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Third woman, Julie Swetnick, submits sworn affidavit to judiciary committee alleging sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh. Says she observed Kavanaugh committing sexual assault. Also alleges she was gang-raped at a house party where Kavanaugh was present.

Avenatti’s client Julie Swetnick witnessed Mark Judge and Kavanaugh spike punch to “target” vulnerable girls so they could be “gang raped” in a side room or bedroom by a “train” of numerous boys.








· The lawyer Michael Avenatti on Wednesday identified another accuser of Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, Washington resident Julie Swetnick.

· Swetnick, in an affidavit posted online by Avenatti, claims that Kavanaugh, as a high school student in the early 1980s, with others spiked the drinks of girls at house parties with grain alcohol and/or drugs to "cause girls to lose inhibitions and their ability to say 'No.' "

· Swetnick said these efforts by Kavanaugh and his buddy Mark Judge were done so the girls "could then be 'gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of numerous boys."


 


The Cruz of 2018 is nothing new; this campaign is merely a highly distilled reworking of previous ones. If anything, Cruz doubles down on what we now call Trumpism but what just as well might be called Cruzism: thinly veiled (if veiled at all) dog whistles designed to bring out voters’ worst instincts rather than appealing to their better angels.

This is largely because Cruz does not espouse, nor does he appear to possess, any better angels of his own. What Texas’ junior senator does represent is a disdain not just for government, but for governance itself — a philosophy that now borders on nihilism.

Cruz is the Wizard of Oz, hiding behind a curtain of empty rhetoric and ambition, beckoning voters down a Yellow Brick Road that leads nowhere beyond his own re-election.

What matters to Ted Cruz? Whatever is going to turn out his base on Election Day. His campaign has consistently relied on lowest common denominator tactics.

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In November, Texans should provide Cruz the retirement he so richly deserves and the time to ponder his place in the world.
 
It’s obvious that Kavanaugh will not be confirmed to the Supreme Court. The republican leadership is too fucking stupid to just cut this asshole loose and get a different asshole confirmed. As long as they support Kavanaugh, the self-inflicted political harm will continue.
 
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