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[Nilgiri]

It's a true sham that the incompetent, sexually abusing and stone-cold drunken puke of a Kavanaugh is most likely getting confirmed into the highest court of our land. But that's ok, he'll be remembered worst than that other scum sucking hog Clearance Thomas who till this day is associated with nothing but his disturbing, sexual connotations and behavior towards Anita Hill. I was a witness to that shameful part of history and watched those hearings live back then and at least that lowlife Thomas showed restraint and the temperament of someone who could hold the highest court position in our land despite the disturbing things he did. But this guy, here? This was the most despicable exhibition of a poor character with the lowest form public skills (and this guy is a judge vying for a position on the United State Supreme Court!?!?!?!?!?!?!) who showed an angry disposition that despite it being ok to show, it came out in the worst way and if there is any reason he should NEVER sit on that seat, is solely on his temperament as a human being and his inability to show restraint and professionalism.. The latter part is what has dropped off the face of the earth in these characters that hold all political positions, starting from the clown in the highest position who is in fact, destroying this country slowly but surely.

Of course Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was attacked by that POS! And to be mocked at, laughed at and treated with such indignity by the clown in chief and all his minions at that rally (and how about the mothers in that rally that were clapping...what character claps at that? I wonder how many of them would be ok with their daughters or sisters or mothers getting jumped by a drunk like this guy?) is nothing short of despicable and a sign of how low the Republican party and the extreme right loony bins have gone. Can't wait till this idiot is out of office and we can have our country's leadership back with the dignity it deserves.

And the even more disturbing part is how this guy is being confirmed strictly on partisan reasons and not a single consideration for the things that really matter! God Bless Lisa Murkowski, the ONLY republican with the decency and wherewithal to vote no on this incompetent POS. And shame on Susan Collins and Jeff Flake who after all he went through in the elevator and recommending this joke of an FBI "limited investigation" and the entire rest of the Rep. party. No guts whatsoever and all they care about is their decrepit, shrink-laden asses sitting on their seats. I hope they all get voted out because of this.

What's the matter, they couldn't find another judge out of all the federal judges in this country instead of this scumbag?!?! Was it so necessary to push this POS through for all the wrong reasons? Amazing.

Your tears are delicious!

Bless Joe Manchin for being the only sane democrat that understands fundamentally why due process + presumption of innocence is important . (See how that works both ways?)

Bless Lindsey Graham for showing the demoscum hypocrisy to their faces too...he has manned up big time.

Bless Susan Collins for showing how you can believe the credibility of and sympathise with Ford...but still highlighting why conflicting testimony needs evidence/corroboration (and due process and presumption of innocence) and not feelz.

Im enjoying the red wave sentiment now. Triggered demturds (and Ben Shapiro analyses it all quite well...you should watch his recent podcasts if you dare to get any actual non-groupthink/non-CNN perspective at all) are doing what Trump could never do....getting more and more #walkaway ppl to vote GOP alongside never trumper groups (like Bush and McCain republicans) and plenty of independents.

Lastly bless the republicans for again showing exactly how the KKK party (what they should actually be called) has not changed one bit....just filled up their plantations with different slaves nowadays....but the aim is the same....lynching of anyone that gets in their way to absolute power and throwing a racist identity politics type hissy fit when things go awry for them (and their agenda of destroying the USA like the rabid traitors they always were, always are and always will be is exposed).

Demoscum think only feminazi feelz matter...and launched all into it (with all the related intersectionality)....forgetting that majority of women in US have husbands, sons and brothers that they never ever want to see being dragged through the muck and ruined for life...on the basis of accusation only with ZERO due process. Demscum overplayed their weak hand big time....the results of that will come in with time. Its just getting started.

Not to mention w.r.t Ford:

- All 3 witnesses named not only deny her version of events, they outright refute it (her best friend Leeland Kaiser went so far as to say she doesnt even know Brett Kavanaugh).

- Several inconsistencies in her testimony. If it was court of law, she would be pulled up right around now for perjury investigation.

- Lawyers of Ford are in hot water now, for apparently not forwarding the senate commitee offer to hear her testimony privately to give her privacy (as she wanted initially)....and also putting pressure on her to talk to the media and do polygraph. (The detailed supporting material concerning the polygraph and other key material like medical records regarding the "sudden memory" has still not been released by the lawyers....Grassley is following up on it...this should be good).

- Ford lawyers in deep doodoo for not releasing what kind of contact they had with other witnesses, democrat senators and the media beforehand (i.e to see if any undue collaboration) as requested by Senate commitee chairman. This is also being followed up again now. Stay tuned!

- Senate follow up on how the Ford letter got leaked. Feinstink body language was a big tell...hope they catch they demoscum (staffer, media associate or whoever) that did it!

This all plays well in showing exactly which side is the deranged one that wants to destroy the institutions of the USA (set up the way they are for a reason by the founding fathers). For all the demoscum talk of tea party radicals and "far right extremism"....not one Senator ever needed to be escorted by security to and from proceedings (because of far-right/tea party) like they are now with these sick Soros scum protestors....one of whom even doxxed (stupidly if you know what ARP is within the govt server network and why that was the reason killary put her private server into place) the health information of children of GOP senators....and now gets to sing like a canary too hopefully soon.

@Hamartia Antidote @jhungary @KAL-EL @cloud4000 @F-22Raptor

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

@Hamartia Antidote @jhungary @KAL-EL @cloud4000 @F-22Raptor

I can't say I've been following this Kavanaugh thing. I thought the issue was when they were in High School they both independently went to some beer party at a house with no parents around and she got groped by a drunken Kavanaugh on a bed or something.

 

[cloud4000]

Your tears are delicious!

Bless Joe Manchin for being the only sane democrat that understands fundamentally why due process + presumption of innocence is important . (See how that works both ways?)

Bless Lindsey Graham for showing the demoscum hypocrisy to their faces too...he has manned up big time.

Bless Susan Collins for showing how you can believe the credibility of and sympathise with Ford...but still highlighting why conflicting testimony needs evidence/corroboration (and due process and presumption of innocence) and not feelz.

Im enjoying the red wave sentiment now. Triggered demturds (and Ben Shapiro analyses it all quite well...you should watch his recent podcasts if you dare to get any actual non-groupthink/non-CNN perspective at all) are doing what Trump could never do....getting more and more #walkaway ppl to vote GOP alongside never trumper groups (like Bush and McCain republicans) and plenty of independents.

Lastly bless the republicans for again showing exactly how the KKK party (what they should actually be called) has not changed one bit....just filled up their plantations with different slaves nowadays....but the aim is the same....lynching of anyone that gets in their way to absolute power and throwing a racist identity politics type hissy fit when things go awry for them (and their agenda of destroying the USA like the rabid traitors they always were, always are and always will be is exposed).

Demoscum think only feminazi feelz matter...and launched all into it (with all the related intersectionality)....forgetting that majority of women in US have husbands, sons and brothers that they never ever want to see being dragged through the muck and ruined for life...on the basis of accusation only with ZERO due process. Demscum overplayed their weak hand big time....the results of that will come in with time. Its just getting started.

Not to mention w.r.t Ford:

- All 3 witnesses named not only deny her version of events, they outright refute it (her best friend Leeland Kaiser went so far as to say she doesnt even know Brett Kavanaugh).

- Several inconsistencies in her testimony. If it was court of law, she would be pulled up right around now for perjury investigation.

- Lawyers of Ford are in hot water now, for apparently not forwarding the senate commitee offer to hear her testimony privately to give her privacy (as she wanted initially)....and also putting pressure on her to talk to the media and do polygraph. (The detailed supporting material concerning the polygraph and other key material like medical records regarding the "sudden memory" has still not been released by the lawyers....Grassley is following up on it...this should be good).

- Ford lawyers in deep doodoo for not releasing what kind of contact they had with other witnesses, democrat senators and the media beforehand (i.e to see if any undue collaboration) as requested by Senate commitee chairman. This is also being followed up again now. Stay tuned!

- Senate follow up on how the Ford letter got leaked. Feinstink body language was a big tell...hope they catch they demoscum (staffer, media associate or whoever) that did it!

This all plays well in showing exactly which side is the deranged one that wants to destroy the institutions of the USA (set up the way they are for a reason by the founding fathers). For all the demoscum talk of tea party radicals and "far right extremism"....not one Senator ever needed to be escorted by security to and from proceedings (because of far-right/tea party) like they are now with these sick Soros scum protestors....one of whom even doxxed (stupidly if you know what ARP is within the govt server network and why that was the reason killary put her private server into place) the health information of children of GOP senators....and now gets to sing like a canary too hopefully soon.

@Hamartia Antidote @jhungary @KAL-EL @cloud4000 @F-22Raptor

I haven't been too much attention to the Kavanaugh confirmation process, but all these SCOTUS nominations come down to bare-knuckle politics. Democrats know that they don't have the votes, so they resorted to smearing Kavanaugh's character with rape allegation to derail his nomination and they have failed.

This is what happens when one party controls the White House and both houses of Congress. Democrats did the same when they were in charge so why complain now. Democrats will have their chance one day again. US politics is always cyclical.

What's disturbing about Kavanaugh's nomination was the automatic assumption of guilt san due process for an alleged rape allegation that happened years ago. This "I believer her" nonsense is quite disturbing in that Kavanaugh was convicted of rape without the right of due process. And why didn't Ford come forward when Kavanaugh was a federal judge? Why now?

And to add to the hypocrisy, if the roles were reversed and Republicans made the same accusations against a SCOTUS nominated by a Democrat, a different tune would be sung by them. Excuses will be made. Behavior condoned. Complaints about denying the candidate his due process rights.

The tipping point for me was Bill Clinton. Feminists and women rights advocates looked the other way as one allegation after allegation was made against Clinton because he was politically their guy and supported their positions.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

IBut that's ok, he'll be remembered worst than that other scum sucking hog Clearance Thomas who till this day is associated with nothing but his disturbing, sexual connotations and behavior towards Anita Hill. I was a witness to that shameful part of history and watched those hearings live back then and at least that lowlife Thomas showed restraint and the temperament

I remember that. That was some pretty messed up stuff with the coke can. He wasn't some young teen either. I guess he was only confirmed because he kept his mouth shut so he didn't make it a million times worse.

 

[Gomig-21]

Your tears are delicious!

Bless Joe Manchin for being the only sane democrat that understands fundamentally why due process + presumption of innocence is important . (See how that works both ways?)

Bless Lindsey Graham for showing the demoscum hypocrisy to their faces too...he has manned up big time.

Bless Susan Collins for showing how you can believe the credibility of and sympathise with Ford...but still highlighting why conflicting testimony needs evidence/corroboration (and due process and presumption of innocence) and not feelz.

Im enjoying the red wave sentiment now. Triggered demturds (and Ben Shapiro analyses it all quite well...you should watch his recent podcasts if you dare to get any actual non-groupthink/non-CNN perspective at all) are doing what Trump could never do....getting more and more #walkaway ppl to vote GOP alongside never trumper groups (like Bush and McCain republicans) and plenty of independents.

Lastly bless the republicans for again showing exactly how the KKK party (what they should actually be called) has not changed one bit....just filled up their plantations with different slaves nowadays....but the aim is the same....lynching of anyone that gets in their way to absolute power and throwing a racist identity politics type hissy fit when things go awry for them (and their agenda of destroying the USA like the rabid traitors they always were, always are and always will be is exposed).

Demoscum think only feminazi feelz matter...and launched all into it (with all the related intersectionality)....forgetting that majority of women in US have husbands, sons and brothers that they never ever want to see being dragged through the muck and ruined for life...on the basis of accusation only with ZERO due process. Demscum overplayed their weak hand big time....the results of that will come in with time. Its just getting started.

Not to mention w.r.t Ford:

- All 3 witnesses named not only deny her version of events, they outright refute it (her best friend Leeland Kaiser went so far as to say she doesnt even know Brett Kavanaugh).

- Several inconsistencies in her testimony. If it was court of law, she would be pulled up right around now for perjury investigation.

- Lawyers of Ford are in hot water now, for apparently not forwarding the senate commitee offer to hear her testimony privately to give her privacy (as she wanted initially)....and also putting pressure on her to talk to the media and do polygraph. (The detailed supporting material concerning the polygraph and other key material like medical records regarding the "sudden memory" has still not been released by the lawyers....Grassley is following up on it...this should be good).

- Ford lawyers in deep doodoo for not releasing what kind of contact they had with other witnesses, democrat senators and the media beforehand (i.e to see if any undue collaboration) as requested by Senate commitee chairman. This is also being followed up again now. Stay tuned!

- Senate follow up on how the Ford letter got leaked. Feinstink body language was a big tell...hope they catch they demoscum (staffer, media associate or whoever) that did it!

This all plays well in showing exactly which side is the deranged one that wants to destroy the institutions of the USA (set up the way they are for a reason by the founding fathers). For all the demoscum talk of tea party radicals and "far right extremism"....not one Senator ever needed to be escorted by security to and from proceedings (because of far-right/tea party) like they are now with these sick Soros scum protestors....one of whom even doxxed (stupidly if you know what ARP is within the govt server network and why that was the reason killary put her private server into place) the health information of children of GOP senators....and now gets to sing like a canary too hopefully soon.

This issue goes well beyond partisanship for me, and I'm surprised you don't see that after many of the discussions we've had. I'm hardly interested in the ridiculous display of politicizing such an unfortunate event because this turned into a spectacle from both sides, not just from the demoscums or whatever you want to call them. The gutless Republicans are just as bad. The process is faulty which allowed this circus to happen and when this circus happens with a viciously divided public -- let alone government -- it clearly demonstrates what a dangerously sad state we are in.

If these elected officials can't see what is so plain in front of their eyes and make their decisions solely based on party loyalty when it comes to such an important nomination, then there is no hope. Yes, there is due process, but the essential factor of credibility under the circumstances needs to be accounted for much more than physical proof because this was an appointment for a lifetime position for one of the highest and most important, law-governing seat in the land where not only is your ENTIRE life's record to be taken seriously into consideration, but your character and how you display it is VITAL to you being granted this position, and this guy failed remarkably at that and it's just despicable that none of that was taken into consideration.

There's no need to get into all the silly details of who leaked the letter, or get all excited about some follow-up investigation to find out who it was so you can get your kicks off of some vengeful wish. Who the hell cares about all that frivolous BS? This is about what was presented right in front of all our faces for all of us to see and for anyone who says that proverbial load of crap again that we've all been hearing as the sorriest excuse "I think Dr. Ford's testimony was credible and I think she was assaulted, but I don't think it was Bret Kavanaugh" can literally go to hell. This is not some vengeful 13 year-old girlfriend looking for spiteful satisfaction after 35 years for crying out loud. Or some evil plan concocted by the Democrats to stick it to the president and Republicans. This isn't about CNN or Antifa or the leftist or feminists or mob rules and all that divisive politicization you seem to enjoy promoting. It's about denying the obvious for the sake of holding political power through an extremely politically divided partisanship no matter what, and not even taking an ounce of the shameful, angry character display by this guy who is supposed to be a supreme court justice!? Coming up with some angry conspiracy concoction of a phantom Clinton's revengeful plot against the 2016 elections are you kidding me! lol

I'll tell you one thing for sure: if this was yours or my sister, or mother, or daughter.........and she told this story and went in front of the senate and the ENTIRE COUNTRY AND WORLD to reveal a horrible case of abuse by an individual who was picked by this despicable president of the United States to be the next Supreme Court Justice, I would find it impossible, literally IMPOSSIBLE to question a single ounce of its veracity. If you know any victim of any kind of sexual abuse, you would know that the one thing that is unequivocally certain is who it was that assaulted them and not just that, but almost 100% of the time there aren't any witnesses to the actual assault and the fact that that was needed to prove whether he did it or not is not only pathetic, it's an insult to the victim and none of that was even remotely taken into consideration.

And Lindsey Graham manned up? Is that what it's all about now that just because he voted for a democratic president's nominations without any resistance means he should be treated the same way? Are we serious that this is nothing but quid pro quo now? It's not about the essence and the substance of the nominee's character and qualification and ANY form of dirt in his past? This is the problem and it has all started from the top and every one of these Republicans who voted for this guy are all guilty of this shameful lack of dignity in basing their decision. Every one of them. Funny how we suddenly forget what Mitch McConnell did with Obama's appointee that started this whole form of despicable behavior, because it's all about how badly the Democrats are behaving only, right?

But why should we be surprised, anyway? After all, if they're willing to vote in a guy who was clear-handed in talking about grabbing women's pussies and essentially what this *** did also which is outright groping, why should it be any different? No wonder he picked this guy. Birds of a feather, flock together.

I remember that. That was some pretty messed up stuff with the coke can. He wasn't some young teen either. I guess he was only confirmed because he kept his mouth shut so he didn't make it a million times worse.

Exactly. Despite being a scumbag, he was smart enough to show discipline and he even displayed the character of a judge in his comments at the end. That went a long way in helping him win the votes he needed. What did we get from this idiot? "I like beer, always liked beer, still like beer, beer, beer, beer" and an angry temperament that showed poor character to boot. That's just perfect for a supreme court justice, isn't it? It's a shameful disaster what this country's politics is becoming.

 

[Nilgiri]

I can't say I've been following this Kavanaugh thing. I thought the issue was when they were in High School they both independently went to some beer party at a house with no parents around and she got groped by a drunken Kavanaugh on a bed or something.

Shapiro has some good analysis of it if you are interested.

This issue goes well beyond partisanship for me, and I'm surprised you don't see that after many of the discussions we've had. I'm hardly interested in the ridiculous display of politicizing such an unfortunate event because this turned into a spectacle from both sides, not just from the demoscums or whatever you want to call them. The gutless Republicans are just as bad. The process is faulty which allowed this circus to happen and when this circus happens with a viciously divided public -- let alone government -- it clearly demonstrates what a dangerously sad state we are in.

If these elected officials can't see what is so plain in front of their eyes and make their decisions solely based on party loyalty when it comes to such an important nomination, then there is no hope. Yes, there is due process, but the essential factor of credibility under the circumstances needs to be accounted for much more than physical proof because this was an appointment for a lifetime position for one of the highest and most important, law-governing seat in the land where not only is your ENTIRE life's record to be taken seriously into consideration, but your character and how you display it is VITAL to you being granted this position, and this guy failed remarkably at that and it's just despicable that none of that was taken into consideration.

There's no need to get into all the silly details of who leaked the letter, or get all excited about some follow-up investigation to find out who it was so you can get your kicks off of some vengeful wish. Who the hell cares about all that frivolous BS? This is about what was presented right in front of all our faces for all of us to see and for anyone who says that proverbial load of crap again that we've all been hearing as the sorriest excuse "I think Dr. Ford's testimony was credible and I think she was assaulted, but I don't think it was Bret Kavanaugh" can literally go to hell. This is not some vengeful 13 year-old girlfriend looking for spiteful satisfaction after 35 years for crying out loud. Or some evil plan concocted by the Democrats to stick it to the president and Republicans. This isn't about CNN or Antifa or the leftist or feminists or mob rules and all that divisive politicization you seem to enjoy promoting. It's about denying the obvious for the sake of holding political power through an extremely politically divided partisanship no matter what, and not even taking an ounce of the shameful, angry character display by this guy who is supposed to be a supreme court justice!? Coming up with some angry conspiracy concoction of a phantom Clinton's revengeful plot against the 2016 elections are you kidding me! lol

I'll tell you one thing for sure: if this was yours or my sister, or mother, or daughter.........and she told this story and went in front of the senate and the ENTIRE COUNTRY AND WORLD to reveal a horrible case of abuse by an individual who was picked by this despicable president of the United States to be the next Supreme Court Justice, I would find it impossible, literally IMPOSSIBLE to question a single ounce of its veracity. If you know any victim of any kind of sexual abuse, you would know that the one thing that is unequivocally certain is who it was that assaulted them and not just that, but almost 100% of the time there aren't any witnesses to the actual assault and the fact that that was needed to prove whether he did it or not is not only pathetic, it's an insult to the victim and none of that was even remotely taken into consideration.

And Lindsey Graham manned up? Is that what it's all about now that just because he voted for a democratic president's nominations without any resistance means he should be treated the same way? Are we serious that this is nothing but quid pro quo now? It's not about the essence and the substance of the nominee's character and qualification and ANY form of dirt in his past? This is the problem and it has all started from the top and every one of these Republicans who voted for this guy are all guilty of this shameful lack of dignity in basing their decision. Every one of them. Funny how we suddenly forget what Mitch McConnell did with Obama's appointee that started this whole form of despicable behavior, because it's all about how badly the Democrats are behaving only, right?

But why should we be surprised, anyway? After all, if they're willing to vote in a guy who was clear-handed in talking about grabbing women's pussies and essentially what this *** did also which is outright groping, why should it be any different? No wonder he picked this guy. Birds of a feather, flock together.



Exactly. Despite being a scumbag, he was smart enough to show discipline and he even displayed the character of a judge in his comments at the end. That went a long way in helping him win the votes he needed. What did we get from this idiot? "I like beer, always liked beer, still like beer, beer, beer, beer" and an angry temperament that showed poor character to boot. That's just perfect for a supreme court justice, isn't it? It's a shameful disaster what this country's politics is becoming.

Demoscum can first believe Bill Clinton's accusers first (who have actual credible corroborating evidence in most cases, quite unlike ford) before they open their mouth on anything else. (fair's fair right?....one should put shoe on the other foot). No due process needed, just accusation is enough.

Then when a person gets riled up for his defense, you can say he is not showing judicial temperament...or that hes obviously an angry drunk. If he remains robotic and overly-calm....then he is not capable of emotion and obviously a creep. This is typical witch-hunt tactic (drown the witch to see if she floats)....and has not gone over well at all with the American public.

An apt summary:

(Remember Diaper Diane sat on Ford's letter for 6 whole weeks and did nothing....except leak it)

6 weeks where it increasingly looks like Demonrats were preparing the strategy with Ford lawyers and the media hacks.

They went all in and got rekt. @cloud4000

And BTW, you should ask yourself who's side you would have been on in to kill a mockingbird. Because the KKK-plantationist side was in full effect there too (believe the woman accusation rather than look at the evidence and understand importance of presumption of innocence till then). Tell me would Mayella Ewell have convinced you right off the bat?

You are a nice fella @Gomig-21 , but you will have to go through a never trumper neutral guy like Ben Shapiro first at the very least to have a proper discussion on this topic with me.

 

[Nilgiri]

Democrats Have Become A Dangerous Threat To Our Institution

Liberals' inability to distinguish between process and partisanship undermines the Constitution.

By David Harsanyi
OCTOBER 8, 2018
thefederalist.com

When modern Democrats talk about preseving “norms,” traditions,” or even the “Constitution,” they’re really talking about preserving their preferred policies. We know this because “liberals” have shown themselves not only willing to destroy the legitimacy of institutions like the presidency, the Senate ,and Supreme Court to protect those policies, they’re willing to break down basic norms of civility, as well.

Take the example of Hillary Clinton. In the very first sentence in her new scaremongering essay, which makes the case that America’s “democratic institutions and traditions are under siege,” she attacks our democratic institutions and traditions. “It’s been nearly two years since Donald Trump won enough Electoral College votes to become president of the United States,” the piece begins.

The intimation, of course, widely shared by the mainstream left, is that Trump isn’t a legitimate president even though he won the election in the exact same way every other president in U.S. history has ever won election. According to our long-held democratic institutions and traditions, you become president through the Electoral College, not the non-existent popular vote.

So when Clinton, or writers at Vox, or The Atlantic, or Politico, or new liberal favorite Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, say it’s “well past time we eliminate the Electoral College, a shadow of slavery’s power on America today that undermines our nation as a democratic republic,” you’re either tragically ignorant about our system or cynically delegitimizing it. Or maybe it’s both.

The Electoral College isn’t ornamental; it exists to undercut the tyranny of direct democracy and ensure the entire nation is represented in national elections. When you attack it, you’re not condemning Trump, you are, in a very palpable way, attacking a core idea that girds much of our governance.

With this in mind, it’s not surprising that the anti-majoritarian Senate is also suddenly problematic for many Democrats. When a NBC reporter, commenting on a Washington Post article, says “the idea that North Dakota and New York get the same representation in the Senate has to change,” he’s probably not ignorant about why the Founders implemented proportional voting, or why there is a difference between the House and Senate, or why the Tenth Amendment exists. He simply favors a system he thinks would allow liberals to force others to accept his preferred policies.

That’s the thing, of course. North Dakotans can’t make New Yorkers ban abortion, even if Roe v. Wade is overturned. They can’t make New Yorkers legalize “assault weapons” if Heller is upheld. But New Yorkers are perfectly content to force North Dakotans to accept both abortion and gun control. So, then, surely nothing could be more frustrating to the contemporary liberal than the existence of an originalist court that values the self-determination of individuals and states.

That is why the effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh wasn’t only about the nominee, but the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. When you can’t corrode constitutional protections by seating justices that simply ignore the words and purpose of the founding documents, you can proactively smear the people whose decisions do uphold those values.

When Sen. Mazie Hirono, who rejected basic tenets of due process throughout the Kavanaugh hearings, argues Kavanaugh “is going to be on the Supreme Court with a huge taint and a big asterisk after his name,” she, like many others, is giving her followers a pretext to ignore the court.

If there is a “taint,” a proper constitutionally mandated solution exists: provide evidence and impeach him. Otherwise, there is no asterisk. Republicans didn’t break any constitutional norms. Trump nominated a candidate with a blemish-free ten-year record on the DC appellate court.

Republicans in the judiciary committee had hearings in which Democrats could question the nominee. Republicans even added additional hearings after Democrats leaked uncorroborated accusations. Republicans then asked for a seventh FBI investigation into the nominee before voting. Then the entire Senate voted. There is no asterisk.
Of course, if Democrats had been in charge of the Senate, they would have been free to shelve that nomination just as Republicans had done with Merrick Garland, when they also decided adopt the “ Biden Rule.” If Democrats had followed the norms of the Senate in 2013, rather than using the nuclear option, they might have been able to filibuster Kavanaugh. They didn’t.

Instead, during this entire constitutionally mandated process we just went through, Democrats demonstrated a malicious disregard for the institution, not only by slandering those they disagreed with, and by leaking uncorroborated accusations, and by attacking the principles of Fifth and Sixth Amendments, and by ignoring long-held Senate rules during the proceedings in their Spartacus moments, but by preemptively declaring the pick illegitimate the day the president announced it.

According to liberals, every conservative-run institution is illegitimate. Working out how it’s illegitimate is the only question.

Even the questions in the aftermath of the Kavanaugh vote point to misunderstanding of process. Did Democrats “fight hard enough” to stop a nomination? What does that even mean? You fight by winning the argument, and by appealing to a large swath of Americans to win the Senate, and by winning the vote. In a decent nation, you don’t win by smearing your political opponents as gang rapists, and you don’t win by acting like a mob and screaming at your fellow citizens in restaurants and elevators.

After all, Hillary, and others who write about Trump’s supposed annihilation of our institutions, seem wholly concerned about aesthetics, manners, and policy, not procedure or institutions. Civility is a worthwhile issue, but it is a separate issue. You might find immigration and environmental policy of primary importance, but not getting your way isn’t a constitutional crisis. When they act like it is, liberals—and it’s getting progressively difficult to give them that descriptor—are destabilizing the institutions they are claiming to save.

How many times did a Democrat even mention the Constitution during the Kavanaugh hearings? I imagine, if we’re lucky, a perfunctory handful. Trump, far more than the previous administration, has strengthened proper separations of power. One of the ways he’s done it is by his judicial appointments. And Democrats’ inability to make any distinction between the neutral processes of governing and their partisan goals makes them, to this point, a far bigger threat to constitutional norms than the president.

David Harsanyi is a Senior Editor at The Federalist. He is the author of the new book, First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun, From the Revolution to Today.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Taylor Swift endorses Democrats in Tennessee with rare political statement

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/taylor-swift-endorses-democrats-tennessee-065456360.html

 

[RabzonKhan]

The first poll is out, after judge Brett Kavanaugh was approved by the Senate to become Chief Justice. According to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS, if the election for Congress was held today 54% likely voters will vote for Democrats and 41% for the Republicans, a margin of 13%, wow.

45% men will vote Democrats and 50% Republicans, the Republicans have five-point lead, but it looks like the Republicans will be severely punished by the woman voters, 63% will vote Democrats and only 33% will vote for Republicans.

Well, we'll wait and see, but if this trend continues and more polls show similar results, than for sure, Trump’s honeymoon would be over on November 6. Link

 

[Nilgiri]

The first poll is out, after judge Brett Kavanaugh was approved by the Senate to become Chief Justice. According to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS, if the election for Congress was held today 54% likely voters will vote for Democrats and 41% for the Republicans, a margin of 13%, wow.

45% men will vote Democrats and 50% Republicans, the Republicans have five-point lead, but it looks like the Republicans will be severely punished by the woman voters, 63% will vote Democrats and only 33% will vote for Republicans.

Well, we'll wait and see, but if this trend continues and more polls show similar results, than for sure, Trump’s honeymoon would be over on November 6. Link

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How did the CNN polling do in nov 8th 2016?

How are the polls that did a lot better in nov 8th 2016 doing now?:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/prez_track_oct09

https://www.investors.com/politics/ibdtipp-poll-presidential-approval-direction-of-country/

 

[Nilgiri]

Five Lessons About the Left

SCOTT MCKAY
October 9, 2018, 12:05 am
spectator.org

What the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation ordeal taught us.

They can say what they want about Brett Kavanaugh. Except after Saturday, they’re going to have to say it about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

As painful as that is for the Democrat Party and the American Left, it can’t be avoided after Saturday’s 50-48 vote in what might turn out to be the most self-destructive political gambit in the country’s recent history; we’ll know that for sure in a month, when the November midterms have come and gone and the Democrats’ supposed Blue Wave sweeping them back into power on Capitol Hill either happens or (more likely) it doesn’t.

The Democrats had to know they couldn’t stop Kavanaugh’s nomination. To do that would entail getting two Republicans to vote their way and keeping all of their red-state senators in the fold — something that wasn’t going to happen with a mainstream, qualified jurist as the nominee.

Kavanaugh turned out to be a brilliant choice by President Trump — he’s a reliable, if not by reputation rabid, conservative but one who’s very well-respected in Washington and a bit of a crossover choice within the Republican Party given his Bush pedigree (the fight over Kavanaugh has done more to bring NeverTrumpers into the fold than anyone could have imagined). And Kavanaugh’s personal record was so clean that it would take a dive into pure falsehood and insanity in order to derail him.

To which the Democrat Party said, “Hold my beer.”

The campaign to destroy Kavanaugh told us a lot about the Democrats and the Hard Left advocacy groups who control that party. The main lessons fall under five basic truths.

The Ends Justify the Means, Even if the Means Are Ridiculous and Highly Unlikely to Produce the Ends.

Give the Dems credit, because they did at least try to convince the American people Kavanaugh wasn’t a mainstream jurist first before attempting to smear him with accusations he’s a sexual predator. Where they went wrong was that when the first argument didn’t convince the public and wasn’t persuasive against the Jeff Flakes and Susan Collinses of the world, they neglected to make the best of the situation and use the impending loss of the Kavanaugh fight to motivate their voters.

Somebody atop George Soros’ network of tin pot revolutionaries got together with Tom Perez and legitimate woman abuser Keith Ellison at the DNC, not to mention Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, and decided, to paraphrase Sen. John Kennedy, to hit bottom and start digging. Drumming up an allegation by a mentally unstable California psychology professor that Kavanaugh had been inappropriate and perhaps abusive during a high school encounter 36 years in the past, and then doubling and tripling down with even less plausible allegations, all the while leaving what looks like a fairly clear paper trail of coordination, is the kind of all-in bluff no credible political operative would say was worth the risk.

But Schumer, Feinstein et al. pushed those chips into the middle, expecting Trump and Kavanaugh would fold. When they didn’t, and when Trump went further and derisively offered a true characterization of Christine Ford’s testimony in a 36-second outburst in a Mississippi campaign appearance the entire political class treated as an unforgivable breach of presidential protocol, it became clear the entire episode was a lost cause.

Even then, the professional Left failed to sound the retreat. Some 567 protesters were arrested at the Capitol in the last three days of the Kavanaugh confirmation process, many for engaging in behavior that normal Americans would regard as evidence of insanity. In a campaign appearance in Kansas, Trump again skewered the Left as “ too dangerous and extreme to govern,” which is exactly the characterization the Democrats can’t afford to have the country accept where they’re concerned. And it’s exactly the characterization their antics have lent an air of truth to.

The Modern Left Is a Movement by and for People Incapable of Doing a Proper Job at Honest Work.

This isn’t just a fun thing I say in this space all the time. It can’t be disputed any more after the Kavanaugh ordeal.

We already know many, if not most, of those protesters at the Capitol were paid; we know this because they admitted as much. And their employers hardly got their money’s worth; other than when a couple of Soros-funded apparatchiks cornered Flake in an elevator and managed to get him to call for an expanded FBI background investigation into the Christine Ford and Deborah Ramirez allegations — something which raised the ire of lots of Republicans but actually ended up being a good idea, as the FBI all but confirmed those allegations were uncorroborated rubbish, building support for Kavanaugh among the nonpolitical and giving Flake, Collins, and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin cover to support his confirmation — every time the Democrats’ protesters interacted with Republican Senators they came away looking like abject fools.

But it wasn’t just the protesters who came off looking like unemployable dunces. Consider how the hearings went for the Democrats’ supposed best and brightest. There was Mazie Hirono and her non-stop fact-free tirades about how all the men in America need to shut up, there was “Spartacus” Booker and his inanities too numerous to count, there was the comic irony of “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, with his falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus challenge to Kavanaugh after riding a Stolen Valor claim of having served in Vietnam to the Senate in the first place, there was the hard-to-believe interrogation of Kavanaugh about references to farting in his high school yearbook.

These were not indications of people capable of being effective in their jobs. I’ve said it before, but when you embrace intersectional feminism, postmodern identity politics, and socialist economics as the three-legged stool of your political philosophy you’re not going to attract a lot of people grounded in the kind of reality necessary to do objectively good work — and sooner or later it’s going to become obvious that none of your people can make your trains run on time.

They Don’t Like Straight White Guys. At All.

This is clear enough without a lot of explanation, no? The Kavanaugh allegations were wholly unsupported by any corroborating evidence at all, something that the Republicans’ hired-gun outside counsel Rachel Mitchell exposed in a highly underrated manner during Christine Ford’s testimony, and at the end of the fact-finding process the Democrats found themselves whining about Kavanaugh’s tone. This after accusing a family man with an impeccable reputation of being a gang rapist, of all things; the effect of which was to put every male — and in particular every straight white male — in America on the defensive with eyes wide open to the threat a hypercynical and loony American Left poses to them when their New Rules migrate out of the academic fever swamps and into the real world.

But it’s worse than that, because the seething hatred for the “patriarchy” doesn’t just scare the bejesus out of the male voters the Dems used to be able to call upon to make a majority — what we’re seeing is it might even have a more corrosive effect on married women who have husbands and sons, and it’s not very helpful among black and Hispanic voters, either.

The people who used to run the Democrat Party could have told them running out with “Believe All Women” was a bad idea, and not just because it makes Bill Clinton look like a rapist; it also recalls similar sentiments used to justify the lynch mobs of Scottsboro, Alabama and Money, Mississippi. And no, switching from railroading black men to railroading white ones doesn’t help the situation.

They’ve Bought in to the Academic Left’s War on Facts and Evidence, Hook, Line and Sinker.

At Powerline and other sites there has been a good discussion of the “ Grievance Studies” scandal, in which three self-described “left-leaning liberal” academics submitted a raft of papers for peer review in a number of social science journals which were purposely filled with patent absurdities, and had five of them published — including, hilariously enough, a 3,000 word excerpt of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten in the language of Intersectionality theory and published in the Gender Studies journal Affilia.

Nobody is particularly surprised at the scandal, as the declining quality of left-wing scholarship is quite well known. What the Kavanaugh hearings indicated was that the idiotic thought processes which created the Grievance Studies scandal are alive and well in the top echelons of the Democrat Party. If this weren’t true you wouldn’t see senators like Hirono and Chris Coons intone against the presumption of innocence in the Kavanaugh case. Their justification for such insane statements were that the hearings were merely a job interview — a poor attempt, to be sure, given that the Senate’s advise and consent function is a constitutional act and to disparage one of the most fundamental rights in American jurisprudence amid that process is a prima facie abuse, and also because any corporate recruiter will tell you no employer much cares about what a 51-year-old job candidate did in high school.

Drag a $100 Bill Through a Faculty Lounge, Government Bureau, or Union Hall, and You’ll Never Know What You’ll Find.

That’s a paraphrase of a quote James Carville, Clinton’s ethically-challenged political consultant, offered up about trailer parks amid the former president’s many “bimbo eruptions,” but it’s become an unmistakable characteristic of the Democrats’ politics of late. After all, it’s clear Christine Ford was recruited to produce her allegation against Kavanaugh — as time goes by we’re going to find out more about the roles Monica McLean and David Laufman, formerly of the FBI, played in producing Ford’s allegations in concert with Schumer and Feinstein.

In any other profession, the risk to Ford’s career from going national with a clearly false allegation against a Supreme Court nominee would be fatal to future job prospects. But Ford is an academic at Palo Alto University in California, and nobody seriously believes she’ll suffer from it. After all, Anita Hill didn’t.

And if you can’t find a huckleberry in the left-wing monopolized universities, there’s always the unionized state and governmental bureaucracy which doesn’t exactly tolerate a panoply of differing political views. Let’s remember that Ramirez and Julie Swetnik, whose allegations about Kavanaugh were nothing short of farcical, were government bureaucrats at least at some point in their careers (as were McLean and Laufman); there might be even less sanction against liars among the Deep State than on campus.

Just ask Valerie Plame. She’d have fit right into last week’s mess.

@cloud4000 @my2cents @Desert Fox @Hamartia Antidote @SorryNotSorry

 

[SorryNotSorry]

Five Lessons About the Left

SCOTT MCKAY
October 9, 2018, 12:05 am
spectator.org

What the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation ordeal taught us.

They can say what they want about Brett Kavanaugh. Except after Saturday, they’re going to have to say it about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

As painful as that is for the Democrat Party and the American Left, it can’t be avoided after Saturday’s 50-48 vote in what might turn out to be the most self-destructive political gambit in the country’s recent history; we’ll know that for sure in a month, when the November midterms have come and gone and the Democrats’ supposed Blue Wave sweeping them back into power on Capitol Hill either happens or (more likely) it doesn’t.

The Democrats had to know they couldn’t stop Kavanaugh’s nomination. To do that would entail getting two Republicans to vote their way and keeping all of their red-state senators in the fold — something that wasn’t going to happen with a mainstream, qualified jurist as the nominee.

Kavanaugh turned out to be a brilliant choice by President Trump — he’s a reliable, if not by reputation rabid, conservative but one who’s very well-respected in Washington and a bit of a crossover choice within the Republican Party given his Bush pedigree (the fight over Kavanaugh has done more to bring NeverTrumpers into the fold than anyone could have imagined). And Kavanaugh’s personal record was so clean that it would take a dive into pure falsehood and insanity in order to derail him.

To which the Democrat Party said, “Hold my beer.”

The campaign to destroy Kavanaugh told us a lot about the Democrats and the Hard Left advocacy groups who control that party. The main lessons fall under five basic truths.

The Ends Justify the Means, Even if the Means Are Ridiculous and Highly Unlikely to Produce the Ends.

Give the Dems credit, because they did at least try to convince the American people Kavanaugh wasn’t a mainstream jurist first before attempting to smear him with accusations he’s a sexual predator. Where they went wrong was that when the first argument didn’t convince the public and wasn’t persuasive against the Jeff Flakes and Susan Collinses of the world, they neglected to make the best of the situation and use the impending loss of the Kavanaugh fight to motivate their voters.

Somebody atop George Soros’ network of tin pot revolutionaries got together with Tom Perez and legitimate woman abuser Keith Ellison at the DNC, not to mention Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, and decided, to paraphrase Sen. John Kennedy, to hit bottom and start digging. Drumming up an allegation by a mentally unstable California psychology professor that Kavanaugh had been inappropriate and perhaps abusive during a high school encounter 36 years in the past, and then doubling and tripling down with even less plausible allegations, all the while leaving what looks like a fairly clear paper trail of coordination, is the kind of all-in bluff no credible political operative would say was worth the risk.

But Schumer, Feinstein et al. pushed those chips into the middle, expecting Trump and Kavanaugh would fold. When they didn’t, and when Trump went further and derisively offered a true characterization of Christine Ford’s testimony in a 36-second outburst in a Mississippi campaign appearance the entire political class treated as an unforgivable breach of presidential protocol, it became clear the entire episode was a lost cause.

Even then, the professional Left failed to sound the retreat. Some 567 protesters were arrested at the Capitol in the last three days of the Kavanaugh confirmation process, many for engaging in behavior that normal Americans would regard as evidence of insanity. In a campaign appearance in Kansas, Trump again skewered the Left as “ too dangerous and extreme to govern,” which is exactly the characterization the Democrats can’t afford to have the country accept where they’re concerned. And it’s exactly the characterization their antics have lent an air of truth to.

The Modern Left Is a Movement by and for People Incapable of Doing a Proper Job at Honest Work.

This isn’t just a fun thing I say in this space all the time. It can’t be disputed any more after the Kavanaugh ordeal.

We already know many, if not most, of those protesters at the Capitol were paid; we know this because they admitted as much. And their employers hardly got their money’s worth; other than when a couple of Soros-funded apparatchiks cornered Flake in an elevator and managed to get him to call for an expanded FBI background investigation into the Christine Ford and Deborah Ramirez allegations — something which raised the ire of lots of Republicans but actually ended up being a good idea, as the FBI all but confirmed those allegations were uncorroborated rubbish, building support for Kavanaugh among the nonpolitical and giving Flake, Collins, and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin cover to support his confirmation — every time the Democrats’ protesters interacted with Republican Senators they came away looking like abject fools.

But it wasn’t just the protesters who came off looking like unemployable dunces. Consider how the hearings went for the Democrats’ supposed best and brightest. There was Mazie Hirono and her non-stop fact-free tirades about how all the men in America need to shut up, there was “Spartacus” Booker and his inanities too numerous to count, there was the comic irony of “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, with his falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus challenge to Kavanaugh after riding a Stolen Valor claim of having served in Vietnam to the Senate in the first place, there was the hard-to-believe interrogation of Kavanaugh about references to farting in his high school yearbook.

These were not indications of people capable of being effective in their jobs. I’ve said it before, but when you embrace intersectional feminism, postmodern identity politics, and socialist economics as the three-legged stool of your political philosophy you’re not going to attract a lot of people grounded in the kind of reality necessary to do objectively good work — and sooner or later it’s going to become obvious that none of your people can make your trains run on time.

They Don’t Like Straight White Guys. At All.

This is clear enough without a lot of explanation, no? The Kavanaugh allegations were wholly unsupported by any corroborating evidence at all, something that the Republicans’ hired-gun outside counsel Rachel Mitchell exposed in a highly underrated manner during Christine Ford’s testimony, and at the end of the fact-finding process the Democrats found themselves whining about Kavanaugh’s tone. This after accusing a family man with an impeccable reputation of being a gang rapist, of all things; the effect of which was to put every male — and in particular every straight white male — in America on the defensive with eyes wide open to the threat a hypercynical and loony American Left poses to them when their New Rules migrate out of the academic fever swamps and into the real world.

But it’s worse than that, because the seething hatred for the “patriarchy” doesn’t just scare the bejesus out of the male voters the Dems used to be able to call upon to make a majority — what we’re seeing is it might even have a more corrosive effect on married women who have husbands and sons, and it’s not very helpful among black and Hispanic voters, either.

The people who used to run the Democrat Party could have told them running out with “Believe All Women” was a bad idea, and not just because it makes Bill Clinton look like a rapist; it also recalls similar sentiments used to justify the lynch mobs of Scottsboro, Alabama and Money, Mississippi. And no, switching from railroading black men to railroading white ones doesn’t help the situation.

They’ve Bought in to the Academic Left’s War on Facts and Evidence, Hook, Line and Sinker.

At Powerline and other sites there has been a good discussion of the “ Grievance Studies” scandal, in which three self-described “left-leaning liberal” academics submitted a raft of papers for peer review in a number of social science journals which were purposely filled with patent absurdities, and had five of them published — including, hilariously enough, a 3,000 word excerpt of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten in the language of Intersectionality theory and published in the Gender Studies journal Affilia.

Nobody is particularly surprised at the scandal, as the declining quality of left-wing scholarship is quite well known. What the Kavanaugh hearings indicated was that the idiotic thought processes which created the Grievance Studies scandal are alive and well in the top echelons of the Democrat Party. If this weren’t true you wouldn’t see senators like Hirono and Chris Coons intone against the presumption of innocence in the Kavanaugh case. Their justification for such insane statements were that the hearings were merely a job interview — a poor attempt, to be sure, given that the Senate’s advise and consent function is a constitutional act and to disparage one of the most fundamental rights in American jurisprudence amid that process is a prima facie abuse, and also because any corporate recruiter will tell you no employer much cares about what a 51-year-old job candidate did in high school.

Drag a $100 Bill Through a Faculty Lounge, Government Bureau, or Union Hall, and You’ll Never Know What You’ll Find.

That’s a paraphrase of a quote James Carville, Clinton’s ethically-challenged political consultant, offered up about trailer parks amid the former president’s many “bimbo eruptions,” but it’s become an unmistakable characteristic of the Democrats’ politics of late. After all, it’s clear Christine Ford was recruited to produce her allegation against Kavanaugh — as time goes by we’re going to find out more about the roles Monica McLean and David Laufman, formerly of the FBI, played in producing Ford’s allegations in concert with Schumer and Feinstein.

In any other profession, the risk to Ford’s career from going national with a clearly false allegation against a Supreme Court nominee would be fatal to future job prospects. But Ford is an academic at Palo Alto University in California, and nobody seriously believes she’ll suffer from it. After all, Anita Hill didn’t.

And if you can’t find a huckleberry in the left-wing monopolized universities, there’s always the unionized state and governmental bureaucracy which doesn’t exactly tolerate a panoply of differing political views. Let’s remember that Ramirez and Julie Swetnik, whose allegations about Kavanaugh were nothing short of farcical, were government bureaucrats at least at some point in their careers (as were McLean and Laufman); there might be even less sanction against liars among the Deep State than on campus.

Just ask Valerie Plame. She’d have fit right into last week’s mess.

@cloud4000 @my2cents @Desert Fox @Hamartia Antidote @SorryNotSorry

The Democrats must’ve already known the ploy was prone to failure, but what’s ridiculous is the hordes of super entitled mindless genderless colorful leftist zombies who get swept away by these antics. The levels of retardation still surprise me.

 

[Nilgiri]

https://www.breitbart.com/big-journ...ence-and-harassment-against-trump-supporters/

Rap Sheet: ***583** Acts of Media-Approved Violence and Harassment Against Trump Supporters

 

[Nilgiri]

Watch the first half of this at least @SorryNotSorry when you got a little time, it basically ties in what you wrote earlier:

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Five Lessons About the Left

SCOTT MCKAY
October 9, 2018, 12:05 am
spectator.org

What the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation ordeal taught us.

They can say what they want about Brett Kavanaugh. Except after Saturday, they’re going to have to say it about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

As painful as that is for the Democrat Party and the American Left, it can’t be avoided after Saturday’s 50-48 vote in what might turn out to be the most self-destructive political gambit in the country’s recent history; we’ll know that for sure in a month, when the November midterms have come and gone and the Democrats’ supposed Blue Wave sweeping them back into power on Capitol Hill either happens or (more likely) it doesn’t.

The Democrats had to know they couldn’t stop Kavanaugh’s nomination. To do that would entail getting two Republicans to vote their way and keeping all of their red-state senators in the fold — something that wasn’t going to happen with a mainstream, qualified jurist as the nominee.

Kavanaugh turned out to be a brilliant choice by President Trump — he’s a reliable, if not by reputation rabid, conservative but one who’s very well-respected in Washington and a bit of a crossover choice within the Republican Party given his Bush pedigree (the fight over Kavanaugh has done more to bring NeverTrumpers into the fold than anyone could have imagined). And Kavanaugh’s personal record was so clean that it would take a dive into pure falsehood and insanity in order to derail him.

To which the Democrat Party said, “Hold my beer.”

The campaign to destroy Kavanaugh told us a lot about the Democrats and the Hard Left advocacy groups who control that party. The main lessons fall under five basic truths.

The Ends Justify the Means, Even if the Means Are Ridiculous and Highly Unlikely to Produce the Ends.

Give the Dems credit, because they did at least try to convince the American people Kavanaugh wasn’t a mainstream jurist first before attempting to smear him with accusations he’s a sexual predator. Where they went wrong was that when the first argument didn’t convince the public and wasn’t persuasive against the Jeff Flakes and Susan Collinses of the world, they neglected to make the best of the situation and use the impending loss of the Kavanaugh fight to motivate their voters.

Somebody atop George Soros’ network of tin pot revolutionaries got together with Tom Perez and legitimate woman abuser Keith Ellison at the DNC, not to mention Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, and decided, to paraphrase Sen. John Kennedy, to hit bottom and start digging. Drumming up an allegation by a mentally unstable California psychology professor that Kavanaugh had been inappropriate and perhaps abusive during a high school encounter 36 years in the past, and then doubling and tripling down with even less plausible allegations, all the while leaving what looks like a fairly clear paper trail of coordination, is the kind of all-in bluff no credible political operative would say was worth the risk.

But Schumer, Feinstein et al. pushed those chips into the middle, expecting Trump and Kavanaugh would fold. When they didn’t, and when Trump went further and derisively offered a true characterization of Christine Ford’s testimony in a 36-second outburst in a Mississippi campaign appearance the entire political class treated as an unforgivable breach of presidential protocol, it became clear the entire episode was a lost cause.

Even then, the professional Left failed to sound the retreat. Some 567 protesters were arrested at the Capitol in the last three days of the Kavanaugh confirmation process, many for engaging in behavior that normal Americans would regard as evidence of insanity. In a campaign appearance in Kansas, Trump again skewered the Left as “ too dangerous and extreme to govern,” which is exactly the characterization the Democrats can’t afford to have the country accept where they’re concerned. And it’s exactly the characterization their antics have lent an air of truth to.

The Modern Left Is a Movement by and for People Incapable of Doing a Proper Job at Honest Work.

This isn’t just a fun thing I say in this space all the time. It can’t be disputed any more after the Kavanaugh ordeal.

We already know many, if not most, of those protesters at the Capitol were paid; we know this because they admitted as much. And their employers hardly got their money’s worth; other than when a couple of Soros-funded apparatchiks cornered Flake in an elevator and managed to get him to call for an expanded FBI background investigation into the Christine Ford and Deborah Ramirez allegations — something which raised the ire of lots of Republicans but actually ended up being a good idea, as the FBI all but confirmed those allegations were uncorroborated rubbish, building support for Kavanaugh among the nonpolitical and giving Flake, Collins, and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin cover to support his confirmation — every time the Democrats’ protesters interacted with Republican Senators they came away looking like abject fools.

But it wasn’t just the protesters who came off looking like unemployable dunces. Consider how the hearings went for the Democrats’ supposed best and brightest. There was Mazie Hirono and her non-stop fact-free tirades about how all the men in America need to shut up, there was “Spartacus” Booker and his inanities too numerous to count, there was the comic irony of “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, with his falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus challenge to Kavanaugh after riding a Stolen Valor claim of having served in Vietnam to the Senate in the first place, there was the hard-to-believe interrogation of Kavanaugh about references to farting in his high school yearbook.

These were not indications of people capable of being effective in their jobs. I’ve said it before, but when you embrace intersectional feminism, postmodern identity politics, and socialist economics as the three-legged stool of your political philosophy you’re not going to attract a lot of people grounded in the kind of reality necessary to do objectively good work — and sooner or later it’s going to become obvious that none of your people can make your trains run on time.

They Don’t Like Straight White Guys. At All.

This is clear enough without a lot of explanation, no? The Kavanaugh allegations were wholly unsupported by any corroborating evidence at all, something that the Republicans’ hired-gun outside counsel Rachel Mitchell exposed in a highly underrated manner during Christine Ford’s testimony, and at the end of the fact-finding process the Democrats found themselves whining about Kavanaugh’s tone. This after accusing a family man with an impeccable reputation of being a gang rapist, of all things; the effect of which was to put every male — and in particular every straight white male — in America on the defensive with eyes wide open to the threat a hypercynical and loony American Left poses to them when their New Rules migrate out of the academic fever swamps and into the real world.

But it’s worse than that, because the seething hatred for the “patriarchy” doesn’t just scare the bejesus out of the male voters the Dems used to be able to call upon to make a majority — what we’re seeing is it might even have a more corrosive effect on married women who have husbands and sons, and it’s not very helpful among black and Hispanic voters, either.

The people who used to run the Democrat Party could have told them running out with “Believe All Women” was a bad idea, and not just because it makes Bill Clinton look like a rapist; it also recalls similar sentiments used to justify the lynch mobs of Scottsboro, Alabama and Money, Mississippi. And no, switching from railroading black men to railroading white ones doesn’t help the situation.

They’ve Bought in to the Academic Left’s War on Facts and Evidence, Hook, Line and Sinker.

At Powerline and other sites there has been a good discussion of the “ Grievance Studies” scandal, in which three self-described “left-leaning liberal” academics submitted a raft of papers for peer review in a number of social science journals which were purposely filled with patent absurdities, and had five of them published — including, hilariously enough, a 3,000 word excerpt of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten in the language of Intersectionality theory and published in the Gender Studies journal Affilia.

Nobody is particularly surprised at the scandal, as the declining quality of left-wing scholarship is quite well known. What the Kavanaugh hearings indicated was that the idiotic thought processes which created the Grievance Studies scandal are alive and well in the top echelons of the Democrat Party. If this weren’t true you wouldn’t see senators like Hirono and Chris Coons intone against the presumption of innocence in the Kavanaugh case. Their justification for such insane statements were that the hearings were merely a job interview — a poor attempt, to be sure, given that the Senate’s advise and consent function is a constitutional act and to disparage one of the most fundamental rights in American jurisprudence amid that process is a prima facie abuse, and also because any corporate recruiter will tell you no employer much cares about what a 51-year-old job candidate did in high school.

Drag a $100 Bill Through a Faculty Lounge, Government Bureau, or Union Hall, and You’ll Never Know What You’ll Find.

That’s a paraphrase of a quote James Carville, Clinton’s ethically-challenged political consultant, offered up about trailer parks amid the former president’s many “bimbo eruptions,” but it’s become an unmistakable characteristic of the Democrats’ politics of late. After all, it’s clear Christine Ford was recruited to produce her allegation against Kavanaugh — as time goes by we’re going to find out more about the roles Monica McLean and David Laufman, formerly of the FBI, played in producing Ford’s allegations in concert with Schumer and Feinstein.

In any other profession, the risk to Ford’s career from going national with a clearly false allegation against a Supreme Court nominee would be fatal to future job prospects. But Ford is an academic at Palo Alto University in California, and nobody seriously believes she’ll suffer from it. After all, Anita Hill didn’t.

And if you can’t find a huckleberry in the left-wing monopolized universities, there’s always the unionized state and governmental bureaucracy which doesn’t exactly tolerate a panoply of differing political views. Let’s remember that Ramirez and Julie Swetnik, whose allegations about Kavanaugh were nothing short of farcical, were government bureaucrats at least at some point in their careers (as were McLean and Laufman); there might be even less sanction against liars among the Deep State than on campus.

Just ask Valerie Plame. She’d have fit right into last week’s mess.

@cloud4000 @my2cents @Desert Fox @Hamartia Antidote @SorryNotSorry

Meh, I'm not leaning much either way in terms of Democrats vs Republicans or way left or way right as I think they are all dopey. I am amused at how the Liberal Left has taken the Absolute Nutjob Award away from the Conservative Right which has held it tight for several decades.