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Forget the rape accusation, I don't understand how his behavior at the review didn't get him disqualified. Just the unhinged rants about beer and clinton alone

Forget the rape accusation, I don't understand how his behavior at the review didn't get him disqualified. Just the unhinged rants about beer and clinton alone were shocking. And I can't "prove" this, but he straight up lied about those definitions like "devil's triangle", "boofing", etc. Those terms are extremely common, have well defined definitions and seemed like they were used in those contexts (parties). No doubt in my mind he lied about that. If he lies about simple stuff like that then God knows how much worse it can get.

leereeves 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of a quote from the movie Charlie Wilson's War: "Well if anyone asks what the hell I'm doing on the ethics committee we'll just tell them I like chasing women and drinking whisky and the Speaker felt we were underrepresented." In other words, even people who like to party deserve representation in government. And as for lying about "devil's triangle", apparently several classmates from both Georgetown Prep and Boston College have confirmed his definition: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/georgetown-prep-devils-triangle/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/georgetown-prep-devi...
- preommr 4y ago
  > And as for lying about "devil's triangle", apparently several classmates have confirmed his definition: I am not going to debate this. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that anything can be debated, and with so many moving parts here, it's very easy to muddy the waters. As an example, you linked an article where you chose to highlight friends of kavanaugh, impartial members, backing his claims and ignoring that others such as his roomate disagreed with those claims.
  - leereeves 4y ago
    If Kavanaugh is telling the truth, and "devil's triangle" is a drinking game his friends invented, who but his friends would know about it? Of course you're free to believe whatever you want, but if you aren't willing to discuss it, why did you even bring it up here?
- hotpotamus 3y ago
  Here's the other thing I don't really get about these conservative types though. To a man, they claim that their Christian faith is extremely important to them. Like any good Catholic child, I was compelled to study the bible and while I took very little interest in it, my impression was that that sort of behavior was considered sinful and something one should seek to avoid and atone for if you should engage in sins involving bed and bottle. Things like this are why I've been an atheist from a single-digit age; I don't know much about the divine, but it doesn't seem like the people who claim to believe this stuff actually believe it either.

leereeves 4y ago

Your comment reminds me of a quote from the movie Charlie Wilson's War: "Well if anyone asks what the hell I'm doing on the ethics committee we'll just tell them I like chasing women and drinking whisky and the Speaker felt we were underrepresented." In other words, even people who like to party deserve representation in government. And as for lying about "devil's triangle", apparently several classmates from both Georgetown Prep and Boston College have confirmed his definition: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/georgetown-prep-devils-triangle/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/georgetown-prep-devi...

preommr 4y ago
> And as for lying about "devil's triangle", apparently several classmates have confirmed his definition: I am not going to debate this. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that anything can be debated, and with so many moving parts here, it's very easy to muddy the waters. As an example, you linked an article where you chose to highlight friends of kavanaugh, impartial members, backing his claims and ignoring that others such as his roomate disagreed with those claims.
- leereeves 4y ago
  If Kavanaugh is telling the truth, and "devil's triangle" is a drinking game his friends invented, who but his friends would know about it? Of course you're free to believe whatever you want, but if you aren't willing to discuss it, why did you even bring it up here?
hotpotamus 3y ago
Here's the other thing I don't really get about these conservative types though. To a man, they claim that their Christian faith is extremely important to them. Like any good Catholic child, I was compelled to study the bible and while I took very little interest in it, my impression was that that sort of behavior was considered sinful and something one should seek to avoid and atone for if you should engage in sins involving bed and bottle. Things like this are why I've been an atheist from a single-digit age; I don't know much about the divine, but it doesn't seem like the people who claim to believe this stuff actually believe it either.