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Senate Judiciary Committee hearing - Ford & Kavanaugh testimony - 9/27 at 10am ET
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Yeah, take the L on this seat. Take the L on the next 30 to 50 years of American judicial policy. Great fucking idea.
This isn't some minor appointment. This is the man who will dictate the future of the law in this country for long after every wrinkled-up condom masquerading as a human being who voted for him is dead and buried.
We failed. America is dead. There's no coming back from this in our lifetimes, no matter what happens in November.
True, if he was able to get the alt-right formed around Democrats who were white woman and a black man individually I can't imagine the evolved form it would take on for a singular person who is a Democrat woman, black, and Indian. I still hold out hope for 2018 being a big turning point, but all this stuff around Kavanaugh is really showing the colors of our citizens even more.
Good news, you could take it to the Supreme Court to find out! Right after you find out if a sitting president is above the law or not, and after they rule if the president can pardon himself from state charges.
Right? Dude isn't even going for reelection and he's still a piece of shit partisan jackass.
Nothing makes me more sick then hearing a bunch of white, male, ancient fucks all constantly and consistently tell all the women in this country, Dr. Ford and myself included, that the voices of women mean absolutely nothing and that unless you have a penis you aren't worth anything...
She's a black woman in the Democratic party. Not a chance.
Past 2 days have been heartbreaking to watch. What a sham of a system.
Kavanaugh is explicit in the fact that he is gling to be nothing but a rubber stamp on Republican policies & an automatic No on vote on Democrat initiatives.
You cannot simply take an L on a blatantly partisan hack.
You cannot simply take an L on a blatantly partisan hack.
No, motion to proceed is on Saturday (not final vote)
Final vote is Tuesday.
Thanks.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/worse-than-anita-hill-hearing.71480/
I weep for my country.
I am north of the border and I am fuming.
I can't imagine how actual Americans who object this with every fibre of their being feel atm.
Who the fuck would vote for him? Trumpers hate him for daring to defy their leader and we hate him for his constant bullshit like this.
I would legitimately fear for her life. Not that she would be cowed by fear because she seems strong, but with the way things going... man.
USA is slowly becoming a dictatorship. Once the SC is full of trumpians he will be able to ignore laws and court decisions
What makes you think that the trump administration will respect the congress?
This whole week I've just been distracting myself by doing endless tasks in Destiny II.
Because at least in that way I can kill some demons and feel like I'm making progress.
Well, damn, I guess it was too much to hope that someone in the US voting government would have a soul.
RIP American Citizen Rights for the duration of Kavanaugh's SC Voting Authority
RIP American Citizen Rights for the duration of Kavanaugh's SC Voting Authority
I said next few elections, so potentially 6 years from now
Just like all these dictatorships that Trump and Republicans love to critic like Venezuela or Nicaragua. Guess they don't like what Maduro and Ortega do, but they aren't afraid to use the same tactics.
I live in the heart of Texas. I can't put into words how pissed I am to be honest. I am gonna need a break from all this today.
This country was never great. Only for white men.
Won't make a difference, no one listens to black people
It ain't just the old people, as gamers have shown us. Too many people think racism and sexism is an old person problem, it isn't. It's oassed down to younger people as well.
I'm of the mind that if half the country did this wed see results.
Independents, moderate Democrats and Republicans. Trumpeters are a lost cause. They'll fall in line eventually or give up. Either way they dont matter.
Clinton got three million more votes than him. He won on a technicality due to the nature of our electoral college process and how those votes are dolled out, state by state. The country is ready, by and large. She would just need to pay a little more attention to the flyover states to avoid the same demise as Clinton.
Trump mentioned in his rambling presser that he also needs to pick 145 judges for the rest of the year in lower courts. We are so fucked with shit judges for decades to come.
True. The time for playing nice and rolling over is done. I don't give a shit.
Get rid of lifetime appointments for anything.
Yep. His grandstanding rhetoric means nothing.
It'll be interesting to see if any Republican votes against this.
He is risking his career for his principles. He believes in perpetuating violence against women and that rich white men should face no consequences for their evil deeds.
The difference is that the USA is a dictatorship that A) They're profiting off of and B) has the same "values" they enjoy.
The rhetoric I've heard from some people mirrors that of religious extremists but because it's Christian it's okay, unlike ISIS, etc.
(No don't derail the thread on this because I mentioned ISIS, please. It's an example. Not a statement of approval or equivalency.)
You have no choice but to take the L. Your choices are.. live with it, or live with it. Because it's already gone. It's just reality. Ignoring reality and leaving in a fantasy where the seat isn't lost doesn't produce anything
that's not a technicality, it's how our country elects the president.
No. You fight tooth and nail and the second you have congressional control you immediately impeach this man. Supreme Court Justices can be impeached.
I guarantee you all the major 2020 contenders will pledge to open an FBI investigation into Kav if elected.
The way to win is actually court minorities and younger people, there are a lot of shithead youth with right views but there's also those who who don't hold shitty views. We need to get them in the polls. Show how the laws are affecting them, court them with policies that they benefit from.
You won't get 67 senate seats, so, no, he can't be impeached. Sorry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Unfortunately that's not an option. Consider that we're dealing with an adversary with no sense of integrity or restraint. Let's say for the sake of argument the Dems -- whose spines traditionally turn to jelly at the mere prospect of doing something the Republicans have already done, let alone something unprecedented -- take the remarkable step of adding a couple more justices to the USSC to stop the bleeding.
We know the blue wave will not hold up. Americans are staggeringly stupid so we're looking at another GOP trifecta in about 10-14 years. And we are dealing with the Terminator in political party form. They won't stop at two more justices. They'll add another ten, just as a fuck you don't try this again. Does that sound absurd? Of course it sounds absurd. So is confirming a rapist to the Supreme Court, or pretty much every Republican policy of the last. . . well, as long as I've been an adult, so a good ways further back. If they can do it, what's going to stop them? Shame? The Dems would need to literally pass a Constitutional Amendment to slam the door afterwards, and there's now way they have the guts, let alone the votes, to do that.
The time to prevent it was 2016. That was our only shot. People gotta let go of those delusions that 2016 is reversible. Everyone needs to vote in 2018 to stop the bleeding, but this damage isn't going anywhere in the short term. The 2016 debacle was the most significant step America has taken to becoming Gilead in the past fifty years. The first priority for the next fifty isn't even to get back to where we were, but to slam the brakes as often as we're allowed.
This isn't to sow despair, but to get everyone properly thinking triage or it's going to happen again (which it will, because idiots). Politics has always been a long game. You can survive a severe laceration and even fully recover, but only if you realize it's a serious injury that takes significant resources and time to heal. You don't treat it like a damn scratch and figure a band-aid will do the trick. Infuriating thing is I was screaming this stuff back during the Dumbya years and America goes and finds someone even less qualified and makes him President.
What? That was an election by the american people.
This is an election by the politicians.
Correct assessment of the situation. Enjoy your backyard abortions everyone!
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