Stormy Daniels’ tell-all book contains some descriptive details about Donald Trump that you wouldn’t have come across in Bob Woodward’s best-seller.
No words. Absolutely no words.
— This Is Not Normal, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) September 20, 2018
re: #1 Citizen K
Feh. When they didn’t even order the hospital ship to get ready until A WEEK after the eye passed, you cannot, in any sense of the word, claim the response was anything near adequate.
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In today’s Yale Daily News: what Brett Kavanaugh was up to back in his school days, when he belonged to a secret society known as “tit and clit”. Motto: No means yes. Yes means anal. pic.twitter.com/ft4JXIGaJY
— joyce maynard (@joycemaynard) September 20, 2018
This is the secret society that Kavanaugh was a part of at Yale. What a creepy asshole.
re: #1 Citizen K
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Heckuva job, whichever-paper-that-was!!
John Cornyn, the majority whip, also told me that there would be no outside witnesses allowed to testify at any hearing. “We already had a hearing. That’s what I call hijacking the regular committee process to accommodate political interests.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 20, 2018
Republicans don’t want Ford to show up, doing everything possible to make sure she doesn’t.
Imagine holding a hearing about what allegedly happened when 3 people were in a room and not getting testimony from all 3 people. It’s madness. https://t.co/jzjLzd4nc9— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 20, 2018
re: #6 jaunte
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Your fucking guy Kavanaugh is only going on the Court and the only reason he’s gotten anywhere in the judiciary is because of fucking politics. You just can’t handle the fact that your guy is a woman abusing asshole who should have gotten kicked in the nuts several times.
Was that Heckofa Job Brownie? As in Katrina “we didn’t ever calculate this kind of storm” Brownie?
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 20, 2018
As monumentally stupid as the Brownie op-ed is, it’s still not gonna top this stupid shit.
No one will write anything dumber today. I really can’t believe the @washingtonpost published this grassy knoll bullshit https://t.co/wux4tGYwrl
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) September 20, 2018
We’re now in the ‘It was Kavanaugh’s evil twin that committed attempted rape’ part of the program.
re: #9 makeitstop
As monumentally stupid as the Brownie op-ed is, it’s still not gonna top this stupid shit.
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Who wrote it? Usually the really dumb takes I see in the Post these days come from Mark Thiessen. Oh Kathleen Parker. That makes sense.
re: #10 HappyWarrior
Who wrote it? Usually the really dumb takes I see in the Post these days come from Mark Thiessen. Oh Kathleen Parker. That makes sense.
Parker.
Trump admin moves $260M from cancer research, HIV/AIDS programs to cover custody of immigrant children costs https://t.co/tJlE8v9mYx
— Matt Osborne (@OsborneInk) September 20, 2018
Trump’s war on immigrants trumps the war on cancer and HIV/AIDS. https://t.co/VRFmaRM5kq
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 20, 2018
re: #9 makeitstop
As monumentally stupid as the Brownie op-ed is, it’s still not gonna top this stupid shit.
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It was Bart O’Kavanaugh. Easy mistake to make.
re: #1 Citizen K
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Ya know, I was 18 when Hurricane George struck PR. María’s devastation is often compared with George’s. Both brought a comparable level of devastation. FEMA’s recovery efforts for George were above and beyond what was done for María, even from the get-go. Since then, we’ve been struck by several storms and hurricanes, and recovery has been on par.
And this guy thinks that PR recovery has been the “best it could”. May he go fork himself. 🤬
re: #4 HappyWarrior
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This is the secret society that Kavanaugh was a part of at Yale. What a creepy asshole.
I’d say he’s a disgusting pig, but I would only anger the pig community.
re: #13 lawhawk
Well, one of the Trumps is accused of ripping off a children’s cancer charity event, so that shouldn’t surprise anyone.
re: #17 Sea Mexican!
I’d say he’s a disgusting pig, but I would only anger the pig community.
Yeah, you don’t want that.
re: #17 Sea Mexican!
I’d say he’s a disgusting pig, but I would only anger the pig community.
Pigs have dignity. This guy is a more clever Incel MRA douchebag bro.
re: #20 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Yeah, you don’t want that.
They work very hard to present an image of pigs as kindly and adorable. They don’t to be linked with Kavanaugh.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
Heartless fuckers.
Indisputably so. They are so fixated on illegal aliens and those who are not white committing crime that they ignore identical crimes when committed by white guys.
Don’t believe me? Just look at recent mass shootings, or even the murder of Iowa State golf star Celia Barquin. It was done by a white homeless guy, and it’s barely a ripple in the news, but right wingers spewed nonsensical ravings endlessly over the murder of Mollie Tibbetts because her alleged murderer was an immigrant.
re: #22 HappyWarrior
They work very hard to present an image of pigs as kindly and adorable. They don’t to be linked with Kavanaugh.
I was thinking about some of the stories our Texas lizards tell about feral pigs—you don’t want to rile them up….
re: #23 lawhawk
Indisputably so. They are so fixated on illegal aliens and those who are not white committing crime that they ignore identical crimes when committed by white guys.
Don’t believe me? Just look at recent mass shootings, or even the murder of Iowa State golf star Celia Barquin. It was done by a white homeless guy, and it’s barely a ripple in the news, but right wingers spewed nonsensical ravings endlessly over the murder of Mollie Tibbetts because her alleged murderer was an immigrant.
I’m surprised they didn’t use that “opportunity” to go after homeless people as dangerous criminals who need to be locked up.
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹
I’m surprised they didn’t use that “opportunity” to go after homeless people as dangerous criminals who need to be locked up.
Much easier to do that if the killer’s of color.
Kurt Eichenwald’s description of coming out about his own rape after decades. He speaks about why victims only come out after a long time, or never.
Since 1995, the fastest person to ride a bicycle over ground was Dutch cyclist Fred Rompelberg, who rode behind a car at 167 MPH. That record has been obliterated by 45-year-old Denise Mueller-Korenek, who teamed up with a professional race car driver Shea Holbrook to reach 183.932 MPH over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
The dragster has fairing on the back that essentially looks like a closet, to protect the cyclist from the wind. Behind it, Mueller-Korenek sat on a bike with gearing so steep that she needed to be towed to about 100 mph before taking over under her own power.
The tow rope was released some 1.5 miles into the run, Mueller-Korenek said on Facebook, “leaving 3.5 miles in the draft to achieve an average speed for the last mile of 183.9mph (between mile 4 & 5)!”
It’s almost as if this is some sort of trend.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 20, 2018
Electing a virulent racist has consequences. Too many decent people failed to vote, so now bigotry and stupidity drive the national agenda.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 20, 2018
re: #4 HappyWarrior
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This is the secret society that Kavanaugh was a part of at Yale. What a creepy asshole.
Doug Ginsberg removed himself from consideration for a SC seat because he acknowledged that he committed the heinous crime of smoking pot when he was a professor. He didn’t lie — but then there were more recent witnesses to his “criminal” activity and he remembered engaging in this behavior.
It is possible that Kavanaugh actually doesn’t recall the incident but, given he’s a practiced liar, instead of saying the truth: “I was a blackout drunk in those days and I really don’t recall anything I did at the parties I attended. I apologize to Professor Ford for my injurious behavior toward her when we were both minors”. Of course, if he’s honest, then he would have to withdraw but he’s not honest.
re: #4 HappyWarrior
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40 years ago, when I was a college student in SoCal, I spent a few days at Stanford and a friend of a friend let me stay in his room at DKE house (1 of his roommates was away, I could use that bed). He treated me like a gentleman; I only found out later that our mutual friend had warned/threatened him to be on best behavior. He even spoke politely and in a gentle tone of voice when he asked my permission to tell his frat brothers a raunchy untrue story about me to enhance his reputation.
(other things I learned later — girls were amazed I’d spent days in that building without being assaulted. And that the Delta House of Animal House was modeled on the dekes.)
ETA: The DKE’s were not in any way a “secret society”. They were a national frat with many chapters.
re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter
Doug Ginsberg removed himself from consideration for a SC seat because he acknowledged that he committed the heinous crime of smoking pot when he was a professor. He didn’t lie — but then there were more recent witnesses to his “criminal” activity and he remembered engaging in this behavior.
It is possible that Kavanaugh actually doesn’t recall the incident but, given he’s a practiced liar, instead of saying the truth: “I was a blackout drunk in those days and I really don’t recall anything I did at the parties I attended. I apologize to Professor Ford for my injurious behavior toward her when we were both minors”. Of course, if he’s honest, then he would have to withdraw but he’s not honest.
That’s a lot of qualifications. He wouldn’t be where he is today if he were a honest and forthright person. He’s a GOP operative who has been rewarded for years of being a GOP opp first to the district court and now to the Supreme Court. He lied in 2006 and he’s lied now. But this story shows you how he views women.
re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg
Gah! These assholes!
Children’s cancer research doesn’t matter to people like Dr. Jill Stein or Susan Sarandon. They need attention, that’s what’s important to them.
Democrats need to take back the House or Senate (or both) to bring in Dr. Stein to ask about that RT party in Moscow with Michael Flynn and Vladimir Putin.
re: #9 makeitstop
As monumentally stupid as the Brownie op-ed is, it’s still not gonna top this stupid shit.
We’re now in the ‘It was Kavanaugh’s evil twin that committed attempted rape’ part of the program.
Does she moonlight as a writer for “All My Children?”
I’m waiting for someone to make a claim that Kavanaugh was a liberal in the early 80’s so this is actually the left’s fault.
re: #28 Belafon
Jeez Louise!
The dKos story is full of comments disparaging this record as somehow improper, since was done in a car’s slipstream/vacuum, but still: 180+ mph. On a bicycle. Over the ground.
Impressive.
Just discovered quite a cache of tweets between Holocaust denier Chuck C. Johnson and Brett Kavanaugh’s high school drinking buddy Mark Judge.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 20, 2018
This is really something. I’ll be publishing an article with the tweets a bit later. Ranting about “hippies,” David Carr, and “emotionally abusive women.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 20, 2018
re: #37 HappyWarrior
I’m waiting for someone to make a claim that Kavanaugh was a liberal in the early 80’s so this is actually the left’s fault.
Had he been Conservative at the time, he would have sexually assaulted a boy. Check-mate Libtard.
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹
Does she moonlight as a writer for “All My Children?”
Quite adept at speculative fiction, it appears.
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹
Children’s cancer research doesn’t matter to people like Dr. Jill Stein or Susan Sarandon. They need attention, that’s what’s important to them.
Democrats need to take back the House or Senate (or both) to bring in Dr. Stein to ask about that RT party in Moscow with Michael Flynn and Vladimir Putin.
A Bernie friend recently told me he voted for Jill and persuaded his father to do the same (His father probably would have supported Trump). I think he bought the nonsense that the Democratic Party was unfair to Bernie. He was shocked when I told him that Jill was also owned by the Russians, but she managed to portray herself as the environmental alternative to the major party candidates. Too few liberals placed the SC sufficiently high enough to vote D.
re: #39 Charles Johnson
Send it to Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
Others here who are their constituents could call them and note the article.
Thread, three tweets:
In Maine radio interview, @SenatorCollins says of Dr Ford: “much to my surprise it now appears she’s turning down all 3 options even though her attorney said earlier this week that she would come testify.”
“I just don’t understand why the hearing shouldn’t go forth,” she says.— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) September 19, 2018
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
Send it to Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
Others here who are their constituents could call them and note the article.
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I think of all them Collins pisses me off the most. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. She knows the poor woman has gotten death threats and that testifying especially with partisan officials questioning her would be tough but she just doesn’t care. Team R must prevail.
@SenatorCollins is a woman who entirely betrays other women while putting on a show at being a decent person. When hasn’t she fallen in line with the authoritarian-right?
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 20, 2018
TBH I’d like Ford to testify but I can understand why she’s reluctant to do so prior to an investigation too. All Collins and the rest of the Republican assholes care about is rushing this through when these same fuckers were prepared to deny HRC an appointment and I include the late McCain in that group too. It’s disgusting how the Republican Party has politicized the court through shit like this and the Garland stunt. I would love nothing more than a second Warren Court to humble these assholes.
For those insisting GOP senators take Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Bret Kavanaugh seriously, the claim that their timeline is quasi-sacred is infuriating. A lifetime appointment is at stake. Whose interests are served by haste?
My columnhttps://t.co/CmhE47dfC5— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) September 20, 2018
Every nominee for every job, present and future, are at risk if accusations can be put on ice for months then thawed and served to derail voting at last minute. Seriously, due process is a real concept, deeply embedded in Anglo-American law and politics. https://t.co/Kwd2IWcTPI
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 20, 2018
Lotta things to be engraged about these days, but one that particularly gnaws at me is conservatives pretending as if Dems playing hardball on a SCOTUS nom is somehow an unheard-of betrayal of decency.https://t.co/GARb2WVWIg
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) September 20, 2018
“derail voting at last minute”
In a process that has no deadline. We see you, Hugh.
Pop culture reference: Alf Garnet is the fictional UK TV character Archie Bunker was based on.
Blimey, Morrisey these days even *looks* like Alf Garnet: https://t.co/uxds5OkBeQ
— Michael James (@alephnaught) September 20, 2018
I’ve always had respect for the FBI. But, it occurs to me, if the they have truly investigated Kavanaugh 6 times, the stories now emerging, aside from Dr. Ford’s account that is, should have been available to the Judicial Committee. If not, these were fairly shallow investigations. My guess is, the committee knows all this, and more, and they just don’t care.
I wonder how much this rush job/ram through with Brett Kavanagh will impact the GOP at the midterms.
re: #49 jaunte
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re: #53 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder how much this rush job/ram through with Brett Kavanagh will impact the GOP at the midterms.
I think it might. He’s the most unpopular SCOTUS pick since Bork and the GOP won’t help fix that if they rush his nomination through.
Staff contacted Mark Judge and obtained a statement under penalty of felony. Staff contacted third person allegedly at party described by Dr. Ford and obtained a statement under penalty of felony. Staff contacted fourth person allegedly at party.
— Senate Judiciary (@senjudiciary) September 20, 2018
Miraculously, Senate Judiciary staff have managed to contact two additional people who were at a party that Brett Kavanaugh says never happened. https://t.co/jDrBw55Prc
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) September 20, 2018
re: #38 Jay C
Jeez Louise!
The dKos story is full of comments disparaging this record as somehow improper, since was done in a car’s slipstream/vacuum, but still: 180+ mph. On a bicycle. Over the ground.
Impressive.
There were only a few. The thing to note is that comparing this feat to someone not behind a wind shield would be like comparing a rocket car to a Ferrari.
re: #58 HappyWarrior
Give the Senate Judiciary staff the whole weekend and they could sink Kavanaugh all by themselves.
Finally, an ad.
NEW AD: It’s up to the Senate to allow for an independent investigation into the alleged sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh. Will Republicans listen to Christine Blasey Ford? pic.twitter.com/YMtvPSV6zr
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 20, 2018
A comment on Wonkette’s Susan Collins article:
Look. Susan Collins is a monster. She’s going to vote like a monster, because she is a monster. And she friggin’ doesn’t care.
Like Lindsey Graham, whatever enjoyable speculations people may indulge, she’s probably not being blackmailed into jumping on board this national express excursion flight into raw fascism: like Lindsey, she signed up, she’s an eager volunteer.
The Republican Party has been trending toward fascism since at least the 1970s and the infamous Powell Memorandum which provides the blueprint for literally everything that has happened since: and really since the 1950s, when what was then a fringe element of the Party (the John Birch types, seedbed for the Koch brothers, once a minority, now the whole ugly ball of Republican wax, which is like ear-wax, only worse) freaked out about the rise of liability laws, the popularity of Social Security, the regulatory tendencies of the post-war state, and the civil rights movement, and began to organize in earnest.
This is who these people are. They’re anti-democracy. They’re natural fascists. They believe in Master Race theory. They want to smash democracy because they think it’s bad and unfair to the rich. They want to erode voting rights until only Republicans are allowed to vote, because otherwise people will just vote for their own self-interest (Republicans have no sense of irony about this, none at all).
They believe rich people are rich because they’re better than other people: and that white people are white because they’re better than other people: and that strong men can’t be expected not to engage in acts of sexual aggression against women who are careless enough to go out in public without a duenna.
They believe the safety net is bad because it’s like feeding raccoons, you just get a bunch of lazy raccoons (this is practically a direct quote from numerous Republican politicians), so no more Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, VA benefits, jobless benefits, SNAP, CHIP, or public education. Privatize it all. Voucherize it. Break it. Smash it down to its original atoms. As long as there’s even one single billionaire out there weeping because he can’t siphon a few more dollars worth of public treasure into his private offshore accounts, it’s a friggin’ human tragedy.
And machine guns for everyone, because freedom: and no abortions or contraception, because Freedom Jesus.
Susan Collins is voting to place Brett Kavanaugh on the bench so that he, along with Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch, can accelerate this shit. Not despite the fact that he will do this, but because he will do this. This is what Susan Collins believes in.
re: #49 jaunte
Hugh Hewitt still going with “due process” rather than “job interview.”
bingo https://t.co/7ffHV0oVUL
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 20, 2018
An absolute must-read: A menu of all the options Ford has to advance her case publicly, including on television, whether she meets Grassley’s bogus Monday deadline for his GOP kangaroo court or not. https://t.co/sRJp4sUk96
— Frank Rich (@frankrichny) September 20, 2018
JAXA is updating an image gallery showing the gradual descent of Hayabusa2’s first micro-rover (hopper, actually) Minerva-II1A to the asteroid Ryugu’s surface. Images are coming in about every 29 minutes. The gallery is here. You need to refresh periodically.
You get 3-4 days to get yourself ready to face the entire country and Senate for something that was obviously traumatic to you.
Harvard students now applying pressure…
Should Harvard bring Kavanaugh back as a teacher? Group of students saying no, not without an investigation. And it’s not fair to female students who may avoid his class bc they feel uncomfortable. https://t.co/7XsfBBH3cu
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) September 20, 2018
today in SCOTUS groping humor https://t.co/XS4KPcpfGi via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 20, 2018
re: #68 jaunte
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Good God…
I wrote to my congressman, @BillCassidy concerning Kavanaugh. I shared with him, my story about my rape and why this is particularly triggering and hard for me, and many other survivors, right now. He responded to my email with Kavanaugh’s resume.
— Leah (@LGTrombatore) September 18, 2018
Pigs. All of them.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹
A comment on Wonkette’s Susan Collins article:
I quite agree, with one minor exception:
They believe rich people are rich because they’re better than other people: and that white people are
white because they’rebetter than other people because they’re white.
Semantic, maybe, but more accurate
re: #71 makeitstop
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Pigs. All of them.
Qualifications that he got by being a good little GOP soldier. This is so infuriating. All they fucking care about is having their guy on their court.
Jennifer Rubin is not an ally. She is still a conservative. She is only concerned to the degree Trump and others are making conservatism look bad by not using dog whistles.
Did you just bingo you’re own piece?
— Jake R. (@jaker1419) September 20, 2018
re: #68 jaunte
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The true face of the patriarchy hopefully making its last stand. They are not troubled by attacks on women, because women should be subservient to men.
We all got a mother, sister, or wife don’t we fucking guys? Sigh. That’s exactly why I liked the Obama line that women aren’t a special interest group, they’re 51% of the population.
NEW: Ford’s lawyers tell Senate Judiciary Committee she “would be prepared to testify next week” as long as she’s given “terms that are fair and which ensure her safety” https://t.co/xtsZBDsJbm
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) September 20, 2018
Ford’s conditions are more than reasonable.
But Republicans are going to latch onto the fact that she’s asking for a day other than Monday as an excuse to rescind their invitation.
All eyes on Grassley. Don’t let him get away with it. https://t.co/TbMkhvOSGy— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) September 20, 2018
And even though the yam clapped and told people to have fun and raved about his fabulous team and prepares for another hate rally, here’s what things look like around here.
@EdPiotrowski @WBTWNews13 @Ella__Dorsey @JimCantore @StormChaseTV Highway 301 North Dillon, SC #hurricaneflorence pic.twitter.com/epZaN8N3Fy
— Ernest Mackie Adams (@EMA_Weather) September 20, 2018
THU 2pm - Updated River Forecast
Little Pee Dee - Crest 2-4” higher by FRI
Waccamaw at Longs - Crest expected SAT/SUN 5 ft above Matthew
Waccamaw at Conway - Matthew record SAT, crest TUE/WED 3-4 ft above Matthew
ICW Socastee - Crest NEXT Fri 2-4 ft higher than Matthew #scwx pic.twitter.com/uP3wLt5f0c— Ed Piotrowski (@EdPiotrowski) September 20, 2018
re: #78 jaunte
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I think she’s being more than reasonable. I don’t know if I would even be ready to be at a hearing because it would be a partisan circus. Would much rather talk to law enforcement who are actually trained to talk to victims of sexual assault.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
Jennifer Rubin is not an ally. She is still a conservative. She is only concerned to the degree Trump and others are making conservatism look bad by not using dog whistles.
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The mind of a fundamentalist: compassion as kaiju.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) September 20, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand: “Who is not asking the FBI to investigate these claims? The White House. Judge Kavanaugh has not asked to have the FBI to review these claims. Is that the reaction of an innocent person? It is not.” (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/0MBuBZFmHX
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 20, 2018
So if the White House interferes with the FBI to protect Trump, that’s bad. If the White House interferes with the FBI to help Kirsten Gillibrand, that’s good. That sounds reasonable. https://t.co/PHLDtqWLEL
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 20, 2018
Interfering with an ongoing criminal investigation isn’t the same as requesting additional information as part of a standard (non-criminal) background check process. https://t.co/8zr1YJoMfj
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 20, 2018
I accuse you of attempting to rape someone. When will you request that the FBI investigate this allegation? https://t.co/7Kl18XCN1K
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 20, 2018
The future of conservatism is a baboon on meth repeatedly hitting you in the face with a cast-iron skillet.https://t.co/JPsIL6qH0B
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) September 20, 2018
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
Jennifer Rubin is not an ally. She is still a conservative. She is only concerned to the degree Trump and others are making conservatism look bad by not using dog whistles.
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If we can have Stalin to destroy Hitler, we can have Rubin to destroy this. I think you’re a little too hard on her TBH. Yes, she is a conservative and yes I wouldn’t necessarily call her an ally but she unlike your Senator Sasse and some of the other self-professed Never Trumpers, she’s actually willing to call out the entire GOP for their shit. I think she’s rightfully angry how the GOP are treating Dr. Ford. I’m just saying. She could be having a sincere moment where she is questioning the ideological/party agenda she worked to advance. IT does happen.
re: #84 jaunte
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Ben, who the fuck asked you? And it’s about having an impartial/apolitical group look into Dr. Ford’s claims. But I get it, you’re a pathetic punk asshole who has never done anything decent in his life.
re: #84 jaunte
I accuse you of attempting to rape someone. When will you request that the FBI investigate this allegation?
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Yes, Ben, if you’re applying to the Federal government for a position of national security or public trust, it is supposed to get investigated by the FBI.
re: #87 ericblair
Yes, Ben, if you’re applying to the Federal government for a position of national security or public trust, it is supposed to get investigated by the FBI.
You’d think someone that graduated from Harvard Law would know that but he’s an amoral partisan hack who has zero credibility outside the world of right wing self fellatio.
re: #19 Alephnaught
So, “Heckuva job, Hillie!”, then?
Give him some piiiiiiiiieeeeee. Two slices, please.
My two cents on Never Trumpers - I wouldn’t agree with most of them on most things, but if there’s a chance to damage the Trump machine (and modern conservatism), we’re gonna need a shit-ton of hammers.
And if Jen Rubin or Rick Wilson are swinging a couple of those hammers, I’ll take it. I’ll go back to hating on them later, but there’s work to do first.
Who’s going to reach wobbly conservatives more easily - someone who’s been on their side up until two years ago, or a hated liberal?
re: #85 HappyWarrior
If we can have Stalin to destroy Hitler, we can have Rubin to destroy this. I think you’re a little too hard on her TBH. Yes, she is a conservative and yes I wouldn’t necessarily call her an ally but she unlike your Senator Sasse and some of the other self-professed Never Trumpers, she’s actually willing to call out the entire GOP for their shit. I think she’s rightfully angry how the GOP are treating Dr. Ford. I’m just saying. She could be having a sincere moment where she is questioning the ideological/party agenda she worked to advance. IT does happen.
Well, Stalin only went after Hitler when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union first. He only did it for self-preservation.
As for Sasse, he’s not up for election this go round, and I suspect he figures people will have forgotten about Kavanaugh by the time he is.
Fischer on the other hand is up for election, and we’re trying to oust her. She was one of Trump’s first endorsers, and hasn’t said anything I can find on Kavanaugh which might hurt her campaign.
re: #90 makeitstop
My two cents on Never Trumpers - I wouldn’t agree with most of them on most things, but if there’s a chance to damage the Trump machine (and modern conservatism), we’re gonna need a shit-ton of hammers.
And if Jen Rubin or Rick Wilson are swinging a couple of those hammers, I’ll take it. I’ll go back to hating on them later, but there’s work to do first.
Who’s going to reach wobbly conservatives more easily - someone who’s been on their side up until two years ago, or a hated liberal?
They become RINOS and are memory holed. Sort of like George W Bush.
Getting angrier as the day goes on. To chill a bit I had to fire off another comment to my favorite Trumpublican Senator…Rob Portman…a friend of Kavanaugh.
Read if you like, ignore it too!
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re: #84 jaunte
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Does Ben Shapiro ever edit (or even read) his asinine tweets?*
If the WH interfering with the FBI is a bad thing, it’s bad in principle, not whether or not it “helps” anybody (SPOILER: it usually doesn’t).
Or does he just assume that puerile “own that, libs!” snark is all his audience cares about?*
*rhetorical questions
re: #84 jaunte
That’s got to be the best description of Shapiro I’ve ever seen and right up there with “vacous screechmill”’on my list of favourite RWNJ nicknames.
re: #91 Anymouse 🌹
Well, Stalin only went after Hitler when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union first. He only did it for self-preservation.
As for Sasse, he’s not up for election this go round, and I suspect he figures people will have forgotten about Kavanaugh by the time he is.
Fischer on the other hand is up for election, and we’re trying to oust her. She was one of Trump’s first endorsers, and hasn’t said anything I can find on Kavanaugh which might hurt her campaign.
I’m speaking to Sasse’s “I don’t like or support Trump” and then voting for most of his agenda. Jen’s been critical of more than Sasse has. I hear ya thought about Stalin. Maybe not the best analogy but then again, remember that we were never officially attacked by Hitler either. It took Hitler declaring war on us for us to declare war on Germany.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹
They become RINOS and are memory holed. Sort of like George W Bush.
Well, let’s all just give the fuck up, then.
Sheesh.
re: #94 Jay C
Does Ben Shapiro ever edit (or even read) his asinine tweets?*
If the WH interfering with the FBI is a bad thing, it’s bad in principle, not whether it “helps” anybody (SPOILER: it usually doesn’t).Or does he just assume that puerile “own that, libs!” snark is all his audience cares about?*
*rhetorical questions
I think he really is showing once again that he’s at best a mediocre mind and that’s enough to get by in conservative circles these days. He also never misses an opportunity ot be a condescending jerk to a Democratic woman. And if he were actually smart, and believed Kavanaugh innocent, he would actually see why an independent investigation is better than a partisan inquiry but I suspect he knows Kavanaugh is guilty but doesn’t care.
And I’ll note that the GOP has enlisted the ‘memory holed’ GWB to get Florida politicians re-elected.
But let’s be more pure than them.
I mean I’d love to see the Dem senators press Kavanaugh hard on this but I want it investigated first.
re: #93 ObserverArt
Getting angrier as the day goes on. To chill a bit I had to fire off another comment to my favorite Trumpublican Senator…Rob Portman…a friend of Kavanaugh.
Read if you like, ignore it too!
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re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
Jennifer Rubin is not an ally. She is still a conservative. She is only concerned to the degree Trump and others are making conservatism look bad by not using dog whistles.
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She believes in the rule of law, including the 14th Amendment. She believes in letting all citizens over 18 being able to vote on who writes the law. She believes that Russians and other foreigners have no proper role in American elections.
That’s ally enough for me.
re: #102 sagehen
She believes in the rule of law, including the 14th Amendment. She believes in letting all citizens over 18 being able to vote on who writes the law. She believes that Russians and other foreigners have no proper role in American elections.
That’s ally enough for me.
She seems to be doing better than most Never Trumpers in calling out the whole of the GOP too, not just Trump and Trump fanboys.
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