The Politics Thread

[Vee]

[Khan]

I've watched "Real Housewives" reunions with more civility.

 

Nevertheless, YOU GO, AVENATTI.

[Juliajms]

Unbelievable.  That's usually how gang rape works dummy!  Of course, he thinks we are the dummies and aren't smart enough to parse his language.

 

He's supposedly one of the greatest legal minds out there and he doesn't know when to shut the @@@@ up?

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[Juliajms]

Yes, because lord know that if she'd been serving these preppy little bastards at the McD's drive thru, fewer people would believe her now. 

 

Edited September 27, 2018 by Juliajms

[Khan]

 

IKR?  He really thinks saying he was a virgin back then and that he was never involved in any sexual activity "with more than one woman present" clears him of any wrongdoing in our eyes.  Like, it doesn't even register in his allegedly brilliant legal mind that all he's doing is digging a deeper hole for himself.

 

I've said it before and I'm saying it now (and to hell with how it sounds): he was better off saying he was gay.

Edited September 27, 2018 by Khan

[DRW50]

 

This is lazy and crass even by CNN standards. Not only erasing the black women who supported Anita Hill, but retroactively claiming all kinds of men supported her when even many allegedly "liberal" men in the Senate let her hang out to dry. 

Edited September 27, 2018 by DRW50

[Juliajms]

Damn. It never occurred to me that they would do something like that on purpose until DD and you said it.  Not the first time I've had a blind spot though. What a terrible thing to do.

[Khan]

That's some strong, revisionist b.s.  About the only group I remember supporting Anita Hill WAS women, and WOC in particular.  For the most part, men were just cracking jokes about "Long Dong Silver" and pubic hairs on Cokes.

[DRW50]

I just saw the post saying it was mentioned in the article, so maybe I'm wrong, but this feels like such a sly, CNN thing to do with that headline.

[Juliajms]

It was mentioned in the article, but I still think DD was right when she said most people don't read beyond the headline and they know that.  They should have made it more clear if they wanted to do the right thing. Writing well is their job, so there is no good excuse.

[DRW50]

It looks like the increasingly desperate GOP are trying to muddy the waters with claims about other men coming forward to say they attacked Ford.

 

I wonder if this was anything close to what they thought Whelan was going to do, and he just went off the rails. 

 

All of this is just repulsive and sick beyond belief. I can't believe this is where we are. And that this has become the new normal. It's just going to get worse and worse, more and more depraved and unclean. Pure sociopathic evil.

 

 

[DRW50]

Maggie Haberman must be getting excited over the next big "let's bail out the GOP" story to run.

 

 

[Khan]

I don't believe what's going on here.  Now we've got men coming forward and saying they, and not Kavanaugh, attacked Ford all those years ago. 

 

Men actually copping to attempted rape to clear another man's name?  Am I [!@#$%^&*] dreaming?  Because, this [!@#$%^&*] can't be real!

 

It galls me, too, how many are letting it slide that Kavanaugh says he never became so intoxicated that he blacked out and couldn't remember what happened the next morning, yet questioning whether Ford, Swetnick and especially Ramirez are remembering correctly "because, after all, they had been drinking."  Does it occur to any of these people that maybe they, too, never got so drunk that they couldn't remember what happened later?  Like, am I supposed to believe that everyone involved is or was a blackout drunk EXCEPT Brett?  COME ON.

 

 

Wordy McWord.

 

Today promises to be more nail-biting than any soap has been in quite the while.  "What will SHE say?  What will HE say?  What will the Committee say?  And, as always, what about Naomi?"

Edited September 27, 2018 by Khan

[Vee]

This is absolutely heart-rending to watch. It also could not be going worse for the GOP.

[Vee]