Maybe Phil O’Dendron is using a poll of one, like Calvin did for his dad.
Most people, knowing that the majority of the Senate moves back and forth between the two parties, would at least attempt to see if McConnell was the Senate Majority Leader before making such a claim. And all of those people, upon realizing that both were approved by the Senate under the Majority leadership of Harry Reid (D), would shut their mouths to not appear ignorant.
Sadly, you’re still not most people, and being incorrect has never been a problem for you to blast your stupidity to the world.
I always thought his parents bailed him out of debt, not Congress. I remember reading a Mother Jones exposé about it.
ETA: Mencimer, S. (2018, Sept 13). The Many Mysteries of Brett Kavanaugh’s Finances. Mother Jones. Retrieved January 2, 2020 from https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/the-many-mysteries-of-brett-kavanaughs-finances
margin may have been referring to the $150,000 settlement referenced in the article.
“He acknowledged that in 2014, he received a lump-sum payment—which Whitehouse estimated at $150,000—as part of a settlement in a class action filed by federal judges seeking back pay for cost-of-living increases denied by Congress. The payment wasn’t included on his financial disclosure form because, he wrote, the instructions exempt reporting pay from the federal government.” -Stephanie Mencimer for Mother Jones
~Max
So you’ve resorted to sneaking your conspiracy-theory horseshit into unrelated threads, hoping that we won’t notice it? Christ, you’re pathetic.
Yeah, how DARE I get annoyed with hypocritical assholes like you after years of this bad faith crap.
You’re pretending that I said something idiotic about Kavanaugh’s finances. You ALWAYS pull this shit. It’s the ultimate in bad faith, but you know that.
How Trumpian of you.
**Max.S., ** I was referring to this, which details Kavanaugh’s debts. Kavanaugh owed between $60,000 and $200,000 on three credit cards, plus an loan against a retirement account, pays $10,000 tuition for two kids, belongs to a country club with a $92,000 initiation fee, lives in a $1.225 million dollar house, and whose salary at the time of Trump’s nomination was $91,000, plus his wife’s recently-acquired part time job at $66,000. These are figures that come from Kavanaugh’s financial disclosure. His savings and retirement accounts did not decrease after he bought that million dollar house, for which he would have to cough up a 20% down payment. That’s a lot of cash that he simply did not have, according to financial statements he himself gave. Furthermore, his wife left the work force in 2010, and returned to that part time job at $66,000 in 2015.
By the time Time nominated him to the SCOTUS, his credit card debts had vanished in a manner of months, leaving him with only an $815,000 mortgage.
That’s assuming Mr. “Devil’s Triangle has NO sexual connotations at all!” Kavanaugh was telling the truth.
I see someone else corrected your claim that I was a liar. When the subject of one’s comment brags that they have done exactly what one cites them as doing how is that a lie?
Yup, that’s what I thought. Same exact article. But my takeaway was that he got a nice lump $150,000 settlement from the class action (against the federal govt), and most of the rest of his debt disappeared with the help of rich family members.
~Max
There is a comma there that should be a semi colon. Had I had more, I would have italicized the “who”.
*Mitch McConnell REFUSED to even hold hearings for any of Obama’s nominees. *
Where is the lie?
Also, can I again appeal to the mods to correct the fourth quote in post 120, where I fucked up the combination of quote and response? The first part is the quote, then after using my week’s supply of elipses is the response.
I still cannot believe I said “free reign” instead of “rein”, although it doeskind of make sense when applied to certain individuals.
The way I read it, he had debts of:
$60,000–to $200,000, which given that he’s him, strikes me as an attempt to obfuscate, so I’m going to lean toward the higher figure;
the $92,000 country club fee—which was more than his entire salary at some points;
the, what, $250,000 down payment on the house;
the tens of thousands of dollars he claims he spent on Nats tickets for “a handful of friends” (who he said paid him back)
but he paid all this off very suddenly.
There’s also mention of nonspecific “home repairs”.
If family helped him, why on earth would he not say so? The fact that he did not do so makes me wonder why not.
At one point, then, he somehow had to come up with approximately $342,000 dollars. Is that in addition to the credit card debt? Or is it part of it?
At the very least, there are tax implications, aren’t there?
Did he put the down payment, the country club entrance fee plus the yearly dues and the school tuitions on credit cards? The country club fee is $9000 a year; the two school tuitions are approximately $21,000 per year. If he’s putting those on credit cards every year, those add up fast.
Given the way he lied through his teeth to Congress, I wonder what else he’s lying about. It’s that disingenuous, “No, sir, the Devil’s Triangle” is not sexual," type of ruse. A kid who bragged about boofing, kegs, and being a “Renate alumnus” was not ashy, studious, choir boy.
Whatever his finances, he carried those credit card debts till shortly before Trump nominated him to the SCOTUS, after which they abruptly disappeared.
Knew this was going to be a shit show…and it is…
Trump fried Salami. That terrorist is history. Trump rocks!!!
[Nelson Muntz]Ha ha! [/Nelson Muntz]
I’m sure Shodan will be back any minute with a mea culpa and an apology to margin. After accusing me of not debating in good faith, there’s really no way forward for him at this point.
OJ Simpson’s base of support also grew and became stronger while he was on trial.
That had very little to do with objective reasoning and, given his supporters their druthers, all that acting on their irrational rage might have accomplished would have been letting a man who may genuinely have murdered his wife go free since that choice had nothing to do with the facts at hand.
If your neighbor pisses you off, there are better ways to get back at him than by summoning Godzilla to stomp both your and his house together.
Be angry and get revenge all you want, but there are levels of priorities in this if you’re not a nutcase. Let’s say that the FBI is violating everyone’s privacy and it’s a horrible horrible thing. Well, which is worse, having the FBI searching through your emails or killing you? You know those Kurds who just got all turned into bloody smear? They’re bloody smear and their families will never see them again. That’s not a newspaper headline. That’s actual human lives.
If the FBI wants to watch me fap and somehow that would bring back a person to life, then come install the fucking camera, I’ll open my legs wide.
The government is not a thing that exists on TV, as the shared competitive storytelling game between Fox News and CNN. It’s an actual thing that affects the lives of millions of people across the planet who want to fucking live to see tomorrow. It is not a game nor an intellectual masturbation session for trying to show other first world ninnies up. And when you treat it like it is, you are causing death. You are bringing famine to people who don’t deserve it, who have no idea what American politics are, and don’t even know what the hell an FBI is.
And nor is that sort of game-playing nonsense the way to get your objections to privacy violations fixed, any more than that somehow letting OJ Simpson go free would have magically convinced all the police in the nation to give black people a fair shake. (Hint: It didn’t.) So by all means, seek whatever political agenda you are aiming for, but you will achieve nothing but to harm yourself and others so long as you operate free of reality nor will you do anything but move the world further away from your agenda than you started with.
OJ Simpson?! How fucking tangential can you get? Your wordy bogus analogies that are clearly off the mark just bore me. Like the rest of these Trump deranged individuals here, you’re chasing ghosts around every corner. You love the Kurds? Go there and get the fuck out of here.
I’d say…no.
Then let’s ignore the Kurds and talk America. How many layers of management have been skimmed off the top of the Department of Homeland Security? Go count them.
How many people have quit the Pentagon in the last two weeks?
Where is the top of the Arms Control and International Security Affairs bureau, whose job it was to ensure that Iran has no nukes?
Where is the National Security Counsel?
We just assassinated one of the generals of Iran - plausibly a nuclear state - and our military our national defense all are decapitated and have been for over a year.
Glad I don’t live on the East Coast is what I’m saying.
Spoken like a “True American”, you actually un-American piece of crap.
Those should be two separate sentences.
More what - more rage? I don’t think that’s possible. More intelligence? Same answer.
Regards,
Shodan
Maybe try being less of a dick from time to time. Is that possible, or same answer?