Discussion: Debunked: Kavanaugh Accuser Seeking Revenge For Parents' Foreclosure

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#47

The obvious solution is for Trump and his GOP Senate followers to pull Kavanaugh’s nomination and pick a clean candidate like Gorsuch.

I’m not a Republican, but if I were I’d tell them to withdraw Kavanaugh TODAY. Pick another qualified but plain vanilla right winger TOMORROW and proceed. They’re idiots for prolonging this, since it is politically toxic and increases the chance of no Trump appointment to the Court if — admittedly a big if — Democrats win the Senate.

Trump’s stupidity is profound. Thank God.

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#48

Demosthenes has an excellent point: Republicans are fools to prolong the exposure of Kavanaugh’s reputation to public scrutiny. Ultimately the more they do so, the worse all of them will look. Unfortunately the public won’t remember how this all devolved; the right-wing blogs will bloviate on how Mr. K. was Borked. I do think the letter from Yale law school students presents the best case against this nomination, and the letter should be widely disseminated.

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#49

Bbbbbut i was fairly certain that he said he wasn’t there that night. Was this another night? /s

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#50

THE GOOD OLE BOY’S CLUB
.
This is a pivotal moment for the GOP.
What’s more important, America, or promoting the GOP’s corporate agenda?
TAKE NOTE, AMERICA.
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KAVANAUGH:
“C’mon fellas, this is the SUPREME COURT we’re talkin’ here!!!
Are we REALLY gonna make a big deal over a little piece of ass?”
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#51

Uggg…the women defending him and equivocating about this make me fucking nauseous. File this one with that “rough horseplay” idiocy:

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#52

Trump got out of the Exit Hollywood tape just by saying “It’s locker room talk, folks, just locker room talk.” I wouldn’t underestimate the power of faith to not let the facts get on the way of their opinions.

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#53

Or, most enlightened human beings. Republicans, as currently constituted, not so much.

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#54

Though the Access Hollywood tape preceded the #MeToo movement by more than a year, so I think the calculus has changed now. If the movement had started in the summer of 2016, I think the tape would have buried Trump.

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#55

He was probably a binge drinker and hid it from his parents – that’s a pretty common pattern among teens. High-achieving teens can hide it from parents pretty easily if the parents aren’t watching fairly carefully (and sometimes even if they are watching carefully).

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#56

I want to know more about this “seven minutes of heaven” game because we didn’t have that when I was of growing up. I have leaned it had rules and a timer. Kind of like The Apprentice for lust drunk teenagers.
Of course now there would be video so no future Supreme Court nominees can play.

#57

Well I seen where a spokewoman for a group supporting Kavanaugh (they’re running ads, ugh!) said what Prof. Ford is describing was “horseplay.” When do we get to she wanted “rough sex”. see Robert Chambers murder trial.

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#58

The point here is not that Kavanaugh may have done something as a 17 year old - the issue is that he is lying about it, just as he has lied about multiple other issues during the confirmation process. That is why it is so sad to watch the issue become what he did when he was 17 - the disqualifying factor is that he is dishonest

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#59

“This makes it a rather weak foundation for a revenge plot.”

Right-wing trolls need strong foundations?

#60

Link to letter, please!

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#61

Yes, and what is current judicial and psychological thinking on In vino veritas

#62

Rough horse play? Was it in the locker room too! OK I AM OFFICIALLY MAD AS HELL.

#63

I agree about the lying but the original offense is meaningful too. I have never seen any drunk do something far outside their character, just more aggressively and without impulse control. Rape is an act of power over a person whom you do not recognize as another human. Brett Kavanaugh’s career is defined as a wide open misuse of power or allowing power to operate.

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#64

I truly truly hope that Dr Ford files a complaint in Montgomery County.

#65

Or…was it payback for not accusing Kavanaugh’s son of attempted rape (since timelines don’t really seem to matter to scumbags like Erickson)? It’s just as plausible which is to say, Not. At. All. In the immortal words of Tony Soprano…“fuggheddabbouddit.”

#66

Sort of the old " only stuck it in a little bit" defense … along with an ample helping of “she was really asking for it”

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