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    Oh God, I couldn't avoid some of those people in Law School.

    What awful examples of humankind they were (and are).

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      https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1043272137677721600

      https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/...72137677721600

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        Has this pushed them the last little step where they no longer feel any need to give the impression that they're somehow connected to reality?

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          I would argue that that happened some time ago, but there is a complete lack of discipline and resultant flailing at this point which is new.

          Should anyone be interested in Whelan's priors, this is a decent precis (though I find Stern's conclusion over-optimistic).

          But what’s most shocking about this thread, which Whelan has since deleted, is that Kavanaugh’s defenders appear to have genuinely believed that it would exculpate the nominee. Whelan is no random crank: He is a Federalist Society power broker who has played a major role in the selection of Donald Trump’s judicial nominees—including his good friend Kavanaugh. He and his allies teased out the mistaken-identity theory for days, hyping it on Twitter and apparently in a weirdly credulous Politico article. It appears, at the moment, to be the best defense the White House has. And that reveals that Kavanaugh’s nomination is in extremely serious trouble.

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            What kind of drugs is Ben Carson on?

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              Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
              much of my family are now in northern florida, in the panhandle. My Uncle Thomas moved from New York to Florida to be nearer his kids. he passed nearly 20 years ago, and I know nothing about his politics but the rest of my mother's family would all have voted for Trump, but would have expressed it as a dislike of Hilary.
              Well then, I guess that makes all Irish Americans Trump supporters

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                Welsh Americans are overwhelmingly anti-Trump. It says so here.

                https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/p...think-12131310

                A Trump supporter on there would have preferred Rand Paul.

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                  https://twitter.com/DafnaLinzer/status/1043504675637669888?s=19

                  https://twitter.com/DafnaLinzer/stat...637669888?s=19

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                    They don't do themselves any favours, do they?

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                      Originally posted by Femme Folle View Post
                      What kind of drugs is Ben Carson on?
                      The good shit.

                      Over here when we do that stuff we come up with "the Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism" or similar. None of us have yet had the imagination to put nineteenth century Fabians in the frame.

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                        Only the best.

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                          And yet he still isn’t the scummiest Administration official with that surname

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                            Watch until the end https://youtu.be/IZuayQFD51w

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                              Here we go

                              https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044006928416825344

                              https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/...06928416825344

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                                I'm not sure that, at this point, I consider Avenatti to be particularly reliable. He seems mostly focused on keeping himself in the public eye. I'm inclined to wait until something of more substance comes out before I think it's worth anything.

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                                  That's always been true of Avenatti.

                                  Just to be clear, I don't see this as anything like a silver bullet, but it is does keep the story moving in a way that I always thought was inevitable.

                                  It is going to be difficult for the Republicans to keep Judge sealed off, and he is clearly toxic.
                                  Last edited by ursus arctos; 24-09-2018, 02:28.

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                                    Well, now

                                    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...vanaugh-837678

                                    I'm not sure if this is the same as Avenatti's scoop. It seems unlikely because of the Mark Judge connection in Avenatti's tweet.

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                                      This is a different woman who has gone on the record to Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer with the allegation that Kavanaugh exposed himself when they were freshmen together at Yale.

                                      Privileged frat boys are gonna frat boy.




                                      Last edited by ursus arctos; 24-09-2018, 03:00.

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                                        In other news

                                        https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1042861644198682624?s=21

                                        https://twitter.com/maddow/status/10...198682624?s=21

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                                          I know that DHHS is tasked with caring for these children, but I have to wonder what top HHS administrators think about this. I would hope that it is unlikely that someone could rise to the top of an agency like that just by being a partisan hack, so they likely have some sense of pride in what they do and they believe in the mission of the agency. How can you go along with this?

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                                            A lot of the senior positions remain vacant and HHS was being run by Tom Price untilma few months ago

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                                              https://twitter.com/bcappelbaum/status/1044020034924875776?s=21

                                              https://twitter.com/bcappelbaum/stat...924875776?s=21

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                                                Steve King must be worried that his "shittiest human in Congress" title is under threat.

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                                                  It sounds like Ron Rosenstein is out, the debate is if he is resigning, or if he's being fired.

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                                                    So that’s Mueller gone then as well?

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