US politics general thread

[Cray]

Source: Rachel Mitchell Memo Lists ‘Weaknesses’ in Ford Claim: READ
Is this why they got her to do the questioning perhaps? To convince the only voters who matter, GOP senators?

“While I am a registered Republican, I am not a political or partisan person,” she wrote.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I feel for victims of sexual assault in Maricopa County if this is how they're treated by prosecutors there. Badger the victim for hours, doesn't talk to the perpetrator with any substance at all, doesn't consider or even mention any of the very relevant information, including the multiple inconsistencies and lies he told.

But yes, that was always the point of this exercise, wasn't it? Sham hearing to give them cover to ram him through.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

New NAFTA deal:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...hats-it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f9201cca531f

How to kill the economic driver of illegal immigration 101

The driver of illegal immigration (from Mexico) is a worsening Mexican economy. Their economy was getting stronger before Trump came into office, which is why illegal immigration was at a 46 year low.

Anyway, those things are good.

The irony is that USMCA = NAFTA + TPP ( both of which Trump called disasters) + more expensive cars.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ta-pact-looks-more-rebranding-than-revolution

 

[cerebus]

I feel for victims of sexual assault in Maricopa County if this is how they're treated by prosecutors there. Badger the victim for hours, doesn't talk to the perpetrator with any substance at all, doesn't consider or even mention any of the very relevant information, including the multiple inconsistencies and lies he told.

But yes, that was always the point of this exercise, wasn't it? Sham hearing to give them cover to ram him through.

In all fairness it was very important for the investigation to find out exactly who paid for her polygraph.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Let's check in on how that "anti-conservative bias" on social media is doing...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1046790425544204291

Sources of the top performing FB posts about Kavanaugh in the last 24 hours, per CrowdTangle:

1. Fox News
2. Occupy Democrats
3. Ben Shapiro
4. Sid Miller (Texas ag commissioner notorious for posting false news)
5. Ben Shapiro
6. Fox News

Sources of the top performing FB posts about Dr. Ford in the last 24 hours, per CrowdTangle:

1. Fox News
2. Breitbart
3. Ben Shapiro
4. Ben Shapiro
5. Daily Caller
6. Bernie Sanders
7. Fox News

Also, Facebook's VP for Public Policy was at the hearing supporting Kavanaugh, FB exclusively donated to Republican congressmembers last cycle, and 2 of FB's VP's spouses were featured in pro-Kavanaugh ads.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[OrbitalDawn]

White collar crime enjoying the GOP-led government.

After Budget Cuts, the IRS’ Work Against Tax Cheats Is Facing “Collapse”

The result is huge losses for the government. Business owners don’t pay $125 billion in taxes each year that they owe, according to IRS estimates. That’s enough to finance the departments of State, Energy and Homeland Security, with NASA tossed in for good measure. Unlike wage earners who have their income separately reported to the IRS, business owners are often on the honor system.

 

[cerebus]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...-must-do-real-investigation-kavanaugh-n915511

Flake: FBI must do a 'real investigation' of Kavanaugh

BOSTON — Sen. Jeff Flake said Monday he was working with the White House counsel's office to ensure that the FBI is able to do a "real investigation" into allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

"We certainly want the FBI to do a real investigation and we are working to make sure that happens. I've had discussions, many yesterday, with my colleagues, with the White House counsel's office, my staff is following up as well. I had one of those conversations just five minutes ago to make sure that the — that any current credible allegation that has been made has been fully investigated," he said at the Forbes' Under 30 Summit.



am I delusional or did Jeff Flake suddenly grow a spine?

 

[cerebus]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...udley-demrys-police-report-ice-glass-ear.html

To the growing corpus of unflattering anecdotes about Kavanaugh’s drinking comes a New York Times report Monday that Kavanaugh was involved in a late night barroom melee at Yale that led to the then-junior being questioned by the New Haven Police Department over what the police report described as “an assault.”



This dude had and quite possibly still has a drinking problem.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...udley-demrys-police-report-ice-glass-ear.html

To the growing corpus of unflattering anecdotes about Kavanaugh’s drinking comes a New York Times report Monday that Kavanaugh was involved in a late night barroom melee at Yale that led to the then-junior being questioned by the New Haven Police Department over what the police report described as “an assault.”



This dude had and quite possibly still has a drinking problem.

Trump seems to think so.

 

[RanzB]

Text messages suggest Kavanaugh wanted to refute accuser's claim before it became public

[B]Scott Stedman[/B]‏ @[B]ScottMStedman[/B]

Scott Stedman Retweeted Michael Del Moro


PROOF: The FBI has text messages that show Kavanaugh was in touch with Ramirez's mutual friends to go on the record to support him. Kavanaugh said under oath that he first learned of Ramirez's allegations "in the New Yorker story.”

HATCH: When did you first hear of Ms. Ramirez’s allegations against you?
KAVANAUGH: In the last — in the period since then, the New Yorker story.​

M'uh credibility?

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Text messages suggest Kavanaugh wanted to refute accuser's claim before it became public





M'uh credibility?

This Kavanaugh doesn't seem bright enough to be a judge, to be honest.

 

[Cray]

This Kavanaugh doesn't seem bright enough to be a judge, to be honest.

A Trump nominee through and through...

 

[rietrot]

Let's check in on how that "anti-conservative bias" on social media is doing...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1046790425544204291

Also, Facebook's VP for Public Policy was at the hearing supporting Kavanaugh, FB exclusively donated to Republican congressmembers last cycle, and 2 of FB's VP's spouses were featured in pro-Kavanaugh ads.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lol. Brilliant to see the fake news losing even with help.

 

[greg0205]

You know, it's the little things that redeem Trumpists every time... :

GOP Congressional Candidate Blames LGBTQ Rights Law on Illiterate Black Heathens

A Republican Trump supporter running for Congress informed her Twitter followers last week that a new law protecting the rights of the LGBTQ community only passed because black people in Cleveland are illiterate and don’t attend weekly worship services.

That’s the gospel according to Beverly Goldstein, the Republican candidate for Ohio’s 11th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Goldstein took to Twitter to boost her congressional campaign and promote the Republican anti-gay, “religious freedom” ministry by asking everyone in the Cleveland area to turn to their neighbor and say something homophobic.

According to the Plain Dealer, on Tuesday, Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Council joined 20 other municipalities in Ohio that have passed ordinances banning discrimination of the basis of sexual preference and gender identity or expression. The new laws “target equal access to employment, housing, and public accommodations, including access to public bathrooms and locker rooms” and creates a three-person Commission on Human Rights to levy fines and order protections in cases of discrimination.

But Goldstein, a self-described MAGA-Ohioan running against black Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-OH) suggested that the pro-LGBTQ rights legislation is directly tied to illiteracy in Cleveland’s inner city and pleaded for a legal challenge to the newly-created law that simply extended the same legal protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people that had already been afforded to the already protected classes of race, color, religion, military status, national origin, disability, age, ancestry, familial status and sex.

“If CCC [Cuyahoga County Council] had LITERATE inner-city church-attending Black voters following this issue=entirely opposite outcome,” Goldstein tweeted, apparently using the Donald Trump Stylebook for Grammar and Capitalization.

Oh, for the fake news fans...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1044827431314608128

 

[rietrot]

Oh, for the fake news fans...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1044827431314608128

Whats fake about that?

 

[greg0205]

Whats fake about that?

Well, I linked to an article discussing her tweet... and because we live in a post-fact world, I felt there was nothing for it but to go to Goldstein's Twitter account and link to the actual tweet too, you know, before it's dismissed as "fake news".
Named source and article... Tah Dah!

 

[rietrot]

Well, I linked to an article discussing her tweet... and because we live in a post-fact world, I felt there was nothing for it but to go to Goldstein's Twitter account and link to the actual tweet too, you know, before it's dismissed as "fake news".
Named source and article... Tah Dah!

There is nothing fake about it. Just the truth.(her tweet)


Okay I found the fake news(your news source)

Goldstein took to Twitter to boost her congressional campaign and promote the Republican anti-gay, “religious freedom” ministry by asking everyone in the Cleveland area to turn to their neighbor and say something homophobic.

Can you back this part up with a tweet from her, please.

 

[greg0205]

There is nothing fake about it. Just the truth.

Exactly.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Trump Administration to Deny Visas to Same-Sex Partners of Diplomats, U.N. Officials

 

[rietrot]

Exactly.

Please see my edit.