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Nanjeanne

(6,737 posts)
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 12:32 PM 17 hrs ago

Interesting piece by Mark Lippman on DailyKos re Platner

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/5/800050593/community/layers-and-layers-of-irony-platners-accuser-co-founded-ladies-for-kavanaugh/]

In Lyndsey Fifield’s world, Christine Blasey Ford was a politically motivated liar trying to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s reputation. Now, she wants us to take her accusations seriously.

The morning after Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation for a seat on the Supreme Court, the New York Post, (a disgusting right-wing tabloid), wanted its readers to know “what women think” about the accusations of sexual assault that came up during the hearings. From the story: https://archive.is/kUiES
“Inez Stepman and Lindsey Fifield are two millennial women who co-founded the group Ladies for Kavanaugh to show their support for the nominee when they felt that view was being left out of the public discourse. Their day jobs are in conservative politics, Stepman at Independent Women’s Forum and Fifield at the Heritage Foundation. (Their pro-Kavanaugh group was formed on their own time.)

Fifeld and her pro-Kavanaugh friends had stayed quiet during the original hearings while liberal women raged in the streets and on social media. “But in the wake of the baseless, 11th-hour accusations orchestrated to stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation, we couldn’t stay silent anymore,” Fifield said.



Yes, it’s 110% understandable for people to be outraged about Platner’s racism and misogyny.
But it’s not understandable how any Democrat, at this time, after all we’ve been through, could take the word of somebody like Lyndsey Fifield.
Anyone in the fight against racism and misogyny has to know that Lyndsey Fifield isn’t going to take you there where you want to go.
Here’s a sample from her blog at the right-wing Independent Women’s Forum.
Every time I bought Seventh Generation laundry soap, I supported a brand that smeared law enforcement and funded the extremely-corrupt and racially divisive BLM. https://www.independentwomen.com/2023/07/24/how-boycotting-woke-corporate-restored-my-dignity/


Etc.
Oh, and IWF talked about how proud they were for designing the talking points in support of Kavanaugh for Susan Collins. I would post the video but the last time I did that it was alerted and removed as using right wing smears. Go figure!
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Interesting piece by Mark Lippman on DailyKos re Platner (Original Post) Nanjeanne 17 hrs ago OP
So Platner's accuser was a "Lady for Kavanaugh"? AloeVera 10 hrs ago #1
Yes she was. And yes she did. Her X posts and reposts are like a swim in a swamp. Doesn't mean she is lying but Nanjeanne 8 hrs ago #2
LOL "Ladies for Kavanaugh" leftstreet 8 hrs ago #3
Throw up I think. Nanjeanne 7 hrs ago #4
And Planter said that Boo1 6 hrs ago #5

AloeVera

(4,504 posts)
1. So Platner's accuser was a "Lady for Kavanaugh"?
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 07:43 PM
10 hrs ago

Can't make this stuff up.

And she worked for the Heritage Foundation to boot.

AND she helped Ms Concern lie her way to why she supported Kavanaugh.

Too bad about the video. People need to see who and what she is.

Nanjeanne

(6,737 posts)
2. Yes she was. And yes she did. Her X posts and reposts are like a swim in a swamp. Doesn't mean she is lying but
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 09:22 PM
8 hrs ago

If she’s the only one allegeding these things, it doesn’t make them true.

One thing I’ve wondered since she reported he knew about his tattoo - she made him seem quite open and proud of it. Yet not a single other woman he’s been with mentioned it. I mean did no one else say what’s that when they were lying naked together. And why wouldn’t he say oh it’s my little Nazi tattoo like he did to her?

I have lots of theories particularly since she’s close friends of 15 years with her fellow conservative pal Bethany Mandel - but posting about Bethany here would send out the bat signal! There’s a video of ethany’s husband, Seth, on conservative pos, John Podhoretz, discussing how Bethany has been helping to coach Fifield through all this. I’d post it but you know that wont work here. But you can find it.

Boo1

(556 posts)
5. And Planter said that
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 11:44 PM
6 hrs ago

women were only raped because they drank too much.

No wonder these two dated.

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