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by Adam L Silverman| 365 Comments
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trollhattan
Frist!
trollhattan
What’s he getting after?
The wimminfolks really like me!
Mary G
Wow, Doug J’s moneyraising post has been up for twenty minutes with no comments. This is riveting.
chopper
he’s in ‘old man yells at cloud’ territory here.
dmsilev
@Mary G: By which you mean “makes us want to drive rivets through the skulls of the GOP Senate caucus”?
pk
I watched for about two minutes. He looks as if he’s going to throw something at someone. Looks very angry. And I’m not very good at reading people.
Zzyzx
I don’t think I’ve ever been so grateful to have a meeting than I am right now so I can turn off mr IAM NOT AN ANGRY DRUNK!!
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Judge Yelly McCryerson did not make a good impression. The Clintons are behind this!
trollhattan
And about those “model-like” law clerks….
He perhaps did not make the point he had hoped to.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: This is like watching and listening to a suicide note being read aloud in real time as the person is on the edge of snapping.
dmsilev
@trollhattan: I’ll bet he has at least one black friend too.
Who lives in Canada; you wouldn’t know him.
Mary G
Elizabelle
I feel so badly for BK, as a fellow human.
But he does not belong on any judicial bench. He keeps saying his career is over. Maybe it will be.
Being a USSC nominee and being asked about “grinding your genitals” is not a good thing.
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
He blinked twice and then looked down when he said “I’m innocent”. Dr. Ford never blinked when she answered questions and she looked people directly in their eyes.
And thank goodness he blew his darn nose…
Mai Naem mobile
Gawd, what a WATB. The crying is not becoming. At all. I am glad this asshole has to go through the same thing he put Bill Clinton through. Payback is a bitch and it comes with interest asshole.
ruemara
@Adam L Silverman: Oh don’t try to make me happy. I’d love if this was a suicide note.
Elizabelle
@Mary G: Starbursts!
They do live in an alternative universe.
NotMax
Worst Bobcat Goldthwait impression ever.
Aleta
I gotta think he is about to withdraw, and the Fox interview and this hearing are his attempts to clear his name. Based on the emotion and rage. Or, he’s just an out-of-control blame divo.
He sure don’t want that FBI investigation; he calls for that may end up the propellant for his departure.
Mary G
@Adam L Silverman: It is. I feel very sorry for him. But I’m glad he’s disqualified himself so thoroughly.
Leto
Reposting (because I forgot we had other threads):
A Public Service Announcement
by John Coleat9:24 am on September 27, 2018.
Every time today you get livid and want to break shit during the Kavanaugh hearings, here is a picture of Lily sleeping off breakfast in her bed while rocking an amazing new bow:
Be like Lily today, act like Rosie with a possum (she’s killed three this year and there is nothing I can do to stop her) on November 6th.
Aleta
@Aleta: He sure don’t want that FBI investigation; the calls for that may end up the propellant for his departure.
Sloane Ranger
Ye Gods can’t he blow his nose? His constant sniffing is getting on my nerves!
dmsilev
Has anyone told him yet that there’s no crying in SCOTUS confirmation hearings?
chopper
add these five threads together and we’re past a Double TBU. a DBogg if you will.
Rommie
Almost dropped an F-Bomb there. His glue is soft…
PJ
The boats in RI and Colorado things – they drilled these talking points into his head. He went to that right away.
Mary G
DiFi gets him angry right away when the Republican’s lady has reminded him to act like a judge. So proud of my senators.
Elizabelle
BK will not call for an FBI investigation. What an ass.
Very gentle question by DiFi.
BK maybe has a future as a legal analyst for Fox News. But I don’t know that they like crybabies.
Soprano2
There is some poetic justice here; he and the Starr committee did everything they could to destroy the Clintons. Now he’s upset that he feels unfounded accusations have destroyed his life and reputation. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person.
Leto
DiFi didn’t ask him if he wanted a senate hearing, but the FBI to investigate. Deflects the question. He knows the process. The fact that he’s parroting the “the FBI doesn’t provide a conclusion”… this fucking guy.
chopper
@Mary G:
we just need bill kristol to come in and say he did a great job to seal it.
Chris Johnson
From downthread: I think this isn’t all about women.
He’s going Khrushchev angry. It’s not an accident. This is also why some of the Republicans are bonkers about retaining specifically him.
I think he’s meant for the Supreme Court to ward off specifically accusations of treason. He’s another Russian agent and those being most outraged that he’s being questioned, are those who are most exposed as traitors. Some of them might have been suckered into it. This is also why some of the Republicans look sooooo very sad: they have to shut up about it or they’re toast, and they know the stakes.
If Kavanaugh goes to the Supreme Court after this, it’s an indication of how desperately the Republicans in general need a fellow traveller in treason on the Court.
Endorsing rapeyness to protect fellow fratboy Republicans is not, I think, enough to justify all this. Many other possible justices would work for that: what makes this guy THAT special? I think he’s a Russian agent, and his rage is Khrushchev rage. All he needs is a shoe for table pounding.
trollhattan
@Mary G:
There’s that bubble, again. Whatta tool.
Martin
What a great look for a judge. “Hey, I know there’s a process we could follow, but fuck, I’ve waited 10 days for this? It’s outrageous I should have to wait for this job I was promised.”
A Ghost To Most
Buh bye, Felicia.
zhena gogolia
@Chris Johnson:
Oh, right, he hasn’t taken his shoe off and beaten it on the desk.
Elizabelle
So passive. It’s up to the Committee to request the investigation. They would have done so immediately if he demanded it, to clear his name. He wanted a hearing the very next day! (Before his accusers got their act together.)
Aleta
He’s listing the three stories* that some Democrats suspect are plants intended to undermine the actual stories. (Colorado, boat in Rhode Island, and gangs.)
So so corrupt —
no, he’s not gonna be on the SC–
his exposure is all his fault and he’s screaming about his blamelessness.
PJ
He’s just contradicted himself with regard to the parties – earlier he mentioned all these parties he was at on the weekends, and now he’s saying he was out of town every weekend.
HeleninEire
Trump is gonna withdraw him tonight or tomorrow. He looks and sounds horrible. He is absolutely drunk and he’s crying.
Mart
I heard this from someone in the know, BK murdered Vince Foster and then he tried to pin it on Hillary.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
lol
Duane
Here’s a perfect example of Trump’s presidency threatening our country’s institutions. Calendar Boy on the Sumpreme Court would make it a laughingstock.
Martin
Jesus. What an entitled douchebag.
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
@Elizabelle: Sorry as a victim of sexual assault and the ex-wife of an abusive drunk, I have no sympathy for him. He’s acting like a drunk, in fact. He’s crying because he, like most abusers and alcoholics, are incredibly selfish and he only knows of his own pain and he hopes it will buy him sympathy. Plus, he’s guilty as hell and scared that everyone is going to know the truth. They work VERY hard to keep the world from knowing about who they really are. Furthermore, the tears are a defense, a way of trying to hold the Senators at bay and keep them from being too mean to him.
DiFi kindly asked him why he didn’t want the FBI, he then yells his answer at her?! She could have been A LOT harsher. And him saying the FBI doesn’t give you a conclusion…that’s NOT the point. They would do a more thorough investigation, interviewing eyewitnesses, and many other things.
TenguPhule
@trollhattan:
Because nobody else would.
dmsilev
We liked beer.
Also, “whatever the chart says”? Right, because high school teen drinkers are known to consult blood-alcohol level charts at their parties.
Chris Johnson
@HeleninEire: See if they don’t. I think they’re not going to withdraw him and he’s going to go through ‘cos I think he serves a very specific purpose. I would be delighted to be proved wrong. I think if he does go through, they really really needed specifically him and no other wingnut pig would do.
Elizabelle
A lot of beers to run out the time. We can do a count from the eventual transcript.
Mitchell: How many beers do you consider to be too many beers?
BK: I dunno. Whatever the chart says. The blood alcohol chart.
Mitchell is asking some very good questions, IMHO.
Brickley Paiste
Okay – regardless of whether or not Kavanaugh ever did any of the things alleged – he should not sit on the Court simply because he cannot hold himself together during this questioning.
TenguPhule
@Duane:
Four certain votes for making Spousal Rape legal and one question mark over John Pimping his Clerks Robert.
Aleta
drank beer, yeah beer, I like beer, yeah, drank beer, sometimes one too many, beer, yeah, we drank beer
Don’t know what would too many beers, cause I don’t have the chart with me.
The Dangerman
He’s answering the Maricopa woman’s questions worse than DiFi’s.
Soprano2
It’s kind of weird how he continues to insist they drank beer, just beer.
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
He’s not even responding to Mitchell with enough respect and civility. He’s coming across as an ahole in complete contrast to Dr. Ford.
bemused
He’s just as whiny and belligerent in the questions! We should take bets how long he will make it through this hearing.
Man, he must be fun at home. If he’s a sloppy mess while sober and angry….
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle:
JFC. This is like watching My Cousin Vinnie made on LSD.
germy
zhena gogolia
@TenguPhule:
But he’s going to be on the Supreme Court.
Mary G
Aleta
Refers to the handout describing sexual behavior as though he has rarely seen such a thing; certainly never wrote pornographically about it.
Matt Smith
I believe he never blacked out or passed out the same way I believe Bill Clinton didn’t inhale.
Rommie
The R’s could be lobbing softballs right now – why have their inquisitor inquist?
dmsilev
Break time.
TenguPhule
@chopper:
A feebog, even.
Miss Bianca
@Mary G: WTF – is that real??! Rich Lowry is getting a nice wet trickle down his leg as he watches this?
Elizabelle
WaPost headlines up at the moment:
BK has requested a 15 minute break. Recess.
germy
CBS is calling his testimony “Fiery and emotional”
If it were a woman, they’d be saying “hysterical”
Aleta
Dr. Ford … better for the Supreme Court, better for America. Except she’ll probably have to leave the country for NZ now.
Mai Naem mobile
I’m thinking he likes his beer so much that he had a beer before this appearance. Maybe several beers. Maybe he needed a bathroom break from the beer.
PJ
I see Zina Bash, White Supremacist Hand-Signaller, is there to support him.
germy
Pee break.
chopper
@dmsilev:
“hey brett, want another cold one?”
“i dunno mark, what does the chart say?”
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
How can the lack of “rape appointment” on his calendar be a defense? I just don’t get it.
dmsilev
@TenguPhule: Can we go for a threebogg?
germy
@PJ: She’s there?? Is she flashing OK signs?
trollhattan
@Soprano2:
Every one of those party houses–the ones where the ‘rents took off and left the kids to their own devices “He’s always been a good boy”–have well-stocked bars. Because they all entertain, it’s expected.
“Hey, we’re out of beer!”
“Okay then, I’m off to finish my homework.”
Is a conversation that never happened. Rather:
“Hey, who knows what mixes with Canadian Club?”
“I dunno, what’s ‘Tonic Water’?”
Soprano2
@germy: Yep, they would. He did sound hysterical! He cannot believe he has to answer about these allegations.
Leto
@germy: WHy are men so hysterical? They simply don’t have the constitution, the mental capacity, nor the proper poise, to be in the Supreme Court.
chopper
@dmsilev:
a threeBogg would be good since we’re discussing a d-bag.
PJ
@germy: Didn’t see any this time, maybe she’s thinking this particular hearing might not be a joke her friend will sail through.
dmsilev
@germy:
Water comes in, water goes out, you can’t explain it.
The Dangerman
“Judge Kavanaugh, can we see your calendars from your Yale years?”
Cheryl Rofer
trollhattan
@Rommie:
Maybe it’s “treating both sides equally” kabuki?
NotMax
Haven’t watched it in decades but may have to tune in to SNL this weekend.
patrick II
He keeps calling this hearing a “circus”.
If he thinks it is a circus because of the manner in which it is being held he should talk to Grassley and the man behind the curtain McConnell. Most would agree that a hearing including witness testimony and something other that five minute questions but just two people would be less circus like, but that is not what his Republican proponents seem to want. He should have complained to them.
If he thinks the whole hearing is a circus because he is a privileged white guy and who the hell is this woman is to get in the way of his destiny — then f*ck him.
trollhattan
@Cheryl Rofer:
Holy crap, Trump’s Michael Cohen posted that?
Dayumn, no love lost there.
zhena gogolia
@trollhattan:
No, I think it’s another Michael Cohen.
PPCLI
@Soprano2: As I said at the end of the last thread, this is the guy who re-opened the Vince Foster “investigation” after several Republicans had investigated and concluded it was a suicide. Motivated by no new evidence, just conspiracy theories from known loons. And he asked Vince Foster’s bereaved daughter for a hair sample, to compare with a blonde hair found on her father’s clothing. And I say-enjoy the karma douche bag.
BretH
The “Beer Beer Beer (only)” is meant to deflect accusations of being roaring drunk because it’s obviously only hard alcohol drinkers that get blind drunk.
Mary G
OMG these CSPAN callers are all unbelievable.
Elizabelle
C-Span “independent” caller cannot believe BK did this, and that men are being held to higher regard. (She means standard.)
Whoever said the GOP had the callers all lined up called it. C-Span gives them the air to call all this a “circus.”
Corner Stone
Not only SCOTUS cases, but don’t all the cases he’s ruled on for the DC Circuit now have to be reviewed for bias?
Leto
@Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ: This is the part that continues to kill me. It’s not like criminals pencil this shit in between the notes to pick up more beer and beach week. I don’t give a shit what his calendar says, it’s stupid fucking defense.
Miss Bianca
@TenguPhule:
You are another one who is making me laugh way too hard at this shit. Thank you all, you jackals. I couldn’t get thru’ this mess without all y’all.
TenguPhule
I need a new binder for all the receipts we’re collecting here.
Cheryl Rofer
This will play well with some folks. Hard to say how many.
HeleninEire
@germy: Only a pee break? I order “one more” answer my Dad’s texts and I look back and they’re walking out.
NotMax
After the recess:
“That, of course, was the mirror universe Judge Kavanaugh.”
TenguPhule
Kav: “I loved raping girls, but thanks to what some of you on this side of the committee have unleashed, I may never be able to rape again.”
Duane
His hatred for Democrats really did show. Partisan hack blaming his problems on someone else. Another reason why he doesn’t belong on the SC, or in his current position.
schrodingers_cat
I am only following your comments but it sounds like he is drunk.
Elizabelle
@Mary G: Yes. Step up your game, C-Span. Stop getting played.
This caller sounds believable. Sounds like an AfrAm woman abused by her stepfather. And raped as a teen by someone else.
It’s about sexual assault. She gets it.
“I believe her.”
Her stepdad had 5 file cabinets in the house, from the 50s, and if he met you today he’d have a file on you … index cards on everybody in his life. In his job. He committed suicide. They looked; there was not one card about the assault on her, or the abuse of her mother.
“It’s not about the calendar. It’s about the abuse.”
Wow.
Miss Bianca
OMG, I just listened to some of his testimony and LOL’d. Jesus Christ, what a shit show. But now I’m getting the bloviating heads now. Have they taken a break or something? Did he need a break already?
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
@Miss Bianca: I said somewhere up thread that his tears will fuel the GOP instead. And there ya go. So it’s begun.
This committee will vote him through because they’ll say it came down to “he said, she said” and the GOP will believe him. Nothing that goes on today matters. Just like Dr. Ford said…she stepped in front of a train that was NEVER going to stop in the first place and it was a pointless gesture.
Marcopolo
A little surprised with a break so quickly. If this were a reality show now is when K would pull his own nomination. He’s had the chance to defend his honor, but hasn’t had to deal with tough questions from the Dems or have to really dig into the meat of the accusations. And there’s always the spectacle of a real FBI investigation if things go forward.
I assume I am totally wrong about this but who knows in these times.
lamh36
clay
@Elizabelle:
Didn’t he just start? Did Dr. Ford take any breaks during her testimony?
LuciaMia
Sounds more damp than fiery.
During the break, who’s going to grab him in the mens room, slap him hard and demand he pull himself together?
zhena gogolia
Some ass on CBS just said, “OMG, what if we have to be with only eight justices for the coming months????”
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
“We’ve secretly replaced Kavanaugh’s normal beer with Bud Lite. Let’s see if he notices.”
Cheryl from Maryland
@dmsilev: May I steal this?
patroclus
The legal drinking age for hard liquor in Maryland has always been 21 years old. For beer, it was 18 years old until July 1982. The eminent legal scholar Judge Kavanaugh is not telling the truth.
BretH
He was probably advised to take a break to reassess his attitude. And pee.
raven
@clay: yes
Ruckus
@Rommie:
They wanted to look fair and balanced.
But actual fair and balanced doesn’t work for them. As you can see.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mary G: I don’t feel sorry for him. He deserves all the pain he inflicted on Christine Blasley, raised to the Nth degree.
Suffer, vile asshole. Suffer.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Add looks and behaves to that.
dlwchico
Does he remind anybody else a little of Hans Gruber in Die Hard?
HeleninEire
@schrodingers_cat:
He. Is. Drunk.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: Only eight justices works fine for me. We are safer that way.
If they want to add Merrick Garland to the mix, that’s fine too.
Otherwise, just eight justices, and a president under criminal investigation should NOT be appointing Supreme Court judges.
What’s the rush, douches?
TenguPhule
@BretH:
I don’t think there’s enough tabasco and egg yolks to get him sober enough.
Villago Delenda Est
@zhena gogolia: Try the next two and a half years. Not one of Donald’s nominees gets a hearing if the Dems retake the Senate. It’s time for these assholes to feel pain.
Mary G
@Miss Bianca: He’s been gulping down water constantly. Probably does need a pee.
trollhattan
@Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ:
To your point, Robert Costa via BBC
BretH
Does pounding the table with his Sharpie count as pounding the table in indignation?
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle:
I’m afraid you’re going to lose your bet. They just don’t care.
Elizabelle
@clay: Not that early, for sure.
Miss Bianca
@chopper: Jesus Christ, I’m listening to talking heads blather and now *you’re* cracking me up!
Talking heads at least admitting the possibility that this guy maybe, just maybe, is too loose a screw to be on the SCOTUS. PROGRESS!!!
TenguPhule
@dlwchico:
No, that guy was a professional.
This one is whiny like DH with a vengence.
Villago Delenda Est
@dlwchico: No. Hans Gruber had class. This prick has none.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: Their voters will.
We can’t know, but I don’t think BK gets the Supreme Court. I just don’t.
Aleta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeolH-kzx4c&frags=pl%2Cwn
lamh36
This is why I don’t trust Nicole Wallace or Steve Schmidt…becasue she just went on a “oh I feel so bad for Brett” and how so sad she felt for him…fuq you Nicole…
she’s talking like she feels more for BK than Dr. Ford. She knows him personally…and IS not impartial AT ALL!
Nicole Wallace fell hook line and sinker for Kavanaugh’s act. She WORKED with him…and she is NOT objective at all. Talking about they are both credible…BULLSHIT Nicole…bullshit!
trollhattan
@zhena gogolia:
Cripes. Tony Scalia’s fat ghost would like a word.
TenguPhule
And now Wapo is reporting the SEC is suing Elton Musk.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Leto
@dlwchico: maybe we need to push him off the Nakatomi Building to get a proper comparison?
Duane
@Cheryl Rofer: The right wing will rally to Calendar Boy’s defense like it was the Alamo. Kravenaugh can’t fail, only be failed.
trollhattan
@BretH:
Needs to throw a shoe at DiFi to show just how much of a fighter he is.
TenguPhule
He said this under oath. What a fucking liar.
PJ
@Elizabelle: After all, it is an election year.
Elizabelle
OT: Breaking news at WaPost: in its entirety:
Cheryl Rofer
Villago Delenda Est
@Cheryl Rofer: 27% of the population, the crazy people, the MAGAts.
The Pale Scot
@Mary G:
Don’t ever feel sorry for scum, it’s a waste
PJ
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Kavanaugh knows his audience.
sukabi
@Mary G: from the creepy guy that got “star bursts” from looking at Sarah Palin. Not much of an endorsement.
Villago Delenda Est
@TenguPhule: God will get him for that.
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer:
Goatnado, Category Six.
lamh36
Mart
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I watched Costa on MSNBC last night and he was talking about the President’s insane press conference like the idiot was making points we should ponder. Giving the SOB cover. Doesn’t he realize he is the enemy of the people according to the POTUS? When does the press get real about these authoritarians.
HeleninEire
Dr. Ford did not ask for a pee break and she drank a big old bottle of Coke.
Kavanaugh gotta pee out all the vodka he drank watching Dr. Ford hang him.
Villago Delenda Est
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Donald continues to demonstrate why he’s unfit for any public office at all, to include assistant dog catcher.
Martin
Good christ. He’s arguing with Grassley. He looks like he’s going to cry again. Is this literally the first time in his life he’s been held accountable for something?
Patricia Kayden
@Mary G: And with that, he’ll be confirmed by the weekend. There is nothing Dr. Ford could have said to convince Lowry and his ilk that Kavanaugh had assaulted her. NOTHING.
Had it been a Democrat accused of the same thing, there’s nothing he could say to overcome a presumption of guilt. It’s amazing how this works.
Elizabelle
The GOP has been all about procedure and not about substance.
BK is yelling at Pat Leahy. Did Leahy just say he’s heard his “lie” or “line”?
TenguPhule
And this is why Kav absolutely must not be allowed on the court.
He’s telling us now exactly who he is.
Miss Bianca
@Cheryl Rofer: Maybe someone should tell him that Kavanaugh is drunk.
lamh36
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
The Dems need to push back harder.
sukabi
@Leto:they might not conclude but they gather evidence, what’s he afraid of?
Timurid
Behind the scenes during the Kavanaugh break…
Elizabelle
Yeah. We could sit here and make fun of someone who has an addiction.
But we are making fun of someone who is completely unsuited for the Supreme Court.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I thought for sure we were gonna hear “I like people who don’t cry, okay?”
They can’t possibly push this through after all this, can they?
Susan Collins, we’re looking at you. At least 10 R senators should get together and all vote No. That would take the heat off of individuals.
Leto
I honestly wish that the senators would tell assholes, “No, don’t give me a fucking story, just yes or no.” Stop wasting time. Yes or no. It’s not hard. And now he’s yelling at Pat Lehey! Wtf…
Martin
@Elizabelle: Well deserved. I have very mixed feelings about Musk, but what he did was blatantly illegal.
PJ
“I was first in my class” – God, what an asshole.
Elizabelle
BK is yelling.
Do you recall yelling during the CBFord hearing? I recall courtesy, throughout.
germy
@Martin:
Yes.
Mary G
Wow these evasions are sad.
Patricia Kayden
@Mai Naem mobile: Karma is not a lady. Kavanaugh should be impeached if he’s confirmed based on the lies he has told during the entirety of his confirmation hearing. That’s the least he deserves.
Patricia Kayden
@Elizabelle: He’s mimicking the president who nominated him.
Leto
@sukabi: Exactly! “What are you afraid of Judge Kavanope?”
sukabi
@Mart: that’s actually a more probable theory than the one he floated.
Miss Bianca
“Let me finish”
Wow, he’s talking over the Senators. “Yeah, I was lying on my yearbook page too” is not as good as look as he seems to think it is”
Miss Bianca
@Leto: Which sounds like exactly what one of them (Leahy?) actually did. Bravo!
Cheryl Rofer
@Elizabelle: I think Leahy said “line,” but I first heard “lie” too.
WaterGirl
They said yesterday they would take a full vote on Friday morning. Why would they move that to Saturday?
zhena gogolia
Mitchell is trying to help him.
Immanentize
@clay: Not only did Dr. Ford ask for no breaks, she was clearly confused when the broke for lunch because she was told they would go straight through.
BretH
Christ, all someone has to do is produce evidence he was at a party that he didn’t enter and he’s exposed.
PJ
@zhena gogolia: That’s her job.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Of course she is, that’s part of her job.
lamh36
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle:
This is more like the Clarence Thomas hearing. Only this time we don’t have idiots sitting on the Democratic side. Looking at you, Biden.
Martin
@WaterGirl:
We’ve gotten this far…
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He brought this on himself with his own actions. And now he’s going to cry like a three-year-old who was denied a cookie? Nah.
Corner Stone
We should prepare ourselves. Because Clarence “Crybaby” Kavanaugh is going to get voted out of committee.
Immanentize
@zhena gogolia: But Kav is not letting her help him. Im sure Mitchell is thinking “What an asshole.”. Or she should be.
TenguPhule
@Immanentize:
The Senate Committee has a lot of old white men with bladder problems.
Chris Johnson
Again, if they push him through after all this, it’s because they need specifically him, because he is a Russian agent and will keep them from being shot for treason.
This isn’t really about rapeyness. They could find an equally rapey Federalist Society yalie frat boy in five minutes. They need HIM specifically.
I’m not even convinced Trump is liking the performance: he’s said to not like crying. Someone needs to suggest that Trump is liking this, and whatever Trump’s feelings he above all needs specifically this guy, crying or not.
PJ
@PJ: Notice also that he is respectful to Mitchell, but gets on his high horse and repeats talking points with Feinstein and Leahy.
TenguPhule
@WaterGirl:
To try and catch some of the Democrats out of the building so they need less votes to pass.
Villago Delenda Est
@zhena gogolia: He’s beyond help, he’s beyond hope.
Harris is going to get him to admit to ordering the Code Red.
MomSense
Lindsey Graham is a piece of shit.
I feel personally ambushed. Fuck you, Miss Lindsey.
Mary G
Looks like they are still going to push him through, wow, not very smart.
Aleta
TenguPhule
@Chris Johnson:
convicted, maybe. I wouldn’t lay odds on the next part though.
Corner Stone
@WaterGirl: I believe Judiciary Committee vote on Fri and full floor Senate vote soon after.
Mart
@TenguPhule:
A for real bothsiderism for once.
JPL
I wish the old white dems would turn over the questions to Harris.. just sayin
TenguPhule
@MomSense:
Needs to be a rotating tagline.
WaterGirl
@Corner Stone: Ah. I’m sure you’re right.
Dan B
@ruemara: If it’s not a suicide note it’s rehearsal for divorce proceedings.
The body language of his wife on Fox was nit promising but she didn’t look like he is going to be found under the floorboards or buried in the backyard.
MomSense
@Villago Delenda Est:
I’m so pleased to see you here today. I’m knitting and taking names. It’s time for fucking guillotines.
Where's my hammer
@Aleta: Thank you. That’s just perfect
Mary G
germy
Whew! Grassley to the rescue.
lamh36
MoxieM
@Mary G: Gee, I do wonder about his drinking reflex. Water, beer, whatever.
Not mocking drunks in general, just this rapey asswipe.
Villago Delenda Est
@MomSense: Indubitably.
MomSense
Disk Durbin is ????
TenguPhule
@MomSense:
Come sit by me.
lamh36
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: It was Dr. Ford’s right to ask for confidentiality. Not sure why the WH and Republicans don’t get that.
zhena gogolia
Durbin is making my heart pound.
Leto
Good for dick Durbin: “are you afraid of an FBI investigation?” Say it!
SFAW
@patrick II:
Speaking as someone who has been known to over-write stuff, I might suggest that your comment would have been just fine with everything but the last two words eliminated.
[I mean, I actually liked your comments a lot. I just saw an opportunity.]
NotMax
@TenguPhule
Must it be pointed out that’s not how it works?
TenguPhule
@Mary G:
Even stopped clocks can find an acorn every now and then.
Aleta
@Aleta: by S. McCarron https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/09/11/i-am-horrified-that-brett-kavanaugh-used-girls-from-my-school-as-a-prop/
lamh36
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
At this point I put no insanity beyond these Republicans.
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
He is en fuego.
Hitlesswonder
@Martin: I think he will be seated on the supreme court. The only thing that can stop that are Murkowski and Flake and they won’t. In fact I think it’s still likely that a few Dem senators vote to seat K as well. The Conservative movement has money, a TV station, and an impassioned base. And they will not let the chance to capture the Supreme Court slip away. Unlike the Democratic Party in the last election.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: Like Dr. Ford? Really dudes?
Mary G
Twitter is all “fuck you, Chuck Todd.”
oldgold
As Marshall McCluhan long ago observed, television is a cool medium. Hot, raw emotion does not play well with viewers.
PJ
Kavanaugh refuses to answer whether he wants an FBI investigation.
germy
Uh oh. Mr. Graham has requested the floor.
Dan B
@Elizabelle: I heard a few minutes of Kavanaugh and wondered why any Alpha conservative would want a crybaby on the SC? But the weak tend to be the most ruthless and vicious. Now I get it.
Villago Delenda Est
@lamh36: This “senior white house official” should be outed. But that’s something Haberhack would never ever do, as she’s an access stenographer/gossip columnist, not a journalist.
Corner Stone
@MomSense: “Big Disk” Durbin is spinning at full RPMs on Crybaby Kavvy.
TenguPhule
SNL can’t possibly make this sketch more unreal then just doing the actual transcript.
PJ
@PJ: He knows that if a vote is delayed, he won’t make it through.
Leto
SHUT UP GRASSLEY! YOU RAMBLING ASSHOLE!
SHUT UP LINDSEY! YOU RAMBLING ASSHOLE!
Corner Stone
Oh Jesus. Sen Graham.
Mary G
Wow, Lindsey Graham is off his rocker.
MomSense
Miss Lindsey, what do they have on you?
Villago Delenda Est
@Dan B: None of these pathetic tiny dicked twunts are alphas. They’re not even betas. They’re more like omegas.
Elizabelle
Now Lindsey Graham is yelling.
A Ghost To Most
That was fun.
zhena gogolia
LINDSAY: “SAY TO SOTOMAYOR AND KAGAN WHEN YOU SEE THEM!’
Corner Stone
@TenguPhule: Were you counting on Sen Graham taking the floor before you posted this comment?
Villago Delenda Est
@Elizabelle: What does Vlad have on him? Live boy or dead boy?
TenguPhule
@Hitlesswonder:
At this point I doubt it. Even Manchin should be able to do the political math on this.
Mart
Need a Balloon Juice competition where the person who gets Confirmed, Withdrawn, or Not Confirmed right – and is the closest guessing the time to its official announcement; splits the pot with the 40 congressmen fund.
Quinerly
WTF, Lindsey?
Elizabelle
Uh, yes. The American people can see through this sham. The non-MAGAts.
It’s just not the same sham you are posturing about.
FlipYrWhig
@lamh36: Why it seems like just hours ago that stupid fuckface Maggie Haberman was telling us that poor Donald Trump was so upset about how he was done wrong by all his associates because of Blasey Ford’s convincing testimony, which was totally what he expected to happen. Holy fucking hell is she useless.
jacy
Lindsey Graham burning all the bridges.
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
I stand corrected. Obviously I should not have dared reality to try and make it more bizzare.
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
Why are they letting Graham grandstand like this?
Rommie
Merrick Garland. The End.
zhena gogolia
Graham is disgusting.
Elizabelle
Graham pulled a lighter version of this with Scalito. It worked then.
It must not work now.
SFAW
@lamh36:
FOAD MAGAt.
Leto
Lindsey has the vapors! He’ll be helped off after this to the couch in his parlor.
MomSense
@Leto:
Addled shithead.
Miss Bianca
@Hitlesswonder: Your concern is noted.
Elizabelle
Sheldon Whitehouse is perfect for following Lindsey Graham. Reason follows fake outrage.
A Ghost To Most
“And the poets ’round here
Don’t write nuthin’ at all
They just stand back
And let it all be”
NotMax
@Elizabelle
50 Shades of Bray.
Ian R
Graham says that high school rapists usually don’t stop.
What a coincidence, Lindsey. That’s exactly what the rest of us think.
Elizabelle
@Leto: Atlanta’s burning!
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
The long unwanted kiss goodnight.
MomSense
@Corner Stone:
I scared kids dog yelling at the teevee. I possess the full arsenal of swear words and I’m suffering from sham SCOTUS hearing tourettes.
Mary G
Aleta
This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as an entitled member of the 1 percent, it is a high-tech hazing for us representatives of the corporate elite, whose only dream was to be complicit in structural economic oppression and systemic racism.
debit
His plan is to keep killing the clock.
WaterGirl
As far as I can tell, CSPAN is not re-running the hearings onTV either tonight or tomorrow. That doesn’t make sense, does it? Unless CSPAN has an agenda for people to not see them. I would much rather watch on TV than on the laptop.
MomSense
@MomSense:
I scared my dog. FY no edit
Elizabelle
@NotMax:
We have a winner.
schrodingers_cat
@Miss Bianca:And filed under I don’t care
lamh36
HeleninEire
Oh my God. Lyndsey is drunk too. He just said “Just ask Sotomayor Kagen”. He has conflated their names.
Elizabelle
@WaterGirl: I think C-Span said they’d air the thing again at 8 pm Eastern. Tonight.
I think this thing might go into heavy rotation.
OGLiberal
Lindsey Graham seemed so much nicer when he was a young boy hanging out with Scout and Jem. Now, he’s just a dick.
Mary G
Another Russian tool weighs in:
MomSense
I fucking love Whitehouse.
grubert
Talks about self-owning.. Just heard Lindsey ask K if he was a gang rapist..
Of course K said no, but Lindsey made him deny it..
Then Lindsey’s rant .. ooh he’s *so* strong!
Elizabelle
OK. It’s cocktail time.
Cannot let BK drink alone.
And glad I did not have a Manhattan mixed before I encountered NotMax’s 50 Shades of Bray.
zhena gogolia
His age keeps getting younger as he responds. But I don’t think interrogating him about the yearbook is good.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: I am feeling sick about this. Even though she did great and he has shown himself to be a lying, whiny, entitled piece of shit. Until about 15 minutes ago i was sure this would tank him.
Elizabelle
@grubert: A GANG rapist.
Not just plain a retail rapist.
Gang is one of Lindsey’s favorite words.
oatler.
Graham reminds me of John Candy’s Willie B character from SCTV, bellowing and sobbing simultaneously.
JPL
@MomSense: When I use the mute button it puts up closed captions, and that is the only reason my dog is spared my angst.
What a fucking asshole this guy is.
MomSense
@HeleninEire:
He’s not exactly well versed in women
lgerard
@patroclus:
When he arrived at Yale the legal drinking age was 20. Two years later it was raised to 21. He was an underage drinker for quite some time.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Narcissists love other narcissists. Trump is loving this because this hysterical, over-the-top defensiveness about something he knows he’s guilty of is EXACTLY what Trump would do in the same situation.
This is gaslighting on a national scale.
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: Gin and tonic or vodka and tonic? Is the liquid he is drinking clear?
terraformer
Yeah, Graham used to (act?) like he had some level of humanity, but lately he’s been full kool-aid.
As above, either someone has something on him, or he recognizes that they’re THIS close to having the bench power to undo decades of jurisprudence that wasn’t completely in the tank for the rich, and it could be stopped prior to the election they’re surely going to lose. Or both.
Maybe one day we’ll find out.
Boy, Kav has certainly moved on from fake crying to being a snarky little punk.
Really, Cornyn? You can’t think of anything worse than this? Merrick. Fing. Garland, you tool.
Leto
They’re not letting Mitchell donquestioning anymore. It’s all grandstanding now.
Quinerly
Gonna need another thread.
artem1s
@PPCLI:
WOW. I knew about the pr0n questions he put to the Clenis. But that shit with Foster’s daughter is f-ing cold man.
I hope Hillary is sitting on her back porch with a glass of wine and a great big doobie enjoying this. I always felt like Starr and his gang were going to get their’s in the end. This particular brand of BK flop sweat and panic is especially sweet.
Elizabelle
Interesting that the GOP Senators are now asking and braying on their own. No more Rebecca Mitchell.
Mai Naem mobile
I thought the Fs were find,french,finger,fuck and forget.
Mart
I googled Devil’s Triangle and Drinking game. It does not exist.
Mary G
They abandoned the lady prosecutor? Or did she quit?
WaterGirl
I wonder if someone gave Kavanaugh some drug during the break to calm him down and stop the crying.
chopper
@Mary G:
graham let the cat out of the bag – they’ve seen the polls, they’re losing the senate. so they’re going to try to ram this through before then by hook or by crook. dunno how the floor vote will end up, either way it’s gonna be close.
yeah it’ll piss off half the country but if they’re losing congress anyways.
PJ
“serial liar” – you got it, Senator
Corner Stone
When did individual R Senators kick whatsherface to the curb and start finding their “manly” voice to ask questions?
MomSense
Let’s just put a fucking rapist on the highest court in our country. That should restore virtue to the land you fucking idiot, Cornyn.
Dude this IS a fucking job interview.
lamh36
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: Aunt Lydia was there to question the little lady. Her job is done, it seems.
Dan B
@Miss Bianca: Are you implying that Rich Lowry was in Moscow with the prostitutes?
Oh, nevermind, just wishing.
PJ
@Mart: Kavanaugh went through, probably with the lobbyists Whelan worked for, and came up with a BS answer for every one of those yearbook statements.
zhena gogolia
Wow, I guess I was seeing a ghost when there was a front-page article on Deborah Ramirez in my NYT yesterday.
TenguPhule
@Mart:
Watch a few episodes of Lucifer.
MomSense
Seems like they fired Mitchell on the break.
Miss Bianca
@schrodingers_cat: Yeh, pretty much that.
OMG, I am getting no work done today. I got no work done yesterday. At this rate, I’m gonna be out of work period before this lousy war is over.
zhena gogolia
@PJ:
Two seconds with Urban Dictionary and I know he was lying through his teeth.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
If the House is in session, C-SPAN is obligated, nay required, to air what is taking place on the floor live and in its entirety, gavel to gavel. Same goes for the Senate and C-SPAN2.
Anything else is fit in around that coverage.
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
After the break. Once they saw how Kav fucked up his opening act.
TenguPhule
@Miss Bianca:
Quilts will be in high demand against the harsh DC winters.
Emma
@WaterGirl: Nothing will tank him We need to concentrate is to take back Congress, and to get as many states into blue territory.
Hitlesswonder
@Miss Bianca: I was going for disappointment rather than concern, but even that sounds weak….I think I need a request deletion button.
trnc
Ask BK if the FBI should be dissolved in favor of written testimony from here on out.
tobie
@terraformer: My first exposure to Lindsay Graham was at the Bill Clinton impeachment trial. He was a nasty SOB then and he’s a nasty SOB now. His true colors are showing today.
Leto
I’ve heard of the Devil’s Triangle and it sure as shit isn’t a drinking game.
@MomSense: it’s (white) mans honor at stake! Can’t let a woman hamdle that delicate matter!
Mart
@PJ: I played quarters with many other heavy fuelers back in HS and college. We called it “quarters”. I played it with my daughters frat friends, they called it “quarters”. But we are in the midwest, went to public schools, and state colleges; so we probably had the name wrong. Next time its the Devil’s Triangle for sure.
Amir Khalid
@TenguPhule:
They cancelled the daily budget meeting at NYT? And they’re going with wall-to-wall coverage on Kavanaugh? Do you really need to do that just to say “Kavanaugh Crashes and Burns At Confirmation Hearing”?
TenguPhule
Drink!
chris
@zhena gogolia: I just opened Urban Dictionary and “devil’s triangle” is at the top of the front page. Everyone is looking… judge.
PJ
@zhena gogolia: He will claim these were terms just used among the group and as long as no one of his friends steps forward and says, “No, when we used that term, we actually meant [a threesome between a woman and two guys, or whatever]”, he is in the clear.
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl:
I wouldn’t be surprised. Or they all lined up and went Airplane on him: “Get A Hold of Yourself!!”
TenguPhule
So many receipts.
Patricia Kayden
Koubachar should have said that her drinking is irrelevant since she hadn’t been nominated for SCOTUS.
Mary G
Leto
Grassley lying again: “Any member can ask for an (FBI) investigation.” Liar.
MisterForkbeard
@WaterGirl: The “Trump thinks he’s doing great and McConnell wants to vote on this thing tomorrow” was kind of eye-opening. They really don’t care that he probably raped those women. They just cared about getting their justice and sticking it to the Libs.
If they do this, I can’t imagine history (or voters) will smile on them. It’s crystal clear what they’re doing here to everyone watching.
TenguPhule
@Amir Khalid:
daily headline meaning. And Yes.
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
I just asked my kid if he knew what it was and he flashed a very suspicious smirk. I might have to request and FBI investigation.
Patricia Kayden
@TenguPhule: Destroyed his life by probing allegations made by a credible person? Didn’t know that not getting onto SCOTUS = destroying one’s life.
PJ
@Patricia Kayden: Not only is she not the one being considered for the Supreme Court, her credibility is not at issue, his is.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
My god, this man is unhinged
Cheryl Rofer
New thread to continue. Grassley is taking another break. Poor boys can’t deal with continuous questioning.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I don’t get why they going to the last ditch with this Bret idiot. It’s pretty clear he’s ripe for impeachment. This because Trump is really that dumb?
Mart
No. VI is up.
Amir Khalid
@TenguPhule:
I was in the newspaper industry. “Budget meeting” was what we called the daily session where the section editors briefed each other on their lead stories fot the next day.
polyorchnid octopunch
@Soprano2:
That’s because the vodka went into his rectal cavity.
Mary G
Good Politico article by a Yale Law graduate about the secrecy and manipulating of clerkships:
Elizabelle
Had to step away. Is it over?
TenguPhule
@Amir Khalid: Thanks for the explanation. I did not know that.
TenguPhule
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Do you even have to ask?
Elizabelle
Harold on C-Span, allegedly in Florida: Here’s a Democrat saying he has never been ashamed of “the Democrat party” until today.
Right, tool.
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle:
Sadly no. It has just begun.
Jay
@WaterGirl:
Friday, 9:30 am is allegedly the Commitee Vote,
Yurtle the Turtle is allegedly pushing for a Senate Confirmation Vote on the weekend.
sukabi
@PJ: the most galling part of his refusal is that as a sitting judgehe’s a law enforcement member and KNOWS how the FBI background investigations work. To not demand an investigation pretty much tells you everything you need to know.
Same with the rest of the grabby old pervs
germy
Patricia Kayden
@Elizabelle: Stopped listening to C-Span when President Obama was first elected. Can’t inagine how nauseating they are now.
MoxieM
quick image of Hatch looking at his questions 9MSNBC). Looks to be font size 28 or so. Can’t be seen with those reading glasses!
MoxieM
Also, just fuck these assholes, I feel sick. (and replace the 9 with a (.) thanks.
Dan B
@Villago Delenda Est: These conservative ” alphas” know in their bones that they are barely betas and must fight to project the illusion of being alphas or be eaten.
Looks like stability to me!. says the god of chaos, cackling.
oldgold
Has there been any explanation as to what happened to Rachel Mitchell?
BlueGirlFromWyo
@Patricia Kayden: Must be true for over entitled rapey douchebags. Perhaps we should send him a sympathy card. //
Karen
@Chris Johnson:
If? Their minds are already made up. They’re installing him tomorrow.
Jay
@MomSense:
Naw, kids know what a Devil’s Threesome is.
They also know how it “works”.
Guy asks his GF or Friend with Benifits, if she’d be up for a threesome.
Girl says yes.
Guy asks if she knows anyone or if one of her friends would be interested.
Girl says yes, I know just the person, I’ll arrange it.
Guy shows up for “date” and is horrified to find out that her “friend” is the strapping, half Maori Exchange Student on a Rugby Scholarship.
TenguPhule
Kav is supposed to be a federal judge and he can’t see the obvious legal peril he’s walking straight into?
Mnemosyne
@Jay:
Yes, and the problem with that is … ?
Just goes to show how male-centric the whole idea of “threesomes” is. That sounds great to me, but I’m a straight woman, so I’m not interested in getting it on with another woman.
Aleta
Just donated a little more to RAINN–They let you specify someone’s name to donate in honor of; it’s OK to leave the address area blank. I put in my deceased sister. I believe her virulently anti-gun control rants in her 40s were related to many incidents of sex abuse in her 20s.