At this point, I feel he should resign from or be removed from his circuit judgeship too. To be frank.
But the issue at hand is not one of justice being served by way of criminal prosecution, no.
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The GOP were running ads well before the accusations came out with women saying that they’ve worked with Kavanaugh in the past, and that he’d make a great SCJ. I remember thinking that they were odd, but just assumed it was because the GOP were losing women voters. In hindsight…
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I have to keep reminding myself this is a fracking job interview and not, say, a deposition.
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True! I meant that as a descriptive statement, but you’re right that it can be read as a prescriptive one, especially by people not taking things in good faith. So we might modify it to something along the lines of, say, “If he’s harassed one woman, it’s almost certain he’s done it others as well, even if they’re not speaking out.”
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Why not? They voted for trump just so they can control women’s reproductive lives. Nothing else matters. The rest of the nation can go to hell as long as they control women’s uterus’. It’s like the gun lobby, one issue voters. They don’t care how unethical or immoral their candidate is as long as they support guns. They’re all on the bus until it runs into the ravine. Unfortunately, all the rest of us are down in the ravine hoping the bus doesn’t smash us.
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Thanks for the link, otherwise I would have had to track down the quote to see if it is true. Jesus, Biden, apologize, it’s not going to get any less awkward if you wait another decade.
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There were other candidates for SCJ on the list… what was so unpalatable about them that they instead went with Kavanaugh? Perhaps a better question at this point, is what made them so palatable that they instead went with Kavanaugh?
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“Real estate investor uses internet device. News at 11.”
“Internet user on the commode right now; reports ‘Ah that was a good one.’* News at 11”
*Harry Shearer made this joke on Le Show but I thought of it first.
Purportedly Mitch McConnell begged Trump not to pick Kavanaugh. And other major GOP officials were pushing hard for other options.
The assumption was that it was his long history of validating unlimited presidential power, both as a white house attorney and on the bench that had them thinking he’d be a risky pick.
Right now I’m thinking that may not have been the issue.
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the problem with using Nixon as a proxy (analogy? metaphor? enigma?), is that Nixon was always hugely more popular than Drumpf has ever been, until the very bitter end.
(Upper line is Nixon, lower line is Drumpf, numbers represent net approval - i.e., appove minus dsapprove) (chart courtesy of 538 )
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And why wouldn’t they? Their presidential nominee is recorded bragging about sexual assault and was still elected. Their base doesn’t give a fuck hoping that the people that represent them will suddenly have a sense of moral or ethical obligation not to be so heinous? That’s utterly ridiculous.
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also: good women abound
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Well, let’s not go nuts, we don’t want important court cases being decided based on astrology and shoe shopping
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The only woman on Trump’s shortlist (actually the Federalist society’s shortlist) is Amy Coney Barrett. She’s got street cred as an anti-abortion conservative but the problems with her viability are
- She lacks a penis, and therefore might have some measure of empathy for other people who lack penises
- She’s Catholic, so the same religious beliefs that make her anti-abortion also make her anti-death-penalty
- She has adopted children from Haiti who aren’t even white, if you can even imagine such a thing
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I said good women abound. There are loads of horrible people about, like Brett Kavanaugh and Betsy DeVos, but there are loads of good people too.
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She may be a horrible person but odds are lower that she has a list of sexual assault victims hiding in her past.
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Well and she may be opposed to abortion, but at least she probably knows the difference between abortion and birth control.
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