New SCOTUS Judge II: The Wrath of Kavanaugh

Samson said:
Well, a bit like Monty Python, what did the Romans do for us?
Ok, roads and sanitation. Americans added safe airplanes and the internet, sprinkled with movies and writers, but I take your point.
Curate's eggs everywhere.
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Not sure where you're going with 'safe airplanes' but Tim Berners-Lee is not American...
 
Samson said:
Reading that article is just fine to conclude he has no chance of becoming that supreme court judge.
No one should worry, it's game over.
Trump is going to discard him, it's blindingly obvious.
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You mean like when it was blindingly obvious that Hillary would win in a landslide?
 
applecorped said:
You mean like when it was blindingly obvious that Hillary would win in a landslide?
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It was hard for anyone to realize how much help the Russians were giving Trump. If the elections were fair, Trump would have lost in a landslide.
 
applecorped said:
You mean like when it was blindingly obvious that Hillary would win in a landslide?
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3 million popular votes majority wins 99.9% of similar elections, so yes.
I was delighted to see Trump win, even as a sleazebag from hell. He is thumping the expansionist China, who now have control of New Zealand, but I digress....
If I were Kavanaugh I would realise I don't matter in his game.
 
Oh, this is an interesting take:

https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1047306840302923777

One reflection on this NYT story of Kavanaugh’s Beach Week letter.

Compare that letter to FoxNews “choirboy” interview.

Now recall: Kavanaugh affirmed the submission of FoxNews interview into the record with Senate Judiciary, testifying it was accurate under penalty of felony!
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https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1047308382682722305

For the latter point, read @7im’s “Brett Kavanaugh’s Fox News Interview Is Now Testimony Under Oath—The judge’s potentially dubious claims about drinking and virginity carry penalty of perjury”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brett-kavanaughs-fox-news-interview-731612/ …

Key para:
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Picture embedded in tweet.
 
Cabbage said:
Bro, no one to my knowledge is accusing you of rape or attempted rape, and while I congratulate you on being able to provide alibis, your alibis don't mean squat with respect to any accusations placed against Kavanaugh.

The fact that you got so defensive, however, implies to me that you at least are beginning to understand the relevance of questioning Kavanaugh about black outs.

I never implied, "Just because I, or Kavanaugh, had a few blackouts doesn't mean that anything and everything that happened during those years might have happened during a time that I was blacked out. That's absurd."

...or even anything approaching that, but I congratulate you on your strawman argument attempt.

I simply maintain that it leaves doubt on how accurate the memory of the accused really is.

As well, the fact that, to me and many others, Kavanaugh came off as being evasive on this point is telling.

An honest person that truly believed his own innocence would openly admit blackout episodes, if they existed, in an open, honest effort to get to the bottom of the matter.

And I truly believe he's had many.
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The neat thing about this whole line of discussion is that there is so much agreement. We all understand and are all talking about the same thing. It gets kind of boring with all this echo chamber with no dissenting opinions, but at least we're unified.

Just in case people aren't sure what I mean there, let me explain.

All the people telling me that I don't get it, and that I don't understand, have tried to patiently explain that it's all about Kavanaugh's honesty. It isn't really about his drinking habits as such, but about the fact that he lied about it. It shows he was evasive and untrustworthy. That's the problem with him, isn't it?

That is indeed the problem with him.

So, there was this line of questioning that was intended to demonstrate that problem.

I'll let y'all connect the dots on what such a line of questioning would be called, if, say, there was some catchy phrase to describe it.
 
Belz... said:
I'm sure that would come as a shock to most Kiwis.
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A kiwi is a bird, New Zealanders all understand the blackmail China has perfected.
Kavanaugh is a pathetic pawn and Trump will surprise by ditching, if I am wrong I will mysteriously disappear for a day or so.
 
smartcooky said:
Very, very interesting, but it will go right over the heads of Trump morons, because they lack the nous or the attention span to read and understand what this man is saying.
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There is no stronger indicator for support for Trump than absences of a College education.
 
Meadmaker said:
The neat thing about this whole line of discussion is that there is so much agreement. We all understand and are all talking about the same thing. It gets kind of boring with all this echo chamber with no dissenting opinions, but at least we're unified.

Just in case people aren't sure what I mean there, let me explain.

All the people telling me that I don't get it, and that I don't understand, have tried to patiently explain that it's all about Kavanaugh's honesty. It isn't really about his drinking habits as such, but about the fact that he lied about it. It shows he was evasive and untrustworthy. That's the problem with him, isn't it?

That is indeed the problem with him.

So, there was this line of questioning that was intended to demonstrate that problem.

I'll let y'all connect the dots on what such a line of questioning would be called, if, say, there was some catchy phrase to describe it.
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And here comes the million dollar question:

On Thursday's hearing, who was the first one to ask Kavanaugh about alcohol?

No help from the audience, please.
 
OK.
Kavanaugh is demonstrably an idiot if he is willing to have a TV interview as part of his testimony.
Definitely not Judge material.
 
Meadmaker said:
The neat thing about this whole line of discussion is that there is so much agreement. We all understand and are all talking about the same thing. It gets kind of boring with all this echo chamber with no dissenting opinions, but at least we're unified.

Just in case people aren't sure what I mean there, let me explain.

All the people telling me that I don't get it, and that I don't understand, have tried to patiently explain that it's all about Kavanaugh's honesty. It isn't really about his drinking habits as such, but about the fact that he lied about it. It shows he was evasive and untrustworthy. That's the problem with him, isn't it?

That is indeed the problem with him.

So, there was this line of questioning that was intended to demonstrate that problem.

I'll let y'all connect the dots on what such a line of questioning would be called, if, say, there was some catchy phrase to describe it.
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The line of questioning would not have demonstrated the problem...

...if there was no problem.

Getting someone to reveal if they have a character flaw that is quite central to the task you're asking of them is some kind of moral hazard, apparently?
 
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The Great Zaganza said:
OK.
Kavanaugh is demonstrably an idiot if he is willing to have a TV interview as part of his testimony.
Definitely not Judge material.
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It also puts to bed the question of perjury, it seems. He unequivocally said that he'd never had a black out while drinking, and that he'd never said to anybody that he didn't remember things about the night before, yet there's an email from him doing the rounds where he apologises for becoming aggressive after losing a game of dice in which he claims that he can't remember doing so. So that's him with knowledge of having a black out, and him saying to another person that there are things he can't recall about an evening's drinking one or two nights previously. That's two counts of perjury, right there. Even if someone were to claim that he was lying when he said that he couldn't remember, there's no question that that's him saying that he couldn't remember events from a night of drinking, which he explicitly denied ever having done.
 
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