OMG. This is how messed up Brett Kavanaugh and his friends were in high school: they *took a picture of themselves for the yearbook* boasting about having hooked up with Renate Dolphin. *A picture for the yearbook*.
How big of an ass do you have to be? How sick of an individual?
How big of an ass do you have to be? How sick of an individual?
2/ Reading Judge's WASTED right now. He talks about blacking out; mentions "quarters" (the drinking game) repeatedly but never "Devil's Triangle"; talks about hooking up with drunk girls; says he and all his friends made fake IDs, so they could drink whenever they wanted (at 17).
3/ Mark Judge, on how his football-playing crew (which included Kavanaugh) socialized: "After quarters [a drinking game] we would take a nap or pass out, depending on how long the game had lasted. At night we would have a party, go to a party, or visit girls at the other houses."
4/ On "Beach Week": "There were girls in and out [of Judge's and his friends' room] constantly....I had an opportunity to make some headway. Most of the time everyone, including the girls, was drunk. If you could breathe and walk at the same time, you could hook up with someone."
5/ Check out this caption from Kavanaugh's yearbook (if I'm not mistaken, he's in the pic); Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge—the other person Ford alleges assaulted her—was in charge of the captions. They may be talking of underage drinking here, or maybe something else. Who knows.
6/ Kavanaugh said under oath that "FFFFF" was just a way of making fun of Chris Garrett—"Squi"—for stuttering. Here's a picture of "Feg" with some girls, captioned with FFFFF (which in the rest of the world, and I suspect Georgetown Prep too, was a misogynistic sexual reference).
7/ Here's the "FFFFF" reference again, again seemingly unconnected to Garrett ("Squi") and his stuttering, though I've no idea what it *is* in reference to; all we know is that Kavanaugh used it as a sign-off in a letter to his friends about partying with girls during Beach Week.
8/ In fairness, *this* caption supports the prevailing theory out there, which is that the joke—"FFFFF"—had a dual valence, in that Garrett's stutter matched a popular phrase at the time about how to treat women. But I'd say *this* particular reference is indeed about stuttering.
9/ More:
10/ The phrase shows up throughout the yearbook, sometimes on its own (just "F" repeated), *often* in relation to a weekend of partying, once in relation to The Who ("My Generation"). Of all Kavanaugh's perjuries, I'm the most *open* to this one—of the 22 we know of—being benign.
PS/ That said, there's as much support for the idea that the yearbook makes fun of one kid's stutter *fifteen* times (across the whole book)—with no other valence at all—as that there's another valence something along these (well-known in the 1980s) lines:
