Yup. That’s a much bigger issue right now than the unfairness of Obama’s candidate not getting a hearing. If this guy is going to protect the constitution swear him in before Lord Commander Marmalade changes his mind.
That should be in the optimism thread!
Trump’s supporter’s boycotts tend to be counterproductive and almost impossible to implement.
In some cases they are just downright stupid – like the plan to buy Starbucks coffee and submit “Trump” or “Merry Christmas” as the name so that the barista has to say it… yeah, buying more of their product will really stick it to 'em guys. Good plan.
Others are just too general or universal to be viable. Let’s boycott watching Super Bowl ads! Let’s boycott Amazon! Let’s boycott Budweiser! These little temper-tantrums involve too few people against targets that are simply too big to be moved even by a movement an order of magnitude larger.
Never mind that it was confirmed by Gorusch’s own spokesperson.
ShivaX
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4% Truth!
16% if you’re generous.
30% if you’re extremely generous.
50% if you don’t understand the concept of reality.
I’m curious which of these layers of the story you are denying as ‘fake’:
- Gorsuch said “disheartening” & “demoralizing”
- Blumenthal repeated it to reporters
- Reporters asked Bonjean about the Gorsuch/Blumenthal conversation and he confirmed the wording
Note Bonjean was appointed BY TRUMP as the spokesman for Gorsuch during confirmation. Now Trump tweets attacking Blumenthal and denying the language (a conversation he was not even present for) but he is credible?
I could see an argument that “the whole controversy is fake” if you mean that Trump et al planned it as a Gorsuch-stands-up-to-Trump show for reporters to bolster his confirmation chance.
magnet
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Now confirmed by Republican ex-Senator Kelly Ayotte:
He has also emphasized the importance of an independent judiciary, and while he made clear that he was not referring to any specific case, he said that he finds any criticism of a judge’s integrity and independence disheartening and demoralizing
Sorry, I’m trying to be funny here (as funny as this nonsense can be). I’m just saying this is how it will be spun. As soon as it came out and I saw Senate Democrat says… I knew that is what would be focused on solely. Not what was said. Trump’s tweet just reinforced that. It won’t matter what anyone else says.
Oh thank gorb, I thought you were just crazy.
Always remember Poe’s Law.
I thought it was obvious, in looking back though I should have been more clear. I keep forgetting the times we are living in and someone might actually say something like that seriously.
I’ve been watching a number of the usual shows like Daily Show and Closer Look and Stephen Colbert and I’m struggling to separate fact from satire. It’s so crazy that you could tell me Trump tweeted to outlaw China and I’d laugh, then google to make sure you were really just kidding.
kerzain
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It was obvious to me. Keep on keeping on.
Satire is really obsolete, because satire requires an exaggerated position so extreme that it is obvious nobody could possibly actually believe it. Today there is no such extremity of position which someone hasn’t already honestly advocated and made even more extreme…
The world of Putin, 2017.
Timex
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The only reason that Joe’s statement wasn’t immediately recognized as obvious humor, is because it is literally the statement made by the fucking leader of the free world.
Fuck everything 2017
Ephraim
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I think Americans need to retire this phrase from their lexicon. It is no longer true. Where Trump leads, very few will follow.
This is exactly what I was trying to accomplish (sounding like Trump). That is why when I saw his tweet this morning I had to restate it.
Like I told my Trump supporting coworkers, please please let me be completely wrong about Trump and how damaging I think he is going to be. I will be more than happy to be proven wrong about him. So far though, not seeing it.
KevinC
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Oh yeah, I hear you. And that’s what I never understood about so-called “conservatives” rooting for Obama’s presidency to fail. Whoever is in charge, they’re the captain of the ship and we’re all aboard. I don’t know why you’d root for the captain to go on a drunken bender and ram the country into an iceberg.
If Trump, by some miracle or come-to-Jesus moment of introspection, turned into a terrific president I’d happily eat crow every single day. I’d like nothing more that to be completely and utterly wrong (but I know I won’t be).
Djscman
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I hadn’t heard of that Blumenthal claim that he fought in Vietnam, so I did slightly more research than Trump did. Blumenthal was in the Marines Corps Reserve from '70 until '76. He was stationed stateside, not Vietnam. He had an honorable discharge. He did make one speech in 2008 where, in a passage about his stance on our troops fighting in OIF and OEF, included these lines: “We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam. And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it – Afghanistan or Iraq – we owe our military men and women unconditional support.” He later said he misspoke and meant to say “during” Vietnam. He did say “served” and not “fought”. Prepositional clauses are important! But I think the (major lie) is a misstatement (major/minor lie).
Trump loves tainting his enemies with childish and inaccurate names (like how he referred to Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” during a Presidential debate). I think it’s especially annoying here, and the President certainly invites comparison to his own Vietnam experiences. Is it worse to misstate one’s service and imply that you were deployed in a combat zone, or to sit back with some bullshit physical deferment that kept you out of that same war? Who has more military experience to boast about: spending six years in noncombat service, or ordering one failed raid in Yemen?
