This is all giving me horrible anxiety and yet I can’t stop listening to/reading the livestreams.

Sir, is it true that you like to put ketchup on spaghetti?

I am kind of loving Booker right now.

He just deflects every question about an FBI investigation. Feinstein asked about an FBI investigation and he’s all I wanted a hearing right away. It’s deflection.  He doesn’t want an investigation for one reason. 

That weak little “I’m innocent...”

Look, if someone doesn’t like to fly when they don’t have to, but can overcome their fear of flying when necessary, then there’s no way they were sexually assaulted as a teenager. That’s just science.

Are saying jokes in poor taste are the same as sexual assault?

I mean, I know you’re just trolling, but that’s a pretty shitty troll.

Did I miss the part where Kavanaugh accepted his shittiness in a real, unequivocal way and acknowledge the people he’s hurt? Because as far as he can tell, he’s still lying and obfuscating.

When Barry gets nominated for the highest court in the land then I’ll have to consider the question. The stakes do matter after all.

For yearbook comments, sure. I think it's the sexual assault thing that has people hung up. Weird how there are certain things that no matter how long ago they happened prevent you from achieving one of the highest, and only lifelong, positions this country has to offer.

This is discussed over on the Splinter thread, but just for anyone who didn’t see it:

All of these women are so fucking brave for recounting their personal traumas. I am so pissed that people suggest that this is an organized, political hit job. The declaration in its entirety is so chilling and upsetting. Anyone who fails to see a pattern in his behavior at this point is willfully ignorant/in deep…

Aunt Lydia, Attorney At Law.

Or if he announced that he was converting to Islam. Pretty sure they’d suddenly discover they had a WHOLE LOT of reservations about him then.

Republicans are essentially amoral, at this point. All they stand for is rich-person tax cuts and they seem to enjoy rolling around in Trump's filth. 

This happened 35 years ago! You can’t possibly hold people accountable for things they’ve done throughout their life.

The RNC supported and funded the pedophile Roy Moore all the way to the end, well after they found out he was a pedophile. The republicans are absolute hypocrites on every level.

More suited for the presidency, right?

The Republicans would vote yes on Kavanaugh even if it turned out he was both Jack the Ripper and Dracula. The only way this would scuttle his nomination is if he bowed out on his own.

The grim truth is, he could have raped this girl, gotten her pregnant, and forced her to have an abortion...and it wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference.