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Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Razgovory

#19980
September 27, 2018, 04:12:23 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 27, 2018, 02:11:03 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 27, 2018, 02:06:20 PM
Stick a fork in Kavanaugh.

I haven't seen any of the hearing. Is it really that bad for him?


He broke down.  Trump hates anything that looks like weakness.  He'll be withdrawn tomorrow.
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11B4V

#19981
September 27, 2018, 04:15:40 PM
They will still jam him through.
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Legbiter

#19982
September 27, 2018, 04:16:29 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on September 27, 2018, 04:15:40 PM
They will still jam him through.

Would be surprising if they did not.
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garbon

#19983
September 27, 2018, 04:19:25 PM
Clearly he has to be lying. He's the only person in the history of drinking/partying who has never had times where he didn't remember details of what happened the night before? :yeahright:
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OttoVonBismarck

#19984
September 27, 2018, 05:27:22 PM
Having watched all the testimony thus far, I honestly don't fully believe Ford. I suspect something may have happened to her, but I'm not convinced she knows who did it and think there's a chance she's "projecting" some unpleasant childhood memory onto a face where her real memory doesn't actually know who did this.

I actually don't think Kavanaugh has any recollection of doing this, if he did it. I think he was a regular black out drunk, and I think it's very obvious that he's lying about being a blackout drunk. Technically those lies alone are perjury and disqualifying, regardless of the truth of what's going on with Ford.

garbon

#19985
September 27, 2018, 05:45:56 PM
What an American ending to that hearing.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Admiral Yi

#19986
September 27, 2018, 05:48:45 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 27, 2018, 02:11:03 PM
I haven't seen any of the hearing. Is it really that bad for him?

I watched two clips.  One was of Ford recounting Teh Incident, and I found her credible.  The other was of Kavanaugh bitching about the 10 day delay giving a chance for people to come forward with more false accusations.  Trying to play the High Tech Lynching card and not carrying it off.

The Minsky Moment

#19987
September 27, 2018, 05:48:47 PM
That was a crazy opening speech by a candidate for judicial office. He openly accused the Democrats on the committee of orchestrating a coordinated conspiracy against him. Brett - that kind of talk is what your Fox News surrogates are for.

This is still a judicial confirmation, he still needs to make the case he can serve as a fair arbiter of politically tinged disputes.  Today he undermined that case.
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The Minsky Moment

#19988
September 27, 2018, 05:53:09 PM
Also what were the Senate Republicans thinking with Mitchell?  You can't do a proper cross if you're interrupted every 5 minutes.  Also you don't use a career prosecutor to conduct a cross-examination - prosecutors don't get many cross-examination reps because defendants rarely testify.  And you certainly don't bring in a career sex crimes prosecutor to go after a victim - Mitchell's heart wasn't in it and who can blame her.
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Eddie Teach

#19989
September 27, 2018, 05:55:50 PM
His audience was the handful of Senate Republicans on the fence. I don't think attacking Dems hurt him.
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Admiral Yi

#19990
September 27, 2018, 06:06:06 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on September 27, 2018, 05:55:50 PM
His audience was the handful of Senate Republicans on the fence. I don't think attacking Dems hurt him.

The Senate is traditionally more collegial than the House.  I don't think you win any points with Collins and Murkowski by attacking fellow senators.

FunkMonk

#19991
September 27, 2018, 08:46:02 PM
Either she is lying, which is horrible, or he is lying, which is also horrible.

Not a good day for the republic.
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The Minsky Moment

#19992
September 27, 2018, 09:03:14 PM
It's hard to imagine that Collins came out today with happy feelings about this nomination. I don't envy her position.
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Valmy

#19993
September 27, 2018, 10:24:04 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on September 27, 2018, 05:55:50 PM
His audience was the handful of Senate Republicans on the fence. I don't think attacking Dems hurt him.

Does coming off as a partisan nutcase mean you are fit to be on the Supreme Court? I suppose. Why not?
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jimmy olsen

#19994
September 27, 2018, 10:58:14 PM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on September 27, 2018, 02:16:47 PM
In my opinion, he's certainly coming off like trash in his testimony.  The inner bully is certainly surfacing.

It was the kind of behavior that made me go, yeah this guy looks like he would make a mean drunk.
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