If this is a crime for teenage males, none of us should ever apply for the USSC again.
MITCHELL: Had — have you ever given tips or advice to somebody who was looking to take a polygraph test?
FORD: Never.
And:
MITCHELL: Have you ever had discussions with anyone, beside your attorneys, on how to take a polygraph?
FORD: Never.
Since she took a polygraph, for which the committee seems to believe they haven’t received all the accompanying data (audio, video, etc.) it was a relevant question.
If…IF, he turns out to be who he says he is.
The ultimate reach of the GOP. Try to discredit a polygraph that doesn’t need to be discredited in an attempt to move public favor away from the undeniable truth that the GOP could force a vote whenever they want, but they’re lacking the stones.
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If you can remove doubt in the public, why not. Saw one poll suggesting 60% of voters think Kavanaugh should be confirmed if no corroborating evidence comes out of the FBI investigation. No, if this thing has a chance to actually blow up in some folks’ faces, that’s a bonus for the GoP
Because you’re only impacting the people dumb enough to put stock in a polygraph. And what are the odds you’re going to impact those people with logic?
So the people that don’t think Ford’s word is enough to believe anything happened… Are going to believe her ex boyfriend’s word?
So is it not about actual evidence? Because we won’t be seeing any of that with this latest statement either
I’m talking about the type of people in the mentioned poll. If you can get that many, and maybe more, to support the confirmation it’s a no brainer.
Why would you need those people to support confirmation? They aren’t voting on it.
You just need Flake on board
Because you might get their support in elections if they feel ok about the confirmation. If they don’t feel ok about the confirmation, they may be more reluctant to vote for the party that confirmed him.
And/or rob Democrat voters of an energizing issue.
Fair enough. Point taken
I think that ship has long since past. Now the issue is mostly about the memes of screaming old white guys and how they cry during job interviews.
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AHAHA. GQ. Yeah, pretty much all of those are at worst a gray area. Several are outright misrepresentations by GQ.
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It does need to be discredited. The reason they are banned from court is because they are both bollocks, and prejudicial. The Dems made a lot of hay about this test too, so turnabout is fair play.
Also, Judge Willett for SCOTUS.
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This is a game of “gotcha!” Being played with a bunch of people who’s memories are all equally old and blurry, usually because they were all at the same parties.
If you compared the memory/opinions of bunch of people I knew from high school you’d get responses that vary from greatest guy in the world to “I thought he was dead” to “Didn’t he become a seal or something”.
Very little of those memories have anything to do with how life played out or the person that is being talked about today.
This is bad.
A good example.
_The “blatant lying” and “lying under oath” inspired two of his Yale classmates to dispute his account in separate CNN interviews. Brookes described him as “stumbling drunk” and said, “I can almost guarantee that he doesn’t remember that night.”
So, they have have no idea what he remembers.
“Swisher countered that “there’s no problem with drinking beer in college; the problem is lying about it,” and that “I don’t think many of his answers were credible.”_”
Kavanaugh says he got drunk in college.
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I have been FALL DOWN drunk, and I, sadly, remembered every minute of it. Sad times.
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These statements directly contradict one another.
Oh sure. Just seems to be a silly and/or wasteful move. Anyone stupid enough to be swayed by a polygraph is certainly already a 1-2 issue voter whom you’re not going to sway anyways.
Not at all. WE know they are bollocks. John Q public does not. Expert evidence and novel tests of evidence are quite often a slam dunk, and I have some horror stories to tell about that.
This is what most of the public thinks of when someone mentions a lie detector test.
Exactly. I’m tired of seeing headlines about how Kavanuagh lied about this because some witness suspects he may not remember some of the night. But, ultimately, buried halfway through the article is the admission that “true, I can’t say if he blacked out or not…”