Of course to their base (meaning Trumpists/Trumpers/whatever you want to call them), this is all going well. They just want to give the appearance that they give a shit while peddling any conspiracy theory that can give their supporters literally any reason to disbelieve Ford and hold up Kavanaugh as innocent. And in…

So does this mean that ONLY the hired Republican prosecutor will be able to ask questions? And that none of the members of the committee will be able to ask questions? Because frankly that seems like yet another layer of partisan bullshit.

Or is it that she’s only going to be acting for the Republican members of the…

Yeah, I basically believe anybody has the capacity to be a violent douchebag, especially anybody who seeks higher office. And that’s not just men, though it’s usually men.

The thing that gives me pause here is what is giving everybody else pause - her claims of having video evidence but then not showing it to anyone.…

That counts these days.

I wonder if any performance artist has yet gone and bought a bunch of these suits and gone in the pool with them, and then photographed the effect on the suit? Because that seems like something that a performance artist would do.

One would hope, yeah, but then you may or may not remember what happened when the FBI opened an investigation into Anita Hill’s allegations against Clarence Thomas. The FBI spent a grand total of three days, including writing the report, which found no evidence of sexual harassment. It was a complete joke. Hill didn’t…

The point is, it doesn’t matter if he’s caught out in a lie. They’re going to push to confirm him. I would love, of course, to be proven wrong.

Having sufficient time to prepare for a major Congressional hearing is a thing, especially when you’re a victim of assault speaking on a national stage and dealing with death threats against your family that have forced you in the last week to move out of your house and go into hiding. Being well-prepared is vital,…

What you fail to recognize is that he’s pushing ahead with having her testify quickly because it minimizes the amount of time that the four GOP and Democratic senators still on the fence can be swayed by public opinion, and gives them maximum leverage against her. Make no mistake, Grassley and the rest of the GOP plan…

Should he get confirmed (which he will, unless some kind of miracle happens), he should be impeached and removed from office by Congress for things like lying under oath. But good luck with that. Democrats need to win the popular vote by 6 or 7 percent in order to get a slim majority, and that’s not enough to impeach…

“Nothing the FBI or any other investigator does would have any bearing on what Dr. Ford tells the committee, so there is no reason for any further delay.”

I’m just so angry all the time at this shit. 

Kavanaugh is going to get confirmed, none of this will matter. He could literally rape someone tomorrow and they would be like “but he’s such a good dad!” and confirm him. They don’t give a shit about women, they just want someone who will help enshrine hardcore right wing ideology into law for the next several…

My mother (right wing evangelical) said to my sister back then, who was a health care worker, “I don’t understand why they don’t just round up all the gay people and put them on an island so they can die without infecting anybody else.” My sister was remarkably level headed and kind as she systematically and utterly…

I was raised in a right wing, extremely conservative, evangelical household, and I’m pretty sure Julia Sugarbaker and her awesome rants are at least a small part of why I am no longer any of those things. Thank goodness!

The story they are telling is that he bought a bunch of season tickets for friends and then was paid back by said friends. Who were these friends he was putting himself hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket for?

I don’t think it’s that shocking that Trump would consider 3,000 dead Puerto Ricans a success.

I do think it’s shocking that the President of the United States has this opinion.

Can I have a lush period drama that is about periods? Because I would watch that for so many reasons.

If things are so bad that they’re refusing reunification, I imagine that would be a strong argument for the validity of their asylum claims. But only if you see them as human beings, and not as animals or worse. And I think we know what this administration thinks of them.

Fun fact: Brett Kavanaugh, currently undergoing confirmation hearings for SCOTUS, was the guy who woke up GWB in the middle of the night to sign an executive order that forced Terry Schiavo’s brain dead body to be kept going on machines instead of being allowed to die, per her own and her husband’s wishes. He was also…