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Ernest

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With Kavanaugh's stance that the President shouldn't be investigated for crimes - I hope they grill him at his confirmation about it, and if he thinks that should hold true even if the president were guilty of treason and/or murder.
 

Plinko

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Kavanaugh is:

A) A white male
B) On record as being in favor of allowing a president to ignore any code of morals or ethics
C) The worst possible pick

There was always a 99.9% chance he would be the pick.

With Kavanaugh's stance that the President shouldn't be investigated for crimes - I hope they grill him at his confirmation about it, and if he thinks that should hold true even if the president were guilty of treason and/or murder.

Who from the government gets to grill him--does every senator get to have some time?
 

Casa

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It's so frustrating... *sigh*

We need a youtube collab on government 101.
Put Lindsey Ellis, Cody Johnston, CaptainDisillusion, Will Schoder, CGP Grey, etc together to make some edutainment videos on shit school failed at.



If all the GOP votes for it, what does Manchin, et all have to gain?
I know, that's what I mean. If he nominates someone with views that are polar opposite of Dems, why would a single one vote yes, even the red state ones? I know it doesn't matter, but it would be symbolic I suppose if zero Dems vote yes. It's what the base wants.
 

Plinko

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My favorite part about Kavanaugh being the pick is easily going to be Rand Paul saying he won't confirm and then voting "yes."
 
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y'all fallin for the reality show today i see. smh

^^^

Yep. He barely has the faculties to know who actually works for him and that may or may not be in the same room much less who would be qualified. He's given a list and is probably going with who has the easiest name to remember or sounds the coolest like he's naming his own RPG character.



I assume anything that magically appears and is throttling social media with hashtags like that are Russian scams and bots.

Hamilton68. Learn it, love it, visit it every time you suspect some big hashtag comes out of the Kremlin's butt.

Like, for some reason, the bots are pushing David Davis reaaaaaaaaaaly hard right now instead of Boris.
 

Slatsunus

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I have so many fucking posts from the last couple hours of people being declarative saved in a draft just in case, lol Christ.

And people mock the OT threads
 

Plinko

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Interesting. I'm sure he'll have miraculously changed his views since then.

I have so many fucking posts from the last couple hours of people being declarative saved in a draft just in case, lol Christ.

And people mock the OT threads

And? So what if we are wrong? It's not a big deal.


I'm sorry, what now?
 

KtotheRoc

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I guess I don't need to watch The Handmaid's Tale since we will soon be living through it in real time.
 

Ogodei

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That's what burns me about Kavanaugh and what could save him, he's the one who went after Clinton, he'll be there to piss off libs to the end of his days, which can't be short enough.
 

BWoog

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Looking at his background, Kavanaugh clerked for Kennedy. That seems like a big tell.
 

Paches

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Got home and got this in the mail courtesy of the Freedom Foundation

(Picture is mammoth in size so beware)

h7H2hTK.jpg

Love how they present it as "stop paying them and continue to reap the benefits". Fuckers.
 

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At the end of the day, someone should go back and see if there are more posts of people wondering who the next supreme court justice is, or posts of people complaining about those people.
 

Stinkles

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This kind of thing has been bothering me for a while - trying to apply rational descriptions to the actions of trump and his people - as if Trump just genuinely likes Putin and is ignoring advice because he disagrees with it. He's ignoring advice because he is highly compromised - to such a degree that he paraphrases Putin rather than inject his own thoughts. He's terrified of whatever that kompromat is. It must be incredibly bad - but that could also just be colossally criminal tax returns rather than some pee soaked snuff tape. But whatever it is, it is deciding our policy towards Russia.
 

Ogodei

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This thread got embarrassing today.

A little hope's not bad from time to time, and may still bear out.

Wonder who leaked the Hardiman thing though.

This kind of thing has been bothering me for a while - trying to apply rational descriptions to the actions of trump and his people - as if Trump just genuinely likes Putin and is ignoring advice because he disagrees with it. He's ignoring advice because he is highly compromised - to such a degree that he paraphrases Putin rather than inject his own thoughts. He's terrified of whatever that kompromat is. It must be incredibly bad - but that could also just be colossally criminal tax returns rather than some pee soaked snuff tape. But whatever it is, it is deciding our policy towards Russia.

He could try to pardon himself for colossally criminal tax returns. It's why I'm more inclined to believe Pee Tape or something like it.
 
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pigeon

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Oct 25, 2017
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The next justice will be Scalia's corpse

There's nothing in the constitution that says you can't nominate a guy who's already dead and then he'll never have to retire
 

Kaitos

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Oct 25, 2017
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From the Politico article on Beto. This seems... unwise.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/09/beto-mania-sweeps-texas-218961

For his part, Cruz—whose 2016 presidential campaign earned a reputation as the best-run in the field, despite losing— has taken a passive approach. "Do we want to go out and define the guy now?" Roe told me. "It's pretty expensive to define somebody in Texas. It's a lot easier to let him define himself." Roe argued that O'Rourke is "self-radicalizing" in front of voters—on issues like impeaching Trump, gun control and "Medicare for all"—which is great for firing up the base but a poor way to beat Cruz in Texas.
 

kess

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Fuck this stupid game show nomination. Kavanaugh is probably best for the right in the medium term but will probably engage liberals to an hitherto unheard of rage for the next couple of years. Hardiman probably blunts that momentum.
 

Autodidact

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Fuck this stupid game show nomination. Kavanaugh is probably best for the right in the medium term but will probably engage liberals to an hitherto unheard of rage for the next couple of years. Hardiman probably blunts that momentum.
Exactly, which is why I thought Hardiman would be the nominee.

Guess I might have to eat some crow.
 

Teggy

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Whatever, that was an LMD and Barrett is on her way to DC right now in Blue Thunder.
 
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