We already went over all of this. Repeatedly. You already acknowledged that his being drunk was the most likely explanation. You already refused to provide any alternative explanation that explained all the data.
“Most likely” < certainly
You understand there’s still some doubt about the dice game, right?
Good to admit that republicans don’t care about anyone in the country but their own. The government is supposed to represent everyone, not just those who voted for the politicians currently in power, but that seems to be one of the “traditions” of democracy that no longer applies.
No, it was lawyerly parsing that dodged the question. He was obviously drinking illegally, as he wasn’t a senior or even 18 at the time.
If I ask you if you have ever done illegal drugs, and your answer is that there are some countries where drugs are legal, then you are being precise, but not answering the question. The only confusion is on the part of anyone thinking that that was an appropriate answer.
“Did you boof yet?” Really, they were really asking him if he had ever farted?
If that’s not perjury, then it’s evidence that he is too stupid to live, much less sit on the supreme court.
I really don’t. The opportunity to explain it is still available to you.
My claim is that all frequent heavy binge drinkers experience blackouts often. I have a cited that claim.
Let me explain in more detail. Frequent heavy binge drinkers build up a tolerance to alcohol. They retain motor and speech function at high BAC. More importantly they retain the ability to keep on drinking at high BAC which pushes their tolerance ever higher.
The part of your brain that transfers memories from short term to long term memories, however, does not build up a tolerance to alcohol.
As a result of this, frequent heavy binge drinking always results in people who keep drinking well past the point where their high BAC is interfering with their ability to store memories. Always. It’s physiologically just the way things work.
We have stories of his heavy binge drinking from numerous sources that include Kavanaugh himself. Kavanaugh was a heavy drinker who could reach a high BAC and still walk around, therefore Kavanaugh blacked out frequently. An expert in the field has been cited saying exactly that.
Yeah, I caught that - it’s a technique that I’ve seen alcoholic and addicts use frequently. I went on vacation with a friend and her sister - who I had never met before. The sister was concealing a prescription drug addiction at the time.
Her sister spent a lot of time talking about Ambien. She was going to go back to her stateroom and take her Ambien. Talking about things she did under the influence of Ambien
Now, I don’t doubt that she was taking Ambien, but she was also abusing prescription opiates and benzodiazepines. All the talk talk talk about Ambien was cover for the more dangerous drugs she was abusing - because whenever she was acting loopy or stupid she could blame it on the Ambien.
Well, maybe his emotional control is so weak that he loses it and does and says horrible stuff while sober, stuff that’s so horrible that he pretends that he was really really drunk in order to excuse himself. Still not a good look for a Supreme Court Justice.
Your expert did not use the word “always”. That was your embellishment.
Just because something is the most likely explanation does not mean we have definitive proof that it was the explanation.
The cite says, “Because memory circuits don’t become very tolerant to alcohol, heavy drinkers who can reach high blood alcohol concentrations and still walk around black out frequently.”
Brett Kavanaugh was a heavy drinker who could reach high blood alcohol concentrations and still walk around, therefore Brett Kavanaugh blacked out frequently.
Regardless of whether the magic word you’re looking for is in there, Brett Kavanaugh lied about blacking out.
You seem to be reading the cite as if it ended, “… frequently black out.” It doesn’t. The last three words are, “… black out frequently.”
If something is by far the most likely explanation (which, judging from the fact that even you agree that it is, means it is hugely the most likely explanation) and there is no alternative explanation (which, again, you have refused to even attempt to provide), then it is definitive. That’s how this works.
Especially in a job interview for a senior position. Why do some of you constantly need reminding that this isn’t a trial?
How often do the blackout drunks remember they blacked out? Is it like having twilight sedation? When I had that, it’s like my memories during that time were edited out. I didn’t even have the sensation of a passage of time. I jumped forward from watching the anesthesia being administered to waking up in the recovery room. If I didn’t realize the context of what happened, I likely would say that I didn’t black out. With drinking, it seems like it would be even easier to not realize. You’re already drinking heavily, which clouds your memory and logic ability. Having periods of time without any memory might not stand out in any way.
However, I doubt that Kavanaugh would be unaware of blacking out even if he didn’t realize it himself. As is often the case with parties, people recount the fun times they had afterwards. So even if he didn’t figure out about the blank spots in his memory, I’m pretty sure people would be recounting stories that included what he was doing. If they’re telling him things he did that he has no memory of, he would have to realize he blacked out. The email about the boat trip seems to imply that’s what happened, for example.
ETA: Here’s an excerpt from “Blackout: remembering the things I drank to forget”
No, that’s not how this works. I can say that I think something is the most likely explanation but recognize that that stops short of saying it is definitely the explanation. You should try it.
Whenever you ask a really good, point-blank question like this of one of our virulent thumpsters on the board, you NEVER NEVER get an answer.
It could be that he is was abducted by aliens during the dice game.
Would explain both the apologies (for leaving the game suddenly and dramatically)and the not remembering.
That is the most reasonable explanation I can come up with that does not involve voluntary impairment through alcoholic intake.
Are we entertaining any more plausible theories, or is that what the Republicans are going for here? Aliens did it.
Why not just admit that you don’t care if he’s a blackout drunk and a rapist or not, you want him on the court regardless because you like the cut of his ideological jib and because he’s likely to make decisions in your favour?
I think people generally know when they have blacked out, however I can see a brief fragmentary blackout slipping by without a careful examination of the night.
Kavanaugh, however, knew he blacked out. We know this because we have him referring to his own blackouts in his own words on at least three separate occasions.
Absent a plausible alternative explanation (again, feel free to provide one any time now instead of hiding), the most likely explanation is the definitive one. By definition because it’s the only one.
False. I don’t need to provide an alternative theory to recognize that “most likely” != “definitive”. I’m sure you’d like for me to offer some alternatives, but it is not necessary for my point to stand on it’s own. YOU may not be able to understand that, but I’m confident that a good number of our readers can.
Do you have any alternatives?
Just denying the most likely explanation without offering a possible counterexample is just being stubborn, not just being skeptical.
What is your reason that you believe that he apologized for his behavior at a dice game that he says he cannot remember?