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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Judge Rapey Beer Boof, who had $100s of thousands in credit card debt "cancelled"
by an unknown benefactor so he could get his lifetime job, opposes canceling some student debt. Like Faux news, the supreme court is a wholly owned subsidiary of the oligarchical far right. A curse on the sellout-six justices.
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)gab13by13
(21,234 posts)who paid off his $200,000 credit card debt, or his $92,000 country club fee. Some say that Kavanaugh's daddy paid off the debt, so why hasn't Kavanaugh said that himself?
Christopher Wray was an acquaintance of Kavanaugh at law school, why didn't he investigate? Why didn't Wray investigate the thousands of FBI hotline tips before Kavanaugh was confirmed?
I have another thread I did today about Wray. He needs to go, or do a lot of explaining. He did lie to Congress.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)But people keep repeating it anyway. It's just like Qanon stuff, but it's okay because its our side.
From the notoriously MAGA publication, Mother Jones:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/heres-the-truth-about-brett-kavanaughs-finances/
As it turned out, there were rather simple answers to most of those questions. Kavanaugh explained to the Senate Judiciary Committee that much of his credit card debt stemmed from either work on his fixer-upper mansion or buying Nats season and playoff tickets for himself and a handful of dudes whod been going to the games together for years. They had paid him back in full, the White House said at the time. As for the rest, while he was maddeningly obtuse in admitting it, Kavanaugh seems to have gotten lots of money from his parents.
As I explained back in 2018, gifts from family dont have to be reported on federal judicial disclosure forms, and Kavanaughs family had deep pockets. Hes the only child of a swamp creature, Ed Kavanaugh, a longtime lobbyist for the cosmetics industry who spent his career schmoozing with Beltway insiders to fend off health and safety regulations and dueling with activists who wanted to ban cosmetic testing on animals. When the elder Kavanaugh retired in 2005, his compensation package that year from the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association totaled $13 million, according to the nonprofit groups IRS filing.
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Those answers, however, have not satisfied many on the left, who seem convinced that there is something nefarious afoot. In the past three years, a persistent conspiracy theorythough not QAnon levelhas bloomed between the lines of what Kavanaugh has left unsaid about how he bridges the gap between his income and his cushy lifestyle.
keroro gunsou
(2,223 posts)I thought mother Jones was far more progressive, and in tune, with more progressive and democratic issues that they would be with those MAGA morons. Maybe its just one writer, or maybe something changed. Could someone please explain this to me? Please and thank you.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Explain that a lot of people believe in a pointless, dead-end conspiracy theory about Kavanaugh's personal finances?
The article does a good job of explaining that. Did you read it?
Maybe, just maybe, truth exists independently of what people want or choose to believe.
robbob
(3,522 posts)is sarcasm. You are correct, MJ is very left wing, so the fact that THEY are debunking the story says a lot.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)It's been posted a zillion times here on DU, and yet there is the perpetual "nobody has ever explained" bunch:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016321898
https://democraticunderground.com/100215901539
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216848323
Yet lots of otherwise smart people who see conspiracy theories as solely a scourge of the right seem to believe it, in part because, as with so many such myths, the Kavanaugh conspiracy theory originated with a few facts.
onecaliberal
(32,772 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Its become a predictable pattern: The Supreme Court issues a controversial ruling on a hot-button social issue, and then Justice Brett Kavanaugh trends on Twitter. Earlier this month, it happened again after the court refused to block the recent Texas law that all but bans abortion. Almost immediately, hashtags like #WhoOwnsKavanaugh and #BrettsDebts blossomed across social media. The tweets are driven by frustrated liberals who continue to believe that the Trump-appointed justice has been bought off by a secret, deep-pocketed benefactor who has allowed him to live well above his judicial salary.
If you do not look, you will not see.
jaxexpat
(6,795 posts)effectively go away but the NON-investigation by the FBI or any other investigative authority upon accusations of sexual predation by many remains a goddamned scandal. Probably, surely, only one of many that let a totally unfit fuck sit on the USSC. A thorough and fearless look into all Republican appointees for any position would surface how void of straightforward behaviors are any Republican administrations.
B.See
(1,155 posts)... why the Republican justices of the SCOTUS,
with their many conflicts of interests, associations and fraternizations with right wing lobbyists, political entities, and election deniers, and NO code of ethics
are constantly on the defense re questions of their LEGITIMACY
"John Roberts' flawed defense of the Supreme Court's legitimacy"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/john-roberts-flawed-defense-supreme-courts-legitimacy-rcna47270
Goonch
(3,597 posts)Sad that that pig has that much sway over our country but
ancianita
(35,926 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/heres-the-truth-about-brett-kavanaughs-finances/
As it turned out, there were rather simple answers to most of those questions. Kavanaugh explained to the Senate Judiciary Committee that much of his credit card debt stemmed from either work on his fixer-upper mansion or buying Nats season and playoff tickets for himself and a handful of dudes whod been going to the games together for years. They had paid him back in full, the White House said at the time. As for the rest, while he was maddeningly obtuse in admitting it, Kavanaugh seems to have gotten lots of money from his parents.
As I explained back in 2018, gifts from family dont have to be reported on federal judicial disclosure forms, and Kavanaughs family had deep pockets. Hes the only child of a swamp creature, Ed Kavanaugh, a longtime lobbyist for the cosmetics industry who spent his career schmoozing with Beltway insiders to fend off health and safety regulations and dueling with activists who wanted to ban cosmetic testing on animals. When the elder Kavanaugh retired in 2005, his compensation package that year from the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association totaled $13 million, according to the nonprofit groups IRS filing.
[...]
Those answers, however, have not satisfied many on the left, who seem convinced that there is something nefarious afoot. In the past three years, a persistent conspiracy theorythough not QAnon levelhas bloomed between the lines of what Kavanaugh has left unsaid about how he bridges the gap between his income and his cushy lifestyle.
Sympthsical
(9,028 posts)Huh. Good information to know.
Yeah, if I were living off my parents in part at that age, I'd be pretty elliptical about it, too.
Not too conducive to that bootstraps narrative.
Elessar Zappa
(13,896 posts)I wish people would stop with this bullshit.
Elessar Zappa
(13,896 posts)See post #9 for an explanation.