Sept. 26 Open Thread: UD Poll Shows Huge Leads for Carper, LBR
A University of Delaware poll found enormous leads for Sen. Tom Carper and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, but the most shocking figure was Republican Senate candidate Rob Arlett’s anemic 22% support. Both parties are dying, but the GOP is dying faster.
This Kavanaugh stuff really has people worked up. Michael Tomasky, a longtime journo not formerly known for impassioned rhetoric, tears Kavanaugh a new one over his hypocrisy. While Kavanaugh now thinks tearing open his private life is an intrusion, he argued in 1998 for using lurid details of the Starr investigation to try to shame Bill Clinton into resigning, helping put politics in its current gutter. Karma’s not a bitch, she’s an assertive woman.
Little Nimrata Haley is quite the big liar. Here’s her spin on Trump being laughed at during his U.N. speech:
“They loved how honest he is. It’s not diplomatic and they find it funny. … When he goes and he is very truthful, they kind of were taken back by it. All day yesterday, they were falling over themselves to get a picture with him, to talk about how great his speech was. … They love that he’s honest with them and they’ve never seen anything like it, so there’s respect there. I saw that the media was trying to make it something disrespectful. That’s not what it was ― they love to be with him.”
Just out of respect, we should laugh her out of politics.
Historians say Afghanistan is America’s longest war, but they’re discounting the War on Drugs, which has dragged on for nearly 50 years and has turned America into a police state. What can be done about it? For one thing, we can stop pretending that everyone who uses is an addict. Dr. Carl Hart has a lot of common-sense observations that, sadly, are grounded in science and rationality and therefore will be roundly ignored.
Turns out you don’t have to go to hell to see a lake of fire. Lakes all over the Arctic are belching out methane, and scientists aren’t sure yet what this will mean for an already warming planet.
Quote of the Day: “What a fucking geriatric tone deaf sausage party. Puke.” Sarah Silverman, on Twitter, reacting to news that Republicans hired a woman to interrogate Christine Blasey Ford.
BOOM!: Avenatti drops the big one, and it sure looks damn credible:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/26/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-michael-avenatti-julie-swetnick/1431133002/
Sure doesn’t…
Moron!
I have to think Avenatti has the goods. Some contemporaneous evidence. Maybe a half-hearted “I’m sorry that you can’t take a joke when I drunkenly grabbed your tit” note from Brett himself.
good. Now i can feel even better about not voting for Carper this year.
Im still unsure about Avanetti. He seems too similar to trmp for comfort. He has yet to score a legal “win”. he has been right a few times, but he is most successful at capturing the news cycle. That is a dangerous game to play… esspecially when he holds no actual power…. of course, I dont trust anyone. Id we found out tomorrow that AOC was actually a tea party agent, i’d just shrug and go get drunk.
I’m skeptical until I hear more. These are the kind of high school stories that can get exaggerated in the retelling. That said, if there’s one lesson we all should take from the past two weeks, it’s that waiting for more information is seldom the wrong course.
The nature of this allegation also might explain the stories I saw yesterday in which Democrats told Avenatti the he wasn’t helping. This story speaks more about the culture of his high school milieu than Kavanaugh personally.
As i mentioned “over there”, Dryhump’s frat parties sound exactly like what i saw at the few i went to. Im 100% sure he talked/bragged about spiking drinks and running a train… even if he didnt do it, being that type of person is what gains you acceptance in such a group.
That is what frat boys are…. look at ANY pop culture depiction of preppy frats and it’s all the same… and check that against virtually everyone’s own experiences. He probably doesnt consider dry humping a passed out person even bad… which is why he doesnt think he is a sexual predator.
I never went to a frat party in all my seven years of college, but I knew these guys from high school, and also my kids’ high school. In my experience, guys with girlfriends don’t have to incapacitate random women to get their rocks off.
But really, it’s not about sex. It’s about demeaning women. And I find it stunning that in the millions of words I’ve seen written about this so far, almost none of them have treated Kavanaugh’s gender-segregated Catholic education as the factor it surely is.
This is a religion that bans women from its hierarchy and regards their very existence as temptation to sin. It’s now proven to be an ongoing criminal enterprise. If it were anything but a religion it would be prosecuted and banned.
She has provided a sworn statement under the penalty of perjury. She has provided corroborating witnesses. At the least, this calls for a genuine investigation, something that the R’s and Kavanaugh have opposed.
Ben, not sure what you mean by ‘has yet to score a legal win’. Cohen’s facing jail time thanks to Avenatti. Stormy Daniels is getting justice, the National Enquirer is spinning in circles, and Cohen has turned against Trump.
Yes, Avenatti can be overbearing and IS an insufferable self-promoter. But he’s gotten legit results. If I were in this complainant’s shoes, he’s the first guy I would call.
the only win that really counts is trmp’s head on a plate (legally). So far, he’s Teflon. Only one man right now has a history of bringing down a “teflon don” and it aint the loud mouth lawyer who keeps trying to grab attention.
El Som’s correct. Submitted sworn affidavit. Avenatti, whatever he is, is also a high profile attorney. He ain’t submitting this unless it’s tight. He himself could be in legal trouble and his client could go to jail otherwise.
This ain’t a story in the Enquirer
Tomorrow’s demonstrations in DC are going to be wild. Got to show up in the street. I wish it wasn’t so. But it is. I’m going out….
….’Cause I’m a man of the past
And I’m livin’ in the present
And I’m walking in the future
Stepping in the future…
Peter Tosh
How many protesters are they expecting?
Don’t know. I know some of the heavy hitters groups are all organizing together.
People’s Summit
Women’s March
Center for Popular Democracy (CPD Action)
Women’s March is organizing survivor groups to go directly to occupy Senate offices.
I also see CPD Action are chartering buses from Baltimore, Philly, New York…
Last thing. If you want to do something and cannot for whatever reason please consider throwing some dough to CPD Action. $50 a month posts bond for someone arrested for civil disobedience. That’s what I do.
Ya know, I don’t get it. They love Arlett down here and he’s a transparent snake oil salesman every bit as bad a Vance Phillips but he speaks the language of meaningless slogans which appeals to rubes and 45 supporters. This guy votes yes on every rezoning development on Council and has added density developers didn’t even ask for. I mean, I hate Carper but not enough to vote for the carnival barker’s boy..
Every bit as bad as Vance Phillips? I don’t have your close-up perspective, but Arlett just seems like a rank opportunist who might be all fucked up on the Lord. He even portrayed himself in one profile or another as just repeatedly falling into shit and coming up roses. I don’t think he’s crashed any ultralight aircraft in pursuit of young love.
Is Arlett still selling real estate? You can’t expect a real estate agent to oppose the creation of more houses to sell. Especially one who lost his own house.
Funny thing about that. Arlett blamed the loss of his house not on the crash but on the cost of caring for his aging parents. It says something about his devotion to the Cult of Republicanism that he doesn’t see that as a failure of our health care system but instead accepts it as a valid reason for him to lose his home.
My GOD, this Trump press conference is a cluster-fuck. He admitted that he doesn’t believe the charges against Kavanaugh b/c of all the ‘false’ charges made against Trump.
That’s the beauty of this trap. Like some martial arts, it uses their fighting frenzy against them. They have completely lost sight of the fact that they could get a different Federalist Society-approved pick confirmed easily; they could defang this whole controversy simply by doing so. But they can’t, because they can’t back down from a fight.
They’re trapped in a negative feedback loop and don’t realize the only thing keeping them there is their own resolve. Tactical thinking and self-analysis are not their strong suits.
No doubt this ambulance chasing Avenatti has drugged many women, farm animals, etc…
I didn’t know you had to drug farm animals. How did you?
What the fuck is Trump going on about?
I think “25th Amendment” is trending on Twitter.
So if the Republicans wanted a woman to question Ford based on the optics, why did they choose a woman who looks like Julia Sweeney’s character Pat?