So, here's the rumors as I get them from my friends on the Hill re: Kavanaugh

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42. Recursion, Kav couldn't admit to planning and attempting rape.

That would be the end.

Remember, the sort of rape described is a vicious violent crime that arises from hostility and desire to hurt someone that way. It's not just a healthy little lust a boy accidentally let slip out of control.

The issue isn't whether a 16-year-old is "irredeemable." It's that most 16-year-old high school boys wouldn't plan and attempt to execute a rape and there's something wrong with those who do.

Interesting rumors, thanks. So perhaps senate Repugs were all prepared to knock down some other big thing? Of course we knew they were attempting to ram him through before something came up.

It's so wrong, though, that just his long-time patterns of malfeasance through work, multiple perjuries, and even possible criminal conspiracy in the theft of those Democratic computer files, weren't enough to shock enough Americans to protest.

We shouldn't need unproven allegations of private behaviors at all.