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

he's still standing!

Mukowski Lisas and Red Hatters

a mentors fan on the supreme court

Iove maura's posts crossing the streams

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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.

that's horrible liw, sorry to hear you and your wife had to go through that

it's ok we did and it's perverse that there's nowhere else in the country to go, dr. warren hern is 80 -- but i do want to apologize for always overreacting when i do chime in. i don't think i'd be very good at the day to day calmness of this place. but i think it's one of the most heartwarming places on the internet.

there's a lot to be said for a community of people who trust each other and have successfully self-regulated for decades.

i'm either busy or mad, and neither adds much to the world. i don't mind though, i have a life with r, my work and my dog.

well since there's some radio silence: fuck brett kavanaugh. it's enough to assume the SC is deeply, deeply partisan, it's another thing to toss judicial legitimacy out of the window at the same time that tent camps for kidnapped undocumented kids and the primacy of cypriot bank accounts are drawing new national boundaries.

when the times today admitted they were 'credulous' about trump's self-made man claim, i thought actually no, it's too late. whatever can be done should be done now -- protests above all -- because, as much as people think it's cool to harp on process losing legitimacy (brexit started with maastricht) it's tough to fill that blank. same with the kids. the damage is done and the idea that an election will turn it around (a la shakey) is naive.

above is a tangent; a loss of collective faith in the possibility of judicial authority bodes really badly.

i can't judge the drunkenness, but fuck a dick waving rapist

I thought the Collins nickname derived at least partially from who the other moderate republican vote on women's issues is. Not sure if it would be what it is if you couldn't make the coupling Murk and Mindy from it.
Though alliterative nicknames are a thing and have been for years.
& not sure if there is another reason for it beiong specifically Mindy. Would assume that that was supposed to be a stereotypical name for a MOR MIdwest housewife type from a certain era.

The GOP is already pushing this very heavily, ignoring all the stuff Kavanaugh lied about of course.

BREAKING: Fox’s @johnrobertsFox obtains letter from Ford ex-boyfriend alleging: dated for 6 yrs, never told of sex assault, Ford coached friend on taking polygraph, flew frequently w/o expressing any fear of flying/tight spaces/limited exits. Doesn’t want to b/c “involved”. pic.twitter.com/jVeW0qaJD0

— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) October 3, 2018

Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell: "Have you ever given tips or advice to somebody who was looking to take a polygraph test?"

Christine Blasey Ford: "Never." pic.twitter.com/k5Pm424f22

— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) September 30, 2018

I think it's inevitable that a set up that's as partisan as this hearing and its consequences have become, at least from teh republican side, is going to be trying to poke holes in the alleged victims story. Unfortunatet#ly that's while ignoring the massive holes in the alleged perpetrator's story. Oh & the protocols for how this entire nomination/confiramtion is carried out from the start.

Wonder if any other party at any other point would put forward the person who was already notorious for writing opinions on the lack of culpability of a sitting President as the next candidate for the SCOTUS. Might think that was a reason to think twice in the first place, quite apart from everything else that has come up since.

Times is justifiably proud but unjustifiably smug about its big tax expose. Where was this 3 years ago? What's new? Except that it's too late? I cancelled my subscription last week after one too many unforced errors with major repercussions, esp. that bullshit Rosenstein story, as well as that ill-conceived Ford Twitter poll they tried to run. Felt a little bad, because the rest of the paper is good. But I've really been enjoying the Washington Post these days.

none of the nicknames work, either. the smart people better leave them to the GOP. it's not like comrade combover beat crooked hillary or anything

That's because everyone amplified Trump's idiotic nicknames while we were mocking him and them. Joke's on us.

Collins is not Midwestern btw.

Her first name is Susan.

I dont feel the need for nicknames for those people. In terms of trump, no name is more abhorrent to me at this point than the name trump—the word itself is an insult or more specificallt an obscenity.

Drumpf and Yam make him seem more likable—a vaguely ridiculous archie bunker type, which is what bannon said he thought was trump’s appeal. In reality he is a true sociopath spending his last decades on earth tearing apart the nation that gave him everything he ever wanted.

xp point I was trying to make was more that there is a stereotypically bland middle of the road type which in trying to build up the picture for I used midwestern when it's more white bread, average, characterless, wishy washy.
& I might be getting the inference intended a bit off but that's what I would take Mindy Moderate to boil down to.

Possibly also not able to take on a policy for their own driven reasons but just to go along with the herd or the position one is expected to take.

are we still discussing this

People certainly have just been.

"Trump" means fart and has always meant fart so there is no need to give him a funny nickname, even if Drumpf was funny.

Oh, look, the appraiser who reportedly cooked the numbers so the Trumps could cheat the tax authorities out of 50 to 75 percent of the proper valuation is "a favorite of New York City’s big real estate families" pic.twitter.com/aiC1vYk0Ro

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) October 3, 2018