US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

crossing the streams sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb0W0lHCVQA

@ morbs - the drinking is one way back towards the assault claims. Kav spent half his hearing time denying he'd ever been a drinker to the point of blacking out or forgetting things, to the point where he was making up insultingly implausible garbage to paint himself as a saintly little college boy who just liked a little beer now and then, like any true american. proving that this was completely absurd makes his story less plausible and corroborates a detail shared in the accounts of all of his accusers (thus supporting the point that they are remarkably consistent and also not generic).

as a bonus it proves he lied to the senate. in any universe where collins and murkowski vote "no" to protect themselves on the center, they'll have cover to protect themselves on the right: "I was totally all set to vote yes on this great constitutional originalist but I was deeply disturbed that he would lie to my colleagues in the senate."

Mindy Moderate's speechwriers aren't quite so perspicacious.

I keep seeing "Mindy" itt and I'm like who?

Ditto "Huckleberry," which confuses me because of the two Huckabees in the news, and "Huckleberry" is neither.

Fwiw I have no trouble with Yertle and Yam. But after a web there are just too many people in the news and it's enough just to keep track of all the real names. Gah.

Web = while, Christ I need to go buy a computer

actually all the nicknames are stupid and ppl should stop already

Huckleberry = Lindsey Graham
Mindy = Murkowski?

Maybe I'm completely wrong.

Great job America

The video of Trump mocking Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony at his rally. Remember, aides were initially surprised at his restraint on the matter. pic.twitter.com/p75xQrDeJD

— andrew kaczynski🧐 (@KFILE) October 3, 2018

Mindy moderate is collins
Huckleberry is graham

I think both come from Charles Pierce at Esquire

Huckleberry = Lindsey Graham
Mindy = Murkowski?

― DJI, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 8:47 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe I'm completely wrong.

― DJI, Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Huckleberry is Charles Pierce's

Mindy is mine.

And they're not stupid.

I don't give a fuck what I call Lindsey Graham, nor should you.

goddammit why did i watch that video

( had one beer

I enjoy a tipple every now and then

the FFFF thing was in a song by the Mentors, a band fratty douchebros really liked because of that song.

I didn't know anyone liked the Mentors, and I saw the Mentors live. (They opened for the Revolting Cocks, a Ministry side project that, at the show I attended, had more women dancing onstage than dudes playing instruments.)

Why is Elton John holding up a pink sign at that rally?

he's still standing!

Mukowski Lisas and Red Hatters

a mentors fan on the supreme court

Iove maura's posts crossing the streams

cool

Diane Feinstein threatens to vote in favor of Kavanaugh's confirmation if voters annoy her.

Listen to her say, "I'm a vote on your side. Don't lose it."#BelieveSurvivors #MeToo #StopKavanaugh https://t.co/pLpUdaltCQ

— 🕉 Scap🌹☮ (@scapelliti) October 2, 2018

you can call various senators whatever you like, but it's precisely as witty as forks' replace-Trump-with-Drumpf plugin. and at least he didn't have to explain it

the only one of these nicknames that is funny is bart

none of the nicknames are ever funny. Christ all the fuckin dem bloggers calling Bush "Shrub" for eight years. sterling effort there

C-Plus Augustus is better, admittedly.

can we all at least agree that Drumpf is the least funny

still like the diaper don nickname for jr.

xp that reading of Feinstein's comment is incredibly disingenuous.

Codepink protesting Feinstein for some reason. Why is everyone thinking about Feinstein all the time https://t.co/bPThUoLBWb

— Quinoa🖕Appropriator (@MattAlwaysWrong) October 3, 2018

Let’s wear goofy costumes and annoy the lady who agrees with us and who the right wing is also currently attacking for trying protect the privacy of a sexual assault survivor.

that’s a dumb reading of what she says yeah

how should it be read o sages

my nicknames are funny bcz i employ them sparingly

Feinstein is a pain in the ass

xpost With some pragmatism as a opposed to the perennially unemployed Canadian view

Cot damn

I think I've been unemployed for about two months out of the last four years but go off king

Here we go again

nah I'm out, sorry for responding / encouraging at all, duly FPing myself

i fp'd lion in winter

Simon take a break

Everyone take a break it’s bedtime

"I had one beer. These are really evil people." FUCK him

what the hell? he was attacked by a puritan minister banging on about the wickedness of the unemployed

simon that is

one named after a middlebrow royal sitcom of a play, no less

none of the nicknames are ever funny. Christ all the fuckin dem bloggers calling Bush "Shrub" for eight years. sterling effort there

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi)

just dropping in to co-sign this

I feel the need for special drugs to deal with the rage I’m feeling at the entire Kavanaugh situation (Trump’s latest comments included).

Sometimes I can laugh. Sometimes I can brush shit off as mere “trolling”. Not tonight. This is not funny, and yes, consider me “trolled”.

Fuck this bullshit.

Yeah me too and I realize I was a prick but I don’t regret it

I drove my wife to a clinic in Boulder last year for an abortion she could only get there (they killed the Kansan) at 8 months for a ‘non-viable’ pregnancy. It cost $18000 and a lot of our sanity for a long time, so anyone nitpicking the pushback against that smug fratboy fuck or whoever follows him, well I don’t care. It matters. I can tell you who else was in the waiting room; I can tell you why they pay the nurses a lot; I can also tell you why I had to drive to Denver at 100mph after the procedure because Boulder Hospital has been feuding with the clinic for years and they wanted to make sure my wife’s preeclampsia was actually addressed.

Anyway — I only post here when I’m mad or drinking and neither is helpful. But I can’t stand righteousness in the face of lived lives.