More Creepy Stuff Comes Out About Kavanaugh

[Lianne Marten]

Primary the shit out of Manchin the next time he's up for election. If he won't vote with Democrats when it matters then why are we wasting time and money on him.

 

[Isabeau]

 

[WolfEyes]

Found this in my email just now from Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley:

A Note from Jeff on Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Process
I feel strongly and passionately that Judge Kavanaugh is the wrong person for this job, and understand that others feel strongly the other way. But everyone should be unified that sexual assault is intolerable, and that survivors should be respected and treated with dignity. I have heard from so many women over the last two weeks whose wounds have been reopened by these events and the hearing. I hope all of us, regardless of politics, can work to give care and support to those who have been traumatized and to work towards a society where sexual violence is far less common than it is today.

 

[Nika Talaj]

The only thing about this that surprises me is that Kavanaugh has stuck with it. Oh yes, the lifetime benefits and prestige are great. BUT ... he's already a circuit court judge, and the salary is not all that different. I think he believes that the GOP will "take care of him", that they owe him now and they will endlessly give jobs to his relatives and throw cookies his way.. But ... I think that sort of 'courtesy' is gone now, in the age of Trump, who eventually turns on everybody who helps him, even those who are related to him.

I think he underestimates the scorn and memories of those who opposed him. I think he's a big enough idiot to think that once he's confirmed, everything will be OK.

Some of the SCOTUS justices will have scorn for him.
His family will be harassed.
People will keep digging for dirt on him. Endlessly. Every wink, every plastic surgery procedure, every party he ever attended will be scrutinized.
His financial affairs will be probed.
I think he's foolish enough to be happy that he'll be on board when Roe vs. Wade is challenged. But he'll be crucified when that happens.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Always remember: There Are No Good Republicans.

Unfortunately there used to be. Now most of the Ds are where mainstream Rs used to be.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Primary the shit out of Manchin the next time he's up for election. If he won't vote with Democrats when it matters then why are we wasting time and money on him.

This is the 'better a D than an R' logic that people use all the time. Umm, no. Just no. A dino is not better than an R.

 

[Free]

Motherfuckers.

Susan Collins Consents - WSJ

That headline says it all, don't it? Hey Sen, Collins: What does this say to you? Because it says to me that they're laughing at you.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Primary the shit out of Manchin the next time he's up for election. If he won't vote with Democrats when it matters then why are we wasting time and money on him.

Sorry, but that's just what we tried and it was a resounding failure. Manchin is up for re-election this November and the primary attempt didn't even come close to unseating him.

In West Virginia, there are no Democratic candidates. They are -- at best -- moderate Republicans running on the dime of the Democratic party. Or, like our governor, they are outright Republicans (he switched parties just after winning as a Dem).

Joe Manchin would have gained nothing by voting No and would have guaranteed losing to a Republican next month. That's just the harsh truth of the state that I live in. It's filled to the brim with rabid right-wing Evangelicals/poorly educated Whites.

So what has he gained by voting Yes? A Democratic party that tells me and my wife (literally, at campaign headquarters this past weekend), that we have to vote for Manchin in order to flip the Senate. That Manchin may not vote reliably Dem all the time, but he votes Dem more of the time than a Republican would.

It's a reasoned "larger picture" perspective that I just can't swallow right now. Right now, I want to vote for every Dem office except Senate and just leave that space blank. Fuck him.

 

[GradyE]

Manchin, Flake and Collins are all yes votes. Fuck the lot of them. I am so angry right now I could scream.

It was all a fucking fan dance with those three.

 

[Lianne Marten]

Manchin gains nothing by voting yes because the people who are on board for Kavanaugh will never vote for anyone with a (D) next to their name.

All he loses is Democrats wanting to vote for him. He's going to lose and a Republican is going to get that seat and literally nothing will change because he's already a Republican.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Manchin gains nothing by voting yes because the people who are on board for Kavanaugh will never vote for anyone with a (D) next to their name.

All he loses is Democrats wanting to vote for him. He's going to lose and a Republican is going to get that seat and literally nothing will change because he's already a Republican.

Maybe so, though somehow he already got elected with a D next to his name.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Manchin gains nothing by voting yes because the people who are on board for Kavanaugh will never vote for anyone with a (D) next to their name.

If Republicans didn't vote for Kavanaugh, he wouldn't be in office. There aren't enough Dems in this state to vote him in.

Republicans are Manchin's base. The Dems are the edge that gets him away from the more competitive GOP primary and marks him as a relatively sane politician in this insane state. Moderate GOP + Dem = win.

And the DEM PARTY LINE is vote for Manchin even if he confirms Kavanaugh. When my wife refused to take a Manchin yard sign from the local Dem headquarters in town -- "Not until I see whether or not he votes Kavanaugh" -- we got the usual earnest entreaty to vote for him either way because "he's our only hope" and "he's better than no Democrat at all."

So no consequences, none, are supposed to accrue to Joe Manchin. He gets a free pass from Dems as he kicks us in the face. Because we have nowhere else to go.

My indignation and rage is considered to be an unrealistic striving for "party purity" that will undermine the overall Democratic plan. Andy Borowitz sneered at me on Facebook a few months back for not being an "adult in the room" when the discussion focused on DINO Manchin. There is NO support for Dems who recoil from Manchin for Senator.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Brooklyn College Professor Defends Sexual Assault As Male Rite Of Passage

Not only am I all out of even, AMAZON is out of even so I can't order any more.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Brooklyn College Professor Defends Sexual Assault As Male Rite Of Passage

Not only am I all out of even, AMAZON is out of even so I can't order any more.

Sadder is that the College doesn't seem to understand how the First Amendment works; it does NOT protect you from your words, except from the Government. It does not protect your job if you are a creep. And if I were a student there, I'd be transferring ASAP.

 

[Isabeau]

But, not all men, right?

Only the President, and professors, and boyfriends dating your daughter, and judges (supreme court at that), etc.

 

[Kara Spengler]

If Republicans didn't vote for Kavanaugh, he wouldn't be in office. There aren't enough Dems in this state to vote him in.

Republicans are Manchin's base. The Dems are the edge that gets him away from the more competitive GOP primary and marks him as a relatively sane politician in this insane state. Moderate GOP + Dem = win.

And the DEM PARTY LINE is vote for Manchin even if he confirms Kavanaugh. When my wife refused to take a Manchin yard sign from the local Dem headquarters in town -- "Not until I see whether or not he votes Kavanaugh" -- we got the usual earnest entreaty to vote for him either way because "he's our only hope" and "he's better than no Democrat at all."

So no consequences, none, are supposed to accrue to Joe Manchin. He gets a free pass from Dems as he kicks us in the face. Because we have nowhere else to go.

My indignation and rage is considered to be an unrealistic striving for "party purity" that will undermine the overall Democratic plan. Andy Borowitz sneered at me on Facebook a few months back for not being an "adult in the room" when the discussion focused on DINO Manchin. There is NO support for Dems who recoil from Manchin for Senator.

I never could figure out that logic. Voting for someone because of the letter next to their name rather than their record.

If a dino was running against a rino the dnc would still back the dino. Even if the rino was more left wing than a majority of actual democrats.

 

[Lianne Marten]

I'm not exactly sure why this argument is happening, because I agree with you.

Joe Manchin is a worthless piece of shit but there's nothing we can do about it.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Sadder is that the College doesn't seem to understand how the First Amendment works; it does NOT protect you from your words, except from the Government. It does not protect your job if you are a creep. And if I were a student there, I'd be transferring ASAP.

IANAL, but it could be argued the college is part of the government. It is part of CUNY, which is the college system run by the city of NY.

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Essence Lumin]

I wish the Brooklyn professor could be fired. Maybe he could be if the college wanted to. Judging by this article, the first amendment question is not entirely obvious by any means though at public colleges and universities.

First Amendment offers scant protection for professors

"Faculty at private colleges and universities lack the constitutional protection of free expression in their workplace because the First Amendment doesn't cover speech at work for private institutions," he said. "If you work at a public university, then you are protected under the First Amendment. To that point, it's important to remember that slightly more than one-fourth of the plaintiffs in my dataset won their First Amendment claim. We shouldn't lose sight of that number.
"My own sense is that private institutions have been more proactive about defining academic freedom and faculty rights pertaining to them. We have an ironic situation in which private universities are not protected and, knowing that, have provided more robust protections for faculty speech and academic freedom."