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07-13-2018 , 11:10 AM

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Namath12

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07-13-2018 , 11:42 AM

#302

+rep_lol

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all these GOP douchenozzles look like exactly the kind of socially maladjusted losers who got beat up relentlessly in school

now they seek revenge

07-13-2018 , 01:21 PM

#303

Huehuecoyotl

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Originally Posted by Namath12

"Brett Kavanaugh gave my daughter an appellate clerkship, so of course he would make a fine SCOTUS justice." --some ****ing legacy Yalie dickwad, stating the quiet partsw aloud

Lol it's the Tiger Mom, that woman who claimed Chinese child raising was better and made her kids practice piano until they fingers bled or something like that. She's a Yale professor

07-13-2018 , 01:50 PM

#304

pvn

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

You could try actually paying for things.

I actually have paid wapo access but their paywall is a ****ing turd and can't remember that I'm logged in and when you hit the paywall it actually redirects you to their home page so you can't get back to the story you wanted to read.

07-13-2018 , 02:00 PM

#305

+rep_lol

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pay for things? lol do you even democrat bro

07-13-2018 , 02:10 PM

#306

Trolly McTrollson

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The defense withdraws its objection.

07-13-2018 , 07:49 PM

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simplicitus

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Never had any issue. Have had to enter my password maybe once per year.

07-14-2018 , 11:24 AM

#308

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Speaking of wapo access, this is your bi annual reminder you can get a wapo subscription free with Amazon Prime for a few months and thereafter it’s dirt cheap.

07-14-2018 , 02:26 PM

#309

pvn

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yeah that's how I got mine

also I get sunday delivery of my local paper ($6/month) and that gets me access as well via some partnership they have, I would assume a lot of other newspapers have similar things.

07-14-2018 , 04:39 PM

#310

ScreaminAsian

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07-14-2018 , 05:53 PM

#311

David Sklansky

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Quote:

Originally Posted by +rep_lol

all these GOP douchenozzles look like exactly the kind of socially maladjusted losers who got beat up relentlessly in school

now they seek revenge

On the other hand....

http://deadstate.org/guy-who-said-ro...rossed-a-line/

07-15-2018 , 03:54 PM

#312

Dominic

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lol Wayne Allen Root. I helped produce a sports-handicapping show with him as the host about ten years ago...he was a wack job then and he's even more of a wack job now. Complete narcissist and a horrible human being.

07-20-2018 , 10:26 AM

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Namath12

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Great hair! Ergo, you must confirm.

07-21-2018 , 03:55 PM

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simplicitus

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https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/stat...374140422?s=19

07-26-2018 , 04:33 PM

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ScreaminAsian

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https://twitter.com/seculardotorg/st...51947738599424

07-26-2018 , 04:36 PM

#316

Loki

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but her emails!

07-30-2018 , 12:05 PM

#317

Namath12

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SHOCKING BREAKING NEWS SHOCKING

07-30-2018 , 01:29 PM

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simplicitus

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"After seeing how he deals with lawn maintenance and mowing, I have decided to tackle Ron Paul and break his ****ing ribs."

(If you never learned the whole story: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/15/174689...ntence-30-days)

08-06-2018 , 06:07 PM

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Nathan J. Robinson goes in on Kavanaugh

Why Everyone Should Oppose Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation

Regarding much of the "liberal case for Brett Kavanaugh" crap we've seen, like "he gave my daughter a clerkship and managed not to creep on her" and "he is a great carpool participant":

Quote:

Yes, and Lenin liked kittens, but he still shouldn’t be put in charge of a secret police.

On legal jurisprudence, and the story conservatives tell themselves about how they don't make value judgements, they just interpret TEH LAW:

Quote:

NFFE v. Vilsack is not a particularly historically notable case. It’s not about abortion, immigration, indefinite detention, or the other “hot button” issues that are talked about during Supreme Court confirmations. I cite it because it shows very clearly that Kavanaugh is being dishonest when he talks about not imposing his “views.” The case requires a judge to impose their views. The question in the case is whether the government’s stated interest is sufficiently important to exempt it from the Fourth Amendment’s presumption against suspicionless searches. The majority thinks the government’s interest is hogwash (“a solution in search of a problem”). Kavanaugh thinks the exact opposite (“it would seem negligent not to”). This is a straightforward disagreement over which value is more important: the employee’s right to privacy or the government’s anti-drug initiative. The text of the Fourth Amendment cannot answer that question, and what you think of it is going to depend on whether you’re the sort of person who thinks government justifications for the drug war are nonsense (e.g., a liberal, lefty, libertarian, or left-libertarian) or the sort of person who thinks drugs can be very harmful and governments have good reason to want to root out drug use (e.g., a social conservative). Law requires balancing different interests, and balancing those interests requires value judgments.

But don't worry - when it comes to interpreting TEH LAW, or the calling of balls and strikes as John Roberts like to put it, Kavanaugh has done some tremendously stupid things:

Quote:

The Supreme Court had also confirmed explicitly that “since undocumented aliens are not among the few groups of workers expressly exempted by Congress, they plainly come within the broad statutory definition of ‘employee.’” Immigrants get, then, the rights that workers would ordinarily have under the NLRA.

But Kavanaugh dissented. He did not think unauthorized immigrants were “employees,” even if they were employed, and thought they should have no such rights. This was, he said, because in the time since the NLRA and the Supreme Court’s decision, Congress had made it illegal to hire unauthorized immigrants. If it was illegal to hire them, Kavanaugh said, they were not employees because they were never employed. Now, one can criticize this as a simple absurdity: How can it be illegal to employ unauthorized immigrants if it’s also impossible to employ them? Kavanaugh’s dissent was also shoddy even from a purely legalistic perspective. (Skip rest of paragraph if you find arcane legal discussions tedious.) <skipping for the purpose of this quote>

So Kavanaugh tried to strip away a fundamental right from undocumented workers, even if it meant using bad reasoning and concluding that you can be an employee (in that you fit the longstanding statutory definition) but not really an employee (in that you don’t get any of the rights).

08-08-2018 , 01:00 AM

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Well, this is a first for me. I just saw a commercial in support of confirming Kavanaugh for his SCOTUS.

Have there ever been any such ads in the past on behalf of any SCOTUS nominee?

08-08-2018 , 01:04 AM

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iron81

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Yes.

08-08-2018 , 01:05 AM

#322

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Originally Posted by iron81

Yes.

In support of which nominee? Were there any for Garland?

08-08-2018 , 01:33 AM

#323

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They did it for Gorsuch.

08-08-2018 , 02:19 AM

#324

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Originally Posted by cuserounder

They did it for Gorsuch.

Any pre-Trump examples?

08-08-2018 , 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Melkerson

Any pre-Trump examples?

Not to my knowledge, but I can't say I paid much attention to the others. I thought it was very unusual when they did it for Gorsuch, though.

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