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

in case you ever wanted to read the 1983 georgetown prep yearbook: https://archive.org/details/cupola-1983/page/n0

I get to vote against Paul Gosar and for Sinema, pretty stoked

just lmao that they're burying this Kavanaugh FBI report even though they rushed through it in like 3 days and didn't even interview any of the victims

just hope someone leaks the write up on this farce at some point

Did it end early? Heard it was being talked about not going on beyond today, would think they might try to make it look like something was done. Revolting

Don't want to bury the lede, though, which is that North Dakota looks like a really difficult slog for Heitkamp and that makes the Dems' senate math very hard.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 3, 2018

bad news on multiple levels (i assume that heitkamp will be more motivated to vote to confirm kavanaugh the more that she falls behind)

Where were the damn priests when that yearbook was put together? What status-conscious parent thought this was a fine idea?

I'd rather HH vote down Kavanaugh now than win re-election I think

agreed

if we pick up Arizona or Tennessee or *fingers crossed* Texas and lose ND I won't really give a fuck

and yeah I would rather have Kavanaugh off the court than a Dem Senate at this point

Florida is still looking decent too -- better than North Dakota.

that's not a pickup though

I'd rather have Bill Nelson in the Senate than Rick Scott, and Gillum in the governor's seat than either.

at this point I am not very worried about the Trump Dem states (WV, ID, FL, MT) and it looks like there are good pickup opportunities in at least a couple states if we lose Heitkamp or McCaskill. I haven't seen much recent polling on the latter but I assume she's in as tough a spot as Heitkamp.

Q. why is it always treated like a surprise that most people under 30 don’t care about voting

A. because people who pay attention to likely voter polling data are nerds who totally voted as soon as they turned 18

this is brutally otm

republicans can eat my drafty cunt

every single one of them. i don’t care. if you’re aligning with them now you hate anyone who isn’t a straight white male with money. it’s that simple

Clarence Thomas: Perjured himself to the Senate regarding his interactions with Anita Hill. Incredibly enough, Thomas is now the Republican appointee with the least problematic claim to his seat on the Court.

John Roberts: On the Court only because the 2000 presidential election was hijacked in favor of the Republican candidate, who lost both the popular and electoral vote, by five justices put on the Court by Republican presidents. Personally helped steal that election.

Samuel Alito: Ditto, minus the personal participation in Bush v. Gore.

Neil Gorsuch: Sits in SCOTUS seat stolen by Mitch McConnell. Appointed by a president who lost the popular vote by three million ballots, despite conspiring with a foreign power to steal the election.

Brett Kavanaugh: Flagrant perjurer (his testimony made Clarence Thomas’s lies seem modest by comparison). Appointed originally to the federal bench via the same stolen election that put Roberts and Alito on the Court. Like John Roberts, participated directly in the theft of that election.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/10/kavanaugh-confirmed-every-single-gop-justice-scotus-will-appointed-illegitimately

every single one of them. i don’t care. if you’re aligning with them now you hate anyone who isn’t a straight white male with money. it’s that simple

So the NYT published a list from hundreds of law professors asking the Senate to deny Kav the confirmation, but what's the point? The GOP loves pissing off elites.

their point is a good one though, he isn't impartial and doesn't have the temperament necessary to be a supreme court justice

So the NYT published a list from hundreds of law professors asking the Senate to deny Kav the confirmation, but what's the point? The GOP /loves/ pissing off elites.

I know, but I had a flashback to a similar point in 2016 when the foreign policy and GOP elite said they could not endorse Trump. It made no difference.

If the letter moves Flake-Murk-Mindy into voting no, then I'll eat this coffee mug in front of me.

lol

really wish there had been a violent resistance to the 2000 election theft at this point (well, then too)

One copy of the FBI report. No more than an hour to review it. No ability for any follow up. Then a rushed vote.

For 2 years, McConnell has been carefully and purposefully breaking the Senate. This is the final blow. No comity or tradition left. It’s just about power politics.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 3, 2018

complete bullshit, especially since the fbi didn't bother / wasn't allowed to adequately investigate

don't understand, was this arranged so there wouldn't be leaks?

I'm living abroad but home district in VA has a good chance of going red to blue this year, so I'm voting super early and tripling checking my vote goes through (and then probably bugging some friends)

The FBI report is set to arrive in the Senate the same day Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to tee up a key procedural vote advancing Kavanaugh’s nomination for Friday. Until that vote, senators will be rushing in and out of a secure facility at the Capitol to review the sensitive FBI report that the bureau has compiled, looking into allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh.

Two Senate officials say the report will be available at a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, in the Capitol Visitor Center, a secure room designed for senators to review sensitive or classified material. Just one physical copy of the report will be available and only to senators and a small group of cleared committee staffers.

Politics
White House prepares to send new FBI report on Kavanaugh to Senate as tensions grow
'Wrong, vile, appalling': Trump mocking Ford spurs outrage
President Trump's comments mocking Christine Blasey Ford's testimony on her allegation against Brett M. Kavanaugh caused widespread backlash. (Jenny Starrs /The Washington Post)

By Seung Min Kim ,
John Wagner and
Josh Dawsey
October 3 at 8:11 PM
The White House prepared late Wednesday to send the FBI’s completed report on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Senate, as partisan rancor continued to grow over the scope of the investigation into sexual assault allegations that have endangered his confirmation.

The latest FBI probe updating Kavanaugh’s background check was set to arrive Wednesday night on Capitol Hill, according to two people familiar with its release. White House officials have been briefed on the FBI’s findings, the people said.

The developments came as Senate Democrats opened a new front in their objections to the investigations of Kavanaugh’s conduct, suggesting in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) that past FBI background checks of Kavanaugh include evidence of inappropriate behavior, without disclosing specifics.

The letter, signed by eight of the 10 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, challenged the accuracy of a tweet from the committee’s Republican staff on Tuesday that said: “Nowhere in any of these six FBI reports, which the committee has reviewed on a bipartisan basis, was there ever a whiff of ANY issue — at all — related in any way to inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse.”

The Democrats said the information in the tweet is “not accurate,” urging the GOP to correct it.

“It is troubling that the committee majority has characterized information from Judge Kavanaugh’s confidential background investigation on Twitter, as that information is confidential and not subject to public release,” the Democrats, led by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), wrote to Grassley. “If the committee majority is going to violate that confidentiality and characterize this background investigation publicly, you must at least be honest about it.”

Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month. (Tom Williams/AP)
The two committee Democrats who did not sign the letter were Sens. Christopher A. Coons (Del.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.).

Grassley’s staff responded on Twitter that “nothing in the tweet is inaccurate or misleading.”

“The committee stands by its statement, which is completely truthful,” the committee Republicans said. “More baseless innuendo and more false smears from Senate Democrats.”

The FBI report is set to arrive in the Senate the same day Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to tee up a key procedural vote advancing Kavanaugh’s nomination for Friday. Until that vote, senators will be rushing in and out of a secure facility at the Capitol to review the sensitive FBI report that the bureau has compiled, looking into allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh.

[Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford]

Trump's impression of Kavanaugh accuser is one of many demeaning impersonations
Behind President Trump's impression of Supreme Court nominee’s accuser is a pattern of demeaning impersonations. (Drea Cornejo/The Washington Post)

Two Senate officials say the report will be available at a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, in the Capitol Visitor Center, a secure room designed for senators to review sensitive or classified material. Just one physical copy of the report will be available and only to senators and a small group of cleared committee staffers.

The two parties will take turns having access to the FBI report in shifts, according to a senior Senate official. For example, Republicans will spend an hour with the report from 8 a.m. until 9 a.m. Thursday, then Democrats will have an hour with the report. It will rotate throughout the rest of the day Thursday and potentially into Friday, with senators being briefed by staff members simultaneously.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/flake-says-trumps-mocking-of-ford-at-political-rally-was-kind-of-appalling/2018/10/03/286c3dba-c6f4-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

ugh, sorry. the copy and paste accidentally included way too much, captions, random shit

when copy and paste goes horribly wrong

i meant to include just the first pair and last pair of paragraphs

at this point I feel like I've gone through all of the stages of grief over the kavanaugh nomination, except hope/acceptance

I think I'm gonna stick with anger for the foreseeable future

when copy and paste goes horribly wrong

― Karl Malone,

it's okay, boo, so did the Senate

sleeve that's the right response I think

xp so it does sound like they want to prevent leaks

I suspect that there will be a leak of some kind before week's end.

I'm about to take one brb

lol

Someone tell maggie haberman

senior aides are telling me that tensions are rising as the door to the oval office bathroom has become...unhinged

I mean, I don’t know what’s not enraging any more but that LGM post is def enraging. I need a nazi to punch.

the rage factor increases by 1.5 when you consider how much gerrymandering has tilted things in the GOP's direction, especially in state legislatures. also the whole "blatantly trying to prevent people from voting while convincing their own base that rampant voter fraud is a real problem" thing

as a functionally disenfranchised citizen I can tell you that rage is fine as long as you show up. All I have anymore, really, is faith in you. Make them suffer for all of this.

Sometimes I wonder if my choice to live here is partially driven by a desire to never feel like a loser again - I can point to the Capitol from my house, and I can say, “not my fault”

we will definitely show up

If all US ilxors moved to a key swing state we could change the course of history!

For all my snide shitpostery im with tombot, and most of you i think, as well.