I don't know. But you're the one who believed the original claim and presented it here as a fact. For a change of pace, may be do a little homework and learn something.
You are sadly mistaken. I have never believed Richard Gage's numbers. I followed the 9/11 conspiracies on this forum for years and I am well aware that Gage inflated his numbers artificially. The point being numbers don't mean jack squat.
In case you forgot, I was responding to acbytesla, who was responding to beelzebuddy, who used the numbers to argue that Kavanaugh was "manifestly unqualified."
Also, there's no cutoff, arbitrary or otherwise. 1700 legal experts - or whatever the number is now - is simply how many there are.
Retired former SC Justice Stevens has spoken out against confirming Kavanaugh. He formerly believed he was qualified, but after watching Kav during the hearing, said he changed his mind.
When a retired Republican SC justice says the Republican nominee should not be confirmed, then that nominee has a real problem.
We all know the reason Trump nominated him and the SJC so desperately wants Kav confirmed: the president (should be exempted) from civil suits while in office, as well as immunizing him from criminal investigation and prosecution.
Because it's not a serious one and it doesn't actually merit an answer.
The letter in question is a political statement. Its claims do not actually depend in any way upon any expertise in law. The signatories are a self-selected group who have nothing to recommend them other than a job title. We already have a process in place to determine the fitness of nominees, and the signatories are not part of that process. They have no more authority on the topic than you or I.
Your belief that it has any more significance than as a political statement is completely baseless.
When a retired Republican SC justice says the Republican nominee should not be confirmed, then that nominee has a real problem.
We all know the reason Trump nominated him and the SJC so desperately wants Kav confirmed: the president (should be exempted) from civil suits while in office, as well as immunizing him from criminal investigation and prosecution.
"But Stevens, who was an associate justice on the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010 and gradually shifted to become a reliably liberal justice, suggested Thursday that Kavanaugh went too far in defending himself. "
I'd just as soon see Kavanaugh confirmed at this point. If someone with his exact ideology is going to be confirmed, I'd just as soon have the most embarrassing one in the public eye. IMO that will help the Democrats more in November. Kavanaugh will be associated forever with obvious partisanship, anger issues and doubts about his truthfulness. So why not have the more problematic candidate seated? It's better PR for Democrats.
Let's see, I believe there were three slang terms that Kavanaugh supposedly lied about that I can remember.
Devil's Triangle, which multiple friends of his have said was a drinking game they played. It always struck me as strange that people thought it couldn't be anything other than the sex act, since the term's most famous usage is probably as a synonym for the Bermuda Triangle. It would hardly be a stretch for different people to repurpose it for multiple different uses.
fffffff, which when used with four f's is supposed to also stand for something sexual. Except it got used with more than four f's, which kind of sinks that theory since the sex thing depends on exactly four. But it makes perfect sense if Kavanaugh's explanation is correct. For more recent similar usage by completely unrelated people:
It's the far of course, a word for which the English language has devised many alternatives. You can break wind, parp, let off, blow off, drop one, boof, trump, let one rip, or even emit a trouser cough.
Was there another supposed lie regarding slang terminology?
The certainty of those who knew, they just knew that Kavanaugh was lying is a thing of beauty, a pure crystalized combination of wishful thinking, groupthink, and bias.
I'd just as soon see Kavanaugh confirmed at this point. If someone with his exact ideology is going to be confirmed, I'd just as soon have the most embarrassing one in the public eye. IMO that will help the Democrats more in November. Kavanaugh will be associated forever with obvious partisanship, anger issues and doubts about his truthfulness. So why not have the more problematic candidate seated? It's better PR for Democrats.
I tend to agree. I think he's definitely going to be confirmed as McConnell, Grassley have turned it into a purity test. Approve or suffer the wrath of your colleagues. I can imagine Collins voting no and even possibly Flake since he's out the door. But not MURKOWSKI. This is sad as it will be a pyhric victory.
I'd just as soon see Kavanaugh confirmed at this point. If someone with his exact ideology is going to be confirmed, I'd just as soon have the most embarrassing one in the public eye. IMO that will help the Democrats more in November. Kavanaugh will be associated forever with obvious partisanship, anger issues and doubts about his truthfulness. So why not have the more problematic candidate seated? It's better PR for Democrats.
I wouldn't. Not all conservative justices are spoiled frat boys that drank too much then and almost certainly still drink too much now (and I bet it's not beer), that surely have little respect for women, and who are hypocritical enough to lie to Congress under oath.
Let's see, I believe there were three slang terms that Kavanaugh supposedly lied about that I can remember.
Devil's Triangle, which multiple friends of his have said was a drinking game they played. It always struck me as strange that people thought it couldn't be anything other than the sex act, since the term's most famous usage is probably as a synonym for the Bermuda Triangle. It would hardly be a stretch for different people to repurpose it for multiple different uses.
fffffff, which when used with four f's is supposed to also stand for something sexual. Except it got used with more than four f's, which kind of sinks that theory since the sex thing depends on exactly four. But it makes perfect sense if Kavanaugh's explanation is correct. For more recent similar usage by completely unrelated people:
Was there another supposed lie regarding slang terminology?
The certainty of those who knew, they just knew that Kavanaugh was lying is a thing of beauty, a pure crystalized combination of wishful thinking, groupthink, and bias.
Use boof in a sentence that makes more sense than, "Have you boofed yet?"
There's only so far you can go trying to gaslight the room.
As for the drinking game, only Kav's buddies confirm that and since they are also confirming the boof is a fart obvious lie, I think it's safe to assume they are lying about the triangle game as well.
BTW, his college roommate said both were references to sex,as have other people with no reason to lie for Kav.
I thought the ffffs were just stuttering the f word for emphasis. What is more important was his letter telling whoever got there first to warn the neighbors they be rowdy, drunk and puking.
Who do you know that believes drinking 'til you puke is something to be bragging about? People who drink too much all the time trying to normalize their drinking. It's a symptom of alcoholism.
Yeah...they just 'happened' to come up with the name 'Devil's Triangle' for a drinking game. The same name used for a threesome. What a cowinky-dink.
I wonder if the FBI interviewed these guys? No?
Writing "Have you boofed yet?" meaning "Have you farted yet?" is something a guy would write in a year book. Not. It doesn't even make sense when you add the word 'yet' as if they've never farted before. Come on.
You are sadly mistaken. I have never believed Richard Gage's numbers. I followed the 9/11 conspiracies on this forum for years and I am well aware that Gage inflated his numbers artificially. The point being numbers don't mean jack squat.
But those aren't actual numbers. The numbers are a lie. The numbers are not the reason the "3,000 architects and engineers" claim is to be disregarded.
And when you present those numbers as factual, it makes you look foolish and gullible.
In case you forgot, I was responding to acbytesla, who was responding to beelzebuddy, who used the numbers to argue that Kavanaugh was "manifestly unqualified."
Numbers in of themselves? Of course they don't matter. But the opinion of actual experts on matters related to their field of expertise? Of course that matters. It's why you seek medical advice from medical professionals and not random people on the street.
By the way, Ziggurat already tried the "expert opinions don't matter" gambit and it blew up in his face.
If so, what number of architects and engineers do you require to make their argument legitimate?
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