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

Long story but it stems from white men having been banned from ilx since 2003

Good mourning!!

i need a drink already

After speculation that @SteveDaines would miss final Kavanaugh vote on Saturday due to his daughter’s wedding, his Spox says he spoke to Kavanaugh on the phone & he “assured Judge Kavanaugh tonight he has made arrangements to be there to get him across the finish line as needed”
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 5, 2018

Neglected to mention that I can't think of a more beautiful gift a father could give to his daughter on her wedding day.

'Sorry, Cookie, daddy's gotta run so he can maintain control over those ovaries of yours. Enjoy the reception!'

So from now on to eternity republican voters will believe the democrats coordinated to fabricate sexual assault allegations to block a judicial nominee?

not only that but they also feel it's justified for the republicans to gin up fake allegations against every democratic nominee from now on

I hope they try

Kavanaugh/abortion/shotgun wedding - it's like there's a joke in there staring us in the face, but what is it?

Can’t imagine it would go well for them.

what's more important? installing mr. kavanaugh to cover for the president's firing of the attorney general, assistant attorney general, and special prosecutor before the upcoming elections, all the better to help mr. putin interfere on daddy's behalf in another election, or dancing to louis fucking armstrong? wedding's don't pay for themselves, princess :(

The actual guys on the hill know this wasn’t a conspiracy. Maybe they think there isn’t merit to the charges (or that it’s impossible to prove them), and maybe they think feinstein waited too long to bring this forward, but raising the specter of a “political hit job” is fucked.

https://i.redd.it/jfr8uknof9q11.jpg

lmao

So from now on to eternity republican voters will believe the democrats coordinated to fabricate sexual assault allegations to block a judicial nominee?

― Trϵϵship,

Drop "fabricate." Many believe it happened, don't care

What goes around comes around.
How I hope that is the one part of that spiel that has any truth to it.
But I fear he may be lording it over a country he personally broke.
Fiddling in Rome.

Christ, bet Ford is glad she was wearing a one piece swimsuit since it seems to be a lot more protective than the law.

Really do hope this does motivate more change and that change can actually happen.

So from now on to eternity republican voters will believe any fucking thing their big daddy republican “leaders” tell them to believe, because they’re a bunch of hateful, credulous chickenshits.

very cool, our big soggy lad is out here pushing paid-by-Soros conspiracy theories now. very nice, very normal.

i goddamn fucking hate this shit so much

I'll be kind of glad when Soros dies TBH but I"m sure someone will conjure up some other boogeyman

(hint: the boogeyman will be the Clintons)

(and then the Obamas)

this is literally the first time Trump has mentioned Soros (on the tweeter at least)

who the hell is in his ear now?

i think the soros stuff is a breitbart thing

it's the other shoe dropping after Kavanaugh's "revenge on behalf of the Clintons" outburst

holy shit pic.twitter.com/OFehgfU5bs

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) October 5, 2018

the big guns are really comin' out this morning

In all seriousness, I have never in my life felt hatred comparable to what I feel for the GOP in its current manifestation. This 'salt the earth' approach of theirs is nothing less than a repudiation of civilization imo. Like it isn't a real win unless you take a shit on the losers before your victory lap.

'#Troublemakers' is rather chilling

There are people drinking PBR from red Solo cups outside Mitch McConnell’s house at this early hour. They are chanting “I like beer.”

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) October 5, 2018

?

If this is a protest it’s a dumb one

at least they're off their asses and trying something.

Mitch said straight up that protestors would not deter him so a kegger outside his house is exactly the right thing to do

God these fucking people.

WATCH: @senorrinhatch tells a group of women and survivors to “grow up” as he laughs in their faces. #BelieveSurvivors pic.twitter.com/ZMe4Rslret

— #VOTEPROCHOICE (@VoteChoice) October 4, 2018

Yeah, I'm increasingly certain that I will live to see people stop being polite and start getting real with some of these douchnozzles. You can only push people so far before they start pushing back.

If this is a protest it’s a dumb one

― Trϵϵship, Friday, October 5, 2018 8:53 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah when I first read about this I assumed they were pro-kavanaugh

so did I!

they decided to turn the tv on at my office for the first time since the world cup

stfu collins

Collins says she will vote yes on cloture, advancing the Kavanaugh nomination to a final vote, but will not disclose her position on ultimate confirmation until this afternoon.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 5, 2018

i'm glad a woman is the New McCain

Starting to feel like another extended news blackout for the sake of my mental health is in order.

manchin voted aye or cloture what a bastard

*for

seal him in a mine imho

murkowski was no

Donnelly's voicemail box is full now

Heitkamp's line is busy

called the rest of the swing voters though

Murkowski vote NO. Manchin, Collins, & Flake vote YES.

Cloture vote on Kavanaugh is approved 51-49. (Technically, Manchin, Collins, & Flake haven't announced how they'll vote on final confirmation.)

— Taniel (@Taniel) October 5, 2018

Murkowski was either going to vote no or lose an important part of her base.

Collins is either going to lose any last vestige of credibility or pull a McCain moment. Though I thought that was what flake was doing so isn't it a bit late. Would be nice to see kavanaugh's face as she realised she actually had a conscience though.
One likes to dream.

& haven't heard what Flake's up to.

Using a dictionary to look up the difference between threadbare and thorough?

Like, okay, it was a foregone conclusion after Kennedy's retirement that the GOP was going to get another conservative justice on the court. It sucks hard but they have all the power to make it happen and this is what happens.. And he (and it was always going to be a he) was almost certain to be terrible. But every step of this process has been super fucking gross, and the person they picked has been super fucking gross, and their reaction to everyone opposed has been super fucking gross. And they won't just take the win. It won't be enough to just get their bag of shit on the bench. They're going to gloat and rub it in everyone's faces and just be as thoroughly fucking gross about it as is humanly possible. I wistfully remember the dejection of, say, W winning his second election because I don't have a recollection of the GOP establishment celebrating the win by golden showering their opponents. I mean, yes, the gloaters have always been around but it didn't seem so much to be a goddamn central tenet of the party.

it's hard to get into the heads of people like susan collins and jeff flake who feel like temporary maybe good guys since at the end of the day they really are republicans and have willingly participated in a lot of cynical stuff for decades. but just looking at incentives, it's hard to understand why collins doesn't actually use her leverage as a swing voter more often. she's in a blue-ish state. it makes her more popular, not less. it makes her arguably the most powerful person in the senate. she was celebrated as a hero after the health care vote. it seems like there are just so many good reasons for her to actually break with the party on these votes, and yet she doesn't. so again it's probably because she's...just a true-believing republican? I don't see many other reasons.