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kpete

(72,072 posts)
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 02:48 PM Sep 2018

The "I like beer judge."


...His outrage, his strategy, his fate: All of it was about beer. Beer as a symbol of his normalcy. Beer as an emblem of his all-American maleness.

He was painting himself as a martyr for that maleness, and he was using beer — along with weight lifting, football, flatulence jokes and what he mendaciously insisted were inoffensive yearbook high jinks — to do it. Beer was his brand, and he was proud of it...

What I don’t like is his selective frankness and the red-faced righteousness with which he, the supposedly sober-minded jurist, rushed to the fault lines of gender, culture and class. He made camp there and stoked the fire as high as it would go and as hot as it would burn. He brought a cooler of beer.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-beer-politics.html
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The "I like beer judge." (Original Post) kpete Sep 2018 OP
In heaven there is no beer, DeminPennswoods Sep 2018 #1

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