Savagely Hilarious: Samantha Bee on Brett Kavanaugh’s So-Called Ruined Life
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Poor Brett Kavanaugh. If he doesn’t get to have the best possible job of all time, his life will be absolutely destroyed.
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Tweet of the Day at kos (it really is perfect)
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— PJHUME (@PJHUME) September 27, 2018
Hey, it got me into medical school.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 28, 2018
Kav’s furious hyper-partisan airing of anti-Democratic grievance amounts to a confession of his inability to approach cases without deeply emotional partisan bias.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) September 27, 2018
We may never know about his sexual history, but we do know this… https://t.co/PY1ecmlFVg
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) September 27, 2018
I still can’t believe Kavanaugh attributed accusations against him to a conspiracy concocted by the Clintons.
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) September 28, 2018
Given that he literally spent millions of dollars investigating Vince Foster’s suicide after the question had been long settled, I can! https://t.co/ym1SOSbQCx
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) September 28, 2018
re: #2 Ace-o-aces
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I just don’t know how anyone can realistically say there isn’t institutionalized sexism in this country after today. Between Kavanaugh and Graham’s meltdown. I can’t imagine any woman judge or Senator having a meltdown and then being taken seriously after that. In fact, I imagine she’d be mocked heavily. Kavanaugh isn’t fit for the Supreme Court or honestly any court. And he already seems to be wanting revenge. I don’t know if it’s ego, delusion, or pure deflection but that he really thinks that this is a conspiracy to get him says a lot. He was a shitty candidate before Dr. Ford’s allegations came out, to be frank a mediocre man sold as a great man but after Ford’s allegations and his temper tantrum on the Senate, he’s nothing more than a pathetic old frat boy who never grew up who was given way too much power when GWB gave him his current job.
The grace and sagacity of America’s Next Top Conservative Intellectual™, ladies and gentlemen. pic.twitter.com/FPabpJ95vc
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) September 28, 2018
NEW: The American Bar Association calls on Senate Judiciary Committee to halt Kavanaugh proceedings until after the FBI completes a probe of the sexual assault allegations, effectively siding with Democrats. https://t.co/auHhznj8FY
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 28, 2018
re: #4 Ace-o-aces
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He really is pathetic. And stlll my Congressman Barbara Comstock says nothing about her old friend Brett but you can be damn sure she would if he were Clinton connected and acting this way.
re: #6 Ace-o-aces
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I really hate that loathsome toad. I don’t know what happened between Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo that day but I do know that Maria was the same age as Christine Ford when it happened and she had nothing to do with it or the decision not to file criminal charges. Ben Shapiro again showing why he needs to be kneed in the balls rather than debated.
re: #7 teleskiguy
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That’s pretty big though the right has been convinced that the ABA are just liberals for some time.
re: #10 HappyWarrior
Alan Dershowitz: Postpone Kavanaugh confirmation until FBI can investigate accusations against him https://t.co/EaqAtoEC2y
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 28, 2018
re: #11 teleskiguy
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Well I’ll be. But then again Dersh mostly sides with the R’s for foreign policy reasons.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
Well I’ll be. But then again Dersh mostly sides with the R’s for foreign policy reasons.
Dersh is just a fifth columnist for Booby Nincompoopo
One can’t help but to notice that he always always without fail saves his condescending shit for women. I mean don’t get me wrong BS is an asshole to men but he saves his most condescending shit for women. I bet his wife and daughter love seeing that.
re: #13 Joe Bacon 🌹
Dersh is just a fifth columnist for Booby Nincompoopo
Right and what Bibi wants doesn’t impact SCOTUS that much so I guess it’s natural that he’s okay with an investigation here happening for Judge Dickface.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was a powerful witness whose credibility really cannot be questioned by thinking people. Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath when he said he didn’t watch or listen to Dr. Ford’s testimony. He heard it. It made him angry. And it showed in Kavanaugh’s testimony.
Brett Kavanaugh didn’t discount that Dr. Ford had been sexually assaulted, he denied entirely that it was him. Maybe he believes it … because he was *blackout drunk* when he jumped on Dr. Ford in that locked bedroom, with his other very drunk friend Mark Judge keeping watch.
My best friend’s daughter:
I’ll never forget the time I was up in a frat house dorm room in a group of 4 or 6 and I laid back on the bed in what I thought was a cute stretch and the girls I was with were immediately like “no no no no no no Anneka get up”
— Anneka Gerhardt (@AnnekaGerhardt) September 28, 2018
re: #17 wheat-dogg
My best friend’s daughter:
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I have to admit I always felt a little uncomfortable at frat houses.
“Not only was a potential justice on the highest court raging against one of the country’s two major political parties, but he was also leveling a serious allegation — that the process itself was being manipulated.” https://t.co/IoPkP6sn3W
— Mark Berman (@markberman) September 28, 2018
re: #19 Single-handed sailor
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And….the man who nominated him enjoyed every second of it.
Kavanaugh was disgraceful today. I get why Trump and his cult followers like him. His performance was shameful. He acted like an entitled teenager - even going so far as to redefine obviously misogynistic slang. Give me a fucking break. On top of that he showed himself to be an blatant partisan. Just like Trump has demeaned the presidency, this conformation will demean the SCOTUS. Fucking sad day for America :(
re: #21 Single-handed sailor
Whoa.
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Trump and the GOPers in Congress ignored the ABA on Gorsuch, they sure as fuck ain’t gonna care about what they have to say about Kavanaugh now.
The brass ring of a SCOTUS dominated by their ilk for a generation or more is just within their reach, they just have to push through what resistance is being given and they sure as fuck are going for broke on this one.
if you were in a cafe and somebody there started acting like fratboy brett was acting today, you would leave the cafe
“I am innocent and I don’t want the FBI to investigate!”
Weeps tears of desperation.— Christopher Titus (@TitusNation) September 27, 2018
‘Naugh appears to be an Opus Dei Catholic out of guilt and shame. A true believer for his past sins. In other words, a fanatic. But he continues to sin. He brazenly lies. He does not confess past sins, whether venal (drunkedness), or mortal, like attempted rape (thy shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods), or bearing false witness (whenever he opens his mouth). And don’t get me started about his gambling debts disguised as “baseball ticket” purchases.
In other words, he’s a really rotten Catholic, much less an Opus Dei Catholic (my sister is one, don’t get me started). There’s a reason the Jebbies dumped him today. He is not what he presents himself to be. He’s a lying piece of shit and even the Catholic hierarchy in the US recognizes it.
BUT, that aligns him with Drumpf and the Republican Senate. They’re all asshole buddies on this! He’s their perfect SCOTUS candidate. He’s also the perfect Koch candidate. He’ll protect Drumpf, he’ll protect Citizens United, he’ll vote to gut the New Deal, 60’s and more modern programs, and he’ll do it for thirty years. Adios, Social Security, the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the Voting Rights Act, and Obergefell. Not to mention Roe.
Just like he tried to yank off Ford’s one-piece bathing suit and fuck her, he’s going to vote to yank the social safety net out from under us and fuck 99% of the US population. He’s a disease literally 25 years in the making, since Newt’s Contract For (On) America, writ large and in our faces. He’s our worst nightmare
And Drumpf’s base is going to support that.
Register. Vote the fuckers out of office. Take back the country. These are not our values. This is not what we are.
The. Opposition. Is. Stupid. Fucking. White. People.
Fuck them right in the earhole. They deserve it, despite the fact that we are trying to save them from their own idiocy.
Here’s an adult dose of weird, just ‘cause.
動く壁紙買ってみた。画面がうるせぇ pic.twitter.com/9GMSyw3OVL
— 紫怨👾 (@necotaru) September 26, 2018
I’m no psychology professor but it does seem weird to me that someone could have a selective fear of flying.
Can’t do it to testify but for vacation, well it’s not a problem at all.— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 27, 2018
your dad is a fat bitch who is scared of stairs https://t.co/2L81I4V7qZ
— BobsBurgersJon (@BobsBurgersJon) September 27, 2018
I don’t care for body shaming but this made me LOLOLOL https://t.co/ssS9yzmg32
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) September 27, 2018
So Maria Shriver should be held responsible for something her uncle did when she was 13, but Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t be held responsible for his own actions at 17?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 28, 2018
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
NEW: The American Bar Association calls on Senate Judiciary Committee to halt Kavanaugh proceedings until after the FBI completes a probe of the sexual assault allegations, effectively siding with Democrats. https://t.co/FKPFQ8IXde— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly 📢 (@AynRandPaulRyan) September 28, 2018
How disastrous were the hearings today? Both the American Bar Association and American Magazine (the main Jesuit affiliated media outlet in the US) both withdrew their recommendations of Kavanaugh until a full FBI investigation can be conducted. https://t.co/4rFdEcIn8f
— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 28, 2018
#NowPlaying Great Lake Swimmers > A Forest of Arms > I Was a Wayward Pastel Bay https://t.co/WZxiHp8Ept
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 28, 2018
Was Kavanaugh’s tirade spontaneous or was it prepared perhaps by someone in the WH? I did not watch the circus and so have no way to evaluate the presentation.
#NowPlaying Sturgill Simpson > A Sailor’s Guide To Earth > In Bloom https://t.co/0uZ8UTzELi
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 26, 2018
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
I’m guessing it was entitled rich white dude privilege, with a bit of encouragement from WH “Yeah, he LOVES it when you act like a complete shitball!” “OK, so I’ll just go be myself.”
I saw this pic of Lindsey Graham…
…and I immediately thought of an episode of “Big Bang Theory”, where Penny tries to get Amy to ‘make a scene’ so Sheldon will know how upset she is. Amy can’t pull it off, but then Raj goes on a rant about how they all ignore his feelings.
And Penny says, “And THAT’S how a girl makes a scene.”
BTW, the proper response to Lindsey’s attack of the vapors by the next Dem up would have been the slow clap. But even better would be, while he was doing it, to mime jerking off.
Kavanaugh’s entire performance in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/dhl8DMI6mw
— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 28, 2018
Ya know, if white men insist on keeping everything skewed towards ourselves, so that we overwhelmingly reap the benefits of the American System, there will come a time when anyone who isn’t a white man will stop feeling loyalty to that system. And there are more of them than there are of us.
re: #39 Blind Frog Belly White
Ya know, if white men insist on keeping everything skewed towards them, so that we overwhelmingly reap the benefits of the American System, there will come a time when anyone who isn’t a white man will stop feeling loyalty to that system. And there are more of them than there are of us.
Samantha has already threatened to come after their “rapist friends”…white male genocide in the making!!!
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re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Samantha has already threatened to come after their “rapist friends”…white male genocide in the making!!!
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This is where the party ends.
I can’t stand here listening to you,
And your rapist friend.
I know politics bore you,
But I feel like a hypocrite talking you,
And your rapist friend.
re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White
This is where the party ends.
I can’t stand here listening to you,
And your rapist friend.
I know politics bore you,
But I feel like a hypocrite talking you,
And your rapist friend.
Boy howdy, I am so gonna steal those lyrics for the next time I play that song…
re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Boy howdy, I am so gonna steal those lyrics for the next time I play that song…
And I only had to change one letter. Twice.
re: #44 Blind Frog Belly White
And I only had to change one letter. Twice.
There is room to expand on that…
Out in the Senate floor and in the Congress hallways
Your friends insist on doing it the Kavanaugh way
He let the contents of the bottles do the thinking
Can’t hold a woman down and say you’re only kidding
One minor thing but it speaks to the degree of modern conservative insanity and hypocrisy:
Imagine the uproar among the Pizzagaters / QANON fuckwits if a Democratic SCOTUS nominee like Merrick Garland had left a “Devil’s Triangle” reference in their yearbook?— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 28, 2018
re: #30 goddamnedfrank
here’s what the jesuits had to say about it:
The Editors: It is time for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn
americamagazine.org
Dr. Blasey’s accusations have neither been fully investigated nor been proven to a legal standard, but neither have they been conclusively disproved or shown to be less than credible. Judge Kavanaugh continues to enjoy a legal presumption of innocence, but the standard for a nominee to the Supreme Court is far higher; there is no presumption of confirmability. The best of the bad resolutions available in this dilemma is for Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to be withdrawn.
#NowPlaying Michael Doucet & Tom Rigney > Cajun Fandango > Last Will and Testament https://t.co/TQJchngqj5
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 28, 2018
The French take this morning overwhelmingly seems to be that BK’s crocodile tears were less than convincing.
Also some writers pointed out the lack of interrogating potential witnesses, and some contradictions in BK’s story.
Popular newsite Mediapart concludes that “Republicans now have only lies and intox to get their man through.” (intox meaning propaganda in this context).
re: #11 teleskiguy
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Wow. So even Alan believes a FBI investigation needs to be conducted. Even ALAN.
And it’s blindingly obvious that the reason Kav and his supporters don’t want an FBI investigation is because DEAR GOD PLEASE DON’T LET A TRAINED INVESTIGATOR SPEAK TO MARK JUDGE!!
Maybe because of what happened in that room with that woman, or maybe because of what happened in lots of other rooms with lots of other women…
re: #36 Blind Frog Belly White
I saw this pic of Lindsey Graham…
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…and I immediately thought of an episode of “Big Bang Theory”, where Penny tries to get Amy to ‘make a scene’ so Sheldon will know how upset she is. Amy can’t pull it off, but then Raj goes on a rant about how they all ignore his feelings.
And Penny says, “And THAT’S how a girl makes a scene.”
So, having slept on it, what were Kav and Lindsey and the rest of them really so angry about? Did they not think we should have heard from Ford? Are they angry that her letter was leaked or that news that a letter existed was leaked? How did they really want the process to play out?
re: #54 Sir John Barron
So, having slept on it, what were Kav and Lindsey and the rest of them really so angry about? Did they not think we should have heard from Ford? Are they angry that her letter was leaked or that news that a letter existed was leaked? How did they really want the process to play out?
Republicans Engineered a “She Said, He Said” Hearing, and It Turned Out Just How They Wanted
Blasey Ford was like Hillary Clinton, enduring bullshit questioning.
Kavanaugh was like Donald Trump, spewing spite and invective.
The ABA has requested a halt to Kav’s confirmation til the FBI investigation is complete.
The Jesuits (who run Kav’s school) has withdrawn its support of him.
But GOP is going 2 force this terrifyingly emotional, hyper partisan, drunken abuser into another lifetime appointment.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 28, 2018
re: #57 MsJ
The ABA has requested a halt to Kav’s confirmation til the FBI investigation is complete.
The Jesuits (who run Kav’s school) has withdrawn its support of him.
But GOP is going 2 force this terrifyingly emotional, hyper partisan, drunken abuser into another lifetime appointment.
They have always put their interests and ideology above any sense of decency or propriety.
The prosecutor hired by the Republicans on the @senjudiciary was on the verge of proving Dr. Ford’s claim through the details, including names, on Kavanaugh’s calendar.
“to Timmy’s for skis w/Judge, Tom, PJ, Bernie, Squi”
If the FBI can’t investigate, Twitter will. pic.twitter.com/1Xl2x2RPNR— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) September 28, 2018
I woke up after trying to sleep on all of this. And I feel just as helpless as I did last night.
Kennedy retiring and the GOP getting to immediately name his successor was terrible, but the entire fucking process really shows how much the GOP utterly seems to control every aspect of the process, to where it doesn’t fucking matter how many organizations stand up, scream to be heard, show their credible anguish, It doesn’t matter.
The GOP controls it all, and they revel in your fucking anguish. They revel in women being shown that they will be brought back into the fucking kitchen barefoot, back to the days where martial rape wasn’t just not a crime but a husband’s duty. They revel knowing there’s a naked partisan, with no veneer of judicial restraint or objectivism, will be on the court and enabling the at least thinly-veiled partisans to institute all the conservative unicorns they can.
They own this fucking country, and not even electoral wins will be able to undo the damage at this point. They own us forever and are constantly reminding us, taunting us that we don’t matter. Dems don’t matter. PoC don’t matter. Women don’t matter. They all own it forever and will make sure they never ever let it go again.
That’s what this process has thrown into my face: the GOP letting this shitshow go on just to show how helpless we really are in the face of their fucking unstoppable power. Popular opinion be damned, because the ‘real Americans’ who actually matter will love it. We’re just servants and serfs to abuse.
re: #59 Patricia Kayden
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Hmmm wonder if this guy was on the list of people praising Kavanaugh?
Screamy McRape Rape is going to get confirmed, isn’t he?
I’m trying to imagine HRC going all Kave-ragey on Sean Hannity for the Seth Rich conspiracies.
Imagine how RWNJ or your typical GOPer would react to that.
re: #62 b.d.(true to form)
Screamy McRape Rape is going to get confirmed, isn’t he?
Again: The GOP will lose face with its base if it backs down, and that will cost them vital support. They will also lose votes with the sane and humane part of the electorate if they nominate him.
Which is why I expect that they will just swallow their own vomit and vote him in, they can try to recover the lost support in upcoming elections, but then they will have their man installed for life
re: #62 b.d.(true to form)
Screamy McRape Rape is going to get confirmed, isn’t he?
I hate to say it but the odds favor him. He’s going to be incapable of ruling independently. There already were imo legitimate questions about that but now? I’m afraid that this is another step towards Republican dominance of scotus. We need to win this fall.
re: #19 Single-handed sailor
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“Not only was a potential justice on the highest court raging against one of the country’s two major political parties, but he was also leveling a serious allegation — that the process itself was being manipulated.”
Yes, the process was/is being manipulated … but it’s not the Democratic Party doing the manipulating.
re: #63 Sir John Barron
I’m trying to imagine HRC going all Kave-ragey on Sean Hannity for the Seth Rich conspiracies.
Imagine how RWNJ or your typical GOPer would react to that.
Or that Benghazi investigations were politically motivated to weaken her. Kavanaugh is a prick undeserving of this position or any of authority.
Wasn’t it Grassley yesterday who cited the ABA as one of the agencies that had looked into Kavanaugh and given him its “gold seal” or some such shit, thus “proving” that there was nothing to the allegations made against him?
re: #62 b.d.(true to form)
Screamy McRape Rape is going to get confirmed, isn’t he?
It’s almost a certainty.
re: #63 Sir John Barron
I’m trying to imagine HRC going all Kave-ragey on Sean Hannity for the Seth Rich conspiracies.
Imagine how RWNJ or your typical GOPer would react to that.
Remember her vast right wing conspiracy comment back during Bill’s tenure and how they reacted.
re: #67 HappyWarrior
Or that Benghazi investigations were politically motivated to weaken her. Kavanaugh is a prick undeserving of this position or any of authority.
Right. Can you imagine the GOP Fox News response to HRC yelling at the Benghazi committee for 11 hours about this was all an anti-Obama Admin coup and that her life has been ruined, etc.
re: #68 Targetpractice
Wasn’t it Grassley yesterday who cited the ABA as one of the agencies that had looked into Kavanaugh and given him its “gold seal” or some such shit, thus “proving” that there was nothing to the allegations made against him?
Kavanaugh himself certainly relied on the ABA seal of approval during his rant yesterday.
I have judicial skills, can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? pic.twitter.com/aiOHaqb38i
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) September 28, 2018
re: #68 Targetpractice
Wasn’t it Grassley yesterday who cited the ABA as one of the agencies that had looked into Kavanaugh and given him its “gold seal” or some such shit, thus “proving” that there was nothing to the allegations made against him?
Today the ABA will be attacked as a George Soros front that ran the pizza-gate child abuse ring.
re: #71 Sir John Barron
Right. Can you imagine the GOP Fox News response to HRC yelling at the Benghazi committee for 11 hours about this was all an anti-Obama Admin coup and that her life has been ruined, etc.
Right but it’s perfectly acceptable behavior for Kavanaugh to ask Senator Klobuchar if she’s ever blacked out and shit like that. He’s not going to be independent on the bench. It was an issue before yesterday. It’s really one today but they don’t want an arbitrator, they want a right wing hack.
re: #65 HappyWarrior
I hate to say it but the odds favor him. He’s going to be incapable of ruling independently. There already were imo legitimate questions about that but now? I’m afraid that this is another step towards Republican dominance of scotus. We need to win this fall.
We need to win big now and in 2 years, add two more seats to the court and keep buying Kavanaugh booze, he doesn’t look too healthy.
re: #76 b.d.(true to form)
We need to win big now and in 2 years, add two more seats to the court and keep buying Kavanaugh booze, he doesn’t look too healthy.
What I’m worried about is how much legislation is going to be erased in that time. It took years to enact it and it will easily be gone. See that imo is why it’s incorrect to label them judicial conservatives. They don’t respect precedent.
George W. Bush has called several moderate Republican senators and Manchin to whip votes for Kavanaugh, per people briefed. Trump, who doesn’t like Bush, has far less sway with the key voters. https://t.co/txBatZRHo2
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 28, 2018
Remember when he gave a piece of candy to Michelle Obama and everyone forgot how terrible he is for a minute? lol good times https://t.co/IEvgSsj72L
— shauna (@goldengateblond) September 28, 2018
re: #77 HappyWarrior
What I’m worried about is how much legislation is going to be erased in that time. It took years to enact it and it will easily be gone. See that imo is why it’s incorrect to label them judicial conservatives. They don’t respect precedent.
they are ideologues
re: #74 Sir John Barron
Today the ABA will be attacked as a George Soros front that ran the pizza-gate child abuse ring.
Nah, they will be completely ignored.
re: #78 MsJ
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Ahh there’s the artist formerly known as the worst president in my lifetime before Trump.
Thread.
1. If any woman had a meltdown like Kav and many Republicans yesterday, they would be laughed out of their jobs.
How are these people being lauded? It was offensive watching them scream and yell and froth at the mouth.
America, we have a real problem.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 28, 2018
re: #81 HappyWarrior
Ahh there’s the artist formerly known as the worst president in my lifetime before Trump.
I actually find Dubya’s involving himself to get Kav confirmed far more disturbing. It’s proof that the GOP went off the rails long ago (everyone here knows that).
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they are ideologues
Masquerading as umpires like Roberts. We need to build an alternative to the Federalist Society where we can create a farm system of intelligent attorneys to influence and advise on policy the way the FS has.
re: #83 MsJ
I actually find Dubya’s involving himself to get Kav confirmed far more disturbing. It’s proof that the GOP went off the rails long ago (everyone here knows that).
No doubt. I know he’s very close to Kavanaugh but damn.
Evangelical groups have anti-Roe v Wade lawsuits ready to file the second Kavanaugh is confirmed.
re: #86 GlutenFreeJesus
Evangelical groups have anti-Roe v Wade lawsuits ready to file the second Kavanaugh is confirmed.
And a drunkard Catholic boy will be the one that gives it to them. You couldn’t write this script.
re: #75 HappyWarrior
That was outrageous. She should have told him that she wasn’t there to answer his questions since she want a SCOTUS nominee.
re: #89 Patricia Kayden
That was outrageous. She should have told him that she wasn’t there to answer his questions since she want a SCOTUS nominee.
Exactly. Fucking asshole. Deflect deflect.
re: #82 MsJ
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The worst part is something I’ve mentioned before, where we’ve gone from feigned institutional ignorance to open institutional contempt. We’ve gone from behavior being shrugged off as ‘just the way it is, isn’t it?’ to ‘who cares if you got hurt, who cares if you know it’s wrong, we’re fucking you anyway’.
Before there was plausible deniability of certain things, before they were given sunlight. Now, shits out in the open, you have feminist movements, #MeToo, you have civil rights leading to BLM and all of it….and the powers that be, after ensuring they have all the levers, are standing in the face of it, and saying ‘we don’t care, we know it’s wrong, but we have all the fucking power so you simply don’t fucking matter’.
It’s purposeful, intentional erasure. It’s looking us straight in the eye and telling us ‘you are beneath us and that’s why we’ll win, forever.’ And it’s fucking working.
Spare us your fake outrage @LindseyGrahamSC #KavanaughHearings pic.twitter.com/2FqAbwHWAk
— paul cercone (@pcercone) September 27, 2018
re: #60 Citizen K
Elections have consequences and for some reason Americans have decided to turn the entire Congress over to Republicans. We can expect much worse if Republicans maintain control after November.
If this is how Brett Kavanaugh behaves in front of the United States Senate and the American people, how does he behave in private when millions of eyes aren’t on him? It’s shocking. What his judicial temperament? #KavanaghHearing
— Bob Duff (@senatorduff) September 27, 2018
re: #94 Patricia Kayden
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The replies are depressing. Some of them raise a good point. Dr. Ford has experienced the same scrutiny including threats and didn’t act like this. I’m tired of right wingers and their excuses for punk ass drunk assholes like this.
re: #91 Citizen K
The worst part is something I’ve mentioned before, where we’ve gone from feigned institutional ignorance to open institutional contempt. We’ve gone from behavior being shrugged off as ‘just the way it is, isn’t it?’ to ‘who cares if you got hurt, who cares if you know it’s wrong, we’re fucking you anyway’.
Before there was plausible deniability of certain things, before they were given sunlight. Now, shits out in the open, you have feminist movements, #MeToo, you have civil rights leading to BLM and all of it….and the powers that be, after ensuring they have all the levers, are standing in the face of it, and saying ‘we don’t care, we know it’s wrong, but we have all the fucking power so you simply don’t fucking matter’.
It’s purposeful, intentional erasure. It’s looking us straight in the eye and telling us ‘you are beneath us and that’s why we’ll win, forever.’ And it’s fucking working.
I think you illustrated why I’m so depressed by it. You’re right. It’s going from feigned ignorance to outright contempt.
One thing that really pissed me off yesterday: Bart O’KKK, complaining and comparing himself to Bork. Fuck any and everyone who claims Bork was treated unfair, or compares themselves to judge Neckbeard.
re: #62 b.d.(true to form)
Screamy McRape Rape is going to get confirmed, isn’t he?
Probably. If the Committee votes as scheduled this morning, its almost certain. If the vote gets “postponed”, then Kavanaugh’s sunk.
re: #97 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
One thing that really pissed me off yesterday: Bart O’KKK, complaining and comparing himself to Bork. Fuck any and everyone who claims Bork was treated unfair, or compares themselves to judge Neckbeard.
Bork proved the system worked. The President nominated Kavanaugh. The Senate with six Republicans rejected him. Checks and balances as was intended. You can’t cry about Bork and insist what happened to Garland was just. Bork was rejected after being given a chance to make his case. The Reagan Administration chose an extremist partisan and it backfired.
re: #63 Sir John Barron
I’m trying to imagine HRC going all Kave-ragey on Sean Hannity for the Seth Rich conspiracies.
Imagine how RWNJ or your typical GOPer would react to that.
I don’t have to imagine. I remember their reaction to her interview when she talked about the vast rightwing conspiracy.
re: #99 HappyWarrior
Back then there were still republicans that cared. That is no longer the case today.
re: #100 Big Beautiful Door
I don’t have to imagine. I remember their reaction to her interview when she talked about the vast rightwing conspiracy.
Which funnily enough is how Kavanaugh made his bones. How can we expect anyone who has Kavanaugh’s record to rule impartially? Twenty years from now the Republicans will make a big deal of a judicial nominee were so much as friendly terms with Mueller investigators.
The Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee failed to delve into facts that could have corroborated Ford. It’s astonishing to me b/c the door was opened by the Republican’s counsel, Mitchell. 1/
— Del Quentin Wilber (@DelWilber) September 28, 2018
Dems were almost completely ineffective yesterday, IMO. They would have been better off giving Mitchell the time they spent on iterations 150-300 of “Why won’t you ask for an FBI investigation?” https://t.co/3u0GvJVbBI
— Sam Baker (@sam_baker) September 28, 2018
True to an extent, but at the same time this part of the process was as rigged as every other. Grassley’s five minute rounds were designed to make it impossible for any one senator to pursue a line of inquiry and to allow Kavanaugh to eat into senators’ time by being impertinent. https://t.co/6k3TG3Qv7Z
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 28, 2018
This. No one is saying Democrats should never be criticized, but liberals have got to remember: You can’t use power if you don’t have it. https://t.co/KfnZjO5L70
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) September 28, 2018
re: #101 GlutenFreeJesus
Back then there were still republicans that cared. That is no longer the case today.
I know. I’m merely pointing out that Kavanaugh continuing to push Bork as a victim is straight out of the right wing mythology book.
re: #86 GlutenFreeJesus
Evangelical groups have anti-Roe v Wade lawsuits ready to file the second Kavanaugh is confirmed.
The Circuit Courts are already ignoring Supreme Court precedent in anticipation of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, affirming state regulations designed to shut down clinics.
re: #68 Targetpractice
Wasn’t it Grassley yesterday who cited the ABA as one of the agencies that had looked into Kavanaugh and given him its “gold seal” or some such shit, thus “proving” that there was nothing to the allegations made against him?
The ABA looks at the candidate’s credentials and skill to be on the judiciary. It is not an endorsement per se. They’re a nonpartisan organization looking to basic competency.
The ABA has found several of Trump’s picks unqualified for the judiciary.
Here, they’re withdrawing their qualifications because they feel the claims should be fully investigated. They should.
Kavanaugh revealed himself to be a hyperpartisan hack who is a drunken lout. And the credible allegations of sexually assaulting Dr. Ford demand that investigators look into this before confirming.
But the GOP knows that their schedule is tight and that their chance to pack the court is running out. So they’re doing all they can to get Kavanaugh through regardless of what happened yesterday.
The fuckers don’t give a shit about sexual assault, rape victims, or women. They want the court balance shifted for the next generation, and they’ll even lose the Senate to do it - because they also know they can win that back, but once the Court rolls back civil and voting rights, guts worker/consumer/environmental protections, and overturns Roe/Griswold, there’s no going back.
re: #105 Big Beautiful Door
The Circuit Courts are already ignoring Supreme Court precedent in anticipation of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, affirming state regulations designed to shut down clinics.
As historically Catholic Ireland moved forward on this issue, we’re about to step back 45 years.
Earlier, David Rothkopf had a pretty long twitter thread going through the same sort of emotional anxiety attack that I’m pretty most of us, myself included, are kind of suffering from right now. He ended up compiling it together into a blog post(which explains the formatting): Flashback: Yesterday We Again Witnessed an Attempted Rape
It was not just that the entire Kavanaugh process has been corrupt from the outset. It was corrupted by the treatment of Merrick Garland. It was corrupted by the fact that K was clearly chosen because Trump felt he might protect him should his cases/crimes come before the court.
[…]
But it was not just all those things either that made yesterday so disturbing. Rather, it was that we were made to witness precisely the kind of crime the Senate the judge was accused of committing and the Senate was supposed to be investigating.
We were witnessing a kind of attempted rape. I am conscious that is strong language. The past few weeks, thanks to the courage of people like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, have made us all acutely aware of the wide-spreading suffering of victims of sexual abuse in America.
Read it all, it’s pretty much an echo of my thoughts right now.
Kavanaugh doesn’t deserve confirmation. He doesn’t deserve elevation to the Supreme Court.
He deserves to be investigated to see whether he engaged in sexual assaults and whether he should be removed from the federal bench.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 28, 2018
re: #107 HappyWarrior
As historically Catholic Ireland moved forward on this issue, we’re about to step back 45 years.
The only silver lining is that once all the abortion clinics across vast swaths of the country are closed, there should be an enormous backlash against the GOP among women voters, and you can’t really gerrymander districts so you only have white men in them.
re: #93 Patricia Kayden
Elections have consequences and for some reason Americans have decided to turn the entire Congress over to Republicans. We can expect much worse if Republicans maintain control after November.
Then we must see to it they don’t.
I mentioned earlier that Kavanaugh can be impeached. Granted, the votes aren’t there in the Senate to remove him. But - if he’s impeached by the HoR, I think it’s within the realm of possibility that the other SCOTUS Justices will go to him and insist he resign. An impeached SCOTUS Justice would be, for them, a nightmare……bad optics, as it were.
re: #110 Big Beautiful Door
The only silver lining is that once all the abortion clinics across vast swaths of the country are closed, there should be an enormous backlash against the GOP among women voters, and you can’t really gerrymander districts so you only have white men in them.
That is true. It’s just that a lot of women especially poor women will be hurt by this.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
To some degree, I agree.
Mitchell spent time on before and after the attack. As much as it pains me to say, they should have had her walk through moment by moment. I think they pontificated more than questioned.
And I felt there were many lost opportunities when questioning him. Especially rebuffing his Clinton! Bork! whatever else bullshit. He should have been called to the carpet for that, and have him provide detailed explanations as to how he will be an impartial jurist for all America.
re: #111 Dr Lizardo
Then we must see to it they don’t.
I mentioned earlier that Kavanaugh can be impeached. Granted, the votes aren’t there in the Senate to remove him. But - if he’s impeached by the HoR, I think it’s within the realm of possibility that the other SCOTUS Justices will go to him and insist he resign. An impeached SCOTUS Justice would be, for them, a nightmare……bad optics, as it were.
re: #112 HappyWarrior
That is true. It’s just that a lot of women especially poor women will be hurt by this.
The question is how much they’ll actually be allowed to vote.
And don’t underestimate the power of tribal and cult indoctrination. We’ve seen the base, where women gladly dismiss sexual assault because ‘that’s what boys do’ and even celebrate it in their leaders because somehow, that makes them a ‘real man’.
Any hope for a great awakening is going to run headlong into the power of institutional fuckery, now backed by the stonewall of a conservative Supreme Court.
re: #91 Citizen K
The worst part is something I’ve mentioned before, where we’ve gone from feigned institutional ignorance to open institutional contempt. We’ve gone from behavior being shrugged off as ‘just the way it is, isn’t it?’ to ‘who cares if you got hurt, who cares if you know it’s wrong, we’re fucking you anyway’.
Before there was plausible deniability of certain things, before they were given sunlight. Now, shits out in the open, you have feminist movements, #MeToo, you have civil rights leading to BLM and all of it….and the powers that be, after ensuring they have all the levers, are standing in the face of it, and saying ‘we don’t care, we know it’s wrong, but we have all the fucking power so you simply don’t fucking matter’.
It’s purposeful, intentional erasure. It’s looking us straight in the eye and telling us ‘you are beneath us and that’s why we’ll win, forever.’ And it’s fucking working.
For years, they could pretend they weren’t doing it. Now that we’ve reached the #metoo era, they can no longer feign that. Now its “Oh, you’ve discovered our secret. You still can’t touch us.” It’s going to be up to people to make them pay.
re: #113 MsJ
To some degree, I agree.
Mitchell spent time on before and after the attack. As much as it pains me to say, they should have had her walk through moment by moment. I think they pontificated more than questioned.
And I felt there were many lost opportunities when questioning him. Especially rebuffing his Clinton! Bork! whatever else bullshit. He should have been called to the carpet for that, and have him provide detailed explanations as to how he will be an impartial jurist for all America.
Didn’t Grassley limit the questioning to only 5 minutes? But yeah I would have loved to seen him asked “Judge Kavanaugh, if you feel you are being wronged by a Democratic conspiracy here, how can we expect you to rule independently on matters involving the Democratic Party?” I did see Senator Blumenthal of Connecticut trying to get him to explain the baseball game in Boston where he got back at 4:45 the next morning and had to in his words put himself together or something like that and remember the night before and Kavanaugh just gave a vague story about how fun the game was.
re: #112 HappyWarrior
That is true. It’s just that a lot of women especially poor women will be hurt by this.
I know. I don’t want this to happen, but we can’t stop it. Only Collins and Murkowski can, and right now I don’t believe they will. Though we’ll know tomorrow, one way or another. Kavanaugh will either be confirmed, or the vote will be canceled.
re: #114 Citizen K
The question is how much they’ll actually be allowed to vote.
And don’t underestimate the power of tribal and cult indoctrination. We’ve seen the base, where women gladly dismiss sexual assault because ‘that’s what boys do’ and even celebrate it in their leaders because somehow, that makes them a ‘real man’.
Any hope for a great awakening is going to run headlong into the power of institutional fuckery, now backed by the stonewall of a conservative Supreme Court.
I don’t know. I think a lot of women are pissed by this but there are unfortunately enough of women who put their political tribe first and that’s how we got Trump.
re: #113 MsJ
To some degree, I agree.
Mitchell spent time on before and after the attack. As much as it pains me to say, they should have had her walk through moment by moment. I think they pontificated more than questioned.
And I felt there were many lost opportunities when questioning him. Especially rebuffing his Clinton! Bork! whatever else bullshit. He should have been called to the carpet for that, and have him provide detailed explanations as to how he will be an impartial jurist for all America.
Okay, this is all Monday morning quarterbacking, even if valid. The Dems were working in real time, in five-minute intervals, with little prep and no way to coordinate. I think they did pretty well.
It’s not as if anything they did could have changed anything.
Oh. Good morning.
re: #117 Big Beautiful Door
I know. I don’t want this to happen, but we can’t stop it. Only Collins and Murkowski can, and right now I don’t believe they will. Though we’ll know tomorrow, one way or another. Kavanaugh will either be confirmed, or the vote will be canceled.
I’m just so frustrated by the whole thing. Kavanaugh, Trump, the whole mess. Countries are supposed to move forward not backward and now so much of what we, our parents, and grandparents worked so hard to obtain now hang in the balance and an angry partisan drunk judge is going to be the factor that determines where we go as I hit middle and eventually old age.
re: #118 HappyWarrior
I don’t know. I think a lot of women are pissed by this but there are unfortunately enough of women who put their political tribe first and that’s how we got Trump.
But there are going to be a whole lot of young women who usually don’t vote who will make it a point to do so. I really believe that when the GOP gets what it wants, all abortion clinics closed across the South and the West, that there will be a massive backlash as women wake up to having lost control of their own bodies as their rights are stripped away from them.
re: #117 Big Beautiful Door
I know. I don’t want this to happen, but we can’t stop it. Only Collins and Murkowski can, and right now I don’t believe they will. Though we’ll know tomorrow, one way or another. Kavanaugh will either be confirmed, or the vote will be canceled.
If GWB has to call moderate Repugs…
Also, Kavanaugh isn’t even supported by a majority of GOP women.
re: #118 HappyWarrior
I don’t know. I think a lot of women are pissed by this but there are unfortunately enough of women who put their political tribe first and that’s how we got Trump.
Oh, no doubt a lot of women are pissed. They should. But far too many of those women fall into ‘you don’t matter’ group, where their will, regardless of how loud they get, gets outweighed by a combination of media erasure and vote fuckery, so only the ones that are OK wit this kind of shit get heard and get their votes treated as valid.
It’s a total fucking fix at this point, barring a string of major political miracles.
re: #121 Big Beautiful Door
But there are going to be a whole lot of young women who usually don’t vote who will make it a point to do so. I really believe that when the GOP gets what it wants, all abortion clinics closed across the South and the West, that there will be a massive backlash as women wake up to having lost control of their own bodies as their rights are stripped away from them.
I do think you could be right. The irony may be we may eventually end up with stronger legal abortion laws than we have right now.
re: #116 HappyWarrior
Didn’t Grassley limit the questioning to only 5 minutes? But yeah I would have loved to seen him asked “Judge Kavanaugh, if you feel you are being wronged by a Democratic conspiracy here, how can we expect you to rule independently on matters involving the Democratic Party?” I did see Senator Blumenthal of Connecticut trying to get him to explain the baseball game in Boston where he got back at 4:45 the next morning and had to in his words put himself together or something like that and remember the night before and Kavanaugh just gave a vague story about how fun the game was.
I also think that many of the dems allowed kav to ramble on and deflect. He needed to be called to the carpet every single time he did that - and he was not.
Also, when he asked “HAVE YOU?” when questioned about being black out drunk, that should have been an opportunity to slam the fuck out of him.
I know this is all hindsight and monday morning quarterbacking, but I felt there were many lost opportunities.
re: #122 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
If GWB has to call moderate Repugs…
Also, Kavanaugh isn’t even supported by a majority of GOP women.
As long as you are supported by men namely white GOP men, you’re fine in this country.
re: #88 HappyWarrior
And a drunkard Catholic boy will be the one that gives it to them. You couldn’t write this script.
I remember our priest getting up right after Roe v Wade was passed and demanding that the Catholic judge who voted in favor of it be excommunicated.
re: #125 MsJ
I also think that many of the dems allowed kav to ramble on and deflect. He needed to be called to the carpet every single time he did that - and he was not.
Also, when he asked “HAVE YOU?” when questioned about being black out drunk, that should have been an opportunity to slam the fuck out of him.
I know this is all hindsight and monday morning quarterbacking, but I felt there were many lost opportunities.
Well to be fair to them, they’ve never experienced a SCOTUS nominee like this. Gorsuch, Alito, and Roberts, all partisan in their ways aren’t vindictive assholes who would let their whole “revenge” plan out of the bag.
re: #124 HappyWarrior
I do think you could be right. The irony may be we may eventually end up with stronger legal abortion laws than we have right now.
Possibly but doubtful in my lifetime.
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember our priest getting up right after Roe v Wade was passed and demanding that the Catholic judges who voted in favor of it be excommunicated.
Well that would have been only Justice Brennan, who is one of the most underappreciated SCOTUS members of the past 75 years in this SCOTUS amateur historian’s opinion.
re: #129 MsJ
Possibly but doubtful in my lifetime.
Yeah down the road. I don’t know what to think about our country anymore. I’m actually looking at grad school now. The program I want to get my Masters in is from a Scottish university and it’s work I could do abroad.
re: #122 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
If GWB has to call moderate Repugs…
Also, Kavanaugh isn’t even supported by a majority of GOP women.
We will find out no later than tomorrow if that matters to Murkowski and Collins or not. We know it doesn’t to all the male GOP Senators.
re: #132 Big Beautiful Door
We will find out no later than tomorrow if that matters to Murkowski and Collins or not. We know it doesn’t to all the male GOP Senators.
I can see Murkowski voting against because her state’s governor is against him. Collins is a fucking complete waste of oxygen. She will vote the party line.
re: #132 Big Beautiful Door
We will find out no later than tomorrow if that matters to Murkowski and Collins or not. We know it doesn’t to all the male GOP Senators.
The deal is already rigged. Manchin will vote for and that will give them cover to vote against.
re: #130 HappyWarrior
Well that would have been only Justice Brennan, who is one of the most underappreciated SCOTUS members of the past 75 years in this SCOTUS amateur historian’s opinion.
thanks for sorting me out on that, I did not recall the name of the judge(s), jut the priest’s outrage
Gah, I almost feel like I have to post a trigger warning for these screenshots 🤢
re: #129 MsJ
Possibly but doubtful in my lifetime.
It could happen a lot faster than you think, like as soon as 2021. Evil Empires can collapse like a house of cards; remember in 1989 the Soviet Union was still seen as a superpower on par with the US, then the Berlin Wall fell, and by 1992 it had been swept into the dustbin of history.
re: #126 HappyWarrior
As long as you are supported by men namely white GOP men, you’re fine in this country.
Right up until you decide to vote en masse.
re: #134 b.d.(true to form)
The deal is already rigged. Manchin will vote for and that will give them cover to vote against.
Any support for that? Because I think that would be a hard vote for Manchin to make with two GOP Senators voting against confirmation. It seems to me that Kavanaugh’s meltdown gives him perfect cover to justify voting against him.
re: #139 Big Beautiful Door
Any support for that? Because I think that would be a hard vote for Manchin to make with two GOP Senators voting against confirmation. It seems to me that Kavanaugh’s meltdown gives him perfect cover to justify voting against him.
Just my hunch and a walked back rumor about Manchin saying he was a yes.
Flake is a yes on Kavanaugh. pic.twitter.com/ZFxdC6Qj72
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 28, 2018
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
thanks for sorting me out on that, I did not recall the name of the judge(s), jut the priest’s outrage
No problem. I have his biography on my bookshelf.
re: #129 MsJ
Possibly but doubtful in my lifetime.
Abortion rules would go by state, so there’ll be a mix. Also, things like the Jane collective will probably revive, and the woman-controlled chemical abortion movement among midwives will keep growing. I suspect getting convictions for illegal abortions will be difficult in most places, too.
re: #141 b.d.(true to form)
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You can always count on Flake to back the party line.
Guys, help me out here, trying to rebuke a point that the Dems got rid of the 60 vote requirement for federal judges including SCOTUS. I know that Thomas was confirmed by a simple majority as was Alito.
re: #141 b.d.(true to form)
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Like I said the other day, a hearing was simply a formality to give Flake and Corker cover to get to “yes.”
re: #145 HappyWarrior
You can always count on Flake to back the party line.
Flake was an original whack job from long ago. he only seemed to be sensible and that was in word only. He has always voted with Republicans.
Okay a little Google Fu reveeals that yes Reid did get rid of it but it was for federal circuit judges not SCOTUS and I know that Thomas was confirmed 52-48.
re: #146 HappyWarrior
Guys, help me out here, trying to rebuke a point that the Dems got rid of the 60 vote requirement for federal judges including SCOTUS. I know that Thomas was confirmed by a simple majority as was Alito.
60 votes is just for cloture. The actual vote is just a majority. Dems got rid of the 60 vote cloture requirement for everything but SCOTUS because McConnell was blocking all votes on judges. They left it for SCOTUS. As Chris Murphy said, though, considering McConnell blocked Garland, he would have wiped all those restrictions when he took power.
Anyone still have anything good to say about Flakey Jeff The Master Bullshitter?
The entirety of this has been a masterclass of performative cruelty. That’s all I have left to say at this point.
re: #148 MsJ
Flake was an original whack job from long ago. he only seemed to be sensible and that was in word only. He has always voted with Republicans.
Three women are holding him in the elevator at Capitol Hill and screaming at him, while on camera. DO THE SAME.
— Celeste P. (@Celeste_pewter) September 28, 2018
Even if it makes no difference in the end, at least make it as painful as possible for the cowardly, spaghetti-spined schmuck.
When it boils down to it the never trumpers are the same as the rest of the gop. Worse even as they pretend to possess integrity.
re: #141 b.d.(true to form)
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I never thought he would vote any other way. Flake may not like Trump, but he’s a hard core conservative.
re: #121 Big Beautiful Door
But there are going to be a whole lot of young women who usually don’t vote who will make it a point to do so. I really believe that when the GOP gets what it wants, all abortion clinics closed across the South and the West, that there will be a massive backlash as women wake up to having lost control of their own bodies as their rights are stripped away from them.
what will make an even larger impact on those young women is not so much closing all of the abortion clinics, it will be the shuttering of PP for basic women’s health, loss of access to affordable and effective birth control, and availability of pre-natal care.
re: #155 Amory Blaine
When it boils down to it the never trumpers are the same as the rest of the gop. Worse even as they pretend to possess integrity.
It’s pretty obviuos there are no never-Trumper GOP members in Congress.
re: #152 Joe Bacon 🌹
Anyone still have anything good to say about Flakey Jeff The Master Bullshitter?
Nada. The whole image of “Jeff Flake, the Independent Thinker” died everywhere but in the minds of the “liberal press” months ago.
re: #141 b.d.(true to form)
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There is no era in which Kavanaugh would have received 90+ votes for a SCOTUS position, because it is only in this era would such an obvious political operative/partisan hack ever be nominated.
re: #146 HappyWarrior
Guys, help me out here, trying to rebuke a point that the Dems got rid of the 60 vote requirement for federal judges including SCOTUS. I know that Thomas was confirmed by a simple majority as was Alito.
No, the Dems kept it for SCOTUS. The GOP ended it for SCOTUS last year to get Gorsuch confirmed.
re: #144 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Abortion rules would go by state, so there’ll be a mix. Also, things like the Jane collective will probably revive, and the woman-controlled chemical abortion movement among midwives will keep growing. I suspect getting convictions for illegal abortions will be difficult in most places, too.
I’m sure California, to name one, would be the same, but I can speak to Washington. We didn’t need Roe vs. Wade; we legalized abortion by popular vote in 1970, and voted down one or two ballot initiatives to repeal that. “Mr Kavanaugh has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
Fly on the wall.
Not sure what was going on but I think I overheard @TheRickWilson say “I solemnly swear I’m up to no good.” 😉 cc: @realdonaldtrump #TribFest18 #CaptionContest @michaelavenatti pic.twitter.com/PVbfRizeUz
— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) September 28, 2018
re: #151 Belafon
60 votes is just for cloture. The actual vote is just a majority. Dems got rid of the 60 vote cloture requirement for everything but SCOTUS because McConnell was blocking all votes on judges. They left it for SCOTUS. As Chris Murphy said, though, considering McConnell blocked Garland, he would have wiped all those restrictions when he took power.
Yeah it was cloture as I thought. Big difference. Sigh the guy pushing this crap is a friend of a friend whose heart is in the right place on a lot of issues but has an awful tendency to blame the Dems too damn much.
re: #149 HappyWarrior
Okay a little Google Fu reveeals that yes Reid did get rid of it but it was for federal circuit judges not SCOTUS and I know that Thomas was confirmed 52-48.
That was a different era when even if you were ultimately going to vote No, you would eventually vote for cloture to allow it to go to a final vote.
re: #161 Big Beautiful Door
No, the Dems kept it for SCOTUS. The GOP ended it for SCOTUS last year to get Gorsuch confirmed.
That’s exactly what the article I found said too and as Bela just said, cloture.
re: #148 MsJ
Flake was an original whack job from long ago. he only seemed to be sensible and that was in word only. He has always voted with Republicans.
That was my point. He had a couple exceptions but he’s mostly been a dyed in the wool right wing tool.
re: #155 Amory Blaine
When it boils down to it the never trumpers are the same as the rest of the gop. Worse even as they pretend to possess integrity.
You pretty much described why I hate Ben Sasse acting like he’s this voice of conscience.
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
what will make an even larger impact on those young women is not so much closing all of the abortion clinics, it will be the shuttering of PP for basic women’s health, loss of access to affordable and effective birth control, and availability of pre-natal care.
And its going to happen fast. Bevin will want to close Kentucky’s last abortion clinic to fire up his base next year.
re: #70 Belafon
Remember her vast right wing conspiracy comment back during Bill’s tenure and how they reacted.
You mean the vast right wing conspiracy that was on full display yesterday?
I saw that bit about the American Bar Association. That is one of the first things Ohio Senator Rob Portman mentions in his love for his Brett.
So of course, I had to fire off another comment pointing that out to Rob first thing this morning.
I have a feeling there are probably some local protesters already down on Broad and Front downtown Columbus at Portman’s local office. They are down there a lot, so today will probably be a sure thing.
re: #165 HappyWarrior
Yeah it was cloture as I thought. Big difference. Sigh the guy pushing this crap is a friend of a friend whose heart is in the right place on a lot of issues but has an awful tendency to blame the Dems too damn much.
Is your friend blaming Democrats for this? If so, ask him this: Why did Reid end the 60 vote threshold for judicial nominees? The answer is that McConnell was blocking all nominees so he could pack the courts if Republicans won, and keep them depleted if they didn’t. The biggest tell for that is that Democrats also kept the blue-slip rule and McConnell tossed that when Trump got in office.
McConnell blocked all votes he could get away with, including budgets, during Obama’s time. This is all his doing.
re: #165 HappyWarrior
Yeah it was cloture as I thought. Big difference. Sigh the guy pushing this crap is a friend of a friend whose heart is in the right place on a lot of issues but has an awful tendency to blame the Dems too damn much.
And….this is why I have such dim hopes for NOvember as is. No matter what the GOP does and does openly, the fault always seems to land in the laps of Dems, either for ‘not doing enough’ or ‘because they’re Republican lite’. GOP can be wrong, but Dems are always treated as wrong, no matter fucking what.
re: #156 Big Beautiful Door
I never thought he would vote any other way. Flake may not like Trump, but he’s a hard core
conservativewing nut.
FIFY
“It’s about the evidence…which we never had an intent to gather or listen to, but if we say it enough times we can make it seem as though this isn’t a blatant con job.”
Brock Turners grow up to be Brett Kavanaughs who make the rules for Brock Turners.
— feminist next door (@emrazz) September 27, 2018
At the end of the day, this is a SCOTUS seat and the only opportunity to put a far-right judge in it. If they drop Kavanaugh, they’d be hard-pressed to put Barrett or whoever Trump nominated in it before the lame duck session expired. So they’re going to bite the bullet, confirm Kavanaugh, and then presume that their base being orgasmic over “owning the libs” will be enough to save them from total doom in November.
re: #110 Big Beautiful Door
The only silver lining is that once all the abortion clinics across vast swaths of the country are closed, there should be an enormous backlash against the GOP among women voters, and you can’t really gerrymander districts so you only have white men in them.
In the lyrics of one Joni Mitchell…
No no no
Don’t it always seem to go,
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
…
re: #173 Belafon
Is your friend blaming Democrats for this? If so, ask him this: Why did Reid end the 60 vote threshold for judicial nominees? The answer is that McConnell was blocking all nominees so he could pack the courts if Republicans one, and keep them depleted if they didn’t. The biggest tell for that is that Democrats also kept the blue-slip rule and McConnell tossed that when Trump got in office.
McConnell blocked all votes he could get away with, including budgets, during Obama’s time. This is all his doing.
I am. Haven’t gotten a bite yet. I also pointed my thoughts on Kavanaugh, Bork, and Garland. I’m trying to get a bite of the few conservatives I know doing that so they can see in plain English how Bork wasn’t wronged by Garland was and that the innocent until proven guilty shit is wrong to use here. I’m hoping I might get taken a little more seriously since although I’m partisan, people know I try to fact check my stuff and I work in the legal field as you know.
Flake is getting confronted right now in a Senate elevator right now by a protester
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) September 28, 2018
“Don’t look away from me. Look at me and tell me that it doesn’t matter what happened to me.”
-Protester to Jeff Flake live on CNN. https://t.co/fgUfQQMoYH— Tim Mak (@timkmak) September 28, 2018
re: #113 MsJ
To some degree, I agree.
Mitchell spent time on before and after the attack. As much as it pains me to say, they should have had her walk through moment by moment. I think they pontificated more than questioned.
And I felt there were many lost opportunities when questioning him. Especially rebuffing his Clinton! Bork! whatever else bullshit. He should have been called to the carpet for that, and have him provide detailed explanations as to how he will be an impartial jurist for all America.
He would never have answered any of that. His whole goal yesterday was to take the first question and then run on eating up the rest of the time to the point he kept talking, repeating, crying and shouting when they asked other questions. And then he would stop, stare and stonewall it.
He was prepped to do that from the Trump gang. This morning The Big Fucking Don is strutting around I bet, telling everyone that is how you do it…always listen to me, me, me!
This is what I posted. I’m so fed up with this shit.
A point of conversation about Robert Bork and Merrick Garland. Robert Bork received a hearing, a committee vote, and even a floor vote after he was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was rejected. The Constitution gives the Senate the ability to weigh in on judicial nominations. It was the very principle of Separation of Powers of why there was no Justice Bork. Garland? Meanwhile, he didn’t get a hearing let alone a floor vote. And to make things worse, Judge Garland was named by many Republican Senators as someone they would be amiable to if Obama selected him. The only “mistake” Obama made with Garland in the process is that Garland happened to be replacing Scalia. McConnell’s no election year SCOTUS appointments was a big fat lie and in fact, in our first seriously contested presidential election 1800, President Adams appointed John Marshall, the most influential Chief Justice after he had lost to Thomas Jefferson. My beliefs are known if you know me but I am simply trying to point out that Kavanaugh had no room to complain about how Bork was treated when Garland’s nomination process was far worse. Oh and if any of us acted like an asshole like he did yesterday, we wouldn’t get the job we interviewed for. It’s not a trial, innocent until proven guilty doesn’t apply here. And frankly, I thought he was too partisan for the job before yesterday. You all really think a man can rule impartially who pretty much vowed “What goes around comes around?”
I certainly hope that @JeffFlake is honest in his response to her…
“No, you do not matter & whatever happened to you does not matter, either.”
Be honest, Mr. Flake. You’re going to vote to seat a highly emotional, partisan person who will not be impartial, be honest about it.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 28, 2018
This is an exceptional portrait. Either that, or Hamill is doing a Jedi mind thing on me.
I want to offer my sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to send me their #HappyBirthday wishes.🎂 Final Thoughts: If I were a dog 🐶, I’d be 469 years old. Fortunately for me, I’m a human🧔 and they tell me 67 is the new 66. pic.twitter.com/ZNDrPznlNE
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 28, 2018
re: #120 HappyWarrior
I’m just so frustrated by the whole thing. Kavanaugh, Trump, the whole mess. Countries are supposed to move forward not backward and now so much of what we, our parents, and grandparents worked so hard to obtain now hang in the balance and an angry partisan drunk judge is going to be the factor that determines where we go as I hit middle and eventually old age.
And frustrating someone like you and at your age is exactly what they want Happy. They want the younger voters to give up.
Flake is proof that the most obvious comic book villains have a name that reflects their one great power. Grab a cape, Jeff.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 28, 2018
re: #121 Big Beautiful Door
But there are going to be a whole lot of young women who usually don’t vote who will make it a point to do so. I really believe that when the GOP gets what it wants, all abortion clinics closed across the South and the West, that there will be a massive backlash as women wake up to having lost control of their own bodies as their rights are stripped away from them.
I see a subtle distinction
A woman’s bodily autonomy is a natural right.
It can’t be stripped
It will be suppressed by the ‘state’
MSNBC has a split screen with Grassley and Kamela Harris with Blumenthal and Hirono. GAssley is stuttering on while the Dems are in the hallway raising holy hell, but without audio. I hope we get to hear it soon.
re: #125 MsJ
I also think that many of the dems allowed kav to ramble on and deflect. He needed to be called to the carpet every single time he did that - and he was not.
Also, when he asked “HAVE YOU?” when questioned about being black out drunk, that should have been an opportunity to slam the fuck out of him.
I know this is all hindsight and monday morning quarterbacking, but I felt there were many lost opportunities.
Can you stonewall and out talk anyone for 3 minutes? Can you glare for 30 seconds?
That is all it took. The rest of the time was lost in repeating the questions, Grassley weighing in and frustration.
Look how he blew off Kamala Harris. She kept trying to reign him in. She is a great questioner…but she was made ineffective.
Now they’re also showing protesters getting arrested and walked away. this is amazing.
re: #186 ObserverArt
And frustrating someone like you and at your age is exactly what they want Happy. They want the younger voters to give up.
They do. I’m just so sickened by the whole thing. I’m not going to stop voting or volunteering.
Meanwhile, over in my hemisphere, this happened.
Major tsunami reported to have hit Palu, Indonesia after M 7.5 earthquake today, Sept 28! pic.twitter.com/01pQw4oNCB
re: #156 Big Beautiful Door
I never thought he would vote any other way. Flake may not like Trump, but he’s a hard core
conservativeasshole.
WATCH - KAVANAUGH protesters hold open JEFF FLAKE’s elevator on his way to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“I was sexually assaulted. Nobody believed me. … You’re telling all women in America that they don’t matter. They should just keep it to themselves.” pic.twitter.com/3odh7a66nP— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 28, 2018
Please watch this all the way through. What these women are saying is so important. https://t.co/B5mBz2Y1jT
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) September 28, 2018
This probably sounds a bit corny right now, but every Democrat should be required to watch The Martian. We’re going to have setbacks, some a lot worse than others. If we give in, it’s over. We have to deal with where we are, figure out our next plan - the midterms, obviously - and act on that. Now the story required a happy ending, which we’re not required, but the basic premise that you have to just keep dealing with the problems as they come along, or else, remains.
re: #197 Interesting Times
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The GOP made that clear yesterday when they said (in so many words) that if you don’t have the evidence to secure a conviction, don’t bother coming forward. That the job of the authorities is not to investigate, to ask questions and dig around for evidence, but simply to write reports.
re: #190 ObserverArt
Can you stonewall and out talk anyone for 3 minutes? Can you glare for 30 seconds?
That is all it took. The rest of the time was lost in repeating the questions, Grassley weighing in and frustration.
Look how he blew off Kamala Harris. She kept trying to reign him in. She is a great questioner…but she was made ineffective.
Because Democrats have no power right now. The Dems on the Judiciary did extraordinary given what they are able to do.
re: #197 Interesting Times
He is so fucking pathetic.
re: #184 MsJ
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Never put Jeff Flake and any form of the word honest in any sentence.
And that goes for any other Republican too.
They do not know honesty. They run from it.
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
Leahy mentions Merrick Garland
A name that has probably received 1/10th the mentions in the media that Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas has. And only when it’s time to accuse the DNC of cooking up a delay as an act of “revenge.”
The GOP is making a Faustian bargain by pushing this nomination through.
Kavanaugh is flawed. Fatally flawed. His confirmation makes none of this go away, and there is still no statute of limitations on the charges he faces in Maryland.
Even Republican women are repulsed by the way Graham and others are treating Dr. Ford in the wake of her testimony. Fox had to fire a dude for calling his accusers ‘lying skanks’ yesterday.
Women are not going to forget this in 40 days.
And there are two other accusers who never got their day in court. Ms. Ramirez and Ms. Swetnick will be heard, one way or the other. Swetnick in particular apparently has at least one corroborating witness, and extremely media-savvy representation. Her charges will likely be aired in the media, since that appears to be the only avenue left. But wall-to-wall coverage of Swetnick’s allegations (most likely on the day before the vote, judging from Avenatti’s timing on announcing the allegations) will only further illustrate just how flawed Kavanaugh is.
The Republicans dancing in the end zone and rushing through an obviously flawed candidate will not disappear. People saw who he was on national TV. People saw the rabid defense of his nomination by men who did not have the guts to confront a credible witness.
None of this is going away. And midterms are some 40 days away.
Republicans weighed the optics of rushing to confirm a judge who is completely unsuited for the job against the electoral backlash that is coming, and decided they’d go for broke. But where they may have fatally miscalculated is that they weighed only those two factors.
I just watched the video of those women confronting Flake in the elevator. That is what they did not consider in their calculation. That will be their undoing in November.
They avoided slitting their own wrists by slashing their own throat instead. They deserve what is coming. All of it.
“They don’t want to hear women…” —Sen Leahy
re: #205 ObserverArt
Never put Jeff Flake and any form of the word honest in any sentence.
And that goes for any other Republican too.
They do not know honesty. They run from it.
Honesty is a liability. Shame is a weakness. Empathy is a sin.
All are simply obstacles to getting and preserving power, and that’s all that matters: winning power for the sake of trampling the weak and undeserving. That’s what the GOP stands for, and that’s what the country seems to adore about them.
btw, anyone who thinks Graham’s prima dona performance for the cameras wasn’t closely coordinated w/ the WH just hasn’t been paying attention
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 28, 2018
What I can’t get over, thinking back on yesterday, is the Republicans never discredited Ford’s testimony. They never even said they didn’t believe it. They just decided to ignore her and everything she said the moment Kavanaugh began talking.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 28, 2018
What is happening?!? I’m sitting in a school waiting for a meeting.
re: #204 KGxvi
He is so fucking pathetic.
Contemptibly weak and gutless little shit. Couldn’t even look those women in the eye, couldn’t even answer the “do you believe he’s telling the truth” question!
And I’ll stop here because I don’t want to jeopardize my LGF account.
re: #212 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
What is happening?!? I’m sitting in a school waiting for a meeting.
Leahy speaking right now and he is angry
.@KamalaHarris: “This is about raw power… It has been pushing and pushing and ramming this thing through because they have the power, as opposed to the integrity to say, let the American people know.” pic.twitter.com/X6lJEDuNoX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 28, 2018
re: #212 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
What is happening?!? I’m sitting in a school waiting for a meeting.
Important to note: today’s 1:30 vote is the COMMITTEE vote.
First floor vote is TOMORROW at approximately 12:30. If you have a large platform, please be crystal clear in sharing information. This is too critical. https://t.co/ny8nZscGLk— Celeste P. (@Celeste_pewter) September 28, 2018
Leahy is bringing up a lot more than high school in calling Kavanaugh a liar.
Yes, he said LIAR.
re: #198 Belafon
This probably sounds a bit corny right now, but every Democrat should be required to watch The Martian. We’re going to have setbacks, some a lot worse than others. If we give in, it’s over. We have to deal with where we are, figure out our next plan - the midterms, obviously - and act on that. Now the story required a happy ending, which we’re not required, but the basic premise that you have to just keep dealing with the problems as they come along, or else, remains.
I’d like to agree
But he was trained and somewhat prepared for adversity and the unexpected
We have to get people engaged and keep them enthusiastic becsuse civics is complicated and confusing and takes *work*
While reality TV and easy meme tweet answers….arent
re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth
“They don’t want to hear women…” —Sen Leahy
They’ll reject that as rank hypocrisy. They actually, sincerely believe that you can’t be concerned about the rights of women if you’re not a woman, that you can’t be concerned about the rights of PoC if you’re not a PoC, that you can’t be concerned about the rights of _____ if you’re not a ____. If you claim to be, you’re just pretending for partisan reasons. They honestly believe this on the most basic level—it’s the foundation of their philosophy.
I don’t think I have ever seen Leahy this angry
I (tried to) email my Senators last night. One didn’t work, but since this is CA, it was strictly pro forma anyway.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They made that decision before she even opened her mouth. The only reason she got to testify was for the optics.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 28, 2018
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The hearing was a performance piece, a bit of Kabuki theater to give the fence-sitters cover to vote for the man. They were never “concerned,” “torn,” “dismayed,” or any of the litany of terms they’ve used to string people along into believing they could be influenced away from a “yes” vote. The ending was never in doubt, they were going to dub it a “He said/she said” situation, and fall on the side of the asshole who dropped the mask long enough to assure his boss that he’s the bastard he wants in that seat.
re: #207 makeitstop
The GOP is making a Faustian bargain by pushing this nomination through.
Kavanaugh is flawed. Fatally flawed. His confirmation makes none of this go away, and there is still no statute of limitations on the charges he faces in Maryland.
Even Republican women are repulsed by the way Graham and others are treating Dr. Ford in the wake of her testimony. Fox had to fire a dude for calling his accusers ‘lying skanks’ yesterday.
Women are not going to forget this in 40 days.
And there are two other accusers who never got their day in court. Ms. Ramirez and Ms. Swetnick will be heard, one way or the other. Swetnick in particular apparently has at least one corroborating witness, and extremely media-savvy representation. Her charges will likely be aired in the media, since that appears to be the only avenue left. But wall-to-wall coverage of Swetnick’s allegations (most likely on the day before the vote, judging from Avenatti’s timing on announcing the allegations) will only further illustrate just how flawed Kavanaugh is.
The Republicans dancing in the end zone and rushing through an obviously flawed candidate will not disappear. People saw who he was on national TV. People saw the rabid defense of his nomination by men who did not have the guts to confront a credible witness.
None of this is going away. And midterms are some 40 days away.
Republicans weighed the optics of rushing to confirm a judge who is completely unsuited for the job against the electoral backlash that is coming, and decided they’d go for broke. But where they may have fatally miscalculated is that they weighed only those two factors.
I just watched the video of those women confronting Flake in the elevator. That is what they did not consider in their calculation. That will be their undoing in November.
They avoided slitting their own wrists by slashing their own throat instead. They deserve what is coming. All of it.
Many upvotes
Well summarized
Well spoken
re: #220 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
They’ll reject that as rank hypocrisy. They actually, sincerely believe that you can’t be concerned about the rights of women if you’re not a woman, that you can’t be concerned about the rights of PoC if you’re not a PoC, that you can’t be concerned about the rights of _____ if you’re not a ____. If you claim to be, you’re just pretending for partisan reasons. They honestly believe this on the most basic level—it’s the foundation of their philosophy.
And then you’re engaged in “identity politics” when you are a member of that group, when you should really be doing what any sensible person should: Deferring to the wishes of the white guys because they assure themselves that “racism is dead.”
re: #226 Dave In Austin
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— Jon Bershad (@JonBershad) September 28, 2018
re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth
Leahy is bringing up a lot more than high school in calling Kavanaugh a liar.
Yes, he said LIAR.
Since we like to invoke Fargo, I give you Bucky the irate customer in Jerry’s car dealership. You’re a bald faced liar, Mr. Lundegaard Kavanaugh.
Fuck off Lindsey. You get the mute button like your master.
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Which is a pretty accurate description of rape.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 28, 2018
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lindsey being all aw shucks now.
*spit*
He can be understood even with Donny’s cock in his mouth?
re: #207 makeitstop
The GOP is making a Faustian bargain by pushing this nomination through.
I’m worried that we’re fast approaching them thinking “Do what you must, because we have already won” territory (that is, packing the courts means they can either prevent Dem electoral victories, or completely ignore them when they happen).
So it’s important to have short, medium, and long-term plans for the worst-case scenario.
re: #233 Targetpractice
He can be understood even with Donny’s cock in his mouth?
That’s Donny and Kavanaugh’s.
re: #233 Targetpractice
He can be understood even with Donny’s cock in his mouth?
With his accent, how could you tell?
re: #194 wheat-dogg
Meanwhile, over in my hemisphere, this happened.
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Your comment reminds me.
About 6:00 AM Wednesday morning a quick storm came up and the wind and rain was incredible. It lasted about 15 minutes.
A bit later that morning, I texted my one client about not being able to meet her because my one other client needed me in an emergency and that my plans for the day were changed.
She texted me back saying she understood her plans had changed too. Then she attached some images of her old warehouse building that is on East Main Street about 2 and-a-half blocks from my house.
It was an old car dealership with the big front windows in the having been boarded up with a decorative tile/brick attached to the facade.
The images showed the whole window/wall lying on the sidewalk with tree limbs and other debris covering the sidewalk out front.
What the hell happened???
An EF-1 tornado is what happened. There were no warning sirens, no weather predictions other than heavy rain and some wind.
I swear from what I can tell that tornado started somewhere right around my clients building. It ran from The Old Town East area (her building and my area) northeast to Broad and James Road which is about 4 miles.
I missed it by > < that much. Phew!
With the hearings yesterday, I forgot to mention how close I was to it.
Local news on the storm…
re: #224 Targetpractice
The hearing was a performance piece, a bit of Kabuki theater to give the fence-sitters cover to vote for the man. They were never “concerned,” “torn,” “dismayed,” or any of the litany of terms they’ve used to string people along into believing they could be influenced away from a “yes” vote. The ending was never in doubt, they were going to dub it a “He said/she said” situation, and fall on the side of the asshole who dropped the mask long enough to assure his boss that he’s the bastard he wants in that seat.
And this exactly
Maybe the revolutionaries aren’t necessarily wrong but it’s really not a class revolution that we need. It’s a revolution in how we treat people.
Liberals are depending on people who never vote, to GOTV for the midterms and do the right thing.
Remember this: even if Roe v Wade is overturned, women will still get abortions. It is up to us to do what we can.
Like these women teaching each other how to do early abortions.
Be prepared.
And the use of the language of the abusive man continues, as they all say they feel sorry for what Dr. Ford experienced, but they don’t feel her story compelling enough to look into beyond some perfunctory questions before dismissing it as unsubstantiated. They want to keep telling her she’s the victim of the people who tried to help her, that if she’d just come to them instead, they would have made sure this never became public so she wouldn’t have suffered.
Lindsey is very thinly hiding accusations that Dr Ford’s lawyers were behind leaking the letter and other malfeasance.
re: #207 makeitstop
The GOP is making a Faustian bargain by pushing this nomination through.
Kavanaugh is flawed. Fatally flawed. His confirmation makes none of this go away, and there is still no statute of limitations on the charges he faces in Maryland.
Even Republican women are repulsed by the way Graham and others are treating Dr. Ford in the wake of her testimony. Fox had to fire a dude for calling his accusers ‘lying skanks’ yesterday.
Women are not going to forget this in 40 days.
And there are two other accusers who never got their day in court. Ms. Ramirez and Ms. Swetnick will be heard, one way or the other. Swetnick in particular apparently has at least one corroborating witness, and extremely media-savvy representation. Her charges will likely be aired in the media, since that appears to be the only avenue left. But wall-to-wall coverage of Swetnick’s allegations (most likely on the day before the vote, judging from Avenatti’s timing on announcing the allegations) will only further illustrate just how flawed Kavanaugh is.
The Republicans dancing in the end zone and rushing through an obviously flawed candidate will not disappear. People saw who he was on national TV. People saw the rabid defense of his nomination by men who did not have the guts to confront a credible witness.
None of this is going away. And midterms are some 40 days away.
Republicans weighed the optics of rushing to confirm a judge who is completely unsuited for the job against the electoral backlash that is coming, and decided they’d go for broke. But where they may have fatally miscalculated is that they weighed only those two factors.
I just watched the video of those women confronting Flake in the elevator. That is what they did not consider in their calculation. That will be their undoing in November.
They avoided slitting their own wrists by slashing their own throat instead. They deserve what is coming. All of it.
I got an email from one of my brothers. He is 72 now and was always a moderate thinking conservative. He was totally outraged by Graham and is worried about the country that is being left to his grand kids.
I never heard anything like that from him. I was stunned.
He did vote for Obama the second term and thought he was a fine president. He always admired how classy and well spoken Barack was.
The Trump Time has changed him. He’s almost radical now.
As you guys know, I’m a genealogy buff and I just think about my own ancestors who left their homes. What made them decide that this was it, the point where they’d leave home and never return? Like I know the broader facts of poverty, not having autonomy, the Potato Famine, etc but what makes a man or woman leave what’s been home for generations of their family and decides to start anew. This isn’t an “I’m moving” rant but more of wondering what it took. We are Americans, yes but just as longer we were something else too.
re: #240 Amory Blaine
Liberals are depending on people who never vote, to GOTV for the midterms and do the right thing.
Liberals are hoping that people have discovered that sitting on the sidelines will cost you. Since we’re a democracy, voting is what changes most things. Voting means power.
re: #242 Targetpractice
And the use of the language of the abusive man continues, as they all say they feel sorry for what Dr. Ford experienced, but they don’t feel her story compelling enough to look into beyond some perfunctory questions before dismissing it as unsubstantiated. They want to keep telling her she’s the victim of the people who tried to help her, that if she’d just come to them instead, they would have made sure this never became public so she wouldn’t have suffered.
What those assholes don’t know is she already suffered. Its such a pathetic ploy to try to suggest that women like first Rep. Eshoo and then Sen. Feinstein are the real guilty parties here and not Kavanaugh.
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lindsey is very thinly hiding accusations that Dr Ford’s lawyers were behind leaking the letter and other malfeasance.
He’s doing that only because she thanked Feinstein yesterday for betraying her confidence in keeping the matter confidential. Otherwise he’d still be up there, accusing DiFi of being the one who leaked the story to the press.
From the drive time DJs to the water cooler at work, the consesus I hear is that Ford is a liar and the dems lost.
re: #213 Interesting Times
Contemptibly weak and gutless little shit. Couldn’t even look those women in the eye, couldn’t even answer the “do you believe he’s telling the truth” question!
And I’ll stop here because I don’t want to jeopardize my LGF account.
I hope he watches himself cower in an elevator trying to disappear in the area where the floor selectors are.
I hope Jeff Flake sees how much a wimp he was.
Lindsey is threatening what he’s going to do when he takes over the committee chairmanship next year.
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lindsey is threatening what he’s going to do when he takes over the committee chairmanship next year.
Yeah? Well Lindsay, you’re going to be a ranking member after this and for a very long time.
re: #249 Amory Blaine
From the drive time DJs to the water cooler at work, the consesus I hear is that Ford is a liar and the dems lost.
Oh, I’m sure they didn’t say “she’s a liar” aloud, but instead kept to the talking point that she can’t prove anything herself, so they can’t just go on her recollection.
re: #244 ObserverArt
I got an email from one of my brothers. He is 72 now and was always a moderate thinking conservative. He was totally outraged by Graham and is worried about the country that is being left to his grand kids.
I never heard anything like that from him. I was stunned.
He did vote for Obama the second term and thought he was a fine president. He always admired how classy and well spoken Barack was.
The Trump Time has changed him. He’s almost radical now.
You’re like me right? Two brothers? You’ve mentioned another brother who is more wingnutty. Good for your brother here. We need men and women like him to turn the tide.
And Republicans expected her to be hysterical, a typical “hormonal, shrieking woman” where she was dignified and all the republican men, as well as Kavanaugh, lost it completely.
The optics failed but Republicans do not care. They will vote to confirm the looney Kavanaugh.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 28, 2018
re: #249 Amory Blaine
From the drive time DJs to the water cooler at work, the consesus I hear is that Ford is a liar and the dems lost.
Because of course.
The reality is that the country is infinitely more racist and more sexist than we want to admit. That we really are a fucking hopeless country and that the pathologies are simply coming out all the more because the GOP keeps proving that there’s no actual penalty for it. That the American psyche, in fact, revels in this cruelty and that they will never, ever pay for it. That believing in the better angels of our fellow Americans is a fucking fools errand.
re: #256 Citizen K
Because of course.
The reality is that the country is infinitely more racist and more sexist than we want to admit. That we really are a fucking hopeless country and that the pathologies are simply coming out all the more because the GOP keeps proving that there’s no actual penalty for it. That the American psyche, in fact, revels in this cruelty and that they will never, ever pay for it. That believing in the better angels of our fellow Americans is a fucking fools errand.
You are way too pessimistic. I think they are going to pay heavily in November. But time will tell.
re: #255 MsJ
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They expected it to be a contrast between the hysterical woman seething with rage who couldn’t give a straight answer versus the calm and collected judge who withstood Dem ire with dignity while answering every question clearly.
Instead they got the calm and collected doctor who knows what the hell she’s talking about versus the angry and cagey little prick who couldn’t give a straight answer. So they changed gears without a clutch, ditching the prosecutor who was starting to hit paydirt and exchanging her for hysterics and playing to the cheap seats.
To say it made the entire thing a farce would be to deny it was one from the beginning.
re: #242 Targetpractice
And the use of the language of the abusive man continues, as they all say they feel sorry for what Dr. Ford experienced, but they don’t feel her story compelling enough to look into beyond some perfunctory questions before dismissing it as unsubstantiated. They want to keep telling her she’s the victim of the people who tried to help her, that if she’d just come to them instead, they would have made sure this never became public so she wouldn’t have suffered.
i know this was all for show
nevertheless, i am past the point where any of this matters because three things have happened:
- a credible claim/accusation was made
- it was determined to be serious and substantial
- kavanaugh demonstrated his judicial temperament quite effectively
for me the first two are more than sufficient to end a nominee (rightly or wrongly) because i care about the court’s reputation, and image and institutionality (regardless of how it rules specifically)
with the third in full view, lets not pretend this is anything other than:
“we’re putting him on the court because we can and you can’t stop it”
there is nothing more to it
re: #258 Big Beautiful Door
You are way too pessimistic. I think they are going to pay heavily in November. But time will tell.
I have to agree with this. We can’t take success in November for granted but I do think this is going to be a Pyrrhic victory for the GOP .
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lindsey is very thinly hiding accusations that Dr Ford’s lawyers were behind leaking the letter and other malfeasance.
doesnt make the claim any less true
re: #254 HappyWarrior
You’re like me right? Two brothers? You’ve mentioned another brother who is more wingnutty. Good for your brother here. We need men and women like him to turn the tide.
Three brothers all older than me. One is in bad shape with Parkinson’s in an advanced stage. He is out in Arizona.
Sigh.
Well, I have to get busy…but truthfully…I am not feeling it today.
re: #263 ObserverArt
Three brothers all older than me. One is in bad shape with Parkinson’s in an advanced stage. He is out in Arizona.
Sigh.
Well, I have to get busy…but truthfully…I am not feeling it today.
Ahhh okay then you are like my Dad then who also has three older brothers. Take it easy. Sorry your brother out in AZ isn’t doing well. It’s been a really really surreal past day.
Durbin reading the ABA’s letter to the committee that the vote should be delayed until the FBI investigates the allegations.
re: #258 Big Beautiful Door
You are way too pessimistic. I think they are going to pay heavily in November. But time will tell.
And they’re depending upon that pessimism taking hold.
They want us to give up. Never forget that.
re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
Durbin reading the ABA’s letter to the committee that the vote should be delayed until the FBI investigates the allegations.
Bows and arrows against the lightning.
re: #245 HappyWarrior
As you guys know, I’m a genealogy buff and I just think about my own ancestors who left their homes. What made them decide that this was it, the point where they’d leave home and never return? Like I know the broader facts of poverty, not having autonomy, the Potato Famine, etc but what makes a man or woman leave what’s been home for generations of their family and decides to start anew. This isn’t an “I’m moving” rant but more of wondering what it took. We are Americans, yes but just as longer we were something else too.
this is the first time in my life i am embarrassed to be an american
its the first time i can see myself living somewhere else ‘better’ and being happier, calmer, content and at ease
if i wasnt married and didnt have family and obligations, i’d seriously consider going
(and i dont mean flake, collins, murkowski ‘seriously’)
re: #260 dangerman
This was the act of men who know that if they let us win even a little, their reign of terror will be over. The need us to not only lose, but to believe that we can never win, because once that happens, white men just become another category in America, and they’re not prepared to compete fairly.
re: #258 Big Beautiful Door
You are way too pessimistic. I think they are going to pay heavily in November. But time will tell.
After seeing the constant shitshows of the GOP paying precious little long-term consequences for anything while Dem ‘scandals’ and ‘crimes’ linger for decades in the American conscience, when attempts to push civil rights movements gets them tarred to equate into things worse than racism and oppression, when the GOP is poised to reap all the benefits of bad faith with the media slavishly memory holing and enabling all their sins….can you really fucking blame me?
The polls only seem to say what people are willing to say publicly. The reality seems to be that most Americans privately crave this shit, and that’s why it will never change.
re: #261 HappyWarrior
I have to agree with this. We can’t take success in November for granted but I do think this is going to be a Pyrrhic victory for the GOP .
I’m going to do what I can; I’ll be working for the Amy McGrath campaign this weekend.
We are all Melians today.
Athenians: “…we shall not trouble you with specious pretenses—-either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of the wrong that you have done us—-and make a long speech that would not be believed; and in return, we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although they are colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, …since you know as well as we do the right, as the world goes, is only in question between equal power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”2
The Melians pointed out that it was to the interest of all states to respect the laws of nations: “you should not destroy what is our common protection, the privilege of being allowed in danger to invoke what is fair and right….”3 They reminded the Athenians that a day might come when the Athenians themselves would need such protection.
But the Athenians were not persuaded. To them, Melos’ submission was in the interest of their empire, and Melos.
re: #268 dangerman
this is the first time in my life i am embarrassed to be an american
its the first time i can see myself living somewhere else ‘better’ and being happier, calmer, content and at ease
if i wasnt married and didnt have family and obligations, i’d seriously consider going
(and i dont mean flake, collins, murkowski ‘seriously’)
I guess I’m young enough. TBH I don’t rule it out but I don’t want to leave. Not just because I have family and friends here but damnit this is my country too.
Grassley now saying that he is not going to let the ABA dictate to the committee and the ABA president’s opinion makes no difference.
re: #261 HappyWarrior
I have to agree with this. We can’t take success in November for granted but I do think this is going to be a Pyrrhic victory for the GOP .
Unfortunately, I’m in the minority here. I think they’re going to keep the Senate, even if it’s by 1 vote, and go into 2020 convinced that it was their stalwart support of Trump that saved them from the worst.
re: #271 Big Beautiful Door
I’m going to do what I can; I’ll be working for the Amy McGrath campaign this weekend.
Me too for Jennifer Wexton who is running against Kavanaugh’s old buddy Barbara Comstock who is being typically silent on this.
re: #275 Targetpractice
Unfortunately, I’m in the minority here. I think they’re going to keep the Senate, even if it’s by 1 vote, and go into 2020 convinced that it was their stalwart support of Trump that saved them from the worst.
I dunno. I just have to try to be glass half full because if I get too cynical, I can’t do the campaign work.
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
Grassley now saying that he is not going to let the ABA dictate to the committee and the ABA president’s opinion makes no difference.
“Look at all the organizations that have given this nomination their support!”
“They’re now calling for a delay so the FBI can investigate.”
“Who the fuck cares what they think?”
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
Grassley now saying that he is not going to let the ABA dictate to the committee and the ABA president’s opinion makes no difference.
ABA knows a lot more about law than you do Senator Kavanaugh Ball Carrier.
re: #277 HappyWarrior
I dunno. I just have to try to be glass half full because if I get too cynical, I can’t do the campaign work.
NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER SURRENDER.
I have my moments of complete despair. Then I shrug it off and move forward.
re: #256 Citizen K
Because of course.
The reality is that the country is infinitely more racist and more sexist than we want to admit. That we really are a fucking hopeless country and that the pathologies are simply coming out all the more because the GOP keeps proving that there’s no actual penalty for it. That the American psyche, in fact, revels in this cruelty and that they will never, ever pay for it. That believing in the better angels of our fellow Americans is a fucking fools errand.
the women. the ‘victim’s have to come out
they have to do it. there is no other way
they have to prepare for and shoulder everything that we and they know is going to happen to them
they have to create the avalanche ‘in numbers to big to ignore’
Republicans have made it clear that they are above the law.
re: #279 HappyWarrior
ABA knows a lot more about law than you do Senator Kavanaugh Ball
CarrierSucker…Washer…Fondler.
FIFY
re: #282 Joe Bacon 🌹
Republicans have made it clear that they are above the law.
And once BK gets to the court, they will be when he’s the 5th vote to allow federal pardons to extend to state crimes.
re: #275 Targetpractice
Unfortunately, I’m in the minority here. I think they’re going to keep the Senate, even if it’s by 1 vote, and go into 2020 convinced that it was their stalwart support of Trump that saved them from the worst.
Odds are they will keep the Senate; but the Democrats have a real shot at winning it. The nightmare scenario is if the GOP keeps the House and the Senate.
re: #277 HappyWarrior
I dunno. I just have to try to be glass half full because if I get too cynical, I can’t do the campaign work.
I’m more like this: It will be worse if we don’t do what we can, and what happens in November happens, and then we deal with that. My optimism is a general thing, not a “we’re going to win the next election” thing.
Cornyn also insinuating that Dr Ford’s lawyers leaked the letter and other malfeasance.
re: #285 Big Beautiful Door
Odds are they will keep the Senate; but the Democrats have a real shot at winning it. The nightmare scenario is if the GOP keeps the House and the Senate.
I don’t believe they’ll keep the House, but I do think the gains there will be fewer than we’re being led to believe. And that too will be taken as a sign that Trump’s influence is enough to ward off disaster.
re: #280 MsJ
NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER SURRENDER.
I have my moments of complete despair. Then I shrug it off and move forward.
Exactly. I’m just saying that I try to stay on the more optimistic side because if I do slip into despair, I give up. I’ve been working on the campaign, trying ot lose weight/eat better, live better, etc. Slowly working.
re: #280 MsJ
NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER SURRENDER.
I have my moments of complete despair. Then I shrug it off and move forward.
It’s the only choice we’ve got right now.
re: #286 Belafon
I’m more like this: It will be worse if we don’t do what we can, and what happens in November happens, and then we deal with that. My optimism is a general thing, not a “we’re going to win the next election” thing.
Right I hear ya. We gotta keep fighting.
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
Grassley now saying that he is not going to let the ABA dictate to the committee and the ABA president’s opinion makes no difference.
Heh. I wasn’t watching any of it this morning. I was intending to log off and do some work. I turned on the TV. It was still set on MSNBC from Lawrence last night.
I saw Grassely say that and turned it right back off.
Okay…now I gotta go…ugh.
re: #269 Belafon
This was the act of men who know that if they let us win even a little, their reign of terror will be over. The need us to not only lose, but to believe that we can never win, because once that happens, white men just become another category in America, and they’re not prepared to compete fairly.
they never were. they always needed an unfair advantage
Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham falling on the sword for Donnie, i.e., party over country. The GOP deserves to rot in Hell.
I need a better tomorrow to look to or else I can’t do today in other words. I need to see the other side of that rainbow and that street paved with gold as the immigrants were told.
re: #294 Dr. Matt
Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham falling on the sword for Donnie, i.e., party over country. The GOP deserves to rot in Hell.
There’s no way it would happen but I’d love for the GOP to get perceived the same way the Communist Party was.
It always looked like Dems would take the House and Repubs would keep the Senate. I don’t think that has changed.
We always knew there was a risk of Court seats coming open and we knew there’d be nothing we could do but fight as hard as we can. We have done that and will continue to do that.
Right now those of us who paid attention are sickened and outraged and sad…and demoralized. Pick back up. Remember history and demographics are on our side. We have to keep fighting to give those things room to unfold in however many years it takes for us to win.
I will also remind everyone that there is a narcissist in the White House and all of this is like crack to him. We’re giving him exactly what he wants with our despair and sense of powerlessness. Mourn, lick wounds, get sick, then pick yourselves back up and keep going.
re: #288 Targetpractice
I don’t believe they’ll keep the House, but I do think the gains there will be fewer than we’re being led to believe. And that too will be taken as a sign that Trump’s influence is enough to ward off disaster.
So, in your opinion, we can’t win if we win?
No worries about how I will be able to bake pie. I can just leave it on the sidewalk.
Wow. Via Washington Post: Trump Administration predicts no meaningful effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, forecasts catastrophic global warming. https://t.co/fMACFdyVBa
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) September 28, 2018
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BREAKING: Protesters outside cmte. hearing chanting ‘November is coming,’ many arrests now underway - @AlexNBCNews pic.twitter.com/OtCDtFCPKZ
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) September 28, 2018
re: #273 HappyWarrior
I guess I’m young enough. TBH I don’t rule it out but I don’t want to leave. Not just because I have family and friends here but damnit this is my country too.
i get that
and in a sense, leaving is not only surrendering the present, it is also ceding them the future
and country is a thing worth fighting for
as i said, im starting to feel that my ‘country’ is no longer recognizable to me
you know my feelings - liberty and justice for all, universal human rights.
if the patch of dirt collectively called the united states is less and less the champion of that ethos, what does ‘my country’ mean?
(yes i know, quite a rabbit hole and one we probably shouldnt venture too far down today….)
re: #275 Targetpractice
Unfortunately, I’m in the minority here. I think they’re going to keep the Senate, even if it’s by 1 vote, and go into 2020 convinced that it was their stalwart support of Trump that saved them from the worst.
yeah - keeping the senate by 1 vote - some ‘mandate’
Burn in hell @bensasse. and btw I just informed your publicist not to bother sending me that book of yours I was asked to read and then say nice things about. https://t.co/saUufhL6y0
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) September 28, 2018
re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
Nothing that comes out of this Administration should be trusted.
A 4C rise in surface temps by 2100 is a low probability event. Given the approximately stable output of CO2 (which is what has happened over the past couple of years), by 2100 surface temps most likely scenario is an additional 1.5C increase over the current decadal average.
The current administration is trying to make excuses for doing nothing.
Sen Whitehouse also calling Kavanaugh a liar: doesn’t believe boof is a fart, Devil’s Triangle is a drinking game, that being a girl’s “alumnius” means she’s a friend.
re: #302 dangerman
i get that
and in a sense, leaving is not only surrendering the present, it is also ceding them the futureand country is a thing worth fighting for
as i said, im starting to feel that my ‘country’ is no longer recognizable to me
you know my feelings - liberty and justice for all, universal human rights.if the patch of dirt collectively called the united states is less and less the champion of that ethos, what does ‘my country’ mean?
(yes i know, quite a rabbit hole and one we probably shouldnt venture too far down today….)
Right, those thoughts are all on my mind too. I don’t recognize our country either. I’m always happy to get home when I travel internationally but the last two times it’s been more happy to return to my home-home and this last time it wasn’t even certain with that.
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sen Whitehouse also calling Kavanaugh a liar: doesn’t believe boof is a fart, Devil’s Triangle is a drinking game, that being a girl’s “alumnius” means she’s a friend.
I don’t either. It’s absurdity.
re: #302 dangerman
i get that
and in a sense, leaving is not only surrendering the present, it is also ceding them the futureand country is a thing worth fighting for
as i said, im starting to feel that my ‘country’ is no longer recognizable to me
you know my feelings - liberty and justice for all, universal human rights.if the patch of dirt collectively called the united states is less and less the champion of that ethos, what does ‘my country’ mean?
(yes i know, quite a rabbit hole and one we probably shouldnt venture too far down today….)
There have been darker days in the past. For example July 21, 1861, when it looked like the Republic could literally fall to an army just across the Potomac. But we didn’t surrender to despair, and though enormous sacrifices had to be made in the years to come the Republic was saved. In contrast, all we have to do is get our butts to the polling stations and vote. We are the majority people, act like it!
re: #309 Big Beautiful Door
There have been darker days in the past. For example July 21, 1861, when it looked like the Republic could literally fall to an army just across the Potomac. But we didn’t surrender to despair, and though enormous sacrifices had to be made in the years to come the Republic was saved. In contrast, all we have to do is get our butts to the polling stations and vote. We are the majority people, act like it!
That’s right. That’s exactly right. I gotta stop bellyaching.
The Senate Judiciary Committee must delay its vote on Judge Kavanaugh until the FBI conducts a full and fair investigation of the sexual assault allegations.
The Senate’s constitutional duty is to provide advice and consent. That is only possible with all the facts.— NY AG Underwood (@NewYorkStateAG) September 28, 2018
Now Judge Angry Rapey will be able to dish revenge against every left-learning issue that comes to the SCOTUS.
re: #312 Dr. Matt
Now Judge Angry Rapey will be able to dish revenge against every left-learning issue that comes to the SCOTUS.
He’s also going to be a complete dickhead to any Democratic official and SCOTUS deals with a lot of party officials since State AGs and Solicitor Generals often argue in court.
Just a drive-by because I’m hoping not to wallow in anger/helplessness today and hence need to go do other stuff instead of being online.
Remember that the “year of the woman” followed Thomas’s confirmation. We can make that happen again.
People may not support change on things like same sex marriage, abortion and health care, but once the changes are in place, they don’t much like things being taken away (see: healthcare.)
They can be chipped away at, which must be fought against, but banning, say, same sex marriage will not be a winning issue. Abortion is more nuanced, but also a minefield.
Chin up, and all that.
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sen Whitehouse also calling Kavanaugh a liar: doesn’t believe boof is a fart, Devil’s Triangle is a drinking game, that being a girl’s “alumnius” means she’s a friend.
.@SenWhitehouse: “I don’t believe ‘boof’ is flatulence, I don’t believe a ‘devil’s triangle’ is a drinking game, and I don’t believe calling yourself a girl’s ‘alumnus’ is being her friend.” pic.twitter.com/R6Xk80dY3Y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 28, 2018
re: #288 Targetpractice
I don’t believe they’ll keep the House, but I do think the gains there will be fewer than we’re being led to believe. And that too will be taken as a sign that Trump’s influence is enough to ward off disaster.
Even if the Democrats only win 218 seats in the House, that will be enough to investigate the hell out of Trump and his corrupt Administration, even if he does fire Rosenstein and Mueller. But if we don’t get our people out to vote in November, there is still a risk that the GOP will retain control, and that will be seen as a Trump victory.
re: #312 Dr. Matt
Now Judge Angry Rapey will be able to dish revenge against every left-learning issue that comes to the SCOTUS.
That was always a given. It’s just mildly surprising that he let the mask drop.
re: #298 Belafon
So, in your opinion, we can’t win if we win?
I’m just going by historical precedent. We won big in ‘06, but not as big as we’d expected. Got some very good legislation passed in that time. And then lost big in ‘10 and ‘14 because “ZOMG! OBAMACARE’S GONNA KILL US ALL!!!!”
We predicted the GOP getting it in the ass a decade ago meant the public was “finally waking up.” Then we got Obama and they decided the horrors had passed and went back to bed.
E-mails show Republican Senate staff stymied a Kavanaugh accuser’s effort to give testimony. “I’ve never encountered an instance where the Committee has refused even to speak with an individual or counsel. I am perplexed as to why this is happening here”: https://t.co/Fy0om1zAuO
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 28, 2018
Kavanaugh’s ability to be non-partisan I think was questionable at best before Dr. Ford’s allegation. It really is questionable now that he feels that a conspiracy is why he is being accused of what Dr. Ford alleges he did. Dickhead didn’t do his homework and saw that she talked about it in 2012 and before he was officially picked this year. But hey Brett cry some more, because you suck both as a judge and a human being.
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Something is rotten here and it needs to be ended with a swift kick to the GOP’s political balls.
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But I was assured yesterday by Chuck that the lawyers were stonewalling and that’s why the SJC majority decided to dismiss their allegations!
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re: #319 Targetpractice
I’m just going by historical precedent. We won big in ‘06, but not as big as we’d expected. Got some very good legislation passed in that time. And then lost big in ‘10 and ‘14 because “ZOMG! OBAMACARE’S GONNA KILL US ALL!!!!”
We predicted the GOP getting it in the ass a decade ago meant the public was “finally waking up.” Then we got Obama and they decided the horrors had passed and went back to bed.
That’s a worry for 2022. Lets concentrate on winning this November, and then start working on 2020.
Ha, just read a perfect description of Judge Rapey McRapeface:
“The Alex Jones of the court system”
While you’re being distracted by the Senate:
E.P.A. to Eliminate Office That Advises Agency Chief on Science
[…]
Separately, on Tuesday, in an unusual move, the E.P.A. placed the head of its Office of Children’s Health, Dr. Ruth Etzel, on administrative leave, while declining to give a reason for the move. Agency officials told Dr. Etzel, a respected pediatric epidemiologist, that the move was not disciplinary. As the head of an office that regularly pushed to tighten regulations on pollution, which can affect children more powerfully than adults, Dr. Etzel had clashed multiple times with Trump administration appointees who sought to loosen pollution rules.
[…]
Klobucher: I don’t want to hear about how they respect Dr Ford when they won’t even bother to do an FBI investigation.
Oooh, Koblucher just called out Kavanaugh and the polygraph and how he himself said they were okay for interviews and investigations.
Just brought up Merrick Garland!!!!
re: #272 jeffreyw
…and they paid high for it.
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
Klobucher: I don’t want to hear about how they respect Dr Ford when they won’t even bother to do an FBI investigation.
Boom!
re: #309 Big Beautiful Door
There have been darker days in the past. For example July 21, 1861, when it looked like the Republic could literally fall to an army just across the Potomac. But we didn’t surrender to despair, and though enormous sacrifices had to be made in the years to come the Republic was saved. In contrast, all we have to do is get our butts to the polling stations and vote. We are the majority people, act like it!
i wasnt alive just then ;-)
of course you are right
and i wasnt even suggesting to abdicate my civic responsibilities or disown the country
short of physically knocking on doors, i could still be reasonably effective living somewhere else as i am right now
as i said, it’s all moot. i’m not going anywhere. i’ll fight the good fight with everyone else
Here’s a much-needed thread on the Sled Dog Softness Scale.
I will be ranking the sled dogs from least to most soft, on a scale of 1-10. To do this, I will use a scientific scale known as the SSSI, or Sled Dog Softness Index. Each dog’s SSSI score is based on two categories: the softness of individual hairs, and overall fluffiness. pic.twitter.com/zZ5PvJ9j8z
— Blair Braverman (@BlairBraverman) September 20, 2018
Take a break from the curs on Judiciary and take in some good dogs.
Klobucher stops speaking: “Just waiting for staff over there to stop talking.”
yep, lots of “respect” going on in that room
LOL. Klobuchar stopped talking and then pulled the teacher thing where she looked at the people across the way and said she was going to wait until staffers stopped talking.
American Bar Association #DelayTheVote
Not qualified to be SCOTUS Justice on so many levels pic.twitter.com/AwXZAIpqrC— Old GOPer (@OGOPer) September 28, 2018
re: #312 Dr. Matt
Now Judge Angry Rapey will be able to dish revenge against every left-learning issue that comes to the SCOTUS.
for all the names that are being used to describe kavanaugh, i’d like to suggest NOT using rapey mcrapeface
what a terrible dis to boaty mcboatface that would be
re: #341 b.d.(true to form)
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Need to add Vitter to that with him sitting there with a pacifier in his mouth saying, “You guys are suppose to enjoy this not whine like an asshole.”
Mr. Donnelly…no.
Senator Joe Donnelly — who voted for Neil Gorsuch — explains why he’ll oppose Brett Kavanaugh. pic.twitter.com/GauhbVRgAl
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 28, 2018
re: #325 Interesting Times
Ha, just read a perfect description of Judge Rapey McRapeface:
“The Alex Jones of the court system”
nnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
i just said……!!!!
re: #330 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Oooh, Koblucher just called out Kavanaugh and the polygraph and how he himself said they were okay for interviews and investigations.
it sounds like today they are hitting a lot of the points some of us might have wanted to hear yesterday
it makes more sense today
yesterday they were limited to 5 mintues and they were really there to ask questions and try to get answers
I nominate “Judge Weepy Rapey.” Anger can be righteous, after all.
Whoa if true.
WSJ: Mitchell advised Republicans that to continue questioning Kavanaugh she was required by her oath in Arizona to inform Kavanaugh of his rights after he lied to her about July 1, 1982 entry on his calender. Maryland statutes was last question she asked, then break was called..
— Alan Covington (@Alan_Covington) September 28, 2018
is there a link to this? i haven’t seen it https://t.co/DBe5YroxEG
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 28, 2018
You don’t hear Klobuchar’s name in 2020 which is too bad. She’s smart, has the right experience, & though from a safe state is from a region we need to take back.
re: #348 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I nominate “Judge Weepy Rapey.” Anger can be righteous, after all.
Judge Dickface Or Blackout Brett to his friends.
re: #133 MsJ
I can see Murkowski voting against because her state’s governor is against him. Collins is a fucking complete waste of oxygen. She will vote the party line.
yes, i confidently asserted yesterday here that, for obvious political reasons, Collins would vote no, but I keep getting sucked into the trap of thinking that Republicans aren’t idiotic enough to blow themselves up. I will keep my fingers crossed, but I’m not counting on any kind of profile in courage from Collins. They’ll let Murkowski vote no because they won’t need her vote. Collins though will whore herself out for whatever imagined bit of horse trading she thinks she’ll get for her vote.
They keep making a big deal about the “testimony” of Blackout Brett done “under penalty of perjury,” yet the third accuser did that and endangered her security clearance…and they declared her allegations “a farce” and wouldn’t deign to listen to them.
re: #355 Targetpractice
They keep making a big deal about the “testimony” of Blackout Brett done “under penalty of perjury,” yet the third accuser did that and endangered her security clearance…and they declared her allegations “a farce” and wouldn’t deign to listen to them.
For what it’s worth…
Because @realDonaldTrump and the Senate Republicans refuse to allow my client Julie Swetnick to testify, we will be taking her story directly to the American people this weekend. This is about a search for the truth. Details to follow.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 28, 2018
re: #356 Interesting Times
For what it’s worth…
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Blackout Brett is going to be even more angry.
re: #349 makeitstop
Whoa if true.
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probably not true:
Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona prosecutor who questioned Christine Blasey Ford at Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee, privately told GOP senators she would not prosecute Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh based on the evidence she heard, according to the Washington Post.
That detail was spotlighted Friday by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, whose office sent out a news release Friday referring to Mitchell’s conclusion.
Another bit was saying “You don’t just stop,” to which I say “Explain Dennis Hastert.”
Cruz is outraged that the Democrats want to keep this SCOTUS seat vacant until 2020.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Cruz doesn’t want the one alleged eyewitness to the assault (Mark Judge) to testify. He says all Democrats really want is “to see a man who struggled with addiction most of his life sitting before this committee and [plead] the fifth.” pic.twitter.com/kI0UIlc1R3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 28, 2018
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cruz is outraged that the Democrats want to keep this SCOTUS seat vacant until 2020.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
If the seat is vacant until 2020, it’s no one’s fault but Trump for failing to put up a credible nominee who isn’t a sex predator.
Gorsuch got a valid hearing from the GOP.
The Senate GOP controls this process. If Kavanaugh fails, it’s because he’s a sex predator and the nation recognizes as much. If the Senate GOP, which is likely to continue having control of the Senate after the midterms can’t confirm a Trump pick to the Court - that too is on Trump.
Do better.
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cruz is outraged that the Democrats want to keep this SCOTUS seat vacant until 2020.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
That’s rich Ted. Are you forgetting what you and your colleagues vowed to do to the seat that Neil Gorsuch now occupies? Or were you too afraid of people with dyed hair eating tofu to remember your role?
Denny Burk is highly influential in Evangelical circles. He is evil, too.
Hell is not hot enough for you yet. I was sexually assaulted at age 9 by a 16 YO in 1970 and there were no witnesses. This scripture lets sexual abusers off scot-free. It’s the scripture used by Jehovah’s Witnesses to cover up their child abuse. @watchkeep @c_stroop
— (((Deana “No Permanent Baby Jails” Holmes))) (@mmmirele) September 28, 2018
Is Cruz seriously trying to make Judge a fucking victim?
re: #364 mmmirele
Denny Burk is highly influential in Evangelical circles. He is evil, too.
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Yet you wanted to lock her up Denny.
re: #358 Backwoods_Sleuth
probably not true:
The attorney hired by the GOP to interrogate and discredit Kavanaugh’s accuser is telling the guys cutting her check that she wouldn’t prosecute their boy? Can I borrow someone’s shocked face? Mine’s busted.
They wouldn’t call me a drug kingpin if I showed up for my interview high but they sure as hell wouldn’t give me the job either.
re: #365 HappyWarrior
Is Cruz seriously trying to make Judge a fucking victim?
Yes, who’s “struggled with addiction most of his life”.
Now, people can overcome addiction, but I thought the guy was just a quiet type who liked the occasional beer?
Don’t let Cory Gardner off the hook. Gather at noon at his Denver office, 721 19th St Suite 150, to tell him Kavanaugh does NOT belong on the Supreme Court. https://t.co/dOqUI8YIij pic.twitter.com/8wYho4hIg9
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
I’ll be there https://t.co/AhQDnJlJIU
— Charming Persistence (@Charmingly2020) September 28, 2018
re: #369 ericblair
Yes, who’s “struggled with addiction most of his life”.
Now, people can overcome addiction, but I thought the guy was just a quiet type who liked the occasional beer?
Oh he’s talking about Judge who until last night I didn’t know was the grandson of baseball player Joe Judge.
re: #356 Interesting Times
For what it’s worth…
Judiciary is going to end up wishing they’d listened to her.
If they think women are pissed now, wait until this hits.
And with no time limits and access to all networks, Swetnick will have free rein to establish her story.
Avenatti will exploit this to the fullest. Rs should be scared.
re: #373 makeitstop
Judiciary is going to end up wishing they’d listened to her.
If they think women are pissed now, wait until this hits.
And with no time limits and access to all networks, Swetnick will have free rein to establish her story.
Avenatti will exploit this to the fullest. Rs should be scared.
Swetnick telling her story is going to get the Montgomery PD involved more. The R’s are going to really regret this.
re: #373 makeitstop
Judiciary is going to end up wishing they’d listened to her.
If they think women are pissed now, wait until this hits.
And with no time limits and access to all networks, Swetnick will have free rein to establish her story.
Avenatti will exploit this to the fullest. Rs should be scared.
If I were the writer for Scary News Stories they sometimes do, this would be reported as “If you have teenage or college age daughters, you need to watch this report.”
My prediction if the Montgomery County PD does get involved, one of Kavanaugh’s pals who isn’t as well off or connected eevntually cracks eventually and the gangbang crew goes down.
Coons sounds completely reasonable and sane. I like him, too.
re: #377 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Coons sounds completely reasonable and sane. I like him, too.
He’s who ultimately replaced Biden. Different kind of guy than Joe is but I like him too.
Dean Gerken, Yale Law.
Dean Gerken Joins the ABA in Calling for Further Investigation. pic.twitter.com/SYAsVHwsi7
— Yale Law School (@YaleLawSch) September 28, 2018
These old white men like @tedcruz will say anything. They are now claiming that Mark Judge can’t testify publicly because he suffers from depression, etc. As the below shows, this is a complete lie. These misogynists must not know there is something called Google. pic.twitter.com/nYNdpgWhCS
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 28, 2018
re: #380 lawhawk
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I suspect Judge would be even more of a loose cannon than Kavanaugh proved to be. And that’s what Cruz really fears.
Anyhow, thanks guys. Got the friend to admit that his friend was wrong about the cloture/confirmation thing. It’s frustrating because although I don’t agree with this guy on everything, I think he means well but he doesn’t realize that his above the two parties politics thing is a form of partisanship in itself. I have a great annoyance with that and I see it a lot from people like me mostly. By people like me, I mean men of a certain age and race.
re: #382 HappyWarrior
Anyhow, thanks guys. Got the friend to admit that his friend was wrong about the cloture/confirmation thing. It’s frustrating because although I don’t agree with this guy on everything, I think he means well but he doesn’t realize that his above the two parties politics thing is a form of partisanship in itself. I have a great annoyance with that and I see it a lot from people like me mostly. By people like me, I mean men of a certain age and race.
And the same shit that, inevitably, holds Dems to an infinitely higher standard than the GOP while acting like they’re both the exact same animal?
re: #383 Citizen K
And the same shit that, inevitably, holds Dems to an infinitely higher standard than the GOP while acting like they’re both the exact same animal?
Exactly. Whole thing turned into a tangent about something else when someone else pointed what I did and I just had to get out of it.
Freudian slip while praising the top senior members, called him Senator Assley.
re: #386 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Freudian slip while praising the top senior members, called him Senator Assley.
Uh oh the people who don’t like swearing but love Trump telling it as it is aren’t going to like that. //
re: #382 HappyWarrior
You can tell him this, I’m above both parties as well, but when I look at my priorities - food, housing, education, health care, equality, opportunity, etc. - exactly one of the parties, the Democratic, offers the best chance of accomplishing my priorities. I didn’t choose my priorities based on the party. It’s the other way around.
re: #376 HappyWarrior
My prediction if the Montgomery County PD does get involved, one of Kavanaugh’s pals who isn’t as well off or connected eevntually cracks eventually and the gangbang crew goes down.
My belief is that the entire Trump cabal, and most of the elected Republicans, have enough criminally actionable skeletons in their closets plus the possibility of mutual blackmail that none of them can stand up to any sort of investigation. The Republican party is a criminal conspiracy at this point, and most of the goopers can’t even figure out how many laws they’ve broken either directly or as part of the conspiracy.
It does explain how they don’t seem to be doing any preparing for a Democratic sweep. It’s not that they are confident they’ll win, but they have no idea what they would do if and when they lose. So they don’t think about it, because what good would it do?
Grassley skipped right over Flake to the next Republican, Mike Crapo who looked confused and asked Flake if he wanted to talk. Flake held up his hand and shook his head no, then got up and left.
— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) September 28, 2018
A profile in bravery, Jeff Flake is.
re: #388 Belafon
You can tell him this, I’m above both parties as well, but when I look at my priorities - food, housing, education, health care, equality, opportunity, etc. - exactly one of the parties, the Democratic, offers the best chance of accomplishing my priorities. I didn’t choose my priorities based on the party. It’s the other way around.
Exactly.
Whether Kavanaugh is confirmed or not, the process will leave a stain on Washington, reminding the nation that confirmation of justices is in the grip of the same partisan political climate that cuts across almost everything in public life @danbalz https://t.co/xda5PwAzUd
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 28, 2018
yeah, this framing sucks. it’s yet another way respectability-seeking journalists launder real humans’ real pain into abstract, both-sides, “gosh-isn’t-politics-just-the-worst” pablum. https://t.co/rIK5ica6s7
— Emma Roller (@emmaroller) September 28, 2018
And yet more about that funny ‘both sides same thing’ standard that punishes the Dems for GOP sins because ‘they must be exactly the same’.
re: #389 ericblair
My belief is that the entire Trump cabal, and most of the elected Republicans, have enough criminally actionable skeletons in their closets plus the possibility of mutual blackmail that none of them can stand up to any sort of investigation. The Republican party is a criminal conspiracy at this point, and most of the goopers can’t even figure out how many laws they’ve broken either directly or as part of the conspiracy.
It does explain how they don’t seem to be doing any preparing for a Democratic sweep. It’s not that they are confident they’ll win, but they have no idea what they would do if and when they lose. So they don’t think about it, because what good would it do?
Yeah I definitely think there’s a lot of ugly skeletons in closets here.
<re: #384 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Now Cory Booker.
PBS live feed is yet to point camera to Booker, I think, for even a second.
re: #393 Citizen K
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And yet more about that funny ‘both sides same thing’ standard that punishes the Dems for GOP sins because ‘they must be exactly the same’.
Yeah this shit just pisses me off too. Stop trying to make it both sides. That doesn’t make you neutral, insightful, or “above it all”, it just shows that you have an agenda too.
re: #396 HappyWarrior
Yeah this shit just pisses me off too. Stop trying to make it both sides. That doesn’t make you neutral, insightful, or “above it all”, it just shows that you have an agenda too.
But see, that’s ok. We’ll get the other side of the story: that Dems are at fault for being cynical partisans and hiding Dr. Blasey-Ford’s accusations because they’re all terrible horrible partisan people!
Okay, my new column on the Kavanaugh debacle is up: https://t.co/HMZGPM4MfX
I’m going to lay out my position first, which is that this nomination should be held for at least a time-limited FBI investigation.
And then I’m going to detail how badly Democrats handled this.— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 28, 2018
A 53% wants you to know its the Dems fault. https://t.co/l3z1qWEwWG
— Pragmatic Obots (@PragmaticObot) September 28, 2018
Frankly the both sides shit is some of the most white guy privileged shit I’ve ever seen.
re: #390 Citizen K
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A profile in bravery, Jeff Flake is.
Flake is retiring for a reason. Republicans are doing what they’re doing for a reason. Blackmail or guaranteed election interference by enemy state Nations, I don’t know. But they have to see what’s happening - yet they do nothing.
There are reasons and we are all in the dark.
re: #364 mmmirele
Denny Burk is highly influential in Evangelical circles. He is evil, too.
“A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.”
-The God of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob (Deut. 19:15)
Kav hasnt been accused criminally or charged with anything
and there are lots of witnesses
putting your fingers in your ears yelling “lalalalalal we dont want to hear from them” pretending they dont exist i dont think was your god’s intention
re: #285 Big Beautiful Door
Odds are they will keep the Senate; but the Democrats have a real shot at winning it. The nightmare scenario is if the GOP keeps the House and the Senate.
my wet dream is that we take the House, and actually flip the senate to 51 or 52 good guys and gals. We neutralize Trump, impeaching Kavanaugh when he gets indicted in Maryland as a serial rapist. We don’t impeach Trump but instead wave a carrot in front of him, telling him he is safe as long as he acts as a rubber stamp for Democratic-generated legislation. His base becomes so enraged by him suddenly taking a liberal platform that 2020 becomes an utter bloodbath, with Democrats returning to numbers in the senate that haven’t been seen in 40 or 50 years. Filibuster-proof majorities.
re: #397 Citizen K
But see, that’s ok. We’ll get the other side of the story: that Dems are at fault for being cynical partisans and hiding Dr. Blasey-Ford’s accusations because they’re all terrible horrible partisan people!
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Yeah I’m sick of this fucking bullshit. One party is advocating for a man who credibly has been accused of sexual assault to be confirmed for SCOTUS. End of sentence. That’s all you need to fucking write.
re: #395 unproven innocence
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PBS live feed is yet to point camera to Booker, I think, for even a second.
I’m watching it on CSPAN.
re: #391 Barefoot Grin
He’s running….
Ok, to be fair, that wind-up about respecting Grassley and loving country is now followed by the heat. Good job, Cory.
re: #376 HappyWarrior
My prediction if the Montgomery County PD does get involved, one of Kavanaugh’s pals who isn’t as well off or connected eevntually cracks eventually and the gangbang crew goes down.
start low, work up
the mueller plan
Crapo says he believes Ford was “truthful” and that she had been sexually assaulted in her past. He also believes Kavanaugh when he says he was not there. Crapo will therefore vote yes.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 28, 2018
It’s amazing that the doppelgänger theory, which was laughed off Twitter, has become the stated justification for voting yes by numerous US Senators https://t.co/2QEcRAQ0hL
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 28, 2018
Yeah, I’m done. I’m fucking done right now.
I want to punch every single fucking thing right now. It’ll be more productive because saying anything at this point is like screaming to the fucking wind. It’s clear the only voices that matter in this country are the worst of us, and they’re telling us in unison ‘Fuck off, we own this country, we won, and you get nothing’.
re: #407 Citizen K
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Yeah, I’m done. I’m fucking done right now.
I want to punch every single fucking thing right now. It’ll be more productive because saying anything at this point is like screaming to the fucking wind. It’s clear the only voices that matter in this country are the worst of us, and they’re telling us in unison ‘Fuck off, we own this country, we won, and you get nothing’.
OFFS you pathetic man.
So though, a doppleganger raped her but yet she’s also part of a conspiracy to defame Kavanaugh’s good name. GAh!
Mr. Tester…no.
Tester announces his opposition: “I have concerns about his support for more dark money in politics. I have concerns about who he believes is in charge of making personal health decisions. And I have deep concerns about the allegations of sexual assault against Judge Kavanaugh.” pic.twitter.com/6jYXODTK8Z
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 28, 2018
MeToo kind of hit close to home yet again this morning. Guys, these women, these are women that we’ve known our entire lives. Why disbelieve someone had such a horrible thing happened to them? Just why?
re: #409 HappyWarrior
So though, a doppleganger raped her but yet she’s also part of a conspiracy to defame Kavanaugh’s good name. GAh!
They don’t really believe it was someone else; they just know that it wouldn’t look good for them if they said: yes Kavanaugh assaulted her and lied about but we don’t care.
re: #410 makeitstop
Mr. Tester…no.
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Appreciate him pointing out the other things too. There’s million and one reasons to oppose KAvanaugh.
re: #397 Citizen K
But see, that’s ok. We’ll get the other side of the story: that Dems are at fault for being cynical partisans and hiding Dr. Blasey-Ford’s accusations because they’re all terrible horrible partisan people!
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i was just htinking the only way this works is
- if we knew sooner we could have tore her apart sooner
- by waiting, you’ve made it much harder for us to drop Kav and start with someone else - november math being what it is
as if its the dems job to make the R’s job easier and even if true how dare the dems use timing, the calendar, politics etc to get what they want (ignoring merrick garland)
while no one will acknowledge that any and all time lines related to advice and consent are more or less arbitrary
re: #412 Hecuba’s daughter
They don’t really believe it was someone else; they just know that it wouldn’t look good for them if they said: yes Kavanaugh assaulted her and lied about but we don’t care.
My fucking head hurts. And I have a bottle of whiskey with my name on it right above me.
re: #408 HappyWarrior
OFFS you pathetic man.
Heh. I hear my own rage in CitizenK’s postings today. And, I also appreciate your “happy warrior” jousting that now makes me wonder if we both sound like Hudson from Aliens - “Game over, man! Game over!”
Then again, he didn’t survive another 24 hours, did he? 😎
You could have actually vetted him. You could have been transparent with his records. You could have taken this allegation fucking seriously but no you need your fucking Prep Boy Drunk because he’s the one who will definitely protect Trump when shit starts to get serious for Trump.
re: #416 Ferdinand
Heh. I hear my own rage in CitizenK’s postings today. And, I also appreciate your “happy warrior” jousting that now makes me wonder if we both sound like Hudson from Aliens - “Game over, man! Game over!”
Then again, he didn’t survive another 24 hours, did he? 😎
For me, it’s a combination of bewilderment and knowing that it makes me even more determined to do the campaign work I’ve done.
re: #402 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I keep forgetting you can’t read anything on Raw Story without paying.
re: #417 HappyWarrior
You could have actually vetted him. You could have been transparent with his records. You could have taken this allegation fucking seriously but no you need your fucking Prep Boy Drunk because he’s the one who will definitely protect Trump when shit starts to get serious for Trump.
They cannot declare their independence from Trump.
re: #419 Skip Intro
I keep forgetting you can’t read anything on Raw Story without paying.
i get by with an incog window from chrome
re: #419 Skip Intro
I keep forgetting you can’t read anything on Raw Story without paying.
That site is a hot mess. It takes forever to load for me.
I got nothing against people monetizing their sites, but when they work it to the point where you can’t even read the article without waiting for 50 ads to load, I’m gone.
re: #420 Skip Intro
Let me know as soon as a Republican votes no.
I hear ya. I think at best, we may get one for kabuki and then Pence and his stupid smile will break the tie.
re: #419 Skip Intro
I keep forgetting you can’t read anything on Raw Story without paying.
I never pay for Raw Story nor does hubby. Maybe because we’re in Canada?
I had no idea they had a paywall. I would not pay one penny to get their content. Their site sucks and their stories are sometimes very suspect to me.
Hubs thinks they use our CPU to mine Bitcoin because the CPU usage goes insane whenever you’re on their site.
re: #418 HappyWarrior
For me, it’s a combination of bewilderment and knowing that it makes me even more determined to do the campaign work I’ve done.
more determined is the typical female reaction, so for as I have noticed. And men of like minds. Thanks for your work.
re: #426 MsJ
I never pay for Raw Story nor does hubby. Maybe because we’re in Canada?
I had no idea they had a paywall. I would not pay one penny to get their content. Their site sucks and their stories are sometimes very suspect to me.
Hubs thinks they use our CPU to mine Bitcoin because the CPU usage goes insane whenever you’re on their site.
I’ve never seen a paywall, and I’m in NY. But it’s one of the slowest-loading sites I’ve ever seen. Which is just as bad, I suppose.
re: #425 HappyWarrior
I hear ya. I think at best, we may get one for kabuki and then Pence and his stupid smile will break the tie.
VP tie-breaker vote shouldn’t be used for SCOTUS nominee
From July 5, 2018
re: #427 wrenchwench
more determined is the typical female reaction, so for as I have noticed. And men of like minds. Thanks for your work.
You’re welcome. I’m glad to do it.
re: #429 dangerman
VP tie-breaker vote shouldn’t be used for SCOTUS nominee
From July 5, 2018
That wouldn’t stop Mother’s Husband.
Blumenthal is bringing up everything that needed to be brought up about Kavanaugh’s atrocious behavior yesterday and how that makes him not qualified in addition to the credibility of Dr. Ford. Going through this stuff one by one and basically saying that Kavanaugh is a liar.
re: #431 HappyWarrior
That wouldn’t stop Mother’s Husband.
oh i know
‘shouldn’t’ means of course he will
I’ve seen Booker and now Blumenthal step out of the proceedings after their statements. What does that mean? Are they refusing to vote?
re: #432 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Blumenthal is bringing up everything that needed to be brought up about Kavanaugh’s atrocious behavior yesterday and how that makes him not qualified in addition to the credibility of Dr. Ford. Going through this stuff one by one and basically saying that Kavanaugh is a liar.
Blumenthal was trying to use the Fenway Park trip and Kav’s story of coming back to campus at 4:45 AM “Trying to put the pieces together” as proof that he definitely did blackout drink. Kavanaugh was trying to say “I remember that night” but he wasn’t giving anything specific that suggested he actually remembered. I did notice he said George Brett was playing third base for the Royals and then corrected himself to say Left Field since that was odd since Brett was usually a third baseman but that’s something that could have easily been found out before hand.
re: #436 HappyWarrior
Blumenthal was trying to use the Fenway Park trip and Kav’s story of coming back to campus at 4:45 AM “Trying to put the pieces together” as proof that he definitely did blackout drink. Kavanaugh was trying to say “I remember that night” but he wasn’t giving anything specific that suggested he actually remembered. I did notice he said George Brett was playing third base for the Royals and then corrected himself to say Left Field since that was odd since Brett was usually a third baseman but that’s something that could have easily been found out before hand.
Brent Kavenaw’s memories are always ‘something that could have easily been found out before hand’, whereas Dr. Ford’s have the norepinephrine and epinephrine explanation to back them up. I know who’s memory has credibility.
If any Lizards have a Facebook account, I got some bad news for ya……
Facebook has said “almost 50 million” of its users were left exposed by a security flaw.
The company said attackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in a feature known as “View As” to gain control of people’s accounts.
The breach was discovered on Tuesday, Facebook said, and it has informed police.
Users that had potentially been affected were prompted to re-log-in on Friday.
The flaw has been fixed, wrote the firm’s head of security, Guy Rosen.
“Since we’ve only just started our investigation, we have yet to determine whether these accounts were misused or any information accessed. We also don’t know who’s behind these attacks or where they’re based. “
He added: “People’s privacy and security is incredibly important, and we’re sorry this happened.”
re: #438 wrenchwench
Brent Kavenaw’s memories are always ‘something that could have easily been found out before hand’, whereas Dr. Ford’s have the norepinephrine and epinephrine explanation to back them up. I know who’s memory has credibility.
Exactly what I was getting at. It’s easy for Kavanaugh to remember details like Roger Clemens pitched that day or that George Brett played left field that day.
re: #433 gocart mozart
A reminder that the band had to call out their fanbase because folks who were going to their shows were celebrating the song and ‘hit and run’s’, when the song was ultimately an anti-rape song. What was a warning was taken as a celebration of rape instead.
re: #435 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
I’ve seen Booker and now Blumenthal step out of the proceedings after their statements. What does that mean? Are they refusing to vote?
that is correct.
Also, Mazie Hirono and Kamala Harris
I’m wondering if Flake is going to come back for the vote.
I have a vision of him continuing to walk completely out of the building.
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m wondering if Flake is going to come back for the vote.
I have a vision of him continuing to walk completely out of the building.
Here’s a rodent copulation for you: All the Dems leave, Flake votes no, but Kav passes since he’s the only dissent. If they were there, he’d vote yes.
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m wondering if Flake is going to come back for the vote.
I have a vision of him continuing to walk completely out of the building.
Oh, that would be hilarious. But what would it mean in practical terms, if all the Dems walkout and only 10 GOPers vote to move forward?
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m wondering if Flake is going to come back for the vote.
I have a vision of him continuing to walk completely out of the building.
My question about the vote: does it require a majority of the full panel or just a majority of those present?
Being reported on MSNBC that Flake is meeting with Chris Coons and other Democratic Senators right now
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m wondering if Flake is going to come back for the vote.
I have a vision of him continuing to walk completely out of the building.
In my vision, he walks all the way back to Snowflake, AZ, with a week long stop in TX to campaign for his buddy, Beto.
re: #447 Backwoods_Sleuth
Being reported on MSNBC that Flake is meeting with Chris Coons and other Democratic Senators right now
What do you bet it’s a “yes” now and a “no” later?
re: #449 Barefoot Grin
What do you bet it’s a “yes” now and a “no” later?
I’m leaning toward that thought
re: #447 Backwoods_Sleuth
Being reported on MSNBC that Flake is meeting with Chris Coons and other Democratic Senators right now
Maybe that encounter in the elevator this morning got to him.
Not counting on it, but it sure would be wild. Imagine the tears.
re: #449 Barefoot Grin
What do you bet it’s a “yes” now and a “no” later?
That would uh be interesting. I guess as long as Kavanaugh isn’t on Scotus in the end.
Huh — Whitehouse says “Given what’s happening in the ante room” the vote should be delayed. But does not give details
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 28, 2018
anteroom is where Flake is having his Dem “intervention”.
re: #451 makeitstop
Maybe that encounter in the elevator this morning got to him.
Not counting on it, but it sure would be wild. Imagine the tears.
I am zero counting on Flake, but what if the new Arizona motto became “thumbs down”?
Ok I got a glimpse int the back room and there is a massive huddle of Senators with Jeff Flake at the middle. I even heard someone, I think Cornyn, say his name.
— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) September 28, 2018
re: #440 HappyWarrior
Exactly what I was getting at. It’s easy for Kavanaugh to remember details like Roger Clemens pitched that day or that George Brett played left field that day.
Also its relatively easy to remember how the game started. Ask him how it finished. I bet you he cant remember as he likely had a few brews at the game.
re: #451 makeitstop
Maybe that encounter in the elevator this morning got to him.
We couldn’t see the woman speaking in the video, but he most certainly did (despite doing everything in his power to cowardly stare at the floor instead)
re: #453 Backwoods_Sleuth
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anteroom is where Flake is having his Dem “intervention”.
Come on, Flake. Do the right thing for once. History will be kind, I promise.
My God, Flake may actually be on the brink of changing his vote.
— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) September 28, 2018
re: #438 wrenchwench
Brent Kavenaw’s memories are always ‘something that could have easily been found out before hand’, whereas Dr. Ford’s have the norepinephrine and epinephrine explanation to back them up. I know who’s memory has credibility.
maybe i should stop saying this
i dont know
it doesnt matter (i mean aside from the r’s ‘ramming’ this through anyway)
none of this matters
its not whose more believable
its that the accusation is credible and serious. and has been determined at least to not be frivolous or a total fabrication (except to some cavemen)
that is more than enough to end a nomination to the supreme court.
to want/have/allow this permanent cloud is a ‘fuck you’ to the legitimacy of the rest of the court
and yes, they dont care anyway
re: #458 makeitstop
Come on, Flake. Do the right thing for once. History will be kind, I promise.
History may be kind, but Flake may have to retire outside of AZ.
re: #440 HappyWarrior
Exactly what I was getting at. It’s easy for Kavanaugh to remember details like Roger Clemens pitched that day or that George Brett played left field that day.
12 angry men:
“It’s not difficult for a lawyer to find out what played at a particular theater on a particular night.”
IF Flake changes his vote, then I’m not sure where we go from there. Technically Yertle could decide to say “Fuck it” and bring the nomination to the full Senate, but without the committee’s recommendation it’s pretty much a guarantee he doesn’t have the votes.
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
You know how you’ll know this is true: When all of the Democrats return to the Judiciary meeting.
re: #457 Interesting Times
We couldn’t see the woman speaking in the video, but he most certainly did (despite doing everything in his power to cowardly stare at the floor instead)
Maria Gallagher from Westchester, NY is the name of the woman in the grey shirt. she was visibly shaken minutes after this exchange when we spoke — but said she was incredibly proud of speaking up
— J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) September 28, 2018
re: #462 dangerman
12 angry men:
“It’s not difficult for a lawyer to find out what played at a particular theater on a particular night.”
Such a great movie.
If Feinstein walks in with a switchblade all bets are off. //
re: #464 Targetpractice
IF Flake changes his vote, then I’m not sure where we go from there. Technically Yertle could decide to say “Fuck it” and bring the nomination to the full Senate, but without the committee’s recommendation it’s pretty much a guarantee he doesn’t have the votes.
That’s what they did with Bork. Bork was sunk in committee but the Reagan team pulled s damn the torpedos, full speed ahead and flopped.
2/ Look up Swetnick’s superlative professional background (including security clearances), look up her sworn testimony regarding sexual assault, look up her plea for Senators to hear her, and consider the GOP dismissed all of it because they didn’t like her ATTORNEY
JESUS CHRIST— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) September 28, 2018
re: #468 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Sexual assault survivors confront Jeff Flake on the elevator]
Hijacking elevators is terrorism!
re: #467 Amory Blaine
The vote is right now, correct?
should be now, but not happening yet.
Grassley has left the room
re: #472 HappyWarrior
That’s what they did with Bork. Bork was sunk in committee but the Reagan team pulled s damn the torpedos, full speed ahead and flopped.
I suspect if Flake changes his vote, then they’ll just schedule a second vote while they drag him off into the cloak room to work him over. Or they’ll acquiesce to the demands for an FBI investigation…but with a short deadline and the intent on junking whatever report is produced. This is becoming about checking boxes on a list.
re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth
should be now, but not happening yet.
Grassley has left the room
He’s got to either put on a fake performance, or get Trump to threaten Arizona.
Is flake about to have his McCain Moment? What does he have to lose? He is retiring and will have a fat pension.
They’ll deploy the Flake doppelganger for the vote.
re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth
should be now, but not happening yet.
Grassley has left the room
All the action is in the hallways, the anterooms, not cold enough for the coat room yet. Smoking room has gone out of style.
If the nominee were to lose the committee vote, it doesn’t stop McConnell from bringing him to the floor. Bork was voted down in committee and got a floor vote. Thomas got a floor vote after a tied committee vote. It’s important only in the info it gives us about the floor vote.
— Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd) September 28, 2018
Important reminder: McConnell can still bring Kavanaugh to the floor for a vote regardless of the committee’s vote. https://t.co/HyGttz5LOY
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) September 28, 2018
Oh, just fucking shoot me now.
re: #482 Single-handed sailor
You didn’t know this? That’s what borking acutally means.
Maybe Flake will save his ‘no’ vote for when it really counts.
TERRIFYING: there’s a case coming before the Supreme Court that would allow Trump to pardon his co-conspirators in state crimes, putting them above the law and kneecapping Mueller / state AG’s.
Is THIS why republicans are risking it all on Kavanaugh?https://t.co/u5vwRYH9zV— Treason Memes (@treasonstickers) September 28, 2018
Grassley is back in the room. Looks like the only other senator there is Orrin Hatch. Everybody else is gone. The vote should have been taken 22 minutes ago.
re: #461 wrenchwench
History may be kind, but Flake may have to retire outside of AZ.
He could move to Tucson just fine. He could also easily find employment at some of hte large law firms in AZ.
re: #486 The Vicious Babushka
He can’t pardon them in state crimes. What he can do is pardon them for federal crimes and similar state crimes would not be allowed.
re: #469 HappyWarrior
Such a great movie.
Says so much avbout human nature
And the perception of what is true
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
— Endless Screaming ⚧ ☭ (@infinite_scream) September 28, 2018
re: #488 Mike Lamb
He could move to Tucson just fine. He could also easily find employment at some of hte large law firms in AZ.
The great state of New York would welcome him with open arms.
The sergeant at arms is in the coat room drunk on kavanaugh.
Flake getting berated by two women in elevator symbolic of how many American women, many victims of assault, are feeling…that their pain does not matter.
It was excruciating to watch.
Don’t cry, vote!
Don’t get discouraged, vote!
Don’t get frustrated, vote!
Don’t quit, vote!— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) September 28, 2018
This, this, this.
In less than six weeks, we have an opportunity to go to the polls and let our leaders know exactly how we feel. Please don’t let this moment be just another footnote in history. Please, go vote. https://t.co/lgjHqdfcBS— Danielle Mitchell MD (@DMMD4TNCongress) September 28, 2018
I’m rather curious just what it was that caused the worm to turn if Flake does change his vote.
Oh, someone gifted my wife a deer, had it sent to the processor.
Flake back in the room along with a bunch of GOP senators
re: #495 Targetpractice
I’m rather curious just what it was that caused the worm to turn if Flake does change his vote.
It had to be that woman getting in his face. Had to be.
re: #496 Amory Blaine
Oh, someone gifted my wife a deer, had it sent to the processor.
I hear they’re a bitch to gift wrap…
NBC News’s @KellyO : Serious discussions underway to delay the vote and allow the FBI to investigate.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) September 28, 2018
The last 24 hrs have left me disoriented, veering between hope & a sinking feeling of the worst kind. All I know is that the politics of depravity and entitlement – embodied by @POTUS and the GOP panel sitting in judgement of Dr. Blasey Ford – must be defeated.
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) September 28, 2018
and unrelated but also important
Venezuela: Six States Request ICC Investigation https://t.co/p5g8koUZv9
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) September 26, 2018
Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru refer Venezuela to the ICC. Maduro will agree with President Trump that “the ICC has no jurisdiction, no legitimacy, and no authority.” https://t.co/iIf4YYX5Th
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) September 28, 2018
Grassley ready to vote, looking to see if he has a quorum. Democrats are not there
Klobucher is there as is Chris Coons.
Flake is going to speak.
Flake wants to delay for a week for an FBI investigation
Lyndsey put up enough strawmen for a quarum yesterday.
re: #506 Backwoods_Sleuth
Flake wants to delay for a week for an FBI investigation
A whole week, Jeff? (It’s better than nothing, but c’mon).
re: #86 GlutenFreeJesus
Evangelical groups have anti-Roe v Wade lawsuits ready to file the second Kavanaugh is confirmed.
Roe v Wade is a wedge issue distraction.
The Johnson Amendment is the real prize.
re: #507 Amory Blaine
Lyndsey put up enough strawmen for a quarum yesterday.
He put up enough strawmen to fill the British House of Commons to overflowing.
Grassley is calling the vote without attaching the proviso for delaying the floor vote for an FBI investigation
re: #511 Interesting Times
That’s 3 months in trumptime.
There’s a whole lot of Friday’s in a week now.
re: #509 Mike Lamb
A whole week, Jeff? (It’s better than nothing, but c’mon).
At this point anything we get is good. When you have no leverage, this is a life preserver for a drowning country.
SEN FLAKE: “I THINK IT WOULD BE PROPER TO DELAY THE FLOOR VOTE FOR UP TO BUT NOT MORE THAN ONE WEEK IN ORDER TO LET THE FBI DO AN INVESTIGATION LIMITED IN TIME AND SCOPE….”
— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) September 28, 2018
re: #514 Belafon
There’s a whole lot of Friday’s in a week now.
Imagine the damage that Avenatti could do with a week of TV appearances…
— Ron Joseph (@questar1959_ron) September 28, 2018
Can the committee order an investigation or does it have to come from the WH?
If there is not a floor vote delay I’m pretty sure Flake will vote no on the Senate floor
yes, Flake just said that if there is no FBI investigation he will vote no
Heh
You misunderstood me. When I said punch Jeff Flake in the dick, I was referring to the drinking game popular with college students, Punch Jeff Flake In The Dick.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 28, 2018
re: #524 Backwoods_Sleuth
yes, Flake just said that if there is no FBI investigation he will vote no
Hopefully this will embolden Murkowski to join him.
As Kavanaugh proceeds, House GOP just passed by 220-191 margin a second round of tax cuts estimated to cost $3.1 trillion in 10 years on top of $1.9 trillion cost of original tax law.
TPC estimates of how rich/poor benefit from GOP tax cut 2.0:https://t.co/DPA5jRkcPr pic.twitter.com/Li05IrMpkU— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) September 28, 2018
re: #514 Belafon
Too many Fridays, and not enough Thursdays…paydays.
re: #529 Scottish Dragon
Trump is not going to allow this.
Which would only multiply opposition to Augh.
re: #529 Scottish Dragon
Trump is not going to allow this.
I’d imagine Trump’s blowing a gasket as I type this.
Trump is not going to authorize the FBI to reopen the investigation. I can’t see where he does this, although I’m delighted to be wrong.
If they still take it to the floor and Flake votes ‘no’, that would not be enough to prevent the appointment.
re: #534 Scottish Dragon
Trump is not going to authorize the FBI to reopen the investigation. I can’t see where he does this, although I’m delighted to be wrong.
Then Flake will vote no
re: #489 Belafon
He can’t pardon them in state crimes. What he can do is pardon them for federal crimes and similar state crimes would not be allowed.
But that could, in effect, free the Trump criminals: how similar would the crimes have to be? I realize that the ACLU favors this in general because of “double jeopardy”, but would that mean for any particular criminal action?
re: #535 Single-handed sailor
If they still take it to the floor and Flake votes ‘no’, that would not be enough to prevent the appointment.
I can’t imagine Murkowski wouldn’t join Flake since she has also called for an investigation.
Breaking news
Rachel Mitchell was really Mitch McConnell in drag! pic.twitter.com/WWo3nBm8Um— John Roberts (@Robbo52John) September 28, 2018
re: #539 I Would Prefer Not To
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Lol that’s mean. Sounds like a surreal reimagining of Mrs. Doubtfire.
I wonder where McConnell stands on this deal?
re: #537 Hecuba’s daughter
But that could, in effect, free the Trump criminals: how similar would the crimes have to be? I realize that the ACLU favors this in general because of “double jeopardy”, but would that mean for any particular criminal action?
The one quesiton I would like to ask the ACLU is what about Ford’s precedent of pardoning before being convincted?
re: #310 HappyWarrior
That’s right. That’s exactly right. I gotta stop bellyaching.
the crazy thing is that there was a moment, due to a tactical blunder in positioning troops, when a good case has been made that one of the confederate armies wandering around virginia could just about have walked into Washington unscathed, or put so much pressure on the capitol that the Union might well have sued for terms.
re: #544 steve_davis
the crazy thing is that there was a moment, due to a tactical blunder in positioning troops, when a good case has been made that one of the confederate armies wandering around virginia could just about have walked into Washington unscathed, or put so much pressure on the capitol that the Union might well have sued for terms.
My county seat, Leesburg, VA changed hands several times during the war. There are so many little what ifs that could have allowed the CSA to win.
There goes that AG gig…
Graham on Flake request for FBI investigation: “Somebody’s gotta explain this to Trump. I guess that’ll be my job.”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 28, 2018
re: #547 makeitstop
There goes that AG gig…
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Really? Somebody’s gotta *explain* it????
re: #547 makeitstop
There goes that AG gig…
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And guess what Lindsay, he still doesn’t like you, he likes using you. You pretty much got played by Trump the same way that Putin plays him.
re: #548 dangerman
Really? Somebody’s gotta *explain* it????
They’re making the coloring book as we speak, relax :). It comes with a Happy Meal too.
re: #547 makeitstop
There goes that AG gig…
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He’ll have to break out the hand puppets…again.
McConnell has no time for gentlemen’s agreements and Flake voted Yes. If McConnell brings this to the floor, will Flake vote NO - will anyone else vote NO.
The only thing that would stop McConnell from “plowing ahead” is if Flake has secured commitments from Murkowski, Collins and other to withhold their votes contingent on the one-week delay
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) September 28, 2018
re: #553 makeitstop
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We’ll know if that is so because Mitch will go to the floor to rail away again about how evil Democrats are…before announcing the delay.
re: #548 dangerman
Really? Somebody’s gotta *explain* it????
It’s Trumpworld.
Trump needed to realize that he had to pay for a transition team regardless of whether he won. The government wasn’t paying for it but required it in case that he did.
Bannon and Christie had that task, and Bannon eventually got Trump to settle down after warning him of what it would look like if Trump refused to pay for a transition team - that he was giving up.
We are all Kamala Harris. https://t.co/ISkGijeA8H
— Heidi Li Feldman (@HeidiLiFeldman) September 28, 2018
Flake says he wants a one week delay to do an investigation, but this could all be just more posturing.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2018
On hearing about the delay and the investigation I burst into tears of relief. And I hadn’t been able to cry before then at all. Emotions too shut down.
Look, the investigation may come to nothing. This may be purely a political thing. I get that. But all I want, all so many of us are asking for, is to hear us and investigate the man. Don’t dismiss us and barrel ahead. Because this is why so many women do not come forward, no one will ever listen or believe us. No one will investigate.
No one will CARE.
Again, this may, and probably will, come to nothing but someone heard.
Waiting to see if anyone’s got Flake’s back on this.
Senator Murkowski to the white courtesy phone, please…
More likely Xanax.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2018
re: #558 BlueGrl21
On hearing about the delay and the investigation I burst into tears of relief. And I hadn’t been able to cry before then at all. Emotions too shut down.
Look, the investigation may come to nothing. This may be purely a political thing. I get that. But all I want, all so many of us are asking for, is to hear us and investigate the man. Don’t dismiss us and barrel ahead. Because this is why so many women do not come forward, no one will ever listen or believe us. No one will investigate.
No one will CARE.
Again, this may, and probably will, come to nothing but someone heard.
{{{BlueGrl21}}}
We’re chipping away at the wall. Slow as hell, but it’s progress.
Mark Judge might be more concerned than Susan Collins at the minute
re: #557 Charles Johnson
Flake could have voted “no” and it could have still gone to the floor, a la Bork. I’m not sure what else he could have done to delay the committee vote… maybe support democrats in a vote to table the vote? If that would be allowed.
The one week delay may well be because they dont have the votes to confirm and they’re trying to whip votes
Or it may well be genuine. That’s a long shot because I don’t fucking trust any of them at this point. But listening on With Friends Like These and what Rick Wilson is saying, maybe the constituent objections are getting through, maybe a wife/daughter/sister is sharing a story
re: #563 fern01
Mark Judge might be more concerned than Susan Collins at the minute
I would not be surprised if something happened to judge
Like all abusers, he identified a weakness—her history with an alcoholic father—and went for the jugular. Whatever he did or did not do 36 yrs does not change the fact that now, today, he is an abusive man.
— Michele Manion (@Mickee7) September 28, 2018
Senator Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota) says Flake’s move means Kavanaugh probably cannot get confirmed by Tuesday, as they’d planned.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 28, 2018
re: #559 makeitstop
Waiting to see if anyone’s got Flake’s back on this.
Senator Murkowski to the white courtesy phone, please…
Murkowski and Manchin.
re: #566 MsJ
I would not be surprised if something happened to judge
He is going to get in a car and vanish again.
Like all abusers, he identified a weakness—her history with an alcoholic father—and went for the jugular. Whatever he did or did not do 36 yrs does not change the fact that now, today, he is an abusive man.
— Michele Manion (@Mickee7) September 28, 2018
re: #570 Scottish Dragon
He is going to get in a car and vanish again.
Hopefully somebody smart is in a car outside that beach house, waiting to follow him if need be.
re: #572 makeitstop
Hopefully somebody smart is in a car outside that beach house, waiting to follow him if need be.
Him and his box of comics.
re: #566 MsJ
I would not be surprised if something happened to judge
I would not be surprised if the recovering alcoholic has a relapse.
“Somebody’s gotta explain this to Trump, and since he has my testicles in a jar I guess that’s me!” pic.twitter.com/zzUFUbRWZk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2018
re: #575 Charles Johnson
Everyone who watched this understood what happened - yet someone has to explain it to trump. Wonder if Lindsay realised how dumb he made the president look with this statement.
I can’t wait for Trump to yell “Why are you listening to those women?!” I would add explitives, but I’m at work.
re: #578 HappyWarrior
Either way he’s raging at Flake.
Flakes gone soon. I can’t imagine he cares at all.
re: #558 BlueGrl21
On hearing about the delay and the investigation I burst into tears of relief. And I hadn’t been able to cry before then at all. Emotions too shut down.
Look, the investigation may come to nothing. This may be purely a political thing. I get that. But all I want, all so many of us are asking for, is to hear us and investigate the man. Don’t dismiss us and barrel ahead. Because this is why so many women do not come forward, no one will ever listen or believe us. No one will investigate.
No one will CARE.
Again, this may, and probably will, come to nothing but someone heard.
that is the worst offense
especially coming from elected representatives, police, prosecutors, and others in a position to de-legitimize such an accusation
that’s why i think a brave avalanche is necessary
to expose the enormity
and the pervasiveness - it already *is* your wife, daughter, etc
re: #578 HappyWarrior
Either way he’s raging at Flake.
Everyone waiting for the tweet. I doubt it will be kind to Sen Flake - but he knows that.
re: #576 fern01
Everyone who watched this understood what happened - yet someone has to explain it to trump. Wonder if Lindsay realised how dumb he made the president look with this statement.
you said it better
re: #579 jamesfirecat
Well there’s a sight for sore eyes! How ya been?
re: #579 jamesfirecat
Hopefully with a pop up picture book.
“Who’s that guy saying there needs to be a hearing Lindsay?”
“That’s Senator Flake, sir.”
“Flake! I thought we fired him.”
“Kelly, get me my book of children’s insult and my phone!”
“Yes, sir!”
re: #580 MsJ
Flakes gone soon. I can’t imagine he cares at all.
Oh I wasn’t suggesting Flake cares. Just that Trump is yelling about Flake to anyone who will care to listen.
re: #582 fern01
Everyone waiting for the tweet. I doubt it will be kind to Sen Flake - but he knows that.
Video. Surprisingly restrained.
Trump’s comments when asked about 1 week delay. Says he’s deferring it all to Grassley. They have to do what they think makes sense. pic.twitter.com/T4Flnhf3Sn
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 28, 2018
MSNBC reporting Murkowski is on board with Flake’s proposal to delay.
NEWS: Murkowski, entering the Capitol “on the way to talk to her colleagues,” said she supports @JeffFlake proposal for a one week delay and an investigation.
— Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) September 28, 2018
re: #565 KGxvi
Flake could have voted “no” and it could have still gone to the floor, a la Bork. I’m not sure what else he could have done to delay the committee vote… maybe support democrats in a vote to table the vote? If that would be allowed.
The one week delay may well be because they dont have the votes to confirm and they’re trying to whip votes
Or it may well be genuine. That’s a long shot because I don’t fucking trust any of them at this point. But listening on With Friends Like These and what Rick Wilson is saying, maybe the constituent objections are getting through, maybe a wife/daughter/sister is sharing a story
I’m thinking a personal story regarding a family member perhaps.
Murkowski now says she’ll support a one week delay.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2018
re: #585 HappyWarrior
“Who’s that guy saying there needs to be a hearing Lindsay?”
“That’s Senator Flake, sir.”
“Flake! I thought we fired him.”
“Kelly, get me my book of children’s insult and my phone!”
“Yes, sir!”
I do not like this Senator Flake
I will not send him a cake
I wish that he would jump in a lake…
I do not like this Senator Flake.
Trump: OK, who are may most loyal FBI agents?
Sessions: That would be officers Grassley and Graham, sir.
Trump: Let’s go with them, then.
re: #592 jamesfirecat
I do not like this Senator Flake
I will not send him a cake
I wish that he would jump in a lake…
I do not like this Senator Flake.
Trump’s not smart enough to do Dr. Seuss :).
re: #591 Charles Johnson
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Another Domino falls.
If those two hang together and so do the rest of the Democrats, well put another week on the clock!
re: #583 dangerman
you said it better
You said it first - how they can support a president this dumb is beyond sane understanding.
Maybe Avenatti’s claim that his client will go public this weekend scared a few of them into some, at least, temporary sense?
I’d like to be hopeful, I really would, but I think this is nothing but another charade.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2018
Remember this disgraceful, demented and despicable fuckery - and come November VOTE LIKE YOUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT. #VoteThemOut #NovemberIsComing pic.twitter.com/AtoP13hsZT
— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) September 28, 2018
Another heroine. This is amazing.
I talked to Maria Gallagher, who demanded Flake look her in the eye as she told him of her sexual assault. She had never told ANYONE before. Her mom discovered it on cable news. https://t.co/cynOSKsT4H
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 28, 2018
I think the biggest accomplishment of the current squatter in the White House is the airing of rich, white douchebags’ dirty laundry. Paul Manafort could be happily laundering money, Brett Kavanaugh could privately continue to be an abusive drunk, etc…
re: #604 Teddy’s Person
I think the biggest accomplishment of the current squatter in the White House is the airing of rich, white douchebags’ dirty laundry. Paul Manafort could be happily laundering money, Brett Kavanaugh could privately continue to be an abusive drunk, etc…
Hell, Trump himself could still be building crappy hotels all over the place.
re: #597 fern01
You said it first - how they can support a president this dumb is beyond sane understanding.
you know the answers:
- tax cuts
- this present…thing
- and he’s actually quite easy to manipulate
This is a pretty startling set of comments from Trump, suggesting he is really not going to fight hard to save Kavanaugh. https://t.co/kShw5zwI1p
— McDeere (@McDeereUSA) September 28, 2018
re: #604 Teddy’s Person
I think the biggest accomplishment of the current squatter in the White House is the airing of rich, white douchebags’ dirty laundry. Paul Manafort could be happily laundering money, Brett Kavanaugh could privately continue to be an abusive drunk, etc…
My hope is that he is the Typhoid Mary of the deplorables.
re: #608 ericblair
My hope is that he is the Typhoid Mary of the deplorables.
Quarantine the entire administration party.
re: #607 Scottish Dragon
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He seemed so giddy yesterday. I guess someone whispered to him eventually that Kavanaugh looked bad.
re: #604 Teddy’s Person
I think the biggest accomplishment of the current squatter in the White House is the airing of rich, white douchebags’ dirty laundry. Paul Manafort could be happily laundering money, Brett Kavanaugh could privately continue to be an abusive drunk, etc…
Yep.
I think pro-Kavanaugh folks dumping on Flake are seriously underestimating how savvy a move that was. He basically neutered Ds’ central talking point. If the FBI finds nothing new (as is likely), Collins, Murkowski, and Manchin are unquestionably more likely to vote yes.
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 28, 2018
re: #610 HappyWarrior
He seemed so giddy yesterday. I guess someone whispered to him eventually that Kavanaugh looked bad.
Flake deflated the euphoria he felt seeing Kav scream at women and blacks.
re: #607 Scottish Dragon
This is a pretty startling set of comments from Trump, suggesting he is really not going to fight hard to save Kavanaugh.
If Julie Swetnick tells her story over the weekend and is as credible as I think she’ll be, Trump could very well cut Kavanaugh loose.
Not surprised by Trump’s comments. He is capable of acting sane on occasion when his advisers manage to convince him it’s important, but if by some miracle Kavanaugh isn’t confirmed we’ll see the real Trump come out again.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2018
re: #612 Single-handed sailor
One week give Avenatti time to let his client come forward. Yes, it does give a chance for this to clear. But it also delays Kav getting on SCOTUS.
re: #617 Charles Johnson
Must have been some coloring book.
re: #618 Belafon
One week give Avenatti time to let his client come forward. Yes, it does give a chance for this to clear. But it also delays Kav getting on SCOTUS.
The court’s new term starts on Monday too. That means there are a lot of important cases that he won’t be if confirmed ruling on.
re: #619 Belafon
Must have been some coloring book.
There was extra cheese on the Big Mac. Kelly told him if he ate the whole thing, he could look at the coloring book longer.
re: #612 Single-handed sailor
Lachlan Markay : [He basically neutered Ds’ central talking point. If the FBI finds nothing new (as is likely)]
I’d call that wishful thinking, but I have no idea what his wishes are. I think he is wrong.
re: #616 HappyWarrior
Or they could find more.
The FBI didn’t find money laundering or anything curious about Kavanaugh’s financial transactions. Given this record of “thorough” investigations, I wouldn’t bet the house on this (or the Senate//).
re: #615 makeitstop
If Julie Swetnick tells her story over the weekend and is as credible as I think she’ll be, Trump could very well cut Kavanaugh loose.
And now Kavanaugh sees the real Donald Trump.
re: #622 wrenchwench
I’d call that wishful thinking, but I have no idea what his wishes are. I think he is wrong.
If the investigation is a farce or if more women come forward and Kav is pushed on the Court, we’re one week closer to the midterms with a bunch of pissed off women.
re: #623 Hecuba’s daughter
The FBI didn’t find money laundering or anything curious about Kavanaugh’s financial transactions. Given this record of “thorough” investigations, I wouldn’t be the house on this (or the Senate//).
Didn’t say I was but you never know what a week can do. Something gets noticed that may have not been noticed before.
re: #622 wrenchwench
I’d call that wishful thinking, but I have no idea what his wishes are. I think he is wrong.
Given how we’ve seen the rate at which named accusers coming forward has been increasing, and we now have Doctor Ford showing that you can come forward and give a speech that resonates across much of the country/make a difference, I’d like to think we’ll see if not more direct accusers more witnesses starting to speak up.
Time is not on K’s side at the moment.
re: #624 BlueGrl21
And now Kavanaugh sees the real Donald Trump.
Good. I hope Kavanaugh gets to see Trump insult him and act like he barely knew him and wanted someone else anyhow. Let Kavanaugh feel like the trash he’s made women feel like.
re: #602 Belafon
You must go read: Through a Woman’s Eyes
august 25 i wrote this post
it’s about how, as a man, i am very careful when i go running.
and was in response to mollie tibbetts being attacked while running and then murdered.
- i dont fear for my own self …. i dont have to mostly
- it’s for how i may appear to others
men, women, children, young, old, … in the dark of early morning
what i do
what i dont do….
something i hadn’t thought of, that this list, “through a woman’s eyes’ contains is eye contact
i never make eye contact while running. i always look down and away - no matter who the other person is. a guy who looks like me running toward you is threatening enough.
i could literally pass people i would recognize and not realize it
i still shout out when coming up from behind and i say morning or how you doing or some encouragement to everyone
and yet….2018 america
— C H I L I (@heyitschili) September 28, 2018
Kavanaugh—Pulp Fiction mashup
re: #612 Single-handed sailor
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Except I think most of the pro-Kav people believe the accusations/know of his past and aren’t at all comfortable that the investigation will be a bust.
re: #626 HappyWarrior
Didn’t say I was but you never know what a week can do. Something gets noticed that may have not been noticed before.
Look at where we were this morning. Republicans might like to think they’re in control of all of this, but they’re really not.
Thanks to a few very brave women and focused protests, they’re looking at yet another delay. And if McConnell does say ‘fuck it’ and try to bull Kavanaugh through, the repercussions could be even worse.
.re: #612 Single-handed sailor
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BREAKING: Judiciary Committee votes to send Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination to full Senate.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 28, 2018
BREAKING: Judiciary Committee votes to send Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination to full Senate.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 28, 2018
Every @SenateGOP member of the judiciary — including @JeffFlake — voted to support moving the confirmation to Brett Kavanaugh out of committee and to a full senate vote.
Flake claims he won’t support Kavanaugh without an FBI investigation, but still voted to recommend him… https://t.co/kMWmciyhA8— Women’s March (@womensmarch) September 28, 2018
If Flake really wanted to send a signal on this he’d have refused to allow Kavanaugh voted out of committee. This is weak, ass covering nonsense and he’s signaling his intent to get Kavanaugh through with a thin patina of deodorant.
re: #630 Barefoot Grin
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Now if the FBI could bring in Special Agent Jules Whitfield. That would be great.
re: #632 makeitstop
Look at where we were this morning. Republicans might like to think they’re in control of all of this, but they’re really not.
Thanks to a few very brave women and focused protests, they’re looking at yet another delay. And if McConnell does say ‘fuck it’ and try to bull Kavanaugh through, the repercussions could be even worse.
Exactly.
re: #632 makeitstop
Look at where we were this morning. Republicans might like to think they’re in control of all of this, but they’re really not.
Thanks to a few very brave women and focused protests, they’re looking at yet another delay. And if McConnell does say ‘fuck it’ and try to bull Kavanaugh through, the repercussions could be even worse.
Taking our victories where we can find them, McConnell proving how little he cares about anything but power will be a useful lesson for some.
re: #636 Belafon
Taking our victories where we can find them, McConnell proving how little he cares about anything but power will be a useful lesson for some.
McConnell needs to become a boogeyman the same way he’s made Pelosi. Make Mitch McConnell the most hated Congressional official in the country.
re: #629 dangerman
august 25 i wrote this post
it’s about how, as a man, i am very careful when i go running.
and was in response to mollie tibbetts being attacked while running and then murdered.- i dont fear for my own self …. i dont have to mostly
- it’s for how i may appear to others
men, women, children, young, old, … in the dark of early morningwhat i do
what i dont do….something i hadn’t thought of, that this list, “through a woman’s eyes’ contains is eye contact
i never make eye contact while running. i always look down and away - no matter who the other person is. a guy who looks like me running toward you is threatening enough.
i could literally pass people i would recognize and not realize it
i still shout out when coming up from behind and i say morning or how you doing or some encouragement to everyone
and yet….2018 america
I could never catch a bus, so I would hitchhike to high school. Until a guy who gave me a ride said, ‘Do you want to look at some magazines?’ I never hitchhiked again in this country. I started riding a bike to school.
re: #603 makeitstop
Another heroine. This is amazing.
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avalanche
in their face
“numbers too big to ignore” now has real, fundamental meaning
this is way more than ‘equality’ and the ERA.
this is universal human rights
liberty for all - the freedom to go where you want and not be violated, assaulted, touched. this is bodily autonomy as much as abortion and birth control are
justice for all
‘the system’ must not get to tell these women to walk it off, shake it off, it’s not serious enough to pursue, cant we just move on.
re: #633 goddamnedfrank
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If Flake really wanted to send a signal on this he’d have refused to allow Kavanaugh voted out of committee. This is weak, ass covering nonsense and he’s signaling his intent to get Kavanaugh through with a thin patina of deodorant.
He could have, but they also could have moved the nomination to the floor regardless of the vote in committee.
re: #600 Charles Johnson
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A week is a long time (about 8 months in trumpland) for more bad news to come out about kav. They don’t really want to investigate, but that won’t stop reports from hitting the airwaves.
re: #615 makeitstop
If Julie Swetnick tells her story over the weekend and is as credible as I think she’ll be, Trump could very well cut Kavanaugh loose.
would that it were…
We’re going to hear a lot about Mark Judge’s health problems, but don’t forget — this guy spent many years writing vicious hit pieces for the right wing smear machine.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2018
re: #641 I Would Prefer Not To
A week is a long time (about 8 months in trumpland) for more bad news to come out about kav. They don’t really want to investigate, but that won’t stop reports from hitting the airwaves.
We very easily could have a new accuser. And the FBI hope will be looking at the Colorado accuser too.
re: #618 Belafon
One week give Avenatti time to let his client come forward. Yes, it does give a chance for this to clear. But it also delays Kav getting on SCOTUS.
there is another dimension to this
the longer this goes before, hopefully, Kav is toast, less time for another nominee
re: #643 Charles Johnson
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That’s what Ted Cruz was trying to do. Paint him as this poor woe is me guy instead of a partisan right wing asshole who if made to testify would probably show even more than Kavanaugh did what ugly young men and now adults they both were and are.
re: #623 Hecuba’s daughter
The FBI didn’t find money laundering or anything curious about Kavanaugh’s financial transactions. Given this record of “thorough” investigations, I wouldn’t bet the house on this (or the Senate//).
Anybody with a security clearance gets a background check, with the amount of legwork depending on the sensitivity. What you learn from this is that the investigators need a place to start. You start with criminal checks, credit checks, and a set of initial references. Successful money laundering isn’t going to trigger any of this, unless one of your (usually sympathetic) references tells them that you’ve got inexplicable cash or suspicious habits. They’ve got a definite window of time they go back with this, as well.
This should have been caught by the assministration’s own background investigation, which means a lot of asking the subject if there’s anything that could possibly look bad, plus a private investigator with a lot freer hand. Of course if they didn’t give a shit about it, then that’s that.
re: #629 dangerman
august 25 i wrote this post
it’s about how, as a man, i am very careful when i go running.
and was in response to mollie tibbetts being attacked while running and then murdered.- i dont fear for my own self …. i dont have to mostly
- it’s for how i may appear to others
men, women, children, young, old, … in the dark of early morningwhat i do
what i dont do….something i hadn’t thought of, that this list, “through a woman’s eyes’ contains is eye contact
i never make eye contact while running. i always look down and away - no matter who the other person is. a guy who looks like me running toward you is threatening enough.
i could literally pass people i would recognize and not realize it
i still shout out when coming up from behind and i say morning or how you doing or some encouragement to everyone
and yet….2018 america
I noticed this week that I have developed my old tics again.
I startle very easily if a man I do not know extremely well touches me. I will jump and move away immediately. Not a little twitch, it’s obvious.
And I will not make eye contact with a man. Will not do it. I look down. I go submissive. That is NOT like me at all. But I’ve been doing it again.
This week has been fucking brutal. Brutal.
re: #623 Hecuba’s daughter
The FBI didn’t find money laundering or anything curious about Kavanaugh’s financial transactions. Given this record of “thorough” investigations, I wouldn’t bet the house on this (or the Senate//).
they know what to look for / at now
thought im sure there will be some attempts to limit the investigation
i’m not sure how they’d actually do that - “you can look here, but not there…”
re: #644 HappyWarrior
We very easily could have a new accuser. And the FBI hope will be looking at the Colorado accuser too.
I dunno. From the way everyone was talking about a ‘limited’ investigation, my guess is it will only encompass Ford’s accusations.
Ramirez and Swetnick will probably go the media route. Judiciary has already dismissed them, sadly.
re: #644 HappyWarrior
We very easily could have a new accuser. And the FBI hope will be looking at the Colorado accuser too.
Everybody here, from Kavanaugh supporter to opponent, assumes that an FBI investigation is bad for Special K. Funny, that.
Vox made a chart pic.twitter.com/YDt6SbKUmK
— Brooke Jarvis (@brookejarvis) September 28, 2018
Link in the responses
re: #640 Mike Lamb
He could have, but they also could have moved the nomination to the floor regardless of the vote in committee.
Yep, and this got Murkowski and Manchin to agree to delay.
Two things:
1. As I and others have suggested, Kavanaugh could have short-circuited this at the beginning if he confessed that when he was young he had a drinking problem and may have engaged in inappropriate actions but he is a changed man, and that he apologizes to all he may have harmed.
2. Too many men are upset because they believe that rules have changed on them. In the early 80’s, schools had not yet been fostering the view that drunkenness doesn’t imply consent; and men don’t feel they should be punished now for behavior which they deemed acceptable back then.
re: #638 wrenchwench
I could never catch a bus, so I would hitchhike to high school. Until a guy who gave me a ride said, ‘Do you want to look at some magazines?’ I never hitchhiked again in this country. I started riding a bike to school.
it’s everywhere
that was my point above
it is up to women to do this heavy lifting and bring it all out into the open
this is first person/i was there ‘testimony’ and much of it is hidden/buried
men cant do it
good men can’t even help much except to be supportive
re: #633 goddamnedfrank
I understand that perspective, but I don’t know if I agree. I think it shows that Flake, unlike his colleagues, is at least capable of realizing that the filibuster in the face of calls for an FBI investigation displayed dishonesty and a complete lack of accountability.
No doubt, he wants Kavanaugh confirmed, but I don’t dismiss that he at least shows a modicum of integrity on agreeing that the excuses for not calling for an investigation were a complete joke. At least one of them was willing to acknowledge the lack of accountability, at least to some extent. In these bleak times, I take some small measure of positivity from that. The naked display of corrupt power was very disturbing to me: they were saying that they wouldn’t do something that was legitimately called for, simply because they couldn’t be forced into doing so. At least Flake took a small step back from that.
re: #657 dangerman
it’s everywhere
that was my point aboveit is up to women to do this heavy lifting and bring it all out into the open
this is first person/i was there ‘testimony’ and much of it is hidden/buried
men cant do it
good men can’t even help much except to be supportive
Yes. This is our battle to fight. Men can’t and shouldn’t do anything except support us.
re: #646 HappyWarrior
That’s what Ted Cruz was trying to do. Paint him as this poor woe is me guy instead of a partisan right wing asshole who if made to testify would probably show even more than Kavanaugh did what ugly young men and now adults they both were and are.
so the only people who get to testify are people with “unblemished characters’ or whatever they called Kav
re: #653 Skip Intro
Do you think that might just be a bit homophobic?
[edit]. Not to suggest that Graham isn’t ripe for ridicule
re: #651 makeitstop
I dunno. From the way everyone was talking about a ‘limited’ investigation, my guess is it will only encompass Ford’s accusations.
Ramirez and Swetnick will probably go the media route. Judiciary has already dismissed them, sadly.
Avenatti will make it very difficult for the FBI to ignore his client.
re: #657 dangerman
it’s everywhere
that was my point aboveit is up to women to do this heavy lifting and bring it all out into the open
this is first person/i was there ‘testimony’ and much of it is hidden/buried
men cant do it
good men can’t even help much except to be supportive
Men have the heavier lifting. The stigma and other powers at work keeping them quiet about their abuse are stronger, if not equal. There are fewer, so each one is more needed. We need to support each other.
re: #653 Skip Intro
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Lindsay does declare that Judge Kavanaugh is a fine gentleman of the finest schools and family.
re: #647 ericblair
Anybody with a security clearance gets a background check, with the amount of legwork depending on the sensitivity. What you learn from this is that the investigators need a place to start. You start with criminal checks, credit checks, and a set of initial references. Successful money laundering isn’t going to trigger any of this, unless one of your (usually sympathetic) references tells them that you’ve got inexplicable cash or suspicious habits. They’ve got a definite window of time they go back with this, as well.
This should have been caught by the assministration’s own background investigation, which means a lot of asking the subject if there’s anything that could possibly look bad, plus a private investigator with a lot freer hand. Of course if they didn’t give a shit about it, then that’s that.
i’ve said mcgahn and his team either:
- screwed up and didnt ask and / or find this stuff
- knew and hoped no one else would find out
or kav lied to them directly
The sad part is that this nomination should have been derailed well before the accusations of bad personal behavior. His behavior as a judge and the lack of disclosure on his record during the Bush administration should have prevented the confirmation.
re: #656 Hecuba’s daughter
Two things:
1. As I and others have suggested, Kavanaugh could have short-circuited this at the beginning if he confessed that when he was young he had a drinking problem and may have engaged in inappropriate actions but he is a changed man, and that he apologizes to all he may have harmed.
That’s what I don’t get about this whole thing. If they had just gone by procedure and not tried to bull their way through, Kavanaugh might have been confirmed last week and getting ready to take his seat in the new session. But by trying to run roughshod over the entire process, they’re no further along than they were two weeks ago, and now they’ve got a substantially weakened nominee. Hell, Trump’s even started to wobble in his support by handing the whole thing off to the Senate.
Owning the libs is a hell of a drug, I guess. These guys can’t resist it.
re: #666 Hecuba’s daughter
The sad part is that this nomination should have been derailed well before the accusations of bad personal behavior. His behavior as a judge and the lack of disclosure on his record during the Bush administration should have prevented the confirmation.
Went from being Bork bad to if Bork were a creep as well as a partisan hack and bad judge and bigot.
re: #667 makeitstop
That’s what I don’t get about this whole thing. If they had just gone by procedure and not tried to bull their way through, Kavanaugh might have been confirmed last week and getting ready to take his seat in the new session. But by trying to run roughshod over the entire process, they’re no further along than they were two weeks ago, and now they’ve got a substantially weakened nominee. Hell, Trump’s even started to wobble in his support by handing the whole thing off to the Senate.
Owning the libs is a hell of a drug, I guess. These guys can’t resist it.
Fear of the midterms and the man baby in the White House.
re: #648 BlueGrl21
I noticed this week that I have developed my old tics again.
I startle very easily if a man I do not know extremely well touches me. I will jump and move away immediately. Not a little twitch, it’s obvious.
And I will not make eye contact with a man. Will not do it. I look down. I go submissive. That is NOT like me at all. But I’ve been doing it again.
This week has been fucking brutal. Brutal.
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re: #656 Hecuba’s daughter
Two things:
1. As I and others have suggested, Kavanaugh could have short-circuited this at the beginning if he confessed that when he was young he had a drinking problem and may have engaged in inappropriate actions but he is a changed man, and that he apologizes to all he may have harmed.
2. Too many men are upset because they believe that rules have changed on them. In the early 80’s, schools had not yet been fostering the view that drunkenness doesn’t imply consent; and men don’t feel they should be punished now for behavior which they deemed acceptable back then.
he is not being punished
he’s not been charged with anything (yet)
the information has come to light and it’s being evaluated in context of his nomination
-before he was nominated he was just fine….
what ‘punished’ means to them is if it’s been ‘buried’ this long, the ‘victims’ should never speak
the problem for them is ‘i got away with it up to now’ doesnt mean ‘i didnt do anything’
re: #666 Hecuba’s daughter
The sad part is that this nomination should have been derailed well before the accusations of bad personal behavior. His behavior as a judge and the lack of disclosure on his record during the Bush administration should have prevented the confirmation.
like lots of other areas of life, you have to check all the boxes or the deal doesnt close
this is just happening out of the order of the checklist
they checked the box and jumped over the character part to the judicial part
they thought they were done here
they thought wrong
re: #667 makeitstop
That’s what I don’t get about this whole thing. If they had just gone by procedure and not tried to bull their way through, Kavanaugh might have been confirmed last week and getting ready to take his seat in the new session. But by trying to run roughshod over the entire process, they’re no further along than they were two weeks ago, and now they’ve got a substantially weakened nominee. Hell, Trump’s even started to wobble in his support by handing the whole thing off to the Senate.
Owning the libs is a hell of a drug, I guess. These guys can’t resist it.
dont help them
re: #671 Talking Point Detective
Is unlikely that they would investigate that far back.
not the fbi - im suggesting something else
you know there’s that early meeting “so we’re thinking of…. is there anything we need to know…..”
presumably he said no, they accepted it and moved on
that this all came out so quickly and easily and isnt done yet is proof that they all got this wrong
so mcgahn should have at least verified the “no” - cause we know clearly now that Kav lied to him
or Kav said “yes but it was so long ago” and they all thought it would stay buried
ie Mcgahn knew.
re: #676 dangerman
How would they verify the no in this case? But I agree to the extent that they probably weren’t interested in any comprehensive background check. They probably just assumed he was viable (based on his credentials) and didn’t give a shit about anything else because of his judicial philosophy.
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