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Angus Johnston Profile picture
@studentactivism
Sep 28, 2018 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
We know two things for certain: That she told the truth as best she was able, and he lied without compunction. Most of the rest of what we know flows from those two facts. #KavanaughHearings
Ford spoke carefully, thoughtfully, forthrightly, even where doing so undermined her current rhetorical point. Kavanaugh issued flatly preposterous untruths without blinking. #KavanaughHearings
Kavanaugh said the party couldn't have been on a weekday, because he worked weekdays. Later he admitted he drank on weekdays, and his diary shows one drinking gathering on a Thursday. A stupid, obvious lie. #KavanaughHearings
Another that jumped out: When Mitchell asked if he'd ever woken up with different clothes on than he expected. You could see him pause and smile. Don't be absurd—of course he had. But then he realized to say so would be admitting blacking out. So he said no. #KavanaughHearings
Of course Kavanaugh has lost moments while drinking. Of course he has. Heavy drinkers do so regularly—I saw one study recently that found that 30% of college students had in the last year. And he alludes to doing so in multiple documents on the record. #KavanaughHearings
Oh, and here's a great one: He was asked about the reference in the yearbook to his being the champion puker at Beach Weak. He said he had a weak stomach, suggested it was food-related until forced to backtrack. A casual, obvious, stupid lie. #KavanaughHearings
And contrast, again, with Ford. There were a dozen times she was asked a question only she knew the answer to. Could have easily said "I don't recall." She answered every time, even where it would make her look bad. #KavanaughHearings
Before today, I believed Ford. After her testimony I'm certain beyond any doubt that she told the truth on every major issue as best as she was able. No doubt. Certain. #KavanaughHearings
And Kavanaugh couldn't even tell the truth about why his dipshit high school buddies gave him an award for throwing up. #KavanaughHearings

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Oct 6, 2018
Dean Heller (R-NV) just voted to confirm Kavanaugh. He recently called the sexual assault allegations against the judge "a little hiccup." He's up for re-election next month.
Jacky Rosen, Heller's Democratic opponent, said Kavanaugh "lacks the impartiality, the integrity, and the judicial temperament to sit on the Supreme Court." 538 says she has a 52.9% chance of winning. You can donate to her campaign here. secure.actblue.com/donate/jr_fr-s…
538 says Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) has a 31.4% chance of winning, but she voted against Kavanaugh anyway—in North Dakota—saying "our actions right now are a poignant signal to young girls and women across our country." You can support her campaign here. secure.actblue.com/donate/heidi-h…
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Oct 6, 2018
Yep. It's not "young people don't vote," it's "each one of us, when we're young, is less likely to vote than we will be when we get older." And there are practical, structural reasons for that—things that we can change.
It's not that we don't know how to make it easier and more attractive for people to vote. It's that a lot of people in power—disproportionately, though not exclusively, Republicans—aren't interested in doing so.
Youth voter turnout is going to be higher this year than it is in most midterms, but it's not because old people have been yelling at young people to shame them for not voting.
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Oct 5, 2018
Just a reminder that the vote that's happening right now is a vote invoke cloture—to limit debate and move to a vote on the nomination. Voting yes now (as Collins, for one, will do) isn't a tell on your vote tomorrow.
That said, Murkowski voting no is ... quite interesting.
(Collins announced before the cloture vote that she was voting yes on cloture but wouldn't announce her vote on the nomination itself until later today.)
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Oct 5, 2018
David Brooks thinks the problem with people's responses to the Kavanaugh nomination is that they predictably adopted positions in line with their prior sociocultural commitments. Which position is, of course, predictable and in line with his prior sociocultural commitments.
"People formed their opinions on Kavanaugh mechanically and predictably!" says Brooks, in a column that anyone who's ever read two Brooks columns could have dictated verbatim a week ago.
Fun fact: I wrote the above two tweets on the basis of a one-sentence screenshot someone tweeted, and only afterwards went back and read the column to make sure I wasn't making an ass of myself. I wasn't!
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Oct 5, 2018
An interesting, easy to miss, sentence from WaPo's piece on Manchin and the Kavanaugh vote tonight.
Note the phrasing here—Republicans think they can get Manchin "if they can get 50" votes without him. But they only need a total of 50, since Pence can break a tie if needed.
Now, this may be an error—@seungminkim, can you comment?—and what they meant to say was that the GOP believes that if they can get to 49, Manchin may get them to 50, but that's not what the piece currently says.
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Oct 4, 2018
Each of my kids has gotten into an argument about Kavanaugh with a boy in their grade this week. By their accounts, both of them won.
The eleven-year-old cornered a kid she'd heard supported Kavanaugh, and he told her he had a bet with three other kids over whether any evidence against him would emerge.
She said, "How about the fact that he committed perjury multiple times?" His response, according to her, was a quiet "bye" as he walked away.
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