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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
The affidavit says Kavanaugh groped, fondled, and attempted to remove the clothing of girls against their will, that he engaged in efforts to drug and/or spike punch with grain alcohol in order to target women, and that he was present when she was gang raped. But I am guessing that the Republican talking point will be exactly what you are saying (weird!) -- that she didn't specifically state that Kavanaugh penetrated her. Which I assume means either that he didn't or that she became too drugged to remember who all gang raped her. But if you think the affidavit contains only weak allegations against him and only contains guilt by association, then it seems your moral standard for SCOTUS is "not a rapist." Which again appears to line up exactly with the Republicans' position on Kavanaugh (weird!).
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Slow down, Francis...
I'm saying there's an attempt here to use general descriptions of behaviors to assert that a person committed a crime. Avenatti paints a gross picture of rapes, and Kavanaugh being sexually aggressive, and then goes into Swetick's own rape. It's a disturbing picture, from which a layman, an unsophisticated typical American, would conclude, "every man at this party is guilty of something." But if you read closely, other than the allegation Kavanaugh was waiting in a line, which itself doesn't prove he actually did anything, you see no direct linkage of the man to any specific crime.
We've all been at debauched parties. Supposed I drew a picture of a party where everyone was smoking weed, many people were doing coke, and in the corner, a couple of people were shooting smack. I then recall how you were around the weed, and the weed was around the coke. Then I talk generally about how high and drunk everyone at the party was. Then I say I also saw you near the people shooting smack. Now, you've done nothing but smoke some weed at the this party. But if I write that up cleverly, I can easily convince most people, under a guilt by association standard, that you definitely did coke, and probably did smack.
Again, I buy the story she tells. I think this guy was sexually aggressive. But I can spot when a second-stringer like Avenatti is trying to manipulate me into believing this affidavit is proof of something much worse. And I have to wonder why he is doing that. My suspicion is because he is a massive asshole and publicity whore. But it could also be inherent weakness of a witness who does not want to wind up facing perjury allegations.
