# Can Democrats actually stop the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 4, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733 "2018-09-04T12:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 272
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5422 "2018-10-01T05:56:49Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > If this is true, then holy fuck her lawyers should be shot. Not debarred. Shot. You’re threatening to murder people over a 4chan post. Perhaps you should calm down instead? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5423 "2018-10-01T06:03:20Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > 4chan strikes again. It’s fascinating that someone would say this, and apparently mean that 4Chan is _correct_ again, as if it has a general reputation for uncovering reputable information. Because normally, I would see “4chan strikes again”, and expect to see information that wow, those idiots doxxed another innocent person after a mass shooting, or wow, they fell for some Qanon scam again. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5424 "2018-10-01T06:03:39Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > You’re threatening to murder people over a 4chan post. Perhaps you should calm down instead? :smack: Perhaps you should learn the meaning of the term “hyperbole”, and read the whole post before typing.:rolleyes: And don’t do strategic edits when quoting posts either. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5425 "2018-10-01T06:15:32Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > And don’t do strategic edits when quoting posts either. No, I got the appropriate bit. The bit where you said people should be murdered. And I don’t think that saying people should be murdered is hyperbole. I think it’s out-of-control anger, and I think you should calm down. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5426 "2018-10-01T06:19:42Z")
Ah, yes, 4chan, the “very fine people” that gave us Pizzagate. Surely they’re done their homework on this one. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5427 "2018-10-01T06:20:48Z")
So you can’t understand the difference between incredulouness and anger? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5428 "2018-10-01T06:22:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Ah, yes, 4chan, the “very fine people” that gave us Pizzagate. > > Surely they’re done their homework on this one. How difficult would it be to get property records in California? That would be pretty definitive. On this score at least. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5429 "2018-10-01T06:35:37Z")
Who cares. She is not the person in line for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. If she owes a chump change fine for renting to someone, she can pay it. Next she’ll have a Honduran maid with a cousin who overstayed his visa. Get real. God I hope her taxes are done properly. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5430 "2018-10-01T06:59:38Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > How difficult would it be to get property records in California? That would be pretty definitive. On this score at least. I don’t think anyone disputes that there’s some kind of rental occupancy at her home. She even mentioned it in the hearing. Google interns or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5431 "2018-10-01T07:01:33Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > I don’t think anyone disputes that there’s some kind of rental occupancy at her home. She even mentioned it in the hearing. Not that, the other part, that the home renovations were done several years before the meeting with the therapist. Thats what the lawyers should have discovered and prepped her for if true. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5432 "2018-10-01T07:19:15Z")
In her [testimony](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e340689402e4), she said: “The reason this came up in counseling is that my husband and I had completed a very extensive, very long remodel of our home and I insisted on a second front door, an idea that he and others disagreed with and could not understand.” The therapy came _after_ a “very long remodel.” That doesn’t seem inconsistent with the 4chan super-sleuthing, but I’m not sure what it’s meant to prove, since she doesn’t appear to have said that the door was only installed because she told her husband about the assault. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5433 "2018-10-01T07:41:07Z")
So, it seems that what these 4chan brain geniuses did was take Dr. Ford’s statements about the door, invent a sequence to those claimed events that contradicts what she actually said, and then find evidence that disproves their specious claim about her testimony. 4chan strikes again! ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5434 "2018-10-01T08:13:58Z")
Really. 4chan. Every single person who falls for that shit should know better. _Every single person_. /pol/ is made up entirely of far-right racist neo-nazis. It’s entirely anonymous; whether _anything_ stated on that page is true or a fabrication is entirely up for debate. Can we _please_ not stoop _this fucking low_? _Please?_ Or, alternatively, can we agree that those who _will_ stoop that fucking low don’t belong in polite society, let alone this forum? Fucking hell, guys, I keep wondering “how much lower can this thread get” and _IT KEEPS GETTING LOWER_! ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5435 "2018-10-01T08:24:00Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > So, it seems that what these 4chan brain geniuses did was take Dr. Ford’s statements about the door, invent a sequence to those claimed events that contradicts what she actually said, and then find evidence that disproves their specious claim about her testimony. > > 4chan strikes again! :eek: Didn’t they get into trouble with sharing Child porn on their site a few years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5436 "2018-10-01T08:24:38Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > So, it seems that what these 4chan brain geniuses did was take Dr. Ford’s statements about the door, invent a sequence to those claimed events that contradicts what she actually said, and then find evidence that disproves their specious claim about her testimony. > > 4chan strikes again! …its all about ethics in Supreme Court nominations. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5437 "2018-10-01T09:18:57Z")
Stolen from Twitter; > [@Robert People](#): > > Interesting how the same ones who are so concerned with their daughters being assaulted in public bathrooms have now proven that they wouldn’t believe them anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5438 "2018-10-01T11:42:46Z")
I’ll just respond to certain posters’ posts from now on by quoting where they bought into some crap from 4chan. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5439 "2018-10-01T11:48:17Z")
[Julie Swetnick has a long history of legal disputes](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/third-kavanaugh-accuser-has-history-of-legal-disputes) Again, this is why there should be an FBI investigation, and why she shouldn’t be artifically excluded from it. If she’s totally full of shit, the FBI can probably figure that out in a hurry. ---
**Author:** ![Modesty\_Blaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Modesty\_Blaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modesty_Blaise)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5440 "2018-10-01T12:33:23Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Really. 4chan. > > Every single person who falls for that shit should know better. _Every single person_. /pol/ is made up entirely of far-right racist neo-nazis. It’s entirely anonymous; whether _anything_ stated on that page is true or a fabrication is entirely up for debate. > > Can we _please_ not stoop _this fucking low_? _Please?_ Or, alternatively, can we agree that those who _will_ stoop that fucking low don’t belong in polite society, let alone this forum? Fucking hell, guys, I keep wondering “how much lower can this thread get” and _IT KEEPS GETTING LOWER_! Word. Anyone who uses 4chan as a site should be laughed off the planet. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/5441 "2018-10-01T13:02:22Z")
Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow: [People trying to provide testimony to the FBI aren’t able to talk to anyone](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-confusion-surrounding-the-fbis-renewed-investigation-of-brett-kavanaugh) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733.md?page=271) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733.md?page=273)