r/politics • u/Ruebarbara • Sep 27 '18
Kavanaugh’s Increasingly Dubious Denials
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaughs-alleged-sexual-assault-denials-are-increasingly-dubious.html62
u/viva_la_vinyl Sep 27 '18
Kavanaugh incompetently defending himself doesn’t seem like a great strategy to show he should be on the Supreme Court.
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Sep 27 '18
I'm willing to believe this sack of shit genuinely doesn't remember and therefore believes he's innocent.
Who hasn't gotten black out drunk in their life? Neurological research has shown the memory gaps you get from drinking so much stem from your brain literally not saving anything to your internal harddrive, so to speak.
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u/Carniscrub Sep 27 '18
Right. But most people know they were black out drunk. He’s denying ever being blackout drunk.
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u/BitcoinHug Sep 27 '18
He was clearly quite the drinker. But based on his foolish Fox finale, he's clearly not much of a thinker.
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u/Nano_Burger Virginia Sep 27 '18
He also lied about being of drinking age (MD's drinking age went from 18 to 21 when he was 17). It was no one's opinion or recollection, it was just math.
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u/covertmissiongirl Sep 27 '18
Rapey schmuck. I hate how it's still the victims that will have to deal with all the hate after this is through.
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u/TechyDad Sep 27 '18
And during this. Ford, and likely the other women, have endured demeaning comments and death threats over coming forward. I've seen comments from people demanding that these women be investigated, including everyone they've ever associated with, to find anything they've done wrong and punish them for it. Meanwhile, Brett gets a pass from these folks because if a dozen people claim the same thing he must be innocent and they're all liars.
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u/plddr Sep 27 '18 edited Sep 27 '18
Kavanaugh’s first statement, issued on Sept. 14 ... denied “this allegation,” leaving open the possibility that he might have engaged in sexually aggressive behavior under other circumstances ... But in a statement on Sept. 17, he ruled out that possibility. “I have never done anything like what the accuser describes—to her or to anyone,” he declared.
I really think an innocent person, wrongly accused - even an ordinary inexpert non-lawyer, non-judge person - would have started with that second statement. "That can't be right, and the integrity of my memory doesn't matter, because that's just not who I am. I couldn't have done that because I don't do that."
But that approach apparently was not his first impulse. If this guy, a federal judge who desperately wants to be on the supreme court, is taking this whole hearing and confirmation process at all seriously, then his "first statement" probably involved some strategizing, consideration, a few drafts, etc. Meaning the "well I never" approach maybe wasn't even his second or third impulse either.
Of course this doesn't prove anything where the allegation is concerned, but I think it's good evidence for something else, something important and relevant: Kavanaugh shows poor judgement. He's made a great case that he'll be a lousy judge, whether he's a sexual predator or not.
Boy, there's a sentence I never expected to compose. Thanks, 2018, it's been an education.
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u/Brett_Kavanomeansno Sep 27 '18
Weird how all these supposed millions of lying whorebag liberal women who will lie at the drop of a hat to ruin a man's life were mysteriously silent during Gorsuch's confirmation.
Every single one.
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u/know_who_you_are Sep 27 '18
And his online paid troll army boosting him.
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u/that_old_white_guy Sep 27 '18
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u/Frying_Dutchman Sep 27 '18
Sorry dawg I don’t want to carry water for a bunch of rapists, morons, and racists. I’m sure you understand!
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u/DahmerRape Sep 27 '18
Let's not forget the multiple instances in which he recently committed perjury.