“And then Paul and I are going to go fight Nazis on the moon!”

I think I especially love that their references to random roads and highways are always MN-specific. “So they’re just out on County Road D2 going at it, huh?” “There’s a flaming moose blocking traffic on I-35.” There’s no need to do it, and it doesn’t make the joke any better or worse, but I can’t count the number of…

I have heard that only Shatner’s joke was scripted (assuming this is the Twilight Zone reference I’m thinking of) and that Lithgow ad-libbed his rejoinder.

Oh, God. SCTV. Anyone remember the episode they did where they supposedly piped in a feed from Canadian television? I spent my summers just south of International Falls, and some of the CBC jokes they landed in that episode were devastating. “Myth: Canadian football only has three downs. Fact: Canadian football has…

I think that the Republican Party is making a serious effort to establish a dictatorship, and it shouldn’t be taken lightly or casually. That’s not at all incompatible with your statement that next month’s elections will be an effort on the part of the American people to curtail his powers.

“I expect NOTHING from these GOP mofos”

It was an 11-10 vote. He literally could have stopped the nomination dead in its tracks with a single word.

Enraged but unsurprised. The Republicans on the committee, Flake included, made it clear that this was a sham by never calling Judge to testify under oath. Hopefully at least a few of the Republicans in the wider Senate have a fucking conscience, but I’m not optimistic.

So your argument is, what, that moving slowly toward a totalitarian dictatorship where they put minorities in concentration camps is nothing to worry about?

If they don’t do it and he still votes yes, it’s meaningless ass-covering.

Men need to rise up too. We cannot let women do all this work, suffer all this pain, bear all this anger and not support them. I’m in Minnesota, so my senator acquitted herself brilliantly in the face of the taunts and jeers of an attempted rapist (who can shove his apology up his goddamned ass). She’s already got my…

Right now it’s just comparable to 1933. Time will tell as to the rest of it.

Mine too. I still hold out hope that there are at least a few Republicans willing to do the right thing. Maybe Murkowski, Collins, and Jon Kyl (who’s really just temping in the Senate anyway). But this Republican Party has made it patently clear that they do not give a fuck about decency.

Absolutely. And when they decry the lack of ‘civility and decorum’ in American politics, the response should be, every single time, “You put a rapist on the Supreme Court. You have forever lost the right to complain about decorum.”

I want this to happen to him all day, every day, for the rest of his life. I want him to be confronted, every time he leaves his house, by one of the women he has hurt. I want him to have his nose rubbed in the sheer inhumanity of what he has done like a dog who pissed the carpet. He should never be allowed to escape…

Eventually, the bubble collapses. At some point, there will be a split so vast that it’s simply impossible to be a good believer and accept the evidence of your own eyes, and they’re either going to snap out of it or go completely insane. In Jonestown, the collapse of the bubble led to mass suicide. In Germany, it led…

You should see the bit. He’s actually saying “racist”, and he’s doing it in the ‘voice’ of liberals who don’t support Trump but for some reason won’t admit that he’s racist. Like, “Oh, I wouldn’t call him a racist. I mean, I wouldn’t ask him to head a chapter of the NAACP, but I wouldn’t call him a racist...” The…

I’m surprised we aren’t hearing more about the woman that the Republicans put out there to discredit Ford who suddenly went, “Hey, there’s an entry here on this calendar that you showed everyone that says you went to go hang out with all of the people Ford named and get drunk. What’s up with that?” And then she was…

Funny that W. Kamau Bell is up there, because I keep thinking how easy it is to repurpose his bit about Trump from ‘Private School Negro’ to describe the way men feel about Kavanaugh. “I wouldn’t say he’s a rapist...”

All of them, especially Kavanaugh himself, were given their marching orders direct from Trump. He wanted to see them yell and scream and denounce the entire process, because that’s what he would do in their place, and they all understand that nobody’s opinion matters so long as they can force him through. So this…