2858

Am I wrong in thinking today was a sign of progress (albeit painfully slow progress) rather than regress?

I sincerely doubt, although I am not well-versed on the history, that this is the first guy on the Supreme Court that has committed sexual offenses. Whereas in the past these guys would skate through and get these important jobs without even having to defend themselves (which Brett was clearly annoyed about today) or having past indiscretions made public, at least now it is getting alot of public attention and only one major news network is trying to humiliate the victims whose accusations haven’t even been officially tested in court.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice, etc. etc., is one of the few ideas that keep a small part of me optimistic.

2859

It’s as I suspected from the beginning. Today was all pro forma bullshit, and the Republicans are all falling in line like good little Bolsheviks (remember, Bannon claims to be a Leninist in terms of party discipline), for the Cause.

2860

Understandable, same.

2861

After all of the shit that’s happened, it’s hard to pick just one day to be the worst. But this feels bad in a way that I haven’t felt since then. How could anybody watch what happened today and think that woman is lying and that Kavanaugh is the best we can do? How do all those Republican senators say with a straight face that Ford is good and brave to walk out into this shitstorm and then in the same breath accuse the Democrats of trying to ruin this innocent man’s good name.

2862

Because it’s just words.

They are free to lie, because they pay no price for lying.

2863

The folks they were citing as a character witness earlier today think it should be investigated.

2864

It’s not really about that if you are a Republican senator. If your party’s president picks his guy, unless there is unambiguous reason to reject him, he gets him. They can set their own standard for what is credible and what matters for their consent, but they don’t get to pick their own guy.

2865

I am heartbroken for Ford. I can’t imagine giving that testimony and then just have it erased the same day by 4 hours of lies and bluster. She must feel like everything she risked and sacrificed was for nothing.

2866

Yeah, it is horrible. I’m just glad that my daughters aren’t old enough yet to understand it all.

2867

I guess the reason this hurts is that a whole bunch of people heard Dr. Ford’s testimony today and said they believed her, but they simply don’t care.

2868

The answer was in the question. Speaking of which, one of the other things that makes me angry is I now equate someone who is a Republican with being an immoral, racist , sexist, fascist until proven otherwise. I never used to think that way and I do not like having anger in my life .They have driven me to it with their behaviour.

2869

I feel the exact same way. Not happy about it either.

2870

In the department of irony department:


2871

This will make ZERO difference. They’re plowing through.

2872

So what’s the schedule? I saw somewhere the final vote is Tuesday? Or is it tomorrow?

2873

What I read was committee tomorrow, and Saturday for Senate.

2874

Procedural vote on Saturday, which is basically a temperature-taking. They may then immediately move to the actual full senate confirmation right then, or they may wait until Monday or Tuesday of next week.

2875

What gets me is how transparent his lies were. “No, ‘Renate Alumnus’ didn’t imply anything sexual.”
Really!? They even wrote a fucking poem implying precisely that she was the go-to girl if you wanted a good time. But that makes no difference when you’re a fucking toady.

2876
2877

Thanks guys.