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

I also heard that the room where they read the report is illuminated by candlelight. "As the Founding Fathers intended"

that's because the report was written using the invisible ink lemon juice trick

since there's only one copy does that make it a unicum?

not to downplay anything but reality winner's treatment is kinda standard. the prison system is fucked.

they just made one copy so Martin Shkreli could buy it and hang it in his jail cell

Is there anything to it anyway. The Judge interview , which might be damning.
Unbelievable, is there a funeral for the rule of law anywhere in the country?

Collins and Flake seem to be hinting at yes. Shock.

this is a terrible day

this is a terrible day year

.@realDonaldTrump talks nonstop about caring for our vets, supporting law enforcement and strengthening our military. Through fraud and tax cheating, he skipped out on paying his fair share for any of it.

— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) October 3, 2018

Xxposts Evergreen

i'd be stunned if he got shot down. these people do not care.

Credit where it's due, they were masterful in the furrowing of their brows and expressions of concern. I don't know how much more we could reasonably ask from members of the Grand Old Party.

WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell had just arrived at Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday afternoon to resume the battle over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh when he was met by an unwelcoming committee — a group of women who angrily confronted him.

“Do you always turn your back on women like this?” one demanded of Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, as his security detail cleared the way. “Especially women of color who are all sexual assault victims?” asked another.

Mr. McConnell is not Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, who was moved by similar protests to seek a new F.B.I. inquiry into claims of sexual assault against Judge Kavanaugh. Mr. McConnell, undeterred by his critics, instead stared straight ahead and marched through the concourse. And that is exactly how he is approaching the confirmation fight — marching straight ahead, unfazed by his opponents, toward his goal of seating Judge Kavanaugh on the court.

“We will not be intimidated by these people,” Mr. McConnell declared Wednesday in another floor speech where his anger over the treatment of Judge Kavanaugh spilled out. “There is no chance in the world that they’re going to scare us out of doing our duty.”

i find this to be INCREDIBLY CREEPY

xp a dog will eventually heel to its master. even resistant, deep state dogs. or they will be put down. if you didnt like them before, you will likely appreciate them less going forward.

time is not our friend.

fuck the planned protests for whenever trump tries to do his modern version of the saturday night massacre. what's happening right now, at this very minute, it just as bad if not worse and the entire republican party is complicit

'Hmmm, I don't know, this decision seems questionable to me.' (monitors watch to ensure that appropriate amount of time has been allotted to maintaining an illusory air of moderation, exudes great vigor in quickly regaining lockstep with the party)

i will be so elated when these old fucks die

ya can't wait for the new batch of awful slightly younger fucks

they will NEVER go away

https://i.imgur.com/UrZV7c7.jpg?1

fuck

It’s no wonder there was only one copy. Printers jam up if you stick fig leaves in them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/politics/mcconnell-senate-judiciary-supreme-court.html

i find this to be INCREDIBLY CREEPY

― Karl Malone, Thursday, October 4, 2018 11:49 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Obviously the premise is that any accusations are just made up desperate attempts to swoop in last minute and ruin something for the republicans. Opportunistic and effective due to the height #metoo. That's what they believe. So it isn't him tuning out people with legitimate concerns, it's him ignoring desperate enemies that are ramping it up last minute.

the next incoming Dem administration will simply refuse to recognize partisan decisions from the Supreme Court in the future

this is not how the Constitution works fyi

I seriously thought McConnell was smart enough to withdraw him, but I think I overestimated the idiot - but the sense of shell shock is over, and there's enough material to prepare impeachment proceedings and to argue that since he has wrecked any credibility as a non-partisan, he either recuses himself from every political case, or the next incoming Dem administration will simply refuse to recognize partisan decisions from the Supreme Court in the future. That's the path forward imdo.

this is a fun idea but it's not going to happen at all. he won't choose to recuse himself from any case, he'll have to be forced to, and since virtually any issue is this country is political, he'll dig in early against all calls of recusal. and an administration can't simply refuse to recognize decisions from the supreme court. for the vast majority of this country's history, that was a feature, not a bug. if that goes down, the entire civic system goes down

lol xpost

do we really think flake changed his mind because of the people in the elevator

The mf'ing constitution can eat every white man's ass in the country; that's who it was written for. I am going to go outside and yell at some people now.

godspeed

Do we really think Flake changed his mind?

the producers of the Trump reality show just told him to make it more dramatic

yeah! i feel ya . i'm really at my wits end when it comes to all this . Like sure i will go vote for my corrupt dem senator in November but overall just feeling helpless and shit xxp

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I suppose you can say that Marbury v Madison and the idea of judicial review isn't in the Constitution, and that John Marshall should've recused himself from the case because he was John Adams' secretary of state when the conflict arose, but who cares at this point.

Whyever should we feel helpless when intransigent senators are making harmful, long-term decisions on our behalf while intoning that they will not be 'intimidated' by the objections of those they theoretically represent?

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), a key swing vote Republicans need to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, indicated to CNN after leaving a briefing on the FBI report that was turned over to the Senate overnight that she thought the report was “thorough.”

“It appears to be a very thorough investigation,” she told CNN, but she did not say how she planned to vote on the confirmation of Kavanaugh, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to happen by the end of the week.

the predictability is so enraging

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.

This is just as absurd as trump getting elected

"while we were trouble by etc etc we also feel that Judge Kavanaugh is etc etc" is about as far off the GOP script they'll go

Manchin already suggested he doesn't wanna be the 51st vote but may become one of the 50.

fuck him

ew!

lol i was waiting for that

He should be kicked out of the party

i wish there was an escape from all this, personally and nationally. clearly the system is broken. i don't know how an impartial observer of all this (which i've heard once existed) could believe this was an acceptable, durable governmental system. it lasted a little over 200 years, it had a good run, but this shit is over. the tragic part is that i'm not sure how this gets fixed without tearing it all down. things are so ugly right now.

What process would things have to go through to limit the duration of a SCOTUS tenure? Is that something that can happen with less tahn a 2/3s vote. I'm just wondering if it is any easier tahn impeaching a problematic judge.

if it benefits anybody human the GOP would probably vote against it anyway.

But I'm seeing comment that 16 years at maximum would be a good limit.

if the infection was just corruption in the government it would be easy, but it's spread to the brains of millions of voters

Would these problems be fixed by a different constitution/division of powers, like some kind of parlimentary system? Seems like the problem is the republican party

Xp

the constitution was brilliant because of its safeguards against corruption. those checks and balances held up well against stress over the years, but they need to be updated. what's happening now would make the founding fathers barf

and that's saying a lot because i believe they subsisted on a diet of mud with expired grapes mixed in back then