It's the sixth version of The Swamp. What could possibly go wrong?
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Oh man - that is the perfect corrective to today's beatification!Johnnie wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:23 pmOk, your post is the first I've heard of Chapo Trap House. And I was just reading something a minute ago about their podcast.
And I'm like..."Wait, what?"
Just downloaded their latest episode (number 240) and it's a McCainapalooza of hysterical filthy political talk. It's outstanding.
Gunna have to get that book.
It is getting worse.
WaPo wrote:An assertion by a white gubernatorial candidate that Florida voters can't afford to "monkey this up" by voting for his black opponent was widely viewed as a "dog whistle" to rally racists.
If it were a dog whistle — and GOP candidate Ron DeSantis denies any racial intent against Democrat Andrew Gillum — then a jungle music-scored robo-call that has circulated in Florida is more akin to a bullhorn.
If nothing else, the minute-long audio clip is a clear sign of how quickly racism — subtle in some cases, overt in others — has entered the contest to determine who will lead Florida.
"Well, hello there,” the call begins as the sounds of drums and monkeys can be heard in the background, according to the New York Times. “I is Andrew Gillum."
"We Negroes . . . done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an' stone."
The speaker goes on to say he'll pass a law letting African Americans evade arrest “if the Negro know fo' sho' he didn't do nothin'." ...
I unfriended a couple of guys (friends of a friend who went to school in Florida) who thought that the calls of racism at the first monkey comment were way out of line.sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:57 amIt is getting worse.WaPo wrote:An assertion by a white gubernatorial candidate that Florida voters can't afford to "monkey this up" by voting for his black opponent was widely viewed as a "dog whistle" to rally racists.
If it were a dog whistle — and GOP candidate Ron DeSantis denies any racial intent against Democrat Andrew Gillum — then a jungle music-scored robo-call that has circulated in Florida is more akin to a bullhorn.
If nothing else, the minute-long audio clip is a clear sign of how quickly racism — subtle in some cases, overt in others — has entered the contest to determine who will lead Florida.
"Well, hello there,” the call begins as the sounds of drums and monkeys can be heard in the background, according to the New York Times. “I is Andrew Gillum."
"We Negroes . . . done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an' stone."
The speaker goes on to say he'll pass a law letting African Americans evade arrest “if the Negro know fo' sho' he didn't do nothin'." ...
Oh, shit. I was reading through some of the responses to Ted Cruz' tweets, and saw a familiar name. A law school classmate who is a State Rep in Texas representing a Dallas County district. Member of the Texas Freedom Caucus, he is a huge Cruz fanboy and his website and Twitter is filled with the worst of the extreme Right Wing talking points. I didn't really know the guy, but the few times I was around him, he made me really uncomfortable, and I had no idea why. He just gave off a creepy vibe. He looked really normal, good looking well dressed guy who seemed like he should have been popular, and he seemed normal when I talked to him, but nobody liked him and I never knew what was off about him. Seeing him trying to link himself with Cruz, I think he had a similar trying to pass as human MO as Cruz.
The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:35 amOh, shit. I was reading through some of the responses to Ted Cruz' tweets, and saw a familiar name. A law school classmate who is a State Rep in Texas representing a Dallas County district. Member of the Texas Freedom Caucus, he is a huge Cruz fanboy and his website and Twitter is filled with the worst of the extreme Right Wing talking points. I didn't really know the guy, but the few times I was around him, he made me really uncomfortable, and I had no idea why. He just gave off a creepy vibe. He looked really normal, good looking well dressed guy who seemed like he should have been popular, and he seemed normal when I talked to him, but nobody liked him and I never knew what was off about him. Seeing him trying to link himself with Cruz, I think he had a similar trying to pass as human MO as Cruz.
Does Cohen have a made up lawyer character that will continue the charade? I'd love to see that happen.Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:21 pm Roy Moore Suing Sacha Cohen and CBS
Does he really want this to go to trial?
I don't know about this clip. I'm assuming she has some major ammo behind this question, and I'm thinking she knows Kavanaugh spoke with Marc Kasowitz, but then why not come out and say it? It comes across like she is badgering Kavanaugh and not directly asking what she wants to ask. If I was Kavanaugh, I'd be afraid of saying I never spoke with an attorney at one specific firm, then find out some guy I spoke with happens to work at that firm. Maybe Kavanaugh knows exactly what she was getting at and played dumb, but I felt like Harris asked a vague question looking to trap Kavanaugh on a technicality and accuse him of lying. Again, if she knew he spoke with someone at the firm, why not ask directly? I also think the screaming women in the back hurt the cause. Yes, it's a fucking sham that they are pushing Kavanaugh through without releasing his documents, but the screaming makes the protestors look like petulant children. I don't know what else people can do when Republicans hold all the power, but I think that plays into their hands and makes the well reasoned arguments get lumped in with screaming lunatics.
Right. But if you just figured out a way to answer, shouldn’t he have been able to come up with some way to respond?Joe K wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:34 pm Also, Kasowitz’s firm is rather large which might explain Kavanaugh’s caution about giving a definitive answer. That’s why questions about large law firms sometimes come off as cheap “gotchas.” If a firm has hundreds or even thousands of attorneys, a conversation or connection with any one of those attorneys is hardly remarkable. Hell, Joe Lieberman now works for Kasowitz’s firm. But that doesn’t be mean anyone who spoke to Lieberman about Russia, Trump or Mueller should be under suspicion.
I think he did. He said he didn't think so, but without a list of names of who works for that firm, he didn't want to go on the record of saying he didn't speak to anyone who worked at the firm.A_B wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 8:28 pmRight. But if you just figured out a way to answer, shouldn’t he have been able to come up with some way to respond?Joe K wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:34 pm Also, Kasowitz’s firm is rather large which might explain Kavanaugh’s caution about giving a definitive answer. That’s why questions about large law firms sometimes come off as cheap “gotchas.” If a firm has hundreds or even thousands of attorneys, a conversation or connection with any one of those attorneys is hardly remarkable. Hell, Joe Lieberman now works for Kasowitz’s firm. But that doesn’t be mean anyone who spoke to Lieberman about Russia, Trump or Mueller should be under suspicion.
I'm trying to look at this from an unbiased perspective, and you know I am heavily biased against Kavanaugh. It's possible Kavanaugh knew exactly what Harris was getting at and was playing coy, but it's also possible Kavanaugh doesn't know what she is referring to, and he is afraid to say he never spoke with a lawyer from a specific firm, then have Harris spring on him that he spoke with some random guy who happens to be an attorney in Kasowitz' firm. They have maybe 300 lawyers and over 1000 employees in maybe 8 or 10 cities. It's very possible Kavanaugh had a conversation with a Kasowitz attorney without knowing the guy worked there. Like I said, if asked in a hearing if I spoke with an attorney from a specific law firm, I'd be afraid to say no even if I was sure I didn't. In the legal profession, it's impossible to know if you spoke to someone from a specific firm at some point, and that could have been a very cheap trap to make it seem like an intentional lie. This shit happens all the time, like when Trump hired Morgan Lewis, and the media went nuts that they won "Russian Law Firm of the Year." They are a huge international firm with over 2000 lawyers in 30 cities, and happen to have a Moscow office, like many major international law firms. The same shit happened with Khan, the Gold Star father, where they connected him to the Clintons and foreign governments because a firm he worked at 10 years prior now represented Hillary. I think it was Hogan and Hartson, which is one of the biggest law firms for government related issues.
Who's from Oakland and daughter of immigrant parents.
Sources who worked for other members of the Judiciary Committee said that they respected the need to protect the woman’s privacy, but that they didn’t understand why Feinstein had resisted answering legitimate questions about the allegation. “We couldn’t understand what their rationale is for not briefing members on this. This is all very weird,” one of the congressional sources said. Another added, “She’s had the letter since late July. And we all just found out about it.”
Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 6:30 pm So how do you guys feel about this Kavanaugh accusation from when he was in high school? While I really doubt this woman is making it up, a 35-year-old accustion, seemingly made for the first time, and with no evidence ... just doesn't seem like much to go on.
She's been talking to her therapist about it for years now...Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 6:30 pm So how do you guys feel about this Kavanaugh accusation from when he was in high school? While I really doubt this woman is making it up, a 35-year-old accustion, seemingly made for the first time, and with no evidence ... just doesn't seem like much to go on.
Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend — both “stumbling drunk,” Ford alleges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.
While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.
“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”