CNN Poll: Negative views of Kavanaugh rise
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Friday, October 5, 2018
Here's where I'll be for the weekend
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| The Berkshires in the fall. |
With a stop off at Davis Square for the HONK! Festival Friday night.
Then off to the Berkshires, and on Saturday afternoon, Aida at the Met!
I'll check in from time to time.
Be excellent to each other!
John Fugelsang always gets it right:
Every man who really believes Kavanaugh didn't lie under oath should send his wife & daughter into a frat house offering to play Devil's Triangle.
In the Age of Trump...
where hearing the Liar-in-Chief lie daily is like hearing him breathe daily, it is not surprising that President Unindicted Co-Conspirator would choose another liar to sit on the nation's highest court:
"First, he [Kavanaugh] gave misleading answers under oath. Judges — particularly Supreme Court justices — must have, and be seen as having, unimpeachable integrity. The knuckleheaded mistakes of a young person — drinking too much, writing offensive things in a high school yearbook — should not in themselves be bars to high office. But deliberately misleading senators about them during a confirmation process has to be. If Judge Kavanaugh will lie about small things, won’t he lie about big ones as well? Indeed he already has: During the course of his confirmation hearings, he claimed, implausibly, that he was not aware that files he received from a Senate staff member, some labeled 'highly confidential' or 'intel,' had been stolen from Democratic computers.
Even the small lies, of course, aren’t so small in context, since they relate to drinking or sex and thus prop up his choir-boy-who-indulged-now-and-then defense.
Second, confronted with the accusations against him, Judge Kavanaugh made recourse not to reason and methodical process, but to fury and the rawest partisanship. Judges — particularly Supreme Court justices — must strive to be, and be seen as, above politics.
As Judge Kavanaugh said in a 2015 speech, 'to be a good judge and a good umpire, it’s important to have the proper demeanor.' He added: 'To keep our emotions in check. To be calm amidst the storm. On the bench, to put it in the vernacular, don’t be a jerk.'Wise words. He wasn’t able to live by them when it mattered. "
The rest is HERE.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
No kidding.
Feinstein: White House May Have Blocked FBI From Doing Its JobTop Democrats said Thursday the FBI probe into sexual-misconduct allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh was an “incomplete investigation.”
The FBI was ordered to do an incomplete, biased "investigation" by the Liar, Tax Cheat, Serial Adulterer, Fraud, and Self-Admitted Sexual Assaulter -- Donald J. Trump.
Did the American people really believe the so-called "investigation" would be anything but Kabuki theater for TrumpCultists?
Kavanaugh will become a Supreme but with an asterisk after his name which will include the fact that he was an accused attempted rapist, a drunk, and a liar. He's exactly the sort of person the current cultists in the GOP admire.
Trump will not be president forever., but this shameful Supreme will be on the Court for a long, long time to remind America that we are a nation in decline, a nation that has no honor or decency.
It doesn't matter. The accused sexual assaulter and known liar will be confirmed. He represents everything the current GOP is, a haven for accused sexual assaulters and rotten liars -- like Donald J. Trump..
National Council of Churches calls for Kavanaugh's nomination to be withdrawn
Jesuits, legal institutions back away from Kavanaugh vote
Yale Law School Dean Calls For Kavanaugh Investigation Before Confirmation Vote
American Bar Association Pulls Support for Kavanaugh,
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Like the thing who nominated him, Kavanaugh is an accused sexual assaulter, a liar, and a rage-filled privileged white male; and the GOP is poised to send him to the SCOTUS.
Kavanaugh and Trump are what the GOP has become: Deviant, deranged, and deplorable.
Here's a bit of a reminder of the gag-worthy, repulsive hypocrisy of the current GOP:
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
DONALD J. TRUMP: A sickening profile in cowardice
Republican Jeff Flake calls Trump’s speech ‘kind of appalling’ while Ford’s lawyer condemns ‘vicious, vile and soulless attack’
A Few Questions
In Mississippi last night Donald J. Trump stood in front of a crowd of his cultists and mocked a woman who is a victim of sexual assault. His cultists cheered, laughed, and screamed "LOCK HER UP!"
Add Trump's mockery to what he's done in the past: mocked a disabled journalist, a female reporter, an American hero and former POW, a Gold Star family, and the 19 women who have accused HIM of sexual assault and harassment.
What Trump did is beneath the dignity of the office of the president of the United States, but Donald J. Trump is devoid of human dignity and belongs in a trough with pigs.
In a post below, a copy was posted of a statement by someone who questioned Dr. Ford's tone of voice and style of glasses, implying she was play-acting to give the appearance of vulnerability and innocence. IOW, the commenter obviously believes Dr. Ford couldn't possibly be what she appears to be: A victim who was sexually assaulted when she was a teenager and who had the courage to come forward to tell her story about a man who hopes to get a lifetime job judging other people in cases that could affect us all. As is normal in this country of white male privilege, the victim is demeaned and suspect while the accused is given every benefit of the doubt. This is America, and even as we saw the other day, #45 insult a female journalist in front of the world, this is also how too many men disrespect and degrade women, this is how they victim shame.
Remember in November!
A few questions:
Do any pictures or videos exist of Judge Kavanaugh drinking publicly or delivering a lecture in a classroom setting, sober?
Does he normally talk in that angry, sniveling, "I don't deserve this; I'm a victim!" voice? Does he always blame other people for his bad behavior -- i.e., the Klintoons? Libtards? DemocRATS?
Does he normally sneer to make himself appear menacing and, at the same time, thin-skinned? Is his normal demeanor belligerent, onery, contemptible, and privileged?
Does this look like a person with the temperament to be a fair-minded, thoughtful, politically unbiased Supreme?
Add Trump's mockery to what he's done in the past: mocked a disabled journalist, a female reporter, an American hero and former POW, a Gold Star family, and the 19 women who have accused HIM of sexual assault and harassment.
What Trump did is beneath the dignity of the office of the president of the United States, but Donald J. Trump is devoid of human dignity and belongs in a trough with pigs.
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In a post below, a copy was posted of a statement by someone who questioned Dr. Ford's tone of voice and style of glasses, implying she was play-acting to give the appearance of vulnerability and innocence. IOW, the commenter obviously believes Dr. Ford couldn't possibly be what she appears to be: A victim who was sexually assaulted when she was a teenager and who had the courage to come forward to tell her story about a man who hopes to get a lifetime job judging other people in cases that could affect us all. As is normal in this country of white male privilege, the victim is demeaned and suspect while the accused is given every benefit of the doubt. This is America, and even as we saw the other day, #45 insult a female journalist in front of the world, this is also how too many men disrespect and degrade women, this is how they victim shame.
Remember in November!
A few questions:
Do any pictures or videos exist of Judge Kavanaugh drinking publicly or delivering a lecture in a classroom setting, sober?
Does he normally talk in that angry, sniveling, "I don't deserve this; I'm a victim!" voice? Does he always blame other people for his bad behavior -- i.e., the Klintoons? Libtards? DemocRATS?
Does he normally sneer to make himself appear menacing and, at the same time, thin-skinned? Is his normal demeanor belligerent, onery, contemptible, and privileged?
Does this look like a person with the temperament to be a fair-minded, thoughtful, politically unbiased Supreme?
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh Slapped With Two Official Ethics Complaints in Merrick Garland’s Jurisdiction
Two ethics complaints have been filed against Brett Kavanaugh in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court on which he sits.
As of this writing, those two complaints are being administered by the circuit court’s chief judge and previously defeated Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Kavanaugh is likely to face ethical questions despite the disposition of those two official complaints due to his partisan attacks against Democrats, “the Clintons” and other liberal groups when he alleged a vast, left-wing conspiracy against him during testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
TOO BAD KAVANAUGH DIDN'T TAKE HIS OWN ADVICE
via Digby:
"To be a good judge and a good umpire, it’s important to have the proper demeanor. Really important, I think. To walk in the others’ shoes, whether it be the other litigants, the litigants in the case, the other judges. To understand them. To keep our emotions in check. To be calm amidst the storm. On the bench, to put it in the vernacular, don’t be a jerk. I think that’s important. To be a good umpire and a good judge, don’t be a jerk. In your opinions, to demonstrate civility—I think that’s important as well. To show, to help display, that you are trying to make the decision impartially and dispassionately based on the law and not based on your emotions. That we’re not the bigger than the game…There’s a danger of arrogance, as for umpires and referees, but also for judges. And I would say that danger grows the more time you’re on the bench. As one of my colleagues puts it, you become more like yourself—and that can be a problem."
Who said this?
Why it was Judge Brett Kavanaugh in 2015, who else?
Matt Damon as Brett Kavanaugh in SNL Cold Open
I've been away since Saturday and just returned today.
I missed the season premier of SNL on Saturday night but was able to catch it via YouTube. Matt Damon as Brett Kavanaugh was brilliant -- he captured Kavanaugh's insufferable White Man's Privilege attitude, sniveling whining, and serial lying perfectly.
For those of you who missed it, here it is in all its naked truth:
Friday, September 28, 2018
THIS SHOULD MATTER:
American Bar Association and Yale Law School Urge F.B.I. Inquiry Into Kavanaugh
The American Bar Association called Thursday evening for postponing a vote on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court until sexual assault and misconduct allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and others are investigated by the F.B.I.
The dean of Yale Law School, Judge Kavanaugh’s alma mater, echoed the A.B.A.’s call. “Proceeding with the confirmation process without further investigation is not in the best interest of the Court or our profession,” Dean Heather K. Gerken said in a statement on Friday.
And the magazine of the Jesuit religious order in the United States, America, withdrew its endorsement of Judge Kavanaugh, who was educated by Jesuits at Georgetown Preparatory School in Maryland. In a statement on Thursday, the editors said the nomination was “no longer in the best interests of the country.”
\ “If Senate Republicans proceed with his nomination, they will be prioritizing policy aims over a woman’s report of an assault,” the magazine said. “Were he to be confirmed without this allegation being firmly disproved, it would hang over his future decisions on the Supreme Court for decades and further divide the country.”
AMEN TO THIS:
"If you put a man in the White House who openly boasts of being a sexual predator, a president credibly accused by more than a dozen people of misconduct, you are no friend of women and the good men who love them.
If your rallies are highlighted by “lock her up” chants against a person who has never been charged with a crime, you cannot wrap yourself in due process or presumption of innocence.
If your men of God, led by the Rev. Franklin Graham, say attempted rape is not a crime because “if it was true, these are two teenagers, and she said no and he respected that,” you need a new faith in which to cover your hypocrisies.
Story follows character, as the Greeks knew, and what we’re seeing now with the Bonfire of Republican Vanities is the predictable outcome of those who enabled the amoral presidency of Donald Trump"
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And if you visit any of the usual far right blogs and news sites, you will read their blood curdling howls about how unfair all of this is while at the same time never admitting to their original shame and sin of allowing an immoral, pathological lying pig to represent their party, to be their standard bearer. Somehow, the fact that they support President Porn Star Shagger is, they've convinced themselves, the Democrats' fault. That they continue to support this pathetic, broken, irrational bag of fetid fumes is their shame, not the Democrats'.
The Goopers sold whatever was left of their honor when they made the choice to support one of the worst human beings to ever disgrace the American presidency.
Let the GOP reap the whirlwind. They deserve it all.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
BRAVE AND BELIEVABLE
The truth will out.
Christine Blasey Ford Is ‘100%’ Certain Assailant Was Kavanaugh
In one poignant exchange, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, reached for a quote from a colleague across the dais, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. Rather than reach, as other Democrats had done, for Mr. Graham’s statements dismissing the accusations against Judge Kavanaugh, Mr. Blumenthal began reading from a passage from the senator’s 2015 book, “My Story.”
“I learned how much unexpected courage from a deep and hidden place it takes for a rape victim or sexually abused child to testify against their assailant,” Mr. Graham wrote of his time as a prosecutor. “I learned how much courage from a deep and hidden place it takes for a rape victim or sexually abused child to testify against their assailant.”
Mr. Blumenthal added, “If we agree on nothing else today, I hope on a bipartisan basis we can agree on how much courage it has taken for you to come forward.”
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
I believe the victims.
Trump Calls Kavanaugh Accusations ‘All False,’ but Says He Can Be Convinced by Testimony
If the accusationas are "all false," as Trump claims, how can he possibly be "convinced by testimony?"
Trump, again, is addled-brained and confused.
Never believe a serial liar. Trump is a serial liar and a self-admitted sexual assaulter.
He has no credibility in this whatsoever.
I believe the victims.
Blackout Brett needs to withdraw while he still has a milligram of decency left in him.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
TRUMP GREETED WITH LAUGHTER AS HE BRAGS TO THE UN ABOUT WHAT A FABULOUS PREZNIT HE IS
Trump greeted with laughter while touting his administration's accomplishments at UN
"In less than two years, my administration has accomplished almost more than any other administration in the history of our country," Trump said at the top of his speech, which prompted audible laughter in the hall.
"Didn't expect that reaction but that's OK," he responded.
Of course he didn't expect to have people laugh in his lying face. Narcissists are convinced of their magnificence, and so Trump can't imagine other human beings not as in love with him as he is with himself.
The whole world laughed at the horse's ass.
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| PRESIDENT UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR, DONALD J. TRUMP |
TRUMP HAS COMPLAINED THAT “THE WORLD IS LAUGHING AT US.” ON TUESDAY, IT DID.
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| MAKING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY LAUGH AT US! |
Charlie Pierce, Esquire:
Yes, the president* kicked things off in his speech by celebrating the wonder of his own wonderful greatness. And the assembled diplomats laughed and laughed, and that's fairly unprecedented in my lifetime, anyway. But it was the stuff he said that they didn't laugh at, because it wasn't funny at all, that was the meat on which the rest of the world can feast its fear.
The President* of the United States, notable in his business career for going bankrupt three times, failing to make money as a casino owner, and stiffing glaziers, carpenters, landscapers, and other lesser orders of people, got up and essentially called the rest of the world a bunch of deadbeats.
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