But this is no surprise; it’s the remaking of America into something other than a democracy. I don’t think people understand how these events are connected, but they are.
This country is fucked; it just doesn’t know it yet.
My prophecies will become reality – mine, and yours.
I’ve got my old journals going back to 1968. If I used calendars in a way that genuinely reminded me of what was going on in my life at various times, I’d probably keep them too. 35 years of calendars might fill a standard moving box; not like you can’t find somewhere to put them.
Who knew they’d love Judge Whiny McTantrum?
“Win at any cost” is certainly the motto (well, one of them) of the authoritarian would-be dictator, and of his supportive would-be oligarchs.
But I’m waiting to see the shake-down of passion on this topic. The Alex Jones folks are all-in, but are the independents? Will the remaining ‘moderate Republicans’ (voters, not politicians) just decide to go along to get along, or will they be disturbed enough by what they saw today to say ‘just pick another guy off the list, okay?’
Yes, things are trending toward the boot crushing the human face forever. But: we’re not quite there yet. Where there remains a particle of independent thinking, there’s hope.
Unfortunately I couldn’t listen to much of the testimony.
The sad reality is that the truth of the allegations are meaningless. The testimony will be twisted by every side and no matter who says what the Dems will believe he is a quasi-rapist and vote accordingly and the liberals here will hold the unproven claims (because at this point can there really be proof of something 30 years ago that wan not handled at the time) over his head so that in 5 years elucidator or BobLibDem or some other board-liberal will point to an opinion* of his and say “of course a rapist would write that.” And Pubs will use the fallacy that not proving a positive proves a negative and that he was “exonerated” and Bricker, shodan or another conservative will refer to this as “Anita Hill 2”
*Whether on SCOTUS or Circuit
I’m sure you’re right, but having heard a very interesting day’s worth of testimony, you’d think they’d at least want to go through the pretense of thoughtfully considering and debating what they’d heard before voting.
Voting tomorrow pretty much says, “We were only doing this because we knew we couldn’t get away with not doing it. But it was still just for show.”
As I was watching I figured Kavanaugh was toast–Trump wouldn’t like the crying, so therefore the Breitbart/Alex Jones followers wouldn’t like it, either.
But I guess Trump needs Kav too much to reject him, no matter what. No one else on that Federalist Society list, apparently, has, like Kavanaugh, pledged to keep Trump safe from subpoenas and other pesky intimations that Presidents aren’t above the law.
(I’m kind of surprised that none of them have either volunteered to keep Trump safe, or been approached by Trump’s people to see if they’d make that pledge. Of course maybe that has occurred and we just don’t know about it.)
I’ve always had assumed that the judges on the supreme court were above believing in conspiracies, so K’s testimony crushed that belief. I’m sad about that. Are we really going to vote for a justice that believes in a Clinton conspiracy to keep him off the court? Is this real life? Why isn’t everyone talking about this? Fuck the politics, I’d happily have a pro-life judge appointed that was actually otherwise sane, but why are republicans dying on this hill? It blows my mind.
The poem about Renate in the yearbook from one of Kavanaugh’s classmates: “You need a date / and it’s getting late / so don’t hesitate / to call Renate”
Anyone who says he wasn’t lying about the Renate thing is full of shit. Kavanaugh is a fucking liar.
Yes, that’s what happens in an authoritarian society; it’s often the judiciary gets contaminated first. Authoritarians can discredit claims that they’re violating the rule of law because it’s ultimately the judiciary that determines what’s lawful and what’s not. So pollute those waters first, and then it’s easy after that. Wanna make black people in Alabama drive 2 hours to the nearest voting booth? No problem: the Court’s got your back.
Doesn’t matter, dude.
That’s Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh to you, boy.
See that’s where I’m having trouble with this.
Are you aware that history has not been too kind to Clarence Thomas and that much of the negatives dug up by Anita Hill are considered to be "character assassination by the now-repentant author of the book “The Real Anita Hill”, who has disavowed the book’s entire premise?
Who cares, with regards to what to do about Kavanaugh? He might be a sexual abuser. Maybe even a serial abuser. He’s certainly a liar, at least about the yearbook thing, and IMO about his drinking as well. If the senate isn’t going to fully investigate these allegations, including calling all potential witnesses, then are you saying they should confirm a lying possible abuser just to teach Feinstein a lesson?
(Underline added.) I’m pretty sure you meant to write “regarding” or “smearing” Anita Hill, instead of implying she had done the digging up of negatives.
(Everyone who knows the history understood, I’m sure, but for those who don’t…)
It’s a really, really, really weak argument.
But it’s all they’ve got.
(emphasis mine)
Well, so what?
This isn’t ultimately about what the players did or didn’t do. This is about we, the people of the United States of America. There are serious allegations not just about Kavanaugh’s behavior towards women, but about his honesty, and after today, certainly about his judicial temperament. Obviously the latter can’t be investigated, but the first two can.
And should, for our benefit.
Lindsey Graham is one strange dude.
Well, obviously. Feinstein’s just a woman. It’s not like her opinion matters.
According to Ford’s testimony, it was her intention that her letter and claims about Kavanaugh would be kept confidential, period. I guess she was hopeful that Feinstein could do something to stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation without her claims being made public. That was really an unrealistic position. Even though she eventually was forced into publicly sharing her story, it appears that her goal of stopping Kavanaugh’s confirmation is not going to work.
Also Feinstein’s claim that one of Ford’s friends must have been the leaker of the letter makes no sense. It doesn’t seem realistic that Ford would have given her friends a copy of the letter to Feinstein. The Interceptor received a copy of the letter. Other than Ford, the only people that we know had the letter were Ford herself, the California rep, Feinstein’s office, and likely Ford’s attorneys. Who is most likely motivated to leak the letter, in light of Ford’s insistence that it be kept confidential, which the politicians in the know, knew would result in nothing?