Bret Kavanaugh

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Went through previous SC threads, decided this was significant enough to stand alone. Not that it matters now, what’s done is done.

The FBI conducted a sham investigation into Brett Kavanaugh. Surprised? | Moira Donegan

The bureau shamefully allowed itself to be used as a prop in political theater, orchestrated by the Trump administration

www.theguardian.com

On Tuesday, the office of Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island senator, released a report confirming what many of us who observed this fracas at the time already knew: there was no real investigation into Kavanaugh’s conduct. Instead, the FBI allowed itself to be used as a prop in a bit of political theater, orchestrated by the Trump administration, which was designed not to uncover the truth of the sexual violence allegations against Kavanaugh, but to bury it.

 

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Went through previous SC threads, decided this was significant enough to stand alone. Not that it matters now, what’s done is done.

The FBI conducted a sham investigation into Brett Kavanaugh. Surprised? | Moira Donegan

The bureau shamefully allowed itself to be used as a prop in political theater, orchestrated by the Trump administration

www.theguardian.com

On Tuesday, the office of Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island senator, released a report confirming what many of us who observed this fracas at the time already knew: there was no real investigation into Kavanaugh’s conduct. Instead, the FBI allowed itself to be used as a prop in a bit of political theater, orchestrated by the Trump administration, which was designed not to uncover the truth of the sexual violence allegations against Kavanaugh, but to bury it.

The sheer level of corruption is staggering. They need to just impeach about half the SC and start over. They need term limits and outside party oversight and full financial disclosures and outside oversight of conflicts of interest and automatic recusal. Something has to change. The corruption is out of control.

 

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Welp, Trump managed to not only not "drain the swamp" but he evolved all new swamp monsters like we've never seen before and convince everyone the swamp is actually prime beachfront property. SMFH @ America. We're like the frog being boiled alive, we've allowed the corruption to seep in so deep there is likely no way out. Decades of failure to enforce antitrust laws, repeated and continuous reduction in taxes for corporations and the wealthy, stacking the supreme court and failure to enact any kind of oversight on the court. Ugh.

Really though, this has been a bi-partisan hack job of epic proportions over the last 40 years, starting with trickle-down economics, then the full de-regulation of the mortgage industry to the full neutering of corporate oversight all leading to the formation of mega-corporations, staggering profits for those oligopolies, and the corporate takeover of American housing, not to mention the worst medical system of any developed nation (right behind Iran actually, yikes!), all in the name of enriching the top 0.01% and leaving the vast majority of Americans in the dust.

We are lucky our country is so robust and our economy generally so strong so a good chunk of Americans don't feel all of this beyond things like higher prices at the grocery store and gas pump. But for millions of Americans it's a matter of choosing food or medical care, and housing in terrible circumstance or being left homeless. Those of us that can weather this have become too complacent and we need to snap out of it and start pushing for reform for all Americans and stop kowtowing to the rich and famous. It's disgusting and disturbing and unconscionable how much we NIMBY this thing, as in it's not happening to me so I don't give a ****. Everyone should give a ****. That's how a functional society works. We are a shining example of how to take a super-power and turn it into a dysfunctional society owned by the wealthy and ignoring the disenfranchised. How the mighty hath fallen. It's sickening.

But we are fat and happy and hypnotized by social media, consumed by alternate facts in a post-truth America and enjoying the hot tub that's slowly boiling us alive.