This is the future: blind, grasping partisanship underwritten by QAnon level insane conspiracy theory bullshit. Even once Trump is gone, we all still have to live in this cesspool.
Only a matter of time til a theory involving time travel enters the conservative mainstream. https://t.co/pvh2CvyIHy
— Ed Burmila (@gin_and_tacos) September 21, 2018
He’s referring to Ed Whelan, who is now theorizing it was a classmate of Kavanaugh’s (AND THEN FUCKING NAMING THE GUY AND POSTING HIS CHILDHOOD ADDRESS AND PICTURE)and the little lady is just confused, which makes total sense if you think women forget who sexually assaulted them and if Ford had not previously stated that she knew Kavanaugh prior to the incident.
And if the name Ed Whelan sounds familiar, he is the fellow who apparently loses his shit every single time a nomination is made to the Supreme Court, having his last brush with notoriety during the Sotomayer nomination when he outed Publius at Obsidian Wings. Whelan, of course, is the President of the ironically named, given his behavior, Ethics and Public Policy Center, one of many wingnut welfare ventures that makes regular contributions into the right wing puke funnel.
*** Update ***
Ed Whelan is being roundly mocked for his astonishing tweet thread. But let's consider the facts. Whelan is old enough to have teenage sons. Here's a floor plan of what could well be his house. Note the desk in the second bedroom, where a teen impersonating Whelan could… 1/302 pic.twitter.com/L8qTwWWwED
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) September 21, 2018
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