Brett Kavanagh - Fun Facts

[Michchamp]

1) he built up between $60K - $200K in credit card debt in 2016, then somehow paid it all off the next year. The White House is saying he spent most of that on Nationals tickets for his friends, some on home improvements. but he paid it all off so quickly because his baseball fan buddies all paid him back for the tickets.

so presumably most of the debt was due to baseball tickets? That's a lot of baseball tickets!

Fiscal conservative!

Kinda like Marco Rubio.

From that same article:

His associates both in the legal sector and beyond describe him as a blue-collar, "Bud Light kind of guy" who enjoys the ballgames, and New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was among the 150 high school classmates who signed a letter in support of him.​

he's just a typical blue collar guy...

Cashman, Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Arizona Cardinals team president Michael Bidwill all attended Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Maryland, together in the mid-1980s.​

Most blue collar guys I know grew up in rich families in DC, attended private prepatory academies, and went to Yale law school.

2) He thinks "net neutrality" is a bad thing, and ISP's have a First Amendment right to exercise editorial control over what websites they'll allow you to visit.

What a "strict textualist!" He really believes in freedom!

I haven't read anything else on Kavanagh yet, but his reasoning in these cases strikes me as incredibly dumb.

 

[Michchamp]

I also spelled his name incorrectly in the thread title, I guess. but I don't care.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I wonder if the credit card thing has something to do with points or cashback stuff.

 

[Michchamp]

I wonder if the credit card thing has something to do with points or cashback stuff.

Oh.

Well, hey everybody can relate to charging $200,000 in baseball tickets for the points.

Blue collar!

 

[Gulo Blue]

An extremely right wing Evangelical I see on facebook is very disappointed in him as a pick because he's a "Jesuit Papist".

 

[Spartanmack]

I also spelled his name incorrectly in the thread title, I guess. but I don't care.

way to stick it to him!

 

[Michchamp]

way to stick it to him!

Well, I also posted about his profligate spending habits, and poor legal
reasoning and writing...

 

[tomdalton22]

I don't know if this is a story or not. Nats tickets are probably really expensive. I just looked & they had a range of $17-$415 per seat and those were just the ones available for next weekends game. Let's say he went to 30 games, bought 4 tickets @415 each. That's $50K right there. As far as the credit card thing goes...I'm pretty sure that's the only way you can buy tickets in advance.

Now, some asshole that called him "blue collar"....that's probably just a poor choice of wording. They described him as a "Bud Light kind of guy". To me, that means he likes his beer and is down to earth....but not "blue collar"

 

[Spartanmack]

Well, I also posted about his profligate spending habits, and poor legal
reasoning and writing...

well, in that case, you really are sticking it to him. Fight the power!

and yeah, I remember you defending Bernie Sanders racking up $80k in credit card debt when that data point (among many others) was used to demonstrate what an idiot he is.

 

[turok]

2) He thinks "net neutrality" is a bad thing, and ISP's have a First Amendment right to exercise editorial control over what websites they'll allow you to visit.

What a "strict textualist!" He really believes in freedom!

Wonder how Kavanaugh feels about how easy it is for tech-savvy kids to bypass parental controls, and visit free porn sites unhindered, especially since the proliferation of smartphones, and parents' understandable reluctance to prevent their children from using what all of their friends and classmates have.

For a party whose rank and file consider themselves to be the "moral majority" and practicing Christians, there are sure as hell a lot of them who have memberships on pay-porn websites, and some who even were caught up in that recent data dump of Ashley Madison memberships.

If ISPs are going to make it difficult, impossible, illegal, and/or expensive to visit sites that are more lightly visited than those which are heavily trafficked, then the internet is going to eventually become dominated by the deep-pocketed, and less attractive to the middle class and the poor. I spent the first 44 years of my life w/o it, and unlike younger people, would not be missing it that much, if I decided to end my subscription b/c I did not want to spend more $$ to visit the sites that I like.

 

[tomdalton22]

For a party whose rank and file consider themselves to be the "moral majority" and practicing Christians, there are sure as hell a lot of them who have memberships on pay-porn websites, and some who even were caught up in that recent data dump of Ashley Madison memberships.

It's funny how you paint the picture of "republicans" being the "moral majority" and "practicing Christians"

Most of my friends would consider themselves "republican" if you asked which party they leaned towards. I think only one would be considered a practicing Christian. I don't know how many of them have memberships to "pay-porn" websites, but I'm going to guess none. The people I know are smart enough to go to one of the free sites if they want to watch porn.

 

[Michchamp]

It's funny how you paint the picture of "republicans" being the "moral majority" and "practicing Christians"

Most of my friends would consider themselves "republican" if you asked which party they leaned towards. I think only one would be considered a practicing Christian. I don't know how many of them have memberships to "pay-porn" websites, but I'm going to guess none. The people I know are smart enough to go to one of the free sites if they want to watch porn.

That's all well, and good, but let's be realistic here: if you did a Venn Diagram of "People Who Identify as Republican" and "People Smart Enough to Not Pay For Internet Porn" the overlap would represent a very, very small segment of the population.

 

[tomdalton22]

That's all well, and good, but let's be realistic here: if you did a Venn Diagram of "People Who Identify as Republican" and "People Smart Enough to Not Pay For Internet Porn" the overlap would represent a very, very small segment of the population.

Maybe my friends are "unicorns"

 

[tinselwolverine]

Maybe he resold the tickets for a profit on Stub Hub.

 

[tinselwolverine]

That's all well, and good, but let's be realistic here: if you did a Venn Diagram of "People Who Identify as Republican" and "People Smart Enough to Not Pay For Internet Porn" the overlap would represent a very, very small segment of the population.

It wouldn't include Trump; apparently he pays for his porn, although he gets the real thing when he pays.