CNN Narrative Failure

Oops:

CNN asked women if they believe Judge Kavanaugh.

This was not the response they were expecting.

Wow. pic.twitter.com/RCgZBBzpDF
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 21, 2018

Meanwhile, a lawyer offers Judge Kavanaugh some bad legal advice:

That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is sufficiently credible that were this a criminal case and Mr. Kavanaugh my client, we would be having a very serious conversation about the risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness.

So she can't figure out how to defend her client against a decades-old allegation with no actual, you know, evidence or witnesses. Or to effectively cross-examine the accuser under oath? Holy hell. If she were my lawyer, I would immediately fire her ass and hire someone competent.

Open Thread until ace shows up.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 12:30 PM

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1
So did Grassley cave or not?

The world wonders...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 21, 2018 12:30 PM (/9p9e)

2 Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer

The reason Professor Ford's lawyers don't want an outside lawyer to ask questions is because they don't want a woman to be the questioner. They prefer the optics of all male questioners. It shows how politically calculating her lawyers are.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:31 PM (2I4LM)

3 Fist!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2018 12:31 PM (OxI/Y)

4 damn,

second again

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 21, 2018 12:31 PM (8D42x)

5 That's huge.

Needs to go viral.

Posted by: HA at September 21, 2018 12:31 PM (MAstk)

6 Poop!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2018 12:31 PM (OxI/Y)

7
Steyn sitting in for Rush and he is brilliant.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 21, 2018 12:32 PM (/9p9e)

8 Ten A.M. came and went. Here is where we find out if anybody is left on our side with balls except Trump.

Posted by: MW at September 21, 2018 12:32 PM (hNTtn)

9 and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at September 21, 2018 12:32 PM (yQpMk)

10 "You're fired. I want him!"

-Defendant Rothstein.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 21, 2018 12:32 PM (rqVhX)

11 4 damn,

second again

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 21, 2018 12:31 PM (8D42x)

for certain multiples of 2...

and I've been saying what Ari said since the second I heard the requirement of no outside counsel.

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 21, 2018 12:33 PM (8D42x)

12 Meanwhile, a lawyer offers Judge Kavanaugh some bad legal advice:

....

I'm sure she's not a Resist Dem activist too.

Posted by: HA at September 21, 2018 12:33 PM (MAstk)

13 Of course these were all eeeevil Republican women!

Hope this gives the committee some courage. Vote now!

Posted by: PJ at September 21, 2018 12:33 PM (qlTN9)

14
I am not seeing anything where Grassley has confirmed agreeing to testimony on Thursday.

Anyone got links?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 21, 2018 12:33 PM (/9p9e)

15 >>what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is sufficiently credible that were this a criminal case and Mr. Kavanaugh my client, we would be having a very serious conversation about the risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness.

But, what do you know about Jurisprudence?

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2018 12:33 PM (5p5Kj)

16 The weaknesses of *his* alibi witnesses? In the face the total paucity of *any* eyewitnesses, physical evidence, coherent timeline, cogent story or timeliness? This is a lying tool of the leftist cabal executing a character assassination. Character witnesses are the only thing that matter. Good Lord, what a shitshow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2018 12:33 PM (I2dne)

17
He turned me into a newt!

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at September 21, 2018 12:34 PM (UFLLM)

18 So she can't figure out how to defend her client against a decades-old allegation with no actual, you know, evidence or witnesses. Holy hell. If she were my lawyer, I would immediately fire her ass and hire someone competent.
Open Thread until ace shows up.
Posted by: OregonMuse at 12:30 PM

this is incorrect... SHE named two other people there, both of whom said it never happened.

Its not He said / she said..

Its She said, and THEY, THREE different people, say otherwise.

Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 12:34 PM (NgKpN)

19 Alibi to what?

She hasn't named a tome, date or place?

WTF????

This is bizarro world.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 21, 2018 12:34 PM (ymnmz)

20 The reason Professor Ford's lawyers don't want an outside lawyer to ask questions is because they don't want a woman to be the questioner. They prefer the optics of all male questioners. It shows how politically calculating her lawyers are.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:31 PM (2I4LM)

Unlike Ed Whelan, there are people in the Republican Party with mild competence. Too bad they use it to defend amoral multinationals instead of American interests, but whatever, they are arguably doing it now. And will keep pressing this well after Kav sits on the Supreme Court. If they even try to slow down, Trump will step in front of the parade and fuck them to death.

The Dems are going to regret this for a long, long time.

Posted by: trev006 at September 21, 2018 12:34 PM (vbK6N)

21 That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her
allegations is sufficiently credible that were this a criminal case and
Mr. Kavanaugh my client, we would be having a very serious conversation
about the risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness.

So she can't figure out how to defend her client against a
decades-old allegation with no actual, you know, evidence or witnesses.
Holy hell. If she were my lawyer, I would immediately fire her ass and
hire someone competent.

Gees, I would think a 1st year law student could successfully defend someone in a case like this.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:34 PM (jxbfJ)

22 Rite-Aid shooter was trans. WZ.

And it's gone from the headlines!

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at September 21, 2018 12:34 PM (5jVnA)

23 Morning all.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (p0nVR)

24 If Republicans in congress can't get a judicial appointment through, I say "what even is the point of you?"

You can't use the "lesser of two evils" argument if you don't ever give us anything. If you can't even do this right, how do I know you won't just go along with the Democrats in an impeachment proceeding?

Getting a good justice onto SCOTUS is the absolute rock bottom minimum we can accept from a Republican Senator, if you can't do that, then you're not better than the other guys.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (KUaJL)

25 22 Rite-Aid shooter was trans. WZ.

And it's gone from the headlines!
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at September 21, 2018 12:34 PM (5jVnA)

And a person of color. Disappeared.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (/9p9e)

26 Damn, that CNN reporterette ran into a fucking buzzsaw! You almost end feeling bad for her. kek

Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (nkCeM)

27 Willowed:

653 CNN reporting of a counteroffer: Wednesday, she testifies first, he goes second, independent lawyer does the questioning.

Posted by: Vendette at September 21, 2018 12:29 PM (Wt342)

Oh good. More rumormongering.* After the past week I think it is time to wait for an official announcement before vowing cruel unbreakable oaths before the dark gods of the Undermountain. Cause those dark gods of the Undermountain really do not like "neverminds".

*Not you Vendette.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort! Get a Time Share Now! at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (hLRSq)

28 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (rjbMC)

29 >>She hasn't named a tome, date or place?

Hard to do things by the book if you don't know what the book is!

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (5p5Kj)

30 That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is
sufficiently credible that were this a criminal case and Mr. Kavanaugh
my client, we would be having a very serious conversation about the
risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness.

Kitten, you don't know diddly squat. How about coming to my apartment this evening and I will school you on the finer points of oral arguments. Say about 8pm?

Posted by: Dr. Peter Venkman at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (QLvwG)

31 Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Which window has my winnings?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (yQpMk)

32 Do republicans do anything but cave?Of course they'll cave. If they go on with the vote, Collins, Flakey, Corker, and Murkowski will cave in the Senate vote.

Posted by: Bhagi Katbamna at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (qop/l)

33 Just fyi on the video, those are specifically republican women.

Posted by: irright at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (pMGkg)

34 20
The Dems are going to regret this for a long, long time.

Posted by: trev006 at September 21, 2018 12:34 PM (vbK6N)

They NEED to be made to regret this for a long, long time.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (jxbfJ)

35

Nom-nom

BLT-AC for lunch

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (2I4LM)

36 2. Makes sense. Socialists and MSM only want old white men doing the talking, for effect

Posted by: Jonah at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (HrSJb)

37 Freddy got Fingered. Did Chuck get Cucked?

Posted by: Hikaru at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (QWbr+)

38 Em dash and ampersand?

Posted by: IP at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (IVFy0)

39 Don't charges need to be filed in a criminal case?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (n9hQQ)

40 Just checked that lawyer's twitter feed and 1st tweet is a retweet of...Steve Schmidt.
Hard Pass

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (W+vEI)

41 Nope, never heard of em...

Posted by: IP at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (IVFy0)

42 Wow; Were they all Republican woman or what?; I missed that part of it. The CNN reporterette is really trying to convince them they should believe Ford.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (AllCR)

43 This may be the only time that watching the video is worthwhile before wading into the comments.

Well, it may be because it's the only time I've done that.

Still, that's spectacular! I'm amazed that CNN didn't bury the tape in the desert with a fire and then some lime.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (fuK7c)

44 That did not go will for CNN. I am surprised they aired it. I would bet that the next piece was the talking heads jabbering about crass, callous, rape-defending Republican women. But I doubt anyone would take the other side of the bet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (I2dne)

45 I love the demeanor of the CNN reporterette. She looks like she swallowed a bug. She tries and tries again to get the group to get on message, but no luck. Not the responses you were looking for, toots?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (je6Oi)

46 Which window has my winnings?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM

You also have to correctly answer:

[ ] male to female
[ ] female to male

before collecting.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (LOgQ4)

47 CNN reporting of a counteroffer: Wednesday, she testifies first, he goes second, independent lawyer does the questioning.

She is requesting this of Grassley? Or he is offering this to her? Big difference.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (lwiT4)

48 am not seeing anything where Grassley has confirmed agreeing to testimony on Thursday.

Anyone got links?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 21, 2018 12:33 PM (/9p9e)

Note: The voices in your head do not count as witnesses, sources, or as passengers for the purposes of the HOV lane.

Do not ask us how we know.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort! Get a Time Share Now! at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (hLRSq)

49 31
Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Which window has my winnings?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (yQpMk)

How much longer before the gun-grabbers try to restrict the number of magazines a person can own?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (jxbfJ)

50 Simply checking in occasionally is enough to spike my heart rate and BP vis a vis Kavanaugh and the bomb thrower. I can't imagine watching this travesty on a constant basis.

Posted by: Old Dude at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (LGXGf)

51 Other than creepy cucked chicks, is anyone really paying attention to any of this? Cereally.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (2LelM)

52 I guess the democrats forgot normal women have sons.

Posted by: x at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (nFwvY)

53 Is this the stomp or the pre-stomp?

I need to know.

Posted by: eleven at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (NLLmE)

54
I call this thread, "Begging for the Enstompenning"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (pNxlR)

55 31
Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Which window has my winnings?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (yQpMk)

I'd have to go back and check the tapes, but I believe I got firsts on calling pronoun dysphoria.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (5jVnA)

56 I'm just going spend the afternoon listening to the rain and watching the Chilean police puppies on parade. (See YouTube and enjoy).

Posted by: bill in arkansas at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (xzqr4)

57 When did it happen?

I don't remember.

Where did it happen?

I don't remember.

Who else was there?

I don't remember.

Was it two men or 4 men?

I don't remember.

Sufficiently credible!!!

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (cAnNx)

58 32. Collins and Murkowski will still be in the Senate in January, and want to keep their chairmanships

Flake and corker do not want to piss off McConnell. Mitch can make sure no Lobbying firm hires them

Posted by: Jonah at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (HrSJb)

59

That CNN video is going to leave a mark.

CNN may need to put some ice on it.

Also, insert Nelson Muntz laugh here.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy (Dixie Dregs of Society) at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (HaL55)

60 Trump realizes that a "martyred Kavanaugh" story plays better in 2020 than a successful confirmation. The fight has been good, but it is time for Kavanaugh to be cut loose that the immanentization can be realized. Trump knows this; Barron knows this. Kavanaugh, deep in his heart, knows this, too. He must take vows and join a monastery.

The man lives for a lifetime; the Empire lives forever.

Posted by: Zod at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (Bdeb0)

61 The em-dash — it's hard, that is to say, easy, if you are properly equipped.

Posted by: Paolo at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (ctuyM)

62 How do you like them Apples, CNN?

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (5p5Kj)

63 They still don't know why Trump won.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (c07y/)

64 39 Don't charges need to be filed in a criminal case?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (n9hQQ)

No. You have the sentencing first. No point wasting time with all that bureaucratic stuff.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (je6Oi)

65 Snapping and mass shooting coworkers is just such a guy thing.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (yQpMk)

66 I have to believe that even the LIVs can see through this. I mean for God's sake the left couldn't have made this any more transparent then it is.

No one on the left cares what Kavanaugh did or did not do 30 years ago. They don't want a conservative-ish judge on the SC.

But of course Trump won, in large measure, by promising to put conservative judges on the SC...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (eSx+E)

67 How much longer before the gun-grabbers try to restrict the number of magazines a person can own?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (jxbfJ)
+++++++
Dental office waiting rooms hardest hit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (I2dne)

68 Soona said definitively that FBN said Grassley caved, and yet there's no confirmation of that. Even CNN is saying she "may" testify next Wed, which just means that's her latest offer- who knows if Grassley is even talking to her at this point???

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (5AVMW)

69 This is such nonsense. I almost believe the woman because you'd think if they were going to make up a horrible allegation from his past they'd some up with something better than "dude may have drunkenly groped some chick at a party almost 40 years ago"

As that one woman said -- I think every guy can probably be accused of, at one point, making a clumsy pass at a girl. Especially in high school, or college, while drinking. That "clumsy pass" could be interpreted as sexual assault, I suppose, if the girl / woman wanted it to be classified as such in her retelling of the story almost 40 years later.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (GBteo)

70 Anyone is surprised? People actually float along at the idiotic level of MSM-watchers and NPR-listeners, and are surprised when reality bears no relation to their make-believe world? OK.

I'd bet several quatloos that this has been a loser, or worse, from the get-go, throughout the country (to the extent anyone's watching, or cares). The polling has probably been terrible, from the get-go. One reason (besides that they're literally not very bright people) for the almost instant Dem panic and increasingly outlandish responses to Grassley's perfect, conventional response.

We'll see soon enough. I'm comfortable with my speculation, based on everything we can see.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (QDnY+)

71 So she can't figure out how to defend her client against a
decades-old allegation with no actual, you know, evidence or witnesses.
Holy hell. If she were my lawyer, I would immediately fire her ass and
hire someone competent.

Gees, I would think a 1st year law student could successfully defend someone in a case like this.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Hell, I could do better.

Posted by: guy who slept in the dumpster of a Holiday Inn at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (vvSBD)

72 The only proper "counter offer" is "Go suck eggs. You had your chance."

More politely, my grandmother used to say "You have to take the cookies when they're passed. Or you don't get any."

Posted by: George LeS at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (59GGI)

73 Note: The voices in your head do not count as witnesses, sources, or as passengers for the purposes of the HOV lane.

Do not ask us how we know.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort! Get a Time Share Now! at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (hLRSq)
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Spoken like someone who got a ticket for having a department store mannequin in the front seat.

Posted by: bluebell at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (C1PQi)

74
That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is sufficiently credible that were this a criminal case and Mr. Kavanaugh my client, we would be having a very serious conversation about the risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness.

There's a little matter of Statute of Limitations, sugar tits.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (pNxlR)

75
52 I guess the democrats forgot normal women have sons.
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And fathers and brothers.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (2LelM)

76 Notice how near the end they identified the lady with the glasses as "Republican voter"?

Attempt to discredit her.

Posted by: Vendette at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (Wt342)

77 49 31
Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Which window has my winnings?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (yQpMk)

How much longer before the gun-grabbers try to restrict the number of magazines a person can own?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (jxbfJ)

Clearly, Time and Newsweek are a threat to our Democracy...

Oh... wait...

Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (NgKpN)

78 "As a woman, though, don't you have some sympathy for her?"

"No."

Wow, CNN lady must have been shocked.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (W+vEI)

79 It will be fun watching leftists insist that the shooter wasn't mentally ill.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (n9hQQ)

80 64 39 Don't charges need to be filed in a criminal case?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (n9hQQ)

No. You have the sentencing first. No point wasting time with all that bureaucratic stuff.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (je6Oi)

It's like the joke from Hogan's Heroes -- "You will have a fair trial, after which, you will be shot!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (GBteo)

81 Flake and corker do not want to piss off McConnell. Mitch can make sure no Lobbying firm hires them

***

Yes - I think the left was too flush from their success in doing this to Roy Moore, and didn't realize the Republican establishment would NOT go along if they turned the Moore script on an establishmentarian in good standing.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (eSx+E)

82 Red (not down there) wave mofo's.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (r9UYA)

83 The Left wants Kafka Kollege Kangaroo Kourt

They want to violate the received wisdom of common law in a Alex and his Droogs Singing in the Rain kind of way

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (qMV6r)

84 They NEED to be made to regret this for a long, long time.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (jxbfJ)

Their regret can be short-lived, AFAIAC.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (5jVnA)

85 Take off and nuke the whole of DC from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Really.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....lost in America at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (vcOmj)

86

Just checked that lawyer's twitter feed and 1st tweet is a retweet of...Steve Schmidt.

The bass player in the Eagles? Not that it would change anything, but I did not know he was a lawyer.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy (Dixie Dregs of Society) at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (HaL55)

87 There's a little matter of Statute of Limitations, sugar tits.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (pNxlR)
+++++++++
The only law is the law of immediate convenience. To imagine how it feels to be a leftist, just purge all standards and reexamine the issue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (I2dne)

88 It will be fun watching leftists insist that the shooter wasn't mentally ill.
=======

What shooter? There was a shooting?

Posted by: Leftists at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (vg8iE)

89 47 CNN reporting of a counteroffer: Wednesday, she testifies first, he goes second, independent lawyer does the questioning.
She is requesting this of Grassley? Or he is offering this to her? Big difference.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (

I don't believe this. the deadline came and went. It's too late now.

I'm amazed that the Turtle and Grassley are showing some spine on this, but that's what it looks like to me.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (aGFaW)

90 https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1043177965029347334

Posted by: HA at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (MAstk)

91 Ten A.M. came and went. Here is where we find out if anybody is left on our side with balls except Trump.
Posted by: MW at September 21, 2018 12:32 PM (hNTtn

Therein lies the problem, having to depend on the nutless wonders the GOPe inflicted on us.

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (y7DUB)

92
That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is sufficiently credible that were this a criminal case and Mr. Kavanaugh my client, we would be having a very serious conversation about the risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness.

It's like the episode from The Beverly Hillbillies where Jethro gets a mail order law degree.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (TAmPV)

93 > Gees, I would think a 1st year law student could successfully defend someone in a case like this.
> Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

> Hell, I could do better.
> guy who slept in the dumpster of a Holiday Inn at September 21, 2018 12:39 PM (vvSBD)

Those crazy Florida people who were doing the nasty in public could do better.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (TM5Iv)

94 Flake and Corker, FFS, have already said that testimony by Monday, per Judiciary schedule, or vote.

Hard to imagine Grassley has any reason to reconsider his schedule. And all his actual communications have shown no wobbling whatsoever.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (QDnY+)

95 Trump doesn't seem like man who would enjoy losing a fight. Neither does Kavanaugh. I can't see either one of them going home, licking there wounds, saying "Oh well, we gave it a shot."

Over a teenage party that may have never happened.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (lwiT4)

96 >>49 31

Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Which window has my winnings?

Posted by: Grump928(C)

Any tips on next weeks Mega-Millions?

Posted by: Under Fire at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (r9UYA)

97 Just fyi on the video, those are specifically republican women.

Posted by: irright

That should be obvious. There is a reasonable amount of personal grooming that they exhibit.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....lost in America at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (vcOmj)

98 Those women are all evil Rethuglicans. And self-hating.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (ptqGC)

99 I didn't adhere to the clearly defined rules, so here's my counteroffer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (n9hQQ)

100 81. Agreed. I listened to Medved last night, and for the first time he was fighting for a Republican since Romney in 2012.

Kav is in their club

Posted by: Jonah at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (HrSJb)

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Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (pNxlR)

102 That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is sufficiently credible

***

How on earth is the charge credible? If I claim Elizabeth Warren sexually assaulted me in 1982 is that charge credible? Would the left call for her to resign immediately?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (eSx+E)

103 #'s 52 and 75No, they just do not care. The unfettered right to kill an unborn baby must remain paramount. No. Matter. What.

Posted by: Old Dude at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (LGXGf)

104 I've always thought those folks trying to use HOV lanes with mannequins were really low class. I'd buy a state of the art sex doll if I were going to do that, so that the officer who stops me at least gets a good larf out if it.

Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (nkCeM)

105 52 I guess the democrats forgot normal women have sons.
Posted by: x at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (nFwvY)

This.

I've debated ~~lesb~~ feminists about things such as "pharma only works on diseases that affect men (!) because they're men too," pointing out that people in pharma have mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters, and possibly, just possibly, they care more for their female relatives more than they care for random unrelated males elsewhere.

The fact is that pharma works on diseases where they think they have a way forward, e.g., a druggable target. If they don't yet have any ideas on how to proceed, they don't try to proceed.

Simple, really.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (je6Oi)

106 If you can't even do this right, how do I know you won't just go along with the Democrats in an impeachment proceeding?�
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (KUaJL)

President Trump will LOVE sticking the knife in their back. Ignore True Americans like Ross Douthat and Ben Shapiro: Republicans love their President, and most are radicalized. If he says, "time to wipe out Congress lads," then losing the fig leaf of SC appointments will make Republicans say "yeah, let's do this."

Posted by: trev006 at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (vbK6N)

107 Those women are all evil Rethuglicans. And self-hating.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (ptqGC)
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Not "real" women. Unwomen.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (vg8iE)

108 >>85 Take off and nuke the whole of DC from orbit. Posted by: Bozo Conservative....lost in America at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (vcOmj)

Steady, old boy...some of us have to egress, dig?

Posted by: Zod at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (Bdeb0)

109 It's very out of character of CNN to actually post the video. Reporter can now expect PLM (Progressive Lynch Mob) for doing something that doesn't advance the Grand Narrative.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (db5dt)

110 That should be obvious. There is a reasonable amount of personal grooming that they exhibit.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....lost in America at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (vcOmj)
+++++++
Also, they can express a thought cogently. Also, they speak a language we can recognize as English.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (I2dne)

111 So these women can express what everyone sane and rational is thinking and still there's no vote?!
GOPe.fucking grow a pair like these chicks.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (3SzRC)

112 No. You have the sentencing first. No point wasting time with all that bureaucratic stuff.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 21, 2018 12:38 PM (je6Oi)

It's like the joke from Hogan's Heroes -- "You will have a fair trial, after which, you will be shot!"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (GBteo)
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Just a few minutes ago Mark Steyn quoted Jonathan Turley with regard to Ford's conditions: you swing the bat, then I'll throw the pitch.

Posted by: bluebell at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (C1PQi)

113 Wow hahahahaha!

No one is buying outside of the harridan brigade and they'd eat a shit sandwich if they thought it would hurt Trump.

This and Trump going on the warpath against the accuser last night tells me they've got some internals telling them this isn't hurting them in the least.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (4ErVI)

114 Meanwhile, Keith Ellison (PBUH).

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (ptqGC)

115 There's a little matter of Statute of Limitations, sugar tits.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

We've been told that there is no statute of limitations in Maryland....Which makes it all the more interesting why she won't go near the Montgomery county police.

Posted by: guy who slept in the dumpster of a Holiday Inn at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (vvSBD)

116 how can one have an accurate alibi without any actual details ?

er from 83 to 85 I was somewhere for sure but not there?

Posted by: willow at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (dPd5y)

117 Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 21, 2018 12:37 PM (LOgQ4)

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Where'd you get them em-dashes, my main man? I get nuked every time. I tried copying and pasting the ones YOU used, and got nuked.

Help a brotha out... I need my fix. Gimme dat uncut dope!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (AzW6q)

118 Judge Kavanaugh should immediately withdraw and commit ritual sepukku.

Posted by: CNN Lawyer at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (xBSm0)

119 OK ladies, one more chance. How about if he grabbed her p***y while collaborating with the Russians? Then would it matter?

Posted by: Ripley at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (MxEKc)

120 Those women are all evil Rethuglicans. And self-hating.

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Not to be too mansplaining about it, but some handmaidens tail costumes might need to be involved at some point.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (n9hQQ)

121 The funniest thing about Dems is that the most privileged and pampered cohort on the face of the earth is white women. They live the longest and die the richest of any group on earth - and yet they complain about how bad they have it. This is the Dem Party - and angry Black Man's party run by feeble, fragile women.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (2LelM)

122
The nice thing about the em dash — is that Pixy blocks anyone from disagreeing with you.

Try to cut and paste a reply to this and there's a 500 error in your future.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 21, 2018 12:44 PM (LOgQ4)

123 "As a woman, though, don't you have some sympathy for her?"

"No."

Wow, CNN lady must have been shocked.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (W+vEI)
............

It sent another icy chill through her lady parts.

Posted by: wth - Sauregurkenzeit at September 21, 2018 12:44 PM (HgMAr)

124 Why should I have to believe Kavanaugh?

The accuser asserts the proposition. THEY are the one who has to prove their case.

Kavanaugh IS innocent until poven otherwise.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 21, 2018 12:44 PM (oVJmc)

125 Willowed:

653 CNN reporting of a counteroffer: Wednesday, she testifies first, he goes second, independent lawyer does the questioning.

Posted by: Vendette at September 21, 2018 12:29 PM (Wt342)

Oh good. More rumormongering.* After the past week I think it is
time to wait for an official announcement before vowing cruel
unbreakable oaths before the dark gods of the Undermountain. Cause those
dark gods of the Undermountain really do not like "neverminds".

*Not you Vendette.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort!
Get a Time Share Now! at September 21, 2018 12:35 PM (hLRSq)

And I responded that I just said what they were saying, we'll see if it's actually the case, and if it is I bet this will be take it or leave it. No more.

Posted by: Vendette at September 21, 2018 12:44 PM (Wt342)

126 CNN has sent Jumpin' Jim Acosta to help construct the scaffolding for Kavanaugh's hanging.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

127 Steady, old boy...some of us have to egress, dig?

Pop smoke.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:44 PM (yQpMk)

128 >>The bass player in the Eagles? Not that it would change anything, but I did not know he was a lawyer.

Naw, the Steve Schmidt who is a GOP campaign consultant, worked on McCain/Palin and then cashed in bigly by backstabbing Palin.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:44 PM (W+vEI)

129 Meanwhile, Keith Ellison (PBUH).

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Or how about Menendez? Why are we not having Senate hearing with his victims as to whether to expel him or not?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (eSx+E)

130
Stepford Women, obviously. Or being blackmailed by evil Repugs. Or their children owe the Rethugs money. Or...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (UFLLM)

131
Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Transitioning from man to woman? Woman to man? Black to white? White to black?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (IqV8l)

132 Dr Ford to change her name to Tituba and move to the West Indies. CNN

Posted by: BluesFish at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (7IRPQ)

133 Over a teenage party that may have never happened.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (lwiT4)

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I honestly think she had a crush on him and he didn't know who she was, and this is revenge for ruining her life.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (n9hQQ)

134 "That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is sufficiently credible ..."
That's really interesting, mind sharing with the rest of it what you know so far?

Because Senator Feinstein hasn't even shared the actual letter with the other senators on the committee from what I've heard.
And I'm pretty sure if I made a similar allegation in any court or hearing ... for some reason it would NOT be regarded as sufficiently credible.

Posted by: me too, again at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (RzUqr)

135 I admit I will be astonished if Ford's operation accepts any sort of arrangement. From what we know and can judge, she has nothing but ridiculous, uncorroborated, contradictory, evidence-free, jumbled "recollections". That is, nothing.

It's bad enough now. The damage to the Dems of prolonging (and raising the drama content/profile) of this disastrous op might be much worse.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (QDnY+)

136 Try to cut and paste a reply to this and there's a 500 error in your future.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 21, 2018 12:44 PM (LOgQ4)

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This is black magic. Burn the witch.

Posted by: Malleus Maleficarum at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (AzW6q)

137 Help a brotha out... I need my fix. Gimme dat uncut dope!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM

See end of last thread...

Or

& # 8 2 1 2

with all spaces deleted

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (LOgQ4)

138 "Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer"

I have to say that I used to lump Ari in with other W sellouts like Frum, Wallace, Dowd etc. But he is really sharp and really good at seeing though lib BS.

Posted by: Benji Carver at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (OD2ni)

139 We've been told that there is no statute of limitations in Maryland....
Posted by: guy who slept in the dumpster of a Holiday Inn at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (vvSBD)

Worse than that, if you die in Maryland, you die in real life too.

Posted by: hogmartin at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (IqOTP)

140 That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is
sufficiently credible that were this a criminal case and Mr. Kavanaugh
my client, we would be having a very serious conversation about the
risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness.

--

Hey, random question: anyone know someone who knew this person in high school with low morals and wants to make a quick buck? I've got an idea.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (KUaJL)

141 I think a lot of women will be thinking of their HS sons and fearful this could happen to them.

Rep and Dem women.

Posted by: Tami at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (cF8AT)

142 that CNN clip needs the sad trombone after all the women hold up their hands

to replace the ultra fast jump cut that CNN obviously placed there

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (RKQ/v)

143 >>118 Judge Kavanaugh should immediately withdraw and commit ritual sepukku.
Posted by: CNN Lawyer at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (xBSm0)

This would add gravity to the Trump "Kavanaugh Martyr" storyline in 2020.

For the Empire.

Posted by: Zod at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (Bdeb0)

144 Wow, the CNN gal tried her best to get the ladies to say what she wanted, but, the women were having none of it.

Okay, admit it, you 'ettes managed to sucker in CNN.

Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (qC1Sy)

145 Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

You're kidding, right?

/SARC (for the sarcasm challenged)

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (ptqGC)

146 My guess,they named completely unacceptable conditions for her to testify and only after the deadline passed knowing the Republicans will refuse and that will be their line."They refused to give her a hearing!"

Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (mCMQ5)

147 test - does this message look like spam?

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (TUU1F)

148 That said, what I know so far of Ms. Ford and her allegations is sufficiently credible that were this a criminal case and Mr. Kavanaugh my client, we would be having a very serious conversation about the risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness.

It's like the episode from The Beverly Hillbillies where Jethro gets a mail order law degree.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (TAmPV)

Heck, they don't even know what Jurisdiction to press charges IN..

DC? Virginia? Maryland? Just which side of the border was that house on?

Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (NgKpN)

149 I really think this will backfire with upper-middle-class white women. They have sons, many of whom are teenagers or college-aged, and they would love the thought of their sons ending up a Federal judge at some point. The idea that their son's career could be derailed because of a thirty-year old accusation from when he was a teenager should be horrifying to any parent.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (wCmLp)

150 CNN reporting that GOP counteroffers to Blasey Ford to move the hearing to Wednesday, Blasey Ford to testify first, questioning to be conducted by outside counsel.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (2I4LM)

151 We've been told that there is no statute of limitations in
Maryland....Which makes it all the more interesting why she won't go
near the Montgomery county police.

***

A false police report can get *you* thrown in jail. Also, she'd have to actually go on record as to when and where which would make it harder to lie.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (eSx+E)

152 Every use of the word credible by the left should be responded to with "You obviously don't know what credible means, you ignorant dipshit."
(you could leave the last bit off, but why?)

Posted by: irright at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (pMGkg)

153 "As a woman, though, don't you have some sympathy for her?"

"No."

Wow, CNN lady must have been shocked.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:40 PM (W+vEI)

Very telling they made sure to bring up Brett's wife and kids. I'm sure they've imagined what they would feel like if this was their husband and their kids and it's about some bullshit 37 year old allegation about when their husband was some partying teenager.

Also lol at the lady who says who got the alcohol for these people.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (4ErVI)

154 I guess if I quote Cameron's page it looks like spam.Nothing to see here.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (TUU1F)

155
I think every guy can probably be accused of, at one point, making a clumsy pass at a girl.

Hey! Leave Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers' receiver corps out of this!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (pNxlR)

156 Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (LOgQ4)

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Thanks! Gotta hard-code punc marks. The more you know...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (AzW6q)

157 Worse than that, if you die in Maryland, you die in real life too.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (IqOTP)

But not Delaware.

Posted by: eleven at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (NLLmE)

158 Wow, the CNN gal tried her best to get the ladies to say what she wanted, but, the women were having none of it.

Okay, admit it, you 'ettes managed to sucker in CNN.
=========

I would LOVE to see out 'ettes take on a CNN infobabe.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (vg8iE)

159 DC? Virginia? Maryland? Just which side of the border was that house on?
Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (NgKpN)
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Maryland. Montgomery County.

Posted by: bluebell at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (C1PQi)

160 Senator Tom Carper admitted to punching his wife in the face.

Sherrod Brown abused his ex wife.

Dems will be Dems. Next

Posted by: Jonah at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (HrSJb)

161 Is it true that Ford also attended that Woman's March wearing a pink pussy hat? Comey's wife attended--and so did McCabe's wife. Anyone sense a pattern here?

Posted by: JoeF. at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (NFEMn)

162 Posted by: Benji Carver at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (OD2ni)

Don't let your guard down, he's a NeverTrumper. Probably plays shuffleboard with Krystal.

Posted by: Iasonas at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (Bcfof)

163 our 'ettes*

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (vg8iE)

164 150 posts and no stomp?

Posted by: Chief big front-hole Warren at September 21, 2018 12:47 PM (yhf6w)

165 There's a little matter of Statute of Limitations, sugar tits.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

We've been told that there is no statute of limitations in Maryland....Which makes it all the more interesting why she won't go near the Montgomery county police.
Posted by: guy who slept in the dumpster of a Holiday Inn at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (vvSBD)

Yeah, so a lot of states of verrrrry generous (or no) statute of limitations of felony sexual cases where the victim was a minor at the time.

For kind of obvious reasons. If a sicko molests a 4 year old, she might not even know what really happened until she was 14, and may not come forward for another decade, especially if the molester was a family member or whatever.

I think many states do the "SoL runs when minor reaches age 18 + x number of years."

So I suppose a charge could be brought by a creative prosecutor, but, er... I don't see a jury going for that.

These SoL expansions were clearly aimed at the cases I described, not at some woman claiming to have been groped at age 15 by a 17 year old 36 years ago.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (GBteo)

166
This is making its rounds. Maybe what Ace is reading.

The Trans Woman Who Became a Dragon

I spent a day with Eva Tiamat Medusa, a trans woman who modified her body to become a dragon.

https://tinyurl.com/yclh3xk2

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (2I4LM)

167 >>Just fyi on the video, those are specifically republican women.

>>That should be obvious. There is a reasonable amount of personal grooming that they exhibit.

Also, no vocal fry, uptalking or SJW jargon.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (W+vEI)

168 "CNN has sent Jumpin' Jim Acosta to help construct the scaffolding for Kavanaugh's hanging."

My motto was always "be prepared" -

Posted by: Haman at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (RzUqr)

169 So did Grassley cave or not?

The world wonders...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 21, 2018 12:30 PM (/9p9e)

I'm keeping this dish of crow warm, just in case.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (kqsXK)

170 "They refused to give her a hearing!"

Yeah well, life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (yQpMk)

171 By the way, I was able to grate an entire wedge of Parmesan cheese using Jessica Tarlov's voice earlier.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (ptqGC)

172 I honestly think she had a crush on him and he didn't know who she was, and this is revenge for ruining her life.Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (n9hQQ)

It's 40 years later, can I get back at the handsome guy at the high school cast party whom I had a crush one and who spent the entire time with his head in some other girls lap. If I make up a phony story (I'm a registered Democrat) can I get big bucks from Soros> I need some money for sons college tuition.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (AllCR)

173 Where'd you get them em-dashes, my main man? I get nuked every time. I tried copying and pasting the ones YOU used, and got nuked.

Help a brotha out... I need my fix. Gimme dat uncut dope!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM

Here are some you can borrow:

— — — — — — & —

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (ctuyM)

174 Pink Pussy Hat was one of Devo's best songs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (n9hQQ)

175 143 >>118 Judge Kavanaugh should immediately withdraw and commit ritual sepukku.
Posted by: CNN Lawyer at September 21, 2018 12:43 PM (xBSm0)

This would add gravity to the Trump "Kavanaugh Martyr" storyline in 2020.

For the Empire.
Posted by: Zod at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (Bdeb0)

Martyr be damned... you don't win wars by dying for your country, you win wars by making the other poor dumb son of a bitch, die for his.

Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (NgKpN)

176 If I knew anyone who used that lawyer, who thought that these allegations were credible, I would certainly counsel them to get a competent replacement lawyer as soon as possible.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (7ZVPa)

177 "Naw, the Steve Schmidt who is a GOP campaign consultant, worked on McCain/Palin and then cashed in bigly by backstabbing Palin. "

For years, Repubs were hiring campaign consultants like Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson. No wonder so many campaigns suck. Say what you will about Trump, but he flushed those rats out.

Posted by: Benji Carver at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (OD2ni)

178 Outlander!
Ace is he who walks behind the code!

Posted by: Malachi at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (cttEu)

179 They were REPUBLICAN WOMEN!
REPUBLICAN WOMEN! Stay tuned while we find some dykes.

Posted by: CNN at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (HgMAr)

180 That sound you hear at 2:07 on the tape, is Clair McCaskill taking down the drapes in her Senate office.

Posted by: Jean at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (j0Mw7)

181 I'd like to give a persona shout out to DiFi for destroying 2-4 families in order to do...something.

Posted by: MJ at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (LQtHg)

182 >>I spent a day with Eva Tiamat Medusa, a trans woman who modified her body to become a dragon.

Look into the mouth of madness.

I've seen pics of this...being, and it is disturbing.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (W+vEI)

183 Here we go two more days offered by Grassley. then the committee vote will be moved to Halloween. Floor vote on Thanksgiving to protect Red state Dems.

F this S*t

Posted by: Jonah at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (HrSJb)

184 I don't believe her at all! She never confided in her best friend for 30 years? This is one of those things you talk about as a woman, you actually bring this up to friends if you are truly distraught & if it truly happened.

It's all BS and women can see that shit in other women a mile away!

Posted by: Hillary4Prison at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (3aBcq)

185 We've been told that there is no statute of limitations in Maryland....

Then she should file a police report so that they can open the investigation she so desparetly wants.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (lwiT4)

186 170 "They refused to give her a hearing!"

Yeah well, life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (yQpMk)

Congress's role is not to investigate... its to Legislate.

Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (NgKpN)

187 #38

Posted by: IP at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (IVFy0)

188 131

Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Transitioning from man to woman? Woman to man? Black to white? White to black?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (IqV8l)

Yes.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (5jVnA)

189 By the way, I was able to grate an entire wedge of Parmesan cheese using Jessica Tarlov's voice earlier.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM

Make America Grate Again!

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (LOgQ4)

190 >>I spent a day with Eva Tiamat Medusa, a trans woman who modified her body to become a dragon.

Here Be Mutilated Woman

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (5p5Kj)

191 102How on earth is the charge credible? If I claim
Elizabeth Warren sexually assaulted me in 1982 is that charge credible?
Would the left call for her to resign immediately?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (eSx+E)

Elizabeth Warren claims to be of indian descent. No proof. Refuses to take a DNA test to back up her claims. Relies on stories told to her by mom/grandmother about high cheekbones. The left believes her.
So it really isn't a stretch for these people to fall in behind Ford regarding her claims of assault against Kavanaugh.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (jxbfJ)

192 Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 21, 2018 12:48 PM (7ZVPa)

Sounds like the lawyer needs to go back to being an an administrative asst for a law practice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (AllCR)

193 So is she a dragon?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (n9hQQ)

194 Just give us what we want this time and we will be satisfied. Honest. [fingers crossed behind back]

Posted by: Democrats at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (OD2ni)

195
109 It's very out of character of CNN to actually post the video. Reporter can now expect PLM (Progressive Lynch Mob) for doing something that doesn't advance the Grand Narrative.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (db5dt)

It's so they can go "See we're not biased! We're just reporting the facts!"

Ignoring that the reporter is trying to push an agenda. And that all they have pushed before and after that video is how Kavanaugh is the worst rapist in American history.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (cAnNx)

196 Nom-nom

BLT-AC for lunch

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (2I4LM)

I've got to get my eyes checked. I saw that and read it as "AtC for lunch."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (kqsXK)

197 If those had been Dem wymyn, at least one would have hairs growing out of her face, and most would be devoid of hair care or skin care products.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (ptqGC)

198 The idea that their son's career could be derailed because of a thirty-year old accusation from when he was a teenager should be horrifying to any parent.�

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (wCmLp)

The accusation is only six years old, thanks to the bullshit magic of repressed memory science.

Forget their sons, their husbands are vulnerable. And it you want to watch a married white woman go from "Trust the Sisterhood" to "Flay the Lying Whore," suggest that her family might have to sell the hoise to pay legal judgements.

Posted by: trev006 at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (vbK6N)

199 I don't believe this. the deadline came and went. It's too late now.

I'm amazed that the Turtle and Grassley are showing some spine on this, but that's what it looks like to me.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (aGFaW)

this may be the only place they display a spine. and I'm happy for that.

I'd love it to show in other places, but maybe they're just getting used to what it feels like to have one.

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (8D42x)

200 I spent a day with Eva Tiamat Medusa, a trans woman who modified her body to become a dragon.

Look into the mouth of madness.

I've seen pics of this...being, and it is disturbing.
=========

It's almost as if encouraging, and in some cases, subsidizing mental illness is a bad idea.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (vg8iE)

201 I admit I will be astonished if Ford's operation accepts any sort of arrangement.

What they want is to drag it out as long as possible with unreasonable demands, then to throw up their hands that they're being railroaded by the Patriarchy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (oVJmc)

202 Or he. I don't know what trans+sex means. It's one or the other, though.

Point being, is that person a dragon now?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (n9hQQ)

203 So, I read somewhere that "the polls" show eroding support for Kavanaugh.

First rule of polls is to look at the pollster. Here, NBC, claiming more Americans oppose Kavanaugh confirmation (38%) than support (34%), a change from 29% opposition in August.

Second rule of polls is to look at the partisan split of the polled persons. Here, unreported, but error of +/- 3.3%. (We all know what this means).

Third rule of polls is to look at the way the question was asked. Here, unreported. This one is huge, because most polling is push polling: "Do you support Kavanaugh, a serial rapist that hates women?

I call BS. My own anecdotal observation is that the non-partisan people I've heard talk about this Kavanaugh accusation are appalled at the Democrats.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (db5dt)

204 I honestly think she had a crush on him and he didn't know who she was, and this is revenge for ruining her life.
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At my 20th HS reunion I had this very experience. Uncomfortable to say the least. She was stalking my wife when she went to the head. Fucking weird.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (2LelM)

205 I've heard maybe half of trans try to off themselves.

But Hawaiian judge sez....you know the rest.

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (Y274z)

206 >>By the way, I was able to grate an entire wedge of Parmesan cheese using Jessica Tarlov's voice earlier.

Dear God, don't you have a mute button?!?!
Tarlov is what that thing was made for.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (W+vEI)

207 Oh yes, I've pointed out for days that the GOP's reaction here is directly tied to what's being threatened - one of their own, in a sense. Whereas Moore was icky and The Other (not a Beltway guy). Complete and decisive difference.

There also might - might - be a bit of institutional self-defense here. If the nomination process is effectively removed from the majority and transferred to the press and their Dem nutcases, when they're in the minority, then the GOP loses one of the few powers they have decided to retain when "in power".

Posted by: rhomboid at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (QDnY+)

208 These women are not passenger material.

Posted by: Commodore William Kristol at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (r9UYA)

209 >>150 CNN reporting that GOP counteroffers to Blasey Ford to move the hearing to Wednesday, Blasey Ford to testify first, questioning to be conducted by outside counsel. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (2I4LM)

Suggested edit: GOP offers to Blasey Ford include gom jabbar, the knout-gantlet, RED ANTS, questioning by Turkish Bey.

Posted by: Zod at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (Bdeb0)

210 Worse than that, if you die in Maryland, you die in real life too.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (IqOTP)

Heh.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (T71PA)

211 How on earth is the charge credible? If I claim Elizabeth Warren sexually assaulted me in 1982 is that charge credible? Would the left call for her to resign immediately?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2018 12:42 PM (eSx+E)

only if you claim it was her native half that was drunk and assaulted you...

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (8D42x)

212 I really think this will backfire with upper-middle-class white women. They have sons, many of whom are teenagers or college-aged, and they would love the thought of their sons ending up a Federal judge at some point. The idea that their son's career could be derailed because of a thirty-year old accusation from when he was a teenager should be horrifying to any parent.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (wCmLp)

This is true.
But remember it cuts both ways. Upper-middle class white women with sons are overwhelmingly in favor of abortion for the same reason women with daughters are--because it affects their future.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (NFEMn)

213 Hearing moved to Wednesday.

Which is weird because I was assured here that the hearing would absolutely take place on Monday. It was only silly trolls who said otherwise. Just like suggesting the original vote, set for yesterday would be delayed as trolling.

Gop is caving on every Ford demand. It is embarrassing to watch it play out.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (rw7Vn)

214 Eva Tiamat Medusa

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Wow. It's good to see what our enlightened society can make of somebody.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (AzW6q)

215 185
We've been told that there is no statute of limitations in Maryland....

Then she should file a police report so that they can open the investigation she so desparetly wants.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (lwiT4)

Where it can be examined at the state level. FBI isn't (shouldn't be) interested in an alleged cop-a-feel incident 35+ years ago.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (jxbfJ)

216 > Where'd you get them em-dashes, my main man? I get nuked every time.

Em-dashes — especially on this site — can be challenging, to be sure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (TM5Iv)

217 Medved says Ford was a Cheerleader at UNC, and in a sorority.

A good Girl, I bet

Posted by: Jonah at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (HrSJb)

218 The house. Not the hoose, or the hoise. Good Lord, I feel like Ed Whelan.

Posted by: trev006 at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (vbK6N)

219 2 Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer

The reason Professor Ford's lawyers don't want an outside lawyer to ask questions is because they don't want a woman to be the questioner. They prefer the optics of all male questioners. It shows how politically calculating her lawyers are.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:31 PM (2I4LM)
---------------------------------
THIS.

With the Left, everything is drama, images, narrative.
Hollywood.

FFS, one of Obama's top foreign policy men had a MFA in creative writing. And it makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (0jtPF)

220 Is CNN getting so lazy they're not even screening their own plant audience? I bet not one of them had a #resist t-shirt or vagina hat.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (TUU1F)

221 Just fyi on the video, those are specifically republican women.

Oh no doubt. This is a trick the media often trots out. They're hoping to get Trump supporters to backtrack on him and then broadcast it far and wide because they think it'll turn off other supporters. It's a social thing.

"See people just like you have turned on Trump! Don't you want to be a cool kid in the in crowd? Doesn't Jeb sound a lot better now?"

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (4ErVI)

222 147 test - does this message look like spam?

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (TUU1F)

Seems legit to us.

Posted by: lace wigs reseller #347 at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (aGFaW)

223 Dear God, don't you have a mute button?!?!

Tarlov is what that thing was made for.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (W+vEI)

I grated cheese!! Seriously, I was in the laundry room and heard her, and scurried into the kitchen and muted the TV.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (ptqGC)

224 I've got to get my eyes checked. I saw that and read it as "AtC for lunch."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (kqsXK)

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Ha. I no-sh*t saw:

"BLT AtCfor lunch"

Mine's got bacon, dammit.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (n9hQQ)

225 @Forgot my nic, making the browser do the work is clever. If you have your AoS HQ USB dongle, I'll send you a beer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (I2dne)

226 Wonder if PT's tweet about parents filing a police report is bc there was a contemporaneous incident that echoes ford's claims, but not ford as the victim?

Posted by: Ever at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (OLS0m)

227 Everyone knows that trans people are totally stable and normal.Why,they aren't mentally ill at all.

Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (mCMQ5)

228 We've been told that there is no statute of limitations in Maryland....

Then she should file a police report so that they can open the investigation she so desparetly wants.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 21, 2018 12:49 PM (lwiT4)

...What is there to investigate?

This, by the way, is why statute of limitations usually exist -- there's nothing to investigate at this point. At best, they find some hearsay third hand account of "I remember this chick talking about xyz back in the day..."

Not enough for a criminal charge.

There is literally nothing they could find that would support a criminal charge based on the fact pattern we know.

Unless someones been holding out on video surveillance footage or something for 36 years.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (GBteo)

229 re: Rite-Aid transgender shooter

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycedy2p8

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (8N2JI)

230 I don't believe this has polled well for the Dems, at any point, since it began.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (QDnY+)

231 Dr Ford to change her name to Tituba and move to the West Indies. CNN

Posted by: BluesFish at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (7IRPQ)

The New Adventures of Dr. Calypso, Reggae Psychologist?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort! Get a Time Share Now! at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (hLRSq)

232 ace is NOOD

Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2018 12:53 PM (Z5y53)

233 213 Hearing moved to Wednesday.

Which is weird because I was assured here that the hearing would absolutely take place on Monday. It was only silly trolls who said otherwise. Just like suggesting the original vote, set for yesterday would be delayed as trolling.

Gop is caving on every Ford demand. It is embarrassing to watch it play out.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (rw7Vn)

You declared that Kavanaugh would drop out 3 days ago. You have no standing dipshit.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2018 12:54 PM (cAnNx)

234 I seems like I recently read that Canada was outlawing Fat Trans people.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 21, 2018 12:54 PM (yQpMk)

235 My allegations were sufficiently credible.

Posted by: Zombie Lavrentiy Beria at September 21, 2018 12:54 PM (vtcmf)

236 217
Medved says Ford was a Cheerleader at UNC, and in a sorority.

A good Girl, I bet

Posted by: Jonah at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (HrSJb)

Pounded more than the letter "I" in Pixar.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 21, 2018 12:54 PM (jxbfJ)

237 When Soros is writing the checks anything Ford says is credible according to Ford's lawyer.

You think she's working for chopped liver?

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2018 12:54 PM (Y274z)

238 Anyone see the news that Mooch is getting ready to go on tour with her "Being Michelle" or whatever the hell the name of her book is?

Heads up TX morons. She has Dallas on her schedule.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 21, 2018 12:54 PM (ptqGC)

239 "See people just like you have turned on Trump! Don't you want to be a cool kid in the in crowd? Doesn't Jeb sound a lot better now?"
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 21, 2018 12:52 PM (4ErVI)
++++++++
After that "please clap" routine, I simply cannot take Jeb! seriously. Ever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2018 12:55 PM (I2dne)

240 Medved says Ford was a Cheerleader at UNC, and in a sorority.

A good Girl, I bet

Posted by: Jonah at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (HrSJb)
...........

But yet... only TWO pictures of her? Maybe we should check Pornhub.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2018 12:55 PM (HgMAr)

241 Also lol at the lady who says who got the alcohol for these people.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis

The liquor store at the end of the G'Town bridge was always a solid goto. They'd sell you alcohol right in front of DC cops - who were buying their own in uniform.

Posted by: Jean at September 21, 2018 12:55 PM (j0Mw7)

242 The reason Professor Ford's lawyers don't want an outside lawyer to ask questions is because they don't want a woman to be the questioner. They prefer the optics of all male questioners. It shows how politically calculating her lawyers are.

Ari Fleisher reads the comments? I poseted exactly this in JJs thread.

Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2018 12:55 PM (Z5y53)

243 > Unless someones been holding out on video surveillance footage or something for 36 years.

Very remotely possible. Home camcorders did exist then (albeit the size of a shoebox), and these were kids from wealthy families.

I think it's rather more likely, though, that if such footage exists it's of Dr. CrazyPants pulling a train and then begging for more.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2018 12:55 PM (TM5Iv)

244 willowed again

Posted by: Zombie Lavrentiy Beria at September 21, 2018 12:55 PM (vtcmf)

245 "DC? Virginia? Maryland? Just which side of the border was that house on?
Posted by: Don Q"

Maryland but easy to be confused. Travelling along Wisconsin Avenue you go seamlessly from a rich neighborhood in DC to a rich neighborhood in MD.

Posted by: Benji Carver at September 21, 2018 12:55 PM (OD2ni)

246 I'm not finding any scheduled or re-scheduled hearings for Wednesday or any other day on the innertubes.

Grassley's page shows nothing either.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 21, 2018 12:55 PM (lwiT4)

247
Forget their sons, their husbands are vulnerable. And it you want to watch a married white woman go from "Trust the Sisterhood" to "Flay the Lying Whore," suggest that her family might have to sell the hoise to pay legal judgements.

Posted by: trev006 at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (vbK6N)

I'm sure this will lock up the hot blooded male latin vote

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (TAmPV)

248 Per Chad Pergram of Fox News: Ford and the committee have been going back and forth for a while over a counterproposal, but nothing has been sent to the Dems or to Ford and her lawyers.

Tweet here: https://tinyurl.com/yacwtd83

Posted by: Vendette at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (Wt342)

249 I'm not sure "Being: Michelle" is the best title for someone who is often referred to as a hairy alien.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (n9hQQ)

250 213 Hearing moved to Wednesday.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (rw7V

CNN is reporting this, so I automatically think they're making shit up.

Posted by: lace wigs reseller #347 at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (aGFaW)

251 Unless someones been holding out on video surveillance footage or something for 36 years.

___

Working on it - get us at least until Wednesday ok?

Posted by: Brennan's friends in the CIA at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (eSx+E)

252 So if McConnell/Ryno had any balls they would create three more USSC seats right now.

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (Y274z)

253 off, spam sock!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (aGFaW)

254 I seems like I recently read that Canada was outlawing Fat Trans people.

Posted by: Grump928(C)

----

I'm sure they have lots of Inuit people up there who could find a use for all that blubber.

Posted by: RKae at September 21, 2018 12:57 PM (cV95q)

255 I don't believe this. the deadline came and went. It's too late now.

I'm amazed that the Turtle and Grassley are showing some spine on this, but that's what it looks like to me.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at September 21, 2018 12:41 PM (aGFaW)

If they stand up and hold the line Monday;
it will be the most demonstrable exhibition of will made by the Republicans in ten years.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2018 12:57 PM (8N2JI)

256 Pergram also says that (without naming them) CNN's report of a counter offer for Wednesday is not accurate at this time.

Posted by: Vendette at September 21, 2018 12:58 PM (Wt342)

257 CNN reporting...
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (2I4LM)

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'nuff said.

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 21, 2018 12:58 PM (rjbMC)

258

Worse than that, if you die in Maryland, you die in real life too.

"The body cannot live without the mind. But if you're a Progressive, it really doesn't matter. Those people are born zombies anyway."

- Morpheus in the Matrix movie, slightly paraphrased for accuracy.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy (Dixie Dregs of Society) at September 21, 2018 12:58 PM (HaL55)

259 146 My guess,they named completely unacceptable conditions for her to testify and only after the deadline passed knowing the Republicans will refuse and that will be their line."They refused to give her a hearing!"
Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2018 12:46 PM (mCMQ5)

This.

The Reds are right now printing up yellow on black signs saying "Let her speak!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at September 21, 2018 12:58 PM (je6Oi)

260 The Senate could stop the clock at 10am Monday and wait 48 hours to run it. Willie Brown did shit like that.

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2018 12:59 PM (Y274z)

261 > If they stand up and hold the line Monday;
it will be the most demonstrable exhibition of will made by the Republicans in ten years.

Maybe more than that. Reagan and Gingrich were the last two I remember who had any balls at all when it came to standing up to the Dems.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 21, 2018 12:59 PM (TM5Iv)

262 The reason Professor Ford's lawyers don't want an outside lawyer to ask questions is because they don't want a woman to be the questioner. They prefer the optics of all male questioners. It shows how politically calculating her lawyers are.

How many possible questions can be asked? She doesn't know when it happened or where? She said she didn't tell anyone for 31 years!
Other than asking her how she knows the judge, what else can be relevant! I guess you can go do the how many beers did you have and how often did you drink alcohol back then. Or, were you a virgin at the time?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 21, 2018 01:00 PM (v1udk)

263 All I'm doing is carrying the message I see on FBN. Whether it's speculation on their part or hard sourced, I have no idea.

Posted by: Soona at September 21, 2018 01:00 PM (Fs5vw)

264 Not even the massive propaganda powers of CNN can overcome people's innate bullshit detectors.

That's heartening.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 21, 2018 01:00 PM (/qEW2)

265 Off slutty sock!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 21, 2018 01:01 PM (v1udk)

266 Every person in jail right now who was "defended" by that "lawyer" needs to file an appeal based on incompetence--exhibit A can be this column, an admission of such.

I mean, my lord every single client meeting had to be "I don't care that you could be innocent. Take the deal, go to jail. "

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 21, 2018 01:01 PM (TN1P5)

267 You people are being reasonable and logical. Just quit that nonsense.
Lawyer is saying to Kavanagh do Not go to trial! You are a man. " Victim" is a woymen. A couple of SJW females on the jury and/or a Hawaiian judge and you lose. Lawyer can't defend against ignorance and hatred.
Reality not justice. Get used to it.

Posted by: Le Garde Vieux at September 21, 2018 01:01 PM (swldI)

268 Here is what that same lawyer says on her website seeking clients accused of sex crimes:

"Sex crime charges tend to be high-profile, often making headlines and getting reported on the news. In the media's rush to judgment, the facts can get lost."

She is truly committed to partiality.

Posted by: cyrus pants at September 21, 2018 01:02 PM (CiJCT)

269 Stormy vs Christine...best sex?

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2018 01:02 PM (Y274z)

270 Amazed that Horde thinks the "Will Grassley cave?" question is even an open issue.

He's going to cave. No way he doesn't cave. At best, he agrees to hearing next Thursday. Every hour this goes on is another hour the Dems have to throw additional wrenches into this process. They are singularly and monolithically focused on achieving their goal of pushing this past the midterms. EVERYTHING they, and this accuser (but I repeat myself) do serves this goal. This is purely political, and the Dems run rings around the GOP on political procedure. Dems, as always, are 100% unified in their goal, and have not one principle that prevents use of any tactic to achieve it, other than doing whatever it takes, but whatever means.

The GOP -- incredibly -- has still not confronted this fact. GOP is stuck on the same circa 1985 political playbook where they think there are right answers to Dem charge de jure of the day. They think addressing Dem complaints benefits them somehow...How? ** Grassley, McConnell and Ryan look at each other blankly. Grassley plays with his fidget spinner. McConnell takes a bite of a nearby canape. Ryan risks a peak at his MuscleMan magazine and daily copy of the New York Times.**

Posted by: RichardWindsor at September 21, 2018 01:02 PM (db5dt)

271 131
Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Transitioning from man to woman? Woman to man? Black to white? White to black?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2018 12:45 PM (IqV8l)
black woman to white male, so she'd finally have white privilege...

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 21, 2018 01:02 PM (8D42x)

272 196 Nom-nom

BLT-AC for lunch

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 21, 2018 12:36 PM (2I4LM)

I've got to get my eyes checked. I saw that and read it as "AtC for lunch."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 21, 2018 12:50 PM (kqsXK)

glad I'm not the only one. nearly had an early bunk call...

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 21, 2018 01:03 PM (8D42x)

273 For the record, Maryland has not statute of Limitations for CRIMINAL charges.

But does for Civil suites...

So unless they can convince a Grand Jury? it ain't happening...

Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 01:04 PM (NgKpN)

274 How many possible questions can be asked? She doesn't know when it happened or where? She said she didn't tell anyone for 31 years!
Other than asking her how she knows the judge, what else can be relevant! I guess you can go do the how many beers did you have and how often did you drink alcohol back then. Or, were you a virgin at the time?
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 21, 2018 01:00 PM (v1

I'm sure if they see a chance for testimony, they'll correct those shortcomings quickly. Especially if the GOP let K testify first like they want.

Posted by: Soona at September 21, 2018 01:04 PM (Fs5vw)

275 Hey, I want to say, quickly, before Ace...

OOOPS.

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=377166

Posted by: mindful webworker - won't be willowed today oh no at September 21, 2018 01:04 PM (6K7U0)

276 I mean, my lord every single client meeting had to be "I don't care that you could be innocent. Take the deal, go to jail. "
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 21, 2018 01:01 PM (TN1P5)
**************
There isn't any buttered bread where I send them either.

Posted by: Reichsfuhrer Mueller at September 21, 2018 01:05 PM (Y274z)

277 Stormy vs Christine...best sex?

Posted by: torabora at September 21, 2018 01:02 PM (Y274z)

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Stormy's a scag, but she's still more attractive than the ex-governor of New Jersey

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 21, 2018 01:06 PM (rjbMC)

278 250 213 Hearing moved to Wednesday.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 21, 2018 12:51 PM (rw7V

CNN is reporting this, so I automatically think they're making shit up.
Posted by: lace wigs reseller #347 at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (aGFaW)

Uh, Senate rules say that can't happen, unless they work through the weekend (5 working days to schedule a committee meeting).

Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 01:07 PM (NgKpN)

279 Kavanaugh has always wanted to be on the Supreme Court. No fucking way he withdraws. Fight like a motherfucker!

Posted by: Timon at September 21, 2018 01:07 PM (eiZez)

280 #270 And my guys are taping everything.

Posted by: Reichsfuhrer Mueller at September 21, 2018 01:07 PM (Y274z)

281 Amazed that Horde thinks the "Will Grassley cave?" question is even an open issue.

He's going to cave. No way he doesn't cave. At best, he agrees
to hearing next Thursday. Every hour this goes on is another hour the
Dems have to throw additional wrenches into this process. They are
singularly and monolithically focused on achieving their goal of pushing
this past the midterms. EVERYTHING they, and this accuser (but I
repeat myself) do serves this goal. This is purely political, and the
Dems run rings around the GOP on political procedure. Dems, as always,
are 100% unified in their goal, and have not one principle that
prevents use of any tactic to achieve it, other than doing whatever it
takes, but whatever means.

The GOP -- incredibly -- has still not confronted this fact. GOP
is stuck on the same circa 1985 political playbook where they think
there are right answers to Dem charge de jure of the day. They think
addressing Dem complaints benefits them somehow...How? ** Grassley,
McConnell and Ryan look at each other blankly. Grassley plays with his
fidget spinner. McConnell takes a bite of a nearby canape. Ryan risks
a peak at his MuscleMan magazine and daily copy of the New York
Times.**

Posted by: RichardWindsor at September 21, 2018 01:02 PM (db5dt)

IF there is another hearing, it would be have to be Wednesday in order to hold the hearing and then vote him out of committee that day. That way at the latest he would be confirmed by the full Senate Sunday night or early Monday, in time for him to be sworn in before the new SCOTUS term starts.

Posted by: Vendette at September 21, 2018 01:08 PM (Wt342)

282 Uh, Senate rules say that can't happen, unless they work through the weekend (5 working days to schedule a committee meeting).

Posted by: Don Q at September 21, 2018 01:07 PM (NgKpN)

There is already a hearing scheduled for next Wednesday, unrelated to Kavanaugh.

Posted by: Vendette at September 21, 2018 01:10 PM (Wt342)

283 Still listening, and the more I hear, the more I think the GOP caved.

Posted by: Soona at September 21, 2018 01:12 PM (Fs5vw)

284 Rite-Aid shooter was trans.

Transitioning from man to woman? Woman to man? Black to white? White to black?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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Well, we know it's not transitioning from gay to straight.

That transition is illegal, "causes stress," and no one is allowed to make that choice.

In some universe, this makes sense.

Posted by: RKae at September 21, 2018 01:14 PM (cV95q)

285 CNN actually aired that?

At 2:00 AM?
Is this the CNN-Backstroke?

Posted by: Paladin at September 21, 2018 01:20 PM (m9vvR)

286 "we would be having a very serious conversation about the risks of trial" ANY lawyer will advise her client of the very real risks of trial, so that's really a nothing-burger point.

Following her hypothetical, if she was repping Kav, and he wanted to go to trial, she should advise a bench trial rather than a jury trial. 99% of judges would find for Kav, and very quickly I'm sure. It would take an afternoon at most.

Posted by: gp at September 21, 2018 01:24 PM (mk9aG)

287 As the resident woman-hater, I humbly acknowledge the common-sense of the ladies in the video, and thank them for their advocacy for Kav.

Posted by: gp at September 21, 2018 01:25 PM (mk9aG)

288 The reason I believe Kavanaugh is that NOBODY else has come forward with a similar story. If teenage Kavanaugh really did assault Ford, she wouldn't be the only one. But NOBODY else has come forward saying the same thing happened to her at a different party.

I'm willing to believe that something happened to Ford at a party, but I believe she's mistaken that Kavanaugh was the perpetrator.

Posted by: biancaneve at September 21, 2018 01:27 PM (A/iod)

289 "we would be having a very serious conversation about the risks of trial and the weakness of his alibi witness."

Let's guess - she went to prep. school; therefore, she'd never believe that type of witness. Oh, and non-evidence that's not even as good as circumstantial is the best!

Sorry, ladies, the gallons of virtual ink won't make this case any stronger. See 'ya at the hearing (since there'll never be a trial).

Posted by: Wendy at September 21, 2018 01:28 PM (bpemY)

290 I'd prefer a Kavanaugh-esque groping to any of the times I was punched in the balls in Jr high. I never reported any of those (what difference does it make that I punched first?)

Posted by: theATL at September 21, 2018 01:32 PM (r725l)

291 "CNN reporting that GOP counteroffers to Blasey Ford to move the hearing
to Wednesday, Blasey Ford to testify first, questioning to be conducted
by outside counsel"
Blasey Ford says no because she has her annual dental appointment that was scheduled a year in advance, and you know how hard it is to reschedule those.
But, I still think part of this delay is because they have another iron in the fire, perhaps another "victim" they are prepping. And, if that happens, there just won't be enough time to get that person at the hearing in time.

Posted by: sillyme at September 21, 2018 01:34 PM (zYWPO)

292 I'm sure this will lock up the hot blooded male latin vote

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 21, 2018 12:56 PM (TAmPV)

It probably will. Everyone who isn't a stumpy little indio will wonder what the Dems will do to "white Hispanics." Actual men will realize this witch hunt will end in them being burned.

Posted by: trev006 at September 21, 2018 01:42 PM (vbK6N)

293 Those are all Republican women. They're not living a genuine, sufficiently female experience. They're hardly even human, really.

Posted by: red speck at September 21, 2018 01:46 PM (6Krd7)

294 It is really hard to argue that someone as distinguished as a college professor would not do something as injurious to themselves as making false accusations when college professors are shooting themselves in the arm with handguns simply because they can't accept the results of an election.

The Democrats' atmosphere of hysteria which they have ginned up has come back to bite them by making it harder to believe anything they say.

Posted by: Thatch at September 21, 2018 01:53 PM (v5Cc/)

295 There is NOTHING to be gained by Trump weighing in on this. He should SHUT UP.

Martyr in 2020? If they nail Kavanaugh they will nail any non-Jeb that gets put up! And if the Senate flips, they will sit on any nominations and we will have an 8-seat Court for years! If that happens, the Republicans, and Trump, will lose enormous credibility. This is do or die, right here.

Instead of Kavanaugh we need to be talking about the goddam coup and the documents that prove it is real. Too bad Trump didnt bother to read them, and then put the KICK ME sign on his butt by BRAGGING ABOUT IT! Jesus H. Christ!

Fuck the art of the deal, how about the art of doing your homework before the final?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 21, 2018 01:58 PM (kbKN+)

296 Nood lawbreaking lefties

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 21, 2018 01:58 PM (7ZVPa)

297 GOP always caves, unless they can "stand strong" and yet be assured of losing.

I have no party because you won't throw out these creatures.

Posted by: SarahW at September 21, 2018 02:07 PM (Sp1NT)

298 Holy Jesus! CNN televised that? There is still hope in this land.

Posted by: PJ at September 21, 2018 02:08 PM (A1YbS)

299 293 Those are all Republican women. They're not living a genuine, sufficiently female experience. They're hardly even human, really."

Yes, only human women believe in non-evidence.

Posted by: Wendy at September 21, 2018 02:15 PM (bpemY)

300 I would have thought CNN would have vetted these women first...asked them what they thought. Surprised they didn't. Because by the look on the interviewer's face, she was blind-sided. It was pretty hilarious. Nice to have "our" voice heard somewhere.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at September 21, 2018 02:19 PM (EeHjs)

301 Alibi witness? FFS we don't have a time or place even right now.

And pray tell what is it that you know about Ford or her story, because facts as they lay right now is a whole lot of "I don't know" and "I can't remember"

Posted by: reality man at September 21, 2018 02:23 PM (xOBRH)

302 https://tinyurl.com/y922ev2f
Why was Ford's yearbook scrubbed from the internet? Binge drinking to the point of blackouts? Could it have been Chris Garrett a classmate of Brett's? Good possibility.

Posted by: harleycowboy at September 21, 2018 02:42 PM (+9AX9)

303 Meanwhile, in the Chronicles of Why Mitt Romney Lost... His campaign chief Stu Stevens, siding with Senator Shut Up Men (D-HI):

https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1043195604204179467

It's a puzzling mystery how Romney couldn't fight back effectively against the Binders Full of Women smear with such great advisers.

Posted by: Doug at September 21, 2018 03:19 PM (dqe37)

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