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

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.

xp no because fuck texas

going to be voting in TN if my driver's license & voter registration card don't go missing like the other 2/3 of things we've tried to have mailed to us here

we shouldn't fuck texas, I'm still hoping beto can win

Until i was like 45 yeah, but now i know/am aware/have learned of many legit texans and will ally.

im in tx, beto fever is real

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's counsel has issued the following statement: pic.twitter.com/xfVZOKdKjH

— Melissa Schwartz (@MSchwartz3) October 4, 2018

profoundly disappointed, yes

i 90% think that the bullshit "investigation" is an excuse for republicans to confirm him while citing that the a investigation (which they will undoubtedly call "thorough") failed to find evidence of kavanaugh's wrongdoing. it would be a specious argument, of course, but they wouldn't be called out on it by state television and everyone else on their side will be too busy owning the libs to care.

i 10% think that the bullshit "investigation" is purposefully the worst investigation of all time so that a) kavanaugh can be denied his confirmation in a way that allows him to save face, with democrats as the villains rather than kavanaugh shamefully rescinding his nomination, allowing republicans to paint democrats as the villains who denied a good man his deserved seat based off of nothing but their petty criticism of a thorough fbi investigation that found no wrongdoing

when lindsey graham called this shit "the twilight zone" he was totally right

Texas is fine politically for most part if you're in an urban center...it's a number of suburbs and pretty much all rural areas that fuck stuff up.

This 'investigation' is just another instance of the GOP smugly baring their asses at law and civil society, which I hope they recognize will at some point provoke extra-legal responses from their constituents. You can only shove your middle finger in people's faces so many times before somebody snaps that shit right off your hand.

I mean, seemingly. If you live exclusively in the Fox-Sphere like all these people do, they’re doing righteous work.

Only faith I have, looking at precedent (always Watergate, not much analogous here), is this shit could take years.

Like if there ISN’T some retribution here, this country’s essentially done.

I'm strongly hoping for real changes in Texas, I feel like we're right on the cusp. It pisses me off to no end that I live in Austin, yet I'm stuck with a Republican rep because they gerrymandered the fuck out of the city. Surely a wave election could fix some of that.

Previously anonymous New Yorker source agrees to be named, and he is Kavanaugh’s former suitemate at Yale—now a religious history professor. https://t.co/gujwWPXxxX pic.twitter.com/orzqefF8lF

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 4, 2018

sorry didn't to blast with such bold type

*mean to

according to Daniel Dale he says he hasn't been able to get in touch with the FBI

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

not if you're one of the worst of the worst who was put in a bin before being picked out to get sent here

^ woulda registered and voted in Houston if this wasn't the case*

(*ok maybe not, so that I could vote on local measures instead of just attending and addressing city hall, but I'd have weighed the two v heavily)

The secrecy about the FBI report is just pointlessly evil power for powers sake. It's already a sham, just put it forth. I'm leaning more and more towards McConnell being a complete moron who seemed to succeed because he is to stupid to know what long-term problems even are.

I take it that when sanity is restored there si going to be an investigation into the investigation.
Really hoping that I can take it that sanity may be restored.

Meanwhile people are suggesting getting the people who the FBI should have interviewed to go to Washington and make noise about how bad the investigation is and how willing they were to talk. Can't see that being easy since most of those people are presumably working and they would need to be travelling today and coordinating meeting somewhere conspicuous.

Really hoping that I can take it that sanity may be restored

good luck usa

Requested noon to 2:30 off work. Would getting arrested by very polite (ime) Capitol Police feel therapeutic idk.

The GSE where I'm a contractor has a corporate-sponsored female employee group. There has not been a peep about any of this on the group's internal social page. Like this shit isn't happening a few Metro stops away. I'm torn about posting something myself, I'm not an employee and I would surely be chastised mightily for making waves as a contractor.

good mourning!

Has anyone posted the New Yorker piece yet

we def need an andy borowitz piece to lighten the mood rn, post away simon

FBI, more like FIB amirite, yowza!

(NB, I so assiduously avoid Borowitz that my impression of him is basically just 'write like I'm a dipshit'. Well, more of a dipshit, anyway.)

I love how the WSJ can barely contain its skepticism

According to the Washington Post, FBI agents only spoke to six people as a part of the investigation. Five of them were connected to Dr. Ford and her story of a 1982 sexual assault at the hands of Kavanaugh. Somehow, neither Kavanaugh, nor Ford, were among those interviewed.

how are the #resistance folks taking this pisspoor performance of their beloved fbi

By avoiding facile snark.

(FBI spends several days demonstrably patting at bulging pockets, shrugs at panhandling nation) Sorry, doesn't look like we have anything.

The president and the Senate's limiting the investigative scope was the trouble, not the FBI. Remember Friday was supposed to be the deadline?