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str8line said:
Didn't realize your mom died and Harambe knew it. If that's the case I'm not ok with that.

As for unbridled Trump hate, anything less is despicable. He's that crazy.
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He said “dead mother”...

As for trump hate. I prefer to keep my head and wits about me
 
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Joe Bagadonuts said:
My mom was an amazing woman who was taken far too early by cancer. She impacted many, many lives in positive ways. The community where she lived most of her life dedicated a memorial to her in their city park after she died. But even if my mom wasn't who she was to other people, she was still Mom to me. Harambe's comment was sickening, and way, way, way out of line.
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I also lost my mother to cancer. Again, way to early. We didn’t find it u til 2 months before she died.

Sorry, Joe. That’s rough
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
If a claim like this was made about me I'm confident that I could get 65 female friends from High School to vouch for my character and say that it doesn't sound like anything I would ever do. Social media makes it easy to get the word out quickly.

I agree that men who commit sexual assault do not do it to every woman they know, but if someone makes an allegation like this from 30 years in the past what other evidence do you expect the accused to present?
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Did you also attend an all boys school?
Anyway, even if he did manage to round up 65 women who knew him in high school, they certainly weren't all in a position to know whether or not the specific allegation is true. Seems like the sort of thing that should be sorted out before he gets a lifetime appointment to our highest court.
 
Zombie said:
Did you also attend an all boys school?
Anyway, even if he did manage to round up 65 women who knew him in high school, they certainly weren't all in a position to know whether or not the specific allegation is true. Seems like the sort of thing that should be sorted out before he gets a lifetime appointment to our highest court.
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If only we had found out about this months ago, right?!

This was intentionally done at the last minute. Pretty damn obvious.
 
I'll take the other view. The idea that a Supreme Court appointment could be delayed or denied on account of an anonymous allegation of sexual misconduct between two minors that took place more than 30 years ago is absurd. If a crime was committed it should have been reported. It's likely that no civil or criminal action could happen due to a statute of limitations in the state in which the alleged incident took place. This would be another case of "me too" taken to an extreme, where the defendant has no means by which to defend himself.

What the democrats probably want to do is continue to delay the confirmation process, preferably all the way until the next election cycle, and see if they can buy some time to win a few more seats in either house of Congress. In the meantime, they're reaching to cast aspersions on a judge who by all accounts has a long and solid record of service.
 
Catchall said:
I'll take the other view. The idea that a Supreme Court appointment could be delayed or denied on account of an anonymous allegation of sexual misconduct between two minors that took place more than 30 years ago is absurd. If a crime was committed it should have been reported. It's likely that no civil or criminal action could happen due to a statute of limitations in the state in which the alleged incident took place. This would be another case of "me too" taken to an extreme, where the defendant has no means by which to defend himself.

What the democrats probably want to do is continue to delay the confirmation process, preferably all the way until the next election cycle, and see if they can buy some time to win a few more seats in either house of Congress. In the meantime, they're reaching to cast aspersions on a judge who by all accounts has a long and solid record of service.
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Why is it absurd? There's not a pressing matter that requires an appointment, there are in fact 9 justices right now, and it wasn't so long ago we went over a year with just 8. He's not owed a Supreme Court seat, and I happen to think that lifetime positions with that much power should be held by individuals that are beyond reproach. There are plenty of other red flags with this guy as well. He wasn't impressive by any standard during the confirmation hearings, and there's still the unresolved matter of his 6 figure sports ticket and credit card debt disappearing with no accounting for where that money came from.

And as for the me too movement getting out of control, men have been skating on this **** for centuries. I can't take anyone seriously who thinks the me too movement is getting too extreme. That's just ********.
 
Zombie said:
Even if that's the case, that doesn't let him off the hook.
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I agree. But if we’re being honest, the tactics here look a bit shady.

And how are they going to prove it? Kavanaugh and the other person involved deny it, they have 65 character witnesses who say they never heard about it, doesn’t seem like him at the time, etc, and there’s no physical proof. I mean, what are we expecting out of this?
 
If Feinstein actually thought this was credible, why wouldn’t she have brought it up months ago when she found out? I’m serious? Why are we just finding out now? So we could waste time and money?
 
Zombie said:
Did you also attend an all boys school?
Anyway, even if he did manage to round up 65 women who knew him in high school, they certainly weren't all in a position to know whether or not the specific allegation is true. Seems like the sort of thing that should be sorted out before he gets a lifetime appointment to our highest court.
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No I didn't, but did you know that all boys schools are often run in conjunction with all girls schools. I have no idea what the structure of his school was, but it does not seem like a terrible thing that 65 women who knew him in high school were willing to come to his defense.

As for the specific allegation, it's an obvious delay tactic by the Dems. If you were up for some sort of a position and your opposition waited until the 11th hour to present some unsubstantiated anonymous evidence which they had been withholding for weeks what do you think should happen?
 
Stoked said:
I also lost my mother to cancer. Again, way to early. We didn’t find it u til 2 months before she died.

Sorry, Joe. That’s rough
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Sorry for your loss as well, Stoked. These sorts of losses are painful in a way that I can't expect people who haven't been through them to really understand. My impression is that you've faced and met a lot of challenges in your life. Much respect.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
Sorry for your loss as well, Stoked. These sorts of losses are painful in a way that I can't expect people who haven't been through them to really understand. My impression is that you've faced and met a lot of challenges in your life. Much respect.
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More than seems fair. There was a year and a half that family HATED to receive a call from me. 4 deaths in 14 months. Including both parents.

Life is what it is. It’s been...harsh. But it’s given me an iron, unbreakable will.
 
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