https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1042584878544506881
Dunno if there's any Nevadan users here but Dean Heller sounds like a fairly large asshole.
Any appointment with this much stained clothing shouldnt be allowed anywhere near a lifetime position. This is disgusting. When did politics dissolve from policy disagreements to winning elections at any and all cost?
I would say it happened when Obama won and Republicans were catastrophically offended, but it was happening before then.
Blame Newt Gingrich for introducing the political equivalent of chemical weapons into Congressional politics repeatedly, destroying bipartisan-action-supporting norms and turning the Us political system into a sports rivalry.
sean hannity should shove the whole fox hq his ass if i'm being completely honest, but he'd probably like it
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043121858797686785
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043126336473055235
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043130170612244481
HOLY SHIT DID HE REALLY THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO TWEET THIS
Good job continuing to destroy the GOP reputation among suburban women, which is one of the big reasons dems are making gains.
80's rich boy who has openly bragged about sexually assaulting women doesn't understand the societal pressures women faced when it comes to sexual violence and still face today.
FFS, she's gotten death threats for coming out about this now. Is it really so hard to think why she might have been reluctant about it in the past.
This man makes me angry beyond words.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kavanaugh-accuser-lays-out-conditions-her-testify-about-alleged-assault-n911706?icid=recommended
Wants to testify second and Kavanaugh to appear first;
Doesn't want Kavanaugh in the room at the same time with her;
Prefers not to be questioned by outside counsel, but rather by the senators on the committee;
Would like the committee to subpoena Mark Judge, the other student Ford alleges to be in the room at the time of the assault, to testify;
Says each senator should have equal time questioning (already committee practice);
No time limit on her opening statement; and
Will appear at a public hearing but she would like to limit the number of cameras to pool coverage.
Her earliest time is Thursday.
HE LITERALLY SAID "FACTS DON'T MATTER". FUCKING. JUMP OF A BRIDGE YOU DUMB FUCK.
lol
What's funny about that?
Someone ought to know what exactly they're being accused of before having to respond.
Because it's a good strategy, but I have little doubt we will one day look back on this and see it as part of a low point in our democracy that harms a sense of legitimacy, competence, and positive sum outcomes.
It evidences the sheer power-play this process is about that in turn reminds us of the dysfunctional nature of it, which is coming from the upcoming power struggle of the midterms since it's a referendum on Trump and has implications for the nomination, the investigation, impeachment, etc. This is transparently about having the accused give a compromised defense or have the Republicans appear like they don't take the feelings of female victims seriously by not agreeing to these terms, complementing earlier Roe v Wade and Kavanaugh agitation in regards to the idea of settled law. These two narratives mixed with the idea he was selected to excuse Trump from indictment serves as a setup for the midterms that riles up a base and strengthens chances at the senate, which gives more leverage in issues like this nomination or the special counsel investigation, and the delays until then in the meantime may create enough sheer baggage heaved on a name that makes a successful confirmation costly for the right, all without largely actually having proven anything.
And what we see is a Republican-held Congress trying to rush Kavanaugh's confirmation process through ASAP for no reason but political expediency. Which is hilariously hypocritical considering practically the very same Republican contingent cockblocked Merrick Garland for a full year because they just refused to allow Obama to nominate a judge to the SCOTUS.
The White House is saying it can't have the FBI investigate this, but it was the White House itself that instructed the FBI to investigate Anita Hill's claims during the Thomas confirmation so that's another hypocrisy point.
There is no reason to rush Kavanaugh's confirmation and deny Ford a proper investigation except that Republicans seem to fear what may be found.
Support for Kavaungh is dropping.
Poll
Holy shit Republican approval of Kavanaugh increased six points after the allegations
I sit here wondering, why are they even doing this if they plan on confirming him anyway like they will most likely do? Still hopeful it will make a difference, for her and for us. Hard to be optimistic when these worms are doing everything they can to get this yes man sworn in.
Democrats probably hope that her testimony will translate to gains in the midterms, and the GOP can't really refuse to have her testify without looking really bad.
Republicans circle the wagons at any hint of criticism perceived to be "from the left".
Kavanaugh's legitimacy is also in question if his confirmation process is a rush job with Republicans obviously trying to sweep things under the rug. Remember the hundreds of thousands of documents that weren't released, and also the nearly hundred thousand documents released on Labor Day, the day before the confirmation hearings started, with Repubs aiming to make it a rubber-stamp affair. And this isn't even counting the massive questions of Trump's legitimacy.
We all know the GOP doesn't give a shit, they're just appeasing her to save face, but if this whole thing will help the democrats gain more favor then that might be the only silver lining.
Also, everyone needs to realize how the Republican handling of Kavanaugh and Ford's accusations, with several Republican senators having already made judgements on Ford's claims before any sort of investigation has been made, looks to women. They're basically trying to force the situation to remain nothing more than "he said she said" so her claims are easy to dismiss and a powerful (white) man can be protected by other powerful (white) men.
If there's anything that's going to trigger the Republicans to lose control of the Senate, it's this. The GOP in Congress is basically telling women to fuck off and let the men do their "job" of running the country.
Fairly sure he meant it as "[to the democrat leftists"
Not that anyone knows what the idiot thinks.
Seriously, what are Republicans afraid of? If Kavanaugh is clean as they say, then what harm can occur? If Ford's claims are bunk, then let the investigation happen and come up with "it's bullshit".
Fuck, having an investigation proceed and find Kavanaugh innocent would strengthen his nomination process and possibly bring some Senate Democrats across the aisle to vote in support of him. But Republicans seem to be trying to stop any digging into Kavanaugh's past except for specific windows they deem acceptable, and they absolutely will not give a straight answer as to why. All they can say is that it's "important" that Kavanaugh's confirmation occur rapidly, and they can't give a straight answer about why that is the case either -- especially after they fucked Merrick Garland and set the precedent that it's totally fine to keep a Supreme Court seat open for an entire year.
The GOP seriously feels like a party that desperately wants to transform into an assembly of oligarchs.
There might be some skeleton's in ol' Brett's closet bigger then attempted rape and perjury, whatever they would be
I couldn't help but nod the entire time reading your post. I don't dismiss your perspective and I am constantly hearing it from left-leaning friends of mine. It's never a good sign when we have these two sides who both have a self-righteous sense of all or nothing irreconcilable differences, meaning hypocrisy doesn't matter since it's about interests, not principles. I think the post-truth thing and information war is a sign of a growing chasm that rationalism and pragmatism can no longer bridge, politics is no longer policy debate. It's descending into ideological conflict over the most fundamental values and beliefs, which highlights the contradictions between liberty, equality, and order that modern society has long juggled. These values and beliefs are unevenly distributed across society in a way that lines up with cultural divisions, cementing everything. In a vast, postcolonial country like ours, these cultural divisions are much more potent force multipliers. I think the next step is the rise of mass movements.
The state only grows in these conditions, and because of it's clunky nature it's a mixed bag in who it benefits. I get the sense that democracy is a victim of its own dynamism and people are growing to resent the chaos. The polls I've seen are incredible. The amount of millennials (those youth who will struggle to enter the middle class, own homes and property, have a stable family, and thus have a stake in society) who are disillusioned with capitalism, our democracy, and our institutions like the media is so stark compared to previous generations. From the people I know from my high school class, I can only count socialists, libertarians, and populists. We are only 30 years or so into the liberal-democratic 'end of history' and it's already unraveling.
With the uneven nature of the recovery and future growth, changing balance and distribution of demographics, changing economic basis for the middle class, and intolerable inequality and plutocracy I don't see our democracy recovering. It always depended on a careful balance. At the same time, there are other world powers on the rise who are demonstrating that you don't need to be liberal and democratic to grow, because the market doesn't really care. The growth of the democracy index has stalled and reversed in the West. Whatever force was unleashed in the revolutions of the 19th century and expanded through the two world wars has hit a wall. That isn't actually new, but unlike the past it's happening within because we have achieved unipolarity. Not good.
I think this is where the modern mass society eats itself. I no longer think we are going through growing pains, this feels like a social bust cycle for democracy that we will not totally recover from because we historically expanded too quick and tried to revolutionize too fast, creating a bubble of unresolved issues, people left behind, and so on. I think this is what the decline of a great power feels like. If the 60s were a springtime thaw, the 2010s are a cold winter.
I don't look forward to the fallout from the midterms, let alone 2020.
https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/1043363124919902209
https://twitter.com/juliehdavis/status/1043354216767598592
Kavanaugh doesn't have Twitter lol
They could probably rescind the nomination and find someone without the baggage at this point but they won't because that would require admitting that the accusation against Kavanaugh is credible. and if they admit that, they would have to admit the accusations against Trump are also credible.
So they won't, because they're spineless and Trump and his base have a stranglehold on the party now.
I don't think a judge should be nominated anyway because he could very likely weigh in on the trial of the man who appointed him but whatever.
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