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Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 12:59 pm
by wease
B wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:run2death wrote:Are we in double digits yet?
can we get an official list going? Because I'm pretty sure people are just counting the same ones over and over.
I have :
1. Ford: sexual assault in high school. no evidence. no witnesses. passed a lie detector test in which she was asked only two pertinent questions. 4 people swore she told them her story decades later, and this qualifies as proof somehow.
2. Ramirez: his dick was in her face at a party in college. won't testify without an investigation. no evidence. no witnesses.
3. Swetnick: saw him in line at a gang rape party in college, which apparently she frequented quite often, yet no one has ever heard of her or any of this. Has about as much credibility as pizzagate for a few reasons.
4. Some loon who called for a coup and accused Trump of manslaughter. later recanted, but #believesurvivors, right? (incredibly, this was considered to be a serious accusation, as CNN and others apparently considered it to have merit)
5. I think one more? some anonymous one. no date, place, names. but yeah I'm sure this is the one that will do him in.
Are we done with this bullshit now?
Well, Renate Schroeder, one of the 65 women who signed a letter of support for Kavanaugh found out this week that he was secretly calling her a slut behind her back when they released his yearbook of evidence of his high moral character.
Ha! What a douche.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 1:50 pm
by run2death
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 3:03 pm
by Electromatic
BurtReynolds wrote:run2death wrote:Are we in double digits yet?
can we get an official list going? Because I'm pretty sure people are just counting the same ones over and over.
I have :
1. Ford: sexual assault in high school. no evidence. no witnesses. passed a lie detector test in which she was asked only two pertinent questions. 4 people swore she told them her story decades later, and this qualifies as proof somehow.
2. Ramirez: his dick was in her face at a party in college. won't testify without an investigation. no evidence. no witnesses.
3. Swetnick: saw him in line at a gang rape party in college, which apparently she frequented quite often, yet no one has ever heard of her or any of this. Has about as much credibility as pizzagate for a few reasons.
4. Some loon who called for a coup and accused Trump of manslaughter. later recanted, but #believesurvivors, right? (incredibly, this was considered to be a serious accusation, as CNN and others apparently considered it to have merit)
5. I think one more? some anonymous one. no date, place, names. but yeah I'm sure this is the one that will do him in.
Are we done with this bullshit now?
The due date for being done is November 6th or so.... until then, probably one a week.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 3:07 pm
by ---
BurtReynolds wrote:Who was under the delusion that the supreme court nomination process wasn't political before this?
Thought of this post after reading something about the history of confirmations and confirmation hearings the other day.
Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98-0, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed 96-3, and Clarence Thomas was confirmed by a Democratic-majority Senate. The process might have always been political, but it's never been this
partisan. I'm not optimistic we'll ever get back to the point where this process -
any political process, really - isn't hopelessly compromised by partisan fatuousness.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 3:10 pm
by Simple Torture
There's a lot going on, but I don't want the day to move on much further before we acknowledge that Grassley cannot pronounce the name "Ramirez" (and it's the first "r" that gives him trouble)
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 3:13 pm
by digster
This setup is absolutely bizarre. I know why the Republicans did it, but it's still asinine.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 3:26 pm
by verb_to_trust
Grassley is cracking me up
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 3:29 pm
by Strat
This is actually quite heartbreaking
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 3:32 pm
by Chris_H_2
Strat wrote:This is actually quite heartbreaking
i know you meant nothing by it, but in case you did, why the use of the word "actually?"
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 3:33 pm
by verb_to_trust
Judge looked sick at work because he was hungover, clearly
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:17 pm
by Superblood Wolfmoon
Boy, Chuck Grassley doesn't come off like an angry old grandpa at all.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:19 pm
by Strat
meatwad wrote:Boy, Chuck Grassley doesn't come off like an angry old grandpa at all.
He's an awful human being.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:23 pm
by verb_to_trust
He knows where every Dairy Queen is in Iowa
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:26 pm
by verb_to_trust
This is such a shit show. These breaks every 5 minutes so that this God awful panel can interject their political ramblings is really distracting. We just need linear questioning from the bull dyke lawyer lady uninterrupted.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:27 pm
by McParadigm
meatwad wrote:Boy, Chuck Grassley doesn't come off like an angry old grandpa at all.
Former political director for the RNC and still working GOP campaign strategist:
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:28 pm
by verb_to_trust
I wonder if Coke had to pay for this product placement.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:29 pm
by Superblood Wolfmoon
I can't believe Republicans let this move forward. I can't understand why Kavanaugh is their man until the bitter end, but I think by the end of the day it's going to be clear he won't be confirmed. And what a disaster that is a month before the midterms.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:32 pm
by McParadigm
meatwad wrote:I can't believe Republicans let this move forward. I can't understand why Kavanaugh is their man until the bitter end, but I think by the end of the day it's going to be clear he won't be confirmed. And what a disaster that is a month before the midterms.
If the White House wont pull him and he won’t step aside, their only real options are “investigate the claims properly, and risk running out of time to get a replacement lined up,” or “rush the defense and then let him fail in a full vote.”
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:38 pm
by bada
Ugh Blumenthal.
Re: The Supreme Court
Posted: Thu September 27, 2018 4:38 pm
by Superblood Wolfmoon
bada wrote:Ugh Blumenthal.
Yeah.