Neo knows her stuff.

Depends on the state. Depends on the year.

The dictionary definition is very inclusive: “unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.”

FBI definition: “Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”

This was written in 2016, so it’s probably outdated:

Just eight states include all forms of sexual penetration under their legal definition of rape. More than half of states decline to define rape in their penal code at all and instead defer to blanket terms such as “sexual assault” or “sexual battery” to encompass a variety of sex crimes. More than a dozen states define rape as California does and list nonconsensual object penetration, oral sex, and anal sex as different crimes. Additionally, some of these states classify each crime as a different level of felony—or even misdemeanor—which creates a hierarchy of penalties dependent on the form of penetration.

There’s a map at the link showing the different states and the different standards, in 2016.

This is a WaPoo reporter who wrote a book contending that Christine Blasey Fraud was telling the truth. She purports to believe someone who cannot demonstrate she has ever met the two youths she accused, whose accusation was undercut by three other parties, and who demonstrably lied about a menu of ancillary matters.

Note, this isn’t some random crank offering this notion. What we face, really, is that at its apex and center, the culture of the left is suffused with fraud. All the time and about everything.

See Rod Dreher’s experience at the Dallas Morning News. He would send circulars to reporters and editors pointing out the demographic features of the paper’s readership and suggest they redeploy manpower so as to cover things which might interest those readers. The collective response was zilch. The reporters and editors were bound and determined to cover the stories which interested them and screw their readers. I think Robert Heinlein is supposed to have said “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”

I think that’s called ‘aggravated sexual abuse’ in the New York Penal Law.

To the best of my recollection (my law education goes back a lot earlier than the 90s) any sort of unwanted vaginal penetration, including with an object, is rape.

Digitally penetrated — was that legally punished as rape in 1993? It is certainly sexual harassment.

Trump, and all Reps, should be pushing to get an additional copy of all sexual harassment complaints. So many gov’t records get “misplaced” or “lost”.

A date, a place, and retribution afterwards. Far far more evidence than in the Kavanaugh smear.

The Dem media plays up the smear, plays down the true harassment. Biden’s a Dem! The smear fits with Democrat Derangement Syndrome.

This is something VP Pence should become a Rep leader on – stopping the objectification of women and their harassment. Especially since he’s so clean AND so many, tho not all, of the guilty men are Dems.

Epstein didn’t kill himself.

“And ‘intellectuals’ continue to treat the NYTimes and WashPost as some kind of authoritative media, even though they’re clearly propaganda organs . . . .” [F @ 9:56 am]

Thomas Sowell said it best (Intellectuals and Society, p. 172):

Their behavior [i.e., “intellectuals”] often reflects attitudes rather than principles. They often see issues in terms of crusades and their vision as something to protect, virtually at all costs, even if it means keeping it sealed inside a bubble where discordant facts cannot get in to threaten it.”

This, of course, includes MBunge’s “elite adjacent” (bien pensants) of the “we’re not them, but we want to appear like them” brigade.