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

It means kavanaugh will have an awkward work environment every day til he dies

SCOTUS judges don't die, they evaporate

Who knows. But if McConnell wasn't a cruel and stubborn idiot he would realize Kavanaugh wasn't worth any risk of antagonizing John Roberts.

Stevens is still in good mental shape? I ask because he's well into his nineties.

sounds like it

why would Thomas or Roberts or Alito or any of those assholes care what Stevens thinks. Nobody cares what he thinks, he's old and retired and a liberal.

^^^

yeah, not shocking that a guy who was a liberal bastion on the court for decades doesn't like Kavanaugh

Rehnquist would've loved him

Stevens is also a Shakespeare authorship skeptic

Everybody needs a hobby

i mean, he was there, he'd know better than us

Request to knock off the ageist shitting-on-olds, pls

Request to knock off the ageist shitting-on-olds, pls

i don’t think it was “shitting on him,” but point taken

I do5 think shakespeare authorship questioning is total wuackery fwiw

*don’t

Baconian

I had my students research this for a project once in another life. I believe shakespeare was the author but jt was a good way for them to kind of learn more about the historical context

The only thing i don’t like about it is the implied classism—the idea that only a nobleman would have had the educational background to write the plays

Who knows. But if McConnell wasn't a cruel and stubborn idiot he would realize Kavanaugh wasn't worth any risk of antagonizing John Roberts.

This is a sentence that sounds good but means nothing. What's the risk of "antagonizing" Roberts - suddenly John Boy becomes Thurgood Marshall II?

Ageist crap has been recurrent throughout this thread, not just the relatively benign authorship denier quip

Ah ok. Yeah i think the hope of ppl dying off is distasteful too i just didn’t say anything. I admire justice stevens and i think getting to 98 is an achievement— i didn’t mean it disrespectfully at all

suddenly John Boy becomes Thurgood Marshall II?

The Conservative reboot of Get Out: Scientist turns boring white guys into righteous black dudes.

October 4th, huh

The only thing i don’t like about it is the implied classism—the idea that only a nobleman would have had the educational background to write the plays

Eric Idle:

how could a man who had only a grammar-school education and spoke Latin and a little Greek possibly have written something as bad as “All’s Well That Ends Well”?

Lol

#BREAKING @SteveDaines has a scheduling conflict this weekend. He says he'll be walking his daughter down the aisle at her Montana wedding, regardless of the #KavanaughVote that could take place this weekend. #NBCMontana #mtpol #mtnews #Kavanaugh

— Maritsa Georgiou (@MaritsaNBCMT) October 4, 2018

McConnell will move the wedding. Maybe he can get Trump to give away the bride.

manchin will step up and vote yes in his place

it's not about sexual assault, it's not about being unfit for the highest court in the land, it's not about being partisan, it's not about a blatant abuse of trust. it's about friendship. let's go joe manchin, be a friend to steve daines!

Why is manchin a democrat? Confirming kavanaugh is the most bullshit republican bullshit possible

“I’m a vegetarian but also I’m a cannibal”

Why is manchin a democrat

labor unions

specifically unionized mine workers

Kavanaugh will be no friend to those

I would bet Manchin votes no tbh

this feels correct to me

The Heitkamp takes I'm seeing are wrong. She was fairly critical of Kavanaugh throughout the process, so voting *for* him now would look like an exceptionally craven and poll-driven move, especially given that she's had some bad polling lately.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 4, 2018

Voting *against* him and doubling down on her image of honesty/authenticity is a high-variance strategy and will probably not work. But the alternative is quite possibly worse, and you want to take high-variance strategies when you're down in the polls.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 4, 2018

By the same token, Manchin, who has a pretty solid lead in polls, has incentives to be risk-averse, which probably means a "yes" vote.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 4, 2018

https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-am-an-independent-impartial-judge-1538695822

How the fuck is he this terrible of a writer? This is like "maybe" pile for the personal essay on a state school application.

is that real? holy shit

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.

lol

pic.twitter.com/bxDG0oUcq7

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 5, 2018

holy fucking shit.

John Paul Stevens looks every bit his age but can speak in coherent, polysylalbic sentences.

president shitheel

As if this entire presidency couldn’t be more bizarre...

Today, Trump boarded Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe. pic.twitter.com/Wg8D6AeP1Q

— Philin' Myself (@MaltLiquorLogic) October 5, 2018

we're living in a moment ripe for 1976-era Chevy Chase, god help us

How is this our world where no one even bothered to stop him? Like "eh, fuck this clown."

I am hearing Benny Hill music every day of my life now.

https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/greeting-card/images/artworkimages/medium/1/benny-hill-legend-mary-bassett.jpg?&targetx=0&targety=-108&imagewidth=700&imageheight=777&modelwidth=700&modelheight=500&backgroundcolor=A26954&orientation=0

Trump =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u97SG_yimAE

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

I tried to read that Kavanaugh editorial impartially, as if I knew nothing whatever about the man, and his point of focus and choice of words alone were enough to set off alarm bells. Please never forget, while trying to sell people on your credentials and character, to express as much puling butthurt as humanly possible. It only serves to strengthen your case.