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Betsy on this one put aside all the partisan pro Trump crap. Had this candidate been picked by the Democrats you would be the first to scream bloody murder over his competency. Partisanship colours how people consider their candidates and it makes them willing to be blind to common sense and decency. This man is a Yale graduate. Its all about his connections. If he did not have those connections he would have never been considered. He is part of the very elitist establishment Trump claims he is draining the swamp of. Let's be very clear. He demonstrated anger, lack of impulse control and said things during the hearing that exhibit precisely the kind of demeanour that does NOT belong on any bench let alone the highest court of the land in the US. He failed to control himself and carry himself with decency, tact and diplomacy. There are no excuses. In fact Kavanough showed he exact same character flaws, psychological issues and lack of morality Trump does-he's a photocopy of Trump. Trump is a narcissist and will surround himself as a result with people who reflect his own perceived behaviour. Trump went out and found an ignorant, foul mouthed bully. Gee what a surprise. Then you had the US President doing what he does, standing up in front of a partisan crowd of trained monkeys belittling and ridiculing the witness no different then he once did with a disabled journalist. Trump is a pathetic excuse of a bully using his position to insult, abuse and divide.. You had the US President, a man who brags about copping a feel and who treats his own wife like a piece of garbage for the whole public to see defending this man and portraying him as a victim. If that is the kind of Christian values you would champion so be it. For heaven's sake Betsy, no one with any basic sense of decency would defend Trump or this Kavanough after what went down. You want this man marrying your daughter? Really? This is what it comes down to that you will apologize and look the other way on such people? Let's get back to basic values of courtesy, respect, tolerance, gentility. Or do you want to keep going with this primal behaviour? Just as Trump can't get any lower, he does. Ridiculing a witness? Why would someone, anyone, let alone a President engage in such slovenly behaviour. Someone needed to take Trump outside and break his nose years ago when he first pulled this crap. I grew up with plenty of Trumps. Nothing a broken nose wouldn't have fixed. You are defending privileged snot faced bastards.

Yes, but Jesus' main message was to love one another, to help one another, that money was unimportant, that those who seek to accumulate wealth would be barred from heaven. All of this is directly opposed to all of your political beliefs, especially with regard to the US. Your love of Donald Trump is more important to you than your love of Jesus Christ. Not just my opinion. https://pulpitandpen.org/2017/05/02/false-teacher-of-the-day-4-lance-wallnau/

Facts? You want Facts?

US GDP growth is coming at the expense of a 1.3 trillion deficit, gutting environmental protections and boosted by tax cuts that aren't paid for. How come it is only Canadian deficits that upset you, even though ours is less than 1/50th of theirs while our population is just 1/10th of theirs.

"Why do people think Trump supporters are stupid?" I saw this posted on social media, but I think it about sums it up.

Perhaps men should just stay home and not put themselves in situations where they can be falsely accused. These things wouldn't happen if they would just not go to bars and drink or just not go out at night. They should also dress in a way that makes them less threatening to women to avoid false allegations.

Every generation has its counterculture. McLuhan wrote about that. It's in Greek tragedy, Orestes winning his innocence in a trial. New beats old essentially.

A very thoughtful if worrisome interview with Chris Hedges on the current state of affairs:

Let me try this again, slowly and using as many one-syllable words as possible: The essay was not about Trump beyond his serving the ultimate goals of the Republican party. Your expectation that your opinion should be taken more seriously than someone who has spent a lifetime studying Nazi Germany is laughable. The arrogance of your assumption that a smattering of historical knowledge should qualify you to dismiss someone's life work is pretty astounding. This is on the same scale of breathtakingly stupid as people who still think vaccinations cause autism, that the earth is flat and that men never landed on the moon. Reply as you will, I have no interest in engaging with someone with as much hubris as you've demonstrated.

That's really the (economic) bottom line....the climate change alarmists will never prevail by trying to stop the party.

No, the politics of Garland's expired nomination would not allow for that. Why would Trump nominate a previous Obama nominee, regardless of the Ford-Kavanaugh drama ? There is a lot of esoteric background on the process, like the Thurmond Rule, Biden Rule, and Democrat's decision to change Senate rules for super-majority voting (so called nuclear option) that came back to bite them in the ass. Kavanaugh and Ford just happened to be the current pawns in this longstanding game.

My "moral and ethical case" is about me figuring out what is actually happening, rather than just braying about Trudeau. I took the time to read a veteran's perspective, which was full of information. That is actually my responsibility as member of the public. Thanks to the dialogue between myself and that veteran I have some information I can use as a member of the public. Saying "pay the MPs zero and give the money to veterans" is a rock-headed stupid opinion that helps nobody. People with such opinions are better to shut their mouths than create more noise. Loud caterwauling is not "public opinion", it's useless and doesn't help the situation. I won't put up with vain idiots saying that they have a monopoly on caring or on patriotism. They have blown off their public responsibilities so they should be ignored IMO.

Right-wingers here: let's not bother reading the article, assume what it says and then argue against our assumptions. Because if there is anything right wingers are good at, it's arguing against what wasn't said and what hasn't happened.

"I can't imagine what the country would be with Donald Trump...[It's]time for us to move to New Zealand...[Trump is a] faker...He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego." --Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 7/14/16 But Kavanaugh too partisan ?

Sources: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Di5Fcx3XcAEjoL1.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Di5F4ZeXsAAnqEq.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Di5GXCqXgAEyRNc.jpg:large https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/publikationen/verfassungsschutzberichte/vsbericht-2017