SCOTUS 13: Confirmation consternation contemplation

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Ok that makes sense. But for myself, I drank A LOT as a young man. My 18th birthday, my older brother tried to murder me through alcohol poisoning, as was the custom. I remember even today, quite clearly, falling down and laying in the lawn on the way to my house, and thinking I could just stay there, but I probably really should get up and go in the house to avoid the mocking and harrassment I was sure to suffer the next day should I stay there. So I got up and went in. I have just never had that experience that I didn't remember what happened. Maybe it's one of those things that if you have had it, you have a hard time believing someone else hasn't and vice versa. I don't know. Maybe I'll drink 40 beers Friday and see what happens, just to be sure!

Yeah, but you're a 'Sconnie, so you get a pass.

[The Rube]

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I don't know if anyone can say for sure he did it...but his answers reasonably push it in that direction. And considering this isn't a trial...i think that's enough.
His behavior (especially the way he attacked senators...Klobuchar big time...) should be disqualifying.

Again, DQ from his nomination is one thing. Him being a sex offender is another. I think he should be DQed, but I cannot say if he's a sex offender at this time.

[First Time, Long Time]

Again, DQ from his nomination is one thing. Him being a sex offender is another. I think he should be DQed, but I cannot say if he's a sex offender at this time.

Fine. My issue is the court...whether he is an offender isn't part of that for me...even though it seems he could be an offender and that won't matter for the court either.

[burd]

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Yeah, but you're a 'Sconnie, so you get a pass.

I don't know if Wisko qualifies as a real Sconnie. His drinking history sounds like light beer.

Of course, he could be pulling a Kavanaugh on us.

[BassAle]

Again, DQ from his nomination is one thing. Him being a sex offender is another. I think he should be DQed, but I cannot say if he's a sex offender at this time.

No one is asking to lock him up or add him to a sex offender registry. We just don’t think he deserves to be on the Supreme Court for life.

[rufus]

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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/...naugh-is-lying

[rufus]

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So in your whole life it's happened once. Yet you don't really believe someone like me when I say it's happened to me one time less than that?

Do you know when it's happening or has happened to a friend when you yourself are very intoxicated? I believe that is what K's classmate says, that he drank heavily with K and got smashed. Sure, perhaps if you have to literally carry them home with their eyes rolled back in their head and tongue lolling out, I get you might accurately make that assessment of someone else. Nobody has said that kind of thing about K to my knowledge. I don't believe stumbling or even slurring some words means that person automatically won't remember what happened. No doubt I've been in that condition on many an occasion as a youngster, but I'm not lying when I say I've never had the experience of not remembering. I tended bar to get through college and have seen thousands of drunks. Some, astonishingly, remember everything quite clearly the next day, some just don't. I disagree with your premise that someone else can make that definitive assessment of someone else's experience so easily.

You remember everything about every time you went out drinking?

[Wisko McBadgerton]

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Blacking out != passing out. There are telltale signs when someone crosses the threshold even when they're not aware of it themselves at the time. I can tell you several college friends who blacked out a lot.

Kavanaugh's classmates have stated he lied when he said he never blacked out. I believe them.

I looked up what the classmate's statement was to be sure. He talks about K getting in a fight which landed one of their friends in jail and as he says that he didn't purposely socialize with K after, I guess I'd take that as the thing that caused them to no longer be friendly. But here's the important part:

I can unequivocally say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking, and in downplaying the degree and frequency of his drinking, Brett has not told the truth

What would be helpful is if he states some specific instance in which K blacks out. "It took three of us to get K into his bed because he was so drunk." Simple, easy, everybody gets it.

But he doesn't, he leaves it in the odd phrasing of "denying the possibility that he ever blacked out". Is he saying definitively K has blacked out? He saw it. At Squiggy's Bar. Definitely happened! Or is he saying that it's "possible" K has blacked out because he drank heavily, and because it's possible, K shouldn't have denied it. Seems the latter to me, and seems like a lawyer advised on the wording so he didn't get sued. But I'm no expert on these things.

[The Rube]

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No one is asking to lock him up or add him to a sex offender registry. We just don’t think he deserves to be on the Supreme Court for life.

Some are, sorta. They believe he is a sex offender.

The latter part of your post, I agree with.

[dxmnkd316]

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Flagg Admitted he’s scared to fly, so we would have had a delay

Must spread rep.

[First Time, Long Time]

Some are, sorta. They believe he is a sex offender.

The latter part of your post, I agree with.

If he sexually assaulted women...he is one.
He won't end up on the registry though...of that I'm sure.

[burd]

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Some are, sorta. They believe he is a sex offender.

The latter part of your post, I agree with.

If you think he should be voted down, then why are you concerned whether he committed the act, Brent?

[rufus]

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Add witness tampering to the list.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...idence-n915566

Ummm, so why is Kavanaugh asking people about Debbie Ramirez before her story even became public? Perhaps he knew something that had happened between himself and her a long time ago?

[The Rube]

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If you think he should be voted down, then why are you concerned whether he committed the act, Brent?

Because that's a big friggin' deal, if he did or did not commit the act. The vast majority of us are not qualified to be SCOTUS. But, the vast majority of us are not sex offenders, either.

There's some old saying, to the effect of: "I may be a liar, but I'm not a cheat." Well, he may be an unqualified ahole, but he's not a sex offender (potentially).

[burd]

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Because that's a big friggin' deal, if he did or did not commit the act. The vast majority of us are not qualified to be SCOTUS. But, the vast majority of us are not sex offenders, either.

There's some old saying, to the effect of: "I may be a liar, but I'm not a cheat." Well, he may be an unqualified ahole, but he's not a sex offender (potentially).

But I still have to ask: why does it matter to you? He cannot be convicted by this process. It's just about whether he is appointed or not. Do you think he should be charged so those issues can be put before a jury? Or do you just feel the need to know enough to pass judgment one way or another to ease your own mind?

If I sound sarcastic, I'm not trying to be.