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It didn't piss me off. Though I rarely agreed with you, I respected your arguments and skepticism until I realized you were willing to ignore what the man said in favor of your political beliefs. It stuck with me for some reason. Much hasn't changed in two years since you posted that. |
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To your ETA...
The boofing matter is of course not (directly) related to a sex attack. But if one is forcing booze up into one's bunghole, that is a pretty radical and novel way to ingest it, suggesting a high likelihood of consumption to excess. I mean, if you're getting so bored with the usual means via drinking that you've just gotta force it up into the rectum... Which moreover belies the professed upright paragon of rectitude Kav would have us believe he was at 17. Heh. Instead of rectitude, we could point to his rectumtude. ![]() Lies on top of lies, in spite of taking an oath in that committe meeting to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Re-read that immediately preceding sentence, if you must, and square it with the actions of a Supreme Court aspirant. |
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It just occurred to me. Poor young Kav must have been barfing so much because of all the boofing. Shooting the booze into his bunghole with a turkey baster reversed the flow in his GI tract.
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Doing a little digging I found out that Scalia was confirmed with a 98-0 vote. Rehnquist got about two-thirds for both nomination and elevation to chief justice. There were crossover votes from both sides.
How things have changed. |
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K was not evasive on the question of having blackouts or memory losses from drinking. He categorically denied EVER having memory lapses due to drinking.
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What do you think are the odds that he "forgot or misremembered" everything written in his yearbook relating to sexual or drinking slang?
He "forgot or misremembered" what "boofing", "ralphing", and "devil's triangle" all mean? How convenient. You think he "forgot or misremembered" what a "Renate alumnius" was when he claimed the term was " used to show affection, to show she was one of us"? This is the yearbook 'poem' that another boy wrote about Renate:
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K's best bud at the time, Mark Judge, described in his book
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When asked by Sen. Leahy if he was "Bart O'Kavanaugh" K became belligerent and accused Leahy of trying to make fun of an alcoholic:
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Huh? What's the conspiracy theory? He's being asked about his behaviour back then and whether his yearbook relates to such behaviour. He says one thing, but a more plausible interpretation suggests it is something else. It's not a conspiracy theory; it's the suspicion that he is lying.
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Umm... hard to say? I would point out that the NBC reporting was that the White House is limiting the investigation, not specifically Trump, and that Trump has loudly proclaimed support for a thorough investgation. Also, to quote the article -
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Trump tweets
"NBC News incorrectly reported (as usual) that I was limiting the FBI investigation of Judge Kavanaugh, and witnesses, only to certain people. Actually, I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion. Please correct your reporting!" |
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It should, however, be a yellow flag, at the least, for any job that deals with classified information. Heavy drinking increases the risk of divulging classified information, after all.
Regardless, I wouldn't hold the past drinking against Kavanaugh. His perjury, on the other hand, is something that I very much do hold against him. |
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Some nice person linked to a story about the SNL cold open yesterday with Matt Damon playing Brett Kavanaugh, but the story only seemed to have about 4 seconds of video when I tried to watch it. So here's the full thing:
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken - Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 |
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Yeah but I used that recently and I wanted to vary a bit.
Aw, but you seemed so sure of yourself earlier on. Emulating Dear Leader? He also tosses opinions about things he knows nothing about. Tell you what, how about you actually watch it before you form an opinion, and come back with your findings. SCOTUS judges should be impartial. The very fact that he went on an unhinged rant against the Democrats and blurted out a conspiracy theory should disqualify him immediately. You must be joking. Regardless of whether you like Trump, you can't possibly have missed the hundreds of very public lies he has made.
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Could someone explain to me how it is that the FBI cannot investigate issues like this however they see fit rather than have a time limit, a list of individuals they are permitted to interview and a restrictions on the scope of their investigation?
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...mory-accuracy/
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This supports the idea that Ford could remember the assault, how it happened, and who was involved and at the party, yet not remember how she got there or how she got home. |
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#358 |
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Geez, the Judicial Crisis Network works fast...
New political saturation ad with several old girlfriends stating why Kav must be approved. |
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Something in the way he responded to the allegations makes me suspect that he knows he was a blackout drinker and that he might have done things out of character while under the influence.
He has a few non-responsive lines: That he'd never sexually assaulted someone; that he was a virgin in high school; and that no one else remembers that happening (although he probably cast this as they denied it ever happened - which a careful user of language shouldn't do). Plus, his aggressive response to questions if he'd ever blacked out. I suspect he knows he had a personality change under alcohol and while he is sure he hasn't raped anyone, he is not 100 percent he didn't exhibit aggression when drunk. |
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I'm confused. Do you want the real reason, or what Trump would see as the reason, or how one of his lackeys would convince him? They're all variations on "because he really did do it" anyway.
In the email (allegedly) from Kavanaugh linked just above he's apologizing for being aggressive while blackout drunk. In 2001, twenty years after the incident with Ford. |
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