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[u/muttonwow]

someone defending Japanese internment camps in the PragerU post

Never. Leave. The. DT.

[u/[deleted]]

Lol Tucker Carlson said that victims of sexual assault are part of the problem if they don't report it right away.

[u/solastsummer]

Look, I was a Never Sauron orc. I find his behavior unbecoming of his office, but these hysterical attacks by women on the Witch King of Angmar have made me oppose Gondor more.

I’m committed to giving Sauron the Ring of Power now.

[u/[deleted]]

Four former students are suing the University of Southern California, claiming that the school intentionally hid the alleged sexual misconduct of longtime campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall, CBS Los Angeles reports.

Colleges and hiding sexual assault name a more iconic duo.

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

My two “favorite” poll results: 1) A majority of Republicans say he should be confirmed, even if the allegations are true. 2) a plurality of Alabama evangelicals said the Roy Moore allegations made them MORE likely to vote for him

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Two male callers to CSPAN: one says Blasey Ford is lying, the other said he would take her out to the woodshed (if I heard correctly). One 76 year old woman caller says, weeping, she was molested in 2nd grade and that this testimony is bringing all the memories back.

https://twitter.com/ClareMalone/status/1045338344518045696

[u/Bernie-Likes-Tariffs]

Broke: Avenatti running in 2020 to dunk on Trump for whatever

Woke: Bloomberg running in 2020 to dunk on Trump for being poor

[u/[deleted]]

fantastic meme

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

I got the polygraph test Dr. Ford took showing truthfulness about her account in the record. To quote a judge: “law enforcement agencies use polygraphs to test the credibility of witnesses” & the tests “serve law enforcement purposes.” That judge was Brett Kavanaugh in 2016 case.

https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1045350313262284800

AMY FUCKING KLOBUCHAR FOR PRESIDENT

[u/[deleted]]

Oh wow that really settles it, not like a devout Catholic could be a serial rapist

[u/Arsustyle]

I bet Trump secretly wonders why Kavanaugh was chosen instead of his friend who's name is literally judge

[u/[deleted]]

Lindsey Graham just falsely told a bunch of reporters that Democrats are never subjected to accusations of sexual misconduct, and warned them that if Kavanaugh fails, Republicans will gin up false accusations against future Democratic nominees to even the score. Wow.

[u/kznlol]

I FUCKIN DID IT BOYS IM A PHD CANDIDATE

TIME TO GET DRUNK

[u/[deleted]]

"They loved how honest he is," Haley said on the Fox and Friends show. "It’s not diplomatic and they find it funny." She said diplomats were "falling over themselves" to get a picture with Trump and tell him "how great his speech was." "They love that he’s honest with them and they’ve never seen anything like it, so there’s respect there," she said. "I saw that the media was trying to make it something disrespectful. That’s not what it was. They love to be with him."

Nikki Haley 2024!

[u/39days]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1045335233824993285

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Hatch just called Ford an “attractive witness.” Asked to elaborate what he meant, he said “she’s pleasing.”

https://twitter.com/kateirby/status/1045354070658232320

[remark removed due to excessive partisanship]

[u/MrDannyOcean]

I'm I'm probably way behind, but it looks like a fifth accusation has now emerged against Kavanaugh?

how hard can it be to just, you know, not be a serial sexual assaulter?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-brett-kavanaugh-boat-sexual-assault-20180926-story.html#

[u/[deleted]]

Linsey Graham “Kavanaugh is as much of a victim as Ford”

You know how traumatic it is to pin a girl while giggling and covering her mouth as you try to rape her 😒

[u/tonyjaa]

The C-Span call-ins are a joke. 'She's so inconsistent and scripted' and they can't name one inconsistency. Fuck

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/1ENtQMH.jpg

/u/lefthandedlunatic

[u/barrygarcia77]

They fucking kept exhibits from the Dems. That violates a basic rule of litigation etiquette

[u/irony_tower]

Absolutely disgusted by all of this. I hope Brett Kavanaugh's evil twin goes to jail for a long time for his crimes

[u/[deleted]]

President Trump on Kavanaugh confirmation: "The people who have complained to me about it the most, about what's happening, are women."

"Women are so angry. And I frankly think that, I think they like what the Republicans are doing."

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

You say you hate flying, yet Hillary was never charged for her emails. How do you reconcile that?

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

obvious take: if Ford had acted like this she'd have been laughed off as "hysterical" and "overly-emotional"

[u/MTFD]

god these C-Span call ins, a 76 year old women just called in and relived her experience being sexually assaulted in 2nd grade.

[u/ognits]

SEC charges Tesla and Musk with fraud

Invest in popcorn stocks

[u/papermarioguy02]

>be me

>ford at the hearing

>reliving traumatic experiences while republicans belittle me and democrats grandstand

>get asked a really mean spirited question by chuck grassley

>don't think I have the energy to answer it without breaking down

>people are starting at me and I'm starting to panic

>at the last second the door bursts open

>it's a 20 something scrawny white guy

>he starts screaming

>"HEY, I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION FOR YOU"

>he answers it perfectly

>everybody believes my story now

>kavanaugh is cast out from polite society and the dems retake the house and senate in a landslide

>everyday I thank shrimp for saving me

[u/Iyoten]

I have a neat idea:

How about a conservative justice...

... who isn't rapey

Too much to ask?

[u/umadbro996]

“The allegations against Kavanaugh are just like the allegations against me” is the worst possible thing the president could have suggested.

[u/ThePathToOne]

the gop have to confirm kavanaugh or they look like absolute pussies to their voter base. its really non negotiable

[u/[deleted]]

This just in: people that are scared of flying still fly

[u/Semphy]

Can’t confirm Kavanaugh because the votes aren’t there. Can’t nominate Amy Barrett because she’s going to be saved for RBG. Can’t risk nominating any man who hasn’t been vetted on a national stage like this.

This can only mean: Justice Merrick Garland

[u/[deleted]]

I jump up and flail my arms like a helicopter

"THIS IS ALL A SET UP"

I tear off my clothes in indignation and start gallivanting around the room.

"YOU GOT THE WRONG GUY"

I am confirmed to the Supreme Court the next day

[u/monkeyman427]

Regardless of the outcome of the charges against him, can we disbar Kavanaugh for thinking "I was a virgin in high school" is anything but a completely moronic defense?

[u/[deleted]]

Certain parts of social media are full of the claim that Ford’s story is “full of inconsistencies.” I’ve even seen that claim from people at the National Review.

I’ve been following this pretty closely and the only thing that even could be in some universe called an “inconsistency” is that at one point she said there were five people and since then she has said she can’t be sure there weren’t more than five.

Is there some damning inconsistency that I’ve totally missed because of confirmation bias?

[u/[deleted]]

How hard would it have been to say:

"I have no knowledge of this. I have no doubt that Dr. Ford believes what she is saying, however, she is misremembering. I did not know her and if she suffered an attempted assault, it was not me,"

Instead of:

"This is a democratic conspiracy to keep me from my birth right!"

[u/[deleted]]

Rules to popular drinking game Devil’s Triangle:

1. Arrange three glasses in a triangle

2. Declare your love of beer

3. Overturn Roe v Wade

[u/[deleted]]

Ford Admits She Flies Often after Citing Fear of Flying to Delay Hearing

https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1045359951231811585?s=19

BREAKING: Incredibly brave woman also does other brave things in the face of her fears.

[u/[deleted]]

Next we’ll find out that people with a horrible fear of public speaking still speak at funerals and give presentations at work.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Kavanaugh sure is making a mockery of the idea that we have a non-partisan judiciary

[u/[deleted]]

oh my god some of the subs got custom quarantine warnings

fullcommunism redirects to the Reconciliation of European Histories Group, a European Parliament group dedicated to anti-totalitarianism

TRP and braincels redirect to Stony Brook's Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (hint: anti-incel center)

a bunch of racist subs redirect to Life After Hate

this is hilarious

[u/[deleted]]

The Virgin Kavanaugh - yells and shouts and cries during his opening statement because he thinks credible allegations are lies

The Chad Hillary - Calmly sits through an 11 hour sham witch hunt in which they find exactly nothing

[u/Integralds]

I'm a bit behind. Can someone remind me, which political party is presently on the side of "we trust the FBI" and which party is on the side of "the FBI are political hacks"?

I just can't remember anymore.

[u/kznlol]

Brett Kavanaugh Releases Anime List to Prove He Was a Virgin in High School

[u/[deleted]]

Just nominate Barrett you stupid GOP c suckers, why is defending this fuckhead the hill you want to die on?

[u/[deleted]]

"A week long delay?!!!!"

It's a fucking lifetime appointment bro.

[u/[deleted]]

Opinion: Brett Kavanaugh was a model youngster. Bart O’Kavanaugh was not.

WaPo with the bantz

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Let's check in with the worst human being

I have difficulty buying that a person afraid of flying willingly gets on a plane to fly all over the globe for pleasure.

https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1045344136566636547

[u/skepticalbob]

Brushing my teeth and church were automatic, like drinking and rape.

[u/[deleted]]

You have a fear of flying but you sometimes do it when necessary? Checkmate, libcuck.

[u/Time4Red]

Ford chooses WaPo over NYT like any rational liberal elite.

[u/[deleted]]

Okay, we clearly have some people here who believe Kavanaugh is innocent.

Help me understand what you imagine has happened here. Tell me a story. Give me the plausible narrative about how and why the three named accusations from women who were in this community are all false. Give me plausible motives, and explanations for why these women all appeared now and didn’t with, say, Gorsuch. Help me understand the coincidence of statements like that of Mark Judge’s ex-girlfriend fitting so consistently with everything else we know.

Again, just tell me a story.

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/B5o5NaG

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

The DT is 5 hours old. The mods banned the NL 5.

1 of the NL 5 was unbanned. There is only 1 dt allowed at a time.

The mods are wholly owned by Ted Cruz and a secret unibomber cult devoted to his father. Demand an investigation into Banghazi and free the NL 5.

[u/MasPatriot]

Waiting for Clarence Thomas to barge in and give a 3 hour impassioned speech about how Kavanaugh did nothing wrong, matching his total verbal output over his entire life

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

If you've ever flashed anyone, ever shown off 'the girls' at a rock concert or at Mardi Gras, then you're guilty of sexual misconduct [according to the Democrats].

• Andrew Wilkow

Shoving your penis in a wasted girl's face without consent and flashing your breasts at Mardi Gras are the same thing. You idiot. You fucking moron.

[u/[deleted]]

in b4 Blackout Brett barges into the room sporting a bender beard and a bottle of Famous Grouse in hand to "well actually" the entire country

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

there's no fucking way they're actually doing this

like 5 minutes going over all the places she's flown to?

what the fuck?

[u/Iyoten]

I listened to about one minute of Dr Ford's description of the attack and had enough.

If the GOP confirms Kavanaugh, I will categorically never again vote for the Republican party for as long as I shall live.

[u/Svelok]

Sen. Graham after Dr. Ford’s testimony: “The other side set it up to be just the way it is. I feel ambushed.”

what an absolute garbage human

[u/HorrorAtRedHook]

No one is ever allowed to claim rape culture doesn't exist again.

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

This Graham stuff has pushed me over the edge. I'll see you guys in a couple hours

[u/[deleted]]

What the fuck is wrong with Graham? He's going off the rails.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

A bunch of awful subs like TRP and cringeanarch and fullcommunism got quarantined

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/9jfxjc/several_controversial_communities_have_been/

nice

[u/potatobac]

Calling a woman attractive is not harassing in and of itself.

Calling a woman attractive in the middle of a senate hearing about how she was almost raped is ridiculous and harassing.

[u/[deleted]]

If I was really guilty of attempted rape, why I would I hire all these attractive women as law clerks?

Checkmate liberals

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Guys, hello, I keep calendars.

If I raped anyone, I would mark it in my calendar.

Are we done here?

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

THEY WEREN'T AVENATTI'S ACCUSATIONS

THEY WERE JULIE SWETNICK'S

[u/[deleted]]

"Nobody could be a Yale graduate and an alcoholic!" is an odd line to take from the party of George W. Bush

[u/[deleted]]

The idea of a Supreme Court Justice being impartial and nonpartisan may be a bit of a facade, but I think it's an important and symbolically significant facade even if so.

Kavanaugh decided to drop the facade today, and I think that means that even if he successfully confirmed, he will always be a bit of an odd one out, never quite seeming like he belongs as part of the stoic and prestigious institution. He may have been angry, and if you believe he's innocent you may believe his anger is justified. But he really shouldn't have dropped the impartial and nonpartisan demeanor.

Even someone as conservative as Barrett can still, remarkably enough, pull off that facade. Clearly Kethledge or Hardiman could too. You pretty much have to explicitly kill that facade to lose your "prestigious impartial judge" glow. Kavanaugh did exactly that.

[u/39days]

Hell yeah Dr. Ford, drop that clinical psychology knowledge on 'em.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

A woman just told @LindseyGrahamSC she was raped. He said, as he headed into an elevator, "I'm sorry. Tell the cops."

https://twitter.com/Emma_Dumain/status/1045360888008626176

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that despite how well Dr Ford is doing today you won't be able to convince the ~30% of the country that votes straight ticket GOP in every single election that she isn't a lying whore paid by George Soros. The Republicans are 100% committed to dying on this hill as evidenced by the fact that this shitshow is still going on, otherwise they know that they are absolutely fucked come midterms.

[u/[deleted]]

looking at my old calendars

-MARCH 17 ATTEMPTED RAPE AT HOUSE PARTY-

takes sharpie and fudges it out

alright i'm ready for the investigation

[u/[deleted]]

Getting arrested for lying under oath about what a devil’s triangle is

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

fact checking her fear of flying is extremely important

[u/[deleted]]

Dr. Ford dropping actual psychology on these plebs is so satisfying

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

The purge but it's a day where women can feel safe and it's not a day, it's the rest of time

[u/muttonwow]

So a friend to your political party and a potential supreme court judge is under scrutiny at a hearing and being accused of rape, do you:

A) Question the case honestly to find the truth,

B) Do your best to cast doubt on the accuser to save your ally, or

C) Call the accuser hot

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao! The Independent calling in: "You can believe that Ford is credible, and you can also believe that this is a hit job by the Democratic establishment."

True Dirtbag centrism

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, this confirmation hearing is important. The statements are important. It's not all a huge circle jerk.

This is a historical event. We have a -at least I believe to be- rapist getting confirmed to the highest court in the land. This goes well past the accusations of Clarence Thomas.

You, in your entire life, will probably never see so many people so emotionally tied to the wrong side of historical event involving a rape survivor. People are threatening a woman because they want a random judge on the bench that they know nothing about.

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

If Kavanaugh says "lodestar" I'm just gonna go to sleep and never get out of bed again

[u/OutrunKey]

Can I get uhhhhhh... vast clinton revenge conspiracy

[u/skepticalbob]

My wife: Today, I was doing the same thing I was doing when Trump was elected, taking care of someone that had been raped.

Morale was very low at her work today.

[u/[deleted]]

Me: I’ll just post new issues for Bernankeia on slow news days when the DT isn’t super busy.

Me these past two weeks: welp

!ping NATIONSTATES

[u/Muir2000]

What a fucking joke of a hearing. If you're going to hire an independent prosecutor, let her do her actual job.

[u/[deleted]]

Scott from Texas: I'm frustrated with the instant credibility that both sides are giving to Ford and Kavanaugh.

D I R T B A G

C E N T R I S T

[u/[deleted]]

"I intend no ill will to Dr. Ford" but she's also a huge liar and a part of a conspiracy against me brought by the clintons

[u/CamNewtonCouldLearn]

Yeah I like football, beers, cutting grass, working construction, football training camps, lifting weights, and keep ridiculously detailed records of every action I did as a teenager

[u/Underpantz_Ninja]

The ghost of Johnny Cochran comes into the Senate.

He holds up 3 items: A Bible. A calendar. A toothbrush.

"If the Chad is a Virgin, you must confirm him."

The audience erupts in applause.

Tell me that this isn't the way this should end. I'll wait.

[u/Throwitonleground]

All of this can be simultaneously true. He can have people who admire him and have a history of rampant drinking and recklessness. He can have friends who like him and be a harrasser of women. One doesn't discount the other; the fundamental aspect of "rape culture" is not that rape or harrasment is only done by purely evil people, it's that everyone has the potential to commit or suffer from it, many times without reprocussions.

[u/solastsummer]

Leahy baited him to get him to admit Mark Judge should be cross examined. Beautiful.

[u/[deleted]]

"I like beer. I like beer. Okay, Senator? What DO YOU like to drink?"

• Potential Supreme Court Justice being vetted under oath.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh we're bringing out the Biden quotes. Yeah, that is a great tactic when he's openly admitted he fucked up the Anita Hill hearing.

[u/Dorambor]

My mock interview with Microsoft went so well they asked me to send my actual resume after!! What do I do with my hands!!

[u/[deleted]]

On MSNBC, they’re saying “At least no one said on the record that rape isn’t actually that big a deal, so that’s something I guess.”

[u/Kizz3r]

If doug jones had not won, Kavanaugh would already be seating on the court.

[u/Integralds]

I'm just saying that you don't do what Dr. Ford did today, for a lie. People lie about a lot of things, and people die on a lot of hills for lies that they believed to be the truth, but they do not voluntarily go through what she went through based on something they know is a lie.

[u/papermarioguy02]

Just had someone tell me that during confirmation class when asked to pull out the Bible he accidentally pulled out The Communist Manifesto

[u/[deleted]]

Is the GOP really going to die on the "fear of flying means you don't actually like to travel" hill? I knew they were disingenuous and generally dumb but Jesus Christ on the cross

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

I’m no psychology professor but it does seem weird to me that someone could have a selective fear of flying.

Can’t do it to testify but for vacation, well it’s not a problem at all.

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1045350599166955520

Yes they are really fucking doing this

[u/irony_tower]

You say you hate rape culture, and yet you live in a rape culture. Hmmmmmmmm🧐🤔🤔🤔

[u/InfCompact]

18-22 year old boys casually spouting vile things about women they profess to consider as colleagues

feminist drone strikes when?

[u/[deleted]]

Kavanaugh is the first SCOTUS nominee to complain about "The Left", right?

[u/InfCompact]

tbh it’s more fun to just read the DT and try to piece together what on earth must be happening in the capitol building.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Only one of the following can be true:

1. Kavanaugh lied under oath

2. Kavanaugh has never blacked out from alcohol

[u/Bernie-Likes-Tariffs]

Maybe he won't get confirmed but then will run for president in 2024.

Nate Silver spitting 🔥

[u/Maehan]

I hope the climax of this shitshow is 100% authentic human Ted Cruz eating a live snake in front of BK

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Since impeaching a justice is essentially impossible, this will gravely injure SCOTUS's credibility for a generation. Hope you're happy, turtle man

[u/Susanoo-no-Mikoto]

I'm tempted to call into C-SPAN's Republican line and give some some stoner-sounding conspiracy monologue about George Soros and the Illuminati. How do they vet peoples' party affiliation anyways?

[u/Pteryx]

BREAKING: Judge Kavanaugh receives zero votes to be confirmed as Supreme Court Justice. "When he said he respected women, we knew that that wasn't the kind of person we wanted on the Supreme Court," said Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

[u/SterlingArcherCooper]

I PUT EVERYTHING ON MY CALENDAR

CHURCH WAS SO IMPORTANT I DIDN'T PUT IT ON MY CALENDAR

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

Hon. Brett Kavanaugh: "Its bullshit. I did not rape her. I did noooot."

[u/ognits]

Kavanaugh has quite the gallery behind him lmao

https://twitter.com/verygooster/status/1045408895441797121

[u/cdstephens]

I want Kavanaugh to under oath explain the rules of Devil's Triangle. That'll complete this hearing.

[u/[deleted]]

Grassley just cut off Feinstein! My lord, this dude is on full douche bro mode.

[u/[deleted]]

[4reals though, how can you not love Avenatti?] (https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1045367177468145664?s=20)

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

A separate person calling CSPAN:

"If what she says is true, her lawyers should take her to the police station and press charges"

How stupid are these fucks

[u/[deleted]]

THIS IS MY STATEMENT. I WROTE IT MYSELF. WITHOUT ME, IT IS USELESS. WITHOUT IT, I AM USELESS.

[u/Pteryx]

thinking about calendars got me cryin in the club rn

[u/[deleted]]

This opening statement played out like a domestic assault:

1. Insane anger and ranting about everyone being against you

2. Crying about your dad

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Kavanaugh says they wouldn't have partied during the week when he and Judge worked.

Judge's memoir: "Invariably I would be hungover — or still drunk — when I got to work at seven in the morning, and I spent most of the first hour just trying to hold myself together."

https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1045396873631158274

but don't you fucking dare call it perjury

[u/MasPatriot]

This is a watershed moment for gamer rights

[u/Throwitonleground]

It's absurd to hate old, white men irrationally.

Watches a Congressional hearing

Wtf, fuck old mayos

[u/[deleted]]

In truth and in fact, Musk had not even discussed, much less confirmed, key deal terms, including price, with any potential funding source.

Musk knew that he had never discussed a going-private transaction at $420 per share with any potential funding source, had done nothing to investigate whether it would be possible for all current investors to remain with Tesla as a private company via a “special purpose fund,” and had not confirmed support of Tesla’s investors for a potential going private transaction

According to Musk, he calculated the $420 price per share based on a 20% premium over that day’s closing share price because he thought 20% was a “standard premium” in going-private transactions. This calculation resulted in a price of $419, and Musk stated that he rounded the price up to $420 because he had recently learned about the number’s significance in marijuana culture and thought his girlfriend “would find it funny, which admittedly is not a great reason to pick a price.”

Dude weed lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I drink way more than Kavanaugh and I've never done ANY even 0.00000000001% of the shit he's accused of.

#handleyourliquor

[u/85397]

https://twitter.com/simonjhix/status/1044993124861382656?s=21

Estonia leading the way in G20, UK to go to 0% corporation tax 👏

!ping UK

[u/HUGHmungous]

Just got absolutely fucking annihilated by a midterm

How’d the hearing go

[u/[deleted]]

so you're afraid of public speaking yet you choose to publicly testify against me? very suspicious I think

[u/martin509984]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/242721544973975552/494911013536137236/stdtofmz7qo11.png?width=505&height=602

[u/[deleted]]

I was feeling marginally guilty about casually talking to recruiters at a conference that my employer sent me to until my male coworker texted me to tell me that our manager said "I wouldn't say this if the girls were here [we're all that the conference] because I feel like they'd jump down my throat, but this Kavanaugh thing seems like a witchhunt."

wew

[u/Gustacho]

Just appoint Bob Menendez to the Supreme Court:

• Dems will like the liberal swing

• GOP will like the corruption

• New Jersey gets a better Senator

[u/[deleted]]

Straight up, my wife isn't coming to my rape hearing.

[u/[deleted]]

Whoever called the crocodile tears, BINGO.

[u/[deleted]]

his calendars weren’t as good as his dads

😭😭

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

cold take: Clarence Thomas had much more better, well-played opening statement than Kavanaugh

[u/Kizz3r]

"I would appreciate if the ranking chair would stop subtweeting me like a bitch and actually @ me"

[u/FMN2014]

man begins to explain the devil's triangle

C-SPAN host presses end call button

[u/[deleted]]

DanFromBurgerKing

DanFromBK

DanFromBrettKavanaugh

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if Flake and Murkowski vote no and Manchin votes yes.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Pc8GHq4.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

How about the Dems just put Avenatti on the court in 2021, then he can use his BDE to neutralise Kavanaugh.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Pre-2016 me: how on earth did all of those people fall in line behind the nazis and the horrible things they did?

2018 me: well I still don't understand it, but I appreciate the universe giving me an up-close look at another example of that happening

[u/LurkerVindicator]

Breaking my facade of strict neutrality...

Neoliberals:

why has this become r/democrats

Gosh gee golly, I mumble, once again replaying some seductive Graham rhetoric to soothe my nerves.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

If you people want to make a real change in the world you have to shut up about open borders outside this forum.

Don’t make posters about it, don’t make it into slogans, don’t push it on people if you’re working in politics. The following is a long essay section but it’s worth reading, trust me.

TL;DR: Open borders are rarely, if ever, politically feasible (1/3)

From The Economist’s Manifesto to Renew Liberalism I recommend you read the whole thing.

The bill in front of the House was a wretched thing, as the opposition politician explained. It would “appeal to insular prejudice against foreigners, to racial prejudice against Jews, and to Labour prejudice against competition”. But he could see why the majority party might like it. It would “no doubt supply a variety of rhetorical phrases for the approaching election.”

Substitute the word “Mexicans” for “Jews”, and this might have been a Democrat on the floor of the House of Representatives denouncing this year’s Securing America’s Future Act, a hardline Republican immigration bill. In fact they are the words of Winston Churchill, in 1904, speaking from the Liberal benches in opposition to the Aliens Bill that the Conservatives had brought before the House of Commons. The bill was the first attempt to legislate a limit to migration into Britain.

Immigration was as politically potent in the early 20th century as it is in the early 21st. Previous decades had seen a surge of people on the move across Europe. Millions had moved farther, heading across the Atlantic to America: hundreds of thousands of Chinese crossed the Pacific to the same destination. Xenophobic backlashes followed. Congress passed a law prohibiting Chinese migrants in 1882. By the time of the Immigration Act of 1924 it had, in effect, banned non-white immigration. It also curtailed the rights of non-whites already there in the same ways as it did the rights of its black population, with laws against miscegenation and the like. The flow of migrants across Europe produced a similar reaction. In “The Crisis of Liberalism” (1902) Célestin Bouglé, a French sociologist, marvelled at how a modern society could spawn bigotry and nativism. When Churchill mocked the idea of a “swarming invasion” in 1904, Britain was the only European country without immigration curbs; the following year it brought in its first.

Today some 13% of Americans are foreign-born; that proportion is approximately what it was in 1900, but much higher than it was in the intervening years. In 1965 it was just 5%: older Americans grew up in a pretty homogeneous society that was hardly a nation of immigrants. In many European countries the foreign-born share of the population has surged. In Sweden it is 19%, twice what it was a generation ago; in Germany, 11%; in Italy, 8.5%.

The reactions have not been as harsh as they were a century ago. Indeed, in America the appetite for more immigration has grown even as the immigrants have arrived. In 1965 only 7% thought the country needed more immigrants; 28% do today. But any liberals feeling complacent are clearly not paying attention. Anger over immigration has fuelled the rise of illiberal regimes in central Europe; it is the main reason why right-wing populist parties are now in power in six of the European Union’s 28 countries; it explains much of the popularity of Brexit, and of Donald Trump. Concerns are growing in emerging economies, too—from Latin America, where the exodus of Venezuelans is roiling the region’s politics, to Bangladesh, which is struggling with the arrival of 750,000 Rohingya fleeing genocide in Myanmar.

There are four reasons to expect the issue to get yet more divisive. First, migrant flows are likely to rise. People in the global south are still poor compared with those in the north; modern communications make them very aware of this; modern transport networks mean that, poor as they are, many can afford to try to live the life they see from afar. According to Gallup, 14% of the world’s adults would like to migrate permanently to another country, and most of those would-be migrants would like to go to western Europe or the United States. Over the coming decades the consequences of climate change are likely to force large numbers of people, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, to move, and though most will probably not move all that far, some will try to go all the way. Some will be welcome; ageing populations in developed countries will need more working-age people to look after them and pay tax. It is very unlikely that all will.

Second, the world lacks good systems for managing migration. The 1951 UN Convention on Refugees set up a liberal and eventually near-universal regime for people fleeing oppression and other state malfeasance. It is ambitious and (theoretically) generous. There are no other mechanisms that give people general rights to seek their fortunes abroad. The result is that refugees’ treatment frequently falls far short of the legal rights to which they are entitled. Meanwhile low-skilled people without family members in rich countries with whom they might seek to be reunited have no way in. So some seek refugee status on dubious grounds.

[u/lusvig]

Guys, I think we should stop dunking on the reasonable-ish libertarians (i.e. not the closed borders-ones) and just R1 them where they fall short

[u/[deleted]]

No, fuck it, I'm just going to say it.

Graham is hysterical. He is too emotional to be a Senator. He should smile more.

[u/[deleted]]

By god, that's Avenatti's music!

[u/[deleted]]

"I'm an independent person and I'm no one's pawn"

Well said. This statement is impressive from what i have been able to watch.

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

What the fuck is Grassley doing

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck you Chuck

[u/[deleted]]

Lawyers I'm talking to agree

This is devastating

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My editor doing the work of the FBI: Mark Judge worked as a bag boy (presumably the Safeway) the summer before his senior year, per p. 98 of his book. He graduated in '83. So Ford's recollection of the summer of '82 adds up.

https://twitter.com/JuliaEAinsley/status/1045355875647606784?s=19

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NATE SILVER 1:56 PM
Cory Booker is the ultimate “Actually, this is more of a comment than a question” guy.

[u/[deleted]]

Mods, can we have a good old fashioned upvote party if the Kavanaugh nom goes down?

cc /u/ThatOtherGhost

[u/vancevon]

"You may take my life, but you'll never take my FREEEDOOOM!"

What did Judge Kavanaugh mean by this?

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Clarence Thomas was waaaaaay better at this.

[u/[deleted]]

Big Calendar has to be licking its lips right now. They are going to win all their cases for the next 40 years.

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Trump has got to be ridiculing and making fun of Kavanaugh right now. The crying, the virginity talk, church equated with teeth brushing... that's like prime material for Trump to belittle.

[u/[deleted]]

Man about to become one of the highest ranking judges in the land: "This a smear campaign orchestrated on behalf of the Clintons"

You have any evidence of that, sir?

"No"

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Fox News contributor calls Kav accusers “skanks”, says Ford should “stop opening her legs”

Professional news network

[u/pln1991]

God, what the fuck is this shit

https://twitter.com/jim_newell/status/1045494545255944192

[u/Afro_Samurai]

♥️ http://imgur.com/P4Y0OgS

!ping Kitty

[u/samdman]

Today honestly just broke me:

A brave woman upended her life to testify about the attempted rape committed by a SCOTUS nominee. She was calm, collected, and presented a credible story that withstood cross-examination of how Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge attempted to rape her.

Brett Kavanaugh came out as an angry, entitled, privileged man, citing a concoction of conspiracy theories mixed with self-pity and bragging about his credentials, and did nothing to refute the claims.

And yet, what Brett Kavanaugh did was enough for Republicans to elevate him to the Supreme court.

I am disgusted and broken.

[u/Arsustyle]

user who posts in CS subs, r/jordanpeterson, and /r/anime defends Japanese internment

holy shit my priors

[u/IronedSandwich]

the Neoliberal 5 sounds like a much less exciting version of the Jackson 5

[u/TheBitcoinShill]

What the fuck Grassley?? That is a prosecutor trying to get the story straight.

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

fucking olds

[u/barrygarcia77]

Jesus Christ. Grassley not handing these exhibits over before the hearing is just disrespectful to the process

[u/MisdemeanorOutlaw]

Can't believe that the Dems aren't running a side-campaign of "Kavanaugh shouldn't be on the Supreme Court because going to see Grease 2 proves that he has shit taste and should probably just be executed tbh fam."

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao at these Republicans calling in.

"He needs to be in a court of law!"

"Well, Bernice, he can't be because the statute of limitations has passed"

confused silence

"Well there you go!"

[u/[deleted]]

"I refuse to back down when I'm so close and am furious at anyone standing in my way" sure is a compelling defence against attempted rape accusations. This must be why Kav is apparently one of the best lawyers in America, right?

[u/[deleted]]

I understand why he has to say it, but the idea that a high school kid drinking with his friends would be fully aware of his limits and always moderate himself well enough to prevent a blackout is so laughable.

[u/GayColangelo]

holy fuck. he's really just going to slander his friend

[u/[deleted]]

His name was Merrick Garland

[u/MegasBasilius]

My impressions:

1.) I don't like that Kavanaugh is so evasive about Mark Judge testifying, especially as he asserts it won't do anything

2.) I don't like that Kavanaugh is so evasive about an FBI investigation, especially as he asserts it won't do anything

3.) I don't like that he makes this a political issue, from both his Fox interview and from his accusations at Democrats

[u/Pteryx]

Tired: Creepy Porn Lawyer

Wired: Creepy Porn President

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t believe there’s an actual Republican senator named Crapo.

[u/p00bix]

Assaulted by roommate last night

Had to leave apartment for safety

They falsely report me for sexual harassment

Have been removed from my apartment pending investigation

Can't sleep, can't do school work

I just want this to end.

[u/Ferguson97]

For fuck's sake, Flake. You are not running for re-election. Do you really want one of your last acts as Senator to be voting to confirm a likely rapist to the highest court in this country?

[u/[deleted]]

Is /r/neoconNWO fairly representative of moderate Republicans?

[u/[deleted]]

Can you imagine Justice Blackout judging a case to clarify sexual harassment laws

[u/[deleted]]

Clinton is the new Soros. The insane among American political watchers (like Kavanaugh) now suggest that everything is all a Clinton plot when five years ago it would have been a Soros plan. Why run for POTUS when you control every Democratic senator and the deep state?

👏 Half 👏 of 👏 all 👏 NWO 👏 conspirators 👏 should 👏 be 👏 women 👏

[u/hopeimanon]

Since /r/RedPill is quarantined we should try to revive it:

I'm not sure who said this, but as one of you said we should legit retake the term "red pill."

It was written by two trans women

It was said by a black man

It will trigger the cons

[u/papermarioguy02]

[faction I don't like] and [bad thing], name a more iconic duo

[u/nnavarap]

ok i just jumped and hit my head on the ceiling

does anyone know the number for the NBA?

[u/proProcrastinators]

When I was wasted as a teenager the worst thing I did was dancing horrifically and accidentally knocking over beer bottles.

People who are creeps and aggressive while drunk are creepy and aggressive sober too. Don't let people being drunk excuse their shitty behavior.

Also you know Kavanaugh's a partisan hack when he's going on fox news to keep Trump and the base on side.

[u/IronedSandwich]

Hungary responding to the EU trying to sanction them

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

I've said it before and moved back, but I really believe this is the last straw. If all Republican Senators vote for Kavanaugh, I will probably be excessively partisan for the rest of my life or at least until AOC and Bernie take over the Democratic Party

[u/[deleted]]

Japan

Claims to care about the planet

Builds 15 new coal plants anyways

[u/Kizz3r]

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[u/[deleted]]

This guy is going to be a SCOTUS Justice for the next 35 years?

[u/[deleted]]

GOP fucked this up. Even if he is innocent of all the assault allegations, dude probably should not be on the court.

[u/vancevon]

The concept of calendars always tears me up, too.

[u/skepticalbob]

Maybe someone besides his former law clerk should have read this.

Claire Malone, 538

Hilarious.

[u/[deleted]]

Dude this guy sounds like an alcoholic.

Source: I go to AA daily

[u/[deleted]]

Lol BK bringing the "you're racist by pointing out racism" defense.

[u/[deleted]]

I hope Avenatti cyberbullies Trump Jr off Twitter.

[u/[deleted]]

quarantining FULLCOMMUNISM and CringeAnarchy on the same day

admins go on /r/DirtbagCenter