Live coverage and analysis from The Washington Post as Senators question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers. Read more: https://wapo.st/2R0m6lJ.
How disgusting is it that this is what Republicans give us.
“Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Hearing”
I hope you f*ckers are proud.
Every republican is a total piece of garbage. Every last one.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
My hands are clammy and my stomach feels like one of those lotto ball machines. I can hardly begin to imagine what Dr. Christine Blasey Ford must be going through.
re: #4 MsJ
Why should she?
She really shouldn’t, considering she knows she’s walking into the lion’s den.
re: #2 Targetpractice
She does not look comfortable being there.
I don’t blame her. She’s not only facing them but the entire world. Every little thing she does will be analyzed. Her life will never be the same after today or after the day she came forth with her allegation.
I get nervous during job interviews. I can’t imagine testifying before Congress about something like what she experienced. Be strong, Christine.
Grassley blathering about both-siderism and “civility.” e_e
re: #9 Interesting Times
Grassley blathering about both-siderism and “civility.” e_e
You should ask your former aide Garrett about that one, Chucky.
I can’t watch it…
1) at work and they likely wouldn’t like me yelling and cussing
2) I’d get anxiety like Interesting Times mentioned
The optics cannot be good for Rs…. but they are craven and I worry about that.
re: #9 Interesting Times
Grassley blathering about both-siderism and “civility.” e_e
And moving into “Feinstein was wrong for respecting this woman’s anonymity!”
Yeah, I’m not watching. I’ll just get updates here.
My blood pressure will go straight through the roof if I watch.
re: #11 CongoJack
I can’t watch it…
1) at work and they likely wouldn’t like me yelling and cussing
2) I’d get anxiety like Interesting Times mentionedThe optics cannot be good for Rs…. but they are craven and I worry about that.
Ditto.
re: #2 Targetpractice
She does not look comfortable being there.
Who would? As almost always when a woman accuses a man of sexual assault, she is the one on trial.
Half expecting the GOP to turn this into “This Is Your Life” and trot Kavanaugh out in the middle of Dr. Ford’s testimony so they can talk it out….
Let’s just ignore that the GOP’s initial response to the allegations, before Dr. Ford came forward was, “IF THESE WERE REAL, SHE’D COME FORWARD!”
Can’t watch it either — rage-o-meter to the max already. Will rely on updates here.
re: #17 Scottish Dragon
Really want to punch Grassley right now.
No shit. Fuck Grassley. Fuck him hard.
Got CL’d while busy creating this post:
Remember the headlines after the tax cut for corporations was passed, touting bonuses being given out? Ask a Trump supporter where on the graph (with dates removed) this would be.
Here is your hint: the last tick mark on the x axis is 2018
Original with dates at epi.org
Shocker, Grassley brings up “testimony” of “witnesses” who are not in the room so as to say they’ve denied being there.
re: #18 Targetpractice
Let’s just ignore that the GOP’s initial response to the allegations, before Dr. Ford came forward was, “IF THESE WERE REAL, SHE’D COME FORWARD!”
Yep, they shamed her first because she didn’t come forward by name. And now that she has, she’s still lying. She can’t fucking win with these pieces of shit.
re: #11 CongoJack
I can’t watch it…
1) at work and they likely wouldn’t like me yelling and cussing
2) I’d get anxiety like Interesting Times mentionedThe optics cannot be good for Rs…. but they are craven and I worry about that.
The mantra from our side needs to be that the GOP lost when they decided they needed a woman, whom they called an assistant, to do their job.
His faux outrage thing is past its’ sell by date.
re: #22 Targetpractice
Shocker, Grassley brings up “testimony” of “witnesses” who are not in the room so as to say they’ve denied being there.
You mean that guy who admitted he was a black out drunk in his youth? Yeah bring Judge out. I’m sure your Democratic colleagues would love to ask him about some of his past comments about women.
The GOP finally found something Joe Biden said that they feel wasn’t a “gaffe” or worthy of derision. Shocking that it’s something that helps them.
re: #27 Scottish Dragon
STFU Grassley
Muted the doddering old asshole. Can’t stand his smug, whiny delivery.
re: #28 Targetpractice
The GOP finally found something Joe Biden said that they feel wasn’t a “gaffe” or worthy of derision. Shocking that it’s something that helps them.
Hasn’t Biden more or less admitted that he mishandled the Hill situation?
Grassley is EXACTLY why Republicans aren’t going to allow their all-male Senate panel to speak
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 27, 2018
The FBI should investigate and establish facts regardless of whether the FBI reaches a conclusion.
Grassley is an ass.
re: #30 HappyWarrior
Hasn’t Biden more or less admitted that he mishandled the Hill situation?
Biden also didn’t stop Bush1 from appointing Kennedy, but that didn’t stop them.
re: #33 Belafon
Biden also didn’t stop Bush1 from appointing Kennedy, but that didn’t stop them.
Reagan appointed Kennedy.
Grassley now lying his ass off, saying the attorneys for the other accusers are “stonewalling” to excuse why there will be no other hearings after today.
80 year old querulous, petulant white guy doesn’t look good on TV. Just saying.
Grassley is so full of shit, and he can’t even read his prepared bullshit comments without stumbling
re: #34 HappyWarrior
Reagan appointed Kennedy.
You’re right. That was still who the Biden rule was for.
re: #38 Belafon
You’re right. That was still who the Biden rule was for.
Yeah. Just wanted to point that out.
Unless you’re a trumpchump or willfully ignorant, disingenuous GOPer hack, I find it impossible to see how you’d fail to realize how much better Feinstein’s comments are than Grassley’s.
re: #41 Interesting Times
Unless you’re a trumpchump or willfully ignorant, disingenuous GOPer hack, I find it impossible to see how you’d fail to realize how much better Feinstein’s comments are than Grassley’s.
The GOP is reduced to banging on the table. They’re just hoping it’s loud enough to hurt everyone’s ears.
This opening statement is a mistake. They can’t help themselves.
— John Weaver (@JWGOP) September 27, 2018
It’s hard to believe anyone watched that and said, “I really have to make sure I get to the polls in November to keep Republicans in power.” https://t.co/jtQGPTAmYk
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 27, 2018
re: #41 Interesting Times
Unless you’re a trumpchump or willfully ignorant, disingenuous GOPer hack, I find it impossible to see how you’d fail to realize how much better Feinstein’s comments are than Grassley’s.
63,000,000 Americans are GOP hacks and Trump worshipers.
A friend just texted me to say she is listening but I responded that I would be throwing a book at the screen if I were forced to listen to anything a Republican says.
So that’s how it feels to watch your neighbor in the apartment next door set fire to the building.
re: #43 MsJ
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I bet Corn never thought he’d see the day where he and John Weaver, a career GOP op were in strong agreement about the GOP.
re: #43 MsJ
Most people aren’t watching it. That’s the beauty of a 10 am meeting.
Grassley must have realized how shitty his opening was because he just became all “aw shucks, please let us know if you need anything”.
re: #22 Targetpractice
Shocker, Grassley brings up “testimony” of “witnesses” who are not in the room so as to say they’ve denied being there.
and later expresses dismay that Feinstein mentioned the two additional women.
*SPIT*
If you’re puzzled, you’re not paying attention.
Since I know you’re paying attention, would you care to rephrase your comment? (Hint: because they needed a woman partisan would would prosecute the witness.)— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
re: #47 Belafon
Most people aren’t watching it. That’s the beauty of a 10 am meeting.
I’m not watching because I know the republicans have already made up their minds to confirm Kavanaugh regardless of her testimony. Just can’t bear to watch this poor woman suffer all over again for nothing.
This is haunting. If you heard Dr Christine Blasey Ford’s voice without seeing her, it sounds like that of a much younger woman…even a teenage girl.
re: #53 Interesting Times
This is haunting. If you heard Dr Christine Blasey Ford’s voice without seeing her, it sounds like that of a much younger woman…even a teenage girl.
And the constant quivering is so disturbing. She sounds like she is going to go into full crying at any moment.
It’s fucking detestable that this woman has to go through this knowing that the entire male republican contingent is against her.
re: #49 MsJ
Grassley must have realized how shitty his opening was because he just became all “aw shucks, please let us know if you need anything”.
DJT really is perfect for this gang.
re: #54 MsJ
And the constant quivering is so disturbing. She sounds like she is going to go into full crying at any moment.
It’s fucking detestable that this woman has to go through this knowing that the entire male republican contingent is against her.
Not just the Senators but nearly the entire rank and file because she threatens their chance at judicial supremacy for a generation. Grassley and Hatch and many of the GOP olds will be long gone if Kavanaugh is confirmed and when we eventually have to fill this seat again but the damage will be done.
I’m having an anxiety attack just listening to her. My God.
And you can be sure every Republican man on the board thinks this is just “theatrics,” that she’s “acting” in order to get sympathy.
Trying so hard not to cry at work while listening to her testimony.
re: #59 Scottish Dragon
I’m having an anxiety attack just listening to her. My God.
I cannot listen - I’m following via Daniel Dale on twitter
Edit: Wasn’t expecting the tweets to show so deleted the link. Easy to find them without a link
re: #60 Targetpractice
And you can be sure every Republican man on the board thinks this is just “theatrics,” that she’s “acting” in order to get sympathy.
Of course
someone asked who is a good twitter to follow for the liveblog of this shit show
Lamda Legal
Just checking in. Thank goodness I have meetings all day. I would probably break down in tears, too.
I am now crying for her. Her voice is breaking my heart. The pain is so apparent.
This is an abomination.
Her testimony fits in with what Avanetti’s client has said that they’d do this to girls and Kav, Judge, and their buddies would take turns. She appears to have been fairly lucky in that she escaped before it could get worse. That by no means is to minimize or try to suggest what she didn’t experience was awful. I really hope MCPD is seriously going to look at this.
I can’t watch this. I already attracted attention on Tuesday for losing my cool and shouting, “shut up, Lisa, just shut up.” I was running a meeting and one of the attendees was telling me who should be on the call. The people in the office asked me yesterday what it was about. “Lisa XXXXXX tried to take over my call.” They understood, just wanted to know I was on mute. Why yes, I was.
re: #53 Interesting Times
When you relive abuse, you can revert to the person you were. This includes, voice mannerisms, etc.
re: #70 plansbandc
When you relive abuse, you can revert to the person you were. This includes, voice mannerisms, etc.
I wouldn’t say I was abused but when I relive some of the more difficult parts of my childhood, I definitely become a little kid again, soft-spoken, timid, and deeply afraid of other people.
I will note that once again Neil Gorsuch was never accused of something like this and neither was Alito or Roberts. I didn’t want either of those three on SCOTUS but I don’t think either of those three has a history of treating women like shit in his personal life.
re: #71 HappyWarrior
I wouldn’t say I was abused but when I relive some of the more difficult parts of my childhood, I definitely become a little kid again, soft-spoken, timid, and deeply afraid of other people.
I know how she feels because I was abused as a kid. I cannot bear to watch or hear this. The scars never completely heal.
re: #73 Joe Bacon 🌹
I know how she feels because I was abused as a kid. I cannot bear to watch or hear this. The scare net completed heal.
I can’t imagine.
re: #73 Joe Bacon 🌹
I can’t watch it either for the same reason. I admire her strength for doing this.
These people are pure evil.
re: #76 plansbandc
I can’t watch it either for the same reason. I admire her strength for doing this.
These people are pure evil.
I’m so sorry that you both, Dr. Ford, and anyone has ever had to experience abuse at such a young age or any age. As I got at, my childhood wasn’t always easy I concede but it was more that the world at that time didn’t understand Autism Spectrum disorders as well as we do now.
If a picture speaks 1,000 words, then here are 1,000 words about why many women feel like this hearing is a sham that is designed to assert male dominance over women pic.twitter.com/sgpyaMsEsw
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) September 27, 2018
re: #78 plansbandc
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He was a Bernie Bro and I still think he doesn’t understand that HRC was either purposefully or not a victim of sexism from the Sanders campaign but he’s right about this.
the conservative movement in one tweet pic.twitter.com/uFHsSm4hLJ
— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) September 27, 2018
These are the worst people on Earth. pic.twitter.com/kHfncbb2BM
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) September 27, 2018
this entire arrangement is so bizarre…
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 27, 2018
Time keeping is so very important.
Just like the 11 hours Hillary testified.
By all means, let’s keep this short.
fucker.
Now Dr. Blasey Ford is being cross-examined by Dolores Umbridge.
Make no mistake about it: Rachel Mitchell is a tool of the death-eaters.#KavanaughHearings #IBelieveChristineBlaseyFord pic.twitter.com/q1DpDXA3RG— WildFeministActivistBitchLivia#BelieveSurvivors (@liviapolise) September 27, 2018
BTW, that was Sen. Cory Booker who brought Dr. Blasey-Ford the cup of coffee.
I have to admit although I supported Obama in 2008 in the primaries and would do it again, I do want to apologize to Clinton and her supporters at that time for dismissing the allegations of sexism made by her and her campaign. I was naive as hell. The past two years have taught me a lot about how much women have to prove in this country.
re: #79 HappyWarrior
He was a Bernie Bro and I still think he doesn’t understand that HRC was either purposefully or not a victim of sexism from the Sanders campaign but he’s right about this.
Sirota is a Sirota-bro, well before Bernie came along. His DK posts were mind-numbing.
re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth
BTW, that was Sen. Cory Booker who brought Dr. Blasey-Ford the cup of coffee.
Booker’s a good man. I thought 6 years ago that he was a little too quick to defend Romney’s work at Bain but I like Cory Booker very much as a person and Senator.
A vile, sick, twisted little parody of a man who doesn’t know when to hold his tongue or drop his pen.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) September 27, 2018
#IstandWithBrett pic.twitter.com/zviUcC6bvb
— GOP (@GOP) September 27, 2018
The RNC’s official twitter account released this video right in the middle of Ford’s opening remarks https://t.co/TAZ0i5IrvY
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) September 27, 2018
of course because 54% of these shitbags support “Brett” even if he did commit sexual assault this party is disgusting https://t.co/G7a9KqAn1f
— darth™ (@darth) September 27, 2018
re: #88 Belafon
Sirota is a Sirota-bro, well before Bernie came along. His DK posts were mind-numbing.
Ahh okay. Thanks.
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Of course you stand with Brett, he’s the ticket to all your disgusting fantasies come true. You wouldn’t dare stand with a woman.
Retired FBI agent (who conducts background checks) just texted me: “She is a good witness.”
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 27, 2018
re: #88 Belafon
Sirota is a Sirota-bro, well before Bernie came along. His DK posts were mind-numbing.
He’s just a contrarian douche nozzle. I speak as a person who endured a few years of his morning radio show here in CO when we had a progressive talk radio station (its now sports or call in therapy shows).
On his show he called Obama a racist, a “black GWB”, and other horrible dumb shit.
Trumpchumps will hate Blasey Ford for using a big word like “norepinephrine” and MSM concern trolls will accuse her of being “elitist” and not taking into account the sensitivites of Real AmericansTM -_-
re: #96 Interesting Times
Trumpchumps will hate Blasey Ford for using a big word like “norepinephrine” and MSM concern trolls will accuse her of being “elitist” and not taking into account the sensitivites of Real AmericansTM -_-
Upding for “Trumpchumps”
re: #95 CongoJack
He’s just a contrarian douche nozzle. I speak as a person who endured a few years of his morning radio show here in CO when we had a progressive talk radio station (its now sports or call in therapy shows).
On his show he called Obama a racist, a “black GWB”, and other horrible dumb shit.
I say this as a white progressive guy but other white progressive guys can be some of the biggest douches out there. I have this memory of Michael Moore telling Obama that he needed to act more like a black guy or some stupid bigoted shit like that.
re: #96 Interesting Times
Trumpchumps will hate Blasey Ford for using a big word like “norepinephrine” and MSM concern trolls will accuse her of being “elitist” and not taking into account the sensitivites of Real AmericansTM -_-
Even though Kavanaugh is pretty much the poster child for elitism. If he were a black kid from Anacostia with his record, he wouldn’t have gone to Yale and he certainly wouldn’t be here today.
Sen Leahy calling for FBI investigation and throwing Grassley’s own words back at him.
re: #99 HappyWarrior
Even though Kavanaugh is pretty much the poster child for elitism. If he were a black kid from Anacostia with his record, he wouldn’t have gone to Yale and he certainly wouldn’t be here today.
He’d be in prison for the attempted rape of a white woman.
Leahy asks how she knew Kavanaugh and Judge, and whether it’s possible she mixed them up with others. She says, “No it is not. And the person that was blamed for the incident is actually the person who introduced me to them originally.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
re: #101 MsJ
He’d be in prison for the attempted rape of a white woman.
Correct. Certainly wouldn’t be the toast of the dipshits at the Federalist Society.We have socio-economic double standards that happen in this society. It’s ugly and it’s amazing how ugly it is given we were supposed to be the society where we are judged by our actions and not the men/women our fathers/mothers were.
And already we’re seeing why the GOP’s strategy isn’t going to work very well: Mitchell is already treating this like she’s cross-examining, treating it like this is happening in a courtroom than a Senate hearing.
Leahy asks what is her most indelible memory.
Blasy-Ford replies: their laughter.
re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth
Leahy asks what is her most indelible memory.
Blasy-Ford replies: their laughter.
I’m sure that causes many a restless night.
re: #22 Targetpractice
Shocker, Grassley brings up “testimony” of “witnesses” who are not in the room so as to say they’ve denied being there.
And by “witnesses” you mean “accomplices” and/or “co-conspirators”.
Of course they denied being there.
#ThursdayThoughts lets have a solace thread bc today is gonna be rough. Share or just enjoy cute animals! tea stuff! landscapes! #BongoCat! whatever — bring it and blanketfort from the terrible for a bit. ☕️💙 pic.twitter.com/QqaVdOe45q
— Eagle Fandom BNF (@trenchologist) September 27, 2018
“How do you KNOW there was a conversation?” —Mitchell
jfc
re: #104 Targetpractice
And already we’re seeing why the GOP’s strategy isn’t going to work very well: Mitchell is already treating this like she’s cross-examining, treating it like this is happening in a courtroom than a Senate hearing.
I wonder if she’ll cross-examine Brett.
Rhetorical question.
re: #99 HappyWarrior
Black kid from Anacostia would either be on his 2nd or third jail term, be lucky to get into whatever the local University was, and certainly not in a position to get on the Supreme Court. That would be true even with a POC victim. Maybe less time, but a record is a record. He’d also he registered as a sex offender.
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
“How do you KNOW there was a conversation?” —Mitchell
jfc
Like I said, she’s not questioning, she’s prosecuting.
re: #112 CarolJ
Black kid from Anacostia would either be on his 2nd or third jail term, be lucky to get into whatever the local University was, and certainly not in a position to get on the Supreme Court.
Precisely.
Were the birds chirping outside? Do you know what species they were by their calls?
Did you hear their colors??? JFC…
The look Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers gave each other when Grassley’s lawyers said this hearing was scheduled “in close consultation” with them: pic.twitter.com/lM77qqky1T
— Peter Stevenson (@PeterWStevenson) September 27, 2018
re: #111 Sir John Barron
I wonder if she’ll cross-examine Brett.
Rhetorical question.
Judge Kavanaugh, why are you the most wonderful person ever nominated to SCOTUS? // I exaggerate but there’s no way she’s going to be as hostile with im as she is with her.
re: #115 Dave In Austin
Were the birds chirping outside? Do you know what species they were by their calls?
Did you hear their colors??? JFC…
Not actual questions, right?
Hell, I think most of them support him BECAUSE they think he’s guilty.
— jay (@random__name) September 27, 2018
I can’t bring myself to watch this spectacle.
How bad is it on a scale of 1 to 10? ….10 being an offspring of Palin and Donnie
I studied traumatized women for 5 years under an NIH grant and I’m telling you she is 100% credible.
— Esther Choo, MD MPH (@choo_ek) September 27, 2018
We are watching Dr. Ford’s testimony in Senator Ted Cruz’s office to make sure his staff is watching it, too.
Dr. Ford’s stunning bravery needs to be heard by all. She is risking everything to save our democracy. #BelieveSurvivors #BelieveChristine pic.twitter.com/oD9UCpngls— Ady Barkan🔥🌹 (@AdyBarkan) September 27, 2018
#KavanaughHearings pic.twitter.com/gv54DUvnuV
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) September 27, 2018
re: #113 Targetpractice
Like I said, she’s not questioning, she’s prosecuting.
She is being careful so far and I would honestly expect that. Details are important and she has been respectful.
re: #121 Dr. Matt
I’m not watching…but I’m pretty sure we’re at 11+ just with the opening statements.
re: #127 Sufficient unto the day…
I’m not watching…but I’m pretty sure we’re at 11+ just with the opening statements.
Ugh.
“Persons painted him as a champion of women’s rights and empowerment and I believed if I came forward, my single voice would be drowned out by a chorus of powerful supporters,” Dr. Blasey Ford says of Kavanaugh. https://t.co/hib1LKoWh8 pic.twitter.com/hCzRSuCmpi
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 27, 2018
re: #127 Sufficient unto the day…
I’m not watching…but I’m pretty sure we’re at 11+ just with the opening statements.
Grassley dropped a giant turd in the punchbowl.
Thus far, I do not have a problem with the questions being asked. It’s a little weird, this whole thing, but I think they are trying to get to what happened and I do not see it as being handled improperly.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
re: #120 Sufficient unto the day…
The world’s changed, and Kavanaugh is being held to account for things they used to get away with, and that has them worried/angry. And I’m sorry they no longer fit in it, but the world will be a better place because of it.
re: #130 Scottish Dragon
Grassley dropped a giant turd in the punchbowl.
He had to make sure he dropped it in first before people got distracted and he missed his chance.
If a picture speaks 1,000 words, then here are 1,000 words about why many women feel like this hearing is a sham that is designed to assert male dominance over women pic.twitter.com/sgpyaMsEsw
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) September 27, 2018
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She’s right. And that’s why Me Too has been so important. It shows us behind the masks that powerful men often wear.
re: #131 MsJ
Do we know if these are questions from the GOP senators or if they are her questions?
Chuck Grassley Cranks Up Music In Senate Chamber To Drown Out Ford’s Testimony https://t.co/bPkWC7eeLe pic.twitter.com/muVC74tLmg
— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 27, 2018
re: #132 Belafon
The world’s changed, and Kavanaugh is being held to account for things they used to get away with, and that has them worried/angry. And I’m sorry they no longer fit in it, but the world will be a better place because of it.
That’s what has driven them the past decade or maybe even longer.
re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter
I’m going to assume they’re hers, otherwise they’d be much more disgusting.
re: #121 Dr. Matt
I can’t bring myself to watch this spectacle.
How bad is it on a scale of 1 to 10? ….10 being an offspring of Palin and Donnie
Only about a 7 — but it will get worse.
re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter
Do we know if these are questions from the GOP senators or if they are her questions?
I doubt it…i would think they told her what they wanted to accomplish and let her have at it.
Nice touch, chuck. Before break “you should have told us sooner so we could have investigated”
Fuck you, Republicans. Fuck every last one of you.
re: #143 MsJ
I doubt it…i would think they told her what they wanted to accomplish and let her have at it.
Nice touch, chuck. Before break “you should have told us sooner so we could have investigated”
Fuck you, Republicans. Fuck every last one of you.
And if she had told you assholes sooner, you’d find some other excuse to protect your beloved Blackout Brett.
Mitchell is apparently looking for irrelevant details to impugn Ford’s credibility and it is not working. and she looks like an ass
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) September 27, 2018
I got into watching only a bit ago, but from what I have seen I think Professor Ford is doing very well.
What really looks bad is Grassley having to say the name of the GOP committee member who is asking the next round of questions and then they need to be asked by their stand in Rachel Mitchell.
That is a pure admittance of not being able to represent women at all. Why would women vote for these guys knowing that?
re: #143 MsJ
I doubt it…i would think they told her what they wanted to accomplish and let her have at it.
Nice touch, chuck. Before break “you should have told us sooner so we could have investigated”
Fuck you, Republicans. Fuck every last one of you.
“You should have told us sooner so we could have ignored you for longer.”
Thus far, I do not have a problem with the questions being asked. It’s a little weird, this whole thing, but I think they are trying to get to what happened and I do not see it as being handled improperly.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
Of course. Republicans have their agenda.
But, as I see it thus far, she is getting details of what happened and, IMHO, the prosecutor is not overstepping - and she is not accomplishing what the Republicans obviously want her to. She is making Ford that much more credible.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
He knows the front left tire is my favourite… https://t.co/NszCiGbqi6
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) September 27, 2018
The two women on MSNBC are fucking furious. I mean really fucking furious.
re: #145 Scottish Dragon
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And that’s really what I was getting at: She may be following the prosecutor’s handbook to the letter, but it comes off as confrontational and dispassionate. Works great if you want to say that this matter is being treated like a criminal trial, not so much if you’re trying to avoid optics of uncaring men trying to pressure a vulnerable woman into recanting in order to protect one of their own.
The testimony we are about to hear from Brett Kavanaugh will lead to his impeachment and removal from either his seat on the Supreme Court or from the Court of Appeals.
Watching this federal prosecutor on MSNBC as she opens a can of righteous rage is fucking cathartic.
Who does Grassley think he is??!!
re: #148 Hecuba’s daughter
What was Grassley upset about?
claiming that the Democrats deliberately withheld the accusations until the last minute
re: #147 ObserverArt
I got into watching only a bit ago, but from what I have seen I think Professor Ford is doing very well.
What really looks bad is Grassley having to say the name of the GOP committee member who is asking the next round of questions and then they need to be asked by their stand in Rachel Mitchell.
That is a pure admittance of not being able to represent women at all. Why would women vote for these guys knowing that?
That would make a great ad: “Notice that the GOP is admitting they don’t represent half the population. If they won’t do it here, do you think they are concerned about you at any other time?”
re: #147 ObserverArt
I got into watching only a bit ago, but from what I have seen I think Professor Ford is doing very well.
What really looks bad is Grassley having to say the name of the GOP committee member who is asking the next round of questions and then they need to be asked by their stand in Rachel Mitchell.
That is a pure admittance of not being able to represent women at all. Why would women vote for these guys knowing that?
Are any of these losers up for reelection? This could make for some interesting campaign commercials.
re: #154 Targetpractice
And that’s really what I was getting at: She may be following the prosecutor’s handbook to the letter, but it comes off as confrontational and dispassionate. Works great if you want to say that this matter is being treated like a criminal trial, not so much if you’re trying to avoid optics of uncaring men trying to pressure a vulnerable woman into recanting in order to protect one of their own.
To be completely honest, this woman prosecutor is doing the republicans absolutely no favors. This is not going how they hoped it would.
re: #150 MsJ
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I agree. I don’t think the prosecutor has overstepped…but so far she has only bolstered Prof Ford.
The heart of Rome is the sand of the Coliseum.
— Smirnoff_Sprite (@smirnoff_sprite) September 27, 2018
re: #155 S’latch
The testimony we are about to hear from Brett Kavanaugh will lead to his impeachment and removal from either his seat on the Supreme Court or from the Court of Appeals.
I’m hoping possible disbarment too.
I hope the “persecutor” will ask the same minutiae of details to Rapey Kavanaugh.
re: #160 MsJ
To be completely honest, this woman prosecutor is doing the republicans absolutely no favors. This is not going how they hoped it would.
Because the GOP needs table pounding, not facts. Facts don’t help them.
re: #161 Scottish Dragon
I agree. I don’t think the prosecutor has overstepped…but so far she has only bolstered Prof Ford.
Not sure she had any other choice; this was the least worst approach given the lack of prep time, the lack of familiarity with case and the overall, general half-assed approach of the Republican politicians.
re: #155 S’latch
The testimony we are about to hear from Brett Kavanaugh will lead to his impeachment and removal from either his seat on the Supreme Court or from the Court of Appeals.
If the Dems regain the majority I’m writing my Congressman (Brad Sherman) to push for it.
CNN panel pointing out the bleedin’ obvious: The format does not work at all. Five minutes of Mitchell dispassionately trying to build up a case to discredit Dr. Ford, then going to Leahy and Durbin who personally address her and ask her emotionally charged questions.
I kind of wonder if Grassley and the others will suddenly find their voice when Kavanaugh is up there, and therefore won’t need their “assistant”.
re: #169 Belafon
I kind of wonder if Grassley and the others will suddenly find their voice when Kavanaugh is up there, and therefore won’t need their “assistant”.
I bet they’re going to try to get him to talk about the work that made them think he was a great guy in the first place.
well well well
Source close to Trump says so far they’re not sure this prosecutor is being as effective as they hoped - everyone watching very closely
— John Santucci (@Santucci) September 27, 2018
CNN’s John King reads a message from an unnamed Republican close to the leadership, who says the first segment of the hearing was “awful for Kavanaugh” and that their sense is that this is “slipping away.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
Let’s all hope.
re: #168 Targetpractice
CNN panel pointing out the bleedin’ obvious: The format does not work at all. Five minutes of Mitchell dispassionately trying to build up a case to discredit Dr. Ford, then going to Leahy and Durbin who personally address her and ask her emotionally charged questions.
It really does speak to how you grow as you get older. Leahy isn’t that much younger than Grassley and yet isn’t a douche.
re: #166 gwangung
Not sure she had any other choice; this was the least worst approach given the lack of prep time, the lack of familiarity with case and the overall, general half-assed approach of the Republican politicians.
On the other hand, respectful questioning spares the GOP olds from embarrassing themselves—except of course Grassley did that anyway with his whiny opening statement.
re: #171 Scottish Dragon
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Figures. When their strategy goes south, they’re going to blame the woman.
It’s what they do, after all.
In retrospect, based on all available evidence, why would we expect the GOP to be competent at anything?
They couldn’t manage a lemonade stand, I bet.
re: #160 MsJ
To be completely honest, this woman prosecutor is doing the republicans absolutely no favors. This is not going how they hoped it would.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Rachel Mitchell has grown sympathetic and is softening the questions and actually helping Professor Ford?
What could the GOP 11 Cavemen do? They would be helpless. Who knows, maybe they are chewing her out for not being tougher during the break.
Great point on MSNBC by Cynthia Alksne: It’s completely infuriating that Ford is being put through this while Mark Judge is hanging out at the beach in Delaware
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) September 27, 2018
re: #177 ObserverArt
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Rachel Mitchell has grown sympathetic and is softening the questions and actually helping Professor Ford?
What could the GOP 11 Cavemen do? They would be helpless. Who knows, maybe they are chewing her out for not being tougher during the break.
A prosecutor brings a very specific skillset. The problem is that, no matter how hard they try, Ford is not on trial. Kavanaugh’s not on trial.
re: #171 Scottish Dragon
well well well
Grassley announces new special counselor to question the first special prosecutor I mean questioner they hired.
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Harwood’s Twitter is also pretty good, for those looking for another view. I’m bouncing back and forth between Daniel Dale and Harwood.
Grassley lashing out at Durbin. That’s the look he wants to go with after that testimony, eh?
— Sara Murray (@SaraMurray) September 27, 2018
might be anger at realization that the votes aren’t going to be there https://t.co/eAC86Dmzss
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 27, 2018
What we now know about Judge Kavanaugh based upon the credible testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, in fact what we have suspected all along based on Judge Kavanaugh’s judicial record, is that Judge Kavanaugh is a heartless bastard who laughs behind closed doors at the misery he inflicts upon others.
OK, I tried, I made it through like 2 minutes before I had to mute it for my safety.
And for the safety of others.
I just made pie crust dough. Haven’t decided on cherry or blueberry filling.
re: #175 makeitstop
Figures. When their strategy goes south, they’re going to blame the woman.
It’s what they do, after all.
The assistant they hired.
They get all the best people.
This GOP must be retired - permanently. They are doing incalculable damage to the nation, and they’re intent to gut rights and roll back Roe, Griswold, etc., all to further tax breaks for millionaires while keep their know nothing base in check/riled up with misdirections.
GOP couldn’t find a female GOP Senator to do the questioning, so they decided to find a female standin.
Turns out that Dr. Ford is far more credible than any GOPer thought possible (not a very hard bar to overcome). So yeah, it should end the Kavanaugh nomination today - but this GOP is craven enough to ignore it and push ahead anyways.
After all, this is the GOP that elected a self-admitted sex predator to the WH.
BIG MISTAKE
It’s early in the #KavanaughFord hearings, but it’s safe to say that hiring a woman prosecutor to interrogate #DrChristineBlaseyFord is backfiring on the GOP.
1. She hasn’t made a dent.
2. She can’t get a flow going.
3. Republican senators look like abject cowards.— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) September 27, 2018
re: #168 Targetpractice
CNN panel pointing out the bleedin’ obvious: The format does not work at all. Five minutes of Mitchell dispassionately trying to build up a case to discredit Dr. Ford, then going to Leahy and Durbin who personally address her and ask her emotionally charged questions.
The optics would have been even worse for them if you had the all white male GOP senators asking questions with the sneer in their demeanor. I had expressed concern before about how Mitchell’s inquisition would be effective; I didn’t realize how the Democratic questions would interfere with her mandate.
re: #173 HappyWarrior
It really does speak to how you grow as you get older. Leahy isn’t that much younger than Grassley and yet isn’t a douche.
It’s the GOP water.
Do not drink the GOP water!!!
Looks like they may have miscalculated here…
Almost every person close to Trump who had told me having a sex crimes prosecutor question Ford was good strategy is saying they think it was a mistake after the first portion of the hearing.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 27, 2018
Not able to watch, thanks to all for a trusted running commentary.
re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter
The optics would have been even worse for them if you had the all white male GOP senators asking questions with the sneer in their demeanor. I had expressed concern before about how Mitchell’s inquisition would be effective; I didn’t realize how the Democratic questions would interfere with her mandate.
Also a problem that she isn’t a defense attorney and he normal inclination isn’t to take apart sex crime survivors.
re: #177 ObserverArt
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Rachel Mitchell has grown sympathetic and is softening the questions and actually helping Professor Ford?
What could the GOP 11 Cavemen do? They would be helpless. Who knows, maybe they are chewing her out for not being tougher during the break.
We have a long way to go but I highly doubt that. This is a Sheriff Joe prosecutor.
re: #190 b.d.(true to form)
Not able to watch, thanks to all for a trusted running commentary.
Yeah I can’t watch either since I’m on call for work and don’t want to be visibly upset on call with my boss, a client, or anyone else.
Watching THE HADMAID’S TALE would have told the Reps that in a scene where aunt Lydia questions Offred, the public’s sympathy always goes to Offred. They’re really stupid.
re: #189 makeitstop
Looks like they may have miscalculated here…
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The miscalculation was that they thought a hearing would somehow benefit them.
It’s exposing what we’ve already identified - Dr. Ford is credible; Kavanaugh is a liar and the misogynistic GOP is being revealed for the craven cowards whose only thought is to ram through this confirmation ASAP before anyone realizes the damage being done.
Next question: Given that the hearing isn’t going well, does Trump get on the horn and demand that Grassley remove Mitchell and let the menfolk go after Ford?
It could happen…
Kamala Harris noting that once again Mitchell is using and referring to documents (maps) that have not been provided to the committee members.
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
I just made pie crust dough. Haven’t decided on cherry or blueberry filling.
Blueberry.
Because we’re anti-red today, and pro-blue.
Don’t worry - the GOPers on that committee panel who realized the optics of this sucks will still find a way to vote to confirm him out of the committee to the full Senate, where they’ll rubber stamp a sex predator to the Supreme Court just as easily as they voted one into the WH
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 27, 2018
re: #196 lawhawk
The miscalculation was that they thought a hearing would somehow benefit them.
Pretty much.
They have a losing hand here and they don’t realize it.
re: #196 lawhawk
The miscalculation was that they thought a hearing would somehow benefit them.
It’s exposing what we’ve already identified - Dr. Ford is credible; Kavanaugh is a liar and the misogynistic GOP is being revealed for the craven cowards whose only thought is to ram through this confirmation ASAP before anyone realizes the damage being done.
They didn’t originally want it for a reason. They realized they couldn’t get away without doing one, and so they thought they could cower Ford and yet somehow come out looking good, and even the cowering is falling apart.
re: #201 gwangung
Pretty much.
They have a losing hand here and they don’t realize it.
Oh I think they do realize it.
re: #185 lawhawk
……
Turns out that Dr. Ford is far more credible than any GOPer thought possible (not a very hard bar to overcome). So yeah, it should end the Kavanaugh nomination today - but this GOP is craven enough to ignore it and push ahead anyways.
After all, this is the GOP that elected a self-admitted sex predator to the WH.
The GOP did not elect a sex predator to the WH; it was the American voters, courtesy of the Electoral College, who accomplished that goal.
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kamala Harris noting that once again Mitchell is using and referring to documents (maps) that have not been provided to the committee members.
Maps?
re: #205 BigPapa
Can’t wait for Kamala to have her time.
I look forward to Kamala grilling Kavanaugh since she’s around his age. Someone that did not get everything handed to them like Kavanaugh did.
initial reaction to hearing so far: it’s now riskier for some red-state Rs to vote for Kavanaugh than it is for red-state Ds to vote against him
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 27, 2018
re: #206 Sir John Barron
Maps?
Maps of where the incident took place in conjunction to where she lived at the time.
Aiut Lydia should know not to ask questions she doesn’t already have the answer to; as a result, it’s back to Judge, and check.
re: #208 makeitstop
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Time for Heidi in North Dakota to go on the offensive against Kevin “Rape shouldn’t disqualify you from SCOTUS” Cramer. And from what I see, Manchin has a sizable lead where he could easily declare opposition to Kavanaugh and not be hurt.
re: #189 makeitstop
Looks like they may have miscalculated here…
I would normally think a sex crimes prosecutor would be an ideal person to question…someone accused of sex crimes, not the alleged victim or victim of a sex crime.
But what do I know?
re: #206 Sir John Barron
Maps?
maps showing location of her parents’ home in relation to the party house and somehow trying to tie it into how she got home since she didn’t drive herself.
Now I don’t get Aunt Lydia’s tack at all in re the notes… She has nothing?
What’s wrong with this picture???? #comeonfoxnews pic.twitter.com/p9X4oRjlZy
— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) September 27, 2018
From Debbie Ramirez: “Thinking of you today, Christine. They want us to feel alone and isolated but I’m there wrapping my arms around you and I hope you feel the people of this nation wrapping their arms around all of us. Holding you up in spirit.”
— John Clune (@CluneEsq) September 27, 2018
Courtesy of Fark:
Chuck Grassley questions Ford’s polygraph results because in his day, you just dunked a woman to see if she floated or not
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
Picture is perfect: they look exactly like the GOP senators on the judiciary committee.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well what do you expect, FNC is a place for men where the women that do exist and succeed there are there to repeat talking points made by men.
I get it now, the contradiction re dates. But the dates bring the issue back squarely to Judge and that’s a bad for the GOP.
Here’s how good #RachelMitchell is at pursuing sex criminals and protecting victims of sexual assault:
When a Jehovah’s Witness elder confessed to sexually abusing a teenage boy on multiple occassions, #RachelMitchell gave him a plea deal so he spent a whole 6 months in jail. pic.twitter.com/WZvrOOS4Ky— Ryan Adams 🌊 (@filmystic) September 27, 2018
re: #219 HappyWarrior
Well what do you expect, FNC is a place for men where the women that do exist and succeed there are there to repeat talking points made by men.
And show a little leg.
/
re: #221 Tyrion
And show their legs.
Yep. The old bastards that FNC like it more when a woman they lust after tells them what they want to hear. It’s porn for people who tell themselves that they don’t look at real porn.
Grassley just cannot fucking help himself.
Grassley really should shut his mouth.
Oh, wait…please proceed Senator.
re: #222 Scottish Dragon
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All the while the RCCC is attacking my Congressional candidate for vague plea deals.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
Same as on MJ this am.
But yesterday, although not my favorite pundit, Chris Hayes had 1 guy and about 6 women on his show to discuss. Sometimes people get it right.
It will be a stark contrast. Maybe he’ll admit to one time, at Beach Week, having THREE beers. https://t.co/abKdRnedVJ
— Don Millard (@OTOOLEFAN) September 27, 2018
re: #69 mmmirele
I can’t watch this. I already attracted attention on Tuesday for losing my cool and shouting, “shut up, Lisa, just shut up.” I was running a meeting and one of the attendees was telling me who should be on the call. The people in the office asked me yesterday what it was about. “Lisa XXXXXX tried to take over my call.” They understood, just wanted to know I was on mute. Why yes, I was.
oh god, i love the large phone conferences! We haven’t had one in a long time, but it’s always fun when someone forgets to mute the phone, and we discover that people are multitasking by washing dishes, playing with the dog, having really loud sex, etc.
The Republican strategy here is catastrophic for them. A prosecutor trying to prosecute the victim, but interrupted every five minutes. It is both ineffective and having the exact opposite effect of what they wanted. Grassley? Oy.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) September 27, 2018
Correct. Will it matter in McConnellville??? https://t.co/91koAnsPW0
— Dick Meyer (@DickMeyer_DC) September 27, 2018
This makes a push to a vote on Kavanaugh a disaster. It is hard for me to imagine Kavanaugh testimony making a difference. How could Flake, Collins, Murkowski vote for him without more investigation, including Judge? McConnell’s best hope-Pull the plug now and get Barrett up ASAP https://t.co/eGUbeBzKVE
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) September 27, 2018
re: #189 makeitstop
Looks like they may have miscalculated here…
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Another fine production by the GOP.
You can tell these fools have no idea how any of this works.
Oh look…Grassley is shutting up another woman…Senator Klobachur.
The old fart has no feel for this and how it looks.
re: #232 makeitstop
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I think it will be Barrett because the GOP loves trying to accuse the Dems of what they are. They will accuse Barrett’s critics of sexism and religious intolerance. Bank on it.
Summing up so far:
Mitchell asks a question.
Ford: Judge has the answer.
Mitchell: …
Dem: Why is Judge not here?
Rep: …
I know this is not a court of law, but this is not going well for them.
The Good Ol’ Boys club is getting angry that their naked partisanship is being called attention to again and again.
re: #236 Lupin
Summing up so far:
Mitchell asks a question.
Ford: Judge has the answer.
Mitchell: …
Dem: Why is Judge not here?
Rep: …I know this is not a court of law, but this is not going well for them.
Rep: Stop mentioning Judge, he’s irrelevant, just tell the truth…
Also Rep: how come you don’t have any proof or witnesses who can back up your story?
re: #239 makeitstop
I believe Amy Barrett, another Heritage Foundation Top Pick.
Yes. en.wikipedia.org
She also hasn’t even been a federal judge for a year. Former Scalia clerk. She’s also taught at GW and Notre Dame.
I cannot begin to guess at what Kavanaugh could do during his own testimony that would override what we’re seeing here.
They’re prosecuting a victim. Cross-examining a survivor. Last time I checked she wasn’t the one asking our country for a job promotion.
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) September 27, 2018
re: #234 MsJ
Who is Barrett?
Amy Coney Barrett.
The woman on that Federalist Society list. She’s 46 years old, super-religious (a fringey right-wing sect of Catholicism). Her professional record is spotless, her personal life (aside from the weird religion) has no accusations of any kind.
re: #242 Targetpractice
I cannot begin to guess at what Kavanaugh could do during his own testimony that would override what we’re seeing here.
Bringing a keg on the floor and asking the Republican Senators to party with him after they confirm him.
This is embarrassing.
Unsolicited text from a GOP source:
‘There’s no way we can go forward with this nomination hearing this account. It’s brutal.’— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiPrzybyla) September 27, 2018
writing is on the wall in huge block letters. big question is the choreography https://t.co/ED8AsN7nmo
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 27, 2018
re: #245 sagehen
Amy Coney Barrett.
The woman on that Federalist Society list. She’s 46 years old, super-religious (a fringey right-wing sect of Catholicism). Her professional record is spotless, her personal life (aside from the weird religion) has no accusations of any kind.
Yeah she’s just an extremist.
Mitchell trying to make a big deal about Blasey-Ford’s fear of flying
re: #242 Targetpractice
I cannot begin to guess at what Kavanaugh could do during his own testimony that would override what we’re seeing here.
“Can you tell us great our MAGA POTUS is and how so much vetted you were the most vetted of any SCOTUS candidate?”
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mitchell trying to make a big deal about Blasey-Ford’s fear of flying
What does that have to do with anything?
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mitchell trying to make a big deal about Blasey-Ford’s fear of flying
Yet another unforced error.
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mitchell trying to make a big deal about Blasey-Ford’s fear of flying
Basically trying to show that her fear of flying is fabricated.
Amy Klobucher prefacing her comments with the fact of her own experience as a prosecutor in sex crimes
re: #245 sagehen
Amy Coney Barrett.
The woman on that Federalist Society list. She’s 46 years old, super-religious (a fringey right-wing sect of Catholicism). Her professional record is spotless, her personal life (aside from the weird religion) has no accusations of any kind.
How right-wing are we talking? Knights Templar-like?
Grassley just reminds me of Slugworth from Willie Wonka.
Ford is crushing this, and the fact that the republicans don’t have the huevos to ask her questions themselves only hurts them more.
re: #204 Hecuba’s daughter
The GOP did not elect a sex predator to the WH; it was the American voters, courtesy of the Electoral College, who accomplished that goal.
Well, since Trump mowed down the 15(?) other candidates and the party endorsed him and backed him…the GOP certainly elected the Orange Mess.
And they have backed him and protected him.
For sure they own him and all that comes with him.
re: #253 Targetpractice
Basically trying to show that her fear of flying is fabricated.
But that was about getting her to testify which she’s doing.
Almost time now to bring up that discredited doppleganger theory…..
re: #235 HappyWarrior
I think it will be Barrett because the GOP loves trying to accuse the Dems of what they are. They will accuse Barrett’s critics of sexism and religious intolerance. Bank on it.
When that all male panel of Democrats on the Judiciary asks her questions…
re: #258 Sir John Barron
But that was about getting her to testify which she’s doing.
Almost time now to bring up that discredited doppleganger theory…..
I think Ford already dispatched with that one by telling the committee that the guy they said was the doppelganger was actually the person who introduced her to Kavanaugh.
Mitchell woefully unprepared. Or inadequately briefed by aides.
Second bad mark.
re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
Picture is perfect: they look exactly like the GOP senators on the judiciary committee.
As in No Women.
re: #255 electrotek
How right-wing are we talking? Knights Templar-like?
If memory serves, the women have to confess their sins. My problem with her qualification aside would be that she’ll be unable to separate her Catholic views from secular law:
Barrett is a practicing Roman Catholic.[13] The New York Times reported that Barrett was a member of a small, tightly knit Charismatic Christian group called People of Praise.[13] Barrett is affiliated with Faculty for Life, a pro-life group at the University of Notre Dame. In 2015, Barrett signed a joint letter to Catholic bishops which affirmed the Church’s teachings including “the value of human life from conception to natural death,” and that family and marriage are “founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman
Tim Kaine actually voted for her confirmation. I don’t get that. I know he shares her Catholicism but her views to me reflect that she’s unable to separate them. There is this however: At an event in 2013 that reflected on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, she described the decision—in the paraphrase by Notre Dame Magazine—as “creating through judicial fiat a framework of abortion on demand”.[35][36] She also remarked that it was “very unlikely” the court will overturn the core aspect of Roe v. Wade: “The fundamental element, that the woman has a right to choose abortion, will probably stand. The controversy right now is about funding. It’s a question of whether abortions will be publicly or privately funded.”[37][38]
re: #259 Belafon
When that all male panel of Democrats on the Judiciary asks her questions…
The fact that Obama’s main challenger in 2008 was a woman didn’t stop the GOP from calling Democratic critics of Palin sexist.
Oh damn. What is it you can’t forget about that night…..
re: #255 electrotek
How right-wing are we talking? Knights Templar-like?
Sort of, yeah. “People of Praise.” The women in the group used to call themselves Handmaidens (until a recent TV show made that a little embarrassing; they changed the name). Members of the group try to live near each other so they can keep an eye on each other, etc.
re: #261 Lupin
Mitchell woefully unprepared. Or inadequately briefed by aides.
Second bad mark.
Well she was just brought in. They’ll blame her when the optics look bad on them.
re: #258 Sir John Barron
But that was about getting her to testify which she’s doing.
Almost time now to bring up that discredited doppleganger theory…..
Goes back to her credibility. Her fear of flying stems from the attempted rape and being locked in a room without a means of escape.
Grassley again getting indignant and “correcting the record.”
Okay, this got a giggle out of me.
Fear of flying? Mom!
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 27, 2018
(Molly’s mom Erica wrote Fear of Flying.)
re: #264 HappyWarrior
The fact that Obama’s main challenger in 2008 was a woman didn’t stop the GOP from calling Democratic critics of Palin sexist.
Yep, but she wasn’t in front of a panel like Ford right now. It’s easy to call others something when they don’t have a way to demonstrate otherwise.
Ha-ha! Now it’s No investigation of Judge + No investigation re therapy,
If you think Ford is lying, it must be frustrating to be that much hampered in trying to prove it/expose her.
If I was a Fox viewer, I’d be mad at the Republicans.
Dismal performance.
Packing up now.
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”
Pretty much the questioning from the Republican senators to Christine Blasey Ford. SMH
Grassley has lost total control to Klobucher
re: #268 Targetpractice
Goes back to her credibility. Her fear of flying stems from the attempted rape and being locked in a room without a means of escape.
Read a book once… Little Bee… I think was the name. It was horrible. A refugee from Nigeria in Brittan and how she always feared men coming to take her away etc. Every room she entered she thought 3 things:
1) where is the second exit
2) where is a weapon
3) how can I kill myself before the men get me
That book haunts me… and it was fiction (I believe)… but its stuck with me.
re: #229 fern01
Same as on MJ this am.
But yesterday, although not my favorite pundit, Chris Hayes had 1 guy and about 6 women on his show to discuss. Sometimes people get it right.
I have NBC on and they have Savannah Guthrie, Andrea Mitchell and …Megyn Kelly.
But so far from what I can tell, Kelly is being fair. She agrees this looks bad for the GOP. She also says the GOP is pushing hard so there is a chance this isn’t doing much to change minds.
re: #273 DodgerFan1988
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”
Pretty much the questioning from the Republican senators to Christine Blasey Ford. SMH
Show us on the doll where George Soros gave you a scholarship!
re: #270 makeitstop
Okay, this got a giggle out of me.
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(Molly’s mom Erica wrote Fear of Flying.)
I did not know that!
(I tried to read it) but (the way it was written) was really so (not great, constant parens) made it unreadable (to me) and I stopped (about 10 pages) in.
re: #277 Sir John Barron
Show us on the doll where George Soros gave you a scholarship!
You know it takes a lot of fucking balls to champion things like Citizens United and take millions of PAC money from right wing donors and then to complain about George Soros. But they need that old boogeyman for their disgusting base.
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
I just made pie crust dough. Haven’t decided on cherry or blueberry filling.
Why not both? 😉
re: #271 Belafon
Yep, but she wasn’t in front of a panel like Ford right now. It’s easy to call others something when they don’t have a way to demonstrate otherwise.
True, true.
re: #272 Lupin
Ha-ha! Now it’s No investigation of Judge + No investigation re therapy,
If you think Ford is lying, it must be frustrating to be that much hampered in trying to prove it/expose her.
If I was a Fox viewer, I’d be mad at the Republicans.
Dismal performance.
Packing up now.
Fox news people are never mad at Republicans.
re: #282 MsJ
Fox news people are never mad at Republicans.
Well if they act like decent people, maybe. FNC certainly wasn’t too fond of the Republicans that didn’t treat Obama like an evil socialist.
re: #132 Belafon
The world’s changed, and Kavanaugh is being held to account for things they used to get away with, and that has them worried/angry. And I’m sorry they no longer fit in it, but the world will be a better place because of it.
I’m not sorry. I’m a 53 year-old white male who has, in spite of never having made much money, lived the privileged, upper middle-class type of life that son’s of the clergy get to live, because of having fathers who are connected up and down the social chain. I’ve never had to rape anybody or push anybody down. It’s comforting to know that my coworkers would probably be damned sorry if I dropped dead in the break room. That would partly be because it would probably make popcorning difficult for at least one shift, but partly I think they actually like me.
re: #283 HappyWarrior
Well if they act like decent people, maybe. FNC certainly wasn’t too fond of the Republicans that didn’t treat Obama like an evil socialist.
Nah, it’s all how Fox presents it. Propaganda to keep the stupids happy. Why paint republicans as decent people when Fox viewers hate decent people?
her gentle voice, earnestness, efforts to lighten, smiling. this is how we’re socialized to be. to prove we aren’t difficult, lying, deserving of pain. dr. christine blasey ford is all of us. what you’re watching is a portrait of how women must behave in every aspect of our lives
— talia jane (spooky) (@itsa_talia) September 27, 2018
re: #285 MsJ
Nah, it’s all how Fox presents it. Propaganda to keep the stupids happy. Why paint republicans as decent people when Fox viewers hate decent people?
My brother and I were talking about how FNC and propaganda in general just poisons people against people.
In 10 years prosecuting all sorts of cases, from mafia to murder to white collar, I NEVER had a more credible witness than Dr. Ford. And certainly never had one who could explain the science behind memory to explain how she remembers the details!
— Daniel S. Goldman (@danielsgoldman) September 27, 2018
One of the most striking things about this testimony:
Dr. Blasey Ford is far, far, far more expert in trauma, anxiety, PTSD, and memory than the GOP’s prosecutorial lapdog questioning her.
The weight of authority in this hearing is inverted.
The GOP made a massive mistake.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 27, 2018
re: #282 MsJ
Fox news people are never mad at Republicans.
Unless they’re trying to broker a reasonable compromise about immigration.
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
My two favorite. Either one would be amazing.
re: #149 Sir John Barron
“You should have told us sooner so we could have ignored you for longer.”
I so want a drunk Kavanaugh to enter the chamber and to dry-hump Grassley.
re: #287 HappyWarrior
My brother and I were talking about how FNC and propaganda in general just poisons people against people.
Democracies will never be healthy when propaganda like Fox is allowed.
re: #293 MsJ
Democracies will never be healthy when propaganda like Fox is allowed.
Murdoch has ruined any country he was allowed to own a TV channel in. Why he and his ilk haven’t been run out of every country and market is beyond me.
I still can’t get over how 52% of white women could vote for Trump or how any woman could actually support the GOP. It’s mind boggling to me.
re: #293 MsJ
Democracies will never be healthy when propaganda like Fox is
allowedseen as the truth.
We have to allow it, but believing it is a choice.
re: #172 makeitstop
CNN’s John King reads a message from an unnamed Republican close to the leadership, who says the first segment of the hearing was “awful for Kavanaugh” and that their sense is that this is “slipping away.”
Let’s all hope.
‘slipping away’ = the actual truth is coming out
re: #294 CongoJack
Murdoch has ruined any country he was allowed to own a TV channel in. Why he and his ilk haven’t been run out of every country and market is beyond me.
Thank god he didn’t get his mitts on BSkyB. The entirety of Europe would have been fucked and readily gone fascist.
Murdoch fucked the UK. And he would gladly do it to anywhere and everywhere else he could.
Let me guess, the Donnie cultists are still planning to vote for Judge Rapey tomorrow in committee?
Person close to Trump says Trump is raging at how bad this has been for Republicans so far. Trump told people Ford “seems credible,” per source
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) September 27, 2018
So … he’s not always wrong? https://t.co/YtdwB6g6Aw
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) September 27, 2018
re: #293 MsJ
Democracies will never be healthy when propaganda like Fox is allowed.
Very true. The question is how do you legally prevent something like FNC from starting? From spreading? In the 1990’s, it felt like there were dozens of Limbaugh clones on local radio stations across the country feeding conservatives mostly white conservative men a sense of victimhood and anger to those who have a lot of legitimate gripes.
re: #293 MsJ
Fox completely changed my dad. He went from a regular conservative Republican to a conspiracy believing hate everything Fox told him to hate trumpster. My mother said in the last few years of his life, he was a completely different person.
My dad’s sister and her whole family are the same way.
It’s criminal.
Breaking - Here is a group picture of the 13 individuals that made the decision that the FBI should not investigate the claims of Dr. Ford, my client, and other women. pic.twitter.com/GrslQrPjpJ
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 27, 2018
re: #295 Tyrion
I still can’t get over how 52% of white women could vote for Trump or how any woman could actually support the GOP. It’s mind boggling to me.
I’m wondering how anyone of any gender, race, orientation or religion can vote for them.
This is the Senate Judiciary Committee, made up of senior ranking members of the Senate. 11 of the Republican’s best.
And even Republicans are questioning their methods and effectiveness in this hearing.
Not a good look. Hopefully we are seeing the end of the GOP as we know it. America should abandon them.
So a professor in psychology knows more about the brain and memory than a prosecutor or US Senator? I did not see that coming. /
re: #300 MsJ
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re: #286 Scottish Dragon
The Obama presidency could be described that way if you replace woman with black man.
thanks to all of you who are watching and interpreting
i’m not watching
Let’s hope so! He is on AF1.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
re: #302 plansbandc
Fox completely changed my dad. He went from a regular conservative Republican to a conspiracy believing hate everything Fox told him to hate trumpster. My mother said in the last few years of his life, he was a completely different person.
My dad’s sister and her whole family are the same way.
It’s criminal.
My brother and I talked about that article that discussed how the writer’s father went from a pretty easy going guy to super judgmental and angry. And I honestly saw some of the same when my friend decided almost randomly that he was a dyed in the wool conservative. He always had expressed some small c-conservative views but it was never the majority of his online presence.
re: #294 CongoJack
Murdoch has ruined any country he was allowed to own a TV channel in. Why he and his ilk haven’t been run out of every country and market is beyond me.
Because he takes advantage of norms, just like McConnell has done in the Senate.
Mitchell seemed to realize she couldn’t dismantle Dr. Ford’s recollection of events, proceeded to suggest she or the DNC lied about why this did not come to the public’s attention earlier.
I see what you did there! pic.twitter.com/AFM3WujRWT
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
The accusations brought against Judge Kavanaugh are sickening and deserve an independent investigation. There should be no vote in the Senate.
— Charlie Baker (@MassGovernor) September 27, 2018
Charlie Baker, a Republican who has the highest approval rating of any governor in the country and who almost never jumps into national politics, weighs in: https://t.co/vVp5YwhYOj
— Matt Viser (@mviser) September 27, 2018
Conservatives I notice love to rage against victimhood but they’ve created a huge victimhood complex in white people especially white men. Oh woe is me I can’t say that word anymore. Or they’re wishing more than just a Merry Christmas. Oh they’re acknowledging that Christianity isn’t the only religion in our schools. Oh they’re showing that LGBT people aren’t the perverts I was raised to think they were. It’s all about victimhood and losing something and FNC and the talk radio assholes feed that shit relentlessly which is sadly how you get people like Plansbandc’s father, my buddy, and I’m sure others you all have all met.
re: #311 HappyWarrior
My brother and I talked about that article that discussed how the writer’s father went from a pretty easy going guy to super judgmental and angry. And I honestly saw some of the same when my friend decided almost randomly that he was a dyed in the wool conservative. He always had expressed some small c-conservative views but it was never his entire online presence.
There’s a film about it - The Brainwashing of My Dad.
Sorry, late to the blogparty: in answer to the question above about which Republicans on the SJC are up for reelection this year, it looks only one is (Ted Cruz - R-Smarm). The aptly-handled Jeff Flake is also on the Committee, but isn’t running (retiring, as is, I think, Orrin Hatch (R-Gilead))
re: #315 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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His son is also facing an allegation of his own I believe.
Trump telling people he’s furious that WH aides didn’t have advance knowledge of how credible Ford would seem, per 2nd source
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) September 27, 2018
re: #320 MsJ
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In other words, Donny totally believed Faux and other wingnut press that she was totally a liar.
GOP strategists are freaking the fuck out.
“She’s very believable and you can’t help but feel sympathetic to her experience. What a mess,” one former Senate GOP leadership aide texted TPM late Thursday morning. after Ford’s opening statements and the first round of questioning.
Another former Senate leadership aide fretted that Republicans aren’t handling a tough situation well. The all-male membership of the committee has mostly ceded its questioning to prosecutor Rachel Mitchell. That staffer said that wasn’t working, saying Republicans “may have overcorrected” in worrying about pushing harder on Ford.
“There’s no question that this morning’s testimony was bad for Kavanaugh and Republicans,” said that former aide. “They were worried about the visuals of male senators interviewing Ford but they’ve ceded all the political ground to the Democrats. Mitchell’s questioning at least this far hasn’t done anything and then Senate Democrats have had free rein-in to score political points unchallenged.”
re: #317 makeitstop
There’s a film about it - The Brainwashing of My Dad.
Thanks. It looks brilliant because using the most base level of humanity- the individual, you can tell the story far more than mere statistics. I always wondered what would have happened with my Grandpa. He didn’t like Obama and like Jen’s father was a lieflong Democrat. I like to think that the Tea Party and later Trump would have disgusted him ut I don’t know for sure and it hurts me to think that man, a man I loved dearly and am even named after could have been manipulated the same her father was. I keep on thinking back to how my grandparents come from a place that saw through Reaganism but have embraced Trumpism.
re: #320 MsJ
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re: #295 Tyrion
I still can’t get over how 52% of white women could vote for Trump or how any woman could actually support the GOP. It’s mind boggling to me.
Jesus told them to vote for Trump.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Mitchell looking really pathetic and desperate in dwelling so much on the polygraph
re: #321 Targetpractice
In other words, Donny totally believed Faux and other wingnut press that she was totally a liar.
damn it… beat me to it
re: #320 MsJ
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Uh huh. Maybe you should have actually listened to what she was saying instead of insisting that she was “smearing” a “good man” that you didn’t vet and were only sold on after your guys told you “Mr. President, Kavanaugh loves protecting presidential power.”
Who paid for the polygraph? —Mitchell
good grief…
must have been Soros, obviously…//////////////
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who paid for the polygraph? —Mitchell
good grief…
must have been Soros, obviously…//////////////
Who’s paying Kavanaugh’s baseball ticket debts?
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who paid for the polygraph? —Mitchell
good grief…
must have been Soros, obviously…//////////////
Yeah, she is going off the rails in the last few questions…fear of flying, who’s paying for the polygraph, do you know how to beat a polygraph.
re: #322 makeitstop
“There’s no question that this morning’s testimony was bad for Kavanaugh and Republicans,” said that former aide. “They were worried about the visuals of male senators interviewing Ford but they’ve ceded all the political ground to the Democrats. Mitchell’s questioning at least this far hasn’t done anything and then Senate Democrats have had free rein-in to score political points unchallenged.”
And yet the GOP and Donnie don’t care. Sure, the Demos won “political points”, but we’re now near “shooting someone on 5th avenue” territory and the GOP cultists will almost certainly proceed with Judge Rapey’s nomination.
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who paid for the polygraph? —Mitchell
good grief…
must have been Soros, obviously…//////////////
“It was illegals crossing the border, right?”
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who paid for the polygraph? —Mitchell
good grief…
must have been Soros, obviously…//////////////
Who paid off Judge Rapey’s debt?
Good point.
All of Mitchell’s questions…all of them…are designed to impeach her as a witness rather than to determine the truth underlying these accusations. The GOP goal is to “defeat” the victim rather than to do the right thing re: the accusations or the SCOTUS nomination.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) September 27, 2018
I think at this point you. You hope for total unity among the Dem caucus and that there is just two Republican senators that have the courage to be somewhat decent people and reject this.
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mitchell looking really pathetic and desperate in dwelling so much on the polygraph
Trying to throw the results into doubt by suggesting she was coached or that external stimuli skewed the results.
re: #333 Dr. Matt
And yet the GOP and Donnie don’t care. Sure, the Demos won “political points”, but we’re now near “shooting someone on 5th avenue” territory and the GOP cultists will almost certainly proceed with Judge Rapey’s nomination.
The 18 point drop among Republican women after the accusations but before this testimony says that’s not quite working.
re: #333 Dr. Matt
And yet the GOP and Donnie don’t care. Sure, the Demos won “political points”, but we’re now near “shooting someone on 5th avenue” territory and the GOP cultists will almost certainly proceed with Judge Rapey’s nomination.
I’m not so sure.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump himself hits the panic button if this hearing keeps going like this.
re: #339 Belafon
The 18 point drop among Republican women after the accusations but before this testimony says that’s not quite working.
I expect it will dip even more after today. If Republicans lose white women, they’re fucked.
The GOP has been corrupt for a long time. Appealing to people’s bigotries and superstitions was never going to lead to an honest, or even reality-based party.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 27, 2018
re: #245 sagehen
Amy Coney Barrett.
The woman on that Federalist Society list. She’s 46 years old, super-religious (a fringey right-wing sect of Catholicism). Her professional record is spotless, her personal life (aside from the weird religion) has no accusations of any kind.
time to send her a craig’s list ad for a too-good-to-pass-up illegal nanny.
You can get senough white women to still vote for your party if you race bait but it’s a bit harder to do it with sexual assault victim blaming. Eventually the GOP is going to be Spanky McFarland’s He Man Woman Haters Club meets those Country Clubs that don’t let Blacks, Catholics, or Jews as members.
The GOP outside counsel has now stepped over the line IMHO. As noted above, she is dwelling on bullshit ephemera instead of getting at actual details on the event.
She is trying to paint Prof Ford as a partisan hack and is not examining the day in question.
Republican governors Charlie Baker (MA), Larry Hogan (MD) and John Kasich (OH) call on the Senate to delay the Kavanaugh nomination and investigate the three allegations.https://t.co/rTVh4XdBWf
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 27, 2018
This is not going well for them.
re: #345 Scottish Dragon
The GOP outside counsel has now stepped over the line IMHO. As noted above, she is dwelling on bullshit ephemera instead of getting at actual details on the event.
She is trying to paint Prof Ford as a partisan hack and is not examining the day in question.
Right. That was extremely stupid of them since they knew she made the allegation long before Kavanaugh was in the public spotlight.
re: #322 makeitstop
GOP strategists are freaking the fuck out.
Christ on a bicycle!!
That’s the “GOP strategist” focus on the Ford testimony? The worst thing is that Democrats are “scoring political points”??
Words fail…..
re: #251 HappyWarrior
What does that have to do with anything?
hey, mitchell, she’s scared of flying because her trauma causes her to be terrified of being in tight quarters with people, and with no ability to flee, you utter dipshit.
re: #346 makeitstop
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This is not going well for them.
You’re probably right but I do give them credit here. I don’t like them especially Kasich but they’re showing that they’re not total party hacks here.
re: #349 steve_davis
hey, mitchell, she’s scared of flying because her trauma causes her to be terrified of being in tight quarters with people, and with no ability to flee, you utter dipshit.
Yeah novel thought that huh.
re: #348 Jay C
Christ on a bicycle!!
That’s the “GOP strategist” focus on the Ford testimony? The worst thing is that Democrats are “scoring political points”??Words fail…..
Well that’s the real reason why a lot of the Never Trumpers hate Trump- “He proves everything Democrats say about us to have truth to it!”
I don’t know if I will ever not be angry for the rest of my life.
As a resident of Maricopa County, I wonder if Rachel Mitchell is ever going to be able to prosecute sex crimes again.
I got the polygraph test Dr. Ford took showing truthfulness about her account in the record. To quote a judge: “law enforcement agencies use polygraphs to test the credibility of witnesses” & the tests “serve law enforcement purposes.” That judge was Brett Kavanaugh in 2016 case.
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) September 27, 2018
From one of the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, and a former district attorney —> https://t.co/0eZh1LGgnf
— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) September 27, 2018
I hope Klobuchar brings this up to the kindly (gag) judge.
re: #355 makeitstop
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I hope Klobuchar brings this up to the kindly (gag) judge.
Burn.
re: #354 mmmirele
According to reports, Rachel Mitchell failed to effectively prosecute over 400 sex-crimes reported to Sheriff Arpaio’s office between 2004 and 2007, including dozens of cases of child-molestation.
Dr. Ford is inspiring. She’s single-handedly exposing the GOP as the scheming cowards they are, just by telling her story. This is what “speaking truth to power” really means.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 27, 2018
BWAH
On Fox News, Bret Baier says hearing from Blasey Ford “is a totally different thing” than reading her allegations.
Chris Wallace: “This was extremely emotional, extremely raw, and extremely credible… This is a disaster for the Republicans.” pic.twitter.com/aSbznSJdHC— David Mack (@davidmackau) September 27, 2018
If the Fox bots are saying it’s bad, it’s bad.
re: #354 mmmirele
As a resident of Maricopa County, I wonder if Rachel Mitchell is ever going to be able to prosecute sex crimes again.
If Kavanaugh goes down, she will be blamed for his defeat. GOP men like to blame women for their failings.
With that - it is 3am in my world - I need some sleep. Back in the morning, hopefully to news of the demise of this nomination.
New: White House postpones Trump meeting with DAG Rosenstein. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “The President spoke with Rod Rosenstein a few minutes ago and they plan to meet next week. They do not want to do anything to interfere with the hearing.”
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 27, 2018
re: #359 makeitstop
BWAH
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If the Fox bots are saying it’s bad, it’s bad.
Are you going to apologize for trying to paint her as partisanly motivated Bret?
re: #360 fern01
If Kavanaugh goes down, she will be blamed for his defeat. GOP men like to blame women for their failings.
With that - it is 3am in my world - I need some sleep. Back in the morning, hopefully to news of the demise of this nomination.
If Kavanaugh’s mother had put an aspirin between her knees, like Republicans suggest, none of this would be happening. It’s clearly a woman’s fault.
/
Everybody should be retweeting this to the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee ASAP.
This is a good time to remind everyone that Brett Kavanaugh has ruled that polygraphs can be accepted as gospel by employers in making hiring decisions.
— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) September 27, 2018
re: #295 Tyrion
I still can’t get over how 52% of white women could vote for Trump or how any woman could actually support the GOP. It’s mind boggling to me.
come to my facebook page and be amazed that middle-class white women, relaying how they were raped at parties, or abused by fathers, are certain that Ford is a Democrat whore operative. There are only a few, because I’ve long since nuked most of the idiots on Facebook, but I’ve known some of the idiots since first grade, which means they’re effectively extended family.
Sen. Orrin Hatch says it’s too early to say if Ford is credible.
“I don’t think she’s uncredible. I think she an attractive, good witness,” he said.
Asked by @ElizLanders what he meant by “attractive,” he said, “In other words, she’s pleasing.”— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 27, 2018
The answer to, “Why don’t we just have the GOP senators conduct the questioning?” https://t.co/GijYPQ9JI8
— Steve Popper (@StevePopper) September 27, 2018
re: #366 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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That old son of a bitch has a secret he doesn’t want out about him.
re: #356 HappyWarrior
Burn.
5000-lb-napalm-bomb-dropped-on-a-running-refinery-in-hot-weather-level burn.
Good!
re: #366 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Christ… I just can’t even. Now I feel as if I need to walk up to every woman I see today and apologize for my gender.
re: #345 Scottish Dragon
The GOP outside counsel has now stepped over the line IMHO. As noted above, she is dwelling on bullshit ephemera instead of getting at actual details on the event.
She is trying to paint Prof Ford as a partisan hack and is not examining the day in question.
Yes. Thankfully, she is failing miserably.
Judge Nap now…
“[Ford] is extremely credible and Rachel Mitchell is not laying a glove on her… the president cannot be happy with this.” — Judge Napolitano (a Trump favorite) on Fox News (which Trump surely is watching).
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 27, 2018
re: #369 CongoJack
Christ… I just can’t even. Now I feel as if I need to walk up to every woman I see today and apologize for my gender.
I feel like I’ve been so blind to the shit women go through every day in this world.
re: #359 makeitstop
BWAH
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If the Fox bots are saying it’s bad, it’s bad.
Chris Wallace said yesterday that his own daughters just told him about incidents that happened to them.
Wallace now has empathy.
John Roberts…
On Fox News, John Roberts says a White House official told him Blasey Ford is a “very credible witness.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
If Fox wants to save this nomination, they’d better call Lumpy in early to calm Trump down.
re: #361 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
New: White House postpones Trump meeting with DAG Rosenstein. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “The President spoke with Rod Rosenstein a few minutes ago and they plan to meet next week. They do not want to do anything to interfere with the hearing.”
Kavanaugh is toast. Burnt toast. When trump isn’t trying to pivot away from him, even trump knows how disastrous this is for republicans.
This is Trump’s worst nightmare: a TV moment going badly for him that’s completely out of his control
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) September 27, 2018
re: #374 makeitstop
John Roberts…
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If Fox wants to save this nomination, they’d better call Lumpy in early to calm Trump down.
Or Pirro or Tucker.
re: #372 HappyWarrior
I feel like I’ve been so blind to the shit women go through every day in this world.
You probably have been. It was only in the last year or two that I realized why women go to the bathroom in packs. It’s not to talk about their dates.
I have an evil twin theory. #KavanaghHearings pic.twitter.com/WW6wihB9xf
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 27, 2018
re: #375 MsJ
Kavanaugh is toast. Burnt toast. When trump isn’t trying to pivot away from him, even trump knows how disastrous this is for republicans.
Trump is going to act like he barely knew Bart O’Kavanaugh.
Ha! On NBC Hallie Jackson said Trump is watching Fox for their take on how this hearing is going. Apparently Fox is saying this is not going well, so The Big Don is upset and wavering.
Good.
I hope he is conflicted, and this messes everything up trying to get this nomination and vote done before the elections.
Also, Trump had to cancel his meeting with Rod Rosenstein. Too busy watching for the meeting and it will be rescheduled for next week.
Rod Rosenstein is still alive!
re: #374 makeitstop
John Roberts…
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If Fox wants to save this nomination, they’d better call Lumpy in early to calm Trump down.
Lumpy’s doing his radio show. He’ll handle it there.
re: #372 HappyWarrior
I feel like I’ve been so blind to the shit women go through every day in this world.
My parents did a great job… I never saw race or gender in terms of “good” or “bad” - race and gender were just a descriptor if needed. Now as an adult I hear things (say from my redneck in-laws or from people I work with) and I am just taken back.
I was sheltered to it and I only realized that when I went to college - but that in itself is while male privilege.
re: #374 makeitstop
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If Fox wants to save this nomination, they’d better call Lumpy in early to calm Trump down.
Chief Justice John Roberts??
JFC, why is he even making public statements about this?
Any objective viewer would have already called this as a knockout for Dr. Ford and that Kavanaugh was DOA. Reality is that Trump and GOP will still try to resuscitate him, to say nothing of making sure that he remains on the bench.
And that’s the thing - he’ll still be in a lifetime post on the DC Circuit Court issuing decisions favorable to right wing extremists.
Based on the evidence, Kavanaugh has no business on any court, let alone the Supreme Court. Withdrawal and resignation is where we should end up.
He’ll still end up on the grifter circuit alongside Pirro and other right wing nutters.
re: #385 Jay C
Chief Justice John Roberts??
JFC, why is he even making public statements about this?
No, there’s a Fox bot with the same name.
re: #367 HappyWarrior
That old son of a bitch has a secret he doesn’t want out about him.
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important distinction between Trump shrugging off embarrassment of allegations against him and allegations of someone he has appointed
against him = direct threat to his top priority
against appointee = problem for someone he could declare a loser and throw under bus— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 27, 2018
re: #384 CongoJack
My parents did a great job… I never saw race or gender in terms of “good” or “bad” - race and gender were just a descriptor if needed. Now as an adult I hear things (say from my redneck in-laws or from people I work with) and I am just taken back.
I was sheltered to it and I only realized that when I went to college - but that in itself is while male privilege.
Same. But yeah the things I’ll hear from other white guys often thinking I’ll co-sign just man. These guys have no idea who the hell i am. But they feel free to let their sexist and racist flag fly. My Dad’s experienced that with people too.
re: #372 HappyWarrior
I feel like I’ve been so blind to the shit women go through every day in this world.
in the late 80’s i dated two ADA’s.
both prosecuted sex crimes (it was a coincidence)
we never discussed actual cases of course
their attitudes, informed by what they were fighting, well that, all by itself, was an awfully powerful eye opener
Lindsey Graham is a fucking horrible person.
re: #389 mmmirele
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Lindsey Graham just had an incredibly shitty little meltdown in the hallway.
re: #373 MsJ
Chris Wallace said yesterday that his own daughters just told him about incidents that happened to them.
Wallace now has empathy.
they all do
about whatever it is
once it’s about them
sadly it’s got to be their own face to make it human
re: #366 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
So Hatch cannot in any way separate his physical reaction to women from a possible view as a fellow human being. If he has any female staffers, they really should quit.
re: #357 S’latch
According to reports, Rachel Mitchell failed to effectively prosecute over 400 sex-crimes reported to Sheriff Arpaio’s office between 2004 and 2007, including dozens of cases of child-molestation.
But those were Mexican children, so Arpaio was okay with it.
And there it is. Lindsay Graham said Kavanaugh is going to get confirmed. Just now.
JUST FUCKING RIGHT NOW.
Fuck you, Republicans. You pathetic swine.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
re: #382 ObserverArt
Ha! On NBC Hallie Jackson said Trump is watching Fox for their take on how this hearing is going. Apparently Fox is saying this is not going well, so The Big Don is upset and wavering.
Good.
I hope he is conflicted, and this messes everything up trying to get this nomination and vote done before the elections.
Also, Trump had to cancel his meeting with Rod Rosenstein. Too busy watching for the meeting and it will be rescheduled for next week.
Rod Rosenstein is still alive!
Nah, Donny’s too busy being POTUS to watch TV.
/
re: #392 dangerman
in the late 80’s i dated two ADA’s.
both prosecuted sex crimes (it was a coincidence)
we never discussed actual cases of coursetheir attitudes, informed by what they were fighting, well that, all by itself, was an awfully powerful eye opener
For me, it’s being one of the few native born white guys at my office. It’s impected me on how I see race, gender, nationality etc. Travel has too. Being the only American I encountered outside family for a week really gave me some perspective.
Lindsey Graham is very angry about those filthy hobbitses.
— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 27, 2018
re: #376 makeitstop
This is Trump’s worst nightmare: a TV moment going badly for him that’s completely out of his control
really reality tv
Every GOP campaign strategist and Hill staffer wishes they had the button to open the trap door under Rachel Mitchell’s chair. What a total and complete Political disaster for Republicans.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) September 27, 2018
re: #394 Scottish Dragon
Lindsey Graham is a fucking horrible person.
He ripped he mask off when McCain died.
re: #384 CongoJack
I was sheltered to it and I only realized that when I went to
collegejoined the Army - but that in itself is while male privilege.
2nd verse, same as the first…
re: #407 makeitstop
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They could start by themselves. She will be their scapegoat tho.
.@SenBobCorker tells me he’s reserving judgment on Kavanaugh.
“I had a very good meeting with him. I thought he performed well in his hearing. I have warm feelings about his nomination. But this is an important day for me and—I’m sure—many, many people in the caucus.”— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 27, 2018
Yeah, I know, Corker. Step up, Senator.
(I just laughed my rueful laugh.)
#EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Ford’s father, Ralph Blasey IV, a Republican, is on the board of Columbia Country Club in MD. He stated through a family friend he is not publicly backing his daughter’s allegations because he believes he will lose his position with the country club.
— TOᑭ ᖇOᑭE TᖇAViS (@TopRopeTravis) September 26, 2018
I’m willing to give him that one. It was still damned stupid, though.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) September 27, 2018
re: #407 makeitstop
They’re all acting as though having Grassley and the rest of these misogynstic craven lugnuts would do any better?
The only thing they could have done would have been to avoid the hearing altogether, and that wasn’t possible due to Dr. Ford’s credible accusations.
Everything about this comes back to a misogynstic GOP that fears women.
re: #414 Belafon
Profile in Courage, right there. Yeesh.
re: #414 Belafon
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That is so fucking sick and everything wrong with the good old boy network.
re: #413 makeitstop
Yeah, I know, Corker. Step up, Senator.
(I just laughed my rueful laugh.)
Bold, very bold, but concerned.
re: #414 Belafon
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You. Are. Her. Father.
Act like it you shithole. Your job is to protect and give support not hide.
“Rush Limbaugh is livid!”
Certainly true today, but ironically those were the exact words used when I first heard of Limbaugh 27 years ago during Anita Hill’s testimony on the Clarence Thomas nomination. I had mentioned the hearings to a conservative friend, such as I still had in those far-off days, and he had responded with the statement about Limbaugh.
I said, “Who?”
As often happens with sub-cultural conformists who treat their interests as the center of the universe, he said, “I can’t believe you don’t know who Rush is!” (Another conformist characteristic, pretending to be on a first name basis with object of worship).
He went on to enlighten me and I duly checked out Limbaugh’s show.
My first impression was that Limbaugh sounded quite old, mid 60s at least. I was surprised to learn that he was younger than I was, having just turned 40 at the time.
CNN now playing portions of Graham’s remarks, and you cannot get past just how much of a petulant little shit he sounds.
Now Megyn Kelly is starting to piss off Chuck Todd on NBC. Kelly said not many in America are watching this. Todd said you’d probably be surprised how many are and intends that to be the last statement
Kelly then says “well certainly not all 325 million.”
She had to get the last word
Also, she loves to make sweeping generalized statements. You can’t take the Fox News out of an ex-Foxer.
Y’all 💀💀. #KavanaughHearings pic.twitter.com/nJgPVwYD95
— jack wulfric (@jackwulfric) September 27, 2018
re: #420 CongoJack
You. Are. Her. Father.
Act like it you shithole. Your job is to protect and give support not hide.
Seriously fuck the country club.
re: #422 Targetpractice
CNN now playing portions of Graham’s remarks, and you cannot get past just how much of a petulant little shit he sounds.
I’m starting to think that these senators are worrying this nomination because someone told them that if Kav doesn’t get in, a whole lot of secrets are going to be exposed…
re: #423 ObserverArt
Now Megyn Kelly is starting to piss off Chuck Todd on NBC. Kelly said not many in America are watching this. Todd said you’d probably be surprised how many are and intends that to be the last statement
Kelly then says “well certainly not all 325 million.”
She had to get the last word
Also, she loves to make sweeping generalized statements. You can’t take the Fox News out of an ex-Foxer.
She was doing the she’s a witness not a saint crap too. I totally loathe her.
Frothy says the “facts” should carry the day and “you can’t convict” on what they know.
The continued insistence on portraying this as a criminal trial.
Conservatives have ripped the lid off this whole conspiracy!
Ford Admits She Flies Often after Citing Fear of Flying to Delay Hearing https://t.co/Sb7zC8YZDn via @JackRCrowe pic.twitter.com/F5WeeGqviy
— National Review (@NRO) September 27, 2018
National Review is afraid of the truth yet still pretends its a news agency. https://t.co/Dv7xHoOhCx
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 27, 2018
re: #424 BlueSpotinAL
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Burned. And it’s easy for me. Vacation would be enjoying herself but flying to testify would mean reliving the event. Not smart are ya Jr?
re: #414 Belafon
If that is true, fuck Dr. Ford’s father. I’d not have another thing to do with him if that was my dad and his priority was his fucking club.
This is a good time to remind everyone that Brett Kavanaugh has ruled that polygraphs can be accepted as gospel by employers in making hiring decisions.
— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) September 27, 2018
re: #430 HappyWarrior
Burned. And it’s easy for me. Vacation would be enjoying herself but flying to testify would mean reliving the event. Not smart are ya Jr?
He also said about her flying, ‘can’t do it to testify.’
She’s in the goddamn hearing, moron Jr.
re: #431 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
If that is true, fuck Dr. Ford’s father. I’d not have another thing to do with him if that was my dad and his priority was his fucking club.
I’d burn the country club to the ground, but that’s just me.
re: #432 MsJ
Linky.
Here’s such an opinion https://t.co/46IL0BBnCV
— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) September 27, 2018
re: #429 Kragar
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I have a fear of making phone calls to strangers. I still do it. She flies because she more or less has to. Can we turn NR’s office space into a preschool for refugees already and stop treating them as if they are anything other than a bunch of rw assholes.
A woman just told @LindseyGrahamSC she was raped. He said, as he headed into an elevator, “I’m sorry. Tell the cops.”
— Emma Dumain (@Emma_Dumain) September 27, 2018
I was there for this —> https://t.co/JPetLytCcx
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) September 27, 2018
I’ve used the phrase GOP delenda est before, but it hasn’t been as appropriate as today, when we see the fearful misogynstic GOP on display with every intention of trying to ram through a nomination to shift balance of judiciary for a generation to come.
They lack all empathy and sympathy for rape victims, and they don’t believe women who accuse men of sex assaults.
Because in their worldview, women can’t be trusted; men are trusted even when the facts are stacked against them. Kavanaugh repeatedly lies about minor details, and Dr. Ford’s credible allegations show him to be a total creep who leaves a wake of women damaged in his wake. The GOP doesn’t care. They are worried about how this stops their onslaught to pack the judiciary - not that an awful nominee was prevented from getting on the bench.
The retconning of this in the right wing will begin in earnest today - how Dr. Ford was coached or invented details and that this was a hit job on a solid upstanding white guy. We’d just have to ignore that Kavanaugh himself said polygraph tests were credible for making employment decisions, so he can’t just discount her test - nor should we. We can’t discount how the craven GOP had to find a woman to do their dirty work of trying to impeach credibility of Dr. Ford because a panel of angry white guys trying to badger Dr. Ford would look bad.
Turns out this situation wasn’t any better - and Dr. Ford wiped the walls with the GOP today and turned the Kavanaugh nomination into a disaster.
And yet, the GOP might still try to confirm. That’s how maliciously evil they are.
Graham epitomizes this, and when you as a political party get to this point, you lose all right to exist.
re: #433 makeitstop
He also said about her flying, ‘can’t do it to testify.’
She’s in the goddamn hearing, moron Jr.
Yep. Moron is moron tho. He’s even dumber than his Dad.
re: #429 Kragar
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She got there, didn’t she?
“Shit…she’s too prepared. Attack her for taking time to get prepared!”
Graham takes the lead in today’s ‘Needs a punch in the throat’ sweepstakes.
Seriously. If I was that woman I would have decked his ass.
re: #302 plansbandc
Ditto.
Sen. Orrin Hatch says it’s too early to say if Ford is credible.
“I don’t think she’s uncredible. I think she an attractive, good witness,” he said.
Asked by @ElizLanders what he meant by “attractive,” he said, “In other words, she’s pleasing.”— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 27, 2018
ATTRACTIVE
HE FUCKING SAID SHE IS ATTRACTIVE AT A HEARING WHERE SHE IS RECOUNTING HER SEXUAL ASSAULT https://t.co/bPE0NGlcss— George Soros Backup Account 🇺🇸 (@triana922) September 27, 2018
Hatch should follow Graham out the door.
Not watching the hearing…. I assume Mrs. Ford’s part is over?
When does Kavenaugh start?
Or will he just quit and make the Rs find someone just as horrible?
re: #444 CongoJack
Not watching the hearing…. I assume Mrs. Ford’s part is over?
When does Kavenaugh start?
Or will he just quit and make the Rs find someone just as horrible?
They’re still in recess for lunch, Ford’s testimony will continue after they return.
re: #444 CongoJack
Not watching the hearing…. I assume Mrs. Ford’s part is over?
When does Kavenaugh start?
Or will he just quit and make the Rs find someone just as horrible?
I think they’re on lunch break.
re: #444 CongoJack
Not watching the hearing…. I assume Mrs. Ford’s part is over?
When does Kavenaugh start?
Or will he just quit and make the Rs find someone just as horrible?
Nope…the fucking public witch burning of the innocent victim is not over yet.
re: #443 lawhawk
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Hatch should follow Graham out the door.
Follow Graham INTO the door…repeatedly.
re: #373 MsJ
Chris Wallace said yesterday that his own daughters just told him about incidents that happened to them.
Wallace now has empathy.
I bet that is happening all over this country and maybe even in parts of the world.
There are a lot of men that are learning about this happening to women they know. That is if the men have an open mind.
The Senate Judiciary Committee should issue a subpoena for Brett Kavanaugh right now and serve him with it before he gets away.
re: #443 lawhawk
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Hatch should follow Graham out the door.
He is “out the door” - I think he announced his retirement - only nowhere near soon enough….
And unfortunately, It’s probable that Mitt Romney will be replacing him in the next Congress….
Mazie is up…
The hearing has resumed. Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono begins by criticizing Republican prosecutor Mitchell for asking questions Hirono says are irrelevant and inappropriate.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
re: #452 Jay C
He is “out the door” - I think he announced his retirement - only nowhere near soon enough….
And unfortunately, It’s probable that Mitt Romney will be replacing him in the next Congress….
That’s right… I forgot that. And Mitt’s little improved.
re: #423 ObserverArt
Now Megyn Kelly is starting to piss off Chuck Todd on NBC. Kelly said not many in America are watching this. Todd said you’d probably be surprised how many are and intends that to be the last statement
Kelly then says “well certainly not all 325 million.”
She had to get the last word
Also, she loves to make sweeping generalized statements. You can’t take the Fox News out of an ex-Foxer.
NOT ALL 325 MILLION AMERICANS ARE WATCHING THIS SO UNVALIDATED!!!
re: #451 S’latch
The Senate Judiciary Committee should issue a subpoena for Brett Kavanaugh right now and serve him with it before he gets away.
They need to subpoena Mark Judge - he is a witness - make him give statements under oath.
OFFS, Mitchell, just say aloud you believe the DNC is bankrolling her lawyers.
Mitchell is looking like a complete bitch.
re: #394 Scottish Dragon
Lindsey Graham is a fucking horrible person.
And he has upped his horribleness by a factor of 100 since Trump was elected.
Something changed in Lindsey at that point. And there is speculation it has to do with Russia.
Aside: the lawyers for Professor Ford just jumped in and said “her lawyers paid for the polygraph” and then the other tossed in ” as is standard procedure.”
Slap!
Video footage of @LindseyGrahamSC’s reaction to the #ChristineBlaseyFord testimony pic.twitter.com/A5vMYCkh6a
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 27, 2018
re: #397 goddamnedfrank
Lindsey Graham just had an incredibly shitty little meltdown in the hallway.
I missed that. What did he say now?
Blasey Ford says she’s not sure - she says she knows there are GoFundMes for her, but she doesn’t know how to collect the money because “I’ve never had one.” Mitchell is puzzled by the word GoFundMe.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
re: #443 lawhawk
As someone mentioned on MSNBC, quotes like that one are why the Republicans on the committee are not asking their own questions
re: #458 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Mitchell is looking like a complete bitch.
She was most likely told to be more aggressive.
Not that that will work, either.
re: #461 ObserverArt
I missed that. What did he say now?
To paraphrase: Nothing she says is going to change his mind, Dr. Ford isn’t credible, and if the DNC doesn’t back off then they can expect the same sort of charges against their own nominees in the future.
re: #461 ObserverArt
I missed that. What did he say now?
Lindsey Graham just falsely told a bunch of reporters that Democrats are never subjected to accusations of sexual misconduct, and warned them that if Kavanaugh fails, Republicans will gin up false accusations against future Democratic nominees to even the score. Wow.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 27, 2018
Punk.
re: #465 Targetpractice
To paraphrase: Nothing she says is going to change his mind, Dr. Ford isn’t credible, and if the DNC doesn’t back off then they can expect the same sort of charges against their own nominees in the future.
Senator Butters going full Professor Chaos
Again, Mitchell can’t destroy her credibility, so she is now trying to portray her as either a DNC operative or exploited by the DNC.
re: #414 Belafon
TOᑭ ᖇOᑭE TᖇAViS
@TopRopeTravis
#EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Ford’s father, Ralph Blasey IV, a Republican, is on the board of Columbia Country Club in MD. He stated through a family friend he is not publicly backing his daughter’s allegations because he believes he will lose his position with the country club.7:13 PM - Sep 26, 2018
What an upstanding father. Golf and hanging with your Republican buddies is so damn important.
re: #458 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Mitchell is looking like a complete bitch.
This went south real quick.
re: #470 HappyWarrior
Lindsay, have you met Anthony Weiner? Also fuck you.
Graham was a House manager in then Clinton impeachment trial.
Lindsey Graham just falsely told a bunch of reporters that Democrats are never subjected to accusations of sexual misconduct, and warned them that if Kavanaugh fails, Republicans will gin up false accusations against future Democratic nominees to even the score. Wow.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 27, 2018
A U.S. Senator declaring that if he can’t achieve a political outcome, he intends to knowingly lie to the citizenry — and possibly suborn perjury — to achieve political outcome more to his liking. Filth. https://t.co/fKwz3ZldOB
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 27, 2018
Yep. Filth.
Anybody know if there are gofundme accounts set up for Dr. Blasey?
Conservatives often project their own faults onto the people they’ve been brainwashed to hate, then claim that the imagined faults are justification for their continued abuse.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 27, 2018
re: #473 KGxvi
Graham was a House manager in then Clinton impeachment trial.
That whole business the more I look at it was done by a bunch of projecting Republicans who had far bigger skeletons than Bill did. I think Bill definitely acted improperly with Monica but that wasn’t up to the Congress to decide. I do realize he was impeached for the perjury and not the affair itself but it shouldn’t have gotten to that point.
MSNBC showing video of Lindsey Graham, who basically dismissed Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, sure made it seem like they are proceeding full speed ahead to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Garrett Haake then said Lindsey’s been “visibly annoyed” during hearing
— Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) September 27, 2018
I also noted a quick appearance by Ms. @RSwirling in a Trust Women tee at the end of that clip, trying to address the senator as he walks away. https://t.co/cHNhRGS4IQ
— Rachel Perrone (@RachelPerrone) September 27, 2018
That was me! @LindseyGrahamSC said he did not believe Dr. Ford because she couldn’t recall the exact date of the assault. I told him I was raped 13yrs ago but don’t know the date. So would he believe me?
He said “I’m sorry, but then you should go to the cops.”#BelieveSurvivors https://t.co/UERpDmvBU9— Robyn Swirling (@RSwirling) September 27, 2018
Lindsay missed where just last year Neil Gorsuch had zero accusations against him and the fact that his former Democratic colleague Al Franken is gone.
re: #479 makeitstop
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re: #475 Sir John Barron
The first part didn’t go well I presume
The initial back and forth for the first questions. No. Mitchell came off as a total bitch trying to get Ford to say that democrats paid for the polygraph (they didn’t, her attorney’s did) and that she is somehow in cahoots with Dems.
Then she asked some question wanting Ford to guess at the answer when she had previously been told not to guess.
It was farcical and absolutely pathetic.
re: #480 HappyWarrior
Lindsay missed where just last year Neil Gorsuch had zero accusations against him and the fact that his former Democratic colleague Al Franken is gone.
Conservatives believe what they want to believe, and that’s what the leaders exploiting them count on.
Booker is making Dr. Ford cry by his niceness and compliments.
Video of Graham’s meltdown.
Sen. Graham warns Democrats: “If this is the new norm, you better watch out for your nominees” pic.twitter.com/p9NIryUl7Y
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 27, 2018
re: #484 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Booker is making Dr. Ford cry by his niceness and compliments.
DID BOOKER PAY FOR THE POLYGRAPH!??!?!
I won’t go into details or much depth at all because it’s a family member’s story but I have a lot of cousins who are close to Ford and Kavanaugh’s age who even grew up in the DC Metro area or the DMV as we call it here. I was waiting for one of them to post their perspective and or experience and it juts broke my heart because it was one of my cousins I’m most close to, she’s practically a big sister to me who has been there for me at my lowest lows. Goddamn men like Brett Kavanaugh who take advantage of people like that. There’s a special place for them and it’s ot in the Supreme Court or in the Senate.
re: #483 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Conservatives believe what they want to believe, and that’s what the leaders exploiting them count on.
Conservatives do love their victim mentality and their marttrs. 30 years from now Kavanaugh will be a victim the same way that Bork and Thomas were in conservative mythos because conservative mythos doesn’t care about reality.
Mitchell now trying to find out how Dr. Ford chose her attorneys. Really?
re: #487 Sir John Barron
Heck our nominees can’t even get a hearing.
And Lindsay was all prepared to not give HRC’s pick a hearing. Fuckers.
Meanwhile, the Stupidest Man on the Internet is now one of the Republican Party’s experts on Internet “free speech.” By which they mean the freedom to make shit up, spread lies, and spread hatred.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 27, 2018
Will anyone point out the NUMEROUS times that Jim Hoft has posted links to white supremacist sites, and even plagiarized posts from white supremacist sites for his garbage blog?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 27, 2018
re: #490 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Mitchell now trying to find out how Dr. Ford chose her attorneys. Really?
What the hell does that have to with anything? I’d definitely want someone experienced. Mitchell is proving to be just another witch hunter.
re: #465 Targetpractice
To paraphrase: Nothing she says is going to change his mind, Dr. Ford isn’t credible, and if the DNC doesn’t back off then they can expect the same sort of charges against their own nominees in the future.
re: #466 makeitstop
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Punk.
Thanks!
Sounds like Lindsey is having a damn hard time handling defeat and truth.
He sure is not making any new friends.
Your time is up Lindsay. Resign and retire.
Republicans are more interested in Dr. Ford’s finances than they are of Kavanaugh’s.
— Cassandra (@ChrisWarcraft) September 27, 2018
re: #493 HappyWarrior
What the hell does that have to with anything? I’d definitely want someone experienced. Mitchell is proving to be just another witch hunter.
Exactly. She then went on to start questioning who was paying for her lawyers, etc. Her attorneys jumped in and said they were working pro bono.
Checked in w @AlanDersh mid-hearing: “Ford will win the credibility determination. If R’s were smart, they’d call Avenatti’s witness who would fall apart on cross examination… if I had to bet at this point, I’d say that we will not see Justice Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court.”
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) September 27, 2018
re: #466 makeitstop
Punk.
Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, and John Edwards would like to have a talk with you.
re: #499 Kragar
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Good. I don’t want to see Judge Kavanaugh any more either or even Brett Kavanaugh, Esq.
Republicans are much more curious about who paid for Ford’s polygraph than they are about who paid off Kavanaugh’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. #KavanaughHearingshttps://t.co/oeraevDbGe
— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) September 27, 2018
This. It’s the question Kavanaugh has never answered, let alone answered to any satisfaction. https://t.co/GuQX5YSZf0
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 27, 2018
re: #501 Belafon
Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, and John Edwards would like to have a talk with you.
He made his name on the Clinton impeachment ffs. Lindsay has really shown that not only is he a profoundly ugly man but he’s dumb too.
re: #444 CongoJack
Not watching the hearing…. I assume Mrs. Ford’s part is over?
When does Kavenaugh start?
Or will he just quit and make the Rs find someone just as horrible?
Nope…the fucking public witch burning of the innocent victim is not over yet.re: #490 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Mitchell now trying to find out how Dr. Ford chose her attorneys. Really?
I cannot fucking believe that one.
re: #498 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Exactly. She then went on to start questioning who was paying for her lawyers, etc. Her attorneys jumped in and said they were working pro bono.
THEN WHOSE PAYING YOU TO WORK PRO BONO?!!!?
re: #503 lawhawk
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re: #506 Sir John Barron
THEN WHOSE PAYING YOU TO WORK PRO BONO?!!!?
That would be Jim Hoft’s question lol.
re: #490 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Mitchell now trying to find out how Dr. Ford chose her attorneys. Really?
Pretty sure all those conversations fall under the attorney-client privilege and she can fuck right the hell off.
Someone told Lindsey Graham that the manila envelope with the pictures in it hits the mailbox the second the Kavanaugh nom dies.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 27, 2018
re: #490 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Mitchell now trying to find out how Dr. Ford chose her attorneys. Really?
ALSO WHY DO YOU EVEN HAVE LAWYERS IF INNOCENT SO THERE BUSTED!!!!
They must have hidden Trump’s phone again.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 27, 2018
We’ll wind up with someone else who will work to enslave women for our destructive alt-Christian authoritarians, but maybe the next person won’t think a criminal President is above the law.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 27, 2018
Harris telling Dr. Ford she believes her and lays out the reasons why. Excellent.
re: #512 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Harris!
Republicans are going to make Kamala Harris a rock star yet.
I confess. I figured Maj Republicans might have taken the break, said, wow that was terrible. Let’s have Mitchell shift gears. But I give them credit. They’re plowing full speed ahead with lighting themselves on fire.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 27, 2018
Harris points out that Kavanaugh hasn’t taken a polygraph, hasn’t called for an investigation, etc., but Dr. Ford has done all of those things.
re: #466 makeitstop
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From one of our lovely school board members—last week (of course, she denied that she did and and said it was probably friends of her kid’s who were at her house.)
re: #519 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Harris points out that Kavanaugh hasn’t taken a polygraph, hasn’t called for an investigation, etc., but Dr. Ford has done all of those things.
Good work Senator, she’s pointing out that Ford has done everything possible to establish herself as credible whereas Kavanaugh has only been using “my good name” and the Republicans who like his “good name.”
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell says McConnell is bluffing — he doesn’t have the votes to confirm Kavanaugh https://t.co/iKcYFRbY9V
— USNCPO #Resistance (@CraigCo62) September 27, 2018
re: #520 BeachDem
From one of our lovely school board members—last week (of course, she denied that she did and and said it was probably friends of her kid’s who were at her house.)
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This needs to be reiterated:
They’re plowing full speed ahead with lighting themselves on fire.
re: #518 Targetpractice
Oh c’mon Josh when have Repubs ever retreated from setting themselves on fire?
re: #521 HappyWarrior
Good work Senator, she’s pointing out that Ford has done everything possible to establish herself as credible whereas Kavanaugh has only been using “my good name” and the Republicans who like his “good name.”
HIS WIFE SAYS HES THE GREATEST WHAT MORE DO YOU PEOPLE WANT???!?!?!
Mitchell asks about other interactions she had with Kavanaugh. Blasey Ford says they were at four or five parties together. Mitchell asks if there were any incidents at those parties. Blasey Ford: “There was no sexual assault,” if that’s what you were asking.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
That’ll leave a mark.
re: #425 HappyWarrior
Seriously fuck the country club.
I can imagine how this would go down if I belonged to a country club.
“See here, Dr. R, we have reports that your daughter is a high profile liberal agitator in South Carolina, desecrating the very cradle of the Confederacy. We will need a statement from you disavowing this disreputable conduct or your membership status will be in question.”
“Fuck you. Your golf course sucks anyway.”
re: #526 Sir John Barron
HIS WIFE SAYS HES THE GREATEST WHAT MORE DO YOU PEOPLE WANT???!?!?!
I wonder if she’s seriously looking into a divorce attorney or telling him to get away from public life after this.
re: #519 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Harris points out that Kavanaugh hasn’t taken a polygraph, hasn’t called for an investigation, etc., but Dr. Ford has done all of those things.
Yeah but Kav went on Fox News for a very grueling interview, just the toughest interview.
//
re: #527 makeitstop
That’ll leave a mark.
Why did you keep going to parties with someone who supposedly assaulted you?!!??! Checkmate!
re: #298 MsJ
Thank god he didn’t get his mitts on BSkyB. The entirety of Europe would have been fucked and readily gone fascist.
Murdoch fucked the UK. And he would gladly do it to anywhere and everywhere else he could.
It is curious that whenever Murdoch made a move to purchase a majority stake in European broadcasting giant Sky, a scandal involving Murdoch entities would become public and force him into damage control.
e.g.
Phone voicemail hacking
Sexual harassment
News America Marketing
Interesting…
Seems to have kept him out of the EU.
GOP counsel basically just admitted this is bullshit.
Steve Schmidt surveys the landscape and sees…devastation.
By the time the sunsets in the west tonight there will be many many more House races in play. Look for a surge for Democratic candidates in US Senate races across the country.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) September 27, 2018
I feel bad for his daughters. Worse for Dr. Ford’s of course and her herself but I still feel bad for Kavanaugh’s daughters.
re: #478 HappyWarrior
That whole business the more I look at it was done by a bunch of projecting Republicans who had far bigger skeletons than Bill did. I think Bill definitely acted improperly with Monica but that wasn’t up to the Congress to decide. I do realize he was impeached for the perjury and not the affair itself but it shouldn’t have gotten to that point.
I don’t think someone with Bill Clinton’s history would survive a Democratic primary* today. And I’m on the fence about whether he should have been impeached. The investigation went way off the rails, which is why the independent counsel law was allowed to expire and the special counsel regulations were written as a replacement. But at the end of the day, he did lie under oath and he did likely try to obstruct justice.
*Given the current president, obviously claims of sexual assault is not a disqualifying factor in a Republican primary.
re: #525 Sir John Barron
Oh c’mon Josh when have Repubs ever retreated from setting themselves on fire?
I’m hesitant to say things like this because the disgusting, sewer-dwelling knuckledraggers of the GOPer base LOVE this sort of thing. The more GOPer policians behave in a way we think ought to be repulsive and off-putting, the more the trumpchump base gets off on it.
So…I can’t confidently claim that something truly is a disaster for GOPers until they lose election after election.*
*And if they don’t…I’m afraid it’s America that’s the disaster :/ Please, fate, let good Americans win for a change.
re: #534 makeitstop
Steve Schmidt surveys the landscape and sees…devastation.
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My Congresswoman who has known Kavanaugh longer than most of these guys hasn’t said a damn thing about this. It’s typical Barbara Comstock. Showy politics but at the end just a reliable team player for GOP.
The party was doomed to destroy itself from the moment Republicans embraced bigotry as a political strategy.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 27, 2018
re: #536 KGxvi
I don’t think someone with Bill Clinton’s history would survive a Democratic primary* today. And I’m on the fence about whether he should have been impeached. The investigation went way off the rails, which is why the independent counsel law was allowed to expire and the special counsel regulations were written as a replacement. But at the end of the day, he did lie under oath and he did likely try to obstruct justice.
*Given the current president, obviously claims of sexual assault is not a disqualifying factor in a Republican primary.
Correct.
This is insane. What on earth was accomplished here? Other than showing that republicans are terrible people, this was a pointless exercise to make this poor woman relive her attack.
Good god. Stop this farce. #NoKavanaughConfirmation— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
Is Ford done now?
Mitchell says she has no further questions.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
Everyone,
I want to thank you for watching what is happening and posting about it here. I want to know what is happening in solidarity with Dr. Ford. Looking away while she takes a bullet for millions….and it is millions…of us is not an option. But I simply cannot watch her testimony. My anxiety and PTSD have returned with a vengeance over the past 2 weeks and I am sure I am typical, not the exception.
Reading about it here is allowing me to participate without going into a spiral. And it’s been important to witness. So important for me and other women who are being impacted by this as I type.
Thanks.
re: #529 HappyWarrior
Either we believe/trust our life partners/spouse/beloved or we don’t.
And once that trust becomes suspect, it is very hard to restore.
She may be thinking that the sturdy floor beneath her feet just gave way.
cra·ven - ˈkrāvən
adjective
1. contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly.
“a craven abdication of his moral duty”
See also: Lindsey Graham— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 27, 2018
re: #548 Kragar
EVERYONE: Why in the world did GOP senators hire a female prosecutor to speak for them???
[Lindsey Graham talks to reporters for like 20 seconds]
EVERYONE: Ah! Got it. Understood— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) September 27, 2018
Just a thought…
After 14 years of marriage, I know not to make my wife mad.
And these mooks on Judiciary want to go out of their way to piss off millions of women?
Good luck with that, guys.
Well, after this “show” I had to write my good friend Rob Portman. Ohio Senator.
Read if you like…under the private button.
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Interesting that Sen Kennedy (R-La) asked about the sworn statements and why the minority members of the committee were not there…specifically asked whether they were invited or not. Grassley said they refused to attend, Feinstein and others were all “wait just a minute there…”
Grassley then thanked Dr Ford and summarily recessed the hearing.
FFS CNN… -_-
CNN is talking about how this testimony is more effective than Anita Hill’s because Ford comes off as more “vulnerable”. YOU GUYS it’s because white women are seen as vulnerable and needing protection while black women are not. It’s called implicit bias. #KavanaughHearings
— salty mango (@saltymang0) September 27, 2018
re: #552 Backwoods_Sleuth
Interesting that Sen Kennedy (R-La) asked about the sworn statements and why the minority members of the committee were not there…specifically asked whether they were invited or not. Grassley said they refused to attend, Feinstein and others were all “wait just a minute there…”
Grassley then thanked Dr Ford and summarily recessed the hearing.
It always gets fun when a Republican realizes that his/her fellow Republicans aren’t on the up and up.
#Utah?? Come get @OrrinHatch. He’s very lost. He can be picked up at the Capitol #LostandFound
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) September 27, 2018
Rachel Mitchell doesn’t care what happened to Dr. Ford. She is trying to construct a conspiracy about how it was handled after the fact to attack her. They are stuck in their batshit crazy Benghazi / Pizzagate mindset.
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) September 27, 2018
This playbook gets trotted out for everything, no matter how wildly inappropriate. https://t.co/4c3VxDqwA4
— Ed Bott (@edbott) September 27, 2018
Wow, Cornyn’s statement now makes it clear the GOP spin is to say this should have been done in private. SHE ASKED FOR AN FBI INVESTIGATION, YOU LYING MONSTERS.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) September 27, 2018
Update on the proposed robot brothel in Houston. Opponents identified, and they are out there, even by Texas standards.
Keep Your Filthy Sexbots Out of Our City, Christians in Houston Demand. But Why?
A Christian group called Elijah Rising is up in arms about plans for a brothel in Houston. Here’s the twist: The comely workers in the proposed den of vice aren’t human. They’re real-looking, silicone, anatomically correct representations of young women, with various moving parts like lips, eyes, and fingers.
Among other things, the nutburgers propose that robo-sex will somehow make the sexual exploitation of children worse. Obviously they want to keep sex where fundies think it belongs, between a woman and her pastor at the Motel 6.
JUST IN: Authorities find body believed to be Maddox Ritch, missing 6-year-old North Carolina boy with autism. https://t.co/tCP1fYWm35
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 27, 2018
re: #557 Scottish Dragon
Graham is melting down again.
I know we shouldn’t be focusing on 2020 yet, but the South Carolina Democratic Party better have a very good candidate lined up to challenge Graham.
re: #561 jaunte
“We’re terribly sorry for this hearing now that it is blowing up in our faces and can’t understand why this wasn’t all just kept private and hush-hush.”
re: #562 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Update on the proposed robot brothel in Houston. Opponents identified, and they are out there, even by Texas standards.
Keep Your Filthy Sexbots Out of Our City, Christians in Houston Demand. But Why?
Among other things, the nutburgers propose that robo-sex will somehow make the sexual exploitation of children worse. Obviously they want to keep sex where fundies think it belongs, between a woman and her pastor at the Motel 6.
robot brothels?
re: #557 Scottish Dragon
Graham is melting down again.
Good, maybe we can beat him when he’s up, that is he’s not replaced by someone even worse.
re: #561 jaunte
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That’s why we were asking for a FBI investigation you stupid fuck who posts photos of sushi and cries about how “gross” it is to people he thinks only eat steaks.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is real and Lindsey Graham is a pod person.
re: #565 Sir John Barron
“We thought we could make her out to be an airbrained slut, but she knows what sequelae, hippocampus, and collegiality mean.”
re: #564 KGxvi
I know we shouldn’t be focusing on 2020 yet, but the South Carolina Democratic Party better have a very good candidate lined up to challenge Graham.
Hey BD, maybe our pal Sellers can go right into the fold. SC needs to replace Lindsay badly even more than they do Scott at this point.
re: #570 Scottish Dragon
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is real and Lindsey Graham is a pod person.
I just wish McCain were here to kick his ass. But then again, I really don’t know for sure how McCain would handle this whole thing either.
Senator Graham is complaining that he felt ambushed by the allegations against Kavanaugh. You know who felt ambushed? Dr. Ford felt ambushed when Kavanaugh & Judge pushed her into a room, locked the door & sexually assaulted her.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 27, 2018
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says Dems “set it up” to push the confirmation past the midterms. “I feel ambushed,” he says. He says that although she claims to be “100%” certain, she can’t say how she got to the party or got home, and Kavanaugh is 100% certain he didn’t do it.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
Oh, shut the fuck up, Butters
It’s always necessary to quickly shut off C-SPAN as soon as they start taking calls, because it’s the TV version of the Breitbart comment section. One crazy after another, as the announcers blandly act like nothing is fucked up.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 27, 2018
re: #564 KGxvi
I know we shouldn’t be focusing on 2020 yet, but the South Carolina Democratic Party better have a very good candidate lined up to challenge Graham.
I will donate from here in Texas to any woman that runs against him.
Plausible.
Theory: Rachel Mitchell believes Dr. Ford.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 27, 2018
The abject ineffectuality of her questioning, along with its time-squanderin pacing, makes this theory less crazy than it seems. https://t.co/GaiCRmtcVT
— John Heilemann (@jheil) September 27, 2018
re: #574 jaunte
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Maybe you should have gone into Kavanaugh’s nomination unbiased instead of with a pre-decided judgment that you thought Kavanaugh was great, you stupid fuck. And yes that too. You weren’t ambushed. You were just unprepared to deal with the truth that a guy whose character you have spoken highly of turns out to be a shtity person.
re: #578 makeitstop
If Mitchell’s normal gig is as a prosecutor of sex crimes, then putting her in the position of a defense attorney was probably a very bad idea. She’s the sort of person that would be inclined to believe a victim.
re: #575 makeitstop
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Oh, shut the fuck up, Butters
Oh Shit!! Why did you do that??? From now on Lindsey will ALWAYS be Butters…….
re: #571 jaunte
“We thought we could make her out to be an airbrained slut, but she knows what sequelae, hippocampus, and collegiality mean.”
“The whole thing has been terribly unfair to us.”
My God what a flailing gibberish-spouting mess @LindseyGrahamSC has become.
— John Heilemann (@jheil) September 27, 2018
Yeah, sheer desperation will do that.
re: #564 KGxvi
I know we shouldn’t be focusing on 2020 yet, but the South Carolina Democratic Party better have a very good candidate lined up to challenge Graham.
In my dreams, it’s Bakari Sellers, but my dreams don’t always (seldom) come true.
re: #564 KGxvi
I know we shouldn’t be focusing on 2020 yet, but the South Carolina Democratic Party better have a very good candidate lined up to challenge Graham.
Yeah: Ol’ Lindsey’s “threats” ring just a tad hollow: even if, say, we FF to 2021 (assuming Graham’s still in the Senate) - President Harris* sends up a capable, middle-of-the-road replacement for RBG: what’s he going to do? Blatantly flog some phony, ginned-up “scandal” in the Senate to try to derail the candidate? Even leaving aside the fact that a future Dem President is likely to do a way better job of vetting a SCOTUS nominee can the current Admin** , the Senate is probably going to have a (D) Majority in any case - so Lindsey’s revenge fantasy looks even lamer…
* we can dream, can;t we?
** low bar, etc.
re: #581 Dave In Austin
Oh Shit!! Why did you do that??? From now on Lindsey will ALWAYS be Butters…….
Andrew Sullivan started calling him Butters years ago, at least as far back as 2010.
re: #539 Scottish Dragon
Jesus here he goes again.
I’m reading down the comments, but I take it you are talking about Lindsey Graham’s latest comments.
All I can say is…why the hell did no one ask him if he is so damned concerned and upset the Democrats are delaying so they can win the election and control the nomination…where was his upset with Mitch blocking Obama.
Our media failed us, again. Come on this isn’t that hard.
To me blocking Obama’s nomination of Garland was historic and should be at the front of the mind of anyone doing political coverage.
re: #397 goddamnedfrank
Lindsey Graham just had an incredibly shitty little meltdown in the hallway.
Did someone find his Adam4Adam account?
re: #546 BlueGrl21
Everyone,
I want to thank you for watching what is happening and posting about it here. I want to know what is happening in solidarity with Dr. Ford. Looking away while she takes a bullet for millions….and it is millions…of us is not an option. But I simply cannot watch her testimony. My anxiety and PTSD have returned with a vengeance over the past 2 weeks and I am sure I am typical, not the exception.
Reading about it here is allowing me to participate without going into a spiral. And it’s been important to witness. So important for me and other women who are being impacted by this as I type.
Thanks.
For an older white male, I agree 100%
No trauma or PTSD here and
I can’t watch
re: #578 makeitstop
Plausible.
David Corn ✔
@DavidCornDC
Theory: Rachel Mitchell believes Dr. Ford.2:04 PM - Sep 27, 2018
Ha, I floated that idea earlier. I said she might become sympathetic.
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