Brett Kavanaugh [TEASER]

This is a circus.

The consequences will extend long past my nomination.

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue Projects.

On this week's subscriber-only episode of 5-4, Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael tell the story of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his rise through the ranks of the conservative legal establishment.

As listeners of the show surely remember, Kavanaugh was accused during his confirmation hearings in 2018 of sexually assaulting a young woman during a teenage party.

During those hearings, Kavanaugh presented himself as the victim of a smear campaign.

My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations.

In the end, Kavanaugh was confirmed, and now he's on the court for life.

This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court Court sucks.

Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have left our country bitter and screaming, like a Supreme Court justice accused of sexual misconduct.

Wowie.

I am Peter.

I'm here with Michael.

Hey, everybody.

Henry Annan.

Hello.

Very topical.

Yeah.

That's right.

It's relevant.

It's germane.

I don't often tie in the metaphor, but I was pretty low on ideas this week.

Today we are talking about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his life, his work, his enormous head.

Big toe-looking ass.

We wanted to do a premium Patreon-only episode about Kavanaugh as the second in our series of premium episodes about Supreme Court Justices past and present.

Our very first premium episode was about Anthony and Scalia,

and we are working our way down the list of Catholic galutes

and we have gotten to Brett Kavanaugh.

Now, the question we get the most about Brett Kavanaugh is,

what's going on with this guy?

So we are here to try to answer that question.

I've spent the last week or so deep diving diving into Brett,

and my primary thesis remains unchanged.

Brett Kavanaugh is best described as a guy.

He is one of the more guy-like dudes I've ever seen.

He's smart, but not in a particularly unique or interesting way, more of in like a guy way.

Like he's a smart guy.

Smart guy.

He's sort of the epitome of white and wealthy privilege in a lot of ways.

Like, of course, not every white guy can leverage his position as a white guy into a seat on the Supreme Court.

Right.

But only a rich white guy could lead the life Brett Kavanaugh has lived, right?

Yes.

Just sort of effortlessly drifting higher and higher until he hit society's ceiling, like just a balloon that a child let go in Grand Central Station, you know, and you look up there and there it is.

There's Brett.

That is the definitive quality, in my view, of Brett Kavanaugh.

Yeah, that's well put.

So, you know, I think it makes sense to walk through his life a little bit.

So, Ree, what was a young Brett Kavanaugh like?

Oh, boy.

Yeah, let's dive right in, huh?

So, Brett Michael Kavanaugh, he was born on February 12th.

Brett Michael, yeah.

Born on February 12th, 1965.

This means he is an Aquarius with a cancer moon, by the way.

So, kicking off this episode, right.

We're We're covering all of this.

Nope, this is my part.

This is what it's like to podcast with girls.

Nope, boys, don't interrupt me.

This is my part, okay?

Abolish the lawboy.

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