Kavanaugh -Kava NOPE?

[Kirkrapine]

Well, we have a new justice.

By a very broad definition of the word . . .

 

[phrodeau]

As Rachel Maddow put it, selections have consequences.

 

[gunthernehmen]

As Rachel Maddow put it, selections have consequences.

They sure do. Running Hillary for president in 2016 was the selection that brought us here... If you'd selected someone sane you probably would have won that one.

 

[KeithD]

They sure do. Running Hillary for president in 2016 was the selection that brought us here... If you'd selected someone sane you probably would have won that one.

The Russian mafia and the gullibility of the American people were the largest factors in getting us here.

 

[gunthernehmen]

The Russian mafia and the gullibility of the American people were the largest factors in getting us here.

As long as we GOT here. That's the important thing!

 

[phrodeau]

They sure do. Running Hillary for president in 2016 was the selection that brought us here... If you'd selected someone sane you probably would have won that one.

She won the popular vote, fool.

 

[gunthernehmen]

She won the popular vote, fool.

You miss Kieth's post about how gullible the masses are or something?

You really have to read up on how this country is organised. We do not vote for the president. We never have and we never will.

 

[Kirkrapine]

You miss Kieth's post about how gullible the masses are or something?

You really have to read up on how this country is organised. We do not vote for the president. We never have and we never will.

Someday, we will.

 

[Kirkrapine]

They sure do. Running Hillary for president in 2016 was the selection that brought us here... If you'd selected someone sane you probably would have won that one.

That can't be it, she is certainly saner than Trump. None of the preposterous cottage-industry canards against her ever suggested she was crazy.

 

[JackLuis]

The Russian mafia and the gullibility of the American people were the largest factors in getting us here.

You poor deluded liberal, Pilot. Hillary was up against Donald Dick and still lost by EC fuckery as the Constitution intended. If the Dems had a candidate that addressed the 99% and not the 10%, they would have kept this national nightmare from occurring.

So think about that as we watch ... this setting on the Supreme Court.

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-3-300x161.jpg

 

[gunthernehmen]

Time for a couple brewskis.

 

[KeithD]

You poor deluded liberal, Pilot. Hillary was up against Donald Dick and still lost by EC fuckery as the Constitution intended. If the Dems had a candidate that addressed the 99% and not the 10%, they would have kept this national nightmare from occurring.

So think about that as we watch ... this setting on the Supreme Court.

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-3-300x161.jpg

I count you among the gullible.

And I've already, correctly, I think, posted that if the rabid supporters for the Democratic nomination of a non-Democrat with a losing platform hadn't walked away from the election in a snit because their non-Democrat with a losing platform didn't get to steal the Democratic nomination and campaign machine, the candidate who won the popular election might have won the manipulated electoral college too. Winning was certainly nothing that Trump was involved in; he was as surprised as hell his controllers had managed to get him over the top as anyone else was. And in the long run, he's going to deeply regret the spotlight that has put on his criminally con-man life.

I'm betting you are one of the ones who walked away in a snit.

 

[JackLuis]

I count you among the gullible.

And I've already, correctly, I think, posted that if the rabid supporters for the Democratic nomination of a non-Democrat with a losing platform hadn't walked away from the election in a snit because their non-Democrat with a losing platform didn't get to steal the Democratic nomination and campaign machine, the candidate who won the popular election might have won the manipulated electoral college too. Winning was certainly nothing that Trump was involved in; he was as surprised as hell his controllers had managed to get him over the top as anyone else was. And in the long run, he's going to deeply regret the spotlight that has put on his criminally con-man life.

I'm betting you are one of the ones who walked away in a snit.

No I vote every fucking chance I get. I even voted for Hillary, as did most of California, we ain't stupid like Mississippi or Florida!

Face it Pilot, the fix was in during the primaries. Just as it was with this latest fiasco in the Senate. It is the result of a Political Power Pyramid directed by the "established powers". Just who those ass holes are is beyond my scope, we need a new edition of "Tragedy and Hope", for this new millennium.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Someday, we will.

Well I suppose you always take it to the Supreme Court.

Oh... wait...

 

[phrodeau]

Well I suppose you always take it to the Supreme Court.

Oh... wait...

The SCOTUS has nothing to say about changes to the Constitution, and neither does the POTUS.

 

[Kirkrapine]

. . . a non-Democrat with a losing platform . . .

Nonsense. Bernie would have wiped the floor with Donald.

 

[gunthernehmen]

The SCOTUS has nothing to say about changes to the Constitution, and neither does the POTUS.

You take yourself WAY too seriously.

Relax Phro. Have a beer. Enjoy the evening. Tomorrow is a new day.

 

[KeithD]

Nonsense. Bernie would have wiped the floor with Donald.

Bullshit. The knives didn't come out for Bernie like they did for Hillary simply because he didn't get the nomination and because he was helping in tearing the Democratic Party down.

Will you people wake up? Bernie is a non-partied backbencher in the Senate with proposals far to the left of what the voting electorate will back and no track record of guiding anything to completion. And this is without pointing out that the Congress was/is conservative Republican controlled even if Bernie had won through, having stolen the campaign mechanism of a party that would have resented running a campaign for him. He isn't a Democrat. He wasn't then; he isn't now; he never changed his independent designation and still hasn't. He doesn't have a passable platform. He didn't then; he doesn't now. He is pie-in-the-sky "would be nice" if everyone else let him do it. But they won't let him do it. Wake up and smell reality. He was a "won't happen" spoiler in the last election and the Republicans didn't tear him apart simply because he was helping tear Hillary and the Democratic Party apart. If he'd gotten the nomination, the Republicans would have made mincemeat out of him as a socialist/communist "done nothing."

 

[Kirkrapine]

Bullshit. The knives didn't come out for Bernie like they did for Hillary simply because he didn't get the nomination and because he was helping in tearing the Democratic Party down.

Will you people wake up? Bernie is a non-partied backbencher in the Senate with proposals far to the left of what the voting electorate will back and no track record of guiding anything to completion. And this is without pointing out that the Congress was/is conservative Republican controlled even if Bernie had won through, having stolen the campaign mechanism of a party that would have resented running a campaign for him. He isn't a Democrat. He wasn't then; he isn't now; he never changed his independent designation and still hasn't. He doesn't have a passable platform. He didn't then; he doesn't now. He is pie-in-the-sky "would be nice" if everyone else let him do it. But they won't let him do it. Wake up and smell reality. He was a "won't happen" spoiler in the last election and the Republicans didn't tear him apart simply because he was helping tear Hillary and the Democratic Party apart. If he'd gotten the nomination, the Republicans would have made mincemeat out of him as a socialist/communist "done nothing."

Early in the primaries many voters were actually wavering between Trump and Sanders. Both spoke to on-the-ground frustration with the status quo and elite power. Bernie, as the one actually addressing those problems and offering real solutions, would have taken all that away from Donald. Instead we got an upstart versus an establishment partisan. Upstart vs. Upstart would have ended differently.

 

[KeithD]

Real solutions are ones that are implemented. Wake up. Join the real world. You guys need to stop being pie-in-the-sky politically naïve. You have absolutely no concept of how the politics of government and political parties work in real life--and are not going to change to your fantasyland in your lifetime.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

I've got no dog in this fight. The dog is mad dog trump. He and trumpism are the enemy. End of story.

 

[KeithD]

I've got no dog in this fight. The dog is mad dog trump. He and trumpism are the enemy. End of story.

Me too, but those "all we need do to have great social programs is to elect Bernie" people paddled off to his unrealistic cause and helped Trump win. They have a share in what is happening now. The Clinton people have a partial share too, but not like the Bernie people do.

And Hillary Clinton had a solid popular vote win. The issue is with the skewed Electoral College when it comes to who managed to bring down the most votes. Hillary Clinton didn't lose the popular vote--despite all of the Republican Swiftboating, foreign intervention, and pie-in-the-sky Bernie Babies.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Early in the primaries many voters were actually wavering between Trump and Sanders. Both spoke to on-the-ground frustration with the status quo and elite power. Bernie, as the one actually addressing those problems and offering real solutions, would have taken all that away from Donald. Instead we got an upstart versus an establishment partisan. Upstart vs. Upstart would have ended differently.

All kidding aside, did you just say Bernie had real solutions?

What I recall of his platform is:

Raise taxes
Free tuition for everyone
Killing NAFTA, etc as unfair to America
Smaller version of the stimulus

And so on.

Trump just signed away NAFTA. The "mini stimulus" turned out not to be needed. You can SEE the economy is improving. Free Tuition and increased min wages were nothing more than bribes to vote for him. They would have nothing to help the country.

You might not like Trump. Hell, I wouldn't want him over for dinner myself. He's kind of a jerk. But so far, he's been more good for this country than bad.

#walkaway

 

[JackLuis]

Just a thought SNL is lambasting the Senate over Kavanaugh as I type.

The news (RW) is saying that the Democratic Wave is petering out after the Demonrats in SJC embarrassed themselves. Rethuglican base is energized to vote next time to secure the blessings of prosperity for their own precious preppers.

It seems the Left Wing may adopt the Gadsden Flag and stop pussy footing with these Nazis!

It's on to the Elections!

 

[JackLuis]

‘There will be hell to pay’: Former dean of Yale Law School calls Kavanaugh confirmation ‘An American tragedy’

All thanks to Mitch McConnell.

In an op-ed published Saturday by Politico, former Dean of Yale Law School Robert Post called Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court “an American tragedy” writing that the nation’s newest Supreme Court justice is the “black-robed embodiment of raw partisan power inconsistent with any ideal of an impartial judiciary.”

Kavanaugh, Post said, chose “ambition over professionalism” and will “remain a symbol of partisan anger, a haunting reminder that behind the smiling face of judicial benevolence lies the force of an urgent will to power.”

“Each and every Republican who votes for Kavanaugh, therefore, effectively announces that they care more about controlling the Supreme Court than they do about the legitimacy of the court itself,” Post wrote. “There will be hell to pay.”

Post warned Kavanaugh’s “very presence” on the Supreme Court “will undermine the court’s claim to legitimacy; it will damage the nation’s commitment to the rule of law.”

“It will be an American tragedy,” he said.