New SCOTUS Judge II: The Wrath of Kavanaugh

[Imhotep]

Heitkamp comes out and says she is a "no"!

A few hours later its announced that the National Republican Committee is cancelling some ad buys in ND.

translation; she is toast.

She's toast because the Republicans are cancelling ads? Are you saying they were ads that supported her, a Democrat?

 

[Belz...]

"The Triangle Truthers."

Facts don't matter anymore. All that matters is what you want to believe.

 

[The Big Dog]

She's toast because the Republicans are cancelling ads? Are you saying they were ads that supported her, a Democrat?

It means that they think that their money is better spent in other races where the Dem is not yet toast. She tried to posture herself as an independent, but is going to vote on party lines after the FBI report? silly.

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

The media, including partisan media, will continue to investigate. Kavanaugh will be confirmed, but it won't be over.

If they actually find convincing evidence of assault, I think he would even be impeached. Of course, as justice rehnquist noted in his book, impeachment is ultimately a political process, so it might depend on who wins the intervening elections.

I think there is precisely 0% chance of removal. Impeachment from the House would be a tiny possibility, but no chance of actual removal.

 

[acbytesla]

She's toast because the Republicans are cancelling ads? Are you saying they were ads that supported her, a Democrat?

This is going to be straight party vote. The only question is about a few Republican Senators. Kavanaugh is wholly unacceptable to the Democrats and that is without any accusations of sexual misconduct or the discovery of his dishonesty. Under other circumstances, his name would have been withdrawn by the Republicans well before this.

 

[Ziggurat]

I'll remember that the next time you cite professsionals in their fields.

Please do. You'll be waiting a long time, though.

 

[Aridas]

No one seems much interested in the lying from the man, only the stuff that's difficult to corroborate from the women.

Okay, carry on not caring that this lying pile of poo is about to be confirmed to the US Supreme Court.

Ehh... I can verify that I think much the reverse of that. I'm notably more interested in the lying than the maybe assault on Ford. The lying (and partisanship, and a few other issues) has direct impact on how fit he is to do the job. Bad behavior while drunk when he's young, not so much. If he forthrightly had admitted that he messed up while young, but has since quite changed his ways (preferably with a little evidence), I'd be rather annoyed at any Democrats hounding much further there, no less. That's obviously not the case here, though.

(Note: Democratic staffer doxxing people? Swetnick fabricating her story? Again, if these are true, throw the book at them.)

Indeed. If a Democrat did wrong, punish them. If a person intentionally gave false testimony, punish them. Just don't pretend that a Democrat acting badly excuses Republicans acting badly or means that they shouldn't be punished for their actions.

So I am torn. I certainly want at least a Democratic House and I realize the next nominee is likely to be another white anti-choice, anti-people dinosaur so why not let lying rapey boy through?

If one were to be pragmatically political, it's almost a catch-22. "Rapey boy" getting through would likely motivate their base... but only if their base thinks that they were doing all they could reasonably do to oppose it. Just letting him get through would conversely likely lower the enthusiasm of their base, because it would be seen as yet another example of the Democrats not seriously fighting for them.

FBI Report: "After being denied the ability to investigate corroborating witnesses we found no corroborating witnesses"

And being denied the ability to accept voluntarily submitted direct testimony on the topic, by the look of it.

As a side note, there's a rather interesting side note in that article.

Among the questions asked by the FBI there’s one where the response was particularly interesting. Ramirez was asked “how reporters got her name” and reported that she “began receiving calls from reporters unbidden.”

That’s interesting because—no Democratic senator had her name. There was no handwritten letter to blame for her name reaching the press. No possibility that it was spilled by a Democratic staffer.

The only people who knew about the incident between Deborah Ramirez and Brett Kavanaugh were those who witnessed it at Yale … and possibly people who were informed by Kavanaugh. If there was some leak that brought Ramirez into the limelight, it came from the Republican side. And considering that more than one potential witness reported Kavanaugh attempting to contact them before Ramirez had stepped forward, it seems very likely that it was Kavanaugh himself who triggered those reporters’ phone calls to Ramirez.

 

[acbytesla]

It means that they think that their money is better spent in other races where the Dem is not yet toast. She tried to posture herself as an independent, but is going to vote on party lines after the FBI report? silly.

Oh, you think she said she was going to vote no and on that the GOP cancelled it's planned ads there Just because of that? Or maybe it's because Cramer has had a 7 to 10 point lead since June?

 

[The Big Dog]

TALKING POINTS RELEASED: Oh well, we will be hearing that the FBI investigation was a "sham" for the next few days, not because of the people they interviewed (including Rameriz) but because of the people they didn't.

FBI: we interviewed all the witnesses contemporaneous with the event.
Ford's lawyer: But what about the women she told in 2018 at the beach?
FBI: (rolls eyes)
Democrat party: SHAM!

 

[eeyore1954]

Over 3000 architects and engineers are calling for a new investigation into the World Trade Center.

Thank you. You beat me to that response.

 

[Imhotep]

Oh, you think she said she was going to vote no and on that the GOP cancelled it's planned ads there Just because of that? Or maybe it's because Cramer has had a 7 to 10 point lead since June?

fivethirtyeight has her at 31.4% chance of winning and says ND is the fourth most Republican state in the the country.

 

[Stacyhs]

Over 3000 architects and engineers are calling for a new investigation into the World Trade Center.

Link please?

 

[The Big Dog]

More on the Devil's Triangle; One of his classmates said that he "invented" the name.

https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1047930830012796928

Why didn't the FBI interview him? SHAMALAM!

 

[acbytesla]

fivethirtyeight has her at 31.4% chance of winning and says ND is the fourth most Republican state in the the country.

I was surprised she won 6 years ago.

 

[johnny karate]

Please do. You'll be waiting a long time, though.

You, a few months ago:

I don't think you really understand self-defense law, and "stand your ground" in particular. Florida law isn't as different as commonly portrayed. For an analysis from an actual legal expert on the topic:
Law of Self Defense VIDEO: Just because it’s lawful to present the gun doesn’t mean it’s lawful to press the trigger
Law of Self Defense: VIDEO: Shove-Shoot Case Sheriff’s Statement

 

[johnny karate]

Thank you. You beat me to that response.

You were also going to respond with an irrelevant BS truther claim?

Why?

 

[acbytesla]

More on the Devil's Triangle; One of his classmates said that he "invented" the name.

https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1047930830012796928

Why didn't the FBI interview him? SHAMALAM!

Yeah, sure.

 

[eeyore1954]

Right, but what of Kavanaugh's demeanor in the hearing?

Oh, that's right. You'd rather ignore that.

I feel his demeanor in the hearings was not that bad considering the circumstances from his point of view.

 

[johnny karate]

Over 3000 architects and engineers are calling for a new investigation into the World Trade Center.

In your ham-fisted attempt to equate Kavanaugh’s detractors with conspiracy theorists, you just presented a false claim made by conspiracy theorists as fact.

I’m quite certain the irony is lost on you.

 

[crescent]

Over 3000 architects and engineers are calling for a new investigation into the World Trade Center.

Thank you. You beat me to that response.

Link please?

A whole lot of the "Architects for 911 truth" (or whatever they called themselves) were not architects, or had lower level degrees.

Note that the claim is not that 1700 lawyers have signed the petition - it is that 1700 Law Professors signed it.

This is different from the 9-11 Architects for Truth in two ways:

1: Getting a law degree and passing the bar (being a lawyer) is generally harder than getting the sorts of Bachelor's Degrees and other crap that many of the Architects for (non)Truth have.

2: Getting a professorship is even harder.

If 3000 Professors of Architecture called for an investigation into 9-11, I would take that seriously. That stupid 9-11 group was full of people with lower level degrees, or irrelevant degrees, or no degrees at all but they had played with legos. There were a handful of real professionals in the mix, but much of the people who signed on were not actual architects. We know that, there were hundreds of pages in this forum going over that.

Actual University or College professors are, for the most part, going to be functioning at a higher level than that. That said, I am sure of the people signing on are not actually qualified, or are "Professors" in name only or of backdoor/basement diploma mills. Still, just limiting it to professors is going to make for a much more selective list than that 9-11 crank group.