Ahem... I posted about this days ago. It was July 1st, 1982 when the age was raised to 21 for beer and wine. He was too young to be grandfathered in. Keg City Club, 100 Kegs or Bust, Ralphing.... illegal, illegal, illegal. Also, recruiting people to BUY the beer? Illegal too. Lots of folks occasionally drank beer in high school (raises hand). Some of those kids got drunk occasionally. Some of those kids developed serious problems with drinking to excess.
As children, people may behave in ways that are anathema to their adult selves. People can mature... and change. When they accept their faults and admit their mistakes, they may earn forgiveness from those they have wronged.
However, when one chooses to LIE about that childhood behavior and purposefully twists facts to cover over illegal activity, we're talking about a different issue altogether. Brett Kavanaugh did all that and more.
Setting the record straight in high school beer drinking is an easy one, and potentially the easiest to forgive. Hell, Dubya came clean about drinking (though perhaps less so about the cocaine). Obama copped to weed AND coke. Both became President of the United States. But Kavanaugh chose the Trumpier path. Lie and deny. "It was legal for seniors to drink beer!" It. Was. Not. Not for nothing, he was a 17-year-old JUNIOR at the time in question anyway.
According to Kavanaugh's Senate testimony, "Renate Alumnius" was a way to embrace a girl (from another school) into a circle of eight male high school friends. It. Was. Not. Renate Schroeder was certainly part of their shared social circle and by her own account had NO IDEA that she had been so callously slandered and libeled by people she considered her friends. The media didn't concoct that story from thin air. The woman herself determined its vile meaning on her own. Subsequently, she withdrew her support of Kavanaugh (a fact which he ignored as he continued to tout the number of women in the "spontaneous" letter of support).
Need I even continue with his spurious definitions for Devil's Triangle and boof (the latter being a term in widespread use in my high school at the same time). FWIW, were the flatulence ruse even true, how does one account for the question, "Have you boofed yet?" Are we to understand that Brett is asking his male, teen, best friend if he has FARTED yet? Please.
HE IS A SERIAL LIAR whose privilege emboldened him to behave however HE wanted, then and now. I like beer. I drank beer. It didn't matter if it were legal. Others were doing it and he wanted to do it too. I'll grant that many high school boys lied about sex, but Devil's Triangle is a SPECIFIC sex act... and one alluded to in the allegations brought forth by Avenatti's client.
Lie, cry, and deny. Rinse and repeat.
Millions of women are disgusted. Several women have accused him of assault. One woman knows that a person she considered a friend viciously lied about her 36 years ago... and told an even more despicable lie about her yesterday.
He MUST withdraw. If he does not, his name MUST be withdrawn.
Side note: It's Flake AND Murkowski calling for the FBI investigation now. McConnell does NOT have the votes.
As children, people may behave in ways that are anathema to their adult selves. People can mature... and change. When they accept their faults and admit their mistakes, they may earn forgiveness from those they have wronged.
However, when one chooses to LIE about that childhood behavior and purposefully twists facts to cover over illegal activity, we're talking about a different issue altogether. Brett Kavanaugh did all that and more.
Setting the record straight in high school beer drinking is an easy one, and potentially the easiest to forgive. Hell, Dubya came clean about drinking (though perhaps less so about the cocaine). Obama copped to weed AND coke. Both became President of the United States. But Kavanaugh chose the Trumpier path. Lie and deny. "It was legal for seniors to drink beer!" It. Was. Not. Not for nothing, he was a 17-year-old JUNIOR at the time in question anyway.
According to Kavanaugh's Senate testimony, "Renate Alumnius" was a way to embrace a girl (from another school) into a circle of eight male high school friends. It. Was. Not. Renate Schroeder was certainly part of their shared social circle and by her own account had NO IDEA that she had been so callously slandered and libeled by people she considered her friends. The media didn't concoct that story from thin air. The woman herself determined its vile meaning on her own. Subsequently, she withdrew her support of Kavanaugh (a fact which he ignored as he continued to tout the number of women in the "spontaneous" letter of support).
Need I even continue with his spurious definitions for Devil's Triangle and boof (the latter being a term in widespread use in my high school at the same time). FWIW, were the flatulence ruse even true, how does one account for the question, "Have you boofed yet?" Are we to understand that Brett is asking his male, teen, best friend if he has FARTED yet? Please.
HE IS A SERIAL LIAR whose privilege emboldened him to behave however HE wanted, then and now. I like beer. I drank beer. It didn't matter if it were legal. Others were doing it and he wanted to do it too. I'll grant that many high school boys lied about sex, but Devil's Triangle is a SPECIFIC sex act... and one alluded to in the allegations brought forth by Avenatti's client.
Lie, cry, and deny. Rinse and repeat.
Millions of women are disgusted. Several women have accused him of assault. One woman knows that a person she considered a friend viciously lied about her 36 years ago... and told an even more despicable lie about her yesterday.
He MUST withdraw. If he does not, his name MUST be withdrawn.
Side note: It's Flake AND Murkowski calling for the FBI investigation now. McConnell does NOT have the votes.
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