“Pink shorts, boat shoes, and a Yale T-shirt” is perfect.
For me, the one upside to the new (and completely unsurprising) Kavanaugh revelations is how they hammer another nail into the coffin of Susan Collins’ political career. I will enjoy watching her be defeated almost as much as watching Trump lose. Provided she even runs, she may bow out to take that cushy consulting job she was promised in exchange for her vote.
As time goes by, I have a harder and harder time imagining her feeling any shame or remorse for her tawdry career. She’ll probably be at some luxurious vacation mansion with a bunch of other rich assholes, laughing over champagne at all the rubes who bought her act while she got rich.
I kind of assume she'll think 'I did the best I could.' I hate that attitude, but it's endemic─it almost makes me wish that sincere,self-directed,Puritanism would make a come-back, even if it took fear of He;; to do it.
I understand your take on her, but to me she doesn’t come across as sincere at all. If she truly is sincere, then she’s among the dumbest, most gullible, self-deluded wretches in DC.
I've been reading a lot about Vichy France lately. I'm struck by the number of favours collaborators performed for relatives of Jews and Résistance people that both did life-saving good and also allowed them to sleep far sounder than they'd ought. Generally it was things done to keep Bad Things from happening to Good People even as some of them were dooming thousands of not-{Good People}.
She currently has a double digit lead in the polls but experts say this is almost all name recognition, a bit like Grandpa Joe actually but many voters really dislike her so there is a sharp like/dislike division that clever political ads are already exploiting.
I dunno. Kavanaugh does not strike me as a dude who feels remorse at all. I assumed from the start that he didn't remember Dr Blasey-Ford because that was just another party for him, and he just thinks of that shit as good honest fun rather than, you know, sexual assault. Of course there are more women out there.
Yeah, maybe, but this story's Kavanaugh is messed up because "everybody's gonna know". He's imbibed himself into Fox Mulder territory ("Nothing disappears without a trace!"). It's not shame at what he did, it's that everyone is going to know. I mean, you've got Ben Shapiro being all sardonic (well, trying) about what Kavanaugh's dick looks like. It's one thing to whip it out at a frat party, but another thing to drunkenly imagine your dick in a lineup with a bunch of other dicks. I can picture it (not the dick lineup, no thank you please), especially with how bombastically overwrought he got during the hearing. Anyway, I'll allow it. (joke)
I think his friend - and witness - something Judge was completely blotto and has no memory but Kavanaugh almost surely remembers Blasey-Ford and all the other women. He's just a sociopath, that's all.
Corey Lewandowski's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, coming off as an audition for Comedy Central's "So You Want to Be An Asshole" quiz show (starring Shane Gillis, in production), proves that even Roy's fervid imagination cannot match the maggots and blowflies that swarm on Trump's bloated carcass.
"...the second phase of a bender, after the first unwelcome intrusion of sobriety forces a second and quicker ingestion of alcohol..." Ahh, if only I could say I am unfamiliar with such an experience. In fact, I feel a pinprick of sobriety coming on now...
I guess I had assumed that the Federalist Society had paid off Kavanaugh's huge debts (via some deep-pocketed right wing asshole. But it apparently was the case that Trump himself pressured Kennedy to leave the SCOTUS while in perfectly good health by exposing his son's role in Deutsche Bank. So Trump certainly seems to own Kavanaugh.
“Pink shorts, boat shoes, and a Yale T-shirt” is perfect.
For me, the one upside to the new (and completely unsurprising) Kavanaugh revelations is how they hammer another nail into the coffin of Susan Collins’ political career. I will enjoy watching her be defeated almost as much as watching Trump lose. Provided she even runs, she may bow out to take that cushy consulting job she was promised in exchange for her vote.
As time goes by, I have a harder and harder time imagining her feeling any shame or remorse for her tawdry career. She’ll probably be at some luxurious vacation mansion with a bunch of other rich assholes, laughing over champagne at all the rubes who bought her act while she got rich.
I kind of assume she'll think 'I did the best I could.' I hate that attitude, but it's endemic─it almost makes me wish that sincere,self-directed,Puritanism would make a come-back, even if it took fear of He;; to do it.
I understand your take on her, but to me she doesn’t come across as sincere at all. If she truly is sincere, then she’s among the dumbest, most gullible, self-deluded wretches in DC.
I've been reading a lot about Vichy France lately. I'm struck by the number of favours collaborators performed for relatives of Jews and Résistance people that both did life-saving good and also allowed them to sleep far sounder than they'd ought. Generally it was things done to keep Bad Things from happening to Good People even as some of them were dooming thousands of not-{Good People}.
s/He;;/Hell/1
She currently has a double digit lead in the polls but experts say this is almost all name recognition, a bit like Grandpa Joe actually but many voters really dislike her so there is a sharp like/dislike division that clever political ads are already exploiting.
I dunno. Kavanaugh does not strike me as a dude who feels remorse at all. I assumed from the start that he didn't remember Dr Blasey-Ford because that was just another party for him, and he just thinks of that shit as good honest fun rather than, you know, sexual assault. Of course there are more women out there.
The Trumpov Years: When Remorse Went AWOL And Shame Took An Extended Holiday
Great artists may interpret a classic in different ways.
This is a corollary of T. S. Eliot’s “good poets borrow; great poets steal.”
Yeah, maybe, but this story's Kavanaugh is messed up because "everybody's gonna know". He's imbibed himself into Fox Mulder territory ("Nothing disappears without a trace!"). It's not shame at what he did, it's that everyone is going to know. I mean, you've got Ben Shapiro being all sardonic (well, trying) about what Kavanaugh's dick looks like. It's one thing to whip it out at a frat party, but another thing to drunkenly imagine your dick in a lineup with a bunch of other dicks. I can picture it (not the dick lineup, no thank you please), especially with how bombastically overwrought he got during the hearing. Anyway, I'll allow it. (joke)
I think his friend - and witness - something Judge was completely blotto and has no memory but Kavanaugh almost surely remembers Blasey-Ford and all the other women. He's just a sociopath, that's all.
This kinda wrecked me.
How so?
Corey Lewandowski's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, coming off as an audition for Comedy Central's "So You Want to Be An Asshole" quiz show (starring Shane Gillis, in production), proves that even Roy's fervid imagination cannot match the maggots and blowflies that swarm on Trump's bloated carcass.
"...the second phase of a bender, after the first unwelcome intrusion of sobriety forces a second and quicker ingestion of alcohol..." Ahh, if only I could say I am unfamiliar with such an experience. In fact, I feel a pinprick of sobriety coming on now...
I guess I had assumed that the Federalist Society had paid off Kavanaugh's huge debts (via some deep-pocketed right wing asshole. But it apparently was the case that Trump himself pressured Kennedy to leave the SCOTUS while in perfectly good health by exposing his son's role in Deutsche Bank. So Trump certainly seems to own Kavanaugh.