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Anonymous
What are some of you smoking? He's going to get confirmed and people are going to be groveling before him very soon. |
Anonymous
| I’m sorry, but the NYTimes digging through the guy’s yearbook in search of “misogynist” attitudes is getting a bit silly and will provoke a backlash in his favor. |
Anonymous
That’s nice, eyeroller, but the claim was that the link established that. It did not. |
Anonymous
That’s pretty much the look, yup. Beam me up, or whatever. Probably going over, in her mind, the merits of the hundreds of other GOP gents she could have married instead. |
Anonymous
| Justices serve during “good behavior,” according to the Constitution. If he is confirmed, I doubt he will be impeached over alleged bad behavior from many years ago. It would have to be something that happens after he is confirmed, or something *really* bad from the past with clear, indisputable evidence. |
Anonymous
It’s weird, prudish, and ever so slightly probative. Gen X women went through a lot of crap that the privileged millennial women will only have to read about. |
Anonymous
+1 People like the PP want to have any reason for him to not be confirmed and feel justified in describing him in ways to fit their political agenda. |
Anonymous
beyond silly and what's next? middle school yearbooks? are we going to comb through women's sexual pasts when they're nominated for an office? |
Anonymous
I wanted to support President Trump's nominee but this Renate story combined with the interview tonight make me think he's a liar. I sympathize with the girl named in the yearbook. When I was in 11th grade at a coed Catholic school I gave a ride home to a freshman after a club meeting. Yearbook, newspaper, drama, Children of Mary: I don't recall which club. His nickname was J.D. and if I had my yearbook I'd give his last name. He told other boys in the freshman class that I had sex with him on the hood of my red VW. In November. He was new that year and his parents were divorced and he lived in a crappy house. I did him a favor giving him a ride. Guys told me about it pretty quickly but it was devastating. This yearbook story completely reminded me of it. I retained my reputation because his story was so stupid and he was so pathetic. But it hurt. I though Kavanaugh was lying on FOX. His wife was giving him the side eye the whole time. It was a terrible camera set up. It seemed they were trying to set her up. He didn't let his wife answer a question either. Can't they find a judge who is not so skeevy? |
Anonymous
I apologize for thinking that someone participating in this thread and seeing a) a reference to someone cross-examining Kavanaugh and b) seeing an obvious communication from that person on behalf of Ford to the Judiciary Committee might think that was one of Ford’s lawyers, as has been mentioned in the coverage of this story. Apparently I thought too much of you. |
Anonymous
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Tonight‘s interview was the nail in the coffin for me. If you want to give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not harrass/abuse, was virginal, did not drink to blackout excess, was just joking around about the stuff in the yearbook and in his fraternity, go ahead. But to deny knowledge of others doing such things - that’s one lie too many.
His wife said that she’s known him for 18 years and that it’s “hard to believe.” Pretty tepid. Of course this happened many years before they met. She was seven. (The 10 year age difference between them is especially striking when you think about high schools of the early 80s versus the early 90s.) His “Ask the moms” line and the multiple awkward references to the 65 women who stood up for him at a “moment’s notice” (including Renate) - yikes. He comes off as both having developed this line of defense for years and yet not being able to deliver it at the moment of truth. But much of this country, and moreso the vast majority of those in power in Republican Washington, are so not woke, who knows... he’ll probably still be confirmed by weeks end. |
Anonymous
So, you want Kavanaugh to be Borked because a high school boy made up a story about sleeping with you? This makes sense. |
Anonymous
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Mark Judge has been in hiding at a buddy’s house in Bethany with “piles of rumpled clothes and boxes of Superman comics in his car.”
https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1044402691991056384?s=21 |
Anonymous
| It’s actually incredibly appropriate for Kavanaugh to be “Borked” since both he and Bork think Presidents are above the law. |
Anonymous
She appeared nervous and near tears, as would anyone who loves her husband and can't believe the horrible accusations. When she said "hard to believe," I think she meant all the accusations and how he's being treated are hard to believe. Didn't seem tepid to me. She's not an actress or news anchor. |