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Just imagine being the young woman Brock Turner assaulted. Two male witnesses who pulled the guy off of her, cops showed up right away and arrested him at the scene. This is as perfect a case of attempted rape as you're going to find. Guilty of three felonies (And during the trial phase of this she has to relive this over and over and over.)
So you are just going to keep making stuff up?I think schumer is likeÂ
. "This always worked before"
It seems this guy votes the other way on every close issue. If the guy won't ever stand up  when it matters he's not of any use.
The President of the United States, who is supported by tens of millions including the majority of the law enforcement community, just tweeted a baseless accusation that sexual assault survivors protesting on the Hill were actually frauds- paid protestors, he claims. He will suffer no consequences for this disgraceful false accusation, a rhetorical slap in the face for sexual assault survivors straight from the Oval Office.
This is a terrible take. Had Kavanaugh been voted down -- as he should have been -- the Republicans would have just confirmed some other similarly-conservative justice. Kavanaugh should have been disqualified because of his character flaws, but his confirmation doesn't figure to change much relative to a Justice Hardiman, for example.
From your lips to gods ears.
MERRICK F'ING GARLAND.Â
You need to stop watching cable news and start paying attention to coverage of races at the district level.  This line of thinking is stale.  The messaging of the actual candidates this cycle has been excellent. I don’t know if it’ll be enough to overcome the gerrymandering and the billionaires, but if not it won’t be because they “don’t have their act together.” It’ll be because gerrymandering + billionaires is a virtually unbeatable combination.Â
Piling on... this whole “I believe Dr Ford, I just don’t believe it was Kavanaugh” is cowardly bull####.  Ford didn’t say she was assaulted.  She said she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh while his friend Mark Judge watched and they both laughed. Â
Now get ready for the "what comes around goes around." Payback at the highest level.Â
Did I just dream that Barack Obama was President for 8 years? I know I've been sleep deprived lately but I must be hallucinating big time.
I know that has been posted in this thread repeatedly as a reason why women don't report right away, but one thing I will say is it is really good that she did report it right away and got a rape kit done.Â
Try looking at the rules.  Running up votes in new york and california dont get you the white house.
It destroyed her entire life.
That’s not true (check voter ratings from people like enviro groups and pro-choice groups and whatnot and compare him to his WV GOP counterpart if you don’t believe me).  But even if it was, his affiliation affects which party controls the Senate and can set the agenda.  It affects how many members each party gets on every committee.  Considering how close the Senate is there’s a decent argument that his affiliation is actually more important than his votes.
The rules are broken. A small swath of rural american voters get more say in the senate that millions of voters in larger states.Â
Well said. Â 51-49 majority in the Senate seems like very little on the surface, but it makes your party chair and voting control of every committee and control of the agenda. Â
Well, by statingÂ
you kind of indicate that "making a choice to be punished for" is a consideration in murder in general, thus, actually, blaming the victim for the action of the murderer.
Not true.
Yes. Â His opponent is far worse, and his seat could be the difference between D or RÂ control of the senate. Â
I totally get it. Bend every rule. Break them if you must. Lie cheat steal and do everything you have to to win. Team conservative has been that way for 40 years.Â
Sotomayor and Kagan replaced Souter and Stevens. Now Gorsuch and Kavanaugh (assuming) would have replaced Scalia and Kennedy. It is yet to be seen how much further right of Kennedy that Kavanaugh would be but the rest are pretty even swaps from a layman's eyes. Â
We couldn't even examine his written record. He perjured himself on the stolen emails. He had 200K in debt for "basbeall tickets".Â
I think being raped after already being down a path of struggling with addiction contributed far more. Â
It would help if the DNC was run by competent people and had some sort of coherent national message.  They're dumping money into Texas in what is likely an unwinnable race, instead of spending it where it could make a difference.
Interesting how Garland would have been significantly to the left of Scalia since the Republican talking point has been Kavanaugh and Garland voting together 90+ percent of the time.
In the words of our 44th President... "Elections have consequences."Â Maybe the DNC should remember that in 2 years and NOT shove through a terrible candidate who's hated by over half of her own party.
The Democrats would have done the exact same thing if it were a GOP President making a Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year....with the Democrats holding the Senate majority.
On the baseball tickets, I do have a good bit of knowledge in that area. $200K given the contracts the teams require you to sign now for club type tickets, that isn't that unusual. Is it a poor financial decision to buy those on credit, that I'd agree with. But people do it every day and the teams often finance it for them. If you were to look at the financial statements for any professional sports team you would find debt financed on club seats, PSLs, etc. All quite large amounts.
GTFO with this argument.  Don't blame the party in power, blame the other party for not winning.
