So Judge Rapey Beer Boof, who had $100s of thousands in credit card debt "cancelled"

[Comfortably_Numb]

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]

1. "Sellout-Six" has a nice rhythm to it

[gab13by13]

2. It's never been determined

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. Yes, it has been determined

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 who’d 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 don’t have to be reported on federal judicial disclosure forms, and Kavanaugh’s family had deep pockets. He’s 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 group’s 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 theory—though not QAnon level—has 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]

10. Humor me for a second please...

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 it’s just one writer, or maybe something changed. Could someone please explain this to me? Please and thank you.

[Effete Snob]

14. Explain what?

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]

18. The line "notorious MAGA publication"

is sarcasm. You are correct, MJ is very left wing, so the fact that THEY are debunking the story says a lot.

[Effete Snob]

19. You'd think so

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]

11. No one has bothered to investigate any of these people. Why?!?

[Effete Snob]

15. Why do you believe no one investigated it?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/heres-the-truth-about-brett-kavanaughs-finances/

It’s 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]

12. There may have been adequate obfuscation about his finances to make that issue .........

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]

3. Yet ANOTHER REASON...

... 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]

4. 🍺🍺🍺🍻

[wolfie001]

5. Ha Ha!!!

Sad that that pig has that much sway over our country but

[ancianita]

6. Just one more of 100 good reasons to enact judiciary reform immediately after we win in 2024.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Has he reported this as income on his taxes? Oh wait, the IRS doesn't audit crooks any more.

[Effete Snob]

9. "unknown benefactor" - just going to keep repeating this forever, eh?

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 who’d 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 don’t have to be reported on federal judicial disclosure forms, and Kavanaugh’s family had deep pockets. He’s 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 group’s 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 theory—though not QAnon level—has bloomed between the lines of what Kavanaugh has left unsaid about how he bridges the gap between his income and his cushy lifestyle.

[Sympthsical]

13. Never heard about the father before

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]

17. Right.

I wish people would stop with this bullshit.

[Elessar Zappa]

16. You're promoting a conspiracy theory.

See post #9 for an explanation.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. lol this thread