Official Brett Kavanaugh confirmation thread

Meh. I’m non Yale affiliated but run with a club in New Haven. We’ve had many faculty run with the club over the years and they assuredly supported student athletes. You’d probably find the same bias in most schools, elite east coast or Midwest state.

I disagree .... wrote:

Personally I have zero respect for serial abuser rapists of women, nor for anyone who tries to cover up their misdeeds.

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

That’s only because you are a moron.

Are you freaking serious????????? What the blazes is the matter with you????????

wejo wrote:

At Yale I felt some of the professors really looked down on athletes and stereotyped them. The author of the piece does the same thing. Her implication is that sports jocks are all about drinking and sexual exploits.

Professor look down on athletes because they get pressured by coaches to give them a pass.

There is a lot of pressure in "sports jocks" to do as the team does. Or else suffer abuse by your teammates. Football is the worst for that type of "team" bonding.

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

30% wrote:

BUT Hillary!

But Birther!

But. . . .

You have made more wild accusations without any corroboration than anyone else on this forum.

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You are still #1.

What ???????????? wrote:

I disagree .... wrote:

Personally I have zero respect for serial abuser rapists of women, nor for anyone who tries to cover up their misdeeds.

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

That’s only because you are a moron.

Are you freaking serious????????? What the blazes is the matter with you????????

Nice that you are such a jerk that you have to misquote to make your lying point.

“You must not have been watching his testimony.

Personally I have zero respect for serial abuser rapists of women, nor for anyone who tries to cover up their misdeeds.”

The two guys who confessed wrote:

While republicans refuse to investigate true reporting.

What does their races have to do anything? The funny thing is most likely the poster is white. But it's now a sign of virtue signalling to slur white people.

Did not sit. wrote:

wejo wrote:

Don't like Feinstein sat on this.

She provided the Blasey Ford letter to the FBI. The FBI was supposed to review it and redact it as they thought appropriate. And then forward it to the White House. The FBI did that. Any delay is the FBI.

Just looked this is up. This is false. She got the letter on July 30th. She went to the FBI September 13th. That is 6 weeks later. So she went to FBI right before they were supposed to vote on Kavanaugh.

Bad Wigins wrote:

It's interesting to see the Democrats dropping the whole "believe her" thing and now their life's passion is whether someone knows what "boof" means under oath.

It's been the same pattern through the whole Neo-McCarthyite Mueller campaign since 2016. Raise a bogus stink about something, anything, to set a perjury trap. Get someone under oath and keep asking questions until they lie about something, no matter how trivial, then pounce on it.

It is as transparent as ever.

I see your point, but he should testify honestly under oath. He should no better than most you don't get to make stuff up.

He may have an explanation of the terms.

wejo wrote:

Did not sit. wrote:

She provided the Blasey Ford letter to the FBI. The FBI was supposed to review it and redact it as they thought appropriate. And then forward it to the White House. The FBI did that. Any delay is the FBI.

Just looked this is up. This is false. She got the letter on July 30th. She went to the FBI September 13th. That is 6 weeks later. So she went to FBI right before they were supposed to vote on Kavanaugh.

And that gives Kavanaugh a free pass?

The White House leaked her name to a republican political operative. Before it was made public. The White House attacked the accuser to defend their nominee. There is no way around that. And no way around the White House failing to request an FBI investigation before the committee republicans turned it into a farce. That could have been avoid by Trump. Trump gets a free pass as well.

wejo wrote:

Did not sit. wrote:

She provided the Blasey Ford letter to the FBI. The FBI was supposed to review it and redact it as they thought appropriate. And then forward it to the White House. The FBI did that. Any delay is the FBI.

Just looked this is up. This is false. She got the letter on July 30th. She went to the FBI September 13th. That is 6 weeks later. So she went to FBI right before they were supposed to vote on Kavanaugh.

Shhhh! Please don't confuse our libs with the facts. It only triggers them more.

Wowza wrote:

Feasting wrote:

You said you were providing your opinion then you you spin it into what definitely happened.

No. "yearbook comments" are NOT "just youthful bragging". They tell you a lot about the person. Kavanaugh claimed in his yearbook he was an underage drinker. He testified that was an underage drinker. Let that sink in.

An underage drinker!! Horrors? Let's take a quick look at what % of American males drink before of legal age. Get some context. » "..By age 18, about 60 percent of teens have had at least 1 drink".

Got to agree with this guy. Ford also was an underage drinker, testified to such and her yearbook boasted of underage drinking.

Are we supposed to let that sink in too? Just because someone underage drank doesn't mean too much.

I can't believe how though they were allowed to glorify underage drinking in yearbooks.

Just found this googling. If this isn't a fake site, crazy shit in her yearbook too:

wejo wrote:

There is this line:

"In your high school yearbook, did you mention drinking and sexual exploits? Kavanaugh does not reply “Of course! I was a sports jock!”

At Yale I felt some of the professors really looked down on athletes and stereotyped them. The author of the piece does the same thing. Her implication is that sports jocks are all about drinking and sexual exploits.

A professor at my law school once said something along the lines of "all those guys playing sports in high school will be pumping your gas" or something along those lines. Oblivious to the fact that, you know, most of the people at the law school had played sports in high school and many in college.

That being said, I don't think the author meant to look down on the sports type person, I think it was supposed to be saying that Kavanaugh should have embraced that stereotype (as it seemed true in his case). At any rate, Kavanaugh's attempts to imply that playing sports made it LESS likely that he was a partier or excessive drinker, didn't make any sense (except for maybe in season if the players all made a pact, which is sometimes the case ... and makes for a very large party at the end of the football season).

30% wrote:

wejo wrote:

Just looked this is up. This is false. She got the letter on July 30th. She went to the FBI September 13th. That is 6 weeks later. So she went to FBI right before they were supposed to vote on Kavanaugh.

And that gives Kavanaugh a free pass?

The White House leaked her name to a republican political operative. Before it was made public.

Are you really that clueless? Do you read anything beyond conspiracy blogs? Prior to the leak three entities had the letter 1) her attorneys, 2) her congresswoman and 3) Diane Feinstein’s office.

This whole deal is just a runaway train by now.

Hopefully, the pendulum will swing back.

I disagree .... wrote:

wejo wrote:

I don't have a lot of respect for people who say they know he is a "serial abuser rapist of women." It's totally unproven.

You must not have been watching his testimony.

Personally I have zero respect for serial abuser rapists of women, nor for anyone who tries to cover up their misdeeds.

The testimony involved one incident of at the worst what attempted rape. To say you know he was a serial rapist of women is nuts. We don't know anything.

If Avenatti's client 's claims were proven it would be true.

30% wrote:

wejo wrote:

Just looked this is up. This is false. She got the letter on July 30th. She went to the FBI September 13th. That is 6 weeks later. So she went to FBI right before they were supposed to vote on Kavanaugh.

And that gives Kavanaugh a free pass?

The White House leaked her name to a republican political operative. Before it was made public. The White House attacked the accuser to defend their nominee. There is no way around that. And no way around the White House failing to request an FBI investigation before the committee republicans turned it into a farce. That could have been avoid by Trump. Trump gets a free pass as well.

So delusiuonal. Feinstein created this whole farce by sitting on that letter since July or August. Only Feinstein, an unnamed Dem CA Congress member, Ford's attorneys & Feinstein's staff had prior knowledge. No Republican knew about Ford or that letter until it was leaked.

SJWHippie wrote:

This whole deal is just a runaway train by now.

Hopefully, the pendulum will swing back.

Runaway train is an apt description.

Another apocalyptic indication: the Blasey Ford go fund me campaigns have exceeded $700k in donations. One of the campaigns claim she is being subjected to right wing smears. Oh, the irony.

I was bored with this thread 68 pages ago.

Bring on the Chi-'thon.

Much more interesting.

Will Galen show?

How 'bout Mo?

Will Yuki run fast or slow?

How 'bout Smoove under 2:30?

Will Gwen put it all together?

Will Alexi where Greek colors, the traitor?

M.A.G.A.

S.O.W.P.

I.B.B.K.

D.F.W.R.I.H.

30% wrote:

There is a lot of pressure in "sports jocks" to do as the team does. Or else suffer abuse by your teammates. Football is the worst for that type of "team" bonding.

Must say I'm glad I was on the XC teams then.