2959

God, this is why i hate social media so much.

A nice picture and a nice name, good diction and firm sounding direct speech, and you’re a somebody.

I can’t tell or put hope into all these rumors being tossed around, because i’m not going spend the time and research each and every one.

2960

We’ll know something is up if the folks who walked out come back before 1:30

2961

???2345

2962

Tester (D-MT) is a NO on Kavanaugh. Expected, but he hadn’t said so explicitly I believe.

2963

As I watched the elevator clip, I had a brief moment of wondering if It might sway Flake back on the fence. You have to be a completely shameless shitbag to not feel some degree of guilt in a moment like that and, as I said, while most of them are indeed shameless shitbags, some of them are merely shitbags.

After yesterday, I can’t bring myself to hope but if Flakes flips back, I think that elevator moment would be the reason

2964

I don’t think he’ll flip back either, but when I thought hope was lost on the ACA vote last summer, it was little bits of weirdness like that report that developed into the win it eventually ended up as.

To the point:

2965

Hmmm…

Also, now I understand why a lot of you don’t like Andrew Sullivan

And so when Lindsey Graham suddenly unloaded on the Democrats, I felt a wave of euphoria. “Yes,” I said to myself. “Go get ’em, Butters!”

2966

I’m just waiting for for Grassley to pull Flake into the chamber with a gun to his head and Collins with her arms physically held behind her back. Murkowski’s grandchildren are probably held in a Scandal-style secured location.

2967

Andrew Sullivan’s article actually did bring me back around to not viewing this as harshly as I was. His point about private lives vs public lives is actually a good one.

2968

The phrase ‘kangaroo court’ is synonymous with a mockery of justice, and that’s exactly what Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is facing.

One woman complained that high school kids, including Kavanaugh, lined up for a ‘rape train’ against her, but she never contacted the police at the time. Nobody even heard mention or rumor of such an event. In fact, she continued to attend more parties. Now, over 30 years later, she’s complaining. In actuality, the increasing line of leftist women coming out the woodwork to claim Kavanaugh assaulted them are now running a ‘lie train’ to stop his confirmation.

Some feminists are yelling that any report of men sexually assaulting them in the past MUST be believed. They’re saying that women aren’t capable of lying for political purposes like men do. Isn’t that sexism? Women lie and commit crimes just like men.

Especially when they consider the ends justify the means.

What means justify their lying? Their right to easy abortions. They leftists love abortion and want to protect Roe vs. Wade by any means. There are 3,000 abortions performed per day in the United States. One report shows more blacks babies are aborted yearly in New York than there are being born. Abortion has become another form of birth control in these days of sexual profligacy. Aborted fetal tissue is being used in bio medical products. It’s a dark, almost ghoulish subject and is almost too painful to contemplate, but many of these women see abortion as a virtue. Hillary Clinton loves abortion and once claimed a baby had no rights at all—even an hour before birth. I happen to believe unborn babies do feel pain when aborted—but they have nobody to speak for them.

Except God.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is another possible reason why Democrats continue to send protestors out of their clown car. Some are funded by George Soros. These efforts at protest can be tolerated but eventually it can be seen as sedition if they continually try to block the vote to appoint a qualified candidate nominated by a qualified and lawfully elected president.

As for Kavanaugh, none of his accusers can produce even a tiny shred of evidence of any sexual assault whatsoever. It’s empty hearsay and obstruction.

It’s time to conduct a confirmation vote and end the ‘me too’ farce.

—Ben Garrison

2969
2970

That is beyond disgusting.

2971

Its all about the Benjamins, baby!

2972

I wonder if Flake, who clearly stated his position, might be engaging in old-school political horse trading, the kind of backroom deals that nowadays are looked back on with wistful nostalgia compared to rigid partisan voting common today. What might the Democrats give up in exchange for his No vote?

2973

This goes well beyond BK’s behavior as a young adult.
His Fox News screed (“Clintons out to get me!”), his treatment of Democratic Senators, his unbearable, entitled douchebagery flies in the face of “judicial temperament.” He has a right to be angry, but that does not excuse him from turning into a trump toadstool.

2974

C’mon, he isn’t half as shrill as Hillary was during those Benghazi hearings. Oh, wait.

2975

Thanks to this I read Sullivan’s tripe.

It is particularly rich that Sullivan is interested in preserving a private sphere outside of the purview of the state in defense of Kavanaugh, who is all too willing to destroy that sphere with regard to both abortion rights and gay rights. Sullivan’s cognitive dissonance is deafening.

But even if we ignore what Kavanaugh is likely to do on the court, the argument fails because Kavanaugh himself rejected it. He had the opportunity to say that his juvenile behavior was what it was but isn’t relevant to who he is now. Instead, he chose to whitewash his past and lie about easily refutable matters-- and he did this because he represents the side that truly has the totalitarian world view.

2976

Why does Garrison feel the need to explain his political cartoon?

2977

No, just no.

This complaint would resonate with me if he hadn’t blatantly lied about every one of these things, under oath, “on penalty of felony” as he said so many times.

This is just smarmy bullshit whataboutism. Blumenthal’s point was that juries are instructed to consider lies about little exculpatory details like, say, whether you ever blacked out, or made jokes about anal sex or threesomes, as indicative of lies about big exculpatory details, like whether you ever tried to rape someone.

Andrew Sullivan can go fuck himself.

2978

Particularly crazy coming from Sullivan, who is himself an out gay man, right?