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Since you asked:

Brett Kavanaugh implausibly claimed under oath that "boofing" was a reference to farting, but he perjured himself and lied to Congress on live television. So now we have a Supreme Court justice who ingested drugs through his butt hole, and lied about it by falsely claiming under oath that he was only farting.

Brett Kavanaugh’s yearbook: the “boof” joke, explained

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/27/17905818/brett-kavanau...

Brett Kavanaugh’s questionable definitions of “boof” and “Devil’s Triangle,” explained

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/27/17911728/brett-kavanaugh-boof-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJecfRxbr8&ab_channel=Satur...

>The boofing exchange between Kavanaugh and Judge, along with other terms like “Devil’s Triangle” in Kavanaugh’s yearbook entry, bears significance because it presents a specific picture of the men as having spent a lot of their time drinking, partying, and pursuing sexual exploits in high school — a reputation that followed Kavanaugh to Yale.

>This is the reputation that comes into play in the account of Christine Blasey Ford, who also testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday about her allegations that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her, rubbed his genitals against her, tried to remove her clothes, and covered her mouth while she tried to scream for help during the summer of 1982. Ford also alleges that Judge witnessed the incident.

https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1045416955522535425

>David Enrich @davidenrich Sep 27, 2018

>Based on extensive interviews by me and @katekelly with Kavanaugh's former Georgetown Prep classmates, what he just said about the meanings of "boofed" and "Devil's Triangle" is not true.

I don’t think this is as clear fit as you are implying: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brett-kavanaugh-meanin...

In the context of the words written in his yearbook, "Judge, have you boofed yet?", how could it possibly make sense to ask a 16-year-old boy if he has ever farted yet? Why even ask that question? What do you guess the answer is?

Interpreting "boof" as fart in that context makes absolutely no sense. But interpreting "boof" as ingesting drugs or alcohol though the anus is perfectly consistent with his well documented behavior.

Having once been a 16 year old boy, it's not unusual for teenagers to say catchphrases that are nonsensical and/or inside jokes.

You're really going out on a limb and bending over backwards to defend a mendacious alcoholic rapist. Did you actually WATCH his belligerent histrionic performance in which he cried and screamed and threw a tantrum and repeatedly lied under oath to Congress? Or are you completely ignorant of the context, but defending him anyway?

Are you also willing to perform the same outlandish logical gymnastics to argue against the widely known definition of "Devil’s Triangle", too?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Devils%20Tri...

>A threesome with 1 woman and 2 men. It is important to remember that straight men do not make eye contact while in the act. Doing so will question their sexuality. Larry: Did you hear that Eric and Brian were in a Devils Triangle with Sarah last night? Brad: Yeah man, I did, what homo's. Larry: No man, its cool, they didn't make eye contact.

And to argue just as vigorously and confidently that the women who went public to accused him of sexual assault, and subjected themselves to vicious attack and ridicule and death threats, were all lying?

And do you firmly believe it was right for Republicans to refuse to let the FBI investigate the stories and interview witnesses, or to call his friend Mark Judge as a witness to testify under oath, who was present when Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Kirsten Gillibrand, and who could have also addressed who "Bart O'Kavanaugh" he wrote about in his book "Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk" was based on?

https://www.newsweek.com/brett-kavanaugh-refuses-bart-okavan...

>During questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, Kavanaugh did not deny that he was the drunken "Bart O'Kavanaugh" who was said to have vomited and passed out in a car in Judge's book. A heated exchange between Kavanaugh and Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont left the question unanswered, but suggested Kavanaugh believed Judge was referring to him.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180928120612/https://www.gazet...

>Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is blasting Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for failing to call additional witnesses to testify about allegations by Christine Blasey Ford that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. The New York senator said Thursday that it is “an outrage” that Republicans did not force Kavanaugh’s friend Mark Judge to testify under oath. Ford says Judge was present when Kavanaugh attacked her.

So is it your opinion that "boys will be boys", and "(shrug) who hasn't been accused of rape at that age (chuckle)?"

Maybe you're only defending him because you acted the same way at that age, but you weren't nominated for the Supreme Court, and you didn't lie about it under oath in front of Congress.

I think you're putting words in my mouth that I didn't say. All I'm saying is that I wrote dumb shit and inside jokes that don't make sense syntactically in my friends' yearbooks. Don't you dare try to project beliefs about rape culture onto me because of that.

My significant other's family has always referred to farting as a boofer, boof, and boofing, fwiw. Maybe it's regional?

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