He went to high school in Maryland. Legal drinking age went to 21 in 1983, that would be Kavanaugh’s spring semester of his senior year in high school.
He went to college at Yale in Connecticut. Kavanaugh would have been underage while at Yale until he turned 21.
None of this means much, lots of people drink in high school/college when they are underage. Classic trap question, and I’m sure he’s prepped and has a solid answer.
But if he doesn’t, and he lies about it…what else might he be lying about.
I grew up in Maryland, and am a few years older than Judge Kavanaugh. I have a vague recollection that when the passed the higher age, it didn’t jump from 18 to 21 at once, but wet up one year ever year (to grandfather in legal drinkers, like 19 year olds).
You’re in a poor position to judge what I’ve seen or not. Aside from that, why don’t you lay it out for me here? If you wanted to convince someone that Brett Kavanaugh was a blackout drunk, what’s your evidence? I’m certainly wiling to review it and consider what you have to say.
What’s Kavanaugh going to do next – start taking out TV ads featuring singing jingles? This “interview” is nothing less than a shameless campaign ad that has got to be a first for a Supreme Court justice, finally obliterating completely any shred of pretext that it’s actually a judicial body and not a purely partisan extension of the politicians who appoint and confirm its members. And of course by airing it on Fox News, it’s clearly directed at the Republican base whose support he’s trying to drum up. And he’s describing a fictional high-school Kavanaugh – a pious churchgoing youth diametrically opposite to the real-life jerk who actually existed. This lying asshole has no dignity, no integrity, and no shame. John Roberts, who’s been trying to cultivate a civilized and even mock-impartial image for the Court, must be appalled by it all.
Is it just me, or does the statement about his virginity and how long he had it, make it much more believable that he could have attempted a rape in high school? Where is he going with that?
“Was there ever a time you drank so much that you couldn’t remember the night before?”
He immediately says “No. That never happened.”
I would find him more believable if he said something like “It was a long time ago and I was young, so I’m not going to say it was completely impossible. But I do know that I was usually careful with how much I drank. Getting drunk just to get drunk has always had very little appeal to me.”
Just a flat out “no” just isn’t persuasive when dude named himself the treasurer of the so-called Keg City Club (100 Kegs or Bust).
Has anyone posted his college roommate’s statement yet? If not, here it is. Relevant exerpt:
although Brett was normally reserved, he was a notably heavy drinker, even by the standards of the time, and that he became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk. I did not observe the specific incident in question, but I do remember Brett frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk.
James Roche, Kavanaugh’s Yale roommate at the time of the alleged assault on Debbie Ramirez, is quoted, in the New Yorker piece:
Also, while not evidence of drinking per se, on Kavanaugh’s own page in his high school yearbook, which he apparently was personally responsible for writing, he named himself as “treasurer of the ‘100 Kegs or Bust’ club.” Regarding that club, Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate Mark Judge, wrote about “the pledge he and his friends … made to drink 100 kegs of beer before graduation.”
Yes, it’s entirely possible that Kavanaugh, as well as Judge and his other friends, were, in fact, teetotalers while in high school, and they just like to talk about such things. But, given the nature of the allegation made by Dr. Ford, this certainly feels like something that should be dug into by the Senate committee.
Yeah, that was from an argument I had with him. I was (at the time) astonished at how bad he was at understanding the simple written word.
Although I was frustrated with his lack of understanding in that discussion, I’ve noticed since then that his ability to understand that the Ferguson report documented the existence racial profiling comes and goes depending on the specific argument he’s making.
So I think that I did eventually convince him, he just occasionally forgets…
I’d like to quote from “The Road to Unfreedom” by Timothy Snyder, both from page 255:
“It did not escape the attention of the Kremlin that the Republican leaders of congress declared, almost a year early, that Barrack Obama no longer enjoyed the usual prerogatives of the president of the United States. At that moment Russia began its email hack of Democratic politicians and activists”
“This level of partisanship, where the enemy is the opposing party, and the outside world is neglected, creates a vulnerability easily exploited by hostile actors in that outside world.”
Some people have to look in the mirror, but they or we need to wipe it clear first.
There is, actually, a lot of evidence that he and his friends were not teetotalers in high school. That’s not really the matter in doubt though. you with the face asked me if I believed his “No. That never happened” answer to the question “Was there ever a time you drank so much that you couldn’t remember the night before?” I’ve been around people who were drunk at parties. Some of them drank so much that they would stumble / fall over and I’d have no qualms describing their speech as “incoherent”. I’ve also been with some the next day who did not remember the previous night’s “festivities”. I don’t find it at all implausible that Kavanaugh got drunk, perhaps even quite drunk, but was still able to “remember the night before”. Do you?