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"KavaBros: “don’t ruin a good man’s life with a sexual allegation unless you’re absolutely sure!” Also KavaBros: “based on my expert investigation of Google maps, Zilllow, and Facebook, I have concluded that this other random guy did the deed!”"

http://twitter.com/CharlotteAlter/status/1042926423655280640

9/20/2018 8:07:46 PM

^ Ford says she knew the guy well that they’re trying to pin this on and it definitely wasn’t him.

If Kavanaugh withdraws, and Dems take the senate, should they confirm a Supreme Court nominee?

My tender heart says they should negotiate for as moderate a judge as they can get and appoint them.

The other cold part of my heart says they should hold the seat vacant as long as possible, hoping trump doesn’t get re-elected.

9/20/2018 10:15:31 PM

gonna be wild when it comes out that Kavanaugh was part of that insane/awful conspiracy theory

9/20/2018 11:33:31 PM

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"If Kavanaugh withdraws, and Dems take the senate, should they confirm a Supreme Court nominee? My tender heart says they should negotiate for as moderate a judge as they can get and appoint them"

Lotta ifs and wishful thinking there.

[Edited on September 20, 2018 at 11:43 PM. Reason : Including Senate Democrats finding a spine.]

9/20/2018 11:42:19 PM

If only we had a federal bureau of investigation that could look into these matters...

[Edited on September 20, 2018 at 11:47 PM. Reason : ]

9/20/2018 11:45:39 PM

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"The other cold part of my heart says they should hold the seat vacant as long as possible, hoping trump doesn’t get re-elected."

this is the only play

9/20/2018 11:53:59 PM

^^ not a federal crime

9/21/2018 7:15:20 AM

If only the FBI did background investigations of nominees to federal positions...

9/21/2018 7:29:04 AM

OMG, Fox and Friends running with the crazy Whelan tweetstorm. This is so a Bill Shine special and he has been coaching Kavanaugh per many media reports.

Of course, Kavanaugh has plausible deniability that he knew about this scheme but wow does it look bad and as we know from 2016 optics are far more important than truth.

9/21/2018 8:39:03 AM

criminal defamation to own the libs

9/21/2018 8:58:51 AM

McConnell saying Kavanaugh WILL be appointed

Crazy how contentious this nomination has become, considering a week ago it was pretty much a guaranteed thing... even Democrats were saying Kavanaugh wasn't that bad.

Reminds me of the pundit who said everything Trump touches dies.

9/21/2018 1:56:38 PM

Kinda interesting how delinquent Kavanaugh’s group of friends were, and how irresponsible their parents were.

If this was a poor person who never was able to achieve success, Kavanaugh and company would be turning their noses up pointing out the inadequate upbringing and cultural deficiencies.

Kavanaugh doesn’t seem to show any self awareness of this extreme privilege his white, prep-school community offered him either, even had no reservations lying to Congress.

9/22/2018 4:15:52 PM

I like how the PR guy hired to help Kavanaugh get through the Judiciary Committee resigned following questions about his own history of sexual harassment claims.

9/22/2018 4:39:54 PM

Apparently that prep school costs 60k a year...

9/22/2018 7:31:54 PM

^^^ Kavanaugh is obviously very smart but man this dude was born 10 feet from home plate and has no self-awareness. Probably why Trump likes him.

This week is going to be a shitshow. The GOP will win this battle and he’ll be confirmed but at a huge price to ever being palatable to women at large.

9/23/2018 8:46:26 AM

It’s gonna be ugly and disgusting for sure.

A somewhat poetic angle I saw in an article: Kavanaugh was a major player behind the strategy of asking Bill Clinton a bunch of nasty probing questions during the Starr investigation (really in an effort to destroy Clinton politically rather actually further the investigation). Do Catholics believe in Karma?

9/23/2018 9:26:01 AM

So what's the play if Kavanaugh doesn't get confirmed (I'm thinking he will though), ram through Hardiman before the elections?

9/23/2018 6:28:33 PM

Rumors of a Ronan Farrow scoop coming. Just rumors but dude is the the grim reaper of sexual assault stories and has more credibility than anyone on them.

9/23/2018 6:50:23 PM

Avenatti is representing another women

9/23/2018 7:57:01 PM

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez

Is this the 2nd or 3rd accuser?

Supposedly Kavanaugh put his unsolicited penis in a drunk girls face, potentially smacking her with part of it

9/23/2018 8:08:23 PM

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez

9/23/2018 8:11:56 PM

Avenatti says the woman in the Ronan piece isn't his client. So 3

9/23/2018 8:12:23 PM

Republicans wouldn’t be doing anything different if they were TRYING to lose women for a generation.

The only possible plausible explanation is that this is so totally and thoroughly the party of Donald Trump that they simply can’t step to him and say no and he likes that Kavanaugh shits all over women.

There are tons of conservative judges who could get confirmed especially with the Senate map as it is. And remember as conservatives trot out the “they’ll accuse any righty judge” that not a single claim of this magnitude came out for Gorsuch literally a year ago.

9/23/2018 8:25:27 PM

White women will still vote Republican

9/23/2018 9:00:26 PM

I don’t know. Of course rural women will but this may lose the suburban women for a long time.

I’ll restate that I just don’t get why they haven’t pulled him and put Barrett up there (who would be worse from a right-left perspective to me).

9/23/2018 9:03:56 PM

I thought McConnell wanted Hardiman? The only reason Trump wanted BK was his views on presidential investigations.

9/23/2018 9:13:14 PM

Avenatti on the scene.

Infrastructure week gonna be lit.

9/23/2018 9:30:16 PM

[Edited on September 23, 2018 at 11:17 PM. Reason : ]

9/23/2018 11:14:55 PM

https://mont.thesentinel.com/2018/09/24/supreme-court-nominee-kavanaugh-faces-more-allegations/

Quote :

" Brett Kavanaugh. FILE PHOTO Montgomery County investigators confirmed Monday they’re aware of a potential second sexual assault complaint in the county against former Georgetown Prep student and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. While investigators weren’t specific and spoke on background, they said they are looking at allegations against Kavanaugh during his senior year in high school after an anonymous witness came forward this weekend. This would potentially bring the number to four women accusing Kavanaugh of wrongdoing and comes after Deborah Ramirez, a former Yale college student, stepped forward this weekend to accuse Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her in college, and after attorney Michael Avenatti tweeted out a message saying he represents a woman with “credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh and Mark Judge.” In an email to Mike Davis, the chief counsel for nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee, Avenatti said he had evidence that at house parties in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and his friend Judge and others plied women with alcohol and drugs, “In order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang rape them.” Investigators say it is unclear if Avenatti’s tweet and email is in regards to the same woman they’ve interviewed."

9/24/2018 11:06:50 AM

Mark Judges is fucking weird. No wonder the GOP doesn’t want to have any eyes on this guy.

9/24/2018 2:40:59 PM

Renate story is bad

9/24/2018 11:35:18 PM

^ the yearbook thing?

It confirms he was a huge douche in high school, but probably most people were... that's the least damaging to me tbh

9/25/2018 12:21:03 AM

it completely undermines the letter from supporters and talking point narrative that he was a good guy boy scout

9/25/2018 7:36:55 AM

It’s absolutley unfathomable that Mark Judge isn’t being called as a witness. Even more now that Kavanaugh basically claimed he was a choir boy and didn’t party hard.

Partying hard is no disqualifyer for sure but lying about yourself is and it’s obvious Judge couldn’t truthfully claim Kavanaugh hasn’t lied consistently about this.

9/25/2018 8:59:28 AM

He had the most punch-able face in that Fox interview. Like anyone is believing that pile of shit.

9/25/2018 11:24:25 AM

Wait, is the GOP really outsourcing the heating with Dr Ford to a female outside counsel (who they are refusing to name in advance) and then not allowing that same counsel to question Kavanugh but instead doing that them self?

Huh?

[Edited on September 25, 2018 at 2:55 PM. Reason : Ok, nm. Initially Grassley said that but the counsel will question both.]

9/25/2018 2:54:07 PM

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1044654309735043078?s=21

“The “lock her up” crowd is super into due process this week.”

9/25/2018 4:31:21 PM

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1044920829514010624?s=21

Boom. Libs owned. No “attempted rape” day on this calendar!

9/26/2018 8:10:31 AM

9/26/2018 11:29:44 AM

Avenatti’s client says Kavanaugh was a sleazy high school kid and an angry drunk

She claims she saw Kavanaugh line up for a gang rape

She says she was gang raped at a party Kavanaugh attended

Incidentally, Kavanaugh’s calendar validates some of her statements. Kavanaugh’s calendar also directly tie him to mark judge, who is even slimier than Kavanaugh.

9/26/2018 11:32:31 AM

Woooo boy. Honestly I hate that Avenatti is involved in his because I don’t trust him to be anything but a Trump-like carnival barker. But my distaste for Avenatti shouldn’t make me automatically dismiss this allegation.

Trump is going to double down. This is gonna be ugly.

9/26/2018 11:40:31 AM

Are kids in DC so fucked up that it's normal to go to a party and notice gang rape room upstairs, but they don't say anything and continue to go to more parties where the same crowd of people are there? That seems to be the implied thinking of both Kavanaugh and the third accuser according to her affidavit.

Also, "approximately 1982" being used to describe when you were a victim of gang rape just sounds absurd. How could an event that traumatizing not come with even a recollection of the year with it?

9/26/2018 1:07:23 PM

^ you’re an adult and voted for a guy who probably raped his first wife, and had a dozen additional credible allegations come out against him for sexual assault

So I can definitely see a high school kid rationalizing what their peers were doing bc of peer pressure or whatever.

[Edited on September 26, 2018 at 1:10 PM. Reason : ]

9/26/2018 1:10:22 PM

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"Honestly I hate that Avenatti is involved in his because I don’t trust him to be anything but a Trump-like carnival barker."

As someone whose party was taken over by a carnival barker, I would advise all Democrats to take these claims with a healthy dose of skepticism.

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"But my distaste for Avenatti shouldn’t make me automatically dismiss this allegation. "

Completely agree. Just because she hired an ambulance chaser doesnt mean her accusations have no credibility. There are a lot of other inconsistencies within the accusation that would make me skeptical. For example, the accusations have been turned up to 11, seemingly out of no where.

9/26/2018 1:53:32 PM

has Avenatti been wrong yet?

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"There are a lot of other inconsistencies within the accusation that would make me skeptical."

such as?

[Edited on September 26, 2018 at 2:08 PM. Reason : .]

9/26/2018 2:06:13 PM

don't you worry HCH, Democrats have't elected Avenatti

(in fact, many are criticizing him and want him to go away)

[Edited on September 26, 2018 at 2:15 PM. Reason : ac]

9/26/2018 2:14:47 PM

Avenatti is a showman and he's boisterous and obnoxious, but he doesn't seem to be a liar so far.

Trump used birtherism to squeeze his way into politics. Avenatti used Trump's own history.

9/26/2018 2:29:38 PM

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"don't you worry HCH, Democrats have't elected Avenatti "

That's what every single republican said about Trump. When the first 2020 debate rolls around, and Trump is standing on stage with Avenatii, we shall see.

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"such as?"

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" For example, the accusations have been turned up to 11, seemingly out of no where."

9/26/2018 2:52:01 PM

how much money are you betting, HCH?

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"For example, the accusations have been turned up to 11, seemingly out of no where."

breaking news- apparently cosby didn't actually rape anyone because so many accusations turned up to 11

[Edited on September 26, 2018 at 2:55 PM. Reason : .]

9/26/2018 2:53:48 PM

how’s that an inconsistency with an accusation?

9/26/2018 2:56:31 PM