I honestly didn’t know the meaning of either, prior to hearing them recently. Never used during my drinking and partying days (I’m 28 for reference).

This would be the man that Kavanaugh and his allies keep insinuating has some sort of grudge, though they keep being pretty vague about what or how it’s relevant. I suspect they’ll just continue with the lie they already laid the groundwork for. That’s been their tactic so far.

I mean, objectively this is horrifying and awful.

“How to harass Arabs and Muslims For Notoriety: The Bari Weiss Guide to Committing Racism and Coming Out on Top”.

She just popped up reading an intro poem for a big yearly Irish-language music CD (with Macklemore of all people). That’s literally the only non-acting thing I’ve ever heard of her doing and it just happened.

What a stupid thing to start a fight over.

That’s the part I don’t understand. Nothing about Kavanaugh suggests he’s worth the work of burying it. Now, sure, they’ve invested too much in him. But before? There’s a thousand entitled far-right jackasses who’d love a Fed Soc mark of approval, worship Scalia and Originalism, and secretly believe judicial…

That’s just this time around, and under the Trump admin I don’t doubt it. But his prior confirmation to the bench presumably underwent a much more normal review.

I think that’s a Trump reference, who is supposedly completely sober despite acting like the racist that got kicked out of every bar in town on a daily basis.

This guy is really incompetent. How did everyone miss all of this mess before now? I mean the Federalist Society is evil, sure, but they’re more in the “competent evil” than this sort of tabloid fodder. This guy has been on the bench, but more and more awful behavior keeps coming out.

The Dolphins have been dirty this year. That first game against the Titans they injured a number of players on what looked like intentionally dirty hits. It wasn’t just bad luck. Of course the league did nothing. 

You clearly don’t understand what the term “the base” actually stands for, because what you just wrote is wrong. Even in conservative districts or states, the base is Democrats, not people pulled from the other party voting against their ticket.

Any moderate Republicans truly in play are probably already captured. The anti-Trump crowd will vote against Trump. That’s the trick here. There’s never that many independents in play, and with how polarizing Trump is it’s even smaller than usual. Anyone who will vote for Democrats against Trump isn’t going to go back…

This is so stupid. The potential upside, gaining votes among moderate Republicans and conservative Independents, is minimal. The downside, angering your base in an election where your base is highly energized and turnout is your best path to victory, is massive. This is politically stupid, morally stupid, ethically…

I’ve seen it. I’m not certain it’s conscious, but I’ve seen people far less capable of picking out bad faith arguments and distortions. Which makes some sense, given in their fields “fact” is generally something tangible rather than something debated, so when some far-right outlet posts a narrative they aren’t looking…

Brand new troll account. Pushing the GOP line. I can never figure out why anyone wastes the effort to post this obvious fakes on a site like this. There’s no utility to it. 

Angry, entitled, arrogant. He comes off as a rich white boy who thinks he is better than others and deserves better, and any scrutiny or questioning is an affront. He was hyper-partisan, appealed to conspiracy theories, and behaved in a way that I suspect even many conservative lawyers find distasteful. His…

It was so stupid too. I hate flying, I hated it before my chronic illness made it absolutely terrible for me. Sometimes I still haveto fly. There’s no gotcha there. 

Eh, I don’t know about Wallace. I think he’s falling back on boxing-style metaphors, which isn’t uncommon for a hearing like this. McCallum I haven’t watched or read enough to make an assessment, but given Wallace’s other comments about his daughters earlier I don’t think he’s in pure partisanship mode right now. I…

This entire disgraceful event makes me furious. I’d really enjoy giving a few Republican senators some direct attention via my fists at the moment. Immature impulse I know, but Gods know they deserve it.