When I read that the investigation was actually happening, I could have sworn I heard a chorus of voices saying "Was that so fucking hard?"
It seemed a little tougher for his colleagues though. Especially the ones who had zero issues holding a supreme court seat vacant for nearly year.
We had two classes where I grew up: The business owners and the people that worked for them. The business owners were pretty clanish and if their kids fucked up the police would bury it and the newspaper would bury it. For the most part the fuck ups were more like DUI (Where no one was hurt), underage drinking, or something similar. However.... If they fucked with someone's family (And believe me everyone was related one way or another) and the cops wouldn't/couldn't handle it, it would get taken care of. Usually the parents were afraid for their jobs so they would only push so hard before they gave up. That's when the brothers. cousins, and friends would step in. It didn't happen often, I only personally witnessed it a few times....but the protected kid would get the dog shit beat out of him by 5 or more guys. Brutal beatings. I saw one where someone got carried away and stabbed the guy a few times. No one ever died, but they got beat so bad it never happened again. The whole town (Including the cops) would know exactly why the beating occurred and probably who was involved, but no one was ever charged in any of them as far back as I remember. Anyways, that's the way things worked where I grew up and I kind of assumed it worked that same way everywhere else.
Why aren’t they fanning him and feeding him grapes? I get the camera catches one frame, but that one genuinely cracks me up.
Does anyone have video of Graham's interview after that? I'd really love to re-live how much he squirmed and how he said he has to tell trump about all this.
I’m fine with it too, but it won’t be in good faith. A week is reasonable. If they haven’t received full cooperation, the investigation should close regardless. Around Thursday, the Democrats will declare that a week isn’t enough, Ford isn’t ready to talk to investigators, she’s uncomfortable talking to male agents, etc. It’s the new filibuster.
I can’t fault this investigation being done in bad faith if you consider the astounding level of shenanigans with the way his nomination has been handled so far. Between the super rushed deadline and the amount of his record being hidden from Democrats, I don’t think it’s inappropriate to investigate this guy’s honesty and past.
The deadline wouldnt have been rushed if the allegations were revealed in July when the FBI was actually investigating. The whole “protect her confidentiality” argument is bullshit since it was revealed anyway. And didn’t Senate Democrats propose the timeline? You should care about the investigation being done in good faith. Yup. If he isn’t be subpoenaed, then why delay anyway?
I’m talking about his overall nomination process. Not just the Ford and others allegations. The whole thing was rushed and important documents from his time in the whitehouse are being hidden. I do care about good faith. I’m just not seeing it on any side.
Two votes. It doesn't matter if this investigation is in good faith or not. It doesn't matter if they talk to everyone or no one. All that matters is if, in the course of this next week of time everyone just got, enough information will come out that will make two people change their minds about voting to confirm him. Is it really that unreasonable for such a thing to happen? If I were to put money on it, I'd say there will be a lot more than two votes that change.
It’s a catch-22 for the Republicans who are voting. Nowadays to their base agreeing with a libtard for ANY reason is worse than raping a baby. And then they won’t want to play Tag with you at recess anymore. ...yet if you vote this childish chucklefuck in, and it turns out he had Busy Little Hands, you wil be damned and shamed for it. And in the MeToo era it won’t be friendly.
So why don't they put up one of the other dozen or so people trump was considering? One of them has to not have a bunch of women alleging rape against him (or her). Why would that be such a difficult thing to do?
Because this is the guy they think might protect Trump from something that arises from the investigation and possibly their own asses as well. Confirmations are generally pretty partisan events. People bitch about evasive answers on hypothetical situations. Blah blah blah. But at the end, if the candidate is well qualified and their character is not in question, they generally get confirmed pretty easily from both sides. The fact that Trump picked the worst possible person for this position says more about Trump than Kavanaugh. None of this shit would be happening to the guy if he wasn’t being elevated to the highest court in the land. The fact that Trump picks the most compromised judge makes me think they could put pressure on him. Politically, there’s an endless supply of people who would be glad to overturn Roe and still not question the legitimacy of the court. Why they haven’t tossed this guy for one of them makes me think something else is up. Even if they lose the senate in the midterms, they could still get someone else across in the lame duck period. Unless they can’t for some reason?
If you go on social media right now, the Base is furiously defending him. There is not one GOP supporter on anything like Twitter, Youtube, etc. that is saying anything less than Kavanaugh is the greatest blah blah blah ever to blah blah blah, and Ford is Mattress Girl 2.0 our to destroy America itself. It’s fucking insane. And with that, they are furiously clamouring for the GOP to not back down on pushing Kavanaugh through. Remember the “I’d rather be Russian than Democrat” t-shirts? These people will do anything, listen to anybody who will prevent them from simply taking the L. We’re in the age of Never Back Down. None of us ever lose an argument, none of us ever get it wrong, So I’m with you. Take the fucking L already; and pick somebody who isn’t a gigantic, insane asshole.
Compromised how? Worst possible person???? Where you guys getting this that he can protect Trump from the investigation? Trump can protect Trump more from the investigation than one judge on the supreme court. You do realize the democrats would have claimed that about anyone Trump nominated? You DO realize that, right? Why didn't Gorsuch get through on a significant majority vote since that's the norm? Why didn't Garland? Maybe it's not the norm anymore. He's been accused of sexual assault. If it's true I don't want him on the bench either, but I swear, you guys bitch about partisanship and you will believe anything negative in an article about a republican. For fuck's sake the fact that he drank as a teenager is enough for some of you that it's practically confirmed. If you can't get any real evidence or even witness corroboration of ANYTHING, are they still just confirming on the basis of "meh it's just rape"? I'm quite glad Trump hasn't nominated far right judges. We have them on the lower courts and they suck horribly, but I don't think many people would know the difference because CNN and MSNBC is going to say the exact same shit regardless.