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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings [Up: Confirmed]
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Cut the fucking mics.
God damn, what's the point in having a head with no power? Someone goes over their allotted time, cut their mic and move on. Fucking farce.
God damn, what's the point in having a head with no power? Someone goes over their allotted time, cut their mic and move on. Fucking farce.
Because "Democrat asks reasonable and meaningful question about candidate's long and accomplished judicial career" isn't a sexy sounding tweet.
Yes, Democrats are leading the hearing. They are just asking pretty normal questions, nothing that will make explosive news bites like "Do you think babies are RACIST?????"
They go back to back, with the chairman speaking in between (who is a dem). Senator Durbin, the chairman, has been speaking so often that Sen Cornyn (Republican, Texas) complained he was speaking too much and undermining the Republicans. It's just not going to be reported as much because it's again not explosive.
I don't know but if it has to do with "decorum" I'm gonna scream. This shit is allowed during these hearings, during debates, anything. What is the point in having time limits if they're not going to be honored? In fact, cutting the mics and allowing cameras to pick up the distant deranged ramblings of some of these bumfucks would do well in highlighting their absurdity.
Coincidence, and the Republicans have been going overtime. But it goes 1 Dem 1 GOP, back and forth. And Durbin, a Dem, is running the hearing and has been speaking a lot.
To me it seems less that they aren't present, but more that republicans have turned to making a spectacle so trump supporters get clips of them asking what they want to hear(so the senators can try to get favor from them and trump).
republicans aren't asking her if she thinks babies are inheritently racist because they think so, they are asking because, unfortunately, some trump
Supporters and other republicans actually would believe that line of thinking.
That's why the GOP Twitter took a picture of her and crossed out her name and wrote CRT.
They need some sort of news/social media rehab
It would just piss them off and make them harder to deal with elsewhere. If they can't waste time during these hearings they'll just waste time somewhere else. It's only a matter of where you want them to waste time, not whether they'll waste time at all.
The fucking grace and coolheadedness Brown is displaying is so beyond what should ever be expected of any human being. For fuck's sake.
Good, I'm glad they transitioned from Cruz without giving him the answer he would have contradicted anyway. Should have cut him off sooner. Isn't Durbin being pretty weak-handed here?
Seriously.
Seriously.
Follow the rules? No he doesn't, there are zero consequences lol
This is what happens when even your own mother can't find an ounce of love in her heart for you. You become Cruz. Or Graham. Or Hawley. Or Blackburn.
Little performative insurrectionist assholes.
Little performative insurrectionist assholes.
Until time machines are invented, I don't believe you'll be able to retroactively grow up in a different region of the world.
There are already people littering the comments sections of local news sites with "how can we expect someone that can't define what a woman is to BLAH BLAH BLAH" and comparing it to Clinton's "is" gaff.
There are already people littering the comments sections of local news sites with "how can we expect someone that can't define what a woman is to BLAH BLAH BLAH" and comparing it to Clinton's "is" gaff.
I imagine she's had a lot of practice during her line of work.
Bro, how are you gonna allow Ted Fucking Cruz to win in a power struggle? Durbin's cold shoulder and gavel ain't doing shit.
Grow a god damn backbone.
Cruz definitely didn't win this interaction. Cruz looks like a sore loser spouting off a long string of pure nonsense while Durbin is calm and collected while trying to allow Coons to start his turn while the baby has a tantrum off in the corner. Taking harder stances against these losers never works, it just gives their nonsense credibility.
It is what they want, so I am glad Durbin isn't giving it to them. Cruz cares more for the Fox News clip it would generate if they drug him out or cut his mic more than the answer he keeps screaming he wants.
Honestly if I were in Durbin's position during that exchange and Cruz kept asking if Jackson would answer the question, I would have just said "you had ample time to ask her that question if its answer was so particularly important to you, but you waited for the end of your alloted time and we need to move on." Cruz acting like his legitimate shot was pushed down has nothing behind it when he was busy repackaging the old attack helicopter joke instead of asking about her case record.
Some of his voters do, Lindsay Graham can speak for the Right leadership:
Lindsey Graham jokes about how to get away with murdering Ted Cruz | CNN Politics
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham thinks his party has gone "bats---" crazy, and joked Thursday that it's possible to get away with murdering Ted Cruz if it happened in the Senate.
I have not been able to watch this today like I did yesterday, but is it true that Lindsey Graham tried to pull the "angry Black woman" card on judge jackson?
I've seen it referenced more than a few times now, but I can't find a clip.
I've seen it referenced more than a few times now, but I can't find a clip.
Don't know much about Ben Sasse, but this bit about cameras affecting peoples presentations and virality of social media does hit home, specifically the amount of "jackassery" we see in congress from the likes of Ted Cruz, even if he wasn't singling out his colleague.
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All I know is that Graham pulled the same shit again. He ranted, Durbin called him out for trying to grill KBJ about the Kavanaugh nomination and then ran off like
Wait that little shit stormed off again?All I know is that Graham pulled the same shit again. He ranted, Durbin called him out for trying to grill KBJ about the Kavanaugh nomination and then ran off like
You think it was lack of backbone that kept him from getting into a shouting match with Ted Cruz on the chamber floor? Cruz would've loved a shouting match. The hotter that engagement got the better it would've looked when the clip made the rounds on the news shows.
Cold shoulder was the right play. It may not satisfy your lizard brain, but Cruz has more rabid fans who love a shitshow than the Dems do. It's the price we pay for appealing to level-headed folks.
How it started: Sen. Graham complained abouts the circus of the previous nomination hearing for Kavanaugh and assured it wouldn't happen again.
How it went: Sen. Graham joined the circus as a performer who complained about the circus of the previous nomination hearing for Kavanaugh and ensured that it happened again.
I was actually taken aback by how thoughtful that particular line from him was and I think he has a point. Cruz/Graham's performances are tailor-made for reactionary conservative media. If the cameras are cut or extremely limited, their opportunities are for grandstanding mercifully limited because we can't see them (or see as much of them as they'd like), even if nothing can be done about their motives.
EDIT: Here comes dat boy Hawley. SMH
How it went: Sen. Graham joined the circus as a performer who complained about the circus of the previous nomination hearing for Kavanaugh and ensured that it happened again.
I was actually taken aback by how thoughtful that particular line from him was and I think he has a point. Cruz/Graham's performances are tailor-made for reactionary conservative media. If the cameras are cut or extremely limited, their opportunities are for grandstanding mercifully limited because we can't see them (or see as much of them as they'd like), even if nothing can be done about their motives.
EDIT: Here comes dat boy Hawley. SMH