Sept. 17 Open Thread: Kavanaugh Confirmation Cock-Blocked
The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh when both were in high school has come forward, setting up a Showdown in #Metoo Corral if Democrats can get a vote delayed. It appears they will: Republican member Jeff Flake says the committee should hold off on voting until it hears from the woman.
Naturally this has become an instant face-off over the whole #metoo movement, and Kavanaugh’s defenders come off sounding callous and ugly. Megyn Kelly, for example, demonstrated why she ruled on Fox (male viewership) and has tanked on NBC’s “Today” (female viewership) by claiming, “Maybe he blew her off” and “maybe she had an axe to grind.”
A lawyer close to the White House said the nomination will not be withdrawn. “No way, not even a hint of it,” the lawyer said. “If anything, it’s the opposite. If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried. We can all be accused of something. It’s not even going to slow him down if that’s all she’s got.”
Besides, the lawyer noted, Kavanaugh denies it all, which means very little since Kavanaugh has lied throughout his hearing. In a functioning political system, that would be enough not only to keep him off SCOTUS, it would be enough to cost him the appellate court post he already has.
If you think this all happened by accident, you don’t know Democrats. They appear to have planned this to work up women’s outrage before the midterms, thereby making lemonade out of this piece of rotten fruit the Heritage Foundation barfed up.
At this point, adding more women’s righteous anger to the political mix is a whitecap on the blue wave. Even skeptics like Andrew O’Hehir have come around to accepting that even the mush-headed Democratic establishment candidates will do well in November. He also argues that ideological diversity has always been a Democratic Party feature, not a bug.
Why do Republicans always think their enemies are part of some secret society that wants to overthrow the government? Because that’s what they’re guilty of, naturally. Their adherents keep flashing a hand signal on TV, and they keep getting caught doing it.
I think it’s cool and fun that the same Joe Biden who withheld statements from many other women corroborating Anite Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas (look it up) is now calling for a delay in the confirmation process.
Joe Biden garbage.
Now that he can’t actually do anything about it. Hey, the GOP built its brand on such behavior — complaining when you’re out of power about what’s being done, after not doing it yourself when you were in power.
It’s part of modern politics — you’re better off in opposition than in office, where you have to take responsibility for the state of affairs.
Easy now… One of your hero’s drove off a bridge loaded and left a woman for dead.
Kline doesn’t know which Kennedy brother was President.
That was probably a sweet burn in the ’80s. Old Chappaquiddick gag.
“Easy now… One of your hero’s drove off a bridge loaded and left a woman for dead.”
And therefore…?
Your lack of intellectual rigor is an indictment of whatever school system produced you.
Does he think Ted fucking Kennedy was a hero of mine? Because that’s hilarious.
To read about a real hero of mine…
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/09/13/protesting-nfl-players-join-long-tradition-stirring-our-consciences/1280400002/
Cool, we’re carting out dead guys? Fuck Strom Thurmond and his adopted political party.
Right. When your best burn is over 45 years old… time to hang it up.
White power hand signal?????
That’s comical. It’s called the circle game. Something kids prank each other with. What the coast guard did in the video is called winning.
You really believe that? I think it’s silly myself, but not as silly as your explanation. Pepe the Frog wasn’t a white power symbol at first, but nobody would claim it’s just a cartoon now.
There’s no plausible reason for an adult in the Coast Guard, or one sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh, to play the Circle Game. None has used that explanation when asked about it, either.
It’s a good efffort, bud. Nice try.
Ok
https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-circle-game
Ha! Memes…
Don’t try to explain humor to RE Vanella, he lost his when he became a leftist. Those who don’t have a choice in the matter like his wife and family simply tolerate him.
I have a great sense of humor. It’s just that of a mature adult.
When did I become a leftist, by the way? Check your extensive documentation on my.
Given that many of us know him, your mistaken guesses demonstrate your shortcomings, not his.
That and you left the last O off your name.
Um…which means it’s a signal to others in on “the game,” which is “trolling libs,” which means those practicing it are right-wingers with a nasty bent, which means they are exactly what liberals are saying they are — white supremacists.
Is this chain of logic too difficult for you to follow? Or were you unaware you belonged to a white-supremacist organization?
Your incoherent ramblings are exactly why you no longer have a soapbox. Bunch of angry old white liberals.
That’s funny. Al’s ramblings were coherent enough to allow for his retirement.
When will your book be out abut me? Can I blurb it?
Alby didn’t retire. He was let go and never picked up. Lost his job to Susan Monday……who IS still on WDEL!
Well, he has enough dough to retire and go on European holidays for the next 30-40 years. So… regardless of circumstances, what’s the difference?
Speaking only for myself, I love how you anonymous cowards are obsessed with Al and me. What our employment status is. What political work we do.
I find it extremely telling.
“Never picked up”? By whom? Once we parted, that was that. I don’t need a job and don’t want one.
Not that it’s any of your business. You got nothing, so you have to get personal.
In other words, it was too hard for you to follow. Of course. Wherever you go, under whatever name, your core ignorance shines through, like tin through a flaking coat of cheap gold paint.
You did read the part about it being a kids prank game right.
We have no doubt you know a great deal about kid’s games.
Um…yeah. You did read the part about it being a right-winger’s way of jerking off by jerking liberal’s chains, right? As I said, you fucksticks signaling each other with a kids game still constitutes white supremacists signaling each other. That you don’t have anything meaningful to say to each other doesn’t lessen that.
I also read that it’s a kids game that only became popular after appearing on “Malcolm in the Middle,” so you definitely are in a particular age group. I honestly had never heard of it, and the version these adults are playing is not the version described as a kids’ game. This is signaling, which is all anyone ever said it was.
Calm down, Al. Your heart is fragile.
Either contribute something or you’re gone.
Kavanaugh has lawyered up. CNN reports Kavanaugh has hired Beth Wilkinson, of Wilkinson Walsh and Eskovitz, to be his attorney.
Every judge should have an attorney, I suppose.
If history is any guide, everyone who comes into contact with Trump is guilty of something.
Show me a picture of a black person making that hand sign.
https://goo.gl/images/TstWz9
This is an absurd rabbit hole to go down, but the three spread fingers seem to be essential, and that’s not the “circle game” being described here:
“Ever hear of the “finger circle game ” (AKA gay test) young guys play? YOU LOOKED, I HAVE TO PUNCH YOU NOW! You get punches for looking at a circle made by opponent with his thumb and index finger near groin level (shouldn’t look around your buddy’s balls and junk or you are gay ). Save yourself from punches by sticking a finger into the hole, LOL, just how it goes.”
The examples paranoids have spotted in recent weeks are not at groin level. They’re just a signal to each other, and conservos like Stat, apparently. Forgive me if I don’t believe them when they tell me what it means, since they don’t tell the truth.
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ha ha you looked
See, even in the icon, the fingers aren’t spread.
The way I’ve seen them shown, it’s an OK with the fingers splayed — or, if you prefer, half the sign of the Van Buren Boys.
See this stupid conversation is why im for chopping the hands off of right wingers. Fashies can’t sign each other if their hands have been replaced with a hammer and sickle.
Lets add to the shitbag list to satisfy PoundMETOO, old touchy feely Joe Joe Biden (damn creep), as well as Tom Carper (wife beater) and dumbass Keith Ellison (but he’t protected being democrat, black AND fake muslim). Pussy Hat Ford just wants her 15 minutes of fame, why not a few more with these douche bags I listed as well as nearly every male that has rejected a female during their lives. And now she’s permitted to testify behind closed doors? Coward.
This guy knows all the tropes. Seems mad too. This guy’s a real victim, folks.
Also, please don’t block this guy. This Hannity content drives clicks.
Block who, me? No way, Delawareliberal is a top notch free speech blog. So you have just admitted to blocking posts. Wow, and I always thought the left was tolerant especially on their garbage blogs.
Man, you are a goddamn gem. Please keep posting things. It’s more fun than monkey shit-fight videos.
A free marketeer like you ought to understand that you don’t allow dogs to come onto your property and shit on the floor. Just so we’re clear, you’re the dog in this metaphor.
I just tried to send you that privately but your email is fake. What a surprise. Conservatives make the biggest pussies.
Thanks. I originally assumed he was the pile of shit.
David, gonna jump in here too. I’ve watched this blog for laughs for a long time and it is really just a mutual circle jerk orgy between Jason330, Alby and Vanella.
And you like to watch “for laughs.” That’s cool. We’re tolerant.
El Somnambulo is going to be upset you left him out.
So your a fan of ours? Excellent.
Interesting that we get new trolls on this subject. The latent homosexuals always get worked up by this stuff.
Wonder why conservative republican homosexuals are so self hating?