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Update: 2 Kavanaugh classmates withdrew from a statement his lawyers issued disputing Ramirez’s claims. It is now signed by the 2 men whom Ramirez alleged had egged on Kavanaugh, the wife of the man she said told her to "kiss it,” and one other classmate: https://t.co/o8nTmjw2Vg pic.twitter.com/z6zPRBeR1r

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 24, 2018

Sen. Jon Kyl, Kavanaugh’s former sherpa, casting doubt on his confirmation prospects, telling me: “I don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see.”

— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) September 24, 2018

He and his wife are on Fox tonight. That'll do the job!

I woke up to the news that Rosenstein was 'assumed to be fired' and sensed it was another bullshit cry wolf moment for the media to get rooked by. Went to sleep for another hour, woke up again and I was right. As the Gabriel Sherman piece upthread indicates, Trump is scared and desperate. He knows he's in real danger now.

 

Meanwhile:

 

 

“IT’S DESPICABLE.” McConnell is enraged about the Supreme Court nomination battle, calling it “a choreographed smear campaign” designed to inflict “maximum damage at the last minute” upon Brett Kavanaugh. pic.twitter.com/RdIcKhsj7m

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 24, 2018

 

.@SenateMajLdr promises that Brett Kavanaugh "will receive a vote" on the Senate floor in the "near future."

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 24, 2018

LMAO:

 

 

In new letter, Kavanaugh says it's not about him. He's standing up for the "public discourse" and freedom. https://t.co/3Mg0ynl17K pic.twitter.com/VHlfWveXK2

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 24, 2018

I'm with Wendy.

We have to fight and be loud. People want it and need it. Do we need more than that - absolutely. Otherwise you're just Bernie Sanders or scammers like the Krassenstein brothers. But anger is now necessary. I can't tell you how glad I am my immigrant grandparents are dead and didn't live through some of this vile shít in the last two years - Grandpa had enough trouble tolerating Bush.

Yeah, that's Avenatti. Unless he's got someone specific I'm holding my ammo.

I honestly thought Barbara Rhoades was pretty weak as Irene. Campy as hell but wooden, except when she returned as a very OTT ghost. I wish they'd gotten Liz Hubbard instead.

 

My favorite part of the Two Todds was Todd asking everyone how they could ever have thought he would re-rape Marty. As a fan of the character since the '90s I turned on TSJ's Todd completely over the rapemance in 2008 - only a story like making that Todd an imposter could ever have brought me back to him. Todd is a relic now in the Me Too era and should be written off any future imaginary OLTL IMO - at least for a long time - but that meant a lot to me, undoing the rapemance.

The claim was that Todd had had plastic surgery to look like Walker. The real Walker - Walker Flynn - was a crime boss in Atlantic City. In the original story, Mitch's goons had beaten Todd to a pulp and destroyed his face before sealing him in Victor's sarcophagus in the Lord mausoleum. Todd survived but took Walker's identity (with Walker's permission) to get revenge on Mitch. In the retcon, Irene had the brainwashed Victor's face altered to fool Mitch and 'give Victor more time to become Todd.'

 

I think as ludicrous as it was - and it was hilarious when it aired - it worked because the entire cast committed to it 100%. Further, the "Victor Jr." angle actually gave a payoff to all the random nonsense Malone was throwing around in 2003 before Howarth left - Todd's renewed obsession with his recently-'undead' father and Victor's mysterious signet ring, "Victor Sr." telling Todd he would've named him "Victor Jr." The ring and the name became key parts of the 2011 story.

 

Speaking of the ridiculous backstory of the Laurence family, let's not even get into Miles - one of the most random and pointlessly convoluted characters ever and Mitch's second long-lost, presumed dead brother.

And now for something completely different, from Malone's second run. I'll never forget this crazy shît, but I will say the ending - with Dorian, Blair and Lindsay looming over the fallen Mitch - was a great antidote to the increasingly-misogynistic GH of 2003.

 

 

KDP looked so good with the darker hair - IIRC, FV (who loved blondes) made her dye it light again.

A thread from Adam Jentleson to click through to, and commentary by Brian Fallon:

 

 

Publicly abandoning Kavanaugh is the break glass scenario. Before that, there'll be an effort to get him to withdraw on his own. This is far preferable for Senate Republicans & maybe for Kavanaugh himself. The big wild card is Trump.

Here's what that effort could look like... https://t.co/nARHSRM3pq

— Adam Jentleson 🎈 (@AJentleson) September 24, 2018

One way this may end: A GOP senator is pre-cleared by McConnell to hold gaggle off Senate floor and verbally knife Kavanaugh, thus allowing Kavanaugh to say he was prepared to defend himself on Thursday but is withdrawing because of clear sign he lacks votes

— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 24, 2018

Then McConnell would give interview to Politico on how he's thrilled to have new nominee hanging out there during midterms to motivate base & put screws to red-state Dems. Everyone buys into this, and those of us opposing Trump's nominee start all over again saying it's winnable

— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 24, 2018

I honestly can't recall, there's been so many horrible profiles.

 

 

Privately, several Republicans said they were alarmed by the new allegations, but it is not yet clear whether the party will abandon Kavanaugh. Lots of radio silence from GOP https://t.co/dbjDOmCBnS

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) September 24, 2018

NEW: Republicans fret that Kavanaugh push will crush them in the midterm elections https://t.co/UIO7wI1AGE

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 24, 2018

Jeremy Peters had a very reviled piece about the poor misunderstood Trump voters who dig in deeper because of mean liberals which he angrily defended to Slate (to the same interviewer who just buried Ian Buruma at the NY Review of Books, among others). I raged about it months ago.

As reporters have investigated Kavanaugh’s high-school years, many alumni have expressed fear about going on the record and alienating themselves from a close-knit community. https://t.co/1rMVsvx6b6

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 24, 2018

Don't forget:

 

 

Bill Cosby goes to court tomorrow for sentencing. More than 60 women have accused him of sexual assault. For decades no one took them seriously. One by one they started speaking out He has denied everything.

— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) September 24, 2018

As I posted a few days ago, Maggie got roasted by David Simon the other day for pushing that story. She's got a reckoning coming.

 

And now, from a NYT staffer I actively despise:

 

 

Evangelical leaders warn GOP: Confirm Kavanaugh quickly, defend him, or our voters will stay home in November. @elizabethjdias & I on the growing anxiety on the right over Blasey Ford's accusations. https://t.co/ldImWoXbVG

— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) September 20, 2018

As I have said before, I can't stand Maggie Haberman but she is a pipeline to the mentality inside that demented administration. You can know either their feuds or what they're floating as strategy by taking her in with a grain of salt.

2/ The people who are apoplectic are the operatives running Republican campaigns right now. This is the worst possible scenario for them. Those folks don’t give a crap abt BK and they don’t even care that much abt the Court, at least as it concerns their day jobs.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 24, 2018

4/ vulnerability and guarantees it will be talked about every day. The key point not being that either party has a monopoly on virtue but that hanging over this election from the start is the universal knowledge that the President is a serial sexual predator and the ...

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 24, 2018

6/ spark a backlash among some male voters. But the way this is moving that will be overwhelmed by those two other factors. And the real gas on the fire - DJT entering vocally into this fight - has not even happened yet.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 24, 2018

The Whisperer speaks:

 

 

Trump is calm, two of the people in touch with him say, and sticking with Kavanaugh. But there is drama between Kavanaugh team and some White House aides, who Kavanaugh team blame for WaPo leak out of their moot session last week.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 24, 2018

This is a harrowing read. I'm calling it: Kavanaugh does not make it to Thursday. As marceline so often says, everything Trump touches dies.

 

 

Grassley releases Professor Ford’s letter https://t.co/WTOvRRIRdE

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 24, 2018

As for levity:

 

Remember when Kavanaugh was "the carpool dad"?

That feels like centuries ago

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) September 23, 2018

My brother just asked how it is that 93% of Kavanaugh’s judicial records can’t be found but he has no problem locating his teenage alibi calendar. 🤔

— Jennifer Mendelsohn 🇺🇸 (@CleverTitleTK) September 23, 2018

Imagine reacting this way pic.twitter.com/KRJ4yqJJeW

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 24, 2018

Four??

 

And I think most of us said there'd be more than one. Did I think more than two would come forward - not necessarily!

 

Incidentally, I am from Kavanaugh and Ford's old stomping grounds and all I'll say is it turns out it's a real small world.

I don't believe he'll last to Ford's scheduled testimony on Thursday. But I've been (very) wrong before. McConnell apparently didn't want Kavanaugh because of skeletons like gambling or his drinking or something - Trump allegedly insisted on him because he felt Kavanaugh prioritized executive protection from prosecution (for Trump).

 

Could they confirm someone in the lame duck session? Maybe. The important thing is we've put up the fight and can continue to do so. This was supposed to be a slam dunk for the GOP.

Uh oh!

 

 

My client is not Deborah Ramirez.

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 23, 2018

Bada bing:

 

 

A new allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh surfaces, this time from his years at Yale. The latest from me and @JaneMayerNYer: https://t.co/o8nTmjw2Vg

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 23, 2018

I look at Avenatti very sideways these days, but if it's true Ronan Farrow is about to drop a story about Kavanaugh, that's curtains.

 

Meanwhile, more levity:

 

 

I would almost pay to read this fictional diary of hard-partying teen bro and his blackout drunk sancho panza who kept a detailed calendar including every time he and his pals on the football team got a few girls to meet them for shots when someones rents were on vacation.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 23, 2018

the dog didn't eat my calendar

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 23, 2018

From the Drudge Report. This has been brewing all day with several rumors going around about a potential story. I won’t share them now.

Two White House sources have confirmed to me that they are aware of a potential story. pic.twitter.com/MhnCTiraxQ

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 23, 2018

Going through my old high school calendars that I wrote parties on and also kept for 36 years. https://t.co/tABkefkXoH

— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) September 23, 2018

5/ 4/12/82 kick-ass party. still pissed about Chris raping all those girls and calling himself "Brett". not cool!

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 23, 2018

Planning my week pic.twitter.com/12CHvhmC6N

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 23, 2018

This.... is hilarious. What next, his merit badges? Sixth grade book report?

 

 

The calendars show he was out of town much of the summer at the beach or with his parents and they detail basketball games, movie outings, football workouts and so forth. A few parties are mentioned but include names of people other than those identified by Blasey Ford.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 23, 2018