Facebook’s global expansion has been linked to political turmoil overseas, so maybe their ads should focus less on how they “connect the world” and more on why connecting people isn’t always the best idea.
I want nothing more tomorrow than Brett Kavanaugh to reveal to the world what an ugly human being he is so that even the GOP will have no choice but to reject his nomination or at the very least, I want him to be a symbol of just how craven the Republican Party really is that they will attack you for having a DUI that you owned i.e. Beto O’Rourke but will excuse you if you have several sexual assault allegations like Kavanaugh. Oh and fuck the Federalist Society too and their cult of Originism. Fuck Ken Starr and his fake moral indignation at Clinton while having Kavanaugh on his staff and his later shit at Baylor University. But most of all fuck Brett Kavanaugh.
re: #1 KGxvi
“That’s not fair to toilets… toilets remove shit…”
They also need to be scrubbed, often, but Facebook doesn’t even do that. The shit spooge seems to remain forever.
I’d love to see a poll of women and trans trial attorneys on Kav thrown into the hearings as a factoid to ponder. 80/20 against?
re: #4 Unshaken Defiance
I’d love to see a poll of women and trans trial attorneys on Kav thrown into the hearings as a factoid to ponder. 80/20 against?
I’d love to see him questioned by someone like your Senator Harris who is around his age and would have definitely be seen by him at that age or probably this age as nothing more than a sex object. Expose him for the ugly little man he is.
Background checks done by the FBI don’t go that far back on a person’s life unless there’s an explicit criminal record. It’s why Hastert stayed speaker for so long.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) September 27, 2018
All the replies are variants on “They go all the way back to elementary school.” No, they don’t. And, even if they do, who would they have talked to that would have owned up to what Kavanaugh did.
re: #2 HappyWarrior
I want nothing more tomorrow than Brett Kavanaugh to reveal to the world what an ugly human being he is so that even the GOP will have no choice but to reject his nomination or at the very least, I want him to be a symbol of just how craven the Republican Party really is that they will attack you for having a DUI that you owned i.e. Beto O’Rourke but will excuse you if you have several sexual assault allegations like Kavanaugh. Oh and fuck the Federalist Society too and their cult of Originism. Fuck Ken Starr and his fake moral indignation at Clinton while having Kavanaugh on his staff and his later shit at Baylor University. But most of all fuck Brett Kavanaugh.
I’ve no idea what’s going to happen. And honestly, I’m not even sure at this point what the best or even least worst outcome would be. I guess we can hope for another Bork/Kennedy situation, but like I said earlier, the antichoice folks know that that this is the closest they’ve ever been and likely ever will be again to getting a majority that would overturn Roe.
Fuck, that is depressing
re: #6 Belafon
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All the replies are variants on “They go all the way back to elementary school.” No, they don’t. And, even if they do, who would they have talked to that would have owned up to what Kavanaugh did.
I suspect they have different background checks for different positions. A judge or even Supreme Court Justice is likely going to get different review than say, the director or national intelligence
re: #7 KGxvi
I’ve no idea what’s going to happen. And honestly, I’m not even sure at this point what the best or even least worst outcome would be. I guess we can hope for another Bork/Kennedy situation, but like I said earlier, the antichoice folks know that that this is the closest they’ve ever been and likely ever will be again to getting a majority that would overturn Roe.
Fuck, that is depressing
It’s incredibly depressing. And it’s angering too to see such a scumbag treated as this great guy. I admit it. Did not like the guy going in but did not think he was this bad. In hindsight, the behavior with Fred Guttenebrg was a huge red flag.
What really amazes and disgusts me about conservatives like Kavanaugh (or John Yoo or Gingrich or any of them) isn’t that they have a different idea of policy or the Constitution or any of it. It’s that they so clearly don’t believe in anything — except political power, of course. Total and total when they’re in power and zero when the other party is in office.
It’s just so transparently ugly. I don’t understand why Americans put up with it.
You know, the judiciary is another way that the right has projected yet again. They love to rail against activist judges while having groups like the Federalist Society and I swear every Republican high judicial pick in my life has been positively compared to Antonin Scalia at some point. There is much more greater diversity of philosophy among SCOTUS’s left leaners than there is on the right leaners.
re: #2 HappyWarrior
I want nothing more tomorrow than Brett Kavanaugh to reveal to the world what an ugly human being he is so that even the GOP will have no choice but to reject his nomination or at the very least, I want him to be a symbol of just how craven the Republican Party really is that they will attack you for having a DUI that you owned i.e. Beto O’Rourke but will excuse you if you have several sexual assault allegations like Kavanaugh. Oh and fuck the Federalist Society too and their cult of Originism. Fuck Ken Starr and his fake moral indignation at Clinton while having Kavanaugh on his staff and his later shit at Baylor University. But most of all fuck Brett Kavanaugh.
I don’t think he’s testifying tomorrow. I think he’s done. I think he needs to slink back to the DC Circuit and hope his lifetime appointment isn’t torpedoed.
A man’s got to know his limitations, and Brett’s sell-by date expired today.
It’s one thing to deny that “Yeah, I was drunk and hopped her bones hoping she’d fuck me”.
If he had said, “Yeah, I was drunk and hopped her bones hoping she’d fuck me. I’m so sorry. I had a real problem with alcohol in my late teens and early twenties. I can’t even remember some incidents. But I grew up, made myself a better man, married, and now have a loving wife and two beautiful children.”
If he had done that, he would be confirmed on Friday.
re: #10 LastYearsMan
What really amazes and disgusts me about conservatives like Kavanaugh (or John Yoo or Gingrich or any of them) isn’t that they have a different idea of policy or the Constitution or any of it. It’s that they so clearly don’t believe in anything — except political power, of course. Total and total when they’re in power and zero when the other party is in office.
It’s just so transparently ugly. I don’t understand why Americans put up with it.
Lower Taxes Uber Alles.
re: #12 austin_blue
I don’t think he’s testifying tomorrow. I think he’s done. I think he needs to slink back to the DC Circuit and hope his lifetime appointment isn’t torpedoed.
A man’s got to know his limitations, and Brett’s sell-by date expired today.
It’s one thing thing to deny that “Yeah, I was drunk and hopped her bones hoping she’d fuck me”.
If he had said, “Yeah, I was drunk and hopped her bones hoping she’d fuck me. I’m so sorry. I had a real problem with alcohol in my late teens and early twenties. I can’t even remember some incidents. But I grew up, made myself a better man, married, and now have a loving wife and two beautiful children.”
If he had done that, he would be confirmed on Friday.
I think that’s what angers me the most. He refuses to own up on past shitty behavior. Hell he couldn’t even had said something lame like his past behavior is why he was so disturbed by Bill’s actions with Monica Lewinsky but then again I don’t think he actually was, I think his role in Starr’s investigation was purely partisan motivated and if it had been his mentor G.W. Bush in trouble for an affair, he would have done anything to protect him just as he did everything to destroy Clinton when he worked with Starr. I hope you’re right btw but he seems to be so full of himself and convinced of the bullshit they’ve said about him, I think he just may be there tomororw.
re: #16 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Zuckerberg really does look like Mr. Data.
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More like the brother.
I’m so freaking old I remember when rape was commonly understood to be a severely under reported assault. For reasons that seared the poor souls involved. Now for politics many men and a few women are cool with forgetting that this week.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) September 27, 2018
re: #17 Belafon
More like the brother.
I liked “Data” and “Lore”—like “Fact” and “Fiction”.
Zuck is definitely “Lore”.
In a timeline of actions the Senate Judiciary Cmte has taken in response to allegations against Kavanaugh, they says TWO individuals have come forward to the Cmte saying THEY had the encounter with Dr Ford instead of Kavanaugh —> pic.twitter.com/WqgX4gRSYo
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) September 27, 2018
Remember this when someone tells you women lie about being raped https://t.co/rSFkabZdgA
— Doremus Jessup (@DoremusJ) September 27, 2018
re: #18 Unshaken Defiance
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I’m old enough to remember when Trump rape as a reason to argue against allowing Mexicans into the country. I guess he thought treating women like shit should only be allowed for white conservative Americans such as himself, Judge Dickface, his scummy former spokesman Jason Whatshisface, and other Republican assholes.
re: #20 jaunte
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It’s awfully interesting that this comes now on the eve of the hearing and when her prepared statement was released so this guy whoever the hell he is could “remember” details.
Just to appreciate the rant:
kavanaugh’s blatant, sweaty stupidity is perfect 2018 face of the broken corruption underlying the entire system — the notion that a facially immoral frat goon is the best shitheels like Chua and Amar can handpick to lead from among their striving elitists is wholly risible
— The 20th Dryjacker (@muhmentions) September 27, 2018
ive known dozens of pricks like this guy through the years, ever failing upwards, insane broken bullies cruising through life through sheer accidents of birth and any time one of them suffers even mild inconvenience for the wreckage they inflict is a small victory
— The 20th Dryjacker (@muhmentions) September 27, 2018
re: #19 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I liked “Data” and “Lore”—like “Fact” and “Fiction”.
Zuck is definitely “Lore”.
Then there’s their deviant cousin, “Bullshit.”
A couple of interesting reads. Not too long. First: slate.com
For what it’s worth, and absent evidence or allegations to the contrary, I believe Brett Kavanaugh’s claim that he was a virgin through his teens. I believe it in part because it squares with some of the oddities I’ve had a hard time understanding about his alleged behavior: namely, that both allegations are strikingly different from other high-profile stories the past year, most of which feature a man and a woman alone. And yet both the Kavanaugh accusations share certain features: There is no penetrative sex, there are always male onlookers, and, most importantly, there’s laughter. In each case the other men—not the woman—seem to be Kavanaugh’s true intended audience. In each story, the cruel and bizarre act the woman describes—restraining Christine Blasey Ford and attempting to remove her clothes in her allegation, and in Deborah Ramirez’s, putting his penis in front of her face—seems to have been done in the clumsy and even manic pursuit of male approval. Even Kavanaugh’s now-notorious yearbook page, with its references to the “100 kegs or bust” and the like, seems less like an honest reflection of a fun guy than a representation of a try-hard willing to say or do anything as long as his bros think he’s cool. In other words: The awful things Kavanaugh allegedly did only imperfectly correlate to the familiar frame of sexual desire run amok; they appear to more easily fit into a different category—a toxic homosociality—that involves males wooing other males over the comedy of being cruel to women.
Republican logic: We shouldn’t let Hispanics in because they might rape our women.
Also Republican logic: That rape attempt by that guy we like for SCOTUS, yeah even if he did do it, he should be let on, he’s a great guy!
What really really pisses me off is the naked hypocrisy of it all. The party that brought a rape accuser of a candidate’s spouse to a Presidential debate complaining about Kavanaugh having his due process violated.
And second: theconcourse.deadspin.com
Once upon a time, yeah, some American president might have performed the empty noblesse oblige-ass theater of withdrawing a judicial nominee who’d become as toxic and controversial as Brett Kavanaugh, whose nomination had turned into a referendum on the political parties’ respective views on something as grave and awful as sexual assault. So it’s fine to point out that things are different, now, if only on their surface; it’s fine to chart out, if you wish, the moral and intellectual decay whereby the American right eventually dropped all its pretenses and became, straight out, the Neener Neener Neener You Can’t Stop Us movement; it’s fine to observe that this happening subsequent to America’s first non-white president and first non-male major-party presidential nominee is no coincidence at all, but very specifically a vengeful tantrum by a shrinking class of wounded bullies eager to reassert by force and at all costs their hold on society’s controls.
But first, the thing to do is to describe it accurately. When they eventually ram Kavanaugh through, and they will, it won’t be despite all of this. It will be because of it.
re: #26 retired cynic
A couple of interesting reads. Not too long. First: slate.com
I don’t believe the virgin claim but I definitely think there definitely was a lot of trying to look cool for the guys in his case and the writer makes a great point about how men appear to have been his target audience. Personally, I think he was someone who definitely compensated for whatever issues he had by getting shit plastered and being a creepy douchebag.
re: #14 teleskiguy
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So the gop is talking to dudes who basically came in the door saying they were the guy on the grassy knoll?
— Willy Blackmore (@willyblackmore) September 27, 2018
Here’s something I haven’t seen Kavanaugh’s apologists bring up. That a lot of his people who once backed up have now backed away and say there’s validity to the accusations. I haven’t seen anything the opposite way where someone who was once skeptical of Kavanaugh now is in his favor.
re: #20 jaunte
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“I tried to commit statutory rape!”
“No, it was ME who tried to commit statutory rape!”
That seems, odd, doesn’t it?
Kind of like a Spartacus movie.
re: #35 austin_blue
“I tried to commit statutory rape!”
“No, it was ME who tried to commit statutory rape!”
That seems, odd, doesn’t it?
Kind of like a Spartacus movie.
They can’t even mock Booker anymore lol. No, I’m Rapticus.
These people don’t seem to realize that Ford didn’t go “that guy nominated for SCOTUS sure looks like the guy who assaulted me.” She remembers his name.
re: #38 Belafon
These people don’t seem to realize that Ford didn’t go “that guy nominated for SCOTUS sure looks like the guy who assaulted me.” She remembers his name.
Exactly.
Something to take the edge off.
My dad had this list of words handwritten on a piece of paper in his office for years. When my mom died, we handed them out at her memorial.
It’s now on my altar. pic.twitter.com/q5ACBtMlRc— Kelly Kelly Kelly (@kelly_carlin) September 27, 2018
Betsy DeVos and her $40 million yacht are out there in the middle of this Kavanaugh dumpster fire trying to convince regular Americans to send their kids to these private school pervert factories.
— Anomynous Tweeter-1, LLC (@KagroX) September 26, 2018
I’d like to elaborate on what I said last night about me being Christian and not in favor of overturning Roe.
I believe in the teachings of Jesus, but I also believe that God has given us free will and that part of that means women are free to make the choice to have an abortion.
Given that, I like the idea of women having access go a safe and controlled environment to undergo the procedure. Coat hanger and back alley abortions just seem so antithetical to the love and respect Christ told us to have for others.
Also, I don’t slut shame or judge women who have abortions. If Jesus can be cool with an ostracized woman who has been married multiple times and is currently with a dude she is not married to, I can show that same humility to others in similar circumstances.
God values no lives above any other lives. The loss of a mother is just as terrible as the loss of a child.
I would rather try to decrease the abortion rate by more comprehensive sex ed, easier access to contraceptives and teaching people the importance of personal responsibility as opposed to dismantling Roe.
Woman: I was sexually assaulted.
GOP: You’re a lying whore
Two rando guys: That was me that did it
GOP: Cool. This solves everything. Thank you for your service.— TBogg - more or less (@tbogg) September 27, 2018
The I’m not surprised at all department…
Relative has a facebook post from Franky Graham Cracker asking for people to pray for Kavanaugh to be confirmed to restore biblical principles to America…
I think the “biblical principle” ol’ Brett wants to bring back is the King Solomon Lifestyle with 500 wives and hundreds of concubines…
If two people both came forward to say they were the one who assaulted Ford along w Mark Judge, wouldn’t you…want to talk to Judge about that?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 27, 2018
re: #44 Joe Bacon 🌹
Multiple wives, slavery, abortions to test for adultery, not charging interest, 12 tribes instead of fifty states, death to the wealthy who don’t give enough.
A judge has reinstated federal protections for Yellowstone grizzlies, thereby cancelling the hunts, which were scheduled to take place this month. https://t.co/U7QqZIbuE4
— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) September 27, 2018
So … 2 rando dudes contacted congress to admit to attempted rape. The only thing more ridiculous than this attempt to sow seeds of doubt is using a 35 year old calendar to prove you were not at a party you never knew about. *checks notes*. Well shit.
re: #49 Jason Munro
So … 2 rando dudes contacted congress to admit to attempted rape. The only thing more ridiculous than this attempt to sow seeds of doubt is using a 35 year old calendar to prove you were not at a party you never knew about. *checks notes*. Well shit.
I really think everyone is reading this wrong. I’d be willing to bet money that it is one guy that got interviewed twice.
One guy might have had a chance: “Yeah, I’m Brent Kavanugh, and you can see why she would confuse us,” but two, nope.
re: #50 danarchy
I really think everyone is reading this wrong. I’d be willing to bet money that it is one guy that got interviewed twice.
That’s how I’m reading it, but we seem to be in the minority.
re: #50 danarchy
Very well could be, good point. Even so, it’s still patently ridiculous. It reeks of a desperate attempt to create a possibility of doubt.
LOL, twitter snitch
Did you all see Jared Kushner after the #TrumpPressConference ? pic.twitter.com/yLSScxRsd8
— The Daily Angle (@thedailyangle) September 26, 2018
Yo, @realDonaldTrump … https://t.co/6Ri27ZimHC
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) September 26, 2018
NEW: Senate Judiciary Cmte staffers have now spoken to two men, each of whom believes he — not Kavanaugh — assaulted Christine Ford.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) September 27, 2018
This is utterly batshit on multiple levels.
1. It assumes Ford doesn’t know who attacked her.
2. It’s an admission that sexual assault by men really is an epidemic, while the GOP denies it.
3. More than one dude is willing to tell on himself just to try and clear Kavanaugh. https://t.co/WZE2QMkbqO— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 27, 2018
re: #59 goddamnedfrank
How much is it worth to them to perjure themselves?
re: #58 Single-handed sailor
LOL, twitter snitch
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That wasn’t Sheldon Cooper? Has Jared gotten a piece since I saw him last?
(Sorry, Sheldon—it’s possible to argue that you might have one or two redeeming qualities. Jared, no.)
My God. No wonder Muslim women don’t speak out about Muslim woman oppression. Here’s just a few of the tweets I’ve received today for calling it out. Phenomenal state of affairs. pic.twitter.com/jy0vyFGWGt
— aleesha (@a_leesha1) September 24, 2018
The right: Hillary Clinton is running a secret ring of pedophiles in the basement of a D.C. pizza shop.
Also the right: The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are outlandish smears. How dare you.— Alt. U.S. Press Sec. (@AltUSPressSec) September 27, 2018
There’s so much great stuff about Kavanaugh worth retweeting — and I can’t do it ‘cause I’m trying to keep my timeline less political while I’m job-hunting… :(
re: #59 goddamnedfrank
Well. I was wrong. I thought that was too batshit crazy, even for today. There are new depths of crazy.
re: #60 Single-handed sailor
How much is it worth to them to perjure themselves?
Check their bank accounts for a check from David Dennison.
As best I understand him, I think he responds to the anti-man pathology in our culture, and that comes from a good place, but he has taken this response to an unhealthy level, as demonstrated by the level of discourse in the screenshot
— Ismail Royer (@IsmailRoyer) September 25, 2018
I can’t quite believe you think it “comes from a good place” when someone says that after taking my hijab off, the next step is getting “dicked down by non-muslim dudes” and is a response to anti-man culture? 🤔 how much more will be excused? https://t.co/29yDf0VSJR
— Ruqaiya (@ruqaiya_h) September 26, 2018
I get the feeling that had it been a woman being this vulgar, the language would have been more harsh than “comes from a good place” and “unhealthy level”
— WW (@Batboat77) September 26, 2018
This dumbshit Muslim misogynist RT’s fucking Cernovich of all people!
re: #68 electrotek
Not to be a downer, but in my personal experience the one place where there’s a pan-faith continuity is…dudes being comfortable with rules that police women’s modesty and chastity while feeling that whatever they indulge in is understandable.
But right now my ass is pretty chapped when it comes to dudely hypocrisy.
re: #50 danarchy
I really think everyone is reading this wrong. I’d be willing to bet money that it is one guy that got interviewed twice.
I agree with you. And I wonder if by providing the details of her experience, Dr. Ford gave the information to allow a fall guy to take the blame.
Oh God, this monster is going to get approved for the Supreme Court — and I use “monster” based not on his behavior as a student but on his rulings in court, his views on Presidential authority, and his financial transactions.
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