Poor Kavanaugh wants to run for SC judge

I'm just confused.....I thought this was about Kavanaugh's fitness for office.....is it really about Max???? If it's about Max, I'll go elsewhere. Hey everybody, brewskis are on me, meet me at (who is hosting the in-crowd party tonight?)

The cultural understanding of rape in the 1980s was fundamentally different from how we understand it today

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In the 1980s, “rape” meant an attack from a stranger in a dark alley, not something that acquaintances did to each other at house parties where everyone knows each other. In 1982, it would have been difficult for women like Swetnick and Christine Blasey Ford to find the language to describe what had happened to them.

Sixteen Candles’ Jake Ryan is the dream boy of the 1980s. He’s also an accessory to date rape.

The ’80s were a decade of film comedy hugely informed by the recent success of 1978’s Animal House, which features a rape fantasy scene filmed in what critic Emily Nussbaum describes as “the perviest possible way.”

It was the decade that gave us Revenge of the Nerds, which, as Noah Brand put it at the Good Men Project, “has so much rape culture, you could use it to make rape yogurt”; it gave us Police Academy and its “nonconsensual blowjobs are a fun and light-hearted prank” ethos. And perhaps most disturbingly, it gave us the comedic rape subplot in Sixteen Candles, John Hughes’s much beloved and iconic 1984 teen romance.

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“Jake stands the test of time,” wrote Hank Stuever in the Washington Post in 2004. He quotes a 34-year-old woman who grew up on Jake Ryan: “Oh, gosh, Jake Ryan. Just thinking about it now, I get … kind of … It’s all just too good to be true.”

Jake Ryan’s reputation as the ideal dream boy of every teenage girl’s deepest fantasies has lasted for decades. Jake, writes Stuever, “is Christ, redeeming the evil sins of high school. Jake as the ideal. Jake as the eternal belief in something better.”

Yet Jake Ryan cold-bloodedly hands a drunk and unconscious Caroline over to another guy and says, “Have fun.”

In 1984, you could be a perfect dream boy and also be an accessory to date rape. They were not mutually exclusive ideas. In fact, they reinforced each other.

In Sixteen Candles, Caroline’s rape is presented as her fault — and as funny
In the moral universe of Sixteen Candles, Jake is allowed to be callous to Caroline without losing his dream boy status because, Sixteen Candles briskly assures us, Caroline is not the right kind of girl. She has breasts, and she drinks. She’s potentially a little bit slutty. “She doesn’t know **** about love,” Jake explains. “The only thing she cares about is partying.”

If he lied to the Senate about that, then not only doesn't he not go to the Supreme Court, he could end up going to the hoosegow instead for lying under oath to the Senate.

oralloy wrote:

maporsche wrote:

What’s this have to do with Kavanaugh or his desire to run for the SC?

Kavanaugh gets to be judged by the same standard that the Democrats used for Bill Clinton.

Absolutely not. That would be unconstitutional.
You wouldn't want the Senate to violate the Constitution, would you?

Being compared to you is one of the worst insults that can be thrown at a poster.

It's because you have no concept of what facts are, you seem to think they're whatever your fevered brain cell can conjure up.

You make ludicrous pronouncements all the time which you're incapable of backing up. Whenever you're challenged you come up with a load of moronic drivel about being a gabrillion times smarter than anyone else which is patently untrue.

If you were capable of learning anything you'd ask yourself why you're held in such low regard that you've become an insult, and actually try posting something that isn't laughably inane. But you're not, you're going to keep spouting your same repetitive drivel and wonder why nobody takes you seriously.

You're a joke, and not a very good one at that.

White House limits scope of the FBI's investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh

An odd way to conduct an investigation.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said he “couldn’t move forward without hitting the pause button” on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and, therefore, insisted on an FBI investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against the nominee.

Asked later in the “60 Minutes” interview whether the nomination would end if the probe shows that Kavanaugh had not been truthful in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Flake said as he nodded:

“Oh, yes.”

Kavanaugh, a 53-year-old federal appellate court judge, has unequivocally denied allegations that as a teenager in high school, he tried to sexually assault a 15-year-old during a house party in Maryland in the 1980s. The allegations by Christine Blasey Ford, now a 51-year-old psychology professor from California, have not been corroborated by witnesses she said were present at the party.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Republican senator who suddenly sits at the center of the explosive Supreme Court debate promised Monday to oppose President Donald Trump's nominee should an ongoing federal investigation determine he lied under oath.

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, who holds extraordinary leverage in the confirmation process, addressed Judge Brett Kavanaugh's future directly as he trekked across New England while exploring a possible run for president. Asked what would cause him to vote "no" on Kavanaugh, Flake pointed to "any evidence that corroborates" his accuser's story.

"Any nominee that lies to the committee, that is disqualifying," Flake told reporters after delivering a speech in New Hampshire, the state that hosts the nation's first presidential primary election.

During a Boston appearance earlier in the day, Flake also vowed to ensure the FBI conducts "a real investigation" into the allegations against Kavanaugh. "It does us no good to have an investigation that just gives us more cover," he said at the Forbes Under 30 Summit.

Flake's comments came as the White House insisted it's not "micromanaging" a one-week review of decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. Some Democratic lawmakers claimed the White House was keeping investigators from interviewing certain witnesses.

Monday marked Flake's second New Hampshire visit this year. The 55-year-old soft-spoken Republican, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of the year, is a reluctant presidential prospect at best. During a spring visit to the state, he declared his interest in a possible 2020 presidential bid — as a Republican or an independent — if no other Republican were to step up to challenge Trump.

Three days ago, the Republican senator single-handedly delayed Kavanaugh's confirmation proceedings by insisting on an FBI investigation as a condition for his support. The GOP's razor-thin majority in the Senate, 51-49, lent power to his demand.

Liberal protesters in Boston and New Hampshire pleaded with Flake to block Kavanaugh's nomination.

At a rally that drew hundreds to Boston City Hall, New York congressional candidate Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez warned Flake and other elected leaders that voters would end their careers should they support Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

"We are going to keep pushing because justice in America is not just about protecting the powerful," Ocasio-Cortez said. "It is about uplifting the voices that have been victimized."

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh offered a direct message to the Republican senator from Arizona. "I guess I want to say, 'Thank you,'" Walsh said. "But that's your job. That's your job to vet the nominee."

Should he oppose Trump in 2020, Flake is unlikely to win much support from New Hampshire Republicans, said Republican strategist Joel Maiola.

"In the climate we've got today it's going to be hard for someone like Jeff Flake to get any kind of momentum," he said. "I think it's a very conservative party right now."

While Flake is a self-described "proud conservative and lifelong Republican," his impending retirement has freed him to condemn the political climate in Trump's GOP.

Facing New Hampshire voters at Saint Anselm College, Flake repeatedly condemned the rise of "tribalism" shaping the Supreme Court debate and U.S. politics.

"My message here today is tribalism is ruining us. It is tearing our country apart. It is no way for sane adults to act," Flake declared.

"I've been failing my tribe for some time now," he continued. "I hope to continue to fail my tribe."