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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

https://slate.com/culture/2018/09/i-am-part-of-the-police-department-inside-this-bank-robbery.html

[facilitatorn]

The GOP conduct of nominating the lying weasel and shielding his crimes from public scrutiny in an entirely corrupt and inbred fashion is what is criticized.

Kavanaugh has dropped past Dear Harriet and is quickly catching Bork for nominee most repulsive to the American people.

[LarryBnDC]

Next piece for the Shinbone Star before it filters through editing:

Enjoy... or don’t.

Back in the mid 70s I was a student at Amityville memorial High and one my teachers was a charismatic character who was bigger than life. I had him one year for world history and two incidents really stand out in my memory. The first was memorable for its execution as he demonstrated how kids went to school at another time in history. He was late and kids were starting to get restless when the classroom door BOOMED open and he crossed to the desk and kicked the trash can on a high arc to the rear of the room and yelled, “On your feet!”

Everyone scrambled to their feet, the tension in the air palpable, some shivered in fear…

“That’s how classes started in Sparta!” He smiled and said, “Take your seats.”

Then there was the lesson on “The Flaming Sword of Islam” and the 732 Battle of Tours.

Demonstrating the sweep westward of the Islamic forces he drew a football gridiron on the board, wrote EUROPE in one end zone and asked various folks to consider the French victory under Charles Martel and guesstimate on what yard line the Muslim hordes had finally been stopped. 

Kids yelled out, “The forty! The ten! Twenty five!” He shook his head and put an “X” on what looked to be the two yard line. “Right there, baby! They don’t stop them there we wouldn’t be who we are today. You’d all be Muslim.” Beside the fact half my paternal family are Akmals, it was also a time the Nation of Islam had made huge inroads in the black community so the idea of being Muslim wasn’t that appalling… to me. You could see the horror on the faces of my classmates, an unconscious reflex that would embarrass most of them if they saw a hidden camera replay… others, not so much.

However… I know how they felt because that is exactly how I feel about the 2018 midterms… “they’re on our two yard line. We don’t hold them here boys, it’s all over.”

This is it, folks. This is our very last chance to at least tug back on the societal safety rope the GOP donor class is trying to coil and put away. We cannot let that happen, we owe it the next generations, the nation and the world.

We’re the end of the boomers. We had a chance to build the “New Frontier” and we blew it. We let ourselves get played on matters of race, economics, race, employment, race, education, race… etc.

We cannot depend on the GOP to “do the right thing” as they’re the ones who got us here in the first place!

No, we have to save the freaking world through the ballot box because if we don’t this may be the last election that truly matters. The electorate is rapidly changing; it is getting younger and browner and from the point of view of the GOP donor class this is the time to cement in changes to the societal structures that will limit the influence of the younger, browner and mostly women who will represent the emerging demographic. The donor class wants to limit economic mobility while ensuring generational wealth and power for the benefit of their own families.

Geezers get out there, organize among your existing networks and y’all vote for this up and coming leadership. They’re better and smarter than us, they’re not as frightened by the future and they know how to get shit done.

We owe it to them to at least not leave a smoking crater in our wake.

[REDSTATEWARD]

The GOP is full of shit.

The democrats only have themselves to blame.

Red, look up the phrase "locus of control."

That's when you cannot accept responsibility for your own conduct, but must blame others.

"It's not our fault we act this way - you made us behave unethically!"

Um. The GOP’s behavior is not being questioned.
The hearing protests and defiant questioning by democrat-wannabe Presidential candidates leading the way are the stuff of five-year old brats.

Pretty funny coming from a member of President Trump's party.

Guess you didn’t follow the hearings.

Your party dumps 42,000 documents the night before the hearings are starting, then it refuses to delay the hearings until there is time to review them.

And you think the Democrats' behavior is out of line?

Guess you don't follow rules of conduct.

Still.

Since the democrats have already stated they will not support ANY GOP nominee their feigned tantrum is laughable. No wonder they are a minority party.

[josh]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-trump-adviser-george-papadopoulos-sentenced-to-14-days-in-plea-deal-with-mueller-probe/2018/09/07/bef367a2-b210-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html?utm_term=.3d17f375b704

Poor man.

14 days in prison!

Must have been quite the plea deal, huh?

[josh]

The GOP is full of shit.

The democrats only have themselves to blame.

Red, look up the phrase "locus of control."

That's when you cannot accept responsibility for your own conduct, but must blame others.

"It's not our fault we act this way - you made us behave unethically!"

Um. The GOP’s behavior is not being questioned.
The hearing protests and defiant questioning by democrat-wannabe Presidential candidates leading the way are the stuff of five-year old brats.

Pretty funny coming from a member of President Trump's party.

Guess you didn’t follow the hearings.

Your party dumps 42,000 documents the night before the hearings are starting, then it refuses to delay the hearings until there is time to review them.

And you think the Democrats' behavior is out of line?

Guess you don't follow rules of conduct.

Still.

Since the democrats have already stated they will not support ANY GOP nominee their feigned tantrum is laughable. No wonder they are a minority party.

Using that reasoning, the GOP should be the minority party.

But since they didn't actually say that, you just made it up, your feigned argument is vaporware.

Also, even if they had, EVERYBODY deserves to see the documents before a hearing starts.

Why the fuck are you defending that absurd piece of conduct, Red? Do you honestly hate America that much?!

[Yankguy1]

Why do you keep asking Red that?  Red doesn't give a damn about right or wrong.  He's amoral.   

[REDSTATEWARD]

"Controlling for several objective credentials, Lindgren found that, for nominees without prior judicial experience, Clinton nominees were nearly ten times more likely than Bush nominees to be rated as well qualified"

That's not evidence of bias, fool.

Well, apparently not in your land of make- believe.

Not in anybody's who is being honest.

If you always appoint qualified candidates and I never appoint qualified candidates and a study concludes that your candidates receive high marks from the ABA more often than mine, that is not because the ABA is biased. It's because your appointees are better qualified!

Duh.

Duh is right. You can’t even follow the argument.
Moreover, despite the ABA’s previous documented bias its unanimous  endorsement of Kavanaugh is “ highly qualified” , which makes it more meaningful.
If you really paid attention to the hearings and the testimony of everyone you might realize the left could never do better than Kavanaugh especially on voting rights.
But no one here would expect our global moderator to get past the democrat talking points.

[REDSTATEWARD]

The GOP is full of shit.

The democrats only have themselves to blame.

Red, look up the phrase "locus of control."

That's when you cannot accept responsibility for your own conduct, but must blame others.

"It's not our fault we act this way - you made us behave unethically!"

Um. The GOP’s behavior is not being questioned.
The hearing protests and defiant questioning by democrat-wannabe Presidential candidates leading the way are the stuff of five-year old brats.

Pretty funny coming from a member of President Trump's party.

Guess you didn’t follow the hearings.

Your party dumps 42,000 documents the night before the hearings are starting, then it refuses to delay the hearings until there is time to review them.

And you think the Democrats' behavior is out of line?

Guess you don't follow rules of conduct.

Still.

Since the democrats have already stated they will not support ANY GOP nominee their feigned tantrum is laughable. No wonder they are a minority party.

Using that reasoning, the GOP should be the minority party.

But since they didn't actually say that, you just made it up, your feigned argument is vaporware.

Except they did.

[josh]

How do we know that Kavanaugh is bad for America?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/nra-says-it-ll-spend-at-least-1-million-on-pro-kavanaugh-ads

It's going to take a million dollars in ads to sell him to America.

No wonder the NRA says they are in financial difficulties.

[josh]

Why do you keep asking Red that?  Red doesn't give a damn about right or wrong.  He's amoral.   

It's a rhetorical device.

I don't give a damn about Red's answer. He's amoral, on the best days.

[josh]

"Controlling for several objective credentials, Lindgren found that, for nominees without prior judicial experience, Clinton nominees were nearly ten times more likely than Bush nominees to be rated as well qualified"

That's not evidence of bias, fool.

Well, apparently not in your land of make- believe.

Not in anybody's who is being honest.

If you always appoint qualified candidates and I never appoint qualified candidates and a study concludes that your candidates receive high marks from the ABA more often than mine, that is not because the ABA is biased. It's because your appointees are better qualified!

Duh.

Duh is right. You can’t even follow the argument.

Like I said.

Not anybody who's being honest.

You?

Almost never are you being honest.

[josh]

The GOP is full of shit.

The democrats only have themselves to blame.

Red, look up the phrase "locus of control."

That's when you cannot accept responsibility for your own conduct, but must blame others.

"It's not our fault we act this way - you made us behave unethically!"

Um. The GOP’s behavior is not being questioned.
The hearing protests and defiant questioning by democrat-wannabe Presidential candidates leading the way are the stuff of five-year old brats.

Pretty funny coming from a member of President Trump's party.

Guess you didn’t follow the hearings.

Your party dumps 42,000 documents the night before the hearings are starting, then it refuses to delay the hearings until there is time to review them.

And you think the Democrats' behavior is out of line?

Guess you don't follow rules of conduct.

Still.

Since the democrats have already stated they will not support ANY GOP nominee their feigned tantrum is laughable. No wonder they are a minority party.

Using that reasoning, the GOP should be the minority party.

But since they didn't actually say that, you just made it up, your feigned argument is vaporware.

Except they did.

Your usual quality of support for your argument. "Did too!"

Followed by your ignoring the key point and trying to blame others for your party's bad conduct instead of just saying, like an honest person, "Yeah, they should have delayed the hearings if they were going to dump that much information the night before they were due to start."

So hard for you to behave like a decent human being.

I can hear you, now: "It's the Democrats' own fault that I am a sucky human being."

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/hacked-material-nrcc-dccc/index.html

The GOP blames the Dems for the GOP's decision to refuse to swear off using hacked material in the ads. Why? Because the Dem doing the negotiations was asked how the negotiations were going and he said he thought they were close.

No, really!

Stivers thought that was a way to put pressure on him, so he backed off. So what if the reason the question got asked is because Stivers told the media about the conversations.

Everybody in the GOP who argues argues like that, it seems.

[REDSTATEWARD]

The GOP is full of shit.

The democrats only have themselves to blame.

Red, look up the phrase "locus of control."

That's when you cannot accept responsibility for your own conduct, but must blame others.

"It's not our fault we act this way - you made us behave unethically!"

Um. The GOP’s behavior is not being questioned.
The hearing protests and defiant questioning by democrat-wannabe Presidential candidates leading the way are the stuff of five-year old brats.

Pretty funny coming from a member of President Trump's party.

Guess you didn’t follow the hearings.

Your party dumps 42,000 documents the night before the hearings are starting, then it refuses to delay the hearings until there is time to review them.

And you think the Democrats' behavior is out of line?

Guess you don't follow rules of conduct.

Still.

Since the democrats have already stated they will not support ANY GOP nominee their feigned tantrum is laughable. No wonder they are a minority party.

Using that reasoning, the GOP should be the minority party.

But since they didn't actually say that, you just made it up, your feigned argument is vaporware.

Except they did.

Your usual quality of support for your argument. "Did too!"

Trump said he would be choosing Kennedy's replacement from a list of 25-individuals released shortly after the 2016 presidential election by his transition team.

Before President Trump has declared a new nominee, Democrats stated every person being considered is already disqualified
They're demanding Trump "ditch the list" and come up with candidates that meet their leftist standards of constitutional revision.


Here’s the list.

Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Keith Blackwell of Georgia, Supreme Court of Georgia
Charles Canady of Florida, Supreme Court of Florida
Steven Colloton of Iowa, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Allison Eid of Colorado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Britt Grant of Georgia, Supreme Court of Georgia
Raymond Gruender of Missouri, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Brett Kavanaugh of Maryland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Raymond Kethledge of Michigan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Joan Larsen of Michigan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Mike Lee of Utah, United States Senator
Thomas Lee of Utah, Supreme Court of Utah
Edward Mansfield of Iowa, Supreme Court of Iowa
Federico Moreno of Florida, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Kevin Newsom of Alabama, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
William Pryor of Alabama, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Margaret Ryan of Virginia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
David Stras of Minnesota, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Diane Sykes of Wisconsin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Amul Thapar of Kentucky, U.S. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Timothy Tymkovich of Colorado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Robert Young of Michigan, Supreme Court of Michigan (Ret.)
Don Willett of Texas, Supreme Court of Texas
Patrick Wyrick of Oklahoma, Supreme Court of Oklahoma