Fuck Kavanaugh, Graham, McConnell...Trump is so fucked he's a regular passenger on the flight to Fuckoffistan. There are others, but those fuckers come up first. Also, we here at Wonkette already understood how it would go if this unqualified hack was put on the SCOTUS, and it gives us NO JOY to be proven right. Susan Collins, go fuck yourself for being a condescending fool and a conniving tool.
"But it was not! Kavanaugh showed up to his confirmation hearing and wept about his beautiful calendars, which showed that on July 1, 1982, he had been at Tobin’s house doing a football workout with Ernie, Tim, Squee"
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"Why do you have calendars from 36 years ago?"
*looks from side to side* "No reason."
"None from before then, and none from after then?"
"...Buh."
"Excuse you me, you didn't answer; you just trailed off."
I think it might be time for Joe Biden, lame duck president, to test the limits of the Trump v. US ruling and get to the bottom of some of the corruption on SCOTUS at the same time.
There are multiple justices who have some squirrelly financial disclosures in violation of the very, very clear disclosure requirements. It's also, according to the decision, within the official duties of the President to direct investigations into whoever he pleases as he has sole constitutional authority over the executive branch. So. Maybe it's time for an audit or three or four.
The fratboy abuse of women and disregard for the humanity of other people as a young man is cause enough to question his character as a judge on the highest court in the land, but his choice to pretend it never happened, to feign outrage at the accusation and let Blasey Ford be victimized again is arguably as damning, because it’s who he is now. He could have hedged and said he simply didn’t recall any incident with Ford, but that he respects her as a person and can only apologize for his drunken behavior as a college kid. He owed her at least that, and instead chose to portray himself as a victim and Ford as a liar or at best an unreliable person.
Sadly, I’ve known many Brett Kavanaughs in my life. Young men in college often have questionable judgment, myself included, even before you add alcohol and the gang mentality of frat culture to the mix. Womanizing has been rewarded in American society and especially fraternity life for decades. It’s just pervasive and it’s fair to characterize some college campuses as a dangerous place for young women and men. The behavior Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh’s own yearbook described didn’t surprise me at all. The real question was whether or not that behavior was any matter 35 years later for our elected officials. I believe the vast majority of them believed Ford’s account was true, but that it was long enough ago to be forgiven, or simply ignored. Ok, maybe Brett was drunk and behaved inappropriately as a college kid, they thought to themselves, does it mean he isn’t a capable, respectable adult? Can a drunken buffoon at age 20 who attempts to force himself on a young woman be redeemed through years of growth, introspection and remorse? Maybe? Probably? I don’t know the answer. But Kavanaugh chose to deny Ford the little peace or recovery she deserved by expressing remorse and asking for her forgiveness. He had the power to do that, even without admitting that he was the student who attacked her. He must have known the risks she was taking and the courage her public appearance took. He could have handled her situation with care and probably have been commended for it. It wouldn’t change what he did to her, and he likely would have been confirmed anyway. But he’d be able to say he’s grown, he’s learned, he’s been humbled and can appreciate how his actions hurt others. Instead, he denied her the dignity and humanity she deserved. He thought only of his career and his standing and how the situation affected him. In every smug photo of him smiling in his scotus robe, I see a pig headed coward and a liar who has no integrity or business deciding the outcome of cases that shape other people’s lives. That’s the part that made his grotesque saga all the worse.
Then there was Judi Hershman, a Republican lawyer who worked for (and later had an affair with the very married) Ken Starr, and wrote in Slate about working with a hot-headed Kavanaugh on the Clinton investigation--yep, he was part of the Starr team that gave us **that** scandal:
"In what seemed like a split second, Kavanaugh had come around to my side of the table and was invading my space, badgering me in a way that I didn’t understand. I changed directions around the table and kept moving. He followed on my heels....(Starr) said that he had never seen something like this from Kavanaugh before and that he was going to speak with him...Starr also told me he thought Kavanaugh was going big places. He said he was very smart. He thought he might make the Supreme Court. “Not if he treats women like that, he won’t,” I recall saying. This was seven years after Anita Hill’s testimony had made us all much more attuned to the gender dynamics of our workplaces."
And any time he gets a chance, Lindsey Graham screams himself red in the face about “look what happened to Kavanaugh.” I’ll tell you what happened to Kavanaugh: a mediocre intellect who is at least a sex pest and possibly a predator got a lifetime appointment to SCOTUS. That’s what happened to him. The horror!
I still have a grudge about this one. He claimed he achieved his position from Smart and Hard Work and not from wealth and privilege and what's a little beer and sexually abusive behavior when you have Smart and Hard Work.
Well, as someone who also has a lot of Smart and Hard Work but was not wealth and privilege, it pisses me off that he doesn't seem to have a shred of gratitude for his incredible privilege. I bet there are 87.9% of Wonketteers who have more Smart and/or Hard Work than Kegs does, but without the luck and privilege it didn't buy you a ticket to fancy east coast schools, much less a seat on the SCOTUS.
It's the entitlement, asshole.
(BTW, I am INCREDIBLY Luck and Privilege myself, very grateful for same, and wouldn't trade places with that smarmy little moral shit stain for nothin', just show a little grace you pissknuckle.)
Yes, we watched it in real time. What could we have done about it? I contacted my senators, reddest of the red from the reddest state. I think they laughed at me.
I maintained a lonely protest outside Klobuchar's office (bc it's visible, not bc she was problematic on this) - had a few joiners & some empathetic passers by but we knew it was a losing battle.
Obligatory Samuel Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxm6T8BYml4
Fuck Kavanaugh, Graham, McConnell...Trump is so fucked he's a regular passenger on the flight to Fuckoffistan. There are others, but those fuckers come up first. Also, we here at Wonkette already understood how it would go if this unqualified hack was put on the SCOTUS, and it gives us NO JOY to be proven right. Susan Collins, go fuck yourself for being a condescending fool and a conniving tool.
kavanaugh disgusts me to the very core of my being
watching him cry over some challenge instilled pure fear in me. THIS guy? on the SC? there's no way he'll be allowed!
welp
ps: I know I never comment anything nice here, but I really do need a place to spurt my rage
There had to have been literally hundreds of anti-abortion judges floating around in 2018.
Leave it to T***p to pick the one who was also a shitty rich kid r @ pist.
that's his type
"But it was not! Kavanaugh showed up to his confirmation hearing and wept about his beautiful calendars, which showed that on July 1, 1982, he had been at Tobin’s house doing a football workout with Ernie, Tim, Squee"
`
"Why do you have calendars from 36 years ago?"
*looks from side to side* "No reason."
"None from before then, and none from after then?"
"...Buh."
"Excuse you me, you didn't answer; you just trailed off."
"Yeah, I did kinda do that, didn't I?"
What about all the dubious money going to and from Kav? His debts mysteriously paid? Getting expensive sports tickets?
I realize small potatoes compared to free motorhomes and sport fishing vacations with Mr. Nazi Collector
I think it might be time for Joe Biden, lame duck president, to test the limits of the Trump v. US ruling and get to the bottom of some of the corruption on SCOTUS at the same time.
There are multiple justices who have some squirrelly financial disclosures in violation of the very, very clear disclosure requirements. It's also, according to the decision, within the official duties of the President to direct investigations into whoever he pleases as he has sole constitutional authority over the executive branch. So. Maybe it's time for an audit or three or four.
The fratboy abuse of women and disregard for the humanity of other people as a young man is cause enough to question his character as a judge on the highest court in the land, but his choice to pretend it never happened, to feign outrage at the accusation and let Blasey Ford be victimized again is arguably as damning, because it’s who he is now. He could have hedged and said he simply didn’t recall any incident with Ford, but that he respects her as a person and can only apologize for his drunken behavior as a college kid. He owed her at least that, and instead chose to portray himself as a victim and Ford as a liar or at best an unreliable person.
Sadly, I’ve known many Brett Kavanaughs in my life. Young men in college often have questionable judgment, myself included, even before you add alcohol and the gang mentality of frat culture to the mix. Womanizing has been rewarded in American society and especially fraternity life for decades. It’s just pervasive and it’s fair to characterize some college campuses as a dangerous place for young women and men. The behavior Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh’s own yearbook described didn’t surprise me at all. The real question was whether or not that behavior was any matter 35 years later for our elected officials. I believe the vast majority of them believed Ford’s account was true, but that it was long enough ago to be forgiven, or simply ignored. Ok, maybe Brett was drunk and behaved inappropriately as a college kid, they thought to themselves, does it mean he isn’t a capable, respectable adult? Can a drunken buffoon at age 20 who attempts to force himself on a young woman be redeemed through years of growth, introspection and remorse? Maybe? Probably? I don’t know the answer. But Kavanaugh chose to deny Ford the little peace or recovery she deserved by expressing remorse and asking for her forgiveness. He had the power to do that, even without admitting that he was the student who attacked her. He must have known the risks she was taking and the courage her public appearance took. He could have handled her situation with care and probably have been commended for it. It wouldn’t change what he did to her, and he likely would have been confirmed anyway. But he’d be able to say he’s grown, he’s learned, he’s been humbled and can appreciate how his actions hurt others. Instead, he denied her the dignity and humanity she deserved. He thought only of his career and his standing and how the situation affected him. In every smug photo of him smiling in his scotus robe, I see a pig headed coward and a liar who has no integrity or business deciding the outcome of cases that shape other people’s lives. That’s the part that made his grotesque saga all the worse.
I notice that his wife and children look terrified of him in every picture I've seen.
Ta, Marcie. I can describe how I feel about Boof, but I don't feel like getting banhammered.
Brett "The Boofer" Kavanaugh. Not much else to say other than he is disgusting pig shit.
Then there was Judi Hershman, a Republican lawyer who worked for (and later had an affair with the very married) Ken Starr, and wrote in Slate about working with a hot-headed Kavanaugh on the Clinton investigation--yep, he was part of the Starr team that gave us **that** scandal:
"In what seemed like a split second, Kavanaugh had come around to my side of the table and was invading my space, badgering me in a way that I didn’t understand. I changed directions around the table and kept moving. He followed on my heels....(Starr) said that he had never seen something like this from Kavanaugh before and that he was going to speak with him...Starr also told me he thought Kavanaugh was going big places. He said he was very smart. He thought he might make the Supreme Court. “Not if he treats women like that, he won’t,” I recall saying. This was seven years after Anita Hill’s testimony had made us all much more attuned to the gender dynamics of our workplaces."
This is what we've come to.
Cool. Now find out who paid off his house, please.
Pretty sure it turned out to be his parents. He still makes me physically ill.
Fuck that guy. Whinging little dork. They’re all alike.
And any time he gets a chance, Lindsey Graham screams himself red in the face about “look what happened to Kavanaugh.” I’ll tell you what happened to Kavanaugh: a mediocre intellect who is at least a sex pest and possibly a predator got a lifetime appointment to SCOTUS. That’s what happened to him. The horror!
^^ Extremely well said. ^^
I still have a grudge about this one. He claimed he achieved his position from Smart and Hard Work and not from wealth and privilege and what's a little beer and sexually abusive behavior when you have Smart and Hard Work.
Well, as someone who also has a lot of Smart and Hard Work but was not wealth and privilege, it pisses me off that he doesn't seem to have a shred of gratitude for his incredible privilege. I bet there are 87.9% of Wonketteers who have more Smart and/or Hard Work than Kegs does, but without the luck and privilege it didn't buy you a ticket to fancy east coast schools, much less a seat on the SCOTUS.
It's the entitlement, asshole.
(BTW, I am INCREDIBLY Luck and Privilege myself, very grateful for same, and wouldn't trade places with that smarmy little moral shit stain for nothin', just show a little grace you pissknuckle.)
Oh, "pissknuckle"! That's good.
Twatwaffle and asshat are also acceptable in this discourse.
'Twatwaffle' being one of my favorite terms of opprobrium.
Yes, we watched it in real time. What could we have done about it? I contacted my senators, reddest of the red from the reddest state. I think they laughed at me.
I maintained a lonely protest outside Klobuchar's office (bc it's visible, not bc she was problematic on this) - had a few joiners & some empathetic passers by but we knew it was a losing battle.