DRW50

With the racially charged, ugly campaign against Judge Jackson, and all the SCOTUS drama of late, it's been interesting timing to find some of these videos recently uploaded to Youtube.

I'm still wary about Sinema, but she doesn't seem to lean into culture war so Manchin's statement makes me a little more hopeful. That Thomas statement is so empty I have no idea how to react. You'd think if he were doing well they would be more triumphant against their great enemies. I have a feeling they are just going to try to hold on until November...

The talking points castigating Democrats over impeaching Clarence Thomas (even though they haven't even said as much) and/or doing the whole "How can you criticize him for his wife's actions?" routine have already lined up, from Richard Dreyfuss' very weird son, and stuff like this:

Is there any rape-but-not-really-rape-just-ask-the-writers in that movie? If so, Ron loves it, I guarantee.

I have no idea if this means he will have to leave Congress. These days, who knows.

Armstrong Williams. There's a name I hadn't heard of - and didn't want to hear of - for many years. The arrogance of popping up to say "He's resting and we're not going to tell you where because...um...boo media!" says it all. If, say, Breyer's wife had been involved in anything - even went jaywalking - the GOP would have impeached him and thrown him off the court. Yet Ginni can do everything but clobber a police officer - she could probably even do that - and no one cares.

Considering what he and his hatemonger wife would want to happen to us, and considering the beyond sickening behavior of the GOP regarding RBG, no. I do not wish ill on him, but I am not going to fake concern for a monster. As said above, he is probably fine anyway. The GOP are always better at planning things like this than Democrats are.

Yet so many still eat her [!@#$%^&*] up. I do wonder if she is feeling the pressure now that NYT keeps belching out new versions of her. Her problem is that her audience supports Putin - she either does not get that, or is agonizingly posturing until she can come out in support of him by saying it's not about supporting him, but opposite the elites of the Woke Woke West. Froggy Taibbi is on this path, endlessly obsessing over Azov and Russian Nazis. He is so toxic that even though he's not at Rolling Stone anymore, I find myself still not trusting their reporting due to them paying him a salary for years. Speaking of grifters:

If he is fine, then questions need to be asked about why the Court is refusing any comment on his not being a part of oral arguments or giving an update on him.

And, sure enough, the loathsome Dan Wootton is blaming Meghan and Oprah for this disastrous trip, rather than articles like these:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brutally-honest-oscars-ballot-2-1235117316/

I saw those photos. I did wonder how staged they were... This PR stuff works better if there is good will with the public. I'm sure there is still some in the UK, but not as much, and not for most of the non-Elizabeth members of the family. That makes sense about Charles. He seems like a smart man (if not in the ways that mattered most). William...not so much.

Another banner day for Milky Loads. Speaking of self-loathers, look at how desperate the media is to frame Aunt Lindsey's overly rehearsed, likely alcohol-addled meltdown as BOTHSIDESBOTHSIDESBOTHSIDES.

Their likely resentment and hatred of Harry and Meghan, and the constant drip of poisonous leaks they likely put out about them, were incredibly foolish in the long-term. Without them around, the laziness and stupidity of William and Kate, an increasingly open secret over the years, is on full force. Kate's vapidity is one thing, but William in particular is just the epitome of every buffoonish authority figure in every Britcom, just, unfortunately for him, much less attractive and charismatic than the best of them like Paul Eddington and Chris Barrie. I still can't get past him strutting around in that crush velvet green suit a year or two ago. I don't know who decided to have them go on a press tour when these countries made it clear they were moving on, but the days of locals awestruck and waving at the visiting gods are long over.

I hope you're right, but between his football hero status, and how polls now tend to undercount Republicans, it's tough to imagine this not being the case.

I can only guess that someone got through to him how likely Democrats are to lose the Senate this year (seeing a poll showing the complete idiot and domestic abuser Herschel Walker comfortably leading in Georgia made my heart sink, even though it wasn't a surprise), and that this will be the last chance to replace him with someone who is not a hard right extremist.

The problem is that most of the voters who show up to vote, and whose votes aren't being repressed, aren't going to care that much about most of these issues. Many of the voters who are now being curated as the only voters have no real objection to extreme abortion bans, the end of birth control, interracial marriage, or gay marriage. They are about to die, extremely conservative, rich and know they won't be affected, or all three. I saw a viral tweet bragging about how interracial marriage is "a fight we can win." That this is already being framed as a fight - a fight that a media that would sell their entire family to be able to bathe Trump's feet would absolutely love to dive into - shows you which side has "won." It would also likely be used as a wedge issue, gleefully, as many non-white voters also oppose interracial marriage for various reasons. Some who might be concerned are still swayed to media coverage that downplays all of these concerns. CNN, for example, ran a huge headline about Cruz grilling Brown on CRT. The ugly smears against her and the callous way she was spoken to don't matter to them. Secretly, I imagine many of them get a kick out of seeing her degraded. I think a number of Democrats do know how out of control SCOTUS is, but there are no solutions in place to deal with it. The real solutions were if those we were so often told were wiser and able to get through, like RBG, had retired at the proper political time.

I think the opening for Autumn Breeze is a bit too fast, but the extended closing is just gorgeous, and very soothing.

My favorite part of Oscar season: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-dont-look-up-coda-1235116095/

With transphobic laws on the books, Roe probably gone soon, and birth control and gay marriage next, I'm not surprised the GOP are looking for the next rallying cry. He half-heartedly walked some of this back after making sure the trial balloon was floated. I saw various out of touch "we need to run ads on this because it will hurt Republicans, why aren't we smart like Republicans," type tweets going around. With the help of the media, the GOP could make this a prize wedge issue again in no time at all. Judge Brown has been very courteous in the face of extremely ugly attacks. I too am expecting Manchin to ultimately oppose and derail her nomination, especially as it is a sure way to get media attention. We'll see, I guess.