."

And?

https://twitter.com/nfltexanchick/status/1044303499725606914

Again, I'm referring specifically to her account. The account she gives is: Brett Kavanaugh was next to her before it happened, and then afterwards she heard someone saying that Brett Kavanaugh did it. This is all in one paragraph in the New Yorker.

https://twitter.com/nfltexanchick/status/1044303015543549955