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

I am wavering between i)nothing in life mattering and ii) feeling good that I haven't been paranoid my entire life about how terrible people really are.

Like, Collins is babbling righteously, but disingenuously ignoring all sorts of shit. Like Garland.

silver lining: this seems likely to dull any supposed right wing voter push, now that they got their guy. and more likely to fan the flames of a left wing November blue wave.

i'll take what i can get, though even that i'm not sure about.

putting herself in the spotlight like this was a really stupid idea if this was the end game

loooooool

according to collins, kavanaugh's previous support for measures to protect the president from prosecution while in office means that believes that the president does not CURRENTLY have protection from prosecution while in office, therefore we don't have to worry about kavanaugh siding with trump on such a case

Susan Collins castigating everyone for opposing the nominee before he was even named, which is, of course what McConnell did immediately after Scalia’s death.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 5, 2018

All these assholes, from Flake to Collins, they seem to recognize that we live in remarkable, unprecedented times, then they vote and operate as if we are not teetering on the brink.

just announce your intention to vote for the sexual assaulter and fuck off

This Kav guy seems OK! Very reasonable.

We should give him a chance.

sometimes they seem to resent the rest of everything else, institution and party and opposing party and the times, forcing them into being consequential rather than just being able to make safe votes their whole careers

so they defiantly make 'principled' safe votes in order to stake a claim for the lost values rather than making any votes in favor of the things actually at stake

Listening now, sounds like Kav is actually a hero. We should have more fair and flexible intellects like him.

Who’s going to tell Susan Collins that “special interests” and “dark money” argued over Kavanaugh on both sides.

— Elizabeth Drew (@ElizabethDrewOH) October 5, 2018

This is like the world's longest social studies book report

hey I know we deleted my posts from this morning where I brainstormed some fun ideas but I kind of have a few more right now

This sounds like someone who was yes from moment 1.

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 5, 2018

fun, legal ideas

fun, wholesome, and legal ideas for having fun with republican senators

i guess it's kind of comforting to know for sure that trump could've nominated a literal piece of dogshit and it would get 50 votes to confirm

So much settled law, why even have a court?

is there gonna be a midpoint in this speech

'that being said…'

I hope I have the sense to emigrate to Israel before the pogroms start

as a goof!

WAS there significant money spent opposing Kavanaugh? I saw pro-Kavanaugh TV commercials from the Judicial Whatever Network but I don't know about the other side.

the fun thing is we have no way of knowing

I think I might be ready for a purge. I'm pretty nimble and willing to take my chances.

Kavanaugh, such an underdog

I'm a tiny bit cheered by the idea of Collins making this Very Important Speech affirming her loyalty to her party's intellectual and spiritual leader, Donald J Trump, and meanwhile he watches it for about 90 seconds, groans "BORRRRRRRING" and pops in his VHS of Bloodsport.

lol

lol

I hope the voters of Maine turn against her en masse and her governor-ship dreams go in the tank as a result cuz this is the lamest kind of grandstanding

OK she really believes because Garland and Kav voted 90 percent of the time that it's worth a mention. Most SCOTUS cases are unanimous!

I'm told Maine is mostly inbred lobstermen so who knows xp

like, why did she position herself this way, what does she gain from it, when so many of us suspected her yes vote was a foregone conclusion for months

xp

she gains attention

she probably thinks she does nothing and the world is just a whirlwind of speculation around her

too bad Maine's current governor is a festering toad.

she wanted this big opportunity to shine in the spotlight to accomplish... what exactly? handing Trump a Supreme Court that will protect him?

Well, that fund for whoever her opponent is just got past $2 million now.

maybe she wants to be vice president

Maybe she should just sit at home and darn socks like a good little woman.

gang rape allegation is "OUTLANDISH" and put forward without any evidence...which is why they decided to not investigate it at all

I DEFINITELY believe her...but also she's a liar

oh my fucking god she's repeating FOX talking points

I don't think you can be a republican otherwise?

collins believes ford, believes that she is a survivor and that her life was changed by this assault

HERE COMES THE 'NEVERTHELESS' WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

nevertheless her claims can't be corroborated by the 4 people there that evening! so collins must believe that ford was mistaken in believing 100 fucking percent that it was Kavanaugh

jfc, fuck off collins

Collins will face an uphill battle in her pursuit of the vice presidency once the SC rules women unconstitutional.

this stuff about the assault claims is really horrible. she doesn't deserve to have a platform ever again

this is pretty fucked up

white women are embarrassing and i’m embarrassed to be one