We Have to Try to Laugh: Stephen Colbert on Trump Taking a Stand for the Real Victims - Men
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Stephen performs a monologue from Donald Trump’s new one-man show, ‘Downfall of the Fictional American Man.’
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Consider how I felt when David Simon got one. HE WAS MY WRITING PARTNER. Can you imagine what that does to a supposedly co-equal creative project?
— Gene Weingarten (@geneweingarten) October 4, 2018
Gene, you ignorant fuckmook, get me some fresh coffee. https://t.co/cFzXhlsuvp
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 4, 2018
As I told my husband and friends, his mockery of Dr. Ford doesn’t surprise me in the least, which is why it doesn’t bother me. It’s par for the course for so many women who report and it’s par for the course for Trump. Nothing unexpected.
However, Trump has never shot par in his life. Just seemed like the best phrase to use. Think of it as a clever play on words. :)
My dogs are refusing to walk past the neighbors’ giant inflatable Halloween spider.
“The fuck kind of dog is that?!” pic.twitter.com/jqfltSCvxP— Pumpkin Spice Chanty (@Chantelesque) October 4, 2018
I can’t watch the video, but this exactly explains my 46 year old brother: He’s the victim of not being allowed to be the kind of white man that only existed before he was born.
Jeff Flake says he agrees with Susan Collins that the FBI investigation was “thorough” and that “no new corroborative information came out of it - that’s accurate.” Flake adds: “Thus far, we’ve seen no new credible corroboration — no new corroboration at all.”
— Alex Bolton (@alexanderbolton) October 4, 2018
Flake lives up to his name. https://t.co/6Vuwhm5qPr
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 4, 2018
Basically cinches it. Trump is now the litmus test of being a conservative. https://t.co/LlE8zRWTsq via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 4, 2018
This kind of corruption means we need to run the whole band of criminals out of office. They should have at least created the appearance of propriety, but they don’t care.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
No actual Conservative would accept an autocrat. They all turned out to be right-wing authoritarians wearing masks while out of power.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
“Many of those people who say Kavanaugh shouldn’t have shown his anger are people who have never known what it was like to be a conservative inside a liberal-dominated institution or profession, and to know that you are always on probation.” @roddreher: https://t.co/6pc1vthZP6
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 4, 2018
The persecuted conservative complex would be merely humorously delusional/pathetic if it weren’t so deeply corrosive to American society. https://t.co/QOFMcyGNBE
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) October 4, 2018
@roddreher is both delusional and pathetic. He has been carrying this *Teh librul gay mafia is persecuting me!* schtick for years. He is a pretentious pseudo academic looking for a cross to nail himself to.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) October 4, 2018
It’s not being Conservative that’s a problem. It’s the large subset who are bigots that are the problem. As long as you can manage to keep your bigotry inside, even a wicked bigot will be fine.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
re: #9 Scottish Dragon
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If only “Teh librul gay mafia is persecuting me!!” didn’t hold so much purchase with the very same “liberal media” that these assholes rail against, to the exclusion of actual sane critique just because it came from ‘libruls’.
We continue to dance on the head of the GOP’s pin because no matter what they do, they’ll get the benefit of the doubt. We won’t. And they always seem to fucking win because of that.
Murkowski told me she concurs with Susan Collins’ view that Kavanaugh probably wouldn’t overturn Roe.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) October 4, 2018
I have no hope left that we can stop Kavanaugh, but I’m not going to stop fighting. I just called again and you should too. Call your senator:[no phone numbers allowed]
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
Breaking news from Fargo… Sen. @HeidiHeitkamp a “no” on Kavanaugh https://t.co/zGNtiTUXpA
— Robert Costa (@costareports) October 4, 2018
I guess since the polls show her so far behind, she might as well go out doing the right thing.
re: #12 Kragar
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Waiting to see what those two stooges will say when it is overturned….
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I guess since the polls show her so far behind, she might as well go out doing the right thing.
Glad she’s doing the right thing.
re: #15 Joe Bacon 🌹
Waiting to see what those two stooges will say when it is overturned….
They won’t care.
He’s going to be confirmed sigh. So much of what our parents and grandparents fought so hard will be gone because five men voted so.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
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Wow, another great article by @sarahkendzior.
“Learn from the past, fight for the future, but live the present not with hope, but with rage. Rage, unlike hope, knows no timeline.”https://t.co/Z130FU4Gab— Nancy Shea (@Nan_Shea) October 3, 2018
She’s trying to mislead people. The attempted rapist is being pushed onto the court by people who are open about wanting to make women 2nd class citizens that can be forced to be incubators. They’ll do this by whittling away at Roe. The American-right clearly hates our freedoms.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
Eight-year-old Swedish girl pulls Viking era sword from lake https://t.co/kWMkiMWR9C pic.twitter.com/nooQbc91wT
— The Local Sweden (@TheLocalSweden) October 4, 2018
She is the president now. I don’t make the rules. https://t.co/ZzdeffDoCP
— Benjamin Harnett (@benharnett) October 4, 2018
Even as they stage a takeover of the Supreme Court, these rotten bastards are STILL whining about being victimized. https://t.co/9VtzePRsGL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
re: #18 HappyWarrior
He’s going to be confirmed sigh. So much of what our parents and grandparents fought so hard will be gone because five men voted so.
You don’t just win things like this when half the country still wants to enslave women. It’s a constant battle, and always will be in some form or other.
The Legality of owning a Kangaroo in the United States https://t.co/g5owIFovVq pic.twitter.com/G5eyvDJiNt
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 4, 2018
re: #22 Charles Johnson
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They’re likening this To Kill a Mockingbird. Fuck you Cornyn. Fuck you for using a great American novel about racial injustice to compare with a frat boy piece of shit who repeatedly has mistreated people in his life.
re: #23 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You don’t just win things like this when half the country still wants to enslave women. It’s a constant battle, and always will be in some form or other.
I’m convinced that we never would have gotten the changes necessary to this country without the trauma of the Depression. Otherwise, we’d be just as fucked up as we were before FDR came along.
re: #24 Single-handed sailor
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No Kangaroos without a permit but please own as much guns as you want?
re: #27 HappyWarrior
No Kangaroos without a permit but please own as much guns as you want?
Kangaroos are more dangerous. You can’t even lock them in a safe.
My state allows them with a permit, but I don’t think my apartment complex allows them.
The Russians are coming. https://t.co/LHAGI10UKw
— Doctrine Man (@Doctrine_Man) October 4, 2018
re: #28 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Kangaroos are more dangerous. You can’t even lock them in a safe.
My state allows them with a permit, but I don’t think my apartment complex allows them.
But what if I’m a good guy with a kangaroo.
New DHS report confirms horrifying details about family separations we reported this summer:
- Kids in cages for days
- Bad record keeping
- Asylum seekers turned away
Second report found *nooses* in cells of migrants.
Joined @Morning_Joe @morningmika @JoeNBC with details. pic.twitter.com/ioKFQ3NvTT— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) October 3, 2018
In days past, a devastating IG report like this one would’ve led to Congressional hearings. But for that, America would need a Congress with morals or, at least, enough patriotism to put country over party. https://t.co/bvdk30Kyk8
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) October 3, 2018
re: #31 Single-handed sailor
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Meanwhile conservatives think Brett Kavanaugh is a victim and cheer shit like this.
re: #23 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You don’t just win things like this when half the country still wants to enslave women. It’s a constant battle, and always will be in some form or other.
Look at the constant re-litigation of the Civil Rights Movement we’re constantly doing, and apparently losing ground on because of the complete entrenchment of the GOP at ever single level of governance at this point, and likely not getting a lot of those advancements back…hell, if we ever even had them for real at all.
This is what’s real. This is what they want, they just don’t have to hide it behind ‘aww shucks’ feigned ignorance anymore. This is American Hate. And it’s winning.
We’ll fight it. We have to fight it. I just don’t think we’ll ever beat it or hold it back at this point.
Both houses of Congress. The White House. Almost every corporate boardroom. Country clubs and business organizations. Most churches. Over half of white people, a majority of old white people. Virtually every square foot of rural America.
Boo fucking hoo.— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 4, 2018
re: #34 Kragar
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Seriously. Their complaining is so fucking pathetic as Andy gets at. BTW Rod, you fucking imbecile piece of incestous shit, you guys called HRC a murderer and grilled her for 11 hours over Benghazi, I didn’t see her break down like one of Kavanaugh’s beer bottles.
re: #33 Citizen K
Look at the constant re-litigation of the Civil Rights Movement we’re constantly doing, and apparently losing ground on because of the complete entrenchment of the GOP at ever single level of governance at this point, and likely not getting a lot of those advancements back…hell, if we ever even had them for real at all.
This is what’s real. This is what they want, they just don’t have to hide it behind ‘aww shucks’ feigned ignorance anymore. This is American Hate. And it’s winning.
We’ll fight it. We have to fight it. I just don’t think we’ll ever beat it or hold it back at this point.
Conservatives flat out don’t want to live in reality. Maybe when we develop some form of time travel we can ship them to the past they think was so great and they can starve to death because of their own stupidity.
re: #27 HappyWarrior
No Kangaroos without a permit but please own as much guns as you want?
it’s the American Dream…
I’m a 45 year old White Guy and my mission in life has become to burn down every fucking thing the Republicans have done to this country. pic.twitter.com/Z2ujI50blP
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 4, 2018
re: #37 HappyWarrior
Conservatives flat out don’t want to live in reality. Maybe when we develop some form of time travel we can ship them to the past they think was so great and they can starve to death because of their own stupidity.
Good luck with that, that presumes we’ll have an infrastructure that still values science in a few decades.
re: #37 HappyWarrior
Conservatives flat out don’t want to live in reality. Maybe when we develop some form of time travel we can ship them to the past they think was so great and they can starve to death because of their own stupidity.
If any live, we might find that the Nazis had now won WWII with info from the Conservatives. I say send them to the far future, after life on Earth is gone.
I am not gonna lie I am alittle disappointed and angry today. I am sad. For the future my daughters have to live in because old white men can’t let go of things and allow the evolution of things to happen.
At Chris cillizza for being a fucking have of a writer and political analysis falling into his job and thinking he matters. (Seriously the “analysis of the 5 senators who matter most?” Get your Cheeto stained nose but of here)
At my rep stefanik whose office argued that “tax cuts will help retirement durrr” and then went silent, only pointing to the bills passed by the reps and hanging up, when I call out that tax cuts generally effect Medicare, medicaid, and social security, and that it directly goes against her commercial for re election.
It is just a sad, and angry and disappointing time
re: #40 Citizen K
Good luck with that, that presumes we’ll have an infrastructure that still values science in a few decades.
I’m being tongue in cheek. I’m just frustrated by people who can’t accept they live in the 21st century.
re: #41 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
If any live, we might find that the Nazis had now won WWII with info from the Conservatives. I say send them to the far future, after life on Earth is gone.
Maybe we could build them an Ark.
re: #41 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
If any live, we might find that the Nazis had now won WWII with info from the Conservatives. I say send them to the far future, after life on Earth is gone.
Ha, true true.
re: #43 HappyWarrior
I’m being tongue in cheek. I’m just frustrated by people who can’t accept they live in the 21st century.
I know, but it’s still a reminder that in our current direction, shit we’re taking for granted now may as well be sci-fi.
re: #46 Citizen K
I know, but it’s still a reminder that in our current direction, shit we’re taking for granted now may as well be sci-fi.
I know.
re: #12 Kragar
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Remember when Collins made a deal last year to vote for the Trump Tax Cuts in exchange for party support for her Obamacare fix bill? And then Mitch reneged on the deal by never allowing the bill to come to a vote?
You know what pisses me off the most is that Trump only cares because it’s his guy. All this talk about due process from Trump and his supporters? You guys wanted to LOCK HER UP, remember? You still chant that like mindless morons. Your hero Trump wanted to execute the Central Park Five AFTER they were cleared. Don’t fucking lecture to me about due process because some right wing frat preppy entitled pigfucker can’t get a lifetime job on SCOTUS when he’s got by your own fucking admission credible allegations against him. You fuckers deserve Kavanaugh in your society but the rest of us don’t need an angry punk ass who should have never even made it to his current position let alone SCOTUS ruling on the crucial legal issues of our country long after you and Trump are pushing daisies.
re: #48 Targetpractice
Remember when Collins made a deal last year to vote for the Trump Tax Cuts in exchange for party support for her Obamacare fix bill? And then Mitch reneged on the deal by never allowing the bill to come to a vote?
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Because Susan Collins is either the biggest moron in the Senate or a happy tool of McConnell’s when Republicans need to pretend they’re something other than the pieces of shit they are.
re: #49 HappyWarrior
And…this. this right here.
Republicans are saying they reviewed more than a thousand pages in under an hour? What an absurd charade.
— JackiSchechner (@JackiSchechner) October 4, 2018
After all the talk for years about how Rod Dreher was a “thoughtful guy” and an “intellectual”, I’m pleased he is getting called out today for the sniveling hack that he is.
.@OrrinHatch Oh Orrin, Orrin, Orrin. What the heck has happened to you? Why are you so determined to put this liar on the #SCOTUS bench? Have you no shame? https://t.co/Xn19St6d3D
— Cornelia (@PaladinCornelia) October 4, 2018
re: #54 Scottish Dragon
After all the talk for years about how Rod Dreher was a “thoughtful guy” and an “intellectual”, I’m pleased he is getting called out today for the sniveling hack that he is.
He ain’t nothing but a right wing suck up stooge.
re: #15 Joe Bacon 🌹
Waiting to see what those two stooges will say when it is overturned….
When the Court guts Roe but doesn’t officially reverse it they’ll claim they were right even as all the clinics are closed across much of the country.
re: #49 HappyWarrior
You know what pisses me off the most is that Trump only cares because it’s his guy. All this talk about due process from Trump and his supporters? You guys wanted to LOCK HER UP, remember? You still chant that like mindless morons. Your hero Trump wanted to execute the Central Park Five AFTER they were cleared. Don’t fucking lecture to me about due process because some right wing frat preppy entitled pigfucker can’t get a lifetime job on SCOTUS when he’s got by your own fucking admission credible allegations against him. You fuckers deserve Kavanaugh in your society but the rest of us don’t need an angry punk ass who should have never even made it to his current position let alone SCOTUS ruling on the crucial legal issues of our country long after you and Trump are pushing daisies.
Like so much, ‘due process’ and ‘presumption of innocence’ is subject to the eternal double standard of IOKIYAR. It’s only ever to be used as a bludgeon against the Republicans’ enemies, and discarded like so much chaff when otherwise inconvenient. And the stenographers will allow it to happen, because of course they fucking will.
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All this talk about what a stand up guy he is are from people who got us in the mess we found ourselves in 2008.
re: #55 jaunte
This question presumes he ever had shame.
re: #60 Citizen K
Always rhetorical when directed at Republicans.
Pretty sure EVERYONE knows Kavanaugh is guilty at this point. The only division is whether one acknowledges it or not.
— skullsinthestars (@drskyskull) October 4, 2018
Just gonna remind everyone that Mitch McConnell was in the Senate GOP leadership for much of Dennis Hastert’s record tenure as House GOP Speaker.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) October 4, 2018
Octogenarian Orrin Hatch raises the ABA rating— without noting that the ABA changed its mind on Kavanaugh.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 4, 2018
Yesterday, after an 18 month investigation, the NYT revealed the President of the United States committed hundreds of millions of dollars of tax fraud - possibly one of the biggest scandals in the history of the Presidency - and 24 hours later we’re no longer talking about it.
— Scott Gilmore (@Scott_Gilmore) October 4, 2018
I genuinely did not realize some conservatives had adopted the position that Kavanaugh is “100% innocent”
I thought it was more: the evidence is too flimsy to say for sure and he has strong credentials and we can’t deny an appointment based on one claim— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) October 4, 2018
This is not surprising. At first, they were upset that Kavanaugh was being accused without any corroborating evidence.
Then, after Ford’s very credible testimony, they weren’t sure - Maybe he did it. Certainly, Ford’s sincerely believes he did. They could fall back on ‘innocent until proven guilty’, but in the end they knew that maybe, just maybe, they were going to elevate to the Supreme Court, a guy who threw a 15 year old girl on a bed and sexually assaulted her. That made them uncomfortable, that they couldn’t be certain.
Because the Conservative mindset is unable to tolerate uncertainty, they were not able maintain that uncertainty. It had to be one way, or the other. So, over time, they inevitably became certain that Ford was lying, that Kavanaugh was 100% innocent. The discomfort went away, replaced by the comforting certainty of being attacked by those evil Liberals.
re: #39 Kragar
That’s what they’re doing to us. They think it’s right for America to go fascist, and that good people are evil, because their world is upside-down from propaganda.
This is how you get a civil war. I’d buy a gun and ammo to deal with violent right-wing authoritarians if I weren’t a suicide risk.
Republicans do not respect this country.
Republicans do not respect women.
Republicans do not respect our government institutions.
Republicans do not respect science.
Republicans do not respect history
Republicans are a threat to the United States.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 4, 2018
Subtweet from Kamala Harris on an ostensibly non-political hashtag:
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
—Langston Hughes#NationalPoetryDay— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 4, 2018
re: #50 HappyWarrior
Because Susan Collins is either the biggest moron in the Senate or a happy tool of McConnell’s when Republicans need to pretend they’re something other than the pieces of shit they are.
I’ve come to the conclusion that she does this to avoid causing difficulties to her husband’s job as a lobbyist.
re: #67 Blind Frog Belly White
That is why you saw the “lock her up!” chant directed at Dr Ford the other night. She has now joined Hillary Clinton in the conservative pantheon of women who must be silenced, hated and punished.
As always, conservatism is the proposition that are two groups of people. One is protected by the law but not constrained by it and the other is constrained by the law but never protected by it.
increasingly clear that in terms of uniting the right, nominating a drunken sex creep for the Supreme Court was *better* than some bland conservative
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) October 4, 2018
I mean they made a lot of hay out of nominating a sex creep with dementia for president https://t.co/pR9o1vnYe8
— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) October 4, 2018
These rotten blighted assholes.
Grassley is yelling and screaming again, this time at the media and demonstrators who have bothered him in recent weeks pic.twitter.com/2GLz5hn7Tl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 4, 2018
re: #66 Scottish Dragon
It’s not helped by the fact that the same damn paper turns around the next day with the same damn “both sides same thing” pablum that undercuts their own reporting and treats it as inconsequential because “Trump savvy” or some shit
— This Is Not Normal, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) October 4, 2018
Ya know, for hyper religious people, Republicans sure spend an awful lot of time breaking the 8th Commandment over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over ad infinitum.
re: #15 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m sure they’ll be very concerned.
re: #80 SteelPH
Ya know, for hyper religious people, Republicans sure spend an awful lot of time breaking the 8th Commandment over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over ad infinitum.
It’s a facade tbh. Religion as an excuse to act righteous when they have not an ounce.
They believe in getting away with everything they can get away with here and now, because there is no one watching who will judge them later. There is no later.
re: #18 HappyWarrior
All the gains in my lifetime…vanished without a trace.
All those people who fought so hard to make such progress…
And the majority of the people in this country do NOT WANT THIS.
re: #66 Scottish Dragon
We can talk about that after the vote.
Just read the FBI report on Kavanaugh - if that’s an investigation, it’s a bullshit investigation. pic.twitter.com/9D8oeVMEoU
— Senator Bob Menendez (@SenatorMenendez) October 4, 2018
This says that Trump has completely compromised the law enforcement arm of the Federal Government, and can get them to do what he wants.
That has enormous authoritarian implications which go far beyond this Supreme Court nomination.
ht @monaeltahawy https://t.co/TGtAJtE17K— Robert Rutledge (@rerutled) October 4, 2018
re: #85 plansbandc
All the gains in my lifetime…vanished without a trace.
All those people who fought so hard to make such progress…
And the majority of the people in this country do NOT WANT THIS.
So true.
It looks like Trump has made the FBI as unreliable as he claimed is was. We need to drain the Trump crime family swamp now. They’re bringing the country down to their level.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
re: #85 plansbandc
All the gains in my lifetime…vanished without a trace.
All those people who fought so hard to make such progress…
And the majority of the people in this country do NOT WANT THIS.
Which is why they’re doing it now. When the majority votes properly, all of the rights “gains” will be gone.
If the FBI now works for Trump, it doesn’t look good for the Mueller investigation.
re: #85 plansbandc
All the gains in my lifetime…vanished without a trace.
All those people who fought so hard to make such progress…
And the majority of the people in this country do NOT WANT THIS.
Everything is temporary.
re: #93 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Everything is temporary.
It turns out progress is one of those things.
Grassley unraveling—total gibberish
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 4, 2018
I feel compelled to point out that it was treated by the media as a five-alarm scandal in 2014 when Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley told some donors that if Democrats lost the Senate, Grassley was supremely unqualified to chair Judiciary. https://t.co/omFLyjPGR5
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 4, 2018
Trump’s EPA Is Now Allowing Asbestos-Containing Products Into New Buildings
via @highbrow_nobrowhttps://t.co/zmyrmgAX43— Ale (@aliasvaughn) October 4, 2018
Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump Is Pro-Asbestos And Considers It Safehttps://t.co/ZJVaOSLlcf https://t.co/DN0ISfeIxa
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) October 4, 2018
I’ve accepted the fact that Kavanaugh will be confirmed. I am ready to move forward, but I never forget. And I wait until I have an opportunity to strike, and I take it.
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
~Sylvia Plath
The word has been that Mark Judge supplied some damning testimony to the FBI, which is why there is only one copy of the report and McConnell refuses to release it.
There’s rumor from sources who are usually credible that Mark Judge appears to have provided the FBI with some pretty damning testimony.
Haven’t been able to independently corroborate, but thought I’d pass it on anyway.— Angry WH Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) October 3, 2018
Keep calling. This GOP presser showed that they’re anything but confident. There’s something there.
— Angry WH Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) October 4, 2018
re: #95 Single-handed sailor
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Coward.
— Hal Perry (@halperry) October 4, 2018
re: #94 HappyWarrior
It turns out progress is one of those things.
Of course, since we can’t even agree on what progress is, when half the population thinks less thinking and more authoritarian religion is progress.
re: #98 Scottish Dragon
The word has been that Mark Judge supplied some damning testimony to the FBI, which is why there is only one copy of the report and McConnell refuses to release it.
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If ever there was a perfect moment for a document to be leaked, this is it.
re: #102 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Of course, since we can’t even agree on what progress is, when half the population thinks less thinking and more authoritarian religion is progress.
I know gah!
re: #103 makeitstop
If ever there was a perfect moment for a document to be leaked, this is it.
That’s why McConnell has made it so hard.
He’s a corrupt enabler, not a coward. He wants a man with emotional problems and a history of abuse to be on the Supreme Court to make America less free. The right voted for old-man Trump for the same reason. We have a Christian Taliban problem.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
re: #62 jaunte
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No, really, this isn’t the case. It overlooks the Right’s ability to convince itself of whatever it needs to be true.
I genuinely did not realize some conservatives had adopted the position that Kavanaugh is “100% innocent”
I thought it was more: the evidence is too flimsy to say for sure and he has strong credentials and we can’t deny an appointment based on one claim— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) October 4, 2018
re: #103 makeitstop
If ever there was a perfect moment for a document to be leaked, this is it.
Why do you think there is ONLY ONE COPY and it’s being kept locked up tighter than tRumps tax returns.
re: #107 Blind Frog Belly White
No, really, this isn’t the case. It overlooks the Right’s ability to convince itself of whatever it needs to be true.
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Like Trump is a better Christian than Jimmy Carter.
Jeff Flake tells reporters: “We’ve seen no additional corroborating information”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 4, 2018
“By scrupulously avoiding the trunk of the vehicle, officers were able to quickly conclude the smell of human remains must have been witnesses imagination… which was reason enough to not talk to the witnesses.” https://t.co/bRMBZIRDsg
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 4, 2018
re: #109 HappyWarrior
Like Trump is a better Christian than Jimmy Carter.
Franky Graham Cracker thinks so!
re: #111 Joe Bacon 🌹
Franky Graham Cracker thinks so!
Yeah well Franklin Graham, his niece, & Dad were and are charlatans.
-Over 1000 law professors
-The National Council of Churches
-The Jesuits
-His own former college classmates and even friends
-Women he’s encountered socially
-The American Bar Association
-The ACLU (which broke almost a century of precedent)
All these agree: #StopKanavaugh— Tennesseine (@Tennesseine) October 4, 2018
.@SenDuckworth: Judge Kavanaugh has a habit of appearing to lie under oath pic.twitter.com/4D7f7w65j7
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) October 4, 2018
Why isn’t there more outcry about making the FBI report public? Is that against the rules? Seems with so much attention from the public, we should see what the investigation says too(especially if it’s so “good” for Republicans).
re: #114 jaunte
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Dear dog…I like how the Democrats have shown fight in this despite the long odds, but please, you don’t need to hedge this. He’s a lying liar who lies. Just say it.
Republicans have declared there wasn’t a ‘hint’ of misconduct. Based on our briefing & review of documents, despite a clearly restricted investigation, that IS NOT true. Our previous concerns about Judge Kavanaugh’s truthfulness have also not been assuaged by this investigation.
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) October 4, 2018
Senator, tell us what hint of misconduct is in there.
You can NOT leave the American people hanging on this. I don’t care about process. I don’t care about rules and I don’t even care if the information is classified. The public needs to know. https://t.co/y1nhwC7s33— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 4, 2018
I asked GOP senators why not endorse what Ford’s attorneys called for: 8 witnesses. And Ramirez’s attorney: 20 witneses who may know about alleged event. No direct answer. Cornyn: The FBI has “gotten all the permission they need” and called effort a “search-and-destroy” mission pic.twitter.com/F13g5jmrQX
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 4, 2018
re: #124 Dave In Austin
That’s because she knows she’s done anyway. Just like Manchin.
Manchin is actually leading considerably in his polls.
You know, I hate to go all Godwin, but seriously, I can see how Nazi Germany happened. Watching people who try to be fair and think of themselves as rational fall into line behind Trump is frightening.
And although it’s tempting to think that they were always that way and were just hiding it, I’m afraid it’s not that simple. Bret Stephens wrote a piece today, praising Trump - whom he claims to otherwise hate - for standing up to that bully, Christine Blasey Ford. This fight really has united the Right, because it hits all their triggers - the sense of paranoia, the fear of being falsely accused, the certainty that the Left is every bit as bad as Trump. And it works with their need for certainty above and beyond truth.
There’s really no way to absolutely KNOW that Ford’s accusations are true. It ends up requiring you to make a judgement call in the absence of incontrovertible proof. You have to add up the evidence and come to a conclusion, knowing that it is a judgement call, knowing that your conclusion COULD be wrong.
That uncertainty is intolerable to Conservatives. It HAS TO BE one or the other. And concluding that Kavanaugh is innocent satisfies all their deeply held beliefs about meritocracy, about Conservatives being oppressed, and about women becoming too powerful. Once they decide that he’s PROBABLY innocent, the need for certainty drives them to conclude that he’s INCONTROVERTIBLY innocent. All the ambivalence they felt last Thursday washes away, leaving only certainty and incandescent rage that an innocent man has been slandered. And now, there is no way to move them from that position.
This is how it all ends.
I’m told by source with direct knowledge that Flake is “still having issues” and that some colleagues are trying to “walk him through them.” Sen Coons tells me just now that Flake reached out to him and asked if they could speak at length later.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) October 4, 2018
If Flake is still unhappy with this, this is not a done deal.
Hey “Good Ole Boys” WHITE GOP.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE
THE FEMALE VOTE.
We are F#CKING ENRAGED !
We will NOT go back to the FIFTIES.
U WILL NOT RULE US
U WILL NOT BULLY US
U All will be REPLACED.
WE have ALL your NAMES.
TIMES UP
It’s 2018 NOT 1950#WomenRiseUp
Agree RT— Linda Rothwell. #GlovesOff (@Bornabrit1) October 4, 2018
“Murkowski told me she concurs with Susan Collins’ view that Kavanaugh probably wouldn’t overturn Roe.”
Is it not well established that Brett Kavanagh doesn’t give a shit what women say?
re: #126 Blind Frog Belly White
You know, I hate to go all Godwin, but seriously, I can see how Nazi Germany happened. Watching people who try to be fair and think of themselves as rational fall into line behind Trump is frightening.
And although it’s tempting to think that they were always that way and were just hiding it, I’m afraid it’s not that simple. Bret Stephens wrote a piece today, praising Trump - whom he claims to otherwise hate - for standing up to that bully, Christine Blasey Ford. This fight really has united the Right, because it hits all their triggers - the sense of paranoia, the fear of being falsely accused, the certainty that the Left is every bit as bad as Trump. And it works with their need for certainty above and beyond truth.
There’s really no way to absolutely KNOW that Ford’s accusations are true. It ends up requiring you to make a judgement call in the absence of incontrovertible proof. You have to add up the evidence and come to a conclusion, knowing that it is a judgement call, knowing that your conclusion COULD be wrong.
That uncertainty is intolerable to Conservatives. It HAS TO BE one or the other. And concluding that Kavanaugh is innocent satisfies all their deeply held beliefs about meritocracy, about Conservatives being oppressed, and about women becoming too powerful. Once they decide that he’s PROBABLY innocent, the need for certainty drives them to conclude that he’s INCONTROVERTIBLY innocent. All the ambivalence they felt last Thursday washes away, leaving only certainty and incandescent rage that an innocent man has been slandered. And now, there is no way to move them from that position.
This is how it all ends.
I’ve seen it more than ever. I didn’t think it could happen here.
re: #103 makeitstop
If ever there was a perfect moment for a document to be leaked, this is it.
Good chance. It’s war now.
re: #127 Scottish Dragon
There are times when I wonder if some things really shouldn’t be reported, though I know it’s hard to decide when. But think about the number of Republicans that are going to swarm to him.
re: #130 Eclectic Cyborg
“Trump probably won’t separate asylum seekers from their children, deliberately forget who the parents are, and put them in concentration camps.”
re: #134 HappyWarrior
Maybe there’s some hope.
Hopefully. :) But, right now, angry Dems are way more valuable than hopeful Dems.
You get a whole movement that is largely based off the resentment of progress just like the German post war Right was United I’m their hatred of democracy, yeah you see why people like Von Papen helped Hitler or why Sasse and others help Trump.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Manchin’s motivation right now is that he’s comfortably far enough ahead that he’s actually voting what he wants to vote rather than how he’d vote if he felt there was a chance he might lose in November. That all he’s doing now is running up the score by possibly peeling away votes from the GOP.
re: #137 Belafon
Hopefully. :) But, right now, angry Dems are way more valuable than hopeful Dems.
True! I’m canvassing again Saturday
re: #140 Charles Johnson
Flake is going to vote yes.
He’s going to vote “Yes,” but he’s going to wobble around for the rest of the fucking day like he’s “uncertain” because it gets him attention.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a lifelong Republican, told a small crowd in Boca Raton that Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s performance at confirmation hearings should disqualify him. “The Senators should pay attention to this.” pic.twitter.com/LdsJTuPGIx
— Lulu Ramadan (@luluramadan) October 4, 2018
Barricades have been erected around the Capitol ahead of the Kavanaugh vote. Have been here 12 years and have never seen this for a vote. pic.twitter.com/7uW7vqaV0Y
— Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) October 4, 2018
re: #140 Charles Johnson
This season needs better writers. This is as bad as the Sansa rape wedding season of Game of Thrones.
re: #144 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Because McConnell is a snowflake.
re: #143 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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A throwback from when Republicans were merely from the better side of town who you disagreed with but who you knew loved this country as much as you.
This should tell them that it’s not OK to elevate this creep to the highest court, but Republicans have no interest in what decent people think. They just want the power to hurt people.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
One of my constituents went to the FBI with evidence that Judge Kavanaugh was in touch with the wife of an alleged eye witness regarding Ms. Ramirez’s allegations of sexual misconduct before the New Yorker story broke. The FBI never called her back.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) October 4, 2018
Witness tampering.
re: #92 jaunte
If the FBI now works for Trump, it doesn’t look good for the Mueller investigation.
It doesn’t look good for the rest of us either.
re: #152 jaunte
Proof that her story was true. He tried to head it off.
The GOP now can’t help but show their extreme disrespect for women. This will be a feature of confirming #Kavanaugh@SenatorCollins @lisamurkowski#VoteNo
NC Republican leader Lanny Lancaster uses photo to mock Christine Blasey Ford. It’s not her. https://t.co/9cCASChH5Q— Hope Van Dyne 2018💥 (@TheWaspResists) October 4, 2018
It’s going to be up to Congress and the media to take down the alt-President who made the Executive branch a disgusting swamp, betraying decent Americans to pander to stupid bigots.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
What really pisses me off about Flake is he has nothing to lose. He’s not up for re-election.
re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg
What really pisses me off about Flake is he has nothing to lose. He’s not up for re-election.
He still has years of wingnut welfare to look forward to, which will dry up if he shows signs of a conscience.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a lifelong Republican, told a small crowd in Boca Raton that Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s performance at confirmation hearings should disqualify him. “The Senators should pay attention to this.” pic.twitter.com/LdsJTuPGIx
— Lulu Ramadan (@luluramadan) October 4, 2018
re: #155 jaunte
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re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg
What really pisses me off about Flake is he has nothing to lose. He’s not up for re-election.
He thinks he could be President someday.
He won’t.
re: #158 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
He still has years of wingnut welfare to look forward to, which will dry up if he shows signs of a conscience.
Which I seriously doubt he has, actually. He was kind of a minor player outside of this.
re: #161 Kragar
He thinks he could be President someday.
He won’t.
No way. If he wanted to be President of this GOP, he would have pulled the act Graham is doing months of not years ago.
VP Pence: “China has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence American public opinion, the 2018 elections, and the environment leading into the 2020 presidential elections.” He did not give any compelling concrete examples regarding influencing the 2018 elections.
— Ellen Nakashima (@nakashimae) October 4, 2018
Reminder that DHS Secretary just yesterday said that there was no evidence of Chinese meddling in 2018 election so far. Folks, there is this thing call the NSC process. It helps you coordinate on big policy rollouts! Use it! https://t.co/Kv2l0W0L26
— Kelly Magsamen (@kellymagsamen) October 4, 2018
re: #154 Belafon
Proof that her story was true. He tried to head it off.
Proof that he lied under oath when questioned about when he first learned about it.
re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Pence is just trying to take eyeballs off Russia.
re: #161 Kragar
He thinks he could be President someday.
He won’t.
Ayep, there’s rumors aplenty that he’s considering a presidential run as soon as 2020. And if not that, he wants a comfy job as a lobbyist.
So aside from some speeches that in retrospect only the truly foolish should have seen as anything but a smokescreen, he’s still every bit the partisan he was before he announced an intent not to run for reelection.
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
Facebook definitely does care about its users, in the same way a farmer cares about his livestock.
re: #140 Charles Johnson
Flake is going to vote yes.
But he sure is committed to his role in this kabuki theater.
Lindsey Graham goes NIMBY when it comes to Trump’s tariffs @jimtankersley https://t.co/XSYzzWWv4B
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) October 4, 2018
Even after Nafta 2.0, the Canadian-American relationship remains scarred and Trump’s hostility has not been forgotten north of the border. “That’s now deep in our psyche.” @porterthereport https://t.co/GC3Ur0cgDa
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 4, 2018
re: #170 Charles Johnson
Facebook definitely does care about its users, in the same way a farmer cares about his livestock.
Bingo.
re: #173 Single-handed sailor
We might be nice people but we have long memories Mr. Trump.
re: #173 Single-handed sailor
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That’s why we need to consider other attributes aside from ideology in the nominee. I’d take someone slightly more moderate if it means they understand and have a plan to rebuild relationships that Trump has hurt.
re: #170 Charles Johnson
Facebook definitely does care about its users, in the same way a farmer cares about his livestock.
re: #175 Eclectic Cyborg
We might be nice people but we have long memories Mr. Trump.
You guys are awesome. Always some of my favorite people to talk with when I travel abroad. Plus I have cousins in Canada too. I hate what Trump has done.
FBI report is done. No corroboration of Democrat smears of Judge Kavanaugh. Who drove Dr. Fox there? Who drove her home? No one has come forward! Do any of the 5 she placed there corroborate her? No! Some are contradictory. Its obvious: Democrat exploitation of Dr. Ford. SHAME!
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 4, 2018
Dr. Fox is busted!!!!!!!!!!!! How can she be credible if she has two names? Nice try, Dr. Fox! https://t.co/UcOlpYLDei
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 4, 2018
There was a crime committed in a house.
There were witnesses.
There was knowledge of the person in question being capable of that crime.
When the crime was reported, it was kicked around until it was forgotten.
Except by the victim.
The perp was now in a position to hold one of the most powerful positions in law.
The victim spoke up.
The victim had reported the crime. Took a polygraph.Went to therapy. Told friends.
The accused threw a fit. Accused the victim of lying. His friends and owners piled on.
One after another people came forward verifying what the victim had told.
Yes.
She spoke truth.
So the friends and owners of the accused decided to let the FBI investigate.
They took them to the scene of the crime.
But entered no rooms.
They spoke to neither her or her assailant.
They ignored hundreds of people who attempted to contact them.
They released thousands of pages which the American public was denied access to.
They read these thousands of pages in mere hours.
Nothing.
Nada.
Zip.
Now that the fix is firmly in place the handlers and owners of the accused attack verbally every woman who ever stood up to say NO.
Because the mob never went away.
It moved UP.
Into the goverment, as mobs will when the Rule Of Law is nothing more than printed paper.
re: #179 Kragar
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WATCH: @senorrinhatch tells a group of women and survivors to “grow up” as he laughs in their faces. #BelieveSurvivors pic.twitter.com/ZMe4Rslret
Republicans are scum. https://t.co/wmIDXkgfFS
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 4, 2018
The fact that the GOP are feeling comfortable attacking Dr. Ford directly says they feel confident that Blackout Brett will be confirmed in two days. They have their cover-up in place, they have their willing stooges singing the same lyrics, so time to slime the victim in order to erase any doubt that what they’re doing is “right.”
re: #185 Targetpractice
The fact that the GOP are feeling comfortable attacking Dr. Ford directly says they feel confident that Blackout Brett will be confirmed in two days. They have their cover-up in place, they have their willing stooges singing the same lyrics, so time to slime the victim in order to erase any doubt that what they’re doing is “right.”
Have you ever seen in a football game where a team knows it got away with something and tries to rush up to the line of scrimmage and start the play before the opposing team can challenge it? That’s what this feels like to me.
re: #184 Kragar
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What, Orrin, didn’t want to stop and ask them what they were doing out of the kitchen without their husbands?
The sham report that was arrived at way to quickly to convince anyone. We’ll reach a point where Americans get really angry at being lied to by con-men like you, who want to undo everything that makes America great. That will be a great day for America.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
re: #186 Belafon
Have you ever seen in a football game where a team knows it got away with something and tries to rush up to the line of scrimmage and start the play before the opposing team can challenge it? That’s what this feels like to me.
Yep. I’d also say it feels like the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, where the winning team starts to get sloppy because they feel confident there’s no way the opposing team can come back to even tie the game, let alone win in the time left on the clock. If they could leave early and just let a staffer vote in their stead, they would.
Let’s hope this is hubris but I’m not optimistic. Dr. Ford will enter the same lexicon Anita Hill has. And Kavanaugh will be the deciding vote on matters crucial to her life.
re: #179 Kragar
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If this was a secret document then how does Rudy know what is in it?
re: #192 b.d.(sober as a judge)
If this was a secret document then how does Rudy know what is in it?
Probably because Donny passed it around the Oval Office for everybody to have a look at.
More misdirection from Hatch:
Blumenthal: The FBI participated in “a cover-up” https://t.co/gTpz4k6498 pic.twitter.com/mwWOvQrWtp
It’s fine to disagree with Judge Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy or take issue with any of his 300+ opinions from his time on the DC Circuit.
But to accuse the FBI of a coverup because they didn’t find anything new to support your smear is too far. https://t.co/z7Q1WTx0vv— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) October 4, 2018
Nobody says it’s their cover up. https://t.co/jaPUh6niSz
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 4, 2018
🚨🚨🚨 Sen. Sasse’s staff told this group of survivors from Nebraska that he’s currently undecided on Kavanaugh.
We have to keep the pressure on — call him now and tell him to be a firm NO.[no phone numbers allowed] pic.twitter.com/ZuECbz6xR3— ACLU (@ACLU) October 4, 2018
According to dailykos.com, the ACLU has broken with norms so much they’re coordinating constituent visits.
Jesus Christ he simply can’t help himself.
Just want to that the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work. And the name change is so on point!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2018
Imagine personally agreeing to pay $20 million in fines to the SEC and forcing your company to pay another $20 million all as punishment for your idiotic stock manipulation twitter stunt, then immediately getting on Twitter & posting this ridiculous, immature, petulant bullshit. https://t.co/lqliUx7O3f
— Captain Pumpkin Spice (@goddamnedfrank) October 4, 2018
“rich = smart” is a pernicious American myth that’ll take a lot of effort to dispel — props to Elon for putting in the work every day pic.twitter.com/x3JC4qOcz3
— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) October 4, 2018
re: #194 jaunte
More misdirection from Hatch:
I’m so old I remember when the GOP was united with DJT to purge the FBI because of an agent’s text messages.
re: #192 b.d.(sober as a judge)
If this was a secret document then how does Rudy know what is in it?
“Secret” in the Trump era does not mean what it used to mean
You know the woman who yelled at the two Spanish women, and was chased out of the store by another woman:
Trent eventually called police, and Dwire [the woman yelling] was arrested, taken to Garfield County Jail, and charged with two counts of bias-motivated harassment, according to an arrest affidavit. She was released on bond and is due back in court in November.
This is the Hart Senate Building right now. pic.twitter.com/1hTQ7MazhP
— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) October 4, 2018
“Shame on you,” chant protesters as they go by Chuck Grassley’s office. pic.twitter.com/3LgPkinMcz
— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) October 4, 2018
re: #151 Blind Frog Belly White
AUX BARRICADES!!!
I never noticed that giant elephant statue in this scene.
Calling is a cover-up because it was way too fast, and way too limited, is not too far. In fact, it’s the minimum I’d expect from anyone who cares about America, but obviously Republicans are working to debase America, dragging the country down.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
re: #194 jaunte
More misdirection from Hatch:
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Yet you’re fine whenever Trump attacks the FBI. Get your balls out of his and Kavanaugh’s mouth.
re: #196 goddamnedfrank
Jesus Christ he simply can’t help himself.
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) October 4, 2018
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re: #184 Kragar
Decades of playing the calm, nice guy, good Mormon and he’s going out being a complete shit. There may be no one I dislike more in American politics than Orrin “it’s only constitutional when we propose it” Hatch.
re: #143 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
What does a former Republican Supreme Court Justice know about the Supreme Court under the New Trumplican Party of jackals?
Damn Rino!
MAGA!
re: #194 jaunte
More misdirection from Hatch:
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So does that mean Hatch thinks Ford lied?
re: #207 KGxvi
Decades of playing the calm, nice guy, good Mormon and he’s going out being a complete shit. There may be no one I dislike more in American politics than Orrin “it’s only constitutional when we propose it” Hatch.
I always thought he was a bit of a dick tbh even if he did help Kennedy get sober.
Maybe we ought to be a little bit careful in laying too much of this hack job of an investigation at the feet of the FBI. This was pointed out to me this morning.
The FBI could only investigate what they were told to investigate by Judiciary GOP and the White House.
Thanks to Trump, his cultists no longer believe in our federal law enforcement agencies. If we liberals join them over this investigation, then nobody will trust them. Who benefits from that?
There is nothing Trump would like more than the entire country losing faith in federal law enforcement. We should keep that in mind.
Hatch claims it’s a “smear” of Kavanaugh, thus a lie from Dr. Ford.
re: #212 makeitstop
The GOP should be blamed for this.
re: #167 Eclectic Cyborg
Pence is just trying to take eyeballs off Russia.
Or is he worried China is going to do to Trump and the Republicans what the Russians pulled the last election?
Strange times for American elections.
They may never have been prefect, but since Reagan’s reelection they certainly haven’t been trusted fully.
How can you have a proper investigation without interviewing the alleged victim and perp?
re: #212 makeitstop
Maybe we ought to be a little bit careful in laying too much of this hack job of an investigation at the feet of the FBI. This was pointed out to me this morning.
The FBI could only investigate what they were told to investigate by Judiciary GOP and the White House.
Thanks to Trump, his cultists no longer believe in our federal law enforcement agencies. If we liberals join them over this investigation, then nobody will trust them. Who benefits from that?
There is nothing Trump would like more than the entire country losing faith in federal law enforcement. We should keep that in mind.
I am always skeptical of law enforcement. But everything I’ve seen on this screams that this was Trump trying to get one over on everybody. And that those “concerned” Republican Senators just wanted to be able to say “well, we got this from the FBI” without actually caring what was in it. So, yeah, not the FBI’s fault.
Hart anti-Kavanaugh protest getting bigger & louder. pic.twitter.com/OZnCKJnPtW
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) October 4, 2018
Actress Amy Schumer is detained with other anti-Kavanaugh protesters at the Hart Senate Office Bldg. atrium on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/C8N0k97ZE9
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 4, 2018
MORE: “We believe all survivors!” Protesters rally in Hart Senate Office Building in support of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. https://t.co/KHXggyT32P pic.twitter.com/CJsjgQVnLI
— ABC News (@ABC) October 4, 2018
BREAKING: Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson is in hot water with the Trump administration over her handling of Space Force, and the president is considering removing her after the midterms. My story @ForeignPolicy https://t.co/37mxnjuJFS
— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) October 4, 2018
People are pissed. But will it translate to votes?
re: #223 HappyWarrior
People are pissed. But will it translate to votes?
Yes. But we won’t solve it with one election.
re: #192 b.d.(sober as a judge)
If this was a secret document then how does Rudy know what is in it?
He doesn’t. He’s just feeding off what he is hearing from others and gloating about it.
We are seeing a lot of that out of the old men Republican Guard. Gloating.
Gotta make them pay for that.
I’m hoping even people that are okay with the nominee Kavanaugh are outraged by this cocky display by a bunch of withered old white men.
re: #222 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #223 HappyWarrior
People are pissed. But will it translate to votes?
I believe it will. People are pissed at how the Rs are handling it, and that’s not going away. If anything, people will be even more pissed when they watch Trump and the rest of those Judiciary scum gloating once Kavanaugh is confirmed. You know they’re gonna do that.
And then in November, the bill comes due and then it’s our turn.
re: #228 gwangung
What an idiot. You don’t create new branches of the military in an instant.
And he thinks they should be already flying around in Enterprise-like space ships and fighting wars with Klingons and Vulcans.
Twitter. Where random strangers spew insults at you for unknown reasons.
Save it, asswipe.
— Jessica Mendes (@SeptemberMay) October 4, 2018
re: #222 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson is in hot water with the Trump administration over her handling of Space Force, and the president is considering removing her after the midterms.
“To the moon, Alice Heather!!!
re: #196 goddamnedfrank
Jesus Christ he simply can’t help himself.
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This is an epic self career killing.
There have been other of course, but this one has a very public slant because of the ‘net and social media.
By the end of this year, Elon may just be a pile of ash.
re: #230 The Vicious Babushka
And he thinks they should be already flying around in Enterprise-like space ships and fighting wars with Klingons and Vulcans.
Just the thought of Trump Vs. The Daleks…
re: #222 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
SPACE BALLS FARCE FORCE!!!
re: #229 makeitstop
I believe it will. People are pissed at how the Rs are handling it, and that’s not going away. If anything, people will be even more pissed when they watch Trump and the rest of those Judiciary scum gloating once Kavanaugh is confirmed. You know they’re gonna do that.
And then in November, the bill comes due and then it’s our turn.
I think so too.
re: #231 Charles Johnson
Twitter. Where random strangers spew insults at you for unknown reasons.
Yes, classy and edifying.
Created with the LGF Meme Machine https://t.co/yGqhznAIAs via @Green_Footballs pic.twitter.com/fhKfuF4LGQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
.@HeidiHeitkamp to @WDAYnews: “If this were a political decision for me I certainly would be deciding the other way….history will judge you but most importantly you will judge yourself…. I can’t get up in the morning and look at the experience I’ve had and say yes.”
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) October 4, 2018
.@JeffFlake at @Harvard_Law graduation: “There are times when circumstances may call on you to risk your career in favor of your principles. But you & your country will be better for it. You can go elsewhere for a job but you cannot go elsewhere for a soul” (h/t @AlexaMKissinger) https://t.co/fkbhWJGI5i
— Leah Litman (@LeahLitman) October 4, 2018
re: #223 HappyWarrior
People are pissed. But will it translate to votes?
I’d hope the Russian collusion, and Team DJTGOP attempts to obstruct the investigation of it, would be enough to generate the anger to vote.
FBI report is done. No corroboration of Democrat smears of Judge Kavanaugh. Who drove Dr. Fox there? Who drove her home? No one has come forward! Do any of the 5 she placed there corroborate her? No! Some are contradictory. Its obvious: Democrat exploitation of Dr. Ford. SHAME!
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 4, 2018
Republicans keep lying about what corroborating evidence is.
Corroborating evidence isn’t definitive proof.
Corroborating evidence is evidence that supports Ford’s allegations, and there’s TONS of it.
“No corroboration” is a bald-faced lie. https://t.co/qcxzXiRzbz— Imani Gandy o—€ (@AngryBlackLady) October 4, 2018
Hart anti-Kavanaugh protest getting bigger & louder. pic.twitter.com/OZnCKJnPtW
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) October 4, 2018
Classy @OrrinHatch telling a group of survivors to “grow up” while he literally shoos them away with his hand. pic.twitter.com/MGEf0OSkWy
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) October 4, 2018
re: #239 jaunte
There are times when circumstances may call on you to risk your career in favor of your principles. But you & your country will be better for it. You can go elsewhere for a job but you cannot go elsewhere for a soul
He continued, “Which is why, when faced with such circumstances, I ran the fuck away, because I’m a fucking coward.”
re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve come to the conclusion that she does this to avoid causing difficulties to her husband’s job as a lobbyist.
I know I am naive and all, but I still can’t believe that is allowed.
re: #212 makeitstop
Maybe we ought to be a little bit careful in laying too much of this hack job of an investigation at the feet of the FBI. This was pointed out to me this morning.
The FBI could only investigate what they were told to investigate by Judiciary GOP and the White House.
Thanks to Trump, his cultists no longer believe in our federal law enforcement agencies. If we liberals join them over this investigation, then nobody will trust them. Who benefits from that?
There is nothing Trump would like more than the entire country losing faith in federal law enforcement. We should keep that in mind.
I know I don’t blame the FBI. It is like you said. They were used as a political prop.
And after Comey, all the Trump bashing of the agency and now this, things have to be brewing.
I wouldn’t trust the FBI if I was Trump or a Republican at this time. They would have a reason to take back their name and reputation.
re: #241 jaunte
More GOP gaslighting, for sure. They’re trying to convince us of something that isn’t even a thing.
re: #241 jaunte
Prosecutor: so, we have a time of death, we’ve tied the bullets used to a gun owned by the defendant, we have video footage of the defendant entering the building before the time of death and exiting after the time of death, there was blood on his shoes and in his car.
Rudy: so, you don’t have any evidence that the defendant killed the victim?
Prosecutor: no, we have all the things I just told you, and a dead body.
Rudy: right, no evidence, must acquit!
re: #247 Belafon
Rudy sure has that old saw about the Fox in the Henhouse top of mind.
re: #241 jaunte
FBI report is done. No corroboration of Democrat smears of Judge Kavanaugh. Who drove Dr. Fox there? Who drove her home? No one has come forward! Do any of the 5 she placed there corroborate her? No! Some are contradictory. Its obvious: Democrat exploitation of Dr. Ford. SHAME!
— Rudy Giuliani
Sir, this is Taco Bell, can I take your order?
re: #249 jaunte
Rudy sure has that old saw about the Fox in the Henhouse top of mind.
Who is Dr. Fox?
Posted this on FB a year ago today, in response to the usual suspects thinking there was something suspicious about the Vegas shooter having a dozen or more guns.
Firing a 100 round magazine non-stop [full auto} through an AR-15 will cause the gas tube to glow cherry red and start to melt. Continuous 30 round bursts will make the gun so hot it will malfunction in short order. It takes much longer for the gun to cool than it does to fire the magazine. That is the likely reason the Vegas shooter had a dozen rifles. He was alternating them while they cooled.
re: #251 Sir John Barron
Rudy’s dementia precursor.
FBI report is done. No corroboration of Democrat smears of Judge Kavanaugh. Who drove Dr. Fox there? Who drove her home? No one has come forward! Do any of the 5 she placed there corroborate her? No! Some are contradictory. Its obvious: Democrat exploitation of Dr. Ford. SHAME!
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 4, 2018
Her name is Dr. Ford, you incompetent slimepuppet. https://t.co/zSHGQMpPDY
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
Lindsey Graham on Christine Blasey Ford: “This is what happens when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill.”
And on Donald Trump viciously mocking a sexual assault victim: “Everything he said was factually true.” pic.twitter.com/ZPJEDJaxjg— John Iadarola (@johniadarola) October 3, 2018
So you’re a bad person. Why bring your toxicity into a random stranger’s life? Unplug and work on yourself for a while. Something’s gone very wrong.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
Murkowski told us the reports are being read aloud to the senators.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) October 4, 2018
The ritual here—Senators descending to a basement room to be read a secret document fashioned opaquely by the executive branch to obliterate the public testimony of a citizen who’s not allowed to see it, hear it, or contribute to it—is as mystical and undemocratic as it gets. https://t.co/Fhxb25hGJs
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 4, 2018
re: #255 Dave In Austin
Someone needs to make a video, and a commercial, of these plus Hatch telling women to grow up.
I’m seeing a lot of “you gals made daddy real mad and now everybody’s going to pay” takes. #asusual
— digby (@digby56) October 4, 2018
re: #257 jaunte
Where’s Omarosa and her cell phone when we need her?
re: #254 Charles Johnson
Have to say Guliani is right about this, that no one has come forward to confirm Dr. Fox’s account of where she, or he, was in the library with the candlestick holder.
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Trump isn’t the problem. The right-wing authoritarians were waiting for any madman to give them permission to drop their Conservative masks.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
re: #254 Charles Johnson
I wish the GOP would make up their mind about Ford: Is she an innocent woman shamefully exploited by shameful Senate Dems, or a conniving woman who hypnotized herself to not remember key details of a night three decades ago?
re: #262 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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And your guy Kavanaugh lied. Not remembering certain details doesn’t make her a liar.
re: #263 Sir John Barron
I wish the GOP would make up their mind about Ford: Is she an innocent woman shamefully exploited by shameful Senate Dems, or a conniving woman who hypnotized herself to not remember key details of a night three decades ago?
It’s always both.
There isn’t a day in modern politics an hour of Chuck Todd makes better.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 4, 2018
Dems are saying they are not allowed to show the doc’s or talk about them. Why not? Do it anyway. Repubs not playing by the rules why should you? Would repubs be acting like you. NO .. “Don’t bring a knife to gunfight”
— LTS📢 (@LisaToddSutton) October 4, 2018
re: #267 jaunte
The moment they start, I’m sure McConnell will completely cut off access. They need to make sure they get a sufficient amount of information out of it.
re: #218 KGxvi
I am always skeptical of law enforcement. But everything I’ve seen on this screams that this was Trump trying to get one over on everybody. And that those “concerned” Republican Senators just wanted to be able to say “well, we got this from the FBI” without actually caring what was in it. So, yeah, not the FBI’s fault.
During the Hoover decades, the FBI was no friend to minorities. During the 2016 election, the NY office of the FBI was known as Trumpland. So we have to be careful in thinking that these agents, in general, are on our side.
Wingnut is in full court press. Most hosts have their own style and they follow issues along in their own way. That’s over. Messaging is extremely consistent between the rabid hyperventilating mouth breathers and the more modestly toned slightly affable wonks.
It’s full court press from the right.
NEW filing in NYAG Underwood’s suit against the Trump Foundation. The Board (including his adult kids) let Trump “use the Foundation’s assets to satisfy his and his for-profit companies’ legal obligations, to promote Trump hotels” & promote campaignhttps://t.co/hO3TnUUvpN
— Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) October 4, 2018
Old white men with big egos and nothing to contribute are trying to drag America back to the bad old days.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
Senator Murphy: Trump picked Judge Kavanaugh to help him unwind judicially a law that he couldn’t unwind legislatively, and that will have huge consequences on folks who need insurance coverage for things like cancer, addiction or mental illness. pic.twitter.com/lxJ6pM3sCT
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) October 4, 2018
After a Texas woman made this sign, agriculture commissioner @MillerForTexas called her out and resulted in police confiscating her sign.https://t.co/6KTeslxKBW pic.twitter.com/fp9yIX3rch
— Brianna Stone (@briannasttone) October 4, 2018
Miller claimed the sign depicted Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s daughter. The owner of the sign said she was recreating a @AnnTelnaes cartoon to motivate people to vote against Republicans. She made the sign after being upset about Kavanaugh’s testimony last week. pic.twitter.com/msOSP3ryrx
— Brianna Stone (@briannasttone) October 4, 2018
re: #257 jaunte
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And how do we find out who is reading the reports to the Senators, and whether they’re reading the whole thing or skipping over some relevant bits?
‘Stinks on ice’ doesn’t begin to describe this Potemkin process.
re: #271 Hecuba’s daughter
During the Hoover decades, the FBI was no friend to minorities. During the 2016 election, the NY office of the FBI was known as Trumpland. So we have to be careful in thinking that these agents, in general, are on our side.
True but we don’t really need them on our side so much as we need them to be objective.But the FBI is as much an old boys network as anything in Washingotn is.
re: #282 Belafon
Sid MIller’s accusation makes zero sense. He just didn’t like the sign.
re: #5 Kragar
I’m getting lunch at the Honolulu airport but I took time to call Flake’s office and promise I’ll be dogging his every step if he runs for president.
re: #284 jaunte
Sid MIller’s accusation makes zero sense. He just didn’t like the sign.
That makes absolutely no sense at all to anyone. Miller just doesn’t like his snowflake party being called out for the enablers tehy are.
President Trump has signed off on a new national counterterrorism strategy, articulating his administration’s vision for how the US should confront terrorist threats at home and abroad https://t.co/unCm3njjN4 pic.twitter.com/LhhVcf5nUf
— CNN (@CNN) October 4, 2018
“Articulating his administration’s vision” my narrow white ass. https://t.co/Ue60az6Gvj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
re: #257 jaunte
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so, Senators aren’t trusted to actually read the report themselves.
got it…
re: #289 Charles Johnson
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I won’t believe it unless it has KFC crumbs on it. // He doesn’t have a vision. He doens’t know Hamas from hummus.
re: #212 makeitstop
Maybe we ought to be a little bit careful in laying too much of this hack job of an investigation at the feet of the FBI. This was pointed out to me this morning.
The FBI could only investigate what they were told to investigate by Judiciary GOP and the White House.
Thanks to Trump, his cultists no longer believe in our federal law enforcement agencies. If we liberals join them over this investigation, then nobody will trust them. Who benefits from that?
There is nothing Trump would like more than the entire country losing faith in federal law enforcement. We should keep that in mind.
Same with the denigration of the press.
re: #14 makeitstop
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I guess since the polls show her so far behind, she might as well go out doing the right thing.
sigh if only “doing the right thing” wasnt influenced by any political calculus
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
so, Senators aren’t trusted to actually read the report themselves.
got it…
Or is it that it may be harder to retain the information if it’s read to them rather than if they can read the document itself?
re: #294 Mike Lamb
It’s not. It’s just raw abuse of power. But she would need to spend some money fighting him.
re: #67 Blind Frog Belly White
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This is not surprising. At first, they were upset that Kavanaugh was being accused without any corroborating evidence.
Then, after Ford’s very credible testimony, they weren’t sure - Maybe he did it. Certainly, Ford’s sincerely believes he did. They could fall back on ‘innocent until proven guilty’, but in the end they knew that maybe, just maybe, they were going to elevate to the Supreme Court, a guy who threw a 15 year old girl on a bed and sexually assaulted her. That made them uncomfortable, that they couldn’t be certain.
Because the Conservative mindset is unable to tolerate uncertainty, they were not able maintain that uncertainty. It had to be one way, or the other. So, over time, they inevitably became certain that Ford was lying, that Kavanaugh was 100% innocent. The discomfort went away, replaced by the comforting certainty of being attacked by those evil Liberals.
yup
he has to be 100% innocent
otherwise it’s possible
re: #277 jaunte
That’s my district… Must be near Cleburn
re: #268 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately the revolution failed and the old guard retained power. A stirring hymn but for a failed revolt.
This was about 40 years after the first revolution (the one with the guillotines)
Just heard a disturbing statistic. 60% of millenials are identifying as Democratic Socialist, and ok with it. How did so many kids fail to learn ANYTHING or be TAUGHT anything in high school? They do know Hitler originated the NDSAP right? I mean come on.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) October 4, 2018
the acronym is NSDAP and it was not founded by Hitler https://t.co/gCgkO8UFCY
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) October 4, 2018
re: #295 Mike Lamb
Or is it that it may be harder to retain the information if it’s read to them rather than if they can read the document itself?
more likely not reading the parts the muckety-mucks don’t want anyone to know about, so Collings and Friends can “honestly” say there isn’t anything in there…
They’re not being taught wingnut alt-history, so they’re not going to share your delusions. The American-right has gone insane from absurd propaganda in the past couple of decades, and you’re one of the nuts who must be heard, instead of getting the help you so desperately need.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
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