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Belz... said:
Wow, pages used to load faster than that when I had a 2400 bps modem.
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It's always been a bit slow where I live - and I'm in the same tiny state :D. They could also just be getting a lot of views all of a sudden, though.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
exactly.

Problem is: for 30 years or so he has been groomed to one day sit on the Supreme Court: Evangelicals and Federalists have invested a lot in him. They would consider him a failure if he gave up the fight for some noble personal reason that goes against their Greater Good of overturning Chevron Deference.
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I don't understand why the Federalist Society would not have dug out his past and disqualified him long ago. From what I understand they are all pretty tight group, so it seems like they would have had these discussions within the circle. I don't get it.
 
In the unlikely event that the Kavanaugh nomination goes down in flames, a lot of people might be pushing for Amy Coney Barrett, and she seems just as bad from an agenda perspective.
 
sylvan8798 said:
In the unlikely event that the Kavanaugh nomination goes down in flames, a lot of people might be pushing for Amy Coney Barrett, and she seems just as bad from an agenda perspective.
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Oh, I agree... in fact anyone that Trump nominates will likely be horrible from a personal right's perspective.

But, at least Kavanaugh provides an embarrassment to Trump and the republicans, something that hopefully people will remember come mid-terms and/or the 2020 elections.. "Oh yeah, the republicans were the ones who wanted to nominate the guy who liked to get drunk and molest women".
 
sylvan8798 said:
I don't understand why the Federalist Society would not have dug out his past and disqualified him long ago. From what I understand they are all pretty tight group, so it seems like they would have had these discussions within the circle. I don't get it.
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This seems like the exact blind spot a group of people pretending to be sexually repressed in order to force it onto everyone else would have. It's not the type of thing they can comfortably talk about.
 
Belz... said:
Incredible, isn't it? Trump is such a horrible person that the mere thought of nominating someone decent would essentially be against his religion.
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It's the bargain he made only nominating people shortlisted by the Federalist Society in order to court the white evangelical vote.
 
sylvan8798 said:
I don't understand why the Federalist Society would not have dug out his past and disqualified him long ago. From what I understand they are all pretty tight group, so it seems like they would have had these discussions within the circle. I don't get it.
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Looks like they need more diversity to get out of their groupthink.
 
Stacko said:
I don't understand why the Federalist Society would not have dug out his past and disqualified him long ago. From what I understand they are all pretty tight group, so it seems like they would have had these discussions within the circle. I don't get it.
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This seems like the exact blind spot a group of people pretending to be sexually repressed in order to force it onto everyone else would have. It's not the type of thing they can comfortably talk about.
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And not only that, its not like they actually have the investigative powers of something like the FBI (nor do they have the ability to subpoena witnesses).
 
Belz... said:
Incredible, isn't it? Trump is such a horrible person that the mere thought of nominating someone decent would essentially be against his religion.
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Dolt 45 is a symptom. Again, the GOP has long been hostile to many personal rights - Roberts had worked against the Voting Rights Act for decades before being placed on the supreme court, as one of the more obvious examples, And the truth is that Mitch McConnell is a far savvier source for decaying personal rights than Cheeto Benito is (and without the white supremacism and sexual assaults as far as I know). His main problem was that he got into power right around the same time as the first black president, marriage equality, and increase in the percentage of nonwhite citizens, and the like were causing his base voters to lose their minds with anger and fear.
 
sylvan8798 said:
I don't understand why the Federalist Society would not have dug out his past and disqualified him long ago. From what I understand they are all pretty tight group, so it seems like they would have had these discussions within the circle. I don't get it.
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Why would you think they give a single **** about crimes committed against women? I'm sure they think "How was she dressed?" is an important question.
 
eeyore1954 said:
Do you feel if the accusations are untrue the dignified thing to do is to withdraw?
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Yes. If you have a belief that the office is greater than the man then why would you wish to potentially damage that office by insisting you have to be the next justice? Sometimes to live your ideals and beliefs means you will lose out for no fault of your own.
 
Salient points:

The New Yorker admits it has not confirmed through eyewitnesses Kavanaugh was even present at the party and other students who knew Kavanaugh said they never heard of the incident.

“The New Yorker has not confirmed with other eyewitnesses that Kavanaugh was present at the party.”
“In a statement, two of those male classmates who Ramirez alleged were involved in the incident, the wife of a third male student she said was involved, and three other classmates, Dino Ewing, Louisa Garry, and Dan Murphy, disputed Ramirez’s account of events…”
“We were the people closest to Brett Kavanaugh during his first year at Yale. He was a roommate to some of us, and we spent a great deal of time with him, including in the dorm where this incident allegedly took place.”
“Some of us were also friends with Debbie Ramirez during and after her time at Yale. We can say with confidence that if the incident Debbie alleges ever occurred, we would have seen or heard about it—and we did not.”
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Babbylonian said:
I don't understand why the Federalist Society would not have dug out his past and disqualified him long ago. From what I understand they are all pretty tight group, so it seems like they would have had these discussions within the circle. I don't get it.
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Why would you think they give a single **** about crimes committed against women? I'm sure they think "How was she dressed?" is an important question.
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Oh, I'm pretty sure they don't care about any sort of crime against women (or minorities, etc.) But, in order to get their agenda implemented, they have to get republican politicians elected, and that means appealing to voters.

Now, granted, the continued ~40% approval rating for Trump shows that there is a large portion of the american electorate that is racist/bigoted/sexist. But they need over 50% (or at least close to it) to win elections, and associating with people with sexual assault in their background might negatively affect a few potential voters. They need to keep their sexism masked in order to get their policies implemented.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
very credible, IMO, especially given how Trump isn't shielding anyone from the Mueller probe with anything but Tweets.
Also, this theory has been around ever since Kennedy announced he would step down.
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After I posted that I thought about Trump's pardon power so I guess he does have something to offer after all.
 
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