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Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins
This is the most disgusting aspect to me. Lying about inside high school dumb jock jokes and drinking and yet somehow we are okay giving him a lifetime appointment. I do not agree with him politically but I would have had so much more respect if he said "Yeah Renate Alumni is exactly what it sounds like. I was a teenager with undeveloped executive functioning and know it was not appropriate to make those statements nor indicative of who I am now." Based on the testimony alone that cannot be corroborated he should get the nomination and in my opinion would have with out lying.
I know as you pointed out the toxicity of Capitol Hill this approach would've been polarizing there, but I have to believe that he would've been appointed and that it had the opportunity to have a galvanizing effect and not have the dividing effect that it will.
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Well said, you might be right. If DC is going to start acting like adults again it has to start somewhere.