Seth takes a closer look at conflicting news reports about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and at the president doubling down on his support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Give me a break. pic.twitter.com/DdQhnxgGlJ
— Asher Langton (@AsherLangton) September 25, 2018
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
That school official has been fired:
ARLINGTON, Texas - Parents of students at The Oakridge School in Arlington woke up Monday to find their school in the national spotlight.
An administrator admitted to sending an expletive-filled Twitter message to Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy Daniels and one of Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers, according to an email to parents from the school.
Butch Groves, head of the upper school at The Oakridge School, has since been suspended indefinitely.
Or suspended indefinitely.
re: #1 gocart mozart
“…a practical and fair approach devoid of partisan purpose” ??
Brett Kavanaugh??
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Got an email from the Sierra Club that the greater Yellowstone grizzlies won back their Endangered Species protections in a Montana court ruling today. No hunting!
I’m really beginning to suspect the reason Brett is so resistant to an FBI investigation is not because of the possibility that wrong-doing will be discovered, but that his false image as the picture of sobriety and Godliness would crumble the moment his high school and college buddies started facing questions from the FBI with the understanding that lying would mean criminal charges.
re: #2 HappyWarrior
Yeah just innocent dates and dances my Catholic ass.
And Catholic HS dances at that…… Yes sir! My Baptist Father wouldn’t hear of it. I made sure he didn’t.
Michael Avenatti says his client will be going public with new sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh within 48 hours. pic.twitter.com/6gQYt9l3nB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2018
re: #8 Charles Johnson
The problem is the S/N may be going down and any, and I mean any, false accusation will lead to the dismissal of all other claims.
re: #7 Dave In Austin
And Catholic HS dances at that…… Yes sir! My Baptist Father wouldn’t hear of it. I made sure he didn’t.
My dad’s siblings all attended Catholic schools in the DMV a generation before Augh and his pals. Not as affluent but these definitely weren’t just kids going to Mass, playing sports, and going to dances.
Kids these days have no idea of the hell we lived through.
Younger people today may not realize that the CB Radio craze lasted an agonizing three years or so.
— Peter Huestis (@RealSparklePony) September 25, 2018
It’s definitely a cornerstone.
— Peter Huestis (@RealSparklePony) September 25, 2018
Well, that is, of course, the pivotal moment. That’s when the whole thing went from zero public perception to 100 percent. And the craze lasted well throughout 1978. It was a really long craze.
— Peter Huestis (@RealSparklePony) September 25, 2018
re: #11 goddamnedfrank
Kids these days have no idea of the hell we went through.
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Yeah, out here on the farm, before cell phones, that’s how we kept in touch with our crew. I had a base station. Hmmmm. Wonder where that thing went?
Rachel Maddow seemed a bit uncomfortable with Avenatti.
Truckers kept them alive. I was a coast to coaster during the 80’s. I jabberjawed coast to coast. Redneck accents and an echo box. I wonder what they are using today?
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) September 25, 2018
re: #4 Jay C
“…a practical and fair approach devoid of partisan purpose” ??
Brett Kavanaugh??
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Your very existence is partisan
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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That would put us smack in the middle of Wednesday afternoon/evening.
Maybe there won’t be a vote this week. Turtle might even have to keep the Senate in town so they can put out this next fire.
re: #16 makeitstop
Don’t they have to pass a continuing resolution, or whatever it is, so that the government doesn’t stop dead?
re: #11 goddamnedfrank
Kids these days have no idea of the hell we lived through.
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KERA0855 was my parent’s call sign.
re: #6 Targetpractice
I’m really beginning to suspect the reason Brett is so resistant to an FBI investigation is not because of the possibility that wrong-doing will be discovered, but that his false image as the picture of sobriety and Godliness would crumble the moment his high school and college buddies started facing questions from the FBI with the understanding that lying would mean criminal charges.
Plus, he’s in debt up to his eyeballs. There’s money attached to this nomination and I’m sure it’s contingent upon selling his legal opinions.
Without confirmation, Kavy is fucked to the max.
re: #17 retired cynic
Don’t they have to pass a continuing resolution, or whatever it is, so that the government doesn’t stop dead?
Yeah, they do. And then they have to hope Trump doesn’t refuse to sign it because there’s no money for his stupid wall in it.
My mom was one of those who made friends everywhere, including on the CB. We even drafted between two semis, in our big Dodge van, on a trip somewhere.
I just encountered a little girl in a princess dress who was practicing Karate kicks. I asked her what she was doing, and she said, “combat ballet”.
— Mr. Darcy (@MrDarcyExplains) September 22, 2018
THIS IS THE CORRECT ANSWER https://t.co/sGRKM7cVi3
— Space Force Commander Zandar (@ZandarVTS) September 25, 2018
Thinking of shutting down LGF archives before 2009, for lots of reasons but primarily because I’m no longer the angry yet politically naïve person who wrote those posts. And because they’re still getting traffic from the kind of sites I do NOT want traffic from.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Rachel Maddow seemed a bit uncomfortable with Avenatti.
Rightly wary is my take. The guy has a self aggrandizing streak that is off putting.
re: #24 Unshaken Defiance
Rightly wary is my take. The guy has a self aggrandizing streak that is off putting.
Not her style.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Thinking of shutting down LGF archives before 2009, for lots of reasons but primarily because I’m no longer the angry yet politically naïve person who wrote those posts. And because they’re still getting traffic from the kind of sites I do NOT want traffic from.
Be prepared for the HE’S A LIAR! HE PURGED EVERYTHING!!11!!!!
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
My favorite cosplay of all time was at a con in Seattle. There was an adorable young African American girl wearing a purple tutu/leotard, a sparkling tiara, and… two giant green foam Hulk fists. When someone asked her who she was she proudly declared: “Princess Hulk!”
— GeordieGrey (@GeordieGrey) September 22, 2018
And, I learned something new:
For reference: https://t.co/oshmsK7Zsi
— Henk Poley (@HenkPoley) September 23, 2018
re: #26 MsJ
Be prepared for the HE’S A LIAR! HE PURGED EVERYTHING!!11!!!!
Actually, they already say that.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Thinking of shutting down LGF archives before 2009, for lots of reasons but primarily because I’m no longer the angry yet politically naïve person who wrote those posts. And because they’re still getting traffic from the kind of sites I do NOT want traffic from.
Me used to be angry young man
Me hiding me head in the sand
You gave me the word, I finally heard
I’m doing the best that I can…
Sorry it’s just your word choice pretty much instantly made me think of those lyrics.
Sen. Hatch says the Ramirez allegation is “phony”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) September 24, 2018
Asked how he knew the allegation from Boulder’s Deborah Ramirez was phony, the Senator from Utah told reporters, “Because I know it is. That’s why.” #copolitics #9NEWS https://t.co/CzD4bumw5d
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) September 24, 2018
My children are learning in elementary school to give reasons to support their arguments https://t.co/u3Uswvu4aB
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 24, 2018
Watching Netflix’s “Maniac” and kind of enjoying it, but WTF. Not sure yet if it’s the kind of WTF that ends up being great.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2018
re: #18 Belafon
KERA0855 was my parent’s call sign.
I was KBOV2698. My dad loved me enough to put up an antenna at the high point of our roof to get good range. It was terrifying.
re: #32 Single-handed sailor
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As was established earlier today, the only time Orrin Hatch thinks an investigation is called for in regards to allegations of sexual assault or physical abuse is when the accused has a (D) after their name.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I very rarely reference my earlier posts, but on occasion it is nice to look back.
Anyway to make the archive accessible to members only?
re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White
For DoRango fans, tonight they were playing Hide and Seek around the Tansy in the back yard.
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According to the vet, Dory now weighs 7.5 lbs, or 0.1 Rangos.
How big do you think she’ll get?
New: A woman who publicly vouched for Kavanaugh’s character just learned that she was the butt of a cruel joke on his yearbook page, where he used her name and implied she was promiscuous. “I pray their daughters are never treated this way,” she says..https://t.co/hzNiXuYZpt
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) September 25, 2018
re: #35 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I was KBOV2698. My dad loved me enough to put up an antenna at the high point of our roof to get good range. It was terrifying.
That is how I got over a fear of heights. Climbing a ladder on top of a roof, securing a half wave or quarter wave length antenna as high as we could over a chimney. I remember using an RF meter to tune the setups. And illegal amplifiers, foot warmers.
re: #32 Single-handed sailor
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You don’t know shit Orrin. All you know is that Augh is your key to judicial supremacy long after you’re dead and that’s the only reason it matters that he’s confirmed to you. It doesn’t matter that he’s a judicial partisan, it doesn’t matter that he’s a perjurer, and now it doesn’t matter that he’s a fucking creep who if you were truly honest you’d want far away from your granddaughters but hey gotta keep the right wing zealots and their narrow interpretation of the Constitution happy, right?
I’ve lurked around here for a long time, Charles, but… 2009? What makes that the cutoff? I would have guessed a year before that or more. Particularly I have the vague memory of you voting Obama in 2008, though I admit I didn’t go back to look it up before posting here.
There’s some value in keeping the transition period. It’s interesting to go back in the Balloon Juice archives and watch Cole’s conversion around the Schiavo mess, but OTOH I can imagine the sort of hostile linking you’re talking about.
We live in weird-ass times.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2018
re: #39 Charles Johnson
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And this was someone they tried to use as a character testimony for him. This guy is one sleazy son of a bitch who has coasted by his entire life. If he weren’t a child of the Washington elite, he’d be just another creep.
After tonight and the Faux “exclusive” interview, I’m gonna say the odds of Kavanaugh withdrawing have grown slimmer, but the odds of the Senate GOP voting down his nomination or pressuring Trump to withdraw it have gone up.
TBH I thought the Republican Party had shown its low point. Nope they did it again. This is it.
re: #45 Targetpractice
After tonight and the Faux “exclusive” interview, I’m gonna say the odds of Kavanaugh withdrawing have grown slimmer, but the odds of the Senate GOP voting down his nomination or pressuring Trump to withdraw it have gone up.
He has so much in common with Trump. I guess it’s not a surprise that Trump has taken such a shine to him.
re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White
For DoRango fans, tonight they were playing Hide and Seek around the Tansy in the back yard.
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According to the vet, Dory now weighs 7.5 lbs, or 0.1 Rangos.
How old is she In scaramuccis?
I’m kind of pissed about Brett Kavanaugh running guns to the Contras, though.
— Doktor Zoom (@DoktorZoom) September 25, 2018
Is Ollie North a slimy creep or what.
WaPo’s @Gabriel_Pogrund found Mark Judge holed up in Bethany Beach, Del. He declined comment. His lawyer said he’s a recovering alcoholic and under much stress. https://t.co/afQLMO6OFb
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 25, 2018
He’s under so much stress, poor guy. https://t.co/Ks6jvhFUe2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2018
re: #32 Single-handed sailor
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My children are learning in elementary school to give reasons to support their arguments
Different rules for old white rich male senators who know it all
re: #50 Charles Johnson
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Gee, I can’t imagine why the Senate GOP wouldn’t want to hear from this guy…
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re: #49 jaunte
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Is Ollie North a slimy creep or what.
Funny Ollie, I never saw you using your dead comrades to say Justices Sotomayor and Kagan should be confirmed. Stop hiding behind dead men and shut the fuck up. You should be in jail and yet because the right wing in this country is so fucked up, not only are you revered as a hero in some circles, you got a job as the NRA’s President. Oh and Robb’s still got ya. My grandfather may not have been famous like you are Ollie but he served this country far more honorably than you ever did. All you cared about was protecting Reagan.
Being a political junky is beginning to be wearing. Maybe not beginning to be. Maybe has become full on exhausting.
re: #50 Charles Johnson
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re: #46 HappyWarrior
TBH I thought the Republican Party had shown its low point. Nope they did it again. This is it.
They are just getting going on digging.
They will find new lows. With Trump the depth is unlimited.
Mitch the Miner. Trump the Tunneler. Together we go low!
re: #41 HappyWarrior
You don’t know shit Orrin. All you know is that Augh is your key to judicial supremacy long after you’re dead and that’s the only reason it matters that he’s confirmed to you. It doesn’t matter that he’s a judicial partisan, it doesn’t matter that he’s a perjurer, and now it doesn’t matter that he’s a fucking creep who if you were truly honest you’d want far away from your granddaughters but hey gotta keep the right wing zealots and their narrow interpretation of the Constitution happy, right?
So after they manage to set up their solid Opus Dei Supreme Court, how long before they come for the Mormons, Orrin?
re: #57 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
After the nonbelievers are eliminated, the violence really starts.
Just for giggles, here is one of my posts from 2009:
Would it surprise anyone here that Townhall ♥’s BNP, VB, etc?
From Blankley’s latest piece:
[…] Now, with last weekend’s election, we are beginning to see the breakout of such political impulses. Not all the parties are disreputable. I have met with Geert Wilders, who is a courageous, decent Dutch patriot. He only stepped up to the challenge when, in 2003, as a local official, he made the commonplace observation that Yasser Arafat was a “terrorist leader.” […]
The real winners are in the comments:
St. Denis In Obama’s Red America
Location: LA
Reply # 1
Date: Jun 10, 2009 - 7:26 PM EST
The EU Had Better Awaken PRONTO!Bravo on the elections, but the EU had better get with the terror program, which we are moving away from […]
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RL
Location: FL
Reply # 2
Date: Jun 10, 2009 - 3:20 PM EST
Tea Party, Anyone?
Meanwhile, America is heading in the opposite direction.[shout out to Kilgore!]
-Maximilian
Location: WA
Reply # 3
Date: Jun 10, 2009 - 2:26 PM EST
Congrats to Europe!
They learned from past mistakes as will we.-
18Wheeler
Location: CA
Reply # 4
Date: Jun 10, 2009 - 2:20 PM EST
Re: Wolfgang / Elections
Wolfgang writes: “…The current economic collapse also doesn’t hurt these parties. People are tired of being told who they have rub shoulders with….”
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CORRECT! In fact it’s these vermin who contribute to the problems of Western nations as they’re now an economic drain. As to whom we want as neighbors, Nations have a right to maintain their cultural and ethnic identity. This means if we dont want to be infested with Muslims, who aren’t part of our culture, we have the right to exclude them. And if they prove they’re a threat, as they now have, we have the right and responsibility to take more “Extreme” measurers.-
[BTW folks, I’m not cherry picking, I’m just going down the list of comments!]
-18Wheeler
Location: CA
Reply # 6
Date: Jun 10, 2009 - 11:16 AM EST
YES. TOMORROW BELONGS TO US!
That the BNP may be racist is of secondary importance to the more important issue; the greater threat to the world posed by the danger or Islam. There’s a Muslim saying, “Enemy of my enemy is my friend”: meaning sometimes strange alliances are necessary to achieve the more important objective and the greater good. The Western world is in an undeclared war with Islam. At stake is our very survival. So our most important objective for the security of the free world is the ultimate extermination of Muslims. So if we must, for the greater good, support political parties like the BNP or other neo-fascists to rid the world of dangerous vermin like Muslims, so be it. Desperate situations sometimes require desperate solutions. So YES. Tomorrow DOES belong to us; provided we find leaders with the courage to think the unthinkable.-
apppleblossom
Location: PA
Reply # 8
Date: Jun 10, 2009 - 8:53 AM EST
senses
Finally a few countries are coming to their senses. Please keep stressing that we here in America need to get back to our own senses. The stink is getting worse and we need to stop it, The BO smell is in need of deodorant and disinfectant then flushed.[all emphases added.]
townhall.com is the home of the true “conservatives”, is it not?
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Actually, they already say that.
The only people who will care if you shut down the archives are the people who want to use that against you anyway, so who cares what they think.
re: #57 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
So after they manage to set up their solid Opus Dei Supreme Court, how long before they come for the Mormons, Orrin?
It’s so weird. Opus Dei SCOTUS but with Fundies like Pence and others in the Exec. BTW I’m not sure if Roberts is OD. I know he’s Catholic but not sure if OD.
Good rule of thumb for OD. If they”re a Catholic and have been seen at services for Catherine of Siena church, that’s a good bet. That’s how I knew Santorum while definitely reactionary isn’t OD.
re: #61 HappyWarrior
It’s so weird. Opus Dei SCOTUS but with Fundies like Pence and others in the Exec. BTW I’m not sure if Roberts is OD. I know he’s Catholic but not sure if OD.
My bad, I just use that as a general term, like “Holy Roller” on the Protestant side, whether they actually are or not….
Special Prosecutor Mueller should subpoena Trump to testify before the Grand Jury TOMORROW, after getting DAG Rosenstein’s consent. Then if Trump fires Rosenstein if will be seen as retribution for that what it would be — an obstruction of justice!
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) September 25, 2018
re: #64 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
My bad, I just use that as a general term, like “Holy Roller” on the Protestant side, whether they actually are or not….
Yeah. Not all conservative Catholics are OD but a lot of prominent ones are.
re: #34 Charles Johnson
I managed to get them “Bleach” over the weekend. Weird but you were right. His Spiritual Energy gave him a big sword…….. LOL!!
Among the reasons Repubs like Kavanaugh fight these things to the death:
Their entire life story of moral clarity and ethical conservatism is a lie. They know it. They know they’re caught. They know their whole house is falling down. Their whole facade as a person.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 25, 2018
re: #69 jaunte
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re: #50 Charles Johnson
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“Recovering alcoholic under stress”
The excuse fix is in, for when the media finally discovers Judge’s youtube and flickr accounts on Wednesday or so.
H/t to Balloon Juice:
80,000 votes in 3 states put Trump in the White House. Now a meticulous analysis of online activity during the campaign makes a powerful case that cyberattacks by Russian hackers and trolls were decisive: https://t.co/5v1s6pCuYv pic.twitter.com/1XJkmckku6
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 24, 2018
re: #70 HappyWarrior
This Kav Augh stuff is bringing a lot of my wife’s stories out; she grew up in Memphis and North Mississippi; Bible Belt central, and she has many, many memories of shithead youth ministers, girls basketball coaches, deacons, local photographers who were big on going to Sunday School to check out the younger girls. She told her mother about a lot of them, and her mother refused to believe her own daughter, preferring the facade.
I’m pretty sure her experience is shared by millions and millions of women.
A reworking of some famous words from previous political history.
“Until this moment, Republican Senators, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”
“Let us not assassinate these ladies further, senators. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Thinking of shutting down LGF archives before 2009, for lots of reasons but primarily because I’m no longer the angry yet politically naïve person who wrote those posts. And because they’re still getting traffic from the kind of sites I do NOT want traffic from.
Put ‘em behind a Registered Lizard Wall, and screen for new Lizard sign-ups based on previous IP’s.
History is history, and what went on back then is a relevant reflection of your political evolution.
It’s your site of course, this is just a suggestion. But there’s a whole bunch of us old-time Lizards who deeply admire your metamorphosis into an science-loving, fascist-hating realist-based, thinking Blogmaster.
re: #75 jaunte
This Kav Augh stuff is bringing a lot of my wife’s stories out; she grew up in Memphis and North Mississippi; Bible Belt central, and she has many, many memories of shithead youth ministers, girls basketball coaches, deacons, local photographers who were big on going to Sunday School to check out the younger girls. She told her mother about a lot of them, and her mother refused to believe her own daughter, preferring the facade.
I’m pretty sure her experience is shared by millions and millions of women.
A lot of people keep stuff like that in knowing there’s judgmental assholes out there eager to judge everything that led to that day.
re: #79 HappyWarrior
But just imagine: if your own parents don’t believe you, who would you feel comfortable making a report to?
re: #80 jaunte
But just imagine: if your own parents don’t believe you, who would you feel comfortable making a report to?
Exactly. That’s why I completely understand why young men and women keep sexual abuse quiet. All the second guesses piss me off.
“I was a virgin” is the self pitying bleat of an insecure defeated and guilty man.
WaPo’s @Gabriel_Pogrund found Mark Judge holed up in Bethany Beach, Del. He declined comment. His lawyer said he’s a recovering alcoholic and under much stress. https://t.co/afQLMO6OFb
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 25, 2018
Yeah, that’s not sketchy at all… https://t.co/jZlox9dCx8
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 25, 2018
Lol at this typo in soon to be deleted Trump tweet complaining of “false acquisitions” against Kavanaugh.
The Democrats are working hard to destroy a wonderful man, and a man who has the potential to be one of our greatest Supreme Court Justices ever, with an array of False Acquisitions the likes of which have never been seen before!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2018
re: #84 Schweppes7
Lol at this typo in soon to be deleted Trump tweet complaining of “false acquisitions” against Kavanaugh.
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You wanted to execute five people who were cleared of a crime. You wanted to put HRC in jail. You only like Kavanaugh because he’ll protect your sorry ass and you both are two sick sons of bitches.
The Democrats are working hard to destroy a wonderful man, and a man who has the potential to be one of our greatest Supreme Court Justices ever, with an array of False Acquisitions the likes of which have never been seen before!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2018
FALSE ACQUISITIONs https://t.co/uJiZWL1OTm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2018
Spoken like the corporate con man he is. https://t.co/3NHQvCXwMC
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) September 25, 2018
And it’s not just “Democrats” that are saying that Kavanaugh is a sleazebucket.
re: #84 Schweppes7
You can take the real estate asshole out of Queens, but you can’t take the real estate out of the asshole.
pretty good article in Oct Vanity Fair, about Jaclyn Corin
vanityfair.com
Meet the Ultra-Organized Teenager Masterminding Parkland’s Midterms Push
In its effort to make gun control a priority for midterm voters, MFOL has mobilized on two fronts: inspiring a massive following, and then building a network across thousands of high schools and colleges to drive young people to the polls. The first half was widely publicized—Emma alone has 1.6 million Twitter followers. But while she, David, and several others light up the Internet, Jackie tackles the logistics. Movements are born from hope, but they are built brick by brick. That’s Jackie’s department. If these kids rock the vote on Election Day, Jackie Corin will be a crucial reason why.
REMEMBER THE MIDTERMS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2018
REMEMBER THE FALSE ACQUISITIONS https://t.co/z1r3sT0xkT
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2018
Donald Fucking Trump does not get to use “the likes of which have never been seen before.”
He owns the record and it may never be topped.
Reminder: People withdrew from consideration for judgeships for inadvertently hiring nannies who weren’t authorized to work in the US.
This is appalling. #StopKavanaugh— Sam Spiegel (@UNSEATpac) September 25, 2018
re: #90 Charles Johnson
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Oh we do remember. That’s why your candidates and your Congressional Majority are going down quicker than the pee went on your bed in Moscow.
re: #84 Schweppes7
Lol at this typo in soon to be deleted Trump tweet complaining of “false acquisitions” against Kavanaugh.
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Such a dumb man. He’s supposed to be the President of the entire country but you wouldn’t tell that from the way he communicates.
re: #92 jaunte
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Jeckyl and Hyde. I guess it’s a little easy for me to see why people are so adamant in defending him but still.
re: #91 ObserverArt
Donald Fucking Trump does not get to use “the likes of which have never been seen before.”
He owns the record and it may never be topped.
Any sentence like that can only be used when hunting for wormsign.
This is still the superior Fuckface Von Clownstick tweet fuck up. pic.twitter.com/Cn68rPHBEm
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 25, 2018
I’m NOT defending him btw. Fuck Kavanaugh and the people defending him becaues they’re completely dismissing people like Roche, Ramirez, and Ford as “liars” out to get a “good man.”
re: #84 Schweppes7
And here is the corrected tweet, keeping the dumb meaningless capitalization in “False Accusations….”
The Democrats are working hard to destroy a wonderful man, and a man who has the potential to be one of our greatest Supreme Court Justices ever, with an array of False Accusations the likes of which have never been seen before!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2018
Took President Racist Grandpa about 12 minutes to notice this one. pic.twitter.com/OO8zck1xse
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2018
re: #99 Schweppes7
And here is the corrected tweet, keeping the dumb meaningless capitalization in “False Accusations….”
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Greatest Supreme Court Justices Ever? LOL. Oh please. Can you name any SCOTUS judge other than Gorsuch and maybe Scalia because you got told so many times that you needed to get a Scalia clone to replace him.
re: #92 jaunte
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What’s that burnt smell?
That letter from a guy is going to be real hard to explain by the women-blaming Republicans.
Oh, but they will try.
What does everyone think?
Will there even be a hearing on Thursday?
I’m thinking it is getting iffy. As iffy as Brett’s nomination.
re: #102 ObserverArt
I can believe that Kavanaugh won’t willing withdraw. All the same, I wonder if there’s some behind the scenes vetting of a couple other candidates going on as we speak. Or would that show too much organization and foresight for the current administration?
Hey, all!
My Dad is doing well. Hasn’t had one episode since leaving hospital. Follow up doctor revealed he’d lost 14 pounds!
It’s pretty damn hard to take care of two disabled parents, their home, meals, husband issues, and two kids to raise. I feel insane most of the time.
But, whaddya gonna do?
Thanks for listening. Hope all is well with you all.
This morning was crazy, wasn’t it? Media flubbed up big time.
It’s only going to get worse, isn’t it?
re: #103 calochortus
I can believe that Kavanaugh won’t willing withdraw. All the same, I wonder if there’s some behind the scenes vetting of a couple other candidates going on as we speak. Or would that show too much organization and foresight for the current administration?
The latter. I don’t think they have a plan B in time for November.
did somebody say a false acquisition? I know someone who won’t stand for that pic.twitter.com/w2LUxBQrNb
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 25, 2018
AWESOME!!
Ted Cruz just got chased out of a DC restaurant pic.twitter.com/i5GE90M7hl— jordan (@JordanUhl) September 25, 2018
Yeah, it’s already been done a thousand times. Still…
NO ONE EXPECTED THE SPANISH ACQUISITION! pic.twitter.com/tgLrPkM28W
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 25, 2018
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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Ted Cruz should be chased out of any building into which he walks.
(Notice what I did there?)
Cruz is the one that believes you should get denied service if you’re gay. Karma.
I personally don’t believe anyone should be denied service unless they’re causing a disruption but I really have no sympathy for a hack like Cruz who does the shit he does and thinks he should be just ignored by the public.
Hello, everyone! I’m just back from three weeks vacationing in Europe — did anything happen while I was gone?
I’ll support treating these debased freaks like human beings when they start behaving like human beings.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2018
re: #115 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Hello, everyone! I’m just back from three weeks vacationing in Europe — did anything happen while I was gone?
Don’t worry. You didn’t miss much.
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re: #3 Belafon
That school official has been fired:
Or suspended indefinitely.
Never goes out of style because every f’n single day…
re: #115 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Hello, everyone! I’m just back from three weeks vacationing in Europe — did anything happen while I was gone?
It was chaos when you left, and that hasn’t changed.
re: #113 HappyWarrior
I personally don’t believe anyone should be denied service unless they’re causing a disruption but I really have no sympathy for a hack like Cruz who does the shit he does and thinks he should be just ignored by the public.
I do. All of these fucksticks need to be completely shunned by polite society until they finally get the message that Republicanism is not acceptable, not any more.
re: #119 Joe Bacon 🌹
Never goes out of style because every f’n single day…
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About an hour from my house.
re: #121 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I do. All of these fucksticks need to be completely shunned by polite society until they finally get the message that Republicanism is not acceptable, not any more.
I hear ya. Just saying in an ideal world. But fuck Ted Cruz. He’s made people who bully LGBT couples into martyrs.
‘Like a monkey watching a magic trick’: @SethMeyers mocks cable pundits for fascination over Trump Twitter disciplinehttps://t.co/fmGDcCjMWj
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 25, 2018
Personally don’t fucking champion people like Kim Davis and then act shocked that people in the city that you repeatedly use as a cheap political punching bag won’t let you enjoy your night out. I feel a little bad for Heidi admittingly but not at all Ted.
re: #75 jaunte
This Kav Augh stuff is bringing a lot of my wife’s stories out; she grew up in Memphis and North Mississippi; Bible Belt central, and she has many, many memories of shithead youth ministers, girls basketball coaches, deacons, local photographers who were big on going to Sunday School to check out the younger girls. She told her mother about a lot of them, and her mother refused to believe her own daughter, preferring the facade.
I’m pretty sure her experience is shared by millions and millions of women.
It wasn’t just the Bible Belt. Same thing went on with Mom’s church in Western PA.
There’s a lot riding on Kavanaugh’s confirmation, for a lot of people.
Somebody picked up Kavanaugh’s tab and wiped out hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and put him in a million dollar home. And I agree with whoever said earlier that Kavanaugh’s part of the bargain is his vote. Whoever is Sugar Daddying Kavanaugh wants him in.
Evangelicals have explicitly threatened to stay home for the midterms if Kavanaugh is not confirmed, which would make an election where the GOP’s prospects are pretty bad already even worse. Congress wants him it at all costs.
Trump sees Kavanaugh as a weird kind of kindred spirit, a bond built on sexual assault. He’ll go to bat for this asshole because he’s Trump’s kind of asshole. Trump wants him in because he’ll see it as some weird vindication for his own fuckups.
They’re ride or die at this point, and Kavanaugh will get his up or down vote. But by the time that vote rolls around - and if Avenatti’s witness is as explosive as he’s hyping it to be, that Friday vote won’t happen - Kavanaugh may end up being so toxic that McConnell won’t be able to wrangle the votes.
And if they do end up bulling it through in the face of multiple accusers, they’re dead meat in the midterms. I have to wonder how loyal some senators will be once their job is on the line.
All that Jim Crow stuff was the consequence of not having an equal rights law to go with emancipation. Sex abuse is a result of not having the ERA. You sometimes build culture on law. Especially hard change.
Andrea Grimes
“…there is a terrifying logic at work when a man says to another man, Let’s see what we can do to this woman, together. It is eminently reasonable, in the most literal sense of the word, to deduce that two men claiming “we didn’t” is better than one saying “I didn’t.” It is objectively more effective, if your goal is to exert your power over a woman — and that is the purpose of sexual assault — to enlist the help of a friend in doing so.”
texasobserver.org
Bert Cavernslaw is wonderfool creature!!!
— Gollum J. Trump (@realGollumTrump) September 25, 2018
Bert Cavernslaw is wonderfool creature!!!
— Gollum J. Trump (@realGollumTrump) September 25, 2018
In new excerpt from Fox interview, Kavanaugh says he was a virgin in high school and “many years thereafter.”
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) September 24, 2018
Kavanaugh angling for support from the incel community https://t.co/nofczc90QW
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) September 25, 2018
re: #115 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Hello, everyone! I’m just back from three weeks vacationing in Europe — did anything happen while I was gone?
Not really, kind of like when Obama was President. Just three weeks of competence and a steady running of the country and its economy. Boring, actually.
Bwahawhawhaw!
re: #128 makeitstop
….Somebody picked up Kavanaugh’s tab and wiped out hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and put him in a million dollar home. And I agree with whoever said earlier that Kavanaugh’s part of the bargain is his vote. Whoever is Sugar Daddying Kavanaugh wants him in….
Does anybody think that the same couldn’t be said about all of the top handful of candidates on that Heritage Foundation list? They’ve been planning on replacing several Justices during tRump’s two terms (Assuming the 2024 election isn’t canceled—with the acquiescence of the Supreme Court.). Gotta keep ‘em on the hook.
re: #133 Single-handed sailor
Kavanaugh angling for support from the incel community
But his name is literally “Brett”. Aren’t “Brett and Stacey” their nemeses?
re: #135 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Does anybody think that the same couldn’t be said about all of the top handful of candidates on that Heritage Foundation list? They’ve been planning on replacing several Justices during tRump’s two terms (Assuming the 2024 election isn’t canceled—with the acquiescence of the Supreme Court.). Gotta keep ‘em on the hook.
I dunno but someone seems to really want Augh on SCOTUS.
re: #29 Belafon
Ballet and the martial arts are based on one thing: balance. In my opinion.
It’s a good philosophy for life as well.
re: #105 HappyWarrior
The latter. I don’t think they have a plan B in time for November.
But I believe they have a plan B for the lame duck session. Especially if the D’s pick up a few senate seats; then “let the voters decide” will be some quaint thing we imagined McConnell having once said but he most certainly didn’t.
re: #138 Romantic Heretic
Ballet and the martial arts are based on one thing: balance. In my opinion.
It’s a good philosophy for life as well.
As you know, we bred horses. Balance is A1 as far as I’m concerned. I prefer not to work with breeding stock that doesn’t have it. So it is good for a lot of things!
re: #140 sagehen
But I believe they have a plan B for the lame duck session. Especially if the D’s pick up a few senate seats; then “let the voters decide” will be some quaint thing we imagined McConnell having once said but he most certainly didn’t.
Yeah certainly. McConnell is that craven enough to do something like that.
re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White
For DoRango fans, tonight they were playing Hide and Seek around the Tansy in the back yard.
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According to the vet, Dory now weighs 7.5 lbs, or 0.1 Rangos.
I can honestly say, as the ultimate dog-lover, I’ve never seen a cuter puppy in my life. 🐶
re: #115 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Hello, everyone! I’m just back from three weeks vacationing in Europe — did anything happen while I was gone?
Nah. SSDD. 😂
re: #115 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Hello, everyone! I’m just back from three weeks vacationing in Europe — did anything happen while I was gone?
I am so looking forward to my trip to Japan next week. I want to come back after the middle of the month completely ignorant to all the goings’ on.
The more I hear about Kavanaugh, the more he seems like he used to be just like Bryce Walker from 13 Reasons Why when he was younger.
re: #146 mmmirele
I am so looking forward to my trip to Japan next week. I want to come back after the middle of the month completely ignorant to all the goings’ on.
I was able to do that for a few days during my trip. No WiFi. But once I got to Krakow, I was able to check the news agh. I just wish he could be gone and we could go about fixing the damage he’s caused and then maybe just maybe get back to some normalcy but I think that’s a pipe dream. It’s never going to be the same after Trump. He awakened something ugly in the American psyche that’s not going to die out in my life time.
An unexpected joint statement by #Iran’s FM & Europe FP Chief after P4+1 meeting on #IranDeal. More than just another rebuke of #Trump’s policy but also coming to solutions for trade w/ Iran, they said. “Decision has been made to establish a special purpose vehicle” pic.twitter.com/v72X13xWLH
— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) September 25, 2018
So big news at #unga tonight. EU, China, Russia all agreed to affirm their support for the #JCPOA, aka Iran nuclear deal. Key detail is the creating of special fund (bypassing US-dominated financial system) to allow Iran to get paid for its oil exports and purchase of imports pic.twitter.com/IIGIo3VEx2
— Bessma Momani (@b_momani) September 25, 2018
Police: Did you eat all those people?
Jeffrey Dahmer: No. My calendar doesn’t say that I ate people.
Police: Sorry to bother you, sir. You’re free to go. pic.twitter.com/hXk7YJ50Ab— JRehling (@JRehling) September 25, 2018
It’s why he felt so comfortable in casually lying about the facts and the law in his 2017 Garza dissent, he simply does not view young women as possessing agency or deserving bodily autonomy.
— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 25, 2018
Ethic Prof Says TX Judge In ACA Case’s Appearance At Federalist Society Event w/Clarence Thomas, Appellate judges doesn’t cross lines. O’Connor slated to moderate panel 3 days after oral arguments: https://t.co/ZhQtRdVVVx
event link: https://t.co/pPFEh5Nmp8— Amy Lotven (@amylotven) August 28, 2018
Re-upping this story about the Judge in the ACA suit that could result in loss of pre-existing condition protections attending Federalist Society event days after oral arguments..just cuz. https://t.co/otllpU68R9
— Amy Lotven (@amylotven) September 25, 2018
re: #150 jaunte
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re: #155 HappyWarrior
I get the feeling they’d kill you for a quarter as long as their name wasn’t attached to the deed.
Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau wished everyone a happy #MidAutumnFestival on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Monday. pic.twitter.com/NhXY1SrKfX
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) September 25, 2018
contrast
re: #157 jaunte
I get the feeling they’d kill you for a quarter as long as their name wasn’t attached to the deed.
The preexisting condition means so much to me as someone with a heart condition. These guys are such scum and they have the nerve to claim moral authority.
re: #148 HappyWarrior
The flip side is that you’re getting to watch Virginia turn blue. No, things won’t be the same. But sometimes different just means different. A lot of these racists are coming out of the woodwork because of Trump, but he did not create them, they were already there. It’s work, but the job of the rest of us is to let them know that they still aren’t welcome.
Thanks to @nastyproud for this heads up.
Orrin Hatch filed a friend of the court brief for Gamble vs the United States.Thats the case that would end state’s rights to prosecute crimes that the federal govt has tried? Y’all need to get this out https://t.co/7pUUcVUZQA— Hilts, CAPTAIN Hilts (@geokelley) September 23, 2018
re: #160 Belafon
The flip side is that you’re getting to watch Virginia turn blue. No, things won’t be the same. But sometimes different just means different. A lot of these racists are coming out of the woodwork because of Trump, but he did not create them, they were already there. It’s work, but the job of the rest of us is to let them know that they still aren’t welcome.
True true.
re: #46 HappyWarrior
TBH I thought the Republican Party had shown its low point. Nope they did it again. This is it.
There is no bottom; they can always go lower. Always.
re: #158 Single-handed sailor
Can you imagine how horrible Trump would sound trying to speak French?
re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg
Can you imagine how horrible Trump would sound trying to speak French?
Jay Squee, I speak the best French. I have a hotel in Paris but Paris stinks and they don’t respect us there.
re: #159 HappyWarrior
As I have stated previously, if they kill the preexisting condition protection, dude and I will not be able to buy our meds. We will die. It’s that simple. Our meds would cost several thousand dollars a month. It is a no bullshit death sentence for us
re: #165 HappyWarrior
What’s his end game here?
Guess which fifth vote would rule in favor of this but needs to be seated before arguments are heard? It’s the first case, according to someone in the replies.
re: #167 plansbandc
As I have stated previously, if they kill the preexisting condition protection, dude and I will not be able to buy our meds. We will die. It’s that simple. Our meds would cost several thousand dollars a month. It is a no bullshit death sentence for us
People like you are why I canvass.
re: #168 Belafon
Guess which fifth vote would rule in favor of this but needs to be seated before arguments are heard? It’s the fist case, according to someone in the replies.
Aha how could I be so dense?
If this ruling were to happen though and I were Mueller, I would just drop every case that NY would have jurisdiction over.
re: #149 Single-handed sailor
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re: #104 Jenner7
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re: #23 Charles Johnson
You have no obligation to keep anything online you don’t want to. As a relatively green lizard (ha) compared to many in the community here - I had no idea about the political leanings of LGF in the past, and I really don’t care. I found an intriguing community that:
- Is diverse and smart
- has respectful discourse
- follows twitter so I don’t have to
- thinks like I do - I don’t mean info-bubble, but actually thoughtful about shit
- shares awesome music I would never know about
I’m late to the thread as usual, but if you decide to purge the past or not, it won’t effect my opinion of you or LGF in the slightest.
re: #149 Single-handed sailor
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This is actually a big deal, and the US State Department may have people pushing it.
The Iranians can push out well north of 1.5 MMB/day, which would drop oil prices by $5 to $10 per barrel. Oil politics is a long game, and the Saudis, especially, want to hold back on their reserves. The WH has been barking at them to increase exports, and this may be an agreement that takes some pressure off them.
The hammer over their head has been not resupplying their weapons stocks that they are using in Yemen.
Oil politics is extremely complex, and I can’t say that we are directly involved, but if you want to fuck Putin’s ass, this is a fine start.
re: #174 Jason Munro
The first time I ever heard about LGF was on Matt Drudge’s long defunct radio show. True story.
re: #175 austin_blue
This is actually a big deal, and the US State Department may have people pushing it.
The Iranians can push out well north of 1.5 MMB/day, which would drop oil prices by $5 to $10 per barrel. Oil politics is a long game, and the Saudis, especially, want to hold back on their reserves. The WH has been barking at them to increase exports, and this may be an agreement that takes some pressure off them.
The hammer over their head has been not resupplying their weapons stocks that they are using in Yemen.
Oil politics is extremely complex, and I can’t say that we are directly involved, but if you want to fuck Putin’s ass, this is a fine start.
First off…eeewww
But if that’s the case why is Russia on board with the deal?
I don’t know how I first found my way here. But thank goodness for whatever it was!
re: #172 sagehen
Just like after the failure of the US to sign the TPP they moved ahead with the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership).
re: #176 teleskiguy
I honestly don’t recall exactly what it was that linked me here. Whatever it was, regardless of context, I’m happy to have found this place. I really think the LGF community is one of a kind.
re: #170 HappyWarrior
Aha how could I be so dense?
Density decreases with knowledge.
We are here to serve.
Does anyone else here have package rage? I am to the point where no matter how good the product is, if it’s a pain in the ass to open, I won’t buy it. Is this an olds thing, or do you young whippersnappers feel the same way?
re: #182 plansbandc
I have one word for you: SAWZALL
So fucking gross. Why can’t these assholes just own up to the immature shit they pulled when they were young. I mean, I never tried to rape anybody and I never got blackout drunk, mostly because my stomach never allowed for it, but I know for a fact I pulled some cringeworthy stunts that I have absolutely have had occasion to apologize for.
The most telling part of this is the bit where Kavanaugh’s lawyer claims that that he and Renate Schroeder shared a “brief kiss.” She denies that ever happened, which I believe. But even if he were telling the truth, including that detail is a way of claiming her all over again.
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) September 25, 2018
re: #182 plansbandc
Does anyone else here have package rage? I am to the point where no matter how good the product is, if it’s a pain in the ass to open, I won’t buy it. Is this an olds thing, or do you young whippersnappers feel the same way?
These fucking bubble-packs are a goddamn plague. I haven’t refused to buy anything yet because of them, but maybe I’m the type who’d rather complain.
You know what I would like: If I want, I should be able to take something out of the package at the store, and leave the packaging for them to deal with.
re: #177 danarchy
First off…eeewww
But if that’s the case why is Russia on board with the deal?
Iran is their ally in propping up Assad in Syria.
re: #187 Belafon
Delicious organic pasta sauce from Costco. 2 jars married with the most ridiculously impenetrable double plastic ring. Also, any fucking condiment that has a foil/plastic seal that takes twenty damn years to peal off so the goddamn lid can screw on it after it’s opened. I could go on.
Get off my lawn. “Yells at cloud”
re: #185 goddamnedfrank
I read the readout of the FOX “interview”. I had to skip some of the softballs because *barf* but I was struck by the repetition in his responses. Somebody got his talking points. Show me “65 women”, and “I just want to be heard” on the board!
re: #188 Belafon
You know what I would like: If I want, I should be able to take something out of the package at the store, and leave the packaging for them to deal with.
Ski shops and bike shops have been doing this forever.
re: #189 Big Beautiful Door
Iran is their ally in propping up Assad in Syria.
That, and Russia’s goal is Russia. A waker US on the world stage is seen as a good thing. They’ve been playing both sides on nearly everything. Look at their UN decisions since Trump, they’ve almost always been the opposite of Trump.
Australia continues to embrace Trumpism to its fullest:
I think also Russia can sell oil under this vehicle without causing problems with existing sanctions.
re: #104 Jenner7
It’s pretty damn hard to take care of two disabled parents, their home, meals, husband issues, and two kids to raise. I feel insane most of the time.
But, whaddya gonna do?
You keep doing what you hafta, and figure ‘insane’ is the base setting for now.
The thing we do for love, and worth it in the long run despite the current level of exhaustion. Major respect for what you are juggling, and cyber wishes for as much rest and respite as you can get, to help you keep up the slog.
(I should stop complaining, I only have one parent to take care of, one house ditto since she lives with me, a supportive husband who I don’t want to murder more than three times a week or so, and one kid mostly-grown. Well, two kids since son’s college student friend is living on our spare room for now. It’s still a zoo.)
Hang in there!
re: #165 HappyWarrior
What’s his end game here?
The only thing I can think of is making sure that trump or any of his criminal associates can’t be tried locally after being tied federally.
re: #194 electrotek
“If being a racist means using fabricated stereotypes to demean those different than me, then I’m a racist”
JFC
re: #177 danarchy
First off…eeewww
But if that’s the case why is Russia on board with the deal?
Because energy policy is very complex, and Russia is more concerned at the moment with natural gas delivery than with oil.
re: #191 Jason Munro
I read the readout of the FOX “interview”. I had to skip some of the softballs because *barf* but I was struck by the repetition in his responses. Somebody got his talking points. Show me “65 women”, and “I just want to be heard” on the board!
I mentioned this earlier:
He said “fair process” seventeen times in that interview (he repeats himself much as the yam does.) And after all, in high school he was “studying or focused on sports and being a good friend to the boys and the girls that I was friends with”—he tells that little tale four different times— and he said he’d never assaulted anyone five different ways, so you gotta believe him/
re: #42 NetworkKed
I’ve lurked around here for a long time, Charles, but… 2009? What makes that the cutoff? I would have guessed a year before that or more. Particularly I have the vague memory of you voting Obama in 2008, though I admit I didn’t go back to look it up before posting here.
There’s some value in keeping the transition period. It’s interesting to go back in the Balloon Juice archives and watch Cole’s conversion around the Schiavo mess, but OTOH I can imagine the sort of hostile linking you’re talking about.
Charles voted for McCain in 2008— but did regret it.
re: #200 BeachDem
MS. MacCALLUM: Sir, you are going to be pressed on something that you just said about people do things in high school, and you were all drinking, were there times when perhaps you drank so much — was there ever a time that you drank so much that you couldn’t remember what happened the night before?
JUDGE KAVANAUGH: No, that never happened.
MS. MacCALLUM: You never said to anyone, “I don’t remember anything about last night”?
JUDGE KAVANAUGH: No, that did not happen.
This exchange is especially believable! I love the setup “and you were all drinking”.
re: #202 Jason Munro
This exchange is especially believable! I love the setup “and you were all drinking”.
I think for this subject we need a Scully facepalm:
re: #203 goddamnedfrank
Barrels do wear out. That’s a good price for a new rifle.
re: #205 Single-handed sailor
Barrels do wear out. That’s a good price for a new rifle.
Edited: Forgot to mention it’s a Model 70.
I will need to go in and scope the bore. I’m thinking Christmas at the earliest and it’ll probably be gone by then. I’ve been wanting a dedicated ‘06 hunting rifle and this would be slightly cheaper than the spanky-fresh Sako 85 I’ve been eyeing. Also, classier.
re: #203 goddamnedfrank
Question for the gun nuts. Is this 1953 Winchester model 70 .30-‘06 worth $1395? The action was drilled and tapped at the factory. I’m not gonna buy it, at least as far as you know, but I’m curious.
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Not a gun nut, per se. But an old Model 70, in .30-06? If I were able to go hunting much, I’d be all over it.
re: #204 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I think it’s interesting he just burned his “I may not recall due to alcohol consumption” defense. Not that lying I guess matters anymore because WTF nothing does? He is basically going full Roy Moore righteousness. Not a good look.
I said last week he could not last until confirmation and I’m sticking with it. I was thinking he would not last the weekend. I was wrong but still hold out hope. The scripted FOX news “interview” seems like a desperate move.
So in a boys-only prep school, Brett Kavanaugh ran with a hard-drinking crowd of guys that tried to fuck anything that stayed still long enough, but never drank to excess, was a virgin, always respected the women he associated with, focused totally on academics, and kept track of everything on calendars for later reference. And not only did his buddies not give him hell for this, they respected it and decades later can not remember him ever being anything but an absolute gentleman to the dozens of girls he dated.
Well, we are talking about a crowd who believes 3 million “illegals” were shipped in to California to give Hillary the popular vote win.
re: #210 Targetpractice
Well, we are talking about a crowd who believes 3 million “illegals” were shipped in to California to give Hillary the popular vote win.
As I remember that night—and I’ve been trying my best to block it out—the popular vote flipped long before the polls closed in California, but facts mean nothing to these vermin, so….
re: #191 Jason Munro
I read the readout of the FOX “interview”. I had to skip some of the softballs because *barf* but I was struck by the repetition in his responses. Somebody got his talking points. Show me “65 women”, and “I just want to be heard” on the board!
Sounds quite like a folder full of women.
re: #194 electrotek
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re: #212 fern01
Sounds quite like a folder full of women.
Maybe he used binders, and carefully recorded which ones he had met or not met or had met but couldn’t remember meeting or had met and couldn’t remember face-dicking or … you get the idea.
re: #209 Jason Munro
I think it’s interesting he just burned his “I may not recall due to alcohol consumption” defense. Not that lying I guess matters anymore because WTF nothing does? He is basically going full Roy Moore righteousness. Not a good look.
I said last week he could not last until confirmation and I’m sticking with it. I was thinking he would not last the weekend. I was wrong but still hold out hope. The scripted FOX news “interview” seems like a desperate move.
He burned that card because of the narrative it spelled out. Remember, initially he tried to insist that he just couldn’t remember the incident. Then word got around that he had a history of getting black-out drunk, which would serve as an explanation of why he didn’t remember the assault and kidnapping. Which is when he suddenly went straight to total denial and has only ramped up from there. Then the new allegations drop yesterday and suddenly he was a virgin all through college.
Much like his testimony during the earlier hearings, he’s quick to offer a new excuse whenever an inconsistency pops up.
re: #206 goddamnedfrank
Edited: Forgot to mention it’s a Model 70.
I will need to go in and scope the bore. I’m thinking Christmas at the earliest and it’ll probably be gone by then. I’ve been wanting a dedicated ‘06 hunting rifle and this would be slightly cheaper than the spanky-fresh Sako 85 I’ve been eyeing. Also, classier.
I haven’t been in the market for well over a decade and a half. So I do not want to speak to price. I wonder if there are any estate sale places that might have leads. Particularly if you have some time. I agree that there are a lot of folks with a high respect for the pre-64 Model 70’s.
I agree with Single-Handed Sailor regarding checking the barrel, head-space, etc. Maybe even a test-fire round. And I would consider whether, on a 65 year old firearm of unknown provenance, to replace springs and extractor and firing pin.
And, as I have gotten older, my enthusiasm for 30—06, 300 WinMag, and 12 gauge slugs has diminished. Particularly in a lighter rifle. But that is probably me.
I’m waiting for the #QAnon people to claim “False Acquisitions” wasn’t a spelling error, but was some kind of signal to @realDonaldTrump followers.
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Have you seen David Futrelle’s collection of QNuts’ reactions to this morning’s insanity?
re: #216 ckkatz
I haven’t been in the market for well over a decade and a half. So I do not want to speak to price. I wonder if there are any estate sale places that might have leads. Particularly if you have some time. I agree that there are a lot of folks with a high respect for the pre-64 Model 70’s.
I agree with Single-Handed Sailor regarding checking the barrel, head-space, etc. Maybe even a test-fire round. And I would consider whether, on a 65 year old firearm of unknown provenance, to replace springs and extractor and firing pin.
And, as I have gotten older, my enthusiasm for 30—06, 300 WinMag, and 12 gauge slugs has diminished. Particularly in a lighter rifle. But that is probably me.
My reasons for preferring .30-‘06 are mostly due to not wanting to have to invest in a new caliber. Also, it’s adequate for anything I am ever going to shoot at the ranges my eyes can ethically track. .300 Win Mag and 12 gauge slugs are long range and short range overkill as far as I’m concerned. Honestly the odds of me pulling the trigger on a game animal ever again are pretty slim, just because I’m incredibly reticent to cause undue suffering and so anything over 200 yards with a scope just feels way too risky.
re: #219 goddamnedfrank
… just because I’m incredibly reticent to cause undue suffering and so anything over 200 yards with a scope just feels way too risky.
One of my uncles took me bow hunting with his friends in Oregon 22 years ago and let’s just say they weren’t nearly as skilled as they thought they were. I did get to see the string on a 70 lb compound bow come apart at full draw though. Shit flew every which way.
I could put my 70s era 30—06 in hock and I’d get $700.
Did “Dukes of Hazzard” do anything to keep it alive, or was its only sin whitewashing the #SouthernSwastika for a new generation?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) September 25, 2018
re: #216 ckkatz
I’m becomming a big fan of 6.5mm rifles, Creedmore, Remington 260. I just wish I could afford one with a good scope. I’d love to learn to shoot 1000 meters.
re: #219 goddamnedfrank
We have the same line of thought.
- No point in going to a new caliber, learning it’s ballistics and having to buy a new stock of ammunition. (I went with .308.)
- I also live in the East, first Western Pennsylvania and now Virginia. And, like you most of my shots were (well) under 200 yards/meters. The risk of missing or wounding was too high.
- The last time I went deer hunting was about a decade ago. The
Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge has a severe problem with deer overpopulation. They sponsor hunts to reduce the population.
The deer literally ate everything clean from ground to about 6ft up. Because there are a lot of nearby farmhouses, I could only use shotgun slugs or buckshot. I passed up several shots because I was not certain of the backstop and that time went home without a deer.
But I had a great day in the woods, saw fox kits playing, a flock of turkeys, about 5 deer, called in a sixth (a buck) to within about 50 meters. (But he came in from behind me and there were farmhouses that way.)
Another set of hunters in the same tract did get a deer that day. At dawn, in swampy ground, with a blackpowder rifle. Which impressed the heck out of me. But then the two of them spent the rest of day trying to haul it out of the woods. I left around 5pm and they still had not made it back to their truck.
Wow! I have not seen a bow disassemble. Yet. Hopefully none of your uncles and friends were injured by flying debris. That must have been quite a surprise.
Most of the bow kills I have heard about have been through blood loss rather than critical hits. I never bow hunted because, as you point out, it requires a lot of skill and skill maintenance. Locally, crossbows seem to be a big thing these days.
re: #224 ckkatz
Even heart shots with a bow kill by blood loss. There’s not enough kinetic energy in any arrow a human can shoot to kill like a bullet.
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re: #223 Single-handed sailor
I’m becomming a big fan of 6.5mm rifles, Creedmore, Remington 260. I just wish I could afford one with a good scope. I’d love to learn to shoot 1000 meters.
I have been hearing of more and more baby boomers going to 6mm/25cal. I suspect that the improving quality of the firearms and ammunition has made them more effective at deer size animals. Plus recoil is much more of an issue, at least for me, these days than it was 40 years ago.
I used to frequent a couple of hunting websites. A bunch of folks there would experiment with various new calibers. But the sites really went wingnut and into crazy politics in the early years of Bush. And then finally completely off the rails when Obama won. I lost interest in them.
I always wanted to try long distance shooting. There are a bunch of interesting technical problems that one has to identify and solve.
But I live in the east, and, truthfully, my eyesight is terrible. So instead I went into the field artillery. I got to shoot big ‘bullets’. At taxpayer expense.
re: #225 Blind Frog Belly White
Even heart shots with a bow kill by blood loss. There’s not enough kinetic energy in any arrow a human can shoot to kill like a bullet.
That was also my understanding.
Plus, most of the central nerve system is well armored by bone that arrows cannot penetrate. I just don’t want to say ‘always’ because someone would likely bring up a counter-example.
Bowhunting to reduce the deer population in local parks is a big thing right now in Fairfax County, Virginia. (DC Suburbs) And there are lots of stories about deer getting hit and running into somebodies back yard, then expiring.
There is also a big problem with deer overpopulation in Dulles Airport. (Interestingly, many of the deer there are piebald.) But there they bring in police sharpshooters.
re: #224 ckkatz
Wow! I have not seen a bow disassemble. Yet. Hopefully none of your uncles and friends were injured by flying debris. That must have been quite a surprise.
To this day I am amazed that nobody was hurt, because the bow itself was 100% destroyed. Just utterly knackered.
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— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 24, 2018
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— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) September 25, 2018
re: #229 goddamnedfrank
To this day I am amazed that nobody was hurt, because the bow itself was 100% destroyed. Just utterly knackered.
I had a friend, a retired Army Ranger, who went bow hunting for bear in the mountains of Central Virginia. (Rapidan Wildlife Management Area)
He actually shot a bear. And then he said, he realized, that there was now a possibly really angry bear. And all he had for defense was a pointy stick. (Another arrow.)
Fortunately for him the bear ran off. It did die fairly quickly. He did find it, not so quickly. And then he had to spend a long time dragging it out of the woods.
After that, he decided that bear hunting was not for him.
re: #227 ckkatz
Yeah, those goofball conservatives are big on 5.56 semi-auto. I’d be happy with a single shot bolt gun. If you can’t shoot get a big mag.
re: #231 ckkatz
He actually shot a bear. And then he said, he realized, that there was now a possibly really angry bear. And all he had for defense was a pointy stick. (Another arrow.)
Walsh: We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry, and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Buffy: Oh, it’s more effective than it sounds.
re: #225 Blind Frog Belly White
Even heart shots with a bow kill by blood loss. There’s not enough kinetic energy in any arrow a human can shoot to kill like a bullet.
One of my pet peeves about the show Arrow’s first season, when Oliver Queen was killing with impunity, was the “instant kill shots” of his arrows. I know the showrunners can’t show on network TV (and on a kid’s show) what really happens when someone is shot with an arrow, but it gives people the wrong idea about the effects. Same with gunshots, when someone (usually the hero/heroine) gets shot and all they need is some painkillers and bandages to get back up on their feet.
It don’t work like that.
re: #232 Single-handed sailor
Yeah, those goofball conservatives are big on 5.56 semi-auto. I’d be happy with a single shot bolt gun. If you can’t shoot get a big mag.
I guess that an ar has it’s place. But these days, my preference would be to avoid gunfights. My enthusiasm for hurting other people, never particularly high, has rapidly decreased as I have grown older. And my enthusiasm for getting hurt was never high. If I ever become aware of a gunfight, my plan is to be somewhere else.
On the cannot shoot part. A friend in the military noted that it is not possible to miss fast enough to win a fight.
But, you are correct, if you have to miss, a 155mm artillery shell at long range is better than a pistol shot at close range.
I used to know folks who were interested in the technical problems associated with firearms. Down to how barrel length and burn rate of specific powders affected ballistics. They had more patience and ‘sitzfleisch’ than I ever did. Several of them spent a lot of time working with replicas of the single shot rolling block Sharps 50-90’s. (Think the Adobe Walls standoff.)
re: #78 austin_blue
Put ‘em behind a Registered Lizard Wall, and screen for new Lizard sign-ups based on previous IP’s.
History is history, and what went on back then is a relevant reflection of your political evolution.
It’s your site of course, this is just a suggestion. But there’s a whole bunch of us old-time Lizards who deeply admire your metamorphosis into an science-loving, fascist-hating realist-based, thinking Blogmaster.
This could only become an issue if you are ever nominated for SCOTUS…
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— Ned Price (@nedprice) September 24, 2018
Obama secured binding resolutions both times he chaired the UN Security Council. It’s far from clear the Trump administration has done the same legwork ahead of Trump’s inaugural turn on Wednesday. He and his advisors still can’t agree on the topic. https://t.co/7LxkeUnB6D
— Ned Price (@nedprice) September 24, 2018
re: #233 sagehen
Walsh: We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry, and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Buffy: Oh, it’s more effective than it sounds.
I remember reading a biography of the group in San Francisco area that worked with Ishi after he gave up to white society.
The group was also interested in the long bow. They built some replicas and did some testing.
One of them had access to to a set of medieval chainmail. He offered to wear it and let them shoot at him. They talked him into putting the chainmail on a dummy instead. All were shocked when the arrow penetrated the chainmail completely.
Mitch McConnell in 2018: Democrats have a strategy of “delay, obstruct and resist.” McConnell in 2016: “One of my proudest moments was when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and said, ‘Mr. President, you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.” pic.twitter.com/cMSjsjIDXu
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) September 24, 2018
re: #115 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Hello, everyone! I’m just back from three weeks vacationing in Europe — did anything happen while I was gone?
Nothing happened in Europe, either..
re: #214 wheat-dogg
Maybe he used binders, and carefully recorded which ones he had met or not met or had met but couldn’t remember meeting or had met and couldn’t remember face-dicking or … you get the idea.
I knew I had that folder word wrong - too much has happened since Romney was collecting women - I forgot where he filed them all.
I think the interview was a very bad idea. He already had the fox news watchers - it did not make anyone else believe him - quite the opposite.
re: #128 makeitstop
Evangelicals have explicitly threatened to stay home for the midterms if Kavanaugh is not confirmed, which would make an election where the GOP’s prospects are pretty bad already even worse. Congress wants him it at all costs.
…They’re ride or die at this point, and Kavanaugh will get his up or down vote. But by the time that vote rolls around - and if Avenatti’s witness is as explosive as he’s hyping it to be, that Friday vote won’t happen - Kavanaugh may end up being so toxic that McConnell won’t be able to wrangle the votes.
And if they do end up bulling it through in the face of multiple accusers, they’re dead meat in the midterms. I have to wonder how loyal some senators will be once their job is on the line.
They lose votes if they confirm him, they lose votes if they don’t.which is why I suspect they will just go for the former option and get his ass in.
I’m looking at the Twitter for Colonel Morris Davis. some of his tweets have this “This media may contain sensitive material. Learn more.”
What could be so offensive?
Quoting Trump’s tweet typos from earlier this evening. “False Acquisitions”
LOL
re: #237 Single-handed sailor
It’s far from clear the Trump administration has done the same legwork ahead of Trump’s inaugural turn on Wednesday.
It’s quite clear they haven’t - playing around with words because “can’t upset trump” is the nonsense of this administration & those who report on it.
re: #239 Single-handed sailor
He did so much damage. There is a line between pure tribalism and political competition. McConnell stepped way over that line. He got his SCOTUS pick, but at what cost to the country. And he is still giggling over that.
We will be repairing the damage for a generation. Just like we spent the last decade trying to fix what Bush 43 did to our economy. And they just don’t care.
As StoneKettle points out, their view is “I got mine, f-u”.
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What I took away from Maddow and O’Donnell Monday evening was that Trump wants a fight. To force his supporters to stand by him and support him. And McConnell may force a public vote to embarrass any Republican Senators who might vote against Kavanaugh.
Whether that will be enough to keep the Republicans unified will be interesting to see. The fear is that as if lockstep discipline and unity breaks down, the party might collapse.
I do not expect that to happen until after the mid-terms. And, if the Democrats win, I expect that the lameduck session to be filled with the Republicans giving everybody the middle finger.
The level of delusion and nihilism exhibited by our Nazi-adjacent friend is hard to beat.
I’m calling it now.#ChristineBlaseyFord doesn’t actually exist. She’s a fabrication. Made up. That’s why she can’t testify. She isn’t real.#Kavanaugh #KavanaughConfirmation
— KiTA (@eldarmark) September 25, 2018
Well, I had better get to bed. Sweet Lizard dreams to all!
You get a roughing the passer
You get a roughing the passer
You get a roughing the passer
You get a roughing the passer #MondayNightFootball pic.twitter.com/HZ1h1EOLw1— Abs (@AbigailRamage) September 25, 2018
re: #222 Chrysicat
Rmember that the oil crisis led the federal government to reduce the speed limit to 55 mph and CB’s became a vital tool in allowing truckers to violate the law, which gave them the cachet of rebels and outlaws, something that always appealed to southerners especially.
re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rmember that the oil crisis led the federal government to reduce the speed limit to 55 mph and CB’s became a vital tool in allowing truckers to violate the law, which gave them the cachet of rebels and outlaws, something that always appealed to southerners especially.
Rather fitting y’all are having this conversation after Burt Reynolds’ passing. Smokey and the Bandit was all about CBs and evading those smokies and local yokels.
And let us not forget that Sam Peckinpah classic, Convoy.
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or “2,000 Maniacs”
Heh, a splatter-film classic.
re: #254 Dr Lizardo
Heh, a splatter-film classic.
beyond that, a play on what they wanted to do with all those meddlesome Northerners interfering with their unique institutions
moron…
Despite requests, I have no plans to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Maybe someday in the future. I am sure he is an absolutely lovely man!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2018
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
First Rouhani says he has no plans to meet Trump, in a Sunday interview with Lester Holt.
Then Trump tweets he has no plans to meet with Rouhani.
Sound familiar?
re: #260 wheat-dogg
First Rouhani says he has no plans to meet Trump, in a Sunday interview with Lester Holt.
Then Trump tweets he has no plans to meet with Rouhani.
Sound familiar?
I had already dumped her before she dumped me…
re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I had already dumped her before she dumped me…
Exactly. Trump has done this before with the sportsball teams that stood him up.
re: #247 ckkatz
What I took away from Maddow and O’Donnell Monday evening was that Trump wants a fight. To force his supporters to stand by him and support him. And McConnell may force a public vote to embarrass any Republican Senators who might vote against Kavanaugh.
Whether that will be enough to keep the Republicans unified will be interesting to see. The fear is that as if lockstep discipline and unity breaks down, the party might collapse.
I do not expect that to happen until after the mid-terms. And, if the Democrats win, I expect that the lameduck session to be filled with the Republicans giving everybody the middle finger.
McConnell will only have a vote on Kavanaugh if either 1) he has at least 50 votes or 2) Trump absolutely refuses to withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination and having a losing vote is the only way to move forward. He doesn’t want his Senators to have to make bad votes just before the mid-terms when the Democrats have a real chance of winning control of the Senate.
re: #263 Big Beautiful Door
McConnell will only have a vote on Kavanaugh if either 1) he has at least 50 votes or 2) Trump absolutely refuses to withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination and having a losing vote is the only way to move forward. He doesn’t want his Senators to have to make bad votes just before the mid-terms when the Democrats have a real chance of winning control of the Senate.
If they back down on Kavanaugh, the GOP loses face and loses votes among its base.
If they approve him, they lose votes from the rest of the electorate.
I assume they will just damn the torpedoes and vote him in
re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they back down on Kavanaugh, the GOP loses face and loses votes among its base.
If they approve him, they lose votes from the rest of the electorate.
I assume they will just damn the torpedoes and vote him in
Most will, yes. The question is whether there are at least two GOP senators who can be pressured into voting no. Perhaps if a critical number of credible witnesses come forward against Kavanaugh, Collins, Murkowski and/or Flake may flip. There are three women now; each one who comes forward, along with other details about Kavanaugh’s hedonistic lifestyle coming to light, increases the pressure on those three.
re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they back down on Kavanaugh, the GOP loses face and loses votes among its base.
If they approve him, they lose votes from the rest of the electorate.
I assume they will just damn the torpedoes and vote him in
I am expecting Augh will be confirmed, because he’s a middle-aged Christian white Republican man, barring some Hail Mary or deus ex machina between now and that Senate vote. He’s stubborn, Trump is stubborn, and the GOP leadership is stubborn, because abortion and executive privilege. To hell with reasonable doubt, optics or potential voter backlash. Once he is seated as a justice, mission is accomplished.
re: #265 Big Beautiful Door
Most will, yes. The question is whether there are at least two GOP senators who can be pressured into voting no. Perhaps if a critical number of credible witnesses come forward against Kavanaugh, Collins, Murkowski and/or Flake may flip. There are three women now; each one who comes forward, along with other details about Kavanaugh’s hedonistic lifestyle coming to light, increases the pressure on those three.
As bad as Augh’s youthful behavior was, the main problem is his lack of honesty and transparency about his past and his finances. SCOTUS justices are supposed to be squeaky clean, and Augh is definitely not. People need to be press the GOP on why *he* is the best choice, and not some other judge. Why is *he* so fucking special? His vita is not so unusual that some other equally qualified candidate could be seated, even from the conservative side.
We here know the answers, but it would be nice to get the GOP to ‘fess up to the truth.
re: #266 wheat-dogg
I am expecting Augh will be confirmed, because he’s a middle-aged Christian white Republican man, barring some Hail Mary or deus ex machina between now and that Senate vote. He’s stubborn, Trump is stubborn, and the GOP leadership is stubborn, because abortion and executive privilege. To hell with reasonable doubt, optics or potential voter backlash. Once he is seated as a justice, mission is accomplished.
Yes,I think their reckoning is that they can always recover those House/Senate seats, but Kavanaugh would clinch their control of SCOTUS for decades.
re: #267 wheat-dogg
As bad as Augh’s youthful behavior was, the main problem is his lack of honesty and transparency about his past and his finances. SCOTUS justices are supposed to be squeaky clean, and Augh is definitely not. People need to be press the GOP on why *he* is the best choice, and not some other judge. Why is *he* so fucking special? His vita is not so unusual that some other equally qualified candidate could be seated, even from the conservative side.
We here know the answers, but it would be nice to get the GOP to ‘fess up to the truth.
The reasons not to confirm him are independent of his record of purported sexual transgressions. To the point that they are almost a red herring, spinning the whole discussion into a he-said-she-said debate and distracting from his horrendous judicial record.
re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes,I think their reckoning is that they can always recover those House/Senate seats, but Kavanaugh would clinch their control of SCOTUS for decades.
Unless he’s impeached and removed from the bench.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The reason the sexual misconduct allegations are important are threefold. First, it indicates someone who has no respect for women. Second, the fact that he’s hiding so much of it rather than own up to it indicates how much he’s willing to change facts to suit his own agenda. Third, we seem to be just scratching the surface between this and the other stuff. How far will he go to keep the rest hidden? How easy will it be to blackmail him?
We have a winner.
What do you think of her/him, Mucksters? pic.twitter.com/TMTBH4tO1J
— Muckmaker™ (@RealMuckmaker) September 24, 2018
Grace in action……
Thx Cindy….. Another N. Central guy sending love.
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) September 25, 2018
The Central Texas oaks are masting…. I’m besieged by the foul acorn.
re: #267 wheat-dogg
As bad as Augh’s youthful behavior was, the main problem is his lack of honesty and transparency about his past and his finances. SCOTUS justices are supposed to be squeaky clean, and Augh is definitely not. People need to be press the GOP on why *he* is the best choice, and not some other judge. Why is *he* so fucking special? His vita is not so unusual that some other equally qualified candidate could be seated, even from the conservative side.
We here know the answers, but it would be nice to get the GOP to ‘fess up to the truth.
They will never admit that Trump wants Kavanaugh on the Court to protect him.
re: #275 Big Beautiful Door
They will never admit that Trump wants Kavanaugh on the Court to protect him.
We are becoming a First World banana republic.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The reasons not to confirm him are independent of his record of purported sexual transgressions. To the point that they are almost a red herring, spinning the whole discussion into a he-said-she-said debate and distracting from his horrendous judicial record.
But his horrendous judicial record is precisely why all the GOP Senators want to vote for him. The only reason they might not is if the sex scandal creates too much public pressure for Collins, Murkowski and Flake to bear.
re: #270 Dr Lizardo
Unless he’s impeached and removed from the bench.
The Democrats will never get 67 votes in the Senate to impeach him; if he is confirmed, he will serve on the Court for the rest of his life.
re: #203 goddamnedfrank
Question for the gun nuts. Is this 1953 Winchester model 70 .30-‘06 worth $1395? The action was drilled and tapped at the factory. I’m not gonna buy it, at least as far as you know, but I’m curious.
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I’d not pay that much. $700 ~ $800 would be my max. But people get stupid about pre-64 Winchesters…
re: #274 Dave In Austin
The Central Texas oaks are masting…. I’m besieged by the foul acorn.
Turn the hogs out.
Oh, and good morning!
‘Morning, Lizards,
Today, our Trixie goes back to the vet to get the stitches removed from her eye, finally. She’s been wearing the Cone of Shame for nearly two weeks and absolutely hates it, so I’m happy that will finally be coming off - but probably not as happy about it as she is.
re: #248 Nyet
The level of delusion and nihilism exhibited by our Nazi-adjacent friend is hard to beat.
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Wow. Yeah that may be the most delusionally stupid take one could have.
re: #257 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“despite requests”
from whom?
“Many requests. From all of them.”
//
re: #278 Big Beautiful Door
The Democrats will never get 67 votes in the Senate to impeach him; if he is confirmed, he will serve on the Court for the rest of his life.
Not now, of course; I’m talking about the future.
re: #248 Nyet
The level of delusion and nihilism exhibited by our Nazi-adjacent friend is hard to beat.
But she is test—oh never mind.
re: #284 Dr Lizardo
Not now, of course; I’m talking about the future.
They will never have 67 votes in the future either. There are too many rural, mostly white states.
re: #287 Big Beautiful Door
They will never have 67 votes in the future either. There are too many rural, mostly white states.
when is the last time any party had 67 seats in the Senate?
re: #289 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
when is the last time any party had 67 seats in the Senate?
After LBJ best Goldwater. But that was with many Southern Conservative Dems. I think it’s confirmation or bust. Even if you had video of Augh doing this shit, they wouldn’t impeach him.
Greets and saluts from the soggy NYC metro area. Kavanaugh continues to be exposed as a liar whose sole purpose and intent is to get on the Supreme Court to roll back decades of social progress. The GOP is aiding and abetting that effort since they share the common goal.
Meanwhile, Avenatti thinks this is all about him.
It isn’t.
He’s a good salesman. He might be a good lawyer, but he’s not the one ending Kavanaugh’s nomination. Let’s be absolutely clear who’d be responsible for that:
Dr. Ford exposing Kavanaugh as a sex predator.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 25, 2018
He’s not the one ending this, if it does in fact end Kavanaugh’s nomination. That would be Dr. Ford. She’s the one who first came forward and put herself out there to take the hits and smear jobs by a craven GOP. Others have since come forward based on strength in numbers.
What we do know is that Kavanaugh was a drunken lout, who also is an accused sex predator. These often go hand in hand. Functional drunk is still a drunk.
So yeah, he doesn’t deserve a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court - and his lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary should be in question given that lack of character and judgment that has since come to the attention of the Senate (not that they care one iota about these things, unless it’s a Democrat involved).
re: #290 HappyWarrior
After LBJ best Goldwater. But that was with many Southern Conservative Dems. I think it’s confirmation or bust. Even if you had video of Augh doing this shit, they wouldn’t impeach him.
This has been a long-term GOP strategy: first stonewalling Merrick Garland then arranging for Kennedy to retire.
We are fucked for decades.
re: #287 Big Beautiful Door
They will never have 67 votes in the future either. There are too many rural, mostly white states.
The last time the Senate was held by a single party with more than 67 seats was 1967. No party has had more than 60 seats since 1979.
It’s confirmation or bust. Though all of Augh’s decisions especially involving women are going to be heavily analyzed I imagine. Whole thing just makes me sick.
Posted without comment (but just a bit of pride):
The moderator makes a “you’re making Canada great again” joke. Trudeau says “Canada’s always been great.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 25, 2018
I’m now in episode three of Iron Fist’s second season. I am hooked. It’s sooo much better than the first season.
Oh, hai.
While I wasn’t paying attention, my karma crossed 80,000. That 100K level seems within my reach now.
re: #297 wheat-dogg
Oh, hai.
While I wasn’t paying attention, my karma crossed 80,000. That 100K level seems within my reach now.
Yah, I’ve crossed 85k. Life is good. Despite, you know, everything else.
re: #297 wheat-dogg
Oh, hai.
While I wasn’t paying attention, my karma crossed 80,000. That 100K level seems within my reach now.
I live for these little random milestones in life
“Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appearance on Fox News on Monday night, submitting to a tough round of questions from the anchor Martha MacCallum about allegations of sexual misconduct, was the first time in memory that a Supreme Court nominee submitted to a televised interview before the confirmation vote.”
what the fuck is “in memory”?
it was the first time
ever
never happened before
NO ONE ever did it
what is wrong with you people?
re: #300 dangerman
what the fuck is “in memory”?
it was the first time
ever
never happened before
NO ONE ever did itwhat is wrong with you people?
Yeah. What the what.
re: #300 dangerman
what the fuck is “in memory”?
it was the first time
ever
never happened before
NO ONE ever did itwhat is wrong with you people?
You don’t remember when Kagan did it? THEY GOT TO YOU, TOO?!!
My response to any #Trumpublican today. Just a picture. pic.twitter.com/SeYVrTPkXu
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) September 25, 2018
re: #302 Belafon
You don’t remember when Kagan did it? THEY GOT TO YOU, TOO?!!
The closest we ever had to this were the Anita Hill hearings.
re: #281 makeitstop
‘Morning, Lizards,
Today, our Trixie goes back to the vet to get the stitches removed from her eye, finally. She’s been wearing the Cone of Shame for nearly two weeks and absolutely hates it, so I’m happy that will finally be coming off - but probably not as happy about it as she is.
We call it the cone of humiliation unless they did something specifically shameful to deserve it
re: #300 dangerman
what the fuck is “in memory”?
it was the first time
ever
never happened before
NO ONE ever did itwhat is wrong with you people?
“Maybe someone else did but we don’t remember it and don’t want to bother checking to be 100% sure.”
Challenge……
I’ve changed all my Social Media Avi’s to #MerrickGarland until this is over.
Please #Retweet pic.twitter.com/Yp4Zg0rsPH— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) September 25, 2018
re: #292 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This has been a long-term GOP strategy: first stonewalling Merrick Garland then arranging for Kennedy to retire.
We are fucked for decades.
The next time the Democrats are in power, I hope in 2021, they need to add two seats to the Court to make up for the GOP stealing Garland’s seat and a criminal being allowed to appoint his own justice. The GOP has chucked all the rules, and the Democrats can’t play nice anymore while preserving Democracy.
This is the time of morning I start wondering what todays shitshow will look like.
re: #203 goddamnedfrank
Question for the gun nuts. Is this 1953 Winchester model 70 .30-‘06 worth $1395? The action was drilled and tapped at the factory. I’m not gonna buy it, at least as far as you know, but I’m curious.
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Seems steep, but I have not been in the rifle market for years. Nice, clean looking rifle. Looks like the one I carried way back when I was still deer hunting. It was grandpa’s rifle but it was semi left to me. Dad still has it I would bet (I haven’t deer hunted in 30+ years). I do remember that it was a heavier rifle, after carrying it all day you knew it.
re: #300 dangerman
what the fuck is “in memory”?
it was the first time
ever
never happened before
NO ONE ever did itwhat is wrong with you people?
Can’t be bothered to check their facts.
A quick reminder that Bill Cosby’s proclivities go back more than 50 yrs, the mid 60’s…. And he’s walking around in cuffs.
re: #300 dangerman
what the fuck is “in memory”?
it was the first time
ever
never happened before
NO ONE ever did itwhat is wrong with you people?
Lazy fucking journalists who don’t want to take the time to fact check that it never occurred before.
And didn’t identify that the person doing the interview was a flack who covered for Fox News sex harassment and abuse by various Fox honchos, including Bill Shine, who now works for Trump (harassing provides golden parachutes with updraft to get into the WH).
Here is my vision of a Democratic agenda in 2021 if they gain control of Congress and the WH:
1) deep six the filibuster so the GOP minority can’t engage in obstruction.
2) universal healthcare, whether through Medicare-for-all or big expansion of Medicaid in the existing ACA structure, or whatever gets the job done.
3) real immigration reform with expanded numbers so the economy can grow rather than stagnate.
4) Ambitious infrastructure plan to create zero emission energy grid and transportation system, and a cap and trade system so there is a market for negative carbon technology to get the US to zero emissions and below as quickly as feasible.
5) Increase in the minimum wage and institute automatic cost-of-living adjustments and pass Warren’s plan to give labor and communities a voice on corporate boards.
6) Election reform to end gerrymandering (my idea: proportional representation) and institute universal voter registration.
7) Expand the House to 1,000 seats and grant statehood to Puerto Rico, D.C. and the Pacific Islands to reduce the risk that a minority of angry old racists gain control of the government again.
8) Add two seats to SCOTUS so the reactionary five can’t roll back progressive reform from the bench.
Oh, and also drug law reform, prison reform, universal day care and paid parental leave. A guy can dream, right?
re: #300 dangerman
As for that “tough round of questions” - the NYTimes dreams. They will see tough questions on Thursday when the dem Senators are asking them.
re: #315 Big Beautiful Door
Here is my vision of a Democratic agenda in 2021 if they gain control of Congress and the WH:
1) deep six the filibuster so the GOP minority can’t engage in obstruction.
2) universal healthcare, whether through Medicare-for-all or big expansion of Medicaid in the existing ACA structure, or whatever gets the job done.
3) real immigration reform with expanded numbers so the economy can grow rather than stagnate.
4) Ambitious infrastructure plan to create zero emission energy grid and transportation system, and a cap and trade system so there is a market for negative carbon technology to get the US to zero emissions and below as quickly as feasible.
5) Increase in the minimum wage and institute automatic cost-of-living adjustments and pass Warren’s plan to give labor and communities a voice on corporate boards.
6) Election reform to end gerrymandering (my idea: proportional representation) and institute universal voter registration.
7) Expand the House to 1,000 seats and grant statehood to Puerto Rico, D.C. and the Pacific Islands to reduce the risk that a minority of angry old racists gain control of the government again.
8) Add two seats to SCOTUS so the reactionary five can’t roll back progressive reform from the bench.
Oh, and also drug law reform, prison reform, universal day care and paid parental leave. A guy can dream, right?
Now, pick two.
re: #315 Big Beautiful Door
Oh, and one more thing, you’re going to need a salesperson as president to get a lot of this stuff through, alsmost a showman. Any ideas?
re: #305 dangerman
We call it the cone of humiliation unless they did something specifically shameful to deserve it
…and we’re back.
Stitches came out, the eye is nearly fully healed. The dentist checked her mouth, fully healed and cleared to eat crunchy food if she wants.
The cone has to stay on for another two to three days in case the eye gets itchy. Trixie now thinks I’m a big lying liar, because I told her the cone could come off today. I got a few plaintive meows in the truck on the way home, now she’s not speaking to me at all.
Bad human.
re: #316 fern01
As for that “tough round of questions” - the NYTimes dreams. They will see tough questions on Thursday when the dem Senators are asking them.
No, those questions will be ‘harsh,’ ‘obtrusive’ and ‘personal.’ //
Snowflake Kavanaugh will face the most horrible questions in the history of horrible questions, and we will all be told to feel horrible.
He asked for this. If he’s going to be seated on the Supreme Court, those questions had better be as uncomfortable for him as they can be.
re: #319 makeitstop
No good hooman..making sure furbaby is totally speccatular
Laughter in the UNGA hall as President Trump said his administration has accomplished more than any other administration. “I didn’t expect that reaction,” Trump remarked off-the-cuff
— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) September 25, 2018
Trump’s the butt of his own idiocy. Making claims that don’t stack up to reality and the rest of the world called him on it.
Of course he didn’t expect that reaction. He thought he’d get cheers? He’s clueless and dangerously incompetent. https://t.co/gSgamNkRw5— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 25, 2018
re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nothing happened in Europe, either..
I was hearing on NPR this morning that the far right party in Germany is continuing to gain ground very fast, and that the upcoming election in Bavaria could be a real problem for Merkel. Scared me, since I am old enough to remember the times just after WW II.
re: #321 Broad With Sass
No good hooman..making sure furbaby is totally speccatular
Thanks. The human guilt is strong today. She wants to be able to walk around without banging into things, and I want that, too. That little cat’s been through a lot in the last month or so.
re: #319 makeitstop
The good news is, there are only about 6 waking hours until the cone comes off!
re: #317 Belafon
Now, pick two.
Expanding the House. It used to grow every decade or two, but when we capped it at 435 the population of the country was 120 million. Less than 1/3 what it is now.
Setting the Supreme Court at one seat per appellate district.
re: #323 retired cynic
I was hearing on NPR this morning that the far right party in Germany is continuing to gain ground very fast, and that the upcoming election in Bavaria could be a real problem for Merkel. Scared me, since I am old enough to remember the times just after WW II.
The rise of nationalism scares me. It did not end well last time and it won’t this time.
We need a President who isn’t a laughing stock to the entire World. We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Respect!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2014
Papadopoulos is not the shiniest knife in the drawer…
Twitter! pic.twitter.com/BX2pSjC9oi
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) September 25, 2018
re: #328 jaunte
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I’m sure that Trump will react maturely and productively to the representatives of other countries openly laughing at him at the UN.
— SupersedingHat (@Popehat) September 25, 2018
re: #329 makeitstop
Papadopoulos is not the shiniest knife in the drawer…
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Shit Hayden criticized Obama a lot. He’s not some liberal. Papa-D is a fucking dumbshit.
re: #320 makeitstop
No, those questions will be ‘harsh,’ ‘obtrusive’ and ‘personal.’ //
Snowflake Kavanaugh will face the most horrible questions in the history of horrible questions, and we will all be told to feel horrible.
He asked for this. If he’s going to be seated on the Supreme Court, those questions had better be as uncomfortable for him as they can be.
gee something like what a victim in a, you know, rape case, goes through
Trump: “As far as America is concerned the [International Criminal Court] has no jurisdiction, no legitimacy, and no authority…we will never surrender America’s sovereignty” pic.twitter.com/H8eOicehIB
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) September 25, 2018
Something an authoritarian who kidnapped thousands of migrant children from their parents and then threw them in cages would definitely think. https://t.co/F19fj1xuRA
— Gabe #DreamActNow Ortíz (@TUSK81) September 25, 2018
re: #326 sagehen
Expanding the House. It used to grow every decade or two, but when when we capped it at 435 the population of the country was 120 million. Less than 1/3 what it is now.
Setting the Supreme Court at one seat per appellate district.
And those could be very good selling points. Throw in the fact that gerrymandering will be much toughter with more House Reps.
re: #335 jaunte
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So Donald who should try that Assad guy you just discovered was a terrible guy? You sir are you clearly afraid of facign the consequences for your own criminal actions.
re: #326 sagehen
Expanding the House. It used to grow every decade or two, but when when we capped it at 435 the population of the country was 120 million. Less than 1/3 what it is now.
Setting the Supreme Court at one seat per appellate district.
If you want to talk about judiciary reform, we can discuss:
1) adding several new circuits to address population growth since last reorganization.
California and Texas get own circuits. 9th gets split 3 ways; WA, AK, HI becomes one, CA, 2d, and balance becomes 3d. TX splits out of its circuit to form its own.
This means new judges at the federal appellate level too.
2) Expanding the Supreme Court to deal with the GOP ratfuckery in denying Garland a seat. GOP will caterwaul about how Democrats are trying to pack the courts, but this is the GOP’s own doing as they literally denied Democrats ability to seat justices on the federal bench so they could maximize right wingers getting added to the bench instead.
3) Special Counsel law is reaffirmed and with special protections preventing a president from firing them. Additional felony crimes added for attacking special counsel investigation, including via any forum or occasion (the Trump rule).
As for expanding Congress, I think we should look at adjusting the size so that House seats are proportional so that a resident has equivalent electors nationwide.
Wyoming has 1 elector per 189,000 people living there. California has one elector for every 678,000 people. That includes both Senators and Reps. Solution would be to triple the representatives in Congress for California and equalize the per capita electors so that they roughly fall to 1 per 200,000. This would effectively grow the House by several hundred positions, and could be done in the next decennial.
At same time, I’d suggest Puerto Rico, Guam, US VI, and Marshalls each get statehood.
re: #335 jaunte
No, but I might surrender a leader or two.
And here is Germany literally laughing at Trump after he says the country could become totally dependent on Russian energy pic.twitter.com/1NLa99tGLN
— Marcus Gilmer (@marcusgilmer) September 25, 2018
One of the German contingent is *shaking his head in disbelief* as he laughs at Trump’s assertion. Incredible.
— Marcus Gilmer (@marcusgilmer) September 25, 2018
re: #338 lawhawk
I would require the Supreme Court to randomly assign a justice to each district every year so we don’t start a tradition of picking the justice only from that district.
When Trump threatens that Germany needs to “change course” or be totally dependent on Russia for energy, what is he talking about? Or rather, what does he think he’s talking about?
I keep on thinking about what I call the human factor of economics that people seem to miss when understandably celebrating advances in technology that do lead to automation. Apparently there’s some protests in D.C by the bus drivers over the transition to driverless buses and while I feel that’s a change we could embrace especially if it proves to be efficient, it’s also one we never think about the human cost. I’m not merely talking about the bus drivers that will lose their jobs but also the very simple interactions. Now these are for commercial buses but my uncle whom in retirement has become a school bus driver mainly for sporting events takes a lot of joy of becoming friendly to the high school kids and their families he drives. Hell, he’s even met some of my youngest brothers’ friends and their families without them realizing that. It’s true economies do transition but we need to understand economics is a social science. It impacts people. And I think we miss that sometimes as we celebrate technological advances. Sorry, I know this has nothing to do with Kavanaugh but it was something I’ve been thinking about for awhile. What sort of sparked it though was a cousin talking about her job as a nurse and what a nurse can do. Sure, eventually we might have the tech that replaces many functions of a nurse but there are other things that a nurse can do that no machine can.
re: #340 jaunte
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He’s been saying everyone’s laughing at us for years and then he gets himself laughed at. Yeah Baby Trumpy isn’t going to take that well.
re: #329 makeitstop
Papadopoulos is not the shiniest knife in the drawer…
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Dunning-Kruger Ouroboros is the name of my new ska band.
— Iseult Sidhe (@IseultSidhe1) September 25, 2018
re: #342 Belafon
I would require the Supreme Court to randomly assign a justice to each district every year so we don’t start a tradition of picking the justice only from that district.
There’s no way to legally do it but I wish there was some way we could get more judges on SCOTUS who don’t come from the Ivy League set. To Obama’s credit, he started giving us judges of different cultural backgrounds but there’s plenty of quality judges and legal professionals who aren’t Ivies. For someone who promised to drain the swamp, Trump is very much old boys club in his appointments.
re: #340 jaunte
None of this is incredible.
Trump lives in his own delusional house of cards. He thinks all this is true because he says it. Reality is that everyone’s laughing at Trump’s easily disproven lies.
They laugh at Trump’s vainglorious egotistical boasting that he’s done more than anyone else (he hasn’t).
They laugh when he makes easily disproven assertions.
They’re laughing at the US - all while crying/cringing at what has become of US world leadership because Russia’s pulling Trump’s strings and everyone else is feeling the sting as Russia continues manipulating events to benefit them and no one else.
China too is filling the vacuum of leadership, and that also gets people worried.
Oh, and I saw that the other day Trump claimed that he got a huge trade deal done with South Korea. Did anyone actually read to see what this huge deal actually includes?
Is it bigger than the TPP, which Trump refused to join? Because had the US stuck with TPP, we’d be in a far better place to counter Chinese trade tactics.
re: #343 jaunte
When Trump threatens that Germany needs to “change course” or be totally dependent on Russia for energy, what is he talking about? Or rather, what does he think he’s talking about?
He is talking about the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia.
re: #328 jaunte
But Tomi Lahren said yesterday that DJT has earned great Respect for Amercia around the world.
And I have to believe her over my own lying eyes.
/
re: #338 lawhawk
If you want to talk about judiciary reform, we can discuss:
1) adding several new circuits to address population growth since last reorganization.
California and Texas get own circuits. 9th gets split 3 ways; WA, AK, HI becomes one, CA, 2d, and balance becomes 3d. TX splits out of its circuit to form its own.
This means new judges at the federal appellate level too.
2) Expanding the Supreme Court to deal with the GOP ratfuckery in denying Garland a seat. GOP will caterwaul about how Democrats are trying to pack the courts, but this is the GOP’s own doing as they literally denied Democrats ability to seat justices on the federal bench so they could maximize right wingers getting added to the bench instead.
3) Special Counsel law is reaffirmed and with special protections preventing a president from firing them. Additional felony crimes added for attacking special counsel investigation, including via any forum or occasion (the Trump rule).
As for expanding Congress, I think we should look at adjusting the size so that House seats are proportional so that a resident has equivalent electors nationwide.
Wyoming has 1 elector per 189,000 people living there. California has one elector for every 678,000 people. That includes both Senators and Reps. Solution would be to triple the representatives in Congress for California and equalize the per capita electors so that they roughly fall to 1 per 200,000. This would effectively grow the House by several hundred positions, and could be done in the next decennial.
At same time, I’d suggest Puerto Rico, Guam, US VI, and Marshalls each get statehood.
Pretty much what I laid out above!
re: #350 Sir John Barron
But Tomi Lahren said yesterday that DJT has earned great Respect for Amercia around the world.
And I have to believe her over my own lying eyes.
/
Tomi has never left her FNC safe space. I know anecdotal evidence isn’t the best evidence but I literally had someone in Europe tell me something to the effect that it’s hard not to want to laugh at all this. And I totally get that. We as Americans have had this hubris for years that we were divinely chosen rather than a product of happenstance and yes choosing quality leaders.
Murkowski Calls For FBI Investigation of Kavanaugh Claims https://t.co/BBma0mruJu pic.twitter.com/d2AlpExIjG
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 25, 2018
Boom…. swish. https://t.co/F8aPPtUik1
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 25, 2018
re: #342 Belafon
I would require the Supreme Court to randomly assign a justice to each district every year so we don’t start a tradition of picking the justice only from that district.
In the early days, it was considered ordinary to have a Southern seat, a New York seat, a frontier seat, etc. Back in the days when political polarization was a lot more about geography than party.
By the mid-20th century, it was “the Jewish seat”, “the Black seat”, “the Catholic seat”, etc.
re: #353 lawhawk
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This is an encouraging development, but it doesn’t yet mean she’ll vote not to confirm if they block an investigation.
re: #346 sagehen
Only funny for a moment. It’s dire that people like this don’t know how to think something through, to the point they don’t even know how to recognize that they don’t have basic information they’d need to begin to form an informed opinion. Sort of a Dunning-Kruger ouroboros.
assumes they care that they are made to look stupid with facts (by the libs, etc)
they made their statement
that’s all that matters
and sadly, it’s all that a lot of people will remember
re: #348 lawhawk
Oh, and I saw that the other day Trump claimed that he got a huge trade deal done with South Korea. Did anyone actually read to see what this huge deal actually includes?
Is it bigger than the TPP, which Trump refused to join? Because had the US stuck with TPP, we’d be in a far better place to counter Chinese trade tactics.
It’s the old trade deal, with a few minor edits. But apparently it’s unpopular in South Korea, because Everything Trump Touches Dies.
re: #353 lawhawk
I hope that a LOT of people are calling Murkowski to thank her for making that statement. I hope she sticks to it.
see what china did?
But it is unprecedented for a country to campaign in Iowa. No longer. China is now active in Iowa politics. On Sunday, China Daily, the Chinese government’s official newspaper, bought a four-page section in the Des Moines Register and ran articles on why Donald Trump’s tariffs have resulted in China turning to South America instead of Iowa for its soybeans
targeted
focused
brilliant
re: #345 HappyWarrior
He’s been saying everyone’s laughing at us for years and then he gets himself laughed at. Yeah Baby Trumpy isn’t going to take that well.
I disagree: Trump is probably more likely to use the negative UN reaction to his bullshit as “proof” that he - HE ALONE - is “standing up for America” and “hanging tough” and putting those weenie globalist foreigners “in their place”. Of course, he’ll be spouting this BS line at one of his Nuremburg campaign rallies to wild cheering from the MAGA crown (paid or volunteer), but the basic principle is still the same: Trump and his enablers eagerly embrace the scorn of foreigners: it assures the unthinking jingoistic base that “he must be doing something right”.
re: #357 sagehen
It’s the old trade deal, with a few minor edits. But apparently it’s unpopular in South Korea, because Everything Trump Touches Dies.
apparently the big change was raising limit of cars that don’t meet Korean safety standards that U.S. companies could sell there. Koreans dont buy a lot of american cars so its meaningless
Today Bill Cosby will find out whether he’s going to prison for sexual assault.https://t.co/io3rrZgoyi
— PBS’ To The Contrary (@ToTheContrary) September 25, 2018
Reminder: Cosby is finally getting the treatment he deserved for decades of abusing and harassing women. A lengthy prison term is the likely outcome.
Trump, Kavanaugh, Weinstein, and other privileged white guys have avoided this fate for far too long. https://t.co/OTVlrzX9yg— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 25, 2018
re: #360 Jay C
I disagree: Trump is probably more likely to use the negative UN reaction to his bullshit as “proof” that he - HE ALONE - is “standing up for America” and “hanging tough” and putting those weenie globalist foreigners “in their place”. Of course, he’ll be spouting this BS line at one of his Nuremburg campaign rallies to wild cheering from the MAGA crown (paid or volunteer), but the basic principle is still the same: Trump and his enablers eagerly embrace the scorn of foreigners: it assures the unthinking jingoistic base that “he must be doing something right”.
Yeah, it’s heads he wins, tails we lose.
The ICC was about to go into the Heartland and start arresting Americans willy-nilly like they did under Obama but MAGA president stopped them! /
re: #362 lawhawk
Trump, Kavanaugh, Weinstein, and other privileged white guys have avoided this fate for far too long.
more and more these days framing and word choice matters
for me, they have not avoided anything
they have evaded
AND they think and behave as if not getting caught is the same as ‘i didnt do it’
re: #362 lawhawk
A lengthy prison sentence, but Cosby doesn’t have a lot of years left in him.
re: #338 lawhawk
At same time, I’d suggest Puerto Rico, Guam, US VI, and Marshalls each get statehood.
US Virgin Islands is too small for a state (100,000 people). They can share the state of Caribbea with Puerto Rico.
Guam, Marianas and Samoa would be the combined state of Pacifica. Because Oceania is already in use as the name for a bunch of islands that aren’t all ours.
re: #349 danarchy
re: #343 jaunte
When Trump threatens that Germany needs to “change course” or be totally dependent on Russia for energy, what is he talking about? Or rather, what does he think he’s talking about?
He is talking about the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia.
ISTR reading somewhere recently that Germany had achieved its goal for 2018 by getting X% (40%? 45%?) of its energy production from renewable sources: and that their goals for the future are even higher: is that enough of a “course change”?
Oh, and I also STR that German anxieties about being dependent on Russia for their natural gas supplies date back many years (to the first time the Russians threatened them - in the winter - with a cutback over some political issue or other. Hence their diligent (and apparently somewhat successful) search for alternative energy sources.
So IOW, it’s Trump being stuck in the past, again - and not knowing what he’s talking about?
No wonder they laugh at him….
re: #363 Sir John Barron
Yeah, it’s heads he wins, tails we lose.
The ICC was about to go into the Heartland and start arresting Americans willy-nilly like they did under Obama but MAGA president stopped them! /
Not /… there are people who probably should not go to Europe or Latin America, like Kirstjen Nielsen, who heads up family separation as DHS secretary.
The way I look at is this and I grant you this is an extreme comparison since I’m about to talk genocide and murder but it’s no different from how Nazi war criminals or murderers from the Civil Rights era evaded(props to DM, that word fits here) capture or notice for years. It still fucking happened. Their victims were still impacted. But I keep on going back to that the point I saw made about how if it’s brought to the attention when the sexual assaulter is a young man, there’s concerned about HIS future. If it happened in the past, then there’s well it’s in the past, why not let it go? All the while, no one cared about the vic’s present. Professor Ford’s friends have shared that she has multiple exits from her room. This is something she still lives with 35 years later. In that same time, Kavanaugh has gone to Yale where he acted equally gross to women, to the Starr team where he was known to want every last vivid sexual detail, to the Bush campaign team and then to the Bush WH, then to the District Court, and now he has the ultimate reward for his career in the balance. He hasn’t faced any kind of accountability until now. Indeed, much of his professional life has been filled with flattery and pleasing others in his own attempts to get where he is now. He has no guilt about how he’s treated people. I don’t know if you could bring him to trial at this point but at the very least, he doesn’t deserve a lifelong appointment to SCOTUS where he will judge the fates of others.
re: #365 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
A lengthy prison sentence, but Cosby doesn’t have a lot of years left in him.
I give him 5 years tops.
Via Balloon Juice.
@mkegop You can delete, but you can’t hide. pic.twitter.com/24Qp5tE0Ml
— Miss T (@TaMarasKitchen) September 25, 2018
re: #371 stpaulbear
Via Balloon Juice.
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They really think this is all one big fucking joke but yet they were acting like Bill Clinton’s consensual affair with Monica was the downfall of us all. I’ll take Hypocritical Pricks for 1000, Alex.
Ooooh, that’s going to cause some heads to asplode:
Didn’t Jesus believe women?
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) September 25, 2018
LOL at ‘Sarah Huckabee Sandwich.’ Molly cracks me up.
JUST IN: Trump opens UN speech saying, “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country” to which then entire UN general assembly LAUGHS OUT LOUD at the president of the United States.
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) September 25, 2018
Look out for Sarah Huckabee sandwich’s “they were laughing with him” hot take. https://t.co/ukWHLjKIaR
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 25, 2018
re: #365 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
A lengthy prison sentence, but Cosby doesn’t have a lot of years left in him.
I don’t care, do U?
re: #374 makeitstop
LOL at ‘Sarah Huckabee Sandwich.’ Molly cracks me up.
Wait till he tells ‘em how many electric colleges he won.
re: #371 stpaulbear
Via Balloon Juice.
For the visually challenged - no can see twitter pictures at work - what’s in the picture?
Schumer: McConnell owes an apology to Dr. Ford for calling her allegations against Kavanaugh “a smear job.” pic.twitter.com/Q3katsuDuX
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) September 25, 2018
re: #374 makeitstop
LOL at ‘Sarah Huckabee Sandwich.’ Molly cracks me up.
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He always makes these absurd claims. Kind of like how he claimed last night that Kavanaugh would be one of the greatest members of SCOTUS ever. I mean damn I get that he’s standing by him but it’s always one extreme or the other with him.
Ok, Murkowski, back up your call for an investigation with a pledge to vote against confirmation unless/until such FBI investigation is finished.
re: #378 jaunte
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McConnell deserves a good kick in his little McConnell for the shit he’s done over the years. After Trump, there’s no one more responsible for our country’s shape.
re: #377 Belafon
For the visually challenged - no can see twitter pictures at work - what’s in the picture?
A reiteration of the ‘Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Abraham Lincoln grabbed her ass’ alleged joke.
re: #378 jaunte
Who is he addressing as “Madam President”?
re: #384 Interesting Times
President pro tempore of the Senate; I’m not sure who was there.
re: #377 Belafon
For the visually challenged - no can see twitter pictures at work - what’s in the picture?
It’s a picture of RBJ with the heading “Abraham Lincoln grabbed my ass in 1862”.
re: #386 stpaulbear
It’s a picture of RBJ with the heading “Abraham Lincoln grabbed my ass in 1862”.
Courtesy of the Milwaukee County GOP.
VERBATIM: Trump calls Iran a ‘corrupt dictatorship’ at U.N. https://t.co/l7PHx404kR pic.twitter.com/tgdizPJRiz
— Reuters TV (@ReutersTV) September 25, 2018
It’s as though he didn’t remember what he said hours earlier: https://t.co/GBw6mZOosd
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 25, 2018
re: #371 stpaulbear
Via Balloon Juice.
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speaking of RBG… there’s an article in the new Vanity Fair about the biopic coming out next month (her nephew wrote the script; she’s participating in the media promotion) — the way she got with her husband is super-cute.
She and her then-boyfriend were part of the same friend-group with him, hung out together a lot. And one day during a game of charades, she thought to herself “He is not so clever. Marty is the man I should marry.” Then she did.
.@SenatorDurbin: “‘Plow through this nomination.’ That’s what the Republican Majority Leader said over the weekend” … “It doesn’t sound to me like a recipe for fairness, and it certainly doesn’t sound like a recipe for getting to the truth.” #BelieveSurvivors pic.twitter.com/AaayUcJ3JT
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) September 25, 2018
re: #380 Mike Lamb
Ok, Murkowski, back up your call for an investigation with a pledge to vote against confirmation unless/until such FBI investigation is finished.
I wonder what BK is going to come up with if he makes it to the Full Senate for confirmation?
Will his opening statement include “This process has been nothing short of a high-tech WICK-ing*!”
* = White Irish Catholic Kavanaugh-ing
re: #388 lawhawk
I wonder what DJT’s idea of ‘corrupt’ is? They don’t like him?
So Brett Kavanaugh just had to out himself as a virgin in high school, on national TV. This shouldn’t be happening. I hope liberals are happy with themselves.
— Kelsey Harkness (@kelseyjharkness) September 24, 2018
Conservatives: the only sex-ed policy needed in schools is abstinence, shame on immoral Democrats for encouraging kids to have sex
Also conservatives: a man remaining a virgin at high school is embarrassing, shame on Democrats for humiliating a decent man like this https://t.co/BbmiPmkwAE— Danielle Blake (@abradacabla) September 25, 2018
re: #394 jaunte
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Kelsey if you actually believe he was a virgin, you’re even more gullible than Trump believing Putin didn’t interfere. And besides I thought virginity was nothing to be ashamed of if you’re pure. Or maybe Augh is just a fucking liar who made up the virgin story to try to deflect. But nah that can’t be it, Judge Dickface would never lie!
re: #394 jaunte
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He had to “out” himself? No. He said he was a virgin in a completely bullshit attempt to conflate his purported lack of sexual activity with an argument that he couldn’t be a sexual predator. The idea that if the first was true (unlikely given everything we know about this group of friends), then the assault couldn’t have happened makes no sense whatsoever.
re: #395 HappyWarrior
Conservatives are very mixed up about sex.
Is this a joke? Liberals had nothing to do with nominating Kavanaugh, or the confessed sex-offender who nominated him. This is all on the radicalized-right.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 25, 2018
Legal drinking age in Maryland changed to 21 when Brett Kavanaugh was 17 years old: pic.twitter.com/0MDUGrZ9CX
— Alice Crites (@alice_crites) September 25, 2018
Next Aughbrett is going to have to out himself as a high school teetotaler.
re: #400 jaunte
If you started drinking before you turned 18, then you were included in the exception too.
re: #400 jaunte
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Next Aughbrett is going to have to out himself as a high school teetotaler.
Not sure what this proves, he said he had 18 year old friends who brought the beer and they were grandfathered in when the age was raised.
I was going to try to put together a list of all of the falsehoods, implausible claims, and questionable conduct by Kavanaugh solely as an ADULT.
But it’s hard to keep up.
And I’m worried the thread would be so long it would break Twitter.
Hell with it. Let’s break Twitter. 1/— Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) September 25, 2018
Murkowski Calls For FBI Investigation of Kavanaugh Claims https://t.co/BBma0mruJu pic.twitter.com/d2AlpExIjG
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 25, 2018
BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 24, 2018
Coulter has begun to write her autobiography. https://t.co/hmJko3OAXT
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 25, 2018
Per Politico: Ted Cruz was spotted on his phone on a flight back from DC looking at a photo of Beto O’Rourke.
via @playbookplus pic.twitter.com/Gx4NeBWUaB— andrew kaczynski🧐 (@KFILE) September 25, 2018
We cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom dick president.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 25, 2018
Catch this NYT exchange between Gail Collins and Brett Stephens (a climate change denier) about Cruz:
Bret: I share your enthusiasm for the Texas Senate race, for a couple of small reasons and one very big one. Small reasons: I like Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic challenger, and I like the idea that Texas can turn a bit purple if you have a candidate with energy, wit and a human touch.
The big reason is that I despise Ted Cruz. That is “D-e-s-p-i-s-e,” in case I haven’t spelled out my loathing clearly enough. Would you like to know why?
Gail: Oh, gosh, please go on.
Bret: Because he’s like a serpent covered in Vaseline. Because he treats the American people like two-bit suckers in 10-gallon hats. Because he sucks up to the guy who insulted his wife — by retweet, no less. Because of his phony piety and even phonier principles. Because I see him as the spiritual love child of the 1980s televangelist Jimmy Swaggart and Jack Nicholson’s character in “The Shining.” Because his ethics are purely situational. Because he makes Donald Trump look like a human being by comparison. Because “New York values.” Because his fellow politicians detest him, and that’s just among Republicans. Because he never got over being the smartest kid in eighth grade. Because he’s conniving enough to try to put one over you, but not perceptive enough to realize that you see right through him. Because he’s the type of man who would sell his family into slavery if that’s what it took to get elected. And that he would use said slavery as a sob story to get himself re-elected.
Otherwise, you might say I’m his No. 1 fan.
Gail: Well, O.K. Not much I can add on that end.
h/t dailykos.com
Not right that Senator Cruz and his wife Heidi were surrounded and forced to leave a restaurant last night because of protesters. The Cruz family should be treated with respect.
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) September 25, 2018
re: #410 Belafon
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I get why Beto is expected to say that, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Respect is earned, not given. These assholes should ne shamed back to the Stone Age.
re: #410 Belafon
This is why I’m not in politics. He’s more of a gentleman than I ever will be.
re: #410 Belafon
Beto O’Rourke
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@BetoORourke
US Senate candidate, TX
Not right that Senator Cruz and his wife Heidi were surrounded and forced to leave a restaurant last night because of protesters. The Cruz family should be treated with respect.
As long as children are being held in detention camps, I’d say protest them everywhere.
Outraged Republicans: “Innocent until proven guilty!” Unless you’re Hillary Clinton & should be “locked up.”
“Meritless smearing of a good man!” Unless you’re Barack Obama & must prove birthplace.
“Not normal process!” Unless you’re Merrick Garland & then just forget process.— Bridget Joy (@bridget_joy_) September 24, 2018
French Pres Macron delivers a UN speech against unilateralism, saying it leads to isolation and conflict. Saying protectionism won’t work.
— Michelle Kosinski (@MichLKosinski) September 25, 2018
Macron: We are not stronger by closing our borders.
— Michelle Kosinski (@MichLKosinski) September 25, 2018
French Pres Macron trolls Trump throughout his UN speech— Now blasting the rise of nationalism— “brandishing ‘sovereignty’ as a way of attacking others!”
— Michelle Kosinski (@MichLKosinski) September 25, 2018
Now Macron urges the world to STOP making trade agreements with countries that don’t support the Paris Climate Deal….which is… the US.
— Michelle Kosinski (@MichLKosinski) September 25, 2018
Damn, this cartoon is way too disturbingly accurate:
I block throughout the day instantly and go to all the likes and block them also. Then, last night I go to my truetwit account and there was 36 more Bots I had to block. pic.twitter.com/6U927znOxO
— Stormy Sessions 🌊 (@Loveon999) September 25, 2018
Robert Bork was a bad person and if you think he should have been confirmed to the Supreme Court you are also a bad person.https://t.co/jSeJPYTAFt
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 25, 2018
Some interesting points here about Bork’s “Originalism.”
re: #410 Belafon
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Bleh. I hate the fact he has to say this. GOPers would never, ever in a million years do the same for Dems (or anyone else they perceive as an “enemy.”)
re: #419 jaunte
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Some interesting points here about Bork’s “Originalism.”
He also got a hearing, something Garland never got. Fuck Bork and those attempting to make him a legal giant.
re: #420 Interesting Times
Bleh. I hate the fact he has to say this. GOPers would never, ever in a million years do the same for Dems (or anyone else they perceive as an “enemy.”)
Because they’d be the ones encouraging it.
re: #419 jaunte
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Some interesting points here about Bork’s “Originalism.”
Leave King Tut Alone!
Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.
— Steve Kantrowitz (@skantrow) September 25, 2018
re: #379 HappyWarrior
He always makes these absurd claims. Kind of like how he claimed last night that Kavanaugh would be one of the greatest members of SCOTUS ever. I mean damn I get that he’s standing by him but it’s always one extreme or the other with him.
Used car salesman tactics. Or con artist…take your pick.
Even getting to the highest office in our country doesn’t take the low down business man scammer out of Trump.
As @realDonaldTrump was thanking Kim Jong Un for his courage at the UN, his nominee to lead US forces on the peninsula described him (at his confirmation hearing) as a dictatorial leader who uses purges and executions as a central tool 4 staying in power. #NorthKorea
— Missy Ryan (@missy_ryan) September 25, 2018
re: #424 makeitstop
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Kavanaugh is now pretending to be a victim, to DARVO his victim Dr. Ford. But the victim I feel most sympathy for is Renate. Until now, she — and the country — were totally unaware of the contempt that the Georgetown boys felt for her and how they, in essence, humiliated her in 1983. Now she knows — and now she is being humiliated throughout the country. I cannot imagine how she must feel for her friends and family of today to discover her high school reputation.
Kavanaugh is an evil man.
re: #424 makeitstop
Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.
they are digging for patient zero, though patient zero doesn’t always know they are
(in both contexts)
re: #428 Hecuba’s daughter
Kavanaugh is now pretending to be a victim, to DARVO his victim Dr. Ford. But the victim I feel most sympathy for is Renate. Until now, she — and the country — were totally unaware of the contempt that the Georgetown boys felt for her and how they, in essence, humiliated her in 1983. Now she knows — and now she is being humiliated throughout the country. I cannot imagine how she must feel for her friends and family of today to discover her high school reputation.
Kavanaugh is an evil man.
He really is. He doesn’t deserve scotus just like he didn’t deserve his current job.
re: #419 jaunte
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Some interesting points here about Bork’s “Originalism.”
I now have my ‘phrase of the day’ from that article:
performative moral certainty
re: #426 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Missy Ryan
@missy_ryan
As @realDonaldTrump was thanking Kim Jong Un for his courage at the UN, his nominee to lead US forces on the peninsula described him (at his confirmation hearing) as a dictatorial leader who uses purges and executions as a central tool 4 staying in power. #NorthKorea
No contradiction here: Trump would love to assume the mantle of dictator; he certainly intends to purge anyone in the administration or executive branch who disagrees with him and he probably admires the Kim’s power to execute any dissenter. A power he would like to acquire.
re: #432 Hecuba’s daughter
That’s what the plan is.
re: #57 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
The real goal is remove the Johnson Amendment from the US tax Code.
re: #410 Belafon
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I’m sorry sir, but Mr. & Mrs. Cruz were treated with more respect than they deserved. Frankly, pine tar and a feather pillow would have been appropriate.
this week pic.twitter.com/NlVZUNmar4
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 25, 2018
re: #436 William Lewis
I’m sorry sir, but Mr. & Mrs. Cruz were treated with more respect than they deserved. Frankly, pine tar and a feather pillow would have been appropriate.
I do appreciate that he’s trying to take the higher ground but at the same time, this is a guy literally trying to use McCarthy tactics on him.
Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke says the “Cruz family should be treated with respect” after protesters confronted Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife at a Washington restaurant. https://t.co/SsIRLDnw7T
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) September 25, 2018
you see the shade he’s throwing here, right? https://t.co/fQXTfjbGlx
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 25, 2018
re: #419 jaunte
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Some interesting points here about Bork’s “Originalism.”
I have to admit that I have a major crush on Ian Millhiser. I especially love him because he has gone full Fuck This Shit.
re: #46 HappyWarrior
TBH I thought the Republican Party had shown its low point. Nope they did it again. This is it.
Don’t say that. They’ll take it as a “hold my beer” challenge.
re: #436 William Lewis
I’m sorry sir, but Mr. & Mrs. Cruz were treated with more respect than they deserved. Frankly, pine tar and a feather pillow would have been appropriate.
Rafael deserves all the mockery and contempt from the public; but I don’t think Mrs. Cruz deserves the same treatment. Yes, she has stayed with him so far — but often people place the well-being of their children above their own and it’s possible she believes an intact family is best for their children.
re: #436 William Lewis
I’m sorry sir, but Mr. & Mrs. Cruz were treated with more respect than they deserved. Frankly, pine tar and a feather pillow would have been appropriate.
He was very specific: The Cruz family should be treated with respect. I believe that leaves out Senator Cruz.
Dammit, jaunte, you type and paste too fast.
zeddy @Zeddary
you see the shade he’s throwing here, right?
re: #443 wrenchwench
He was very specific: The Cruz family should be treated with respect. I believe that leaves out Senator Cruz.
Dammit, jaunte, you type and paste too fast.
Ah. Thanks.
I’m tired of hearing what a great guy Brett Kavanaugh is from people who aren’t great people themselves. And goddamn I’m tired of hearing the whining about Bork. It wasn’t just Democrats that thought Bork was too extreme for SCOTUS. And oyu know what, he fucking was, he a was a right activist disguising himself as a scholar. As that article got at, he was very selective. Pretty damn funny if you ask me that the two most controversial SCOTUS nominees of our era were both Republican partisans but the right has the nerve to act like they want the courts to be “impartial.”
re: #443 wrenchwench
He was very specific: The Cruz family should be treated with respect. I believe that leaves out Senator Cruz.
Dammit, jaunte, you type and paste too fast.
Ahhh I didn’t catch that. Clever.
The Cruz family, including Cruz senior, should be defended from scurrilous accusations that they were involved in JKF’s death. Or suggestions that Heidi Cruz is physically unattractive.
Sen. Bob Corker says GOP senators were told at lunch to expect to be in DC this weekend to process Kavanaugh nomination quickly.
— Alex Bolton (@alexanderbolton) September 25, 2018
there you go. rush it through without any normal process and before anything else comes out. https://t.co/2a2SKKpfIr
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 25, 2018
re: #449 jaunte
So much shade, such an economy of words.
I want to Be Beto.
I guess I should say; I want to be Beta.
Let’s not go into Bet@ nor Betx. Pretty soon we’d be in Brexit.
re: #448 jaunte
The Cruz family, including Cruz senior, should be defended from scurrilous accusations that they were involved in JKF’s death. Or suggestions that Heidi Cruz is physically unattractive.
I can’t stand Rafael Cruz but I defend him whenever the JFK thing is brought up. It says a lot about Ted that he stands by with the man who accused his father of such a thing. Some of the political attacks Trump made, yeah you understand, it’s just politics but murdering a beloved President? JFC. And yeah the very nasty attacks on his wife which Cruz made some on Melania too.
re: #450 Patricia Kayden
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In other words, fuck the truth, let’s get Blackout Brett on the bench! These guys are such craven assholes.
Kavanagh appears to be one of the hills the GOP has chosen to die on.
If Kavanaugh is telling the truth about being a virgin (or is it a born again virgin?) during his school years, he would never admit it to his friends in high school or college. That would subject him to merciless mockery. So he would certainly lie to his classmates about his experience.
Of course, given he has been a perjurer in his adult life, his comments during the interview, when he wasn’t under oath, shouldn’t be taken seriously.
How difficult is it to say: “Look, I drank a lot in high school and college. I did a lot of stuff I’m not proud of, some of which I might not even remember. I’m genuinely sorry to anyone I hurt. I’m a different man today.”
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 25, 2018
You’d have to be a different man today to say this.
Kavanaugh had a choice: he could have chosen to either make amends to people he hurt or continue with his life like their emotional trauma didn’t exist.
While people are capable of changing, it’s clear Kavanaugh has not. https://t.co/RYVXTzXh77— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) September 25, 2018
re: #454 Eclectic Cyborg
Kavanagh appears to be one of the hills the GOP has chosen to die on.
Joe Scarborough was hinting this morning that there may not be a blue wave. I assume that Trump and other Republicans are operating under that belief.
When @BarackObama spoke on the world stage he was respected, admired and trusted. When @realDonaldTrump speaks on the world stage he is laughed at, ridiculed and not believed. In 2 years, America has gone from being the most respected nation in the world to a laughingstock. #UNGA
— Ryan Knight 🌊 (@ProudResister) September 25, 2018
re: #457 Patricia Kayden
Joe Scarborough was hinting this morning that there may not be a blue wave. I assume that Trump and other Republicans are operating under that belief.
If there isn’t a blue wave, this country is royally screwed. Gerrymandering certainly could prevent a blue wave, and let’s not forget our Russian friends who may already have inserted code to tamper with election results.
I mean I’ll be the first to admit here especially in college. I did drink stupidly. I blacked out. I said and did shit that I don’t remember at times or if I did remember it, it was something I was embarrassed by. I’m trying to make my 30’s a better way of living than my 20’s by drinking less, exercising more, and taking better care of my mind and being mindful of other people.
re: #454 Eclectic Cyborg
Kavanagh appears to be one of the hills the GOP has chosen to die on.
That’s how important their funders see the Supreme Court as being. Roe is the one they talk about. I suspect that the potential loss of Citizens United is the one that keeps them awake.
re: #462 wrenchwench
That’s how important their funders see the Supreme Court as being. Roe is the one they talk about. I suspect that the potential loss of Citizens United is the one that keeps them awake.
That’s the one that Mitch really fears. He doesn’t care about Roe except as a cynical tool to rile up the RR.
Remember when so many of us were enamored with Ken Bone, the undecided idiot who couldn’t tell shit from shine-ola?
Explains a lot about where we are now. pic.twitter.com/UmkgTbQ1Og— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 25, 2018
Say Roe does get overturned. That’s one big thing that keeps the RR with the Republican Party gone.
re: #462 wrenchwench
That’s how important their funders see the Supreme Court as being. Roe is the one they talk about. I suspect that the potential loss of Citizens United is the one that keeps them awake.
You are right — many of the funders don’t care about Roe at all; it’s the decisions supporting corporations and denying voting rights to minorities that they are eager to retain.
re: #456 jaunte
How difficult is it to say: “Look, I drank a lot in high school and college. I did a lot of stuff I’m not proud of, some of which I might not even remember. I’m genuinely sorry to anyone I hurt. I’m a different man today.”
Come to think of it, that’s almost exactly what GWB said during his campaign (he admitted the drinking had gone on to about age 30)… and it didn’t stop him from becoming president.
re: #464 goddamnedfrank
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2/ That said, if Michael Avenatti’s allegations are true - #Kavanaugh shouldn’t just be removed as a Supreme Court nominee. He should step down as a judge.
— Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) September 25, 2018
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 5, 2018
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He’s a show man. I believe him and his clients but I wish he’d be more professional. It makes it seem like it’s all about him which he’s proving it is by saying he’s going to run for President.
re: #426 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
dictatorial leader who uses purges and executions as a central tool 4 staying in power.
Yeah but he didn’t say those things as if they were bad things.
These people are sub human
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), who is running for Senate against Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), told Valley News Live suggested that the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are not disqualifying “even if it’s all true.”
Said Cramer: “Even if it’s all true, does it disqualify him? It certainly means that he did something really bad 36 years ago, but does it disqualify him from the Supreme Court?”
re: #474 dangerman
These people are sub human
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), who is running for Senate against Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), told Valley News Live suggested that the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are not disqualifying “even if it’s all true.”
Said Cramer: “Even if it’s all true, does it disqualify him? It certainly means that he did something really bad 36 years ago, but does it disqualify him from the Supreme Court?”
You Mr. Cramer belong to a party who doesn’t even think people who do theri time in prison should be able to vote but think it’s perfectly fine to put such a man on the bench. Heidi Heidencamp thanks you though. You’re making her re-election a lot easier by being a complete dinosaur who shouldn’t be anywhere enar women. I pity your wife and any women in your life.
re: #474 dangerman
These people are sub human
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), who is running for Senate against Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), told Valley News Live suggested that the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are not disqualifying “even if it’s all true.”
Said Cramer: “Even if it’s all true, does it disqualify him? It certainly means that he did something really bad 36 years ago, but does it disqualify him from the Supreme Court?”
“Look, is he a conservative now, a True Blue American Patriot Conservative? Then all’s good.”
— Kyle Rains (@mr_lakewood) September 25, 2018
re: #59 freetoken
Just for giggles, here is one of my posts from 2009:
i’m always impressed when someone calling for genocide uses the correct form of “who/whom.” And it was an easy one to have bobbled there.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Rachel Maddow seemed a bit uncomfortable with Avenatti.
Yeah, it was pretty forced. I don’t like Avenatti at all. Yes, he’s smart. Yes, he’s brought a lot of useful information to the public view. On the other hand, he’s an opportunist and a sensationalist. His manipulative approach to the release of information, to me, screams reality TV. He’s clearly building a brand. The idea that he’s floating his name for the presidency just turns my stomach. He’s a younger, smarter, attractive Trump - just as smarmy but better at getting away with it.
I wonder if Rachel actually wanted to interview him or if she was pushed into it. She doesn’t traffic in those kinds of interviews and she didn’t seem to relish it.
re: #113 HappyWarrior
I personally don’t believe anyone should be denied service unless they’re causing a disruption but I really have no sympathy for a hack like Cruz who does the shit he does and thinks he should be just ignored by the public.
Ostracism is an age-old, valuable method of dealing with asses.
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
