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Vox: Why protected bike lanes are more valuable than parking spaces.

The Atlantic: Inside the trauma of family separation:

Rachel Maddow’s show turns 10!

Dotard Трамп—The Amoral Dolt With A 5th Grade Understanding of the World, and Friends:

Rachel Maddow with Steve Kornacki: Ayanna Pressley poised to make history with historic House seat.

Ali Velshi: Can Beto O’Rourke and Dems turn Texas blue?

Mental Floss: The surprising history of school

Supremely Fucked:

The Atlantic: Why is America obsessed with lawns.

WaPo: Obama’s rallying cry for the midterms:

Largest prison strike in U.S. history.

Burning Their Foot-bras To “Own The Libs”:

Stephen: A Twitter bill to swallow.

Physics Girl: What size magnet will erase a credit card.

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Comments

  1. 1

    The Op-ed could be a plant, to try to find a mole, or opposition from within the administration. Very suspicious timing. By the way, denials don’t mean anything. For years Mark Felt denied he was Deep Throat.

  2. 2

    OK so so a slightly different take on where Kavanaugh goes from here.

    Democrats will continue to hammer the social upheaval a Kavanaugh seat will bring. They’ll also hammer the perjury. And at last polling, 38% of voters agreed the nomination should proceed.

    I’m not convinced this gets a cloture vote. Cruz is locked in a scary tight battle. I assure you there’s an internal poll out there on what happens if Ted votes yea. If the opinion of Kavanaugh drops any further it could be death to Cruz to support. He could be a good party guy and lose his job or he could vote no and lose his job when the crazy stays home as a result. Either way taking the vote is not good.

    Some outgoing senators may not want this to be their legacy. Flake, despite his anti Trump mumblings is a full social conservative so he may not give a fuck. Then again he may not want to be a name associated with “A Trump
    Court” in his obituary. Who knows? Can Mitch count on him?

    Collins and Murkowski certainly have a lot riding on this. Of the two Murkowski is the more likely no but Collins is getting a ton of heat so she might be a no. If they are BOTH no this is academic anyway.

    I can see a scenario where McConnell counts his votes and delays ending debate because flipping D Senate seats probably hinges on not confirming before November and confirming could lose Texas and Arizona and Nevada too and hands the senate to The Democrats. It would be in McConnell’s best interest to wait and see. If as predicted House flips then risking both houses of Congress to the opposition and all hell breaking loose on Congressional investigations and a
    D Congress sending one super popular Bill after another to be vetoed isn’t a good outcome for GOP. (Think net neutrality, green energy, Medicare for all, student loan interest caps, raising caps on Social Security contributions, DACA…) Delaying is risky but not delaying may be a disaster

    Delaying gives temporary cover from making the tough vote now, Cruz will not want to make this vote, with the understanding that if GOP holds the Senate they are lockstep confirm.

    Kavanaugh purjuring himself didn’t help the GOP mid terms at all. It would have been better for GOP with their base if he had said, “Hell yes the Executive branch is supreme and no
    Law applies to a sitting president and well duh, they nominated me too overturn Roe and socialized medicine. I will deliver.”

  3. 3

    Elections have consequences. It’s okay to be an adulterer and woman beater again. That’s what they are now:

    “The onetime mistress of former deputy Republican National Committee Finance Chairman Elliott Broidy alleged in newly revealed court documents that she was physically abused by Broidy, and she charges that he was emboldened by President Donald Trump’s alleged mistreatment of women and belief that he could get away with it.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/08/politics/elliott-broidy-lawsuit-mistress-payment-breach/index.html

  6. 6

    Trump rallies aren’t meant to engage our nation’s leader with its citizens. They are staged propaganda events, pure and simple. You’re there to help create an image of Trump as a wildly popular leader and that’s it. You’re onstage, and if you don’t play your role according to the script, “You’re fired!” So, if you want to be in one of these little staged dramas, you must clap and cheer on cue like all the other red hats. Individual opinion or expression is not allowed.

  7. 7

    But it could be worse. If you don’t clap enthusiastically enough at a Trump rally, you only get thrown out. In North Korea, you’d be sent to a slave labor camp, and so would your children and grandchildren.

  8. 8

    2,
    Gets it.

    Very few folks understand the deep roots of reproductive freedom in Texas. And how those roots have drawn the clinic-bombing crazy there ever since Roe.

    But that’s also why neither Senate candidate is eager for reproductive freedom to become a central issue in the election. It’s a spark in dry grass. If it gets going there’s no way to know which way it burns.

    I say stick to perjury with the exception of Collins, Murkowski and Heller. The objective is not to keep the nominee/perjurer off the court. The objective is to make this the most costly political fiasco of McConnell’s career and ultimately cost him and Schumer their leadership positions.

  9. 9

    About half the cheering mob of Boss Hogs that PornSweat had his meltdown in front of are under investigation or indictment for corruption.

    This is no accident. These people are hand selected and carefully vetted ahead of time. The White House has a full dossier on every one of them and they review it all ahead of time. They know exactly who these guys are and this is exactly the way they want it. They are sending a message with intent.

    Trump won. Elections have consequences. Everything has changed.
    This is really who Republicans are now.

  10. 10

    @2 If McConnell is at all a decent colonel he will realize that battlefield victories come at a cost, meaning casualties have to be accepted. Republicans have sought a SCOTUS conservative majority and Roe overturn for 45 years, which is now within their grasp. This one is the Holy Grail, and it’s worth shedding blood for. The base will not understand if the colonel doesn’t seize the initiative and throw his troops into battle. What good is holding the Senate for another 2 years without the Supreme Court? The latter is infinitely more valuable than the former. There are two things I see potentially scrambling this picture. One, we already know McConnell is a timid commander, so there’s a potential for him to suffer another bout of hesitation; two, the colonel can’t keep all his troops in the front line; some break and run for cover, while the enemy holds steadfast. Conceivable, not likely, but possible. The assumption that this party toady gets confirmed still seems like the safest bet. But the polls. Yes, the polls show that only a third of the American public want this hack on the Supreme Court. That’s the exploding mortar shell that could knock the colonel flat and cause him to wonder, “What have I done?”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRHVMi3LxZE

  11. 11

    @8 I thought the story ends with the bridge blowing up and everybody dies, except the lone survivor who can only survey the carnage and repeat over and over, “Madness! Madness!”

  12. 12

    “US officials met secretly with Venezuelan military officers who were plotting a coup against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro … several times over the last year … but Washington … did not provide the Venezuelan officers with any support and the plans for the coup ultimately fell apart, the sources said.”

    And the Venezuelan officers probably are dead by now.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/08/politics/trump-venezuela-officers-secret-meetings-maduro-coup/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: These dumbfucks can’t even overthrow a tinpot banana dictator.

  14. 14

    10,
    Any delay raises the question of how to deal with the OSC and DOJ investigations that probably draw in the NRA and perhaps even top RNC donors and donor PACs. With Elliot Broidy’s wife negotiating $75 million retainers to shut down DOJ foreign corruption investigations, and David Keene’s wife hiring a Russian spy to put together Gazprom fuel deals, you know this thing is sprawling.

    It is clear that what McConnell is hearing from Flood and the Raskins is that PornSweat cannot be questioned. They have rejected a take home test! They wont even agree to give attorney prepared, sworn written answers to a limited set of written questions. What that tells us is that there is no way to do it that doesn’t involve either perjury, subornation, admission of criminal guilt, or all three. PornSweat would have to invoke. And he refuses to do that.

    As a team, they must pull off a plan to close down these investigations. After the midterms the options for doing that while preserving viability for an ideological nominee grow drastically narrow and risky. Recess appointments to cabinet and DOJ made after Dec. 31st, but before the new Congress will remain in effect through the end of 2020 without a confirmation vote. The window of opportunity is narrow. Even if we assume the GOP retains the Senate (likely), investigations and hearings in the House could create significant problems for confirmations beginning Jan. 3rd.

  15. 15

    @2 There is no filibuster so in about 8 days after the committee wraps up and sends a recommendation to congress there will be a new Supreme Court member (or surprise, surprise there won’t). McConnell has one big hammer in his bag the Democrats do not want to give him an excuse to use. The one where he goes well since this has taken so long, we gotta stay in Washington and work boys and girls. Should Kavanaugh be rejected how quickly can he and Trump put in a new candidate and fast track. Trump has his list and he did speak to a couple of other potential nominees who may have been vetted, so it could just be a phone call. I doubt Cruz is hurt or helped by Kavanaugh, but could be he is a 2020 Presidential contender. He was certainly being a preening politician, did Cory Booker outdo him?
    Republicans should do everything they can to get this one in the bag as quickly as possible. These Senators know this. The fact Democrats have made this process so contentious is what the Republicans want, and they have the votes. Senator McCain is out of the picture, and that provided some cover for these other dissenting votes, and that is now gone. If anything it makes it more imperative the Republicans be solid and get this win in the bag before the midterms. The timing makes this all about the winning.

  16. 16

    @4 The truth is no one knows what you get I the box of chocolates once a judge becomes a Supreme. Even so federal judges are generally not prone to criticizing positively or negatively publicly, especially appeals judges, and especially Supreme Court judges. Even so many Presidents have publicly expressed disappointment with their nominee after they put on the robes. Maybe the city should check the water going to the building,

  18. 18

    @8 So far in the process McConnell is golden. Only a losing vote on the floor could cause real damage. That is always the risk. Nothing at this time indicates he does not have the votes. Setting the Dems up for ignominious defeat. All over a candidate the Dems should shrug their shoulders, and allow to go through easy peasy, with little fuss, because you cannot capitalize on it.

  19. 19

    @10 You are using the poll numbers to confuse. Unfortunately the results are along party lines. About 34 percent to confirm, only 29% to not confirm, and the rest are undecided. So roughly 2/3 rds are ok if he gets confirmed.

    What is important is that the Nationals play the Cubs. And the Nationals are doing pretty well this year, only 8 games out. I would guess some Senators would rather be at a game than at some stinking hearing. Maybe they should rent a skybox and move the hearing to the game. This would show they understand the priorities of voters.

    Yes the Nationals are of more importance than Judge Kavenaugh.

  20. 20

    @2 interesting to read your optimism. But I wouldn’t count on any Republican doing the right thing – this guy is the next Supreme Court Justice.

    Maybe I just think that way to brace myself for the worst.

  22. 22

    @12 Wow a US administration that resisted going for a coup!!! In South America. Resisted getting pulled in. Wonder what Libya and Syria would look like if an administration had gone well maybe not a good idea. What if a democratically elected President of Chile had been allowed to serve his term. Could happen under Trump. Has the Democratic party become the party of imperialism? Venezuelan oil is ours? Did those oil donors money persuade in Democratic circles that a lil ol coup in Caracas is all upside?

  23. 23

    @21 You are in New York some of them New Yorker are serious about no whites after Labor Day. Stick to that until after December and you should be fine.

    Though plaid shirts with the socialist rose could be in this fall.

  24. 24

    18,
    Yertle loses a single seat and he’s pretty fucked. I can think of at least three this confirmation vote might jeopardize, if not this year then in two more. The Republican majority in the Senate is a very tenuous one, built less on policy and more on structure. That structure has been weakening for about ten years. This year’s class I elections are the Democrat’s most vulnerable based on incumbency and partisan lean. Had Republicans nominated and elected a President who wasn’t a Russian plant, and whose brain case wasn’t filled with angry spiders, they’d probably be looking at picking up two to three seats in the Senate. As things stand it’s a complete toss up. And a bunch of the structurally weaker Senate Republicans in class I are facing possible upset. If Republicans walk away from these mid terms with a one seat pickup they will declare that a monumental victory. And idiots like you will choke-fap to it in smugness.

    But in reality it will represent a massive defeat. A criminal FedSoc Robot on the court will not change the structure of Senate elections. Class II is coming. Since you idiots (with PornSweat’s encouragement) are almost certain to re-nominate that child molester in AL, that leaves Democrats quite safe. And it also leaves a half dozen of your GOP brothers and sisters riding the bubble until then.

    Don’t expect you to get that. It wouldn’t conform to your imaginary comic book happy place where Hitler rides a dinosaur.

  26. 26

    @15 “Should Kavanaugh be rejected how quickly can he and Trump put in a new candidate and fast track. Trump has his list … ”

    Trump’s always had his list, and given that Kavanaugh was the least acceptable choice to Democrats from that list, for them any alternative is better than this one.

  27. 27

    @15 “Cruz … is a 2020 Presidential contender.”

    No, he is a failed 2016 contender, who could be an ex-senator by 2020 and in any case is not going to run against an incumbent of his own party who is seeking re-election, so the only way he becomes a 2020 contender is if (a) he’s reelected and (b) Trump is forced from office. However it plays out, I predict Cruz will never be president. He pisses everyone off and no one likes him. I’ll bet even Snowflake, his kids’ dog, wouldn’t vote for him.

    “Republicans should do everything they can to get this one in the bag as quickly as possible.”

    Impressively insightful. Really. That required some actual thinking. Not much, but some.

  28. 28

    @16 When a judge won’t criticize a president who’s attacking the very foundations of our legal system, you have a pretty good idea of what you’re getting.

    A toady. A party hack. A narrow partisan mind hiding behind a high IQ and grade A credentials. An embarrassment to his alma mater and the distinguished judges he clerked for. A clown in judicial robes. All of these things. Would you like me to continue?

    This isn’t about Kavanaugh’s views on Roe v. Wade, his ideas about the expansiveness of executive power and privilege, his anti-labor record, or his positions on other issues he may be called on to decide. It’s about his willingness to shamelessly pander to a man who, as a litigant, wanted to disqualify the judge hearing his case because of the judge’s race, in pursuit of a position. That makes Kavanaugh the Richard Rich of this performance of “A Man For All Seasons.” It’s not hard to deduce what such men do with power when they get it; history is full of examples. You can have all the brains in the world, but if you lack character — if you’re nothing more than an unprincipled opportunist — you’re too small to sit on the highest court deciding the biggest cases.

  30. 30

    @18 “Setting the Dems up for ignominious defeat.”

    Like he did with Merrick Garland. Think this will never come back on your party? You bet your ass it will. The response will be merciless. McConnell is never going to get Democratic cooperation on anything ever again.

  32. 32

    @22 “Resisted getting pulled in.”

    I don’t think that’s how it happened. More like force of habit. Throwing friends under the bus is de rigueur for this bunch.

  34. 34

    It is unfortunate that ENR (articles) are only available for paid subscribers. Interesting article on the steel Tarrifs. Wish I could share a link.

    Equipment manufacturers and buyers are concerned to say the least.

  38. 38

    More details on Dallas apartment shooting: White female cop, black man. No charges yet; investigation handed off to state police.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amber-guyger-dallas-police-officer-who-shot-killed-botham-jean-updates-today-2018-09-08/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Still a lot of mystery here. On the face of it, the cop went to the victim’s apartment by mistake, and one surmises each thought the other was an intruder and the situation escalated from there. It’s hard to see how that could happen, and makes more sense if it turns out she had a few drinks on her way home after her shift. But something about this doesn’t feel right. There’s a strange odor hanging over it.

    Even if there are no criminal charges, it’s hard to imagine this cop keeping her job. In any case, the city and its insurers are likely on the hook to the victim’s family for around $3-5 million. This story says tenants could access their apartments with either a key or a keypad; if she got in by the keypad, how did she know his combination? But if so, you could have apartment owner liability here, too. And maybe even keypad manufacturer liability for a defective or poorly designed keypad — a bad lock.

    One of the things investigators undoubtedly will look at is whether they knew each other, and whether there were any prior run-ins between them. A little voice in my head squeaks this may have been a premeditated hit. I suspect they’ll be looking at all possibilities including that one.

  39. 39

    Interesting play of Miranda rights here.

    Cop: Oh, I shot a guy while off-duty.
    Supervisor: File a report.

    Yeah. Awfully tough to remain silent in this situation. What’s she going to say?

    Cop: I prefer not to. I may be in trouble.
    Supervisor: OK, you’re now a criminal suspect. Give me your badge, go home and don’t report for duty until further notice, and don’t leave town for any reason.

  40. 40

    @36 Let me guess, frankincense and myrrh, hold the gold. No? Just ketchup and mustard? Maybe someone high on oxy thought He’s a hotdog and tried to eat Him. Probably a Republican.

  41. 41

    @40. Looks like he is missing both hands. And on his right side there appears to be two bags, probably filled with dog shit.

  42. 42

    38,
    The two appear in a few photos together (not unheard of for people who live in the same apt and are about the same age). But there are allegations from friends and neighbors that the two had “dated” once or twice.

    If either of those are true it’s rather remarkable that she wouldn’t be in custody. Generally when police respond to a homicide, aprehend the individual responsible, and learn that they knew the victim, it’s pretty much game over. Detectives proceed from the assumption that it’s a murder investigation and they make the arrest then and there and proceed backward to build the case. They ought to be particularly concerned that the suspect will do harm to herself.

  44. 44

    @42 Yeah, I thought I smelled a rat. Now there’s a big “J” written all over this incident. Kinda reminiscent of the astronaut-in-diapers caper.

  48. 48

    45,
    She says she still believes the nominee on “settled law” (whatevs), but that she wanted to examine the record over the weekend to better understand the “perjury” issue, and that if the nominee were indeed untruthful it “would be a problem” for her to vote to confirm.

    Murkowski and Paul have gone radio silent.

  49. 49

    This is cute.

    The NY State DNC sent out a targeted mail piece accusing Cynthia Nixon of being anti-Semitic. So classy.

    Cuomo is pleading ignorance and the party bosses will only say they are “addressing the issue in house”. An image of standing at the bar, hearty backslaps and high-fives comes to mind.

  50. 50

    @48 She thinks he might be lying, but still believes him on Roe? That’s incongruous.

  53. 53

    Looking forward to the 2020 Democrat presidential primary debates in which Cory Booker and Kamala Harris argue over which of them was the bigger moron during the Kavanaugh hearings.

  55. 55

    @53 Debating which HA troll is a bigger moron — you, the MIA loon, or Shortbus — would be more fun.

  56. 56

    @48 Murkowski, who won in 2016 because of Native Alaskan votes, is being pressured by them to vote “no.” This is about Kavanaugh’s inclination to strike down state protections for Native subsistence activities on federal lands. They fear if he’s confirmed they won’t eat. Gonna be hard to say no to a key constituency in order to vote yes for a Beltway swamp creature who’s never been within thousands of miles of a Native Alaskan village. In fact, McConnell probably should release her vote if he can.

  58. 58

    I don’t get it; I’m confused. What is to investigate if it is fake (news). Why insist that there be an investigation when the piece was delivered fakely by the fake news??

  59. 59

    57,
    What Sasse and other Republican Senators would like is a President capable of shoring up their support among moderate Republican voters as they prepare to take a politically damaging vote to confirm Don McGahn’s nominee.

    The problems with that are:
    -The President now dislikes the nominee because he suspects McGahn and the other BushBots of sabotaging him;
    -The President dislikes Sasse for many of the same reasons;
    -The President has never been capable of reaching out to moderate Republicans;
    -The President is mentally ill.

  60. 60

    53,
    I would expect nothing less. The image of a stunning African American woman reducing “the smartest lawyer in the room” to Chauncey Gardener while her equally good looking BBC partner takes the Chair and his little Texas buddy into the staff room for some “Thracian discipline” is a Cuckold’s dream come true.
    Enjoy. Don’t forget the lube.

  61. 61

    Now remember all you freaky Repujes – Freedom of Religion, no discriminating here!

    Meet the Worshipers Who Believe They’re Aliens in Human Form – National Geographic

  63. 63

    @59 “suspects McGahn and the other BushBots of sabotaging him”

    He doesn’t have much to choose from, because they’re all sabotaging him. For the good of the country, of course.

  65. 65

    @ 56

    Gonna be hard to say no to a key constituency…

    She does not face that key constituency, or any other, at the ballot box for 4+ years.

    She’s already been outvoted during a primary and still won re-election. So the whining of a constituency here or there probably doesn’t scare her much. Especially when she has shown them very little addition reason to be unhappy:

    https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/murkowski-advances-alaskans-priorities-in-funding-package

    Something tells me she’s not losing sleep over this, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  67. 67

    McHillbilly @ 60,

    Do you think often about Cory Booker’s penis size?

    Awake, asleep, or both when you do?

  68. 68

    At this point I think as Senator Mitch McConnel has stated Kavenaugh will be a Supreme court justice by October 1. He’s is probably itching to seat another justice if given the opportunity. As you just never know about these judges. Gee if these Senators just had some kind of crystal or mirror on the wall they would know what a potential justice would do on a particular case. It would make stacking the court so so much easier, and you can go with relatively young judges with not much case law, and little else out there in the real world. And of course we cannot have cantankerous judges that piss off Democrats and Republicans at the same time or on different cases.

  69. 69

    67,
    Hard to overlook it when he’s beating it across the tear streaked face of the Judiciary Chair…
    ..from the back benches.

    #youarenotspartacus

  70. 70

    @24 Actually I’m independent on tis and recognize that it’s going to be a narrow majority. That is the nature of the beast. Neither party in the Senate can overcome a presidential veto, not likely to remove the President in a purely partisan spat, it is this whole concept of checks and balances, and the folks who created the constitution not being thrilled with parties, and fully aware of the dangers. They were very much aware of the British Parliamentary system of it’s strengths and weaknesses. The amusing part is that the Senate was originally designed to give the states a forum, Now the states other than Guvnors being on various associations the states only forum is the courts.
    Democrats can try to make the Senate elections about Trump, and they are being very successful in that in New York, Washington and California….places the Democrats have an incumbent Senator, and yes just for this amount of hubris I would love to see the Senate seat here in Washington state go Republican. The Democratic candidate has not offered me a whole lot.

    Has not suggested that Washington state could follow its progressive spirit and initiate single payer (something a large employer like Boeing should insist on as their foreign competition has an unfair advantage because those companies do not have to provide healthcare) or the state should pay for college. Our Senator will not resist large increases in the military budget in support of such policies and feeding and housing the poor. Even NAZI’s were for policies feeding and housing the poor and employing those able to work. All she is promising is more of the same, and maybe I will get to be in the party with a majority again, and she loves Chuck, who should be chucked as minority party leader.

  71. 71

    @ 69

    I see YLB’s kneepads have not gone unused lo this past 1 1/2 years.

    I see also that the answer to my @ 67 question is ‘Both’.

  72. 72

    @60 Does not matter once Kavanaugh is sworn in. Sure it might get used in a campaign ad or two. Any political coinage gained by Democrats during the hearings is lost once that Senate votes takes place and he is voted as the next Justice to the court. This is a poor battle for the Democratic Senators to be fighting and it may just cost them two states is they maintain party discipline over political sense. So which Chuck Schumer is going to show up in the end game of all nomination.

  73. 73

    @66 Could it be because Hispanic Americans are social conservatives for the most part?

  75. 75

    #39 Could be why there are police unions, presumable she is a member and maybe thankful at different points as this unfolds that she is.

  76. 76

    @42 Aside from professional courtesy there are plenty of reasons detectives may not make an immediate arrest. They may feel a mistake was made, but it’s self defense. They may prefer that the officer be free to walk around free able to talk to people, she may talk to someone other than her attorney. She has knowledge of the law and how police forces operate, and generally once you arrest here she is going to lawyer up. And if you don’t do the arrest right and fail to follow protocol, which is going to include some discussion with the DA, there is no reason to be hasty, unless you think she is a flight risk. A lot of of suspects are taken down town, and released once the cops speak to the DA as they don’t have enough, yet; often the suspect is arrested and then booked.

    Could be the thin blue line protecting one of its own, but not necessarily.

  79. 79

    @50 This is after Brennan so perjury to the Senate may mean something different. Not like Brennan has been charged or arrested. And one is presumed innocent of perjury short of a finding of the entire Senate or of a court of law that perjury took place. Polls of the people show like 39 against and 34 for and like 26 undecided. So the court of public opinion the question is undecided. Might influence Collins decision.

  81. 81

    @73 or you mean that they are homophobes or the likes of Middle Eastern men who like woman wear burkas.

    What is so conservative about being on food stamps….did you forget about that?

    FTFY

  82. 82

    70,
    Shorter/TLDR
    You are an EEEN DEE PEN DUNCE whenever and wherever it becomes difficult to put the (R) after your name.

    NOTHING could ever be more Republican than that.

    Trump won. Elections have consequences. Everything has changed.
    This is really who Shortbus is now.

    Just another shy-Trumper in it for the lulz and permission to use the “n” word when he’s drunk.

  83. 83

    @78 Should play well with Texas voters whish is the point of getting elected. Also it should play really well with recent emigrants from California. (Texas is the majority of Californians leaving the state are going, California next census may show a loss in population. Nothing to do with Californian politicians being upset with a question on the census.)

  84. 84

    @70 “Actually I’m independent on tis”

    Yeah, you look it … (snort):

    “The Democratic candidate has … not suggested that Washington state could follow … initiate single payer … or the state should pay for college … will not resist large increases in the military budget ….”

    So the solution is, “I would love to see the Senate seat here in Washington state go Republican.” Right, that will establish your progressive cred like nothing else can.

    “Even NAZI’s were for policies feeding and housing the poor and employing those able to work.”

    Wow. So many answer options here.

    Answer Option #1: “So a vote for the Nazis was a progressive vote. Sure, they were wrong about some things, but no party or candidate is perfect; voters always have to compromise and overlook imperfections. Vote Nazi.”

    Answer Option #2: First they made them poor by closing their businesses, kicking them out of their homes, and stealing their possessions; then they housed and (sorta) fed them; then put them to work. I’m speaking of the Jews and Nazi slave labor camps, of course. What a social program that was.

    We know what you are, Shortbus.

  85. 85

    48,
    The FedSoc has a suite of rooms at The Danforth in Portland all month long.

  86. 86

    79,
    Uh, duhr, yeah!
    Maybe they should impeach Brennan!

    Hey Shortbus!
    Look up!
    Ĺook down!
    Look at my thumb!
    …..

  87. 87

    @72 The DSCC should hire you as a strategist. Just kidding, that’s a joke. I feel it necessary to say so, so there’s no misunderstanding, because you clearly understand nothing, least of all the women’s vote.*

    * Wanna have some fun? Imagine Doctor Dumbfuck voting, then his missus going into the voting booth after him. I’ll bet this is like a particle meeting an antimatter particle. Net zero.

  88. 88

    @82 I voted for Jill Stein, though I recognize elections have consequences. I don’t think telling voters to vote for anyone blue is going to transform this election or lead to victory in 2020. If you all want to be corporatists as you have been the past oh 10 years and emulate Republicans there maybe a real big flaw in your strategy. It is ironic that Bill Clinton ran to the right of his Republican opponents in some areas using that mysterious third way, but that has wrecked the parties brand. Trump ran to the left of your Hilliary Clinton. He beat Hillliary using Bill Clintons tactics and strategy. Other Republicans will pick up on that and may even exaggerate the same way, and they can get away with it because the brand of the party no longer carries much political meaning.
    Parties unlike you all on here cannot hide its identity from the public. They operate mainly out in the disinfecting sunlight. Appearances do mean something in American politics. The answer out of the wilderness is in the name of the party….democrat being of the people, and not of corporations.

  89. 89

    @73 Yeah, could be. Nearly 100% of them are Catholics, and only about half of all Catholics despise the Church and ignore its doctrines. It’ll be interesting to see how many still vote for the party that’s rounding up trainloads of their fellow Hispanics, and treating them like cattle, in this election cycle.

  90. 90

    @74 Never been there. Either place. And I wear the fur I was born with, wherever I happen to be.

  91. 91

    @75 If she barged into an ex-boyfriend’s apartment and shot him, using the keypad code he gave her when they were still happily fucking to get in, and there’s some suggestion she did, the cop union probably won’t be of much to help her. Even police unions aren’t omnipotent, although they come close.

  92. 92

    88,
    You’ve never voted for a Dem when it counted.
    Check.
    You’ve voted for almost every Republican.
    Check.
    You spent 8 years “birfer curious”.
    Check.
    You voted for Jill Stein in 2016.
    Check.

    Nailed it, Shortbus!

  95. 95

    @84 In the 1920’s and early 30’s yes. Progressivism does have some dark shadows if you dare look. The NAZIs were socialists. And many German’s did not believe a lot of the ranting in Mein Kaumph. Especially before the party got into power. For many it became the way into the middle class. Sure there was a dark underbelly but it would be nearly a decade before the truly horrible things happened to an underprivileged group. For the ordinary German it meant food, housing and jobs, and they already had health care, and corporatism was very much a thing already in the Weimar Republic. It is no wonder many ordinary Germans many who disliked Hitler became party members. When it’s the only party in town and you want to run the towns sewer or water department, and you must be a party member well you typically join. If you want your company to build stuff for the 1936 Olympics, feed the athletes, house them, put up the decorations, ect and get the goodies from that you might very well become a party member. If you want your child to get into the right schools and university he or she joins the right part of the Hitler youth. Our military leaders were so upset with the camps that they thought the local government leaders had to know about the atrocities, and they took them to the camps, and at best they could only say these Germans should have known, but the government did much in secret. Certainly they should have known from furtive discussions or the guarded train cars, ect, so perhaps they were willfully ignorant, or unwilling to join the occupants of the car in protest. At the beginning though none of this is true and your comments are not true.

    What is equally true is that Germany could just as easily gone communist around about that time in history. And what I’ve said about the ordinary German would be true under a communist dictatorship. Which may or may not have instituted some kind of holocaust. Invited their Russian brothers in and went to war against the imperialist capitalists in France and Britain. Those capitalist were of course more frightened of the communists than the NAZI’s.

  96. 96

    @79 There’s no presumption of anything in the Senate. You’re either confirmed, or you’re not. You’re either removed from office, or you’re not. Actual guilt or innocence may or may not have something to do with it. The Senate is a political body, and what happens there is politics. It ain’t no court of law and was never meant to be.

  97. 97

    @82 Ben Sasse seems to be vacillating between “R” and “I” these days.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-sasse-leaving-republican-party_us_5b9455eee4b0cf7b00406b39

    But don’t be fooled; he’s still a hard-right confirmation vote for a hard-right Supreme Court nominee. He has no problem with reinstating back alley coathanger abortions. He’s only trying to separate himself from the foul odor of corruption associated with the “R” brand, not the reactionary ideology.

  98. 98

    Breaking News – A white female cop who entered a black man’s apartment and shot him dead has been charged with manslaughter and is in custody. No further details about the investigation results are available at this time, other than what attorneys for the victim’s family tell us:

    Attorney #1: “The prevailing narrative is challenged by the evidence that was presented today,” Merritt said.

    Attorney #2: “We’re still dealing in America with black people being killed in the most arbitrary ways, driving while black, walking while black and now we have to add living while black,” co-counsel Benjamin Crump said.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/09/us/amber-guyger-arrest-botham-shem-jean/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: If this isn’t a domestic, if it’s a further example of police flexing their license to kill, then it’s further proof of the urgent need to revoke that license asap.

  99. 99

    @88 “I voted for Jill Stein”

    In other words, you abstained, because you found the choice between Hillary and Trump too close to judge, and/or didn’t have the character and fortitude to choose the lesser evil* over the greater evil**.

    Designation procedure for * and **:

    * Check box next to one of these two candidates
    ** Check box next to the candidate not checked in Step *

    If unsure, go back and read the instructions again.

  100. 100

    @95 I can’t believe you actually bit that, much less swallowed it whole. You’re even dumber than I thought.

    You remind me of the mouse who went for the cheese I smeared on the spring trap I set behind the toilet in my basement powder room.

  101. 101

    @ 96

    The Senate is a political body, and what happens there is politics. It ain’t no court of law and was never meant to be.

    Totally political that Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98-0.

  102. 102

    93,
    I vaguely recall having gone over with him before what a probable cause affidavit is. Nothing penetrates the Orange Event Horizon.

  103. 103

    Sunday Night Local News Roundup

    1. A Pierce County judge has dismissed without trial a lawsuit contending that Sound Transit car tab taxes are unconstitutional. The case will now move to state appellate courts.

    2. The family of an unarmed black man killed by SWAT police in Lakewood, Pierce County, will get $13 million, the bulk of it coming from a multicity municipal insurance pool. Gives you an idea of what innocent life is worth around here. In Oklahoma or Texas, the city would offer you basketball tickets, and the cop union would object to even that. Better to live here than there, especially if you’re black, although innocent black people aren’t safe here, either. And our cop unions are run by assholes with a cavalier attitude toward the lives of civilians their members are supposed to protect, too.

    (Source: Seattle Times brief)

  104. 104

    @101 Totally political that McConnell sat on Merrick Garland’s nomination for a year, sacrificing 200 years of Senate tradition and his party’s last vestiges of honor, in order for his party to steal that seat from the president and party who had the constitutional right by virtue of election to fill it. Yes, it’s political, and these days it’s degenerated into political dirty pool, so fuck you. Well, two can play that game.

    The Democrats who run things are kinder and gentler to you assholes than I would be. If I could make decisions, the third week of January 2021 would look like this:

    Day 1 – Morning: The Supreme Court is expanded from 9 to 11 seats on a simple party-line majority vote with no debate. Takes about 20 minutes.

    Day 1 – Afternoon: Two extremely liberal but well-qualified judges untainted by corruption, scandal, or conflict of interest are nominated to fill the new seats. Takes about 15 minutes.

    Day 1 – Evening: The two new Supreme Court justices are confirmed by a simple party-line majority vote with no debate. Takes about 40 minutes.

    Day 2 – Noon. The Senate Minority Leader and other key Republicans are invited to the White House for afternoon tea and served cupcakes with “Fuck You” inscriptions. Crying towels are available.

    Day 3 – The Supreme Court accepts additional cases for the current (2020-2021) term and announces it will revisit some of the decisions made in the previous term.

    But don’t worry, I don’t randomly victimize the populace like you guys do; I only do this to motherfuckers who have it coming.

  105. 105

    You jerks may pull off this Kavanaugh outrage, but trust me, the Democratic base is going to be mad for a long, long time.
    Nothing is free in this world. It will cost you.

  107. 107

    Well, well, lookee here – packing the Supreme Court to restore a liberal majority isn’t just the idea of a nobody rabbit ranting on an obscure west coast local blog. It’s under active consideration and gaining traction in the places where party positions are born:

    “Looking forward, liberals are openly touting the idea of trying to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court the next time Democrats are in power.”

    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-democrats-were-willing-to-break-the-rules-on-kavanaugh-day-3/

    Of course, it’s not surprising that I’m not the only one who’s thought of it. After all, it’s a fairly obvious idea, and has been thought of before (by FDR, in the 1930s, although he only used it as a threat to get the decisions he wanted from a recalcitrant court; whereas things are different today, these Republicans won’t take the hint, and we’ll have to follow through).

  109. 109

    72,
    You know, we went over this only a few hours ago with you already, Shortbus.

    Yes. The current majorities can conspire to conceal the nominee’s documentary record from the public eye as long as they are in the majority. Kavanaugh’s hidden emails, letters, notes, and other documents demonstrating that he lied repeatedly under oath to the committee can be published at any future time by a different majority.

    These confrontations may indeed be useful as campaign soundbites this fall. But they also serve to lay down a marker for future reference. And they serve the very important purpose of forcing the nominee to make a declaration on the record that can be referred back to during later hearings if needed.

    And by now it has become abundantly clear that for an EEEN-DEE-PEN-DUNCE like you, any time Democrats put up a fight you don’t like it. Funny how that always seems to be the case with you EEEN-DEE-PEN-DUNCE. There’s only one thing that bugs you more than Democrats not doing “progressive” stuff. And that’s whenever Democrats do “progressive” stuff. If Democrats reach across the aisle and compromise to make progress you sing Corrupt Duopoly” and vote for the other guys. And if they dig in and put up a fight you sing Partisan Obstruction and vote for the other guys.
    More or less makes you one of the other guys.
    Just whinier. And lately that takes some doing.

  110. 110

    Here’s a direct link to the Vox article linked by Five Thirty-Eight about packing the court. Vox calls it the Democrats’ “nuclear option”:

    https://www.vox.com/2018/7/2/17513520/court-packing-explained-fdr-roosevelt-new-deal-democrats-supreme-court

    I think it’s absolutely justified, for at least two reasons:

    1. The shit Republicans pulled with Merrick Garland.

    2. A conservative-majority court eager to overturn Roe v. Wade and the decisions establishing gay rights doesn’t reflect American society, and such actions would be contrary to the will of the people, as polls show strong public support for both Roe v. Wade and protecting gays from discrimination.

    It’s been said that Justices read election returns, and Justices also have been known to surprise the presidents who appointed them. (Eisenhower once said he made two big mistakes as president, and “both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court.”) So even if conservatives gain the upper hand at the Court, all is not necessarily lost; it only takes reluctance on the part of one of them to overturn a precedent supported by two-thirds of the American people to preserve Roe v. Wade, and at this point, gay rights also has strong popular support. So, even ideologically-driven Justices might accept the status quo and content themselves with not expanding those rights any further.

    But we can’t be sure of that, and given how Republicans and McConnell in particular broke time-honored Senate tradition — for all practical purposes cheated — to gain that Supreme Court majority, it’s entirely apropos for Democrats to depart from the old conventions to recover it, as soon as they have the voting power to do it. You have to fight fire with fire.

    This is especially true if Kavanaugh gets confirmed and then the Court overturns Roe v. Wade. That would essentially constitute a declaration of war on our nation’s democratic principles — by imposing the minority’s will on the majority, and cheating to get there. That’s not much short of tyranny. In such circumstances, it’s reasonable to take back the Court majority and then undo the minority’s trickery by any lawful methods that will work.

    It may take time, and require undoing a great deal of undemocratic practices that have crept into the system over the past several decades that have been used to impose minority rule on our nation – voting suppression, gerrymandering, and so on. But no matter how long it takes, or how much effort it takes, we simply must stand up to this bullying, face it down, and defeat it. If we don’t, we might as well be living under a king, dictator, shah, or potentate.

    That’s not what our ancestors, the founders of our republic, had in mind or wanted for us, or shed their blood to attain.

  111. 111

    @109 Shortbus actually believes his trolling is clever and original. It’s true he’s not your typical Republican ignoramus who thinks knowledge is corrupting and “real Americans” don’t read books or newspapers. He knows who Liddell-Hart is and which major power didn’t sign the Versailles Treaty, or at least knows how to look it up – although he does not, in general, research anything or verify the factual premises of his posts. This is deliberate; he’s no more interested in nailing down the truth than are Dumbfuck, Piddles, or any of the other trolls that have come and gone on this blog over the years. Shortbus’ style is not to dig in his heels and defend the blatant bullshit emanating from the rightwing noise machine, but to create stealthy bullshit by distorting otherwise respectable facts to fit with his narrative and argument. Back in 2003, in slightly different form, this was called “fixing the facts to the policy.” It’s not a new scheme, and no impartial observer would ever confuse it with critical thinking or genuine analysis. It’s still propaganda fashioned from falsehoods and misrepresentations, only thinly disguised to try to look like something reputable. The disguise is too thin; notwithstanding his attempts to pose as a wise old owl, professorial if you will, the pigeon poop he drops into these threads is still bird shit. You wonder who he thinks he’s fooling. We even tell him, upfront, that we’re not fooled, but he keeps at it. If you don’t at first succeed, keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. Einstein’s take on that wasn’t wrong, per se, but it was incomplete. He forgot to include stupidity. Just as not all insane people are stupid, not all stupid people are insane. I’m confident Shortbus isn’t insane; merely stupid enough to believe he’s getting away with something, as if the rest of us had never seen a troll before.

  112. 112

    @110 The problem is that to initiate stated option the Democrats need to control the Presidency and congress. FDR tried and the attempt foundered. I do think there should be at least 11 Supreme court judges one to administer each circuit. No matter the number of judges conservatives over time could get a majority and vice versa,

    If this is purely about Roe v Wade and Democrats want certainty then that can only come from amending the US constitution or passage of legislation in congress. And typically this sort of thing is left to states, so why not a change to the Washington state constitution? Doubt you all want to go down that road.

  113. 113

    @111 Or look in the mirror old rabbit. Though hubris and your incorrect assumptions are enough to swamp your credibility.

    And besides rather than being a true intellectual or real person, you are a cartoon rabbit. Perhaps an attorney of questionable ethics so lets stay with cartoon rabbit.

  114. 114

    @86 Congress should have impeached the man, and he should have been charged and tried in a court of law. Absolutely. Except for that professional courtesy thing going around.

  115. 115

    @112 ” The problem is …”

    There is no problem. Trump has 36% of the public, half of them reluctantly. Yet Republicans have gone all in with him. They’ve laid all their chips on his hand. A tactical mistake for the ages. All signs indicate they’re going to get slaughtered at the polls.

  116. 116

    @87 I can imagine that just fine. I do not know the doctor or his wife. I imagine the same bout your wife going in after you to vote. Or do you fill out her ballot for her?

  117. 117

    @116 “I imagine the same bout your wife going in after you to vote.”

    You would.

    “Or do you fill out her ballot for her?”

    You don’t know her. Nobody can tell her anything. And she’s way left of me. She’s a minority, part Hispanic, and used to be a union organizer. She has absolutely no use for Republicans. I, at least, have a few Republican friends (among the more reasonable ones). I merely despise Trump; she hates him. Of course, I don’t vote for Republicans, and didn’t vote for Trump; I’ve been trashing Republicans on this blog since it began over 14 years ago. We don’t cancel each other’s votes; we reinforce each other’s aversion to Republicans. We’re like an exploding supernova where Republicans are concerned. We’re the GOP’s worst nightmare; we don’t merely vote against Republicans, we actively campaign against them. Doorbelling, leafletting, phone banking, we’ve done it all. We were two votes for Hillary, and we’ll be two votes for every Democrat on the ballot come November.

  118. 118

    @89 That is making the assumption that Hispanics who have been here for generations even back to Spanish land grants do not have nativist opinions, and are not particularly bothered when Mexican citizens are returned to the United States of Mexico. Some maybe even ecstatic when Guatemalans are returned to Guatemala. Certainly maybe true about illegal aliens what you are saying, but those folks cannot vote, their children who are born here may. Personally I am ok with tavles being set up, they show up fill out paperwork, sign a declaration, pay a fee and take an oath before a US judge and they be citizens.
    I think the plight of illegals is a poor basis to predict Hispanics voting as a massive block for Democrats. Some are going to be Republicans in fact maybe a majority. Though the Democratic party may have some success with the McDonalds business strategy, catch while they are young.
    Trump has not broken Obamas record deportations, though he is going to try, he may not succeed.

  119. 119

    @91 Union would still be obligated to provide counsel if that is a benefit of membership,

    And you are making assumptions. One of which she is a bad cop. And she is a murderer. Why not an assumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law, or until she in court and her attorney says she is not guilty out of self defense. It is an odd case, but there is no reason to add inflammatory assumptions to the flames, As an attorney you should know better.

  120. 120

    @86 Brennan? On what grounds? Because you don’t like him?

    Even we, on this blog, aren’t advocating impeaching any of the current Supremes, nor are any of us advocating groundless impeachment of Trump or Kavanaugh (if he gets on the court), or anybody else.

    We believe impeachment is an extraordinary, last-resort remedy, and that substantial justification is required to overturn an election or constitutionally authorized appointment.

    If Trump colluded with the Russians to rig the election in his favor, if he has conflicts of interest and compromised the public interest in pursuit of his private interests, if he has committed crimes or obstructed justice – that’s impeachable.

    If Kavanaugh committed perjury in his confirmation hearings, that’s impeachable – not only from a Supreme Court seat, but from the Circuit Court seat he currently occupies.

    Mere disagreement with beliefs or policies is never grounds for impeachment. Those issues are to be decided at the ballot box.

  121. 121

    @93 No just showing you as an unethical sob if you are an attorney. No worry as you are just a cartoon rabbit on here.

  122. 122

    @94 Ahh did the little bunny want some Mitch time. You jealous?

    Of course there could be some Dems in the Senate getting calls from Chuck and Nancy. You vote for him no help from the DCCC.

  123. 123

    @98 Walker Texas Ranger is on the case. She is out on bail already did not have to wait until tomorrows arraignment…professional courtesy?

  124. 124

    @119 “Union would still be obligated to provide counsel if that is a benefit of membership”

    Not for criminal defense. The union is only obligated to help her preserve her employment.

    “And you are making assumptions.”

    Do you know what “if” means, son? Go back and read #91 again. What is the first word of the first sentence in that comment? It qualifies everything that follows as contingent: If X happened, then Y follows; but if X didn’t happen, then no Y.

    “Why not an assumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law”

    Because this is a discussion about an event reported in the news, not a court trial. She’s not entitled to an assumption of innocence here; but that said, no one here – including me – has used the term “guilty.” That’s for the court and jury to determine. The prosecutor has made an initial determination of probable cause, and that’s enough to call her an accused, which is what she is right now.

  125. 125

    @99 I voted for Jill Stein as she was a far candidate than the ones offered by the Republican or Democratic party. Also at this time in Washington state only the Democratic candidate is getting the electoral college votes as this is a non competitive state, and we are taken for granted by the Dems nationally, and generally ignored by Republicans, on the national stage Washington state is a second class citizen. Presidential candidates have been decided by the we vote in every Presidential election for decades. Guess you like that status quo.

  126. 126

    @121 What’s unethical about #93? Insinuating that you’re a dummy? That’s not unethical, it’s objective reporting.

  127. 127

    @122 “Ahh did the little bunny want some Mitch time.”

    No.

    “You jealous?”

    Of who? You? You’re in the wrong blog. If you’re looking for laughs you want to go here:

    http://www.cc.com/

    Although I can laugh even at a bad routine: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

  128. 128

    @100 You are probably a cartoon NAZI rabbit, just in the closet of your Mistress Erika. And you depend on Hans the neo NAZI to change out your newspaper every day.

  129. 129

    @123 “She is out on bail already did not have to wait until tomorrows arraignment…professional courtesy?”

    In Texas, usually bail is set when the arrest warrant is issued, by the judge who signs the warrant, not at arraignment.

    In this case, bail was set at $300,000, so somebody either put up hefty collateral or paid a hefty bail bond fee.

  130. 130

    @125 Voting for Jill Stein was abstaining. It was opting out. But let’s play a thought experiment here. If you had to vote for either Trump or Hillary, which would you vote for?

    I have nothing to hide. I voted for Hillary, and if the election were held today, I’d still vote for Hillary.

    You?

  131. 131

    @125 There’s no reason why a Republican couldn’t win Washington’s electoral votes. All Republicans have to do to win this state is stop being a shitty party with a shitty platform and shitty candidates. If they stopped pandering to plutocrats and represented working people instead of shitting on them, they might get somewhere, because there are more working people here than plutocrats, even though we have more than our fair share of billionaires.

  132. 132

    @128 Getting to you, am I? Good. Making trolls miserable is what I do on this blog.

  134. 134

    @120 Brennan lied to Congress, and spied on sitting US Senators. If Congress won’t impeach Brennan then Kavanaugh is golden.

  135. 135

    124)Same with Metro operators. Local 587 can help with most disciplinary matters, but not sure if they can help with fatal accidents, or with the DOL when it comes to suspension or revocation of a CDL.

  136. 136

    If you want to know what assuming guilt looks like, here’s a perfect example:

    “Pence and the President’s counselor, Kellyanne Conway, tried to put the spotlight on the motives of the anonymous official, warning that there could be ‘criminal’ dimensions to the op-ed ….

    “She said there could be a criminal aspect to the writing of the opinion piece — though she was unable to say exactly how the author might have broken the law …. ‘I have really no idea, nor do you, what else this person has divulged,’ Conway told Tapper. ‘I think somebody so cowardly and so conceited would probably go a step further.’ …

    “Pence appeared to be arguing that by showing such disloyalty to the President and even whispering about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him, the ‘resistance’ the op-ed writer mentions is subverting the democratic process.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/politics/trump-white-house-fear-op-ed/index.html

    Analysis: In Conway’s case, that’s called “making shit up.” Pence, on the other hand, instead of imagining facts that don’t exist, imagines a crime that doesn’t exist.

    Moreover, even if “the ‘resistance’ the op-ed writer mentions” is a crime, the op-ed merely disclosed the commission of the crime, which is a far cry from being guilty of committing it.

    B-b-but s/he must be guilty of something. Keep working on it, make like Elliot Ness, maybe we can get him/her for tax evasion.

  137. 137

    @124 Have you checked out the rules and laws for police unions in Texas? It maybe the Union does have to defend her, depending on the rules of the union she is a member of. Have you researched the rules? What union? While not likely the Union could have paid her bail. You are making any number of assumptions based on what is in the paper hour to hour on this thing, and the information may or may not be accurate, and you point the parts that are I beneficial to your narratives. You certainly go outside the four corners of the law, and no mention of a presumption of innocence, and if you are an attorney or even former attorney that is unethical.

    @104 And your little what I would do on day 1 ect is absolutely unethical.

    Day 1 Morning. Best you could do is announce and have friends in the Senate and House introduce laws. Which are unlikely to pass,

    Day 1 afternoon. for rGB and Brayer because they are retiring?

    Day 2: Sure they will discuss day with you in the same salty language. Very short honeymoon.
    Day 3 And the Chief Justice would tell you the court as an equal and separate branch will make its own case load If you wish to make suggestions he will file them in the appropriate circular file.

  138. 138

    @130 I would write in Sloopy. Or Pogo. Or a candidate of my choice. I will never vote for Hilliary Clinton under any circumstance. I will consider Biden or that real popular fellow here in Washington that the majority of Democrats liked here…Bernie something.

    Citizens are always permitted to do a write in if they choose or do not care for the two candidates, Making your question moot.

  139. 139

    @136 If the person has a security clearance and nearly all these high level folks have a clearance, they are breaking a number of statutes or at the very least should loose their clearance and without clearance cannot do job.

  140. 140

    @124 If one takes the time to go to the Police officers union page for police it states these are the benefits:

    https://dallaspa.org/benefits

    Since the matter is going to be an employment issue they are on the hook. They may only recommend a defense attorney, but they will need to work in concert with that attorney. The officer can certainly consult with them.

  141. 141

    114,
    Directof CIA is not a lifetime appointment.
    He’s a private citizen.

    And you are an ignoramous.

    Again.

    The point here, and it really ought to penetrate with orange throat yogurt gargling fanboys like you, is that there is substantially less value in stealing and railroading through a lifetime court appointment if the appointee is freighted with criminal baggage.

    Once upon a time that was one of the biggest reasons for the vetting process and hearings like these. To avoid squandering the appointment on some creep with a closet full of skeletons. You idiots really ought to ask yourselves why this guy? And why the big rush?

    The Dude-Bro media have you meatheads so excited at the prospect of sobbing defeated “FemeNazis” and canceled gay pride events you may be missing the real show here. Jan 3rd is still months away. And PornSweat will be President through 2020. Going ride-or-die on a nominee who might very easilly be removed later on would be stupid even without losing Senate seats over it.

  142. 142

    @104 And your little what I would do on day 1 ect is absolutely unethical.

    See how that works? The minute any Progressive tries to do anything it’s “unethical”.

    If a white a supremacist child molesting serial finger rapist uses duly elected power to lock thousands of sobbing Guatemalan toddlers in darkened tile-lined rooms without water or blankets that’s “the genius of our system” in action.

    But if hundreds of millions of Americans become fed up with it, organize by the millions in thousands of cities, reach out to their neighbors, families, and co-workers to get on board, raise record sums of campaign donations in small individual contributions, vote in new majorities and a new President, and then pass legislation to change it, that “is absolutely unethical”.

    This is precisely why, while our “Red Brigades” are marching the white supremacists off to internment/re-education camps, they should be marching the EEEN-DEE-PEN-DUNCE toward the nearest coastal waterway with a NOAA nautical chart, a passport, and a pair of swim fins.

  143. 143

    I watched the hearings last week on Judge Kavanaugh, 30 some hours. I compare the Democrats questioning of the Judge to the three stooges and the idiot who think he is a bunny questioning Einstein. The bunny has made many claims and accusations against the judge. the difference between you and him is he is successful, you aren’t qualified to carry his piss bucket out of his chambers.

  144. 144

    @133 “you are hopping mad”

    Yawn. (scratch) Wake me up when something happens.

  145. 145

    @143 add Stupid to your moniker.

    Proud Stupid Dumbfuck Deplorable.

    Put your money where your mouth is. Let’s make a bet for every position that this Conman Judge is going to decide on. Repeal of Roe V Wade, Same Sex Marriage, and Affirmative Action laws, give The Hump a free pass on being Corrupt, et…

    I bet he will vote yes on all, just like those 3 stogies questioned him on.

    I’ll let you Phase the wording of each bet.

    Something tells me we will never hear from you again. Asswipe.

  146. 146

    @134 “If Congress won’t impeach Brennan”

    He’s been dead for over 20 years. It’s this kind of post that makes you look like a fucking idiot.

  147. 147

    Shorter 143,
    The Love Song of J Alfred FREEEEEEDUMB!
    Let us go then, you and I (so long as you can provide your “long form” birth certificate),
    When the evening is spread out against the sky
    Like a supplicant kneeling with hands behind his back and mouth agape before a paranoid, angry, porn sweat covered, rage-Tweeting idiot

    Trump won. Elections have consequences. Everything has changed.
    This is really who Republicans are now.

  148. 148

    @137 “Have you checked out the rules and laws for police unions in Texas?”

    The relevant question was who sets bail, when, and by what process in Texas. Yes, I checked that out. You obviously didn’t, as is your habit.

    You can’t even get the question right, much less the answer.

  149. 149

    #145

    All the things you mentioned are settled law. Yes they could be overturned, however this would be a long and hard process.
    Now go fuck yourself you dumb shit.

  150. 150

    146,
    I assumed he was referring to the retired CIA director who spends his days now counseling our major global security partners on how best to wait out the treason and belittling the worst President in history.

    But it is impossible to know with Shortbus. His brain obviously doesn’t work right.

  152. 152

    @138 “I would write in Sloopy. Or Pogo. Or a candidate of my choice.”

    I had no idea you’d carry abstention to such extremes, but based on everything I know about you, I’m not surprised.

    “I will never vote for Hilliary Clinton under any circumstance.”

    Why? What has she done?*

    * I’m referring to something she actually did, not the lies about her propagated by the rightwing noise machine. Thus, murdering Vince Foster or pulling the troops back from Benghazi don’t count. Her husband’s infidelities don’t count, either; being the victim isn’t an element of guilt. Keep in mind that after spending 30 years of intense effort and $100 million of taxpayer money trying to criminalize this woman, the rightwing haters haven’t been able to convict her of so much as a parking ticket.

    A rational voter would compare the relevant knowledge, experience, temperament, and character of the two candidates. It’s not necessary to go through the details of that exercise here. You just made it clear that you’re not a rational voter and, where you’re concerned, any attempt at an objective discussion of the relative merits of these two candidates would fall on deaf ears.

    Moreover, even if you did apply some sort of rational process to the evaluation, you’re so poorly informed and full of misinformation that your conclusion would be irrational anyway.

  153. 153

    “His brain obviously doesn’t work right.”

    Speaking of trolls with brains that don’t work right, I’m still very much upset that the loon’s white supremacist friends finally got around to lynching him. SAD!

  154. 154

    @138 “Citizens are always permitted to do a write in if they choose or do not care for the two candidates.”

    Absolutely, They’re also permitted to not vote at all, which is effectively what you do. What we’re discussing is not whether you broke a law or rule; there’s no issue there. This is about how you discharged your citizen’s duty to help select our nation’s leader.

    “Making your question moot.”

    No, it makes you a spineless jellyfish, unwilling or incapable of making tough choices where all the options are disagreeable. In short, put another way, you’re not military commander or CEO material.

  155. 155

    @139 “If the person has a security clearance … they are breaking a number of statutes or at the very least should loose their clearance” if they disclose classified information. What classified information was disclosed in the op-ed? Be specific,because specificity is required to charge someone with a crime or revoke their security clearance.

    On the other hand, all these folks serve at pleasure, and can be fired for any reason or no reason at all.

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    @140 Sure does look like the union is contractually on the hook for her criminal defense. Not necessarily paying for it, maybe providing it, depending on the fine print of the contract, in which case she doesn’t get to choose her lawyer. The union has a motive to economize, so probably the first – or, if not the first then the second – conversation the union-provided lawyer has with her may touch upon a possible plea bargain.

    Think the union will go all-in for her defense, damn the cost? If that’s what unions did, there would be no lawsuits against unions by their members alleging breach of contractual duty to represent or provide representation. There are plenty of such cases in the law books.

    In a case like this, where a totally innocent person was killed in his own home by a cop who had no legal right to enter his home, the critical point in any criminal proceedings against the cop is when the prosecutor decides to charge or not. The charging decision having been made, it will take jury nullification or prosecution incompetence to avoid a conviction in this case. Trust me, whichever lawyer defends this cop will be looking for the best plea bargain he can get for her.

    And as far as employee discipline goes, she will not return to this job.

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    @142 You can’t expect an ignoramus who can’t tell the difference between classified and non-classified to know the difference between unethical and merely hard-nosed, either.

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    152,
    BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!!!

    I’m so sorry. The rules are very clear on all this.

    You are never allowed to question or challenge the right wing noise. Doing so would call into question the status quo upon which so many media careers depend.

    1) Without acknowledging it, Democrats shall be relied upon to quietly push back making sure that just enough* poor kids get an education, just enough* African American motorists survive a traffic stop, just enough* uninsured sick people get enough health care to ensure a long painful (but thankfully quiet and invisible) death,just enough* low income, low skill, low education teen girls (preferably white) get reproductive health care, just enough* sobbing Guatemalan toddlers are reunited with their desperate mothers, and just enough* Nazi/Klan Tiki Torch rallies are disrupted with protest.

    2) Democratic politicians and elected officials shall harness up to this burden gladly and eagerly and they shall toil in these fields steadily and without complaint. In return for this they shall be harangued mercilessly, beaten like a mule, libeled with unspeakable lies all of which shall be treated with respect and due consideration however ridiculous, and they shall be occasionally impeached and constantly threatened with it.

    3) Most importantly, Democrats shall never observe the obvious and turn upon the corporate media whores who build their careers on this arrangement.

    *The precise meaning of “just enough” shall remain in constant flux owing to a host of social and economic variables the single most important of which shall be the performance of the stock market indexes.

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    @153 I can’t say I miss him all that much. Yes, I know that sounds terrible, and I’m appalled by my own frankness. Our mothers taught us to be more tactful about these things. But I would be dishonest to say I’m not enjoying the newfound peace and quiet around here.

  161. 161

    “Yes, I know that sounds terrible”

    Yeah, but not nearly so terrible as the loon’s head explosions of hate.

    I wonder if the loon’s dream came true and after he was lynched by his white supremacist friends he got to float off to heaven on a silver cloud while he and Baby Jesus were laughing at us? Sigh! If so, I guess I missed it. SAD!

  162. 162

    @149 I see you are afraid to make any type of bet. Long and Hard process my ass. I give it two years or less.

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