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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    In the interests of letting everyone keep their breakfasts down, I'm not going to link, but...

    The Guardian got excerpts of Stormy Daniels' forthcoming book, and she described the shape and size of Donald Trump's...

    Yeah. That's not something I'm going to get into, but I'll just say it is not a flattering description.
    This dead last when it comes to things that were even remotely important in America today.

    We're talking "Gary Busey said fifty things more important than this today."

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Well, Brett Kavanaugh's "good buddy", Mark Judge, who was in the room while he tried to rape a 15 year old and played loud music to cover up her protests, has refused to testify before the Senate to help Kavanaugh's case.

    Judge might be afraid of what skeletons from his own past would come out, given how his writing career amounts to him bragging about being a rowdy drunk through his teens, and putting a quote in his high school yearbook from Noel Coward, "Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs." Let's just say that his views on women through the years did not improve.
    Well, issue a supeona on his ass and find out if he’s willing to go to jail for Bob ‘n’ Weave Brett if he refuses to testify.

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    This dead last when it comes to things that were even remotely important in America today.

    We're talking "Gary Busey said fifty things more important than this today."
    Would you have said that if a Democrat was in the Oval Office?
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Would you have said that if a Democrat was in the Oval Office?
    Yes.

    This aspect of it the bigger picture is strictly "Clown Shoes".

    There are actual matters of legitimate consequence taking place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Well, Brett Kavanaugh's "good buddy", Mark Judge, who was in the room while he tried to rape a 15 year old and played loud music to cover up her protests, has refused to testify before the Senate to help Kavanaugh's case.

    Judge might be afraid of what skeletons from his own past would come out, given how his writing career amounts to him bragging about being a rowdy drunk through his teens, and putting a quote in his high school yearbook from Noel Coward, "Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs." Let's just say that his views on women through the years did not improve.
    I'm guessing he's afraid he'll get caught perjuring himself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    Yes.

    This aspect of it the bigger picture is strictly "Clown Shoes".

    There are actual matters of legitimate consequence taking place.
    Let's hope those "actual matters of legitimate consequence" actually inspire you to vote this time around.

    Most of this wouldn't even be happening if Trump wasn't president.

    And I'm not saying this just to criticize you -- I'm saying it because voting is the only real way to keep our government in check.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    I explicitly haven't said that Democrats are responding differently to the allegations because they're upset about Garland. I was worried that you suggested a link by bringing up Merrick Garland.

    You seem to be critical of Republicans for not immediately abandoning Kavanaugh (the letter became public two days ago.) What should be done about the allegation (and I'm assuming the recommended response would be the same regardless of his philosophy?) What action should we openly and unambiguously advocate for? A person can argue that in the face of a credible allegation, where the accused is offered a major promotion, we should have a presumption of guilt. We should at least have this discussion.

    I advocate to the Senate hearing from Ms. Ford, in a public or private setting depending on her preference. If some new evidence/ witnesses emerge, there may be a delay in the vote in order to determine this. Perhaps, there will be some kind of clarity (IE- If further credible allegations emerge, it would suggest this is a habitual issue for Kavanaugh and it will be easier to vote against him; scrutiny may undermine Ms. Ford's credibility.) Otherwise, there should be a vote based on clearly defined standards for the individual Senators.
    If I were in the GOP, I'd get rid of Kavanaugh and fast track someone without such a sketchy past. But the GOP are doubling down on this guy, despite everything.

    It's a bad look.

    The court of public opinion was already not wild about him before these serious allegations. But now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    If I were in the GOP, I'd get rid of Kavanaugh and fast track someone without such a sketchy past. But the GOP are doubling down on this guy, despite everything.

    It's a bad look.

    The court of public opinion was already not wild about him before these serious allegations. But now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aja_christopher View Post
    Let's hope those "actual matters of legitimate consequence" actually inspire you to vote this time around.

    Most of this wouldn't even be happening if Trump wasn't president.

    And I'm not saying this just to criticize you -- I'm saying it because voting is the only real way to keep our government in check.
    Didn't think that you were.

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    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    This dead last when it comes to things that were even remotely important in America today.

    We're talking "Gary Busey said fifty things more important than this today."
    Wait, the guy who has posted hundreds of times about the Lewinsky affair suddenly deems the sordid details of a president's infidelities as "remotely important" like a hypocrite?

    WHAAAAAAT? THE HELL YOU SAY.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Wait, the guy who has posted hundreds of times about the Lewinsky affair suddenly deems the sordid details of a president's infidelities as "remotely important" like a hypocrite?

    WHAAAAAAT? THE HELL YOU SAY.
    More like "Not Even Remotely Important..."

    Which is what the looks of any element of the current President's anatomy is.

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    Christine Blasey Ford Calls On FBI To Probe Kavanaugh Accusation Before Hearing

    The woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault had said she’d be willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Which leads to this....

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    Sen. Chuck Grassley: No Need For FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh Allegation

    “Nothing the FBI or any other investigator does would have any bearing on what Dr. Ford tells the committee,” the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said. Still covering for Kavanaugh, eh, Chuck? Afraid of the FBI might turn up?

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    Tucker Carlson Blames Sexual Assault Victims For Not Going To The Police

    The Fox News host said it’s a survivor’s “obligation as a citizen” “to protect the rest of us from whomever you believe did it.” It figures a shitstain like Fucker Carlson wouldn't understand how damned hard it is for frightened and traumatized women to go to police after a rape, especially when the attacker might be someone she knows or is close to her.

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    Brett Kavanaugh In 2015: ‘What Happens At Georgetown Prep Stays At Georgetown Prep’

    This didn’t age well. Damn straight it didn't. But hey, Republicans don't care what a scumbag Bob 'n' Weave Brett is, they just want him confirmed to SCOTUS, Period!

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    GOP Strategists Are Dreading A Hearing On Kavanaugh Assault Allegation

    “Eleven old white guys questioning a woman about teenage sex, what could go wrong?” What indeed!
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    I did an age check on the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    • Chuck Grassley- 84
    • Orrin Hatch- 84
    • Grassley- 84
    • Crapo- 67
    • Kennedy- 67
    • Cornyn- 66
    • Graham- 63
    • Tillis- 58
    • Flake- 56
    • Cruz- 48 (but feels way older because he’s that square and wants to run the clock back to at least the 1950s)
    • Lee- 47
    • Sasse- 46


    Their mean age is 62. SIXTY-TWO. Two of the younger members, Cruz and Lee, have some of the most backwards-ass views on women imaginable, and Ben Sasse just said that women opposing Kavanaugh were "being hysterical" in the first hearing. Those would be the ones you would THINK would have more evolved views on women, given their age. But not so much.

    Meanwhile, a reporter for Rolling Stone, Tim Dickinson, is doing some interesting digging on Brett Kavanaugh, and finding out that he never stopped getting "blackout drunk" after high school, with people from his college days acknowledging it was happening then (and a college yearbook entry that lists Kavanaugh as the Treasurer of the Keg City Club), and there are e-mails from after the millenium where an adult Kavanaugh seems to indicate drinking so much on boating trips he can't recall what happened during them, and making racist jokes about Asian massage parlors. There's a speech from 2014 at Yale where he talks about how he and his friends "fell out of the bus" drunk after chugging from a keg on a bus going to and from a Red Sox game. (*Note: Open alcohol on a motor vehicle... your Supreme Court Justice just admitted to taking part in a crime.)

    Making more sense why this is Trump's guy all the time, y'know?
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    On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of U.S. Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, who while first appointed to the Senate as a replacement for John Ensign after he resigned due to being embroiled in a sex scandal, Sen. Heller won election to a full term in 2012 winning with only 46% of the vote over Democrat Shelley Berkley, who pulled down 45% (the other 9% was independents and write-in candidates). Heller’s time in the spotlight has been marred by several extreme positions on issues like pay equality, women’s reproductive rights, gun control, and immigration reform. The man is spitefully partisan enough that he held a photo-op breakfast at an IHOP where a mass shooting had taken place on its one year anniversary to prove to the gun lobby that he didn’t care about people dying to keep him from voting the way he does on gun control. He was one of 18 senators who voted not just to have the 2013 Government Shutdown… but to keep the government closed in the vote to end it 16 days later. Most glaring, though, is how Sen. Heller decided to rally under the banner of racist rancher and tax scofflaw Cliven Bundy in 2013, calling him a “patriot” while criticizing the Bureau of Land Management for “overreach” and praising the “law-abiding Nevadans” on Bundy’s ranch who were pointing assault rifles at government employees doing their jobs and rounding up Bundy’s cattle off of government land. Up until the time that Cliven Bundy decided to teach America “something about the negro”, Dean Heller was proposing Congressional hearings to investigate the BLM and why they were at the Bundy Ranch. Because he clearly thought THEY were in the wrong. And that was just in our FIRST look at Sen. Heller. Our further follow-up looks at Sen. Heller have seen him voting to defund Planned Parenthood based on the fraudulent "sting" video produced by the Center for Medical Progress, but yet, failing to vote for funding to prevent the Zika Virus, which certainly couldn’t be a hypocritical stance, no sir. Heller also participated in a filibuster of an attempt to create a Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United, and signed onto a letter to make himself one of the #47Traitors who tried to sabotage ongoing negotiations between the State Department and Iran to forge a nuclear treaty and end decades of standoffs between our two nations.

    And with Dean Heller up for re-election in a swing state that’s trending blue in 2018… he’s had one of the worst new sessions of any member of the U.S. Senate, that have left his fortunes coming next fall looking pretty grim. Obviously Democrats aren’t going to be thrilled with a guy who voted to confirm every single member of Donald Trump’s “Cabinet of Horrors”, put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, and is currently chomping at the bit to vote to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court even though he’s a serial perjurer and alleged attempted rapist because Heller would rather live the Fundamentalist dream of outlawing abortion.

    That might have been why Heller thought to do some political calculus to see he might need to look a little more moderate, intimating that he would not vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act… which led to an embarrassing scene from the White House where Donald Trump made a not-so-veiled threat in front of him, and with the media present for not supporting the GOP’s efforts:
    You can see in the video the exact moment where Heller knows he’s found himself under the bus.

    As such, Sen. Heller caved to pressure from the president and people in his own party and voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it looked like the law was as good as dead, with all the Democrats voting with Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Susan Collins, and Vice-President Mike Pence would be the tiebreaker... but then late John McCain came in and got all dramatic with a "thumbs down"... so Dean Heller was forced to heel by Donald Trump for exactly nothing but bad press. And his constituents sure noticed, as his approval ratings dipped into the low 20s in the wake of the vote. And then, for whatever reason, he decided to be a co-sponsor of the GOP’s last ditch effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act with Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Bill Cassidy, that throws an estimated 32 million (that’s THIRTY-TWO MILLION) people off their health insurance, by far the worst “healthcare reform” bill thought up Republicans yet this term.

    Could it get worse? Well, how about that in the days after the terror attack carried out by white nationalists on the march in Charlottesville, as people began to identify hate-fueled nitwits from that rally, that people noted one of the more iconic faces there, Peter Cvjetanovic, was traced back just not to being a University of Nevado-Reno student... but that he had met and been photographed with Dean Heller. That's decidedly not a good look for Heller.

    And now, almost a year after the election, Dean Heller is finally admitted he voted for Donald Trump, as Trump's approval ratings also hit their lowest, falling into the 30s. Some polls are showing that not only would Heller lose to the Democratic favorite, Congresswoman Jackie Rosen easily, but he’s facing a fundraising battle after the Koch Brothers bailed on him, and have decided not to contribute towards his campaign. Also factor in the ethical scandal of how Sen. Heller decided to pay $50,000 to his own son, who purports himself to be a “Social Media Influencer” for “quality content”. That has drawn the attention of the FEC, because it seems a lot more like Heller is just trying to funnel money to his progeny.

    In any event, if Democrats are going to flip the Senate in 2018, Dean Heller’s seat is a must-win for Team Blue, and with any luck, this might be the last time we have to run a profile on this moronic corporate shill.
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    I don’t know what to think of this. On the Democrat side I get you want to vet the **** out of this allegation but the reality is that it’s unlikely you are going to find anything new on attempted rape allegation from 30 years ago where only 3 people were in the room and two deny it ever happening while the one who says something happened allegedly never told anyone until decades after. It’s still ultimately coming down to Ford’s word vs Kavanaugh and Judges. It’s virtually impossible to prove beyond whoever you believe more. If you’re a Republican, you don’t want to delay the vote at all especially for something that’s almost gauranteed timtirn up inconclusive so you either do the testimony or you move forward, but you don’t want to come off line you are sweeping this under the rug. If there wasn’t a clock in this I think it would be different

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    I'd believe the person in that room who was sober

    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    I did an age check on the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    • Chuck Grassley- 84
    • Orrin Hatch- 84
    • Grassley- 84
    • Crapo- 67
    • Kennedy- 67
    • Cornyn- 66
    • Graham- 63
    • Tillis- 58
    • Flake- 56
    • Cruz- 48 (but feels way older because he’s that square and wants to run the clock back to at least the 1950s)
    • Lee- 47
    • Sasse- 46


    Their mean age is 62. SIXTY-TWO. Two of the younger members, Cruz and Lee, have some of the most backwards-ass views on women imaginable, and Ben Sasse just said that women opposing Kavanaugh were "being hysterical" in the first hearing. Those would be the ones you would THINK would have more evolved views on women, given their age. But not so much.

    Meanwhile, a reporter for Rolling Stone, Tim Dickinson, is doing some interesting digging on Brett Kavanaugh, and finding out that he never stopped getting "blackout drunk" after high school, with people from his college days acknowledging it was happening then (and a college yearbook entry that lists Kavanaugh as the Treasurer of the Keg City Club), and there are e-mails from after the millenium where an adult Kavanaugh seems to indicate drinking so much on boating trips he can't recall what happened during them, and making racist jokes about Asian massage parlors. There's a speech from 2014 at Yale where he talks about how he and his friends "fell out of the bus" drunk after chugging from a keg on a bus going to and from a Red Sox game. (*Note: Open alcohol on a motor vehicle... your Supreme Court Justice just admitted to taking part in a crime.)

    Making more sense why this is Trump's guy all the time, y'know?
    Wow....this makes Professor Ford's story even more credible IMO. His drinking buddy who was in the room at the time of the incident even wrote a book about being black-out drunk frequently in his school days.

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