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Brat Kavanaugh didn't give a shit about his victims, and like a good little sociopath, tried to make himself the victim in his dreadful performance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
Politicians like Jeff Flake have to have been under extreme threat to approve this unfit person to the high court.
Of course it isn't about abortion at all. It is about Trump, the Russian investigation, and pardons.
I hope one of his victims will be able to file criminal charges ala Cosby in one of the states with no statute of limitations on rape.
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Some bullshit is circulating about Julie Swetnick and an ex-boyfriend which has absolution NO bearing at all on her allegations against Brat.
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Yes, Brat is indeed unfit to sit on the USSC or be a judge of any sort.
It makes one wonder if the delay of the floor vote pending the FBI investigation is a way for the GOP to deep six the nomination altogether and save face.
The only way we will know that is to wait and see what happens in the next week.
Snip:
This was a job interview, not a criminal trial. The accusation against Kavanaugh — involving an incident 36 years ago in an undetermined location, uncorroborated by those present — would not currently stand up in a court of law. As a juror, with the available evidence, I could not say “beyond a reasonable doubt” that he committed this assault. (This, of course, is precisely the evidence that the F.B.I. investigation that Kavanaugh evaded backing, and that Senator Jeff Flake has now decisively endorsed, might produce.)
But Kavanaugh’s bleating about due process and presumption of innocence — his rage at a supposed “national disgrace” — misses the point. He failed the job interview. Who would want this spoiled man pieced together on a foundation of repressed anger and circumscribed privilege — this man who quite plausibly was the teenage drunk near-suffocating Christine Blasey Ford as he ground his body against hers, this man who may now have perjured himself — occupying a place for life on the highest court in the land?
He fucked up. So did Lindsey Graham, who melted down almost as dramatically as the Wicked Witch of the West.
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And don't think people around the world weren't appalled by the Kavanaugh spectacle yesterday.
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Obituary: One of the original members of the sixties rock band Marty Balin, 76, has reportedly died. He died yesterday, according to his publicist:
Born Martyn Jerel Buchwald in Cincinnati, Balin was raised in the Bay Area._____
Balin and the Jefferson Airplane were pioneers of psychedelic rock -- their sound fused fuzzy, distorted, reverb-filled tones with influences from folk, rock and the blues.
The Airplane helped define the San Francisco music scene in the 1960s, debuting at the Matrix nightclub in 1965, about a year before its first album, "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off," was released.
"We didn't even know what we were doing when we started doing it," Kantner said in a 1970 interview with Rolling Stone. "Looking back, all we were saying was, 'Look, we're having a good time.' And nothing else."
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