To be fair, you were one of at least a dozen ...

Ha. It’s amazing how good they get at figuring out how to play us.

how dare these women think they’re worthy of real consequences for men?

The little curly one (Sophie). For like the first two years after I adopted her, she would forget that she knew how to jump up on the bed two or three times a week. She bit a hole in my sheets while I was sleeping, poked her head through, and got stuck. Twice. She spends most of her life trying to torment and annoy…

She did make him wait a whole extra week before he became one of the most powerful people in the country. Life ruined! So it was totally worth being inundated with death threats and becoming a target — and a punchline — for the rest of her life.

I already posted a picture in another thread, but I’m posting again anyway. This is Buster and Sophie:

My dog will have you know he’s incredibly smart. WAY smarter than me, which is why it’s a travesty that I get to make the rules. He loves me like crazy, but he constantly despairs of my intelligence and inability to understand the way things should work.

It also won’t matter a lot when states start passing “you must be this white to vote” laws, and the Supreme Court happily declares them perfectly constitutional. 

I’m not sure what that is, and I’m loath to google XX at work. What’s it about?

I love this feminist horror film plan. What do you plan on watching?

That’s what voter suppression is for.

Oh, I don’t think she’s naive at all. I think she knows damn well that Roe is toast when Kavanaugh is seated. She just doesn’t care enough about it to take a political risk. to save it. The whole “he promised me it’s settled law!” bullshit is lip service so she can pretend she supported bodily autonomy for women after…

Plagiarizing myself from Groupthink:

She was humiliated on global scale and will be treated like a punchline for the rest of her life. He had to wait a few extra weeks to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.

I don’t understand why anyone thought his vote was ever in question. The FBI could have returned a report with a video of the assault and signed affidavits from 10 witnesses, and Flake would still have voted to confirm. Every pretense to the contrary was just political theater.

No, not at all! Glad you caught the mistake. I’m just rolling my eyes at myself because I’m a professional copy editor, goddammit. 

I’m with you. I’m firmly against the draft, but if we’re going to have it, there’s no reason to exempt women.

Can’t believe I managed to get that backward. This is what I get for dashing off a reply between projects.

It took me more than a year and hundreds of dollars to track down my brother’s birth certificate so he could get an ID after he lost the original. There were mitigating circumstances, to be sure — he had a delayed certificate of birth that wasn’t filed until he was 2, he’d legally changed his name in another state,…

Besides doing irreparable harm to women and people of color for god knows how many decades, the main consequence of the Kavanaugh debacle is that it neatly demonstrated just how hard this country works to punish sexual assault victims while abetting and lionizing the men who commit sexual assault. A generation of boys…