Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Thread

[cactusflinthead 27,598]

23 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Everything I have seen had him NO all along.

its Manchin, Murkowski and Collins that are the tradeoffs.

I did the man wrong. He did not vote for Gorsuch. Manchin is the last holdout. 

He was a more solid No than I gave him credit for. 

[Hank Kingsley 20,958]

Nothing like 10 yellow bellies to settle a weak stomach. 

 

[Hank Kingsley 20,958]

3 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Something about “Ralph Champion” or some such in the yearbook

 

He said it was from spicy food. He’s a lying piece of shit.

I don't know. Maybe Tobin's mom made a mean curry. 

 

[Gengs1 2,583]

This is just a stunt by the Rs to "clear" him, they will stay see he is the most vetted justice ever in history of country. When the d complain it's bs due to the scope they will yell see the ds don't like the FBI 

one week isn't a lot for fbi

i think they also could be doing this as a out for not confirming him and go seee he isn't qualified 

Edited September 29, 2018 by Gengs1

[TwiceHorn 31,488]

11 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

It's a little jacked up that if BK is confirmed, two Supreme Court members out of nine (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh) will be graduates of the same small, private high school.  Tuition at Georgetown Prep is $37,000 per year; $60,000 if you are a resident -- with an enrollment of about 500.  In a country that is supposed to be a meritocracy, this hints at elitism.

 

Care to hazard a guess as to how many Supreme Court justices may have attended St. Paul's School, or Phillips Exeter Academy, or Phillips Andover Academy, or Choate Rosemary Hall?

I don't know either, but I bet it's more than two apiece.

[Anastasis 23,474]

Just now, Gengs1 said:

one week isn't a lot for fbi

One week is sufficient. We should be prepared to live with the results of the investigation. 

[Upgrayedd 5,812]

Just now, Anastasis said:

One week is sufficient. We should be prepared to live with the results of the investigation. 

Maybe we can have Infrastructure Week while we wait 

[Incredulity 11,675]

1 minute ago, Gengs1 said:

This is just a stunt by the Rs to "clear" him, they will stay see he is the most vetted justice ever in history of country. When the d complain it's bs due to the scope they will yell see the ds don't like the FBI 

one week isn't a lot for fbi

i think they also could be doing this as a out for not confirming him and go seee he isn't qualified 

It is absolutely your first paragraph. The situation will not have changed in a week.  There will be people screaming at Flake when he goes to the Senate floor to vote.  Wouldn’t matter one bit even if the FBI produced a report that said Kavanaugh was actually Bill Clintons son.

[burntorangebongos 10,719]

1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

This right here was the turning point for me. The contempt was palpable, even in a picture. Wouldn't shake his hand because he is a cruel small man who doesn't have empathy beyond those in his circle.

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

3 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

one week isn't a lot for fbi

 

Say what Scoobie Doo ?  It's enough, unless they uncover buried bodies.

[Aqua Buddha 14,598]

27 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

Ashley K. went to UT so there is no way that is true for her. I've never seen the winged horses from the south mall fountain fly around the tower as was rumored to occur if a female virgin ever graduated. Just too many fine-assed charming dudes on campus for that to happen back in the day. Got damn, where is the fucking hot tub time machine to send me back?! 

She didn't tell him how she fucked Matthew McConaughey and he didn't tell her about the Yale strange he pulled.

The difference is now is that his is coming to light and it's tawdry.

[Aqua Buddha 14,598]

53 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Not to be a dick, but is that suprising to anyone?

Surprised me.  I thought they'd waffle but they came out early and strong.  They must not see any political downside to backing him.

 

[TornACL 7,698]

27 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I'm an ex pro, and while it is difficult without effort to get to that level on standard light american pilsners, it is quite possible if you add in drinking games, ice beers, heavier "real" beers, and malt liquor.  The best hammered level is Mexican pilsner all morning on the beach, all afternoon at the pool, and then the late night hours at a trashy bar like Bernie's in Port A.

My man. 

Best day drunk I have had in many years is annihilating the bar supply of Tecates poolside at a Cancun resort. 

[Incredulity 11,675]

Just now, Aqua Buddha said:

Surprised me.  I thought they'd waffle but they came out early and strong.  They must not see any political downside to backing him.

 

?

not backing him?

[burntorangebongos 10,719]

She nailed MM? Niiiice. You know what she is thinking about every single time.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,367]

10 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

This is just a stunt by the Rs to "clear" him, they will stay see he is the most vetted justice ever in history of country. When the d complain it's bs due to the scope they will yell see the ds don't like the FBI 

one week isn't a lot for fbi

i think they also could be doing this as a out for not confirming him and go seee he isn't qualified 

What’s funny is people think the FBI just started from scratch today.  I’m all but certain they’ve been getting tips and collecting information over the last two weeks.

[Aqua Buddha 14,598]

1 minute ago, Incredulity said:

?

not backing him?

Yeah, that's what I meant.  Nelson, Tester, and Donnelly all came out as a hard and early no and they're all in tight races.  Jones did, too, and while he's not in a race, he's still in Alabama.

[Incredulity 11,675]

Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:

What’s funny is people think the FBI just started from scratch today.  I’m all but certain they’ve been getting tips and collecting information over the last two weeks.

So, in summary your saying the noose is tightening? Again.

[zzzz 39]

Kavanaugh's appearance yesterday was a disaster. It screamed, "I'm not fit to be on the Supreme Court!" He launched into an unhinged rant, lied, cried and was disrespectful to Senators. And evasive. Eating up the 5-minute increments lauding the same accomplishments repeatedly. That alone disqualifies him from the office. Just as Trump's treasonous war on the govt to discredit a counter-intel investigation makes him unfit for the office of potus. 

 

[bad_teammate 13,204]

14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

One week is sufficient. We should be prepared to live with the results of the investigation. 

Live with? I mean literally yes, we should not commit suicide based on the FBI's findings.

However, accept? Fuck that. With the ghouls of the intelligence community? Never.

[bad_teammate 13,204]

Just now, zzzz said:

Just as Trump's treasonous war on the govt to discredit a counter-intel investigation makes him unfit for the office of potus. 

Yet there Trump is and there Kavanaugh will be soon.

[Incredulity 11,675]

Just now, zzzz said:

Kavanaugh's appearance yesterday was a disaster. It screamed, "I'm not fit to be on the Supreme Court!" He launched into an unhinged rant, lied, cried and was disrespectful to Senators. And evasive. Eating up the 5-minute increments lauding the same accomplishments repeatedly. That alone disqualifies him from the office. Just as Trump's treasonous war on the govt to discredit a counter-intel investigation makes him unfit for the office of potus. 

 

I was waivering until this showed up.

A solid thank you. Patriot zzzz

[zzzz 39]

1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

I been around the block in HS. Blacking out wasn't ever part of that.  And we use to drop kegs and roll blunts that looked like tree limbs. 

Like Mark Judge, my high-school drinking buddy was an alcoholic. Consequently, I developed the same drinking patterns. I took pride in how fast I could slam a beer and never barfing. Because of that I can tell you it's possible to get blackout drunk on beer. 

[David Dennison 18,863]

5 minutes ago, zzzz said:

Like Mark Judge, my high-school drinking buddy was an alcoholic. Consequently, I developed the same drinking patterns. I took pride in how fast I could slam a beer and never barfing. Because of that I can tell you it's possible to get blackout drunk on beer. 

It absolutely is.

[Mole 4,333]

25 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Care to hazard a guess as to how many Supreme Court justices may have attended St. Paul's School, or Phillips Exeter Academy, or Phillips Andover Academy, or Choate Rosemary Hall?

I don't know either, but I bet it's more than two apiece.

 

 

Phillips Exeter Academy: Peyton Cabot Harrison III

Phillips Andover Academy: William Henry Moody, Anthony Stark

 

Edited September 29, 2018 by Mole

[David Dennison 18,863]

26 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Care to hazard a guess as to how many Supreme Court justices may have attended St. Paul's School, or Phillips Exeter Academy, or Phillips Andover Academy, or Choate Rosemary Hall?

I don't know either, but I bet it's more than two apiece.

The myth of America as a classless society is pernicious.

[FondrenRoad 4,378]

4 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

True but the calendar entry says ‘skis’ not ‘skiing’ unless we’re looking at different dates. 

Dude was partying like every day that summer. Hard to tell what happened when. 

What I find most interesting is the lack of detail on beach week days. Surely a baseball team played then that would warrant a recorded score. Or maybe some "skis," a game or two of "devil's triangle'", or even "Suzanne" who finds her way onto the calendar many other days when she is helping Brett study for football. Yet its simply "beach week."  A solemn alcohol free time where a beach exists for a week and God's glory is contemplated in silence. 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

5 hours ago, Aphelion said:

I answered your question, but you avoided mine.  You’ve simply disappeared when pressed in some of our previous exchanges, including one in this thread.  In your mind I’m the dancer.  

I didn't disappear and I didn't avoid your question. The answer to your question was literally the first sentence of my reply. Look for the sentence in quotation marks. It is even conveniently separated into its own paragraph. How did I avoid answering it?

The disappearing was refering to previous exchanges.  Regarding your answer, I thought you were giving that statement as what you would have said if you were Kavanaugh.  But if that was intended as your answer to the question I asked, then I take you at your word and admit that I was mistaken (this is meant to be genuine, by the way; I’m not suggesting that you didn’t mean it that way as Brisket might assume since I said the word “if”). 

Regarding your answer, this is effectively the same as answering “yes.”  If you refuse to answer such a question in that setting, then obviously it would be assumed that you are a homosexual by the jury.  This is also of course the known outcome of the dilemma and the reason you would be asked in the first place.  As for how they will perceive you, you cannot sidestep with a refusal to answer.  Your effective choices are to deny it or decline to answer/admit.  

I’m not suggesting that this is a perfect comparison to the situation Kavanaugh is in.  It’s obviously not.  I’m using an extreme case to highlight my point, which is that when examiners abuse the power they have and make a mockery of the process and the oath itself, people tend to care less if one violates the oath.  

I’m not claiming that this exonerates one from lying under oath.  What I would have liked is for Kavanaugh to come in less amped up and to answer honestly and admit that he would get hammered from time to time.  But if he is a consequentialist and believes that his best way to prevail against dishonest politically motivated wedge questions is to answer as he did, then I have a hard time really giving a shit.  

 

 

 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

36 minutes ago, zzzz said:

Kavanaugh's appearance yesterday was a disaster. It screamed, "I'm not fit to be on the Supreme Court!" He launched into an unhinged rant, lied, cried and was disrespectful to Senators. And evasive. Eating up the 5-minute increments lauding the same accomplishments repeatedly. That alone disqualifies him from the office. Just as Trump's treasonous war on the govt to discredit a counter-intel investigation makes him unfit for the office of potus. 

 

Well I think it's a woooonderful story... and You tell it With such enthuuuuusiam...

Edited September 29, 2018 by Onboard 2.0

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,367]

Kavanaugh’s current calendar was updated to add “FBI Investigation Week”.

[Celery Man 20,962]

he's been playing a lot of devil's solitaire.  last few weeks have been an eternity

[Vito Andolini 9,126]

36 minutes ago, zzzz said:

Like Mark Judge, my high-school drinking buddy was an alcoholic. Consequently, I developed the same drinking patterns. I took pride in how fast I could slam a beer and never barfing. Because of that I can tell you it's possible to get blackout drunk on beer. 

And if anyone knows a thing or two about blacking out, it’s zzzz.

[Celery Man 20,962]

^ iirc he just falls asleep

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,367]

 

[Mojo Hand 4,580]

Wasn't Rosenstein on the Starr crew with Kavanaugh?   Probably knows him pretty well. 

[shnsajax 3,591]

Wasn't Rosenstein on the Starr crew with Kavanaugh?   Probably knows him pretty well. 

Yep

[shnsajax 3,591]

Kavanaugh’s current calendar was updated to add “FBI Investigation Week”.

I’m just glad we get to have a real week now. Infrastructure Week was like a really long case of blue balls.

[Bullneck 19,107]

NSIAP

 

[TwiceHorn 31,488]

1 hour ago, Mole said:

Phillips Exeter Academy: Peyton Cabot Harrison III

Phillips Andover Academy: William Henry Moody, Anthony Stark

 

I guess judges don't make enough money.  Still, the pool of "applicants" for Supreme Court justice is entirely too narrow, by both schooling and experience.

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2,678]

"Soon after, Flake asked for the probe."

Edited September 29, 2018 by ChuckNorrisActionJeans

[MaybeACoordinator 8,349]

1 hour ago, triplehorn said:

 

also beer bongs and shotgunning beer

This is how you black out on beer. Or if you use a church key to put an extra hole in the top of the can -- much smoother flow that way. 

[David Dennison 18,863]

1 minute ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

This is how you black out on beer. Or if you use a church key to put an extra hole in the top of the can -- much smoother flow that way. 

I wonder if the youngs know what a church key is.

[triplehorn 2,664]

1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

What’s funny is people think the FBI just started from scratch today.  I’m all but certain they’ve been getting tips and collecting information over the last two weeks.

"Flake and Coons squeezed into an oversize phone booth—few still exist on Cap Hill—to call the FBI to see if a probe could be done in a week. Wray wasn't available, so they called Rosenstein. Rosenstein said it could. "

There's your answer.  And I agree, I do not believe they are starting from scratch.  If by chance, Brett has been part of a developing plan dating back to 2017 to be a fixer for Trump on certain legal matters in exchange for the SCOTUS seat, which may have also included financial incentives for their indebted mark and a GOP money trail, there's a fair chance the FBI already has been treading in familiar territory.

[hayden_horn 11,362]

22 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

Wasn't Rosenstein on the Starr crew with Kavanaugh?   Probably knows him pretty well. 

Yeah, there's a picture of that whole crew, bright and shiny and ready to perpetrate some partisan boofing on one William Jefferson Clinton. 

[bad_teammate 13,204]

 

[Mack Tripper 696]

Yep this isn’t the FBI’s first rodeo on Brett’s financial situation and with Ford who has already talked to FBI.

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4 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

This is how you black out on beer. Or if you use a church key to put an extra hole in the top of the can -- much smoother flow that way. 

Didn't know Army brat has a contemporary on here.

[Mole 4,333]

12 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I guess judges don't make enough money.  Still, the pool of "applicants" for Supreme Court justice is entirely too narrow, by both schooling and experience.

Tony Stark did alright for himself.

[Anastasis 23,474]

Just now, triplehorn said:

If by chance, Brett has been part of a developing plan dating back to 2017 to be a fixer for Trump on certain legal matters in exchange for the SCOTUS seat, which may have also included financial incentives for their indebted mark and a GOP money trail, there's a fair chance the FBI already has been treading in familiar territory.

Yes. The government apparatus that just demonstrated a total and complete inability to make a first down on 3rd and 1 has been effectively executing a grand scheme to manipulate the next SCOTUS appointment, coordinating the resignation of Kennedy (Russia!) and the appointment of Kavanaugh, and the FBI is already hot on this case and will roll this into the investigation of the Ford allegation. Blunts like tree limbs. 

[triplehorn 2,664]

Hot Rod.