Supreme Court Justice Kennedy to Retire

[Zombie]

Do republicans care anymore? Maybe they feel that as long as they hold onto the 35-39 percent of (white) voters that they'll successfully obstruct democrats until power swings their way again in the mid 2020s? I honestly don't know.

It feels like the GOP has all but given up trying to win over voters outside of their Fox News/Conspiracy filled bubble. I suppose that it makes sense as oligarchy money from the Kochs, Adelson, Mercers, etc fueled by tax cuts and deregulation keeps the party well funded. And as long as they can successfully obstruct democrats and control enough state legislatures, they can continue to roll back the advances of the past century and continue to turn America into a kleptocracy.

I don't know... It's hard to say. It's not exactly the same thing, but given what happened in Alabama with Roy Moore, you'd think the GOP would have learned their lesson about sticking by sex perverts. Long term I'm sure they think they can weather the storm, but this has got to kill them in the midterms.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I don't know... It's hard to say. It's not exactly the same thing, but given what happened in Alabama with Roy Moore, you'd think the GOP would have learned their lesson about sticking by sex perverts. Long term I'm sure they think they can weather the storm, but this has got to kill them in the midterms.

Unless they know Russia can help them weather the storm these midterms, right? Not trying to be conspiratorial but why haven’t they worked to protect our elections? Why did they recently reject additional funding for security? Why have so many republicans met in Russia, the 4th of July visit in particular? In 2016 Russians infiltrated 23 different states. This could potentially enable them to erase people from the rolls.

Think about it, you mess with just a handful of computers in closely fought senate seats and the repubs can hold the senate. Target 30-50 house districts in close dispute and republicans maintain the house.

It really isn’t a long shot to believe that Russian meddling could impede the blue wave. Think trump’s admin will ever investigate to ensure that the 2018 election was fair??? Lol...

 

[RandyForRubio]

I guess I’m confused.

Nobody can corroborate Ford’s accusation. Her life long friend, whom Ford said was at the party, had stated that she has never met Brett Kavanaugh. That’s quite damning to the story.

The other accusation, a credible newspaper wouldn’t even run with the story because they thought it was too flimsy. The accuser wasn’t even sure it was Kavanaugh.

This will/should be settled by Thursday, if Ford shows up or if she doesn’t.

In the mean time, let’s continue calling Kavanaugh a sex pervert because we’re not biased at all.

/wish Trump would’ve just gone with Amy Barrett. Can’t imagine she would be accused of sexual assault.

 

[Red]

This doesn’t exactly infuse confidence that Kavanaugh is going to be a very impartial justice...

Turns out Judge Kavanaugh was a virgin through high school and for "many years after":

https://deadline.com/2018/09/brett-...ominee-martha-maccallum-video-1202470354/amp/

 

[RandyForRubio]

Turns out Judge Kavanaugh was a virgin through high school and for "many years after":

https://deadline.com/2018/09/brett-...ominee-martha-maccallum-video-1202470354/amp/

This should be fun.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

wow you yanks certainly know how to conduct your business. What a farce

 

[Gameface]

Turns out Judge Kavanaugh was a virgin through high school and for "many years after":

https://deadline.com/2018/09/brett-...ominee-martha-maccallum-video-1202470354/amp/

 

[RandyForRubio]

wow you yanks certainly know how to conduct your business. What a farce

Too true, too true.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Too true, too true.

not that we're much better with changing Prime Ministers willy nilly but really .. someone has a vague memory that when they were at a drunken party some dude amongst a group they're not really sure who it was or wasn't groped them, the majority of people named vehemently deny it, it's brought to attention at the last second before one of the said dudes is to be confirmed as a supreme court justice, no police report / charges and an ensuing circus prevails ??

wow

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Turns out Judge Kavanaugh was a virgin through high school and for "many years after":

https://deadline.com/2018/09/brett-...ominee-martha-maccallum-video-1202470354/amp/

Technically, he's not being accused of having sex. He's being accused of groping someone and/or exposing himself at a party.

Personally, I don't care if he or someone else exposed himself at a college kegger. I've been to college parties where men and women are in different stages of getting undressed, making out, women are in the men's showers, and so on. Maybe the standards today are changing, but this seems like a non-issue to me.

The Dems are probably trying to establish a pattern of behavior perhaps as an alternative to better substantiating Ford's claims, which are more serious. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think anyone has been able to corroborate what Ford claims happened.

 

[One Brow]

And when I say "in this case", I think you can infer that I wasn't referring to a legal case, but the issue at hand.

I accept that was your intent. When you kept using the term "burden of proof", a legal term, I mistakenly thought you were using a legal term with "case". My apologies.

What is more interesting is that some people think that our politicians will break from party lines and make a proper decision instead of a party decision. Sadly it just doesn't happen very often. The Republicans know that the potential shaping of legal decisions for a long time are at stake, and they are willing to risk a lot to push their guy through. Do you think without more evidence that he won't get confirmed?

I think he will get through the committee, if they feel they have the 50 in the Senate. It's hard to tell if Flake is being serious about his doubts or throwing shade. Alaska has another sex scandal going on, will that affect Murakowski? Despite the noise about Collins, I think she will vote for the party.

Same thing happened with Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, and the whole thing, even though investigated, was largely railroaded to make her look like a lying slut. Pretty sad that we put up with the circus time and time again.

Agreed.

 

[One Brow]

I mean, any GOP senator who votes to confirm this guy absent a thorough investigation is alienating half of their constituency. Seems like a bad strategy.

Maybe 20%. Lot's of conservative women are more than happy to say "boys will be boys", as long as they can restrict abortions.