So, last week New York had state primaries. I think that most of the people who I follow online were pretty disappointed. I make it a policy to assume that people in other states have it. So I didn’t take a side. But after the election, come the fuck on, my dudes.
2/3 of Democratic voters in New York are sellouts and corrupt? Maybe they like that Cuomo was the first (only?) governor to support the fight for a $15 minimum wage. Or they think the fracking ban is great.
My point isn’t Cuomo qua Cuomo. My point is that Democratic primary voters in New York are some of the most liberal voters in the country. You can be upset about the results without shitting on the voters.
Carl, never underestimate the power of inertia. The incumbents won, with a couple of notable exceptions. That’s not shocking; the notable exceptions are. That’s just the way things work.
I think it’s notable that a fucking liar like Salazar did so well with liberal Democratic voters.
Ideology trumps honesty each and every time in liberal land these days.
Anyone notice that Dianne Feinstein wasn’t on any of the Sunday shows yesterday?
https://newsok.com/article/feed/1886632/guest-lineups-for-the-sunday-news-shows
In addition to having to answer the obvious question of why she sat on the letter for so long, someone might have asked her about this:
Kurt Schlichter✔
@KurtSchlichter
I checked the Montgomery County docket. Brett Kavanaugh’s mother was the judge on a house foreclosure case that appears to be the accuser’s parents.
I don’t buy any of it.
11:42 PM – Sep 16, 2018
Still looks to anyone outside the Orange Event Horizon like yet another DerpState/BENGHAAAZIII!!! Time Masheen.
A twenty two year conspiracy to bring down someone who, at the time, was one of about four dozen young attorneys working on the Starr investigation into Arkansas. Let me guess: the Clintons are behind it. Yup. Sure. Go for it.
While you’re at it, don’t forget this cherry:
“Lying bitch wanted it. She deserved it!” The ladies love that one.
#believethewhitemen
@ 4
Now do Keith X.
I’m actually more interested in what Judge meant by “Bart, have you boofed* yet?”
But yeah, the nominee’s best friend arguing that “certain” women should be beaten doesn’t help.
*This helps? Oy.
Just think, Dumbfuck. There were literally dozens of other possible nominees just as devoted to strict constructionism. In fact Kav never even appeared in the top twenty. It could have been almost anyone else. Anyone who wasn’t beating up 15-year-old girls and putting party drugs up his ass.
#youbuiltthat
@ 6
I thought that was a reference to sodomy. Moon Unit not available to corroborate, unfortunately.
8,
80’s era it most likely would have referred to putting cocaine into someone’s rectum prior to initiating anal sex. More or less fits. Rich, suburban teens with distant, enabling parents raised in an atmosphere of entitlement drinking excessively, doing expensive drugs, and joking around about it. And overcompensating with hyper masculinity, aggression, and teasing about homosexuality.
Don’t know about the nominee. But his best friend Mark Judge screams closeted, self-loathing gender-conflicted male. Florid hyper-masculine prose filled with rape fantasies, long history of substance abuse and failed relationships, deep, abiding hostility toward gender non-conformation. Classic. You’d love him, Dumbfuck.
And he’s the nominee’s best friend.
Not helping.
Listen to godwin bleat and project when Democrats play politics like republicans.
Best White House statement so far:
“If this is the new standard, no one will ever want or be able to serve in government or on the judiciary.”
So unfair to expect any dude-bro to arrive with a rape-free CV.
10,
“…when Democrats play politics like republicans.”
If only. The thing is, this is not a manufactured scandal. There’s really no credible way to formulate it into one. Republicans will of course insist that it is. But that insistence will really depend on a ridiculous, industrial strength level of self-delusion.
We really should be willing to manufacture fake scandals to smear Republicans. But we don’t. We don’t have to.
They consistently do it to themselves.
Case.
In.
Point.
@ 11
“If this is the new standard, no one will ever want or be able to serve in government or on the judiciary.”
It’s already worked on Mitch Daniels and family. It probably has worked on a lot of really honorable Democrats as well.
@2 Thanks for the laugh. The horses are laughing, too. I can hear them neighing.
@3 “the obvious question of why she sat on the letter for so long”
To which the obvious answer is, she respected the wishes of the accuser, who didn’t want to be dragged through the mud by people like you.
As for the Kurt Schlicter story, here’s an update:
“UPDATE –– 1:44 pm ET: CNN’s John King briefly covered the news on Inside Politics today, reporting that the case ‘was dismissed before the judge had to rule on it’ and that the property ‘is still in the family’s name'”
https://www.mediaite.com/online/brett-kavanaughs-mother-presided-over-foreclosure-hearing-involving-accusers-parents/
There goes your revenge motive >poof<
@11 Well, you can see their point, can’t you? This would eliminate most Republicans from public service, although Democrats can be forgiven for not comprehending an entire political party made up of rapists.
Meanwhile, Kavanaugh has lawyered up.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/brett-kavanaugh-testimony/index.html
His lawyer, Beth Wilkinson, has a Wikipedia bio. She specializes in white collar criminal defense. As an Army JAG lawyer and then an assistant U.S. attorney, she was involved in prosecuting Noriega and was instrumental in getting Timothy McVeigh the death penalty; and was Fannie Mae’s general counsel in 2006-2008.
“I thought that was a reference to sodomy.”
Just a hunch here that when Doctor Dumbfuck typed “sodomy”, his horse started whinnying.
Walking to work while black. What on earth was he thinking?? He could have been shot!
“Cops grill black University of Massachusetts employee after caller reports him for walking to work”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/cops-grill-black-university-massachusetts-employee-caller-reports-walking-work/
@ 17
If by ‘lawyered up’ you mean:
Frank Thorp V
Verified account
@frankthorp
NEW from KAVANAUGH (via the pool): “I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity.”
well, then I guess he has lawyered up.
We have to keep in mind that grabbing a young girl’s pussy isn’t exactly a deal breaker for Republicans these days.
“Republican Trump booster used Craigslist ads, obscene photos and fake names for child sex trafficking”
“Former Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph Shortey will be sentence Monday for a case in which he pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking and the records in the case have now been unsealed.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/republican-trump-booster-used-craigslist-ads-obscene-photos-fake-names-child-sex-trafficking-unsealed-court-records/
@20 In this case, “in any way the Committee deems appropriate” means Grassley is “working to set up calls with Kavanaugh and Ford before Thursday’s vote.” Not under oath, mind you. Calls, not testimony.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-future-nomination/index.html
Notice the strategy here? You don’t? Okay, I’ll explain. The strategy is to resolve this by putting Kavanaugh and Ford on a conference call with staffers. This avoids delaying a committee vote, and also avoids a public spectacle, but those considerations are secondary. The real goal here is to prevent the Democrats from getting Kavanaugh’s denial on the record under oath, because even if they get him on the Supreme Court, he could be impeached and removed if he commits perjury in his confirmation hearings.
So the GOP game here will be to keep him from having to testify under oath; and you can safely assume that the harder they try to do that, the less likely they believe him. I’m pretty sure they already know what their nominee’s character is, and not only is he vulnerable, but he could drag them down with him.
Kavanaugh joins the pantheon of Trump’s “finest people.” He probably could do without the honor.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kavanaugh-says-he-s-willing-talk-judiciary-committee-response-assault-n910206
Meanwhile, a Republican strategist who initially was “thrilled” by Kavanaugh’s nomination now says he should withdraw “for the good of the country.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-should-withdraw-his-nomination-good-supreme-court-country-ncna910221
In Michigan, the GOP candidate for governor – who fought Obamacare tooth and nail – is trailing by double digits and “the Republican Governor’s Association has been shifting money out of the state … because [his] prospects … are looking dim.”
But wait! That’s not all, there’s more:
“And Michigan isn’t the only state where that’s happening. … Republicans running for governor in several key states are struggling to defend their records of trying to block, undermine and repeal the Affordable Care Act.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/schuette-whitmer-michigan-medicaid-expansion_us_5b9bba69e4b013b0977a04eb
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Yeah, I could see how denying people access to health insurance and exposing them to medical bankruptcy could come back to bite a politician in the ass at election time.
“The map looks terrifyingly unfamiliar. … Across the globe’s tropics right now, seven superstorms are swirling over oceans … climatology said this was going to happen. … More intense wind, more rain, parked for longer over coastal cities unprepared for 100-year-storms that now come once every five years instead.”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/09/the-world-has-never-seen-anything-like-whats-happening-at-the-equator-right-now/
Which is perfectly logical because these storms get their power from warm water. The warmer the water, the more powerful they are.
“I am approaching the 24th anniversary of my graduation from this school. That means I am approaching the 24th anniversary of my organizing 30 classmates in a bus to go to Boston for a Red Sox game and a night of Boston bar-hopping, only for us to return falling out of the bus onto the front steps of Yale Law School at about 4:45 a.m. … Fortunately for all of us, we had a motto, what happens on the bus stays on the bus. Tonight, you can modify that to what happens at the Fed Soc after-party stays at the Fed Soc afterparty.
“We had a good run my third year. We got our work done, but we had our share of fun. During our third year class party … [w]e had a memorable evening. It is fair to say that we had a few drinks … toward the end of the evening a friend of mine … broke a table in the … reception area. … He lost his balance and fell into the table, drink in hand, and the table collapsed. … Professor Steve Duke, who himself might have had a few cocktails, came to the rescue and told my friend that he would … argue his case to the bartender. And sure enough, Steve Duke … got my friend some more beers. … The moral of this story: … Don’t ever let it be said that Yale Law professors are not there when you most need them.”
— Excerpts from speech by Brett Kavanaugh at April 2014 Federalist society gathering
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-gave-a-speech-about-binge-drinking-in-law-school/
I’ll tell you right off the bat this isn’t Roger Rabbit posting under the name “Brett Kavanaugh.” (Sorry, Shortbus, it isn’t me. Really.) I don’t remember going to a single party while in law school. I didn’t get drunk even once during law school. I was too busy studying to have time for “fun,” nor could I afford “fun.” I had nothing going for me but grit and determination and a $160 monthly living allowance from the G.I. Bill, and it’s not easy to party and do law school at the same time under those circumstances. Hell, it’s not easy just to do law school under those circumstances.
But getting back to Kavanaugh’s bragging about how he skated through law school in between drinking binges, which he’d probably been doing for a long time, maybe even back in high school. The moral of this story is: Yeah, someone like him might have gotten drunk at a party, then assaulted a girl, and not remembered it later.
“I wish Beto O’Rourke and Democrats weren’t so quick to always blame the police officer.” — Ted Cruz talking about the cop who shot an unarmed black man in his own apartment.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-botham-jean-amber-guyger-shooting/
One letter deserves another:
“A group of women who went to Christine Blasey Ford’s high school are circulating a letter to show support for the woman who has alleged that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh tried to sexually assault her while they were in high school.
“‘We believe Dr. Blasey Ford and are grateful that she came forward to tell her story,’ says a draft letter from alumnae of Holton-Arms, a private girls school in Bethesda, Maryland.
“The women also say that what Ford is alleging ‘is all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton. Many of us are survivors ourselves.’ … The signatories span decades at the school ― before, during and after Ford attended. More than 200 women had signed the letter as of late Monday morning.” One signer “said she and some of her schoolmates wrote the letter because hearing Ford’s story felt ‘personal.'”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christine-blasey-ford-holton-arms-brett-kavanaugh_us_5b9fb3c2e4b04d32ebfabbc6
Roger Rabbit Commentary: C’mon, Republicans. Kavanaugh admitted 4 years ago that he was a party boy. Hundreds of women who attended Ford’s school are now saying what happened to her was commonplace. Who ya gonna believe?
Him of course. Because you’re Republicans. And because it’s no big deal even if it did happen. You probably did it yourselves. After all, that’s what the rich-boy culture was back then.
And still is.
I’m not eligible for SCOTUS* because I didn’t stumble through law school in a drunken stupor or rape girls in high school. Besides, I don’t know anyone; at least not anyone in office right now.
* By Republican standards, I should be, because I’m a party hack.
For once, Trump can legitimately claim he’s not to blame, because it’s plausible — in fact, highly likely — he didn’t know.
But not to worry, he can be counted on to squander his innocence by refusing to withdraw the nomination and standing up for the guy no matter what. He’s already off to a running start by calling him “a fine person.”
If I were Kavanaugh — trust me, Shortbus, I’m not — I wouldn’t want Trump calling me that. People might think I’m a Nazi or Klansman.
15,
Damnit!
I really needed that Time Masheen to be a real thing.
I know it must seem kooky and PC to any MAGAmerican, but some of us “snowflakes” actually believe that beating up a fifteen-year-old girl and trying to rape her is fundamentally incompatible with being “really honorable”.
So weird, right?
“Obviously, if Judge Kavanaugh lied, that’s disqualifying.” — Sen. Susan Collins (Source: CNN)
A hearing has been scheduled for Monday. According to news sources, it will be broadcast live on national TV.
“Taking all his testimony together, we see a clear pattern emerge: Brett Kavanaugh has never appeared under oath before the U.S. Senate without lying.” — Former Sen. Russ Feingold
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-russ-feingold-kavanaugh-lies_us_5ba020f6e4b013b0977defff
Members of the Washington state democratic party may wish to read these rules, They apply to you even when you are on line. Something similar applies to Washington state Republicans though it appears to be just their by-laws. A lack of rules on HA does not release you from these rules.
http://www.wa-democrats.org/si.....0final.pdf
Carl there were voters who were disappointed they could not vote. Another voter purge happened, Odd it seems to have been Bernie supporters. This is of course politics in these US and if you steal an election you do it in the county clerks office. No one went to jail, and no one will this time.
The candidate likes Coumo not to run as a third party candidate.
As far as liberal and left are concerned you may think they are the same thing and at a tennis court in Paris when the monarchists sat on the right and the liberals on the left. Most Americans are liberals be they Republicanism Democrats or Independents. Not all on the left are liberals…socialists are not, anto capitalists are not, statists are not.
Well there is always payback If the Kavanaugh gets shit canned. What do Democrats do when the White House says here is a new nominee and Mitch sys the Senate will remain in session until the process is complete?
@15 Maybe the Senator should have continued deferring to the wishes of the accuser. Not like any of them Senators are attorneys…oh they mostly are and some are former prosecutors and defense counsel, and this us congress,,bring out the raingear it will be a mud fest. That will not sway votes, and we could just skip to a vote.
The unindicted co-conspirator supporters are saying that we should “work together” with him because he won the election and he is “everyone’s president.”
•I will not “work together” to privatize Medicare, cut Social Security and Medicaid.
•I will not “work together” to build a wall.
•I will not “work together” to persecute Muslims.
•I will not “work together” to shut out refugees from other countries.
•I will not “work together” to lower taxes on the 1% and increase taxes on the middle class and poor.
•I will not “work together” to help Trump use the Presidency to line his pockets and those of his family and cronies.
•I will not “work together” to weaken and demolish environmental protection.
•I will not “work together” to sell American lands, especially National Parks, to companies which then despoil those lands.
•I will not “work together” to enable the killing of whole species of animals just because they are predators, or inconvenient for a few, or because some people want to get their thrills killing them.
•I will not “work together” to remove civil rights from anyone.
•I will not “work together” to alienate countries that have been our allies for as long as I have been alive.
•I will not “work together” to slash funding for education.
•I will not “work together” to take basic assistance from people who are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
•I will not “work together” to get rid of common sense regulations on guns.
•I will not “work together” to eliminate the minimum wage.
•I will not “work together” to support so-called “Right To Work” laws, or undermine, weaken or destroy Unions in any way.
•I will not “work together” to suppress scientific research, be it on climate change, fracking, or any other issue where a majority of scientists agree that Trump and his supporters are wrong on the facts.
•I will not “work together” to criminalize abortion or restrict health care for women.
•I will not “work together” to increase the number of nations that have nuclear weapons.
•I will not “work together” to put even more “big money” into politics.
•I will not “work together” to violate the Geneva Convention.
•I will not “work together” to give the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party and white supremacists a seat at the table, or to normalize their hatred.
•I will not “work together” to deny health care to people who need it.
•I will not “work together” to deny medical coverage to people on the basis of a “pre-existing condition.”
•I will not “work together” to increase voter suppression.
•I will not “work together” to normalize tyranny.
I will not “work together” to eliminate or reduce ethical oversite at any level of government.
•I will not “work together” with anyone who is, or admires, tyrants and dictators.
•I will not support anyone that thinks its OK to put a pipeline to transport oil on Sacred Ground for Native Americans.
This is my line, and I am drawing it.
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I found this online. Not sure who wrote it but I agree with it.
@35. In other words “Liberals are calling me on my bullshit. That’s so mean! Make them stop!”
@25 There is nothing remarkable about that photo. Any tropical depression is potentially a nasty storm when it goes five miles an hour. The US and Atlantic has had a quiet season, and the amount of ice in the artic is at 50 year highs and a year with similar hurricanes. Could the output of the sun be a major and more important factor than carbon dioxide, Some of those islands were already projected to be covered, and China in the Spratleys seems to suggest a disbelief in the climate change model.
Do not forget to thank Margaret Thatcher for the theory.
38,
Maybe your President could take her furniture shopping.
“What do Democrats do when the White House says here is a new nominee and Mitch sys the Senate will remain in session until the process is complete?”
You mean when we run out of Champagne?
There’s always Cava!
38,
Maybe your President could press his penis against her.
38,
Maybe your President could invite her to a business meeting at his hotel room… and take a shower in the middle of it.
38,
Maybe your President could tell her she has nice legs.
38,
Maybe your President could show her some porn movies on his computer and ask her what she thinks.
38,
Maybe your President could invite her to testify, then interrupt her…
a lot.
38,
Maybe your President could call her a “fat pig”.
38,
Maybe your President could ask her if she knows who put a pubic hair on his can of Coke.
38,
Maybe your President could tell her she’d be prettier if she smiled more.
@35 That only applies to party business and events. We can be jerks when freelancing here.
@36 I’m a greedy capitalist liberal. Lazy, too. And not very polite. Contrary to some Republicans’ unfounded allegations, none of that makes me a commie or socialist.
@37 First of all, we owe the GOP payback for Merrick Garland, who isn’t even a lefty, for crying out loud — Obama chose someone who’d be acceptable to Republicans. He should have been, but the Pukes would’ve blocked any Obama pick, because they had their own plans for that seat. It was they who played dirty, and are owed payback.
But if Kavanaugh fails, that won’t count as the payback we owe the GOP, for two reasons. First, he’s not qualified, so he doesn’t count. Garland was qualified, and when we exact payback for him, it needs to be an even trade. Second, the GOP has a 51-49 Senate majority, so if Kavanaugh fails, obviously it will be because at least two Republicans voted against him, and Republican “no” votes don’t count either. Democrats can’t defeat him, so if he’s defeated, that’s not our doing. For these reasons, even if Kavanaugh is defeated, we’ll still owe the GOP payback for Garland.
If Kavanaugh fails, of course the White House will choose someone else. Trump won’t just leave the seat vacant. Unless, of course, the Democrats take over the Senate in January. As for your suggestion that McConnell will keep the Senate in session to confirm a backup nominee — I’ll say, go right ahead. That means endangered Republican Senators will be stuck in Washington right through the elections while their challengers are campaigning against them back home. You really think McConnell will do that? I don’t. But go ahead and think it, if it makes you happy. You seem like a very unhappy person these days. It sounds like you could use some cheering up.
@38 She did. The accuser contacted the Washington Post. Not much the senator could do about that, was there?
@39 To avoid any misunderstanding, it’s not a list of demands, it’s merely a partial list of what we won’t vote for.
@40 I don’t feel any obligation to be polite to the little snowflake after he threatened to “out” me. If his feelings are hurt — good.
@38 You’re probably right. I remember a time when a nominee’s character (or lack thereof) counted for something in the Senate confirmation process. Seems like long ago.
@41 We used to say in the Army there’s nothing more dangerous than a second lieutenant with a map and a compass, but I think he just met his match.
Why Republicans will lose the governor’s mansion in Michigan.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/18/trumps-tariffs-will-be-painful-michigan-governor-rick-snyder-warns.html
This was predictable, simply because Kudlow is a jackass and idiot.
“A top economic adviser to President Donald Trump said on Monday he expects … would likely be an effort in 2019 to cut spending on entitlement programs.”
Roger Rabbit Commentary: No, there won’t be, because budgets originate in the House, and Republicans won’t have the House in 2019.
“‘We have to be tougher on spending,’ White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said in remarks to the Economic Club of New York, adding that government spending was the reason for the wider budget deficits, not the Republican-led tax cuts activated this year.”
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Same old, same old. Republicans have been railing against entitlements, and trying to cut them without success, for decades. What makes Kudlow think Republicans will be able to do it now, when their approval rating is down to 36%, and they’re about the get slaughtered like sheep at the ballot box, and meanwhile socialists are winning elections? Being an idiot helps. Let Kudlow enjoy his fantasies. He’s a jackass and idiot.
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-adviser-eyes-entitlement-cuts-plug-u-budget-180747833–business.html
What is up at Evergreen College….only 300 new enrollments. Parallels with what is up on Horsesass and here in the peanut gallery. And gee for some reason you won’t see anything on HA about these political goings on here in Washington,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moMfAUCB01g
@52 Actually it says the opposite especially those who are party hacks. Read it, I know ethics are not your strong suit, and you just confirmed that with your latest statement. You can be shown the door. Someone who isa party member have the sand to put a complaint in and see if RR is right or wrong.
@57 I will out you, and I have told Goldie that in no uncertain terms. Wonder if a bartender at a certain bar folks go to tomorrow knows who you are. At least butter bars in the army are not cartoons they have names, and cannot hide their identity. Under the military code of justice you me and your boss would have a discussion if you had not already gotten a general discharge.
@63 Go ahead, complain that I’m behaving like the Republicans do, and see how far it gets you. Be prepared to get laughed out of the party’s office. They can’t do anything to me anyway, because I’m not on their payroll. My feedbag is Wall Street, and you can’t fire shareholders.
@64 “I will out you, and I have told Goldie that in no uncertain terms.”
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“Wonder if a bartender at a certain bar folks go to tomorrow knows who you are.”
Why don’t you ask him?
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“Under the military code of justice you me and your boss would have a discussion”
So now you’re flinging the UCMJ at me? Might as well. You’ve thrown nearly everything else. Is the kitchen sink next? You haven’t threatened me with that yet.
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This is what a toddler temper tantrum looks like.