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The other part of this clown show is Booker and Harris competing for the title of most freakish, putting on a display for the extreme left of their party, thinking that will get them the presidential nomination in 2020. I think these idiots are misreading the tea leaves, as most Democrat voters aren't part of the "resist" movement in league with Antifa. What's bizarre is the fact that even these black wannabes have abandoned their own race to hug the new "victim" in town, the illegal alien. They will pay for that mistake when black voters stay away from the polls, or even vote Republican.
Many Blacks for Trump.
Funny most of the moderate dems that I know ignore the hard leftist shift of the party and see any example as just a goofy extremist and most dems are not name calling or anti-Fa ...and don't want to get rid of ICE .so there is nothing wrong .
I guess as the saying goes don't argue with stupid as they will bring you down to their level and beat you with expirience.
Yeah, they shouldn't even be fussing with this crummy Kavanaugh silly stick to that silly Constitution upstart. Having to do so is an insult to our elite betters.
Cackles woiulda picked someone who thinks socialist more like them.
It isn't fair that the Tangerine Tornado usurped Cackles out of her entitled coronation. Trump should be impeached for that by any means that can be cooked up.
Senator Ben Sasse gave a remarkable characterization of what is going on. If you did not hear him or read the transcripts, it is worth looking it up. He blamed Congress for abandoning its role and letting the courts make laws (we are witnessing this day after day) in its place. Not that I think anything will change. No amount of criticism will change the ossified Congress. The only reason they exist is to protect their well paying jobs.
Kavanaugh will be confirmed despite the left's all out war against him.
Republicans now support Roosevelt, Social Security, Obamacare, and a lot more programs based on collectivist premises. They are not in Washington just "to protect well paying jobs." They want the power and pander to those who vote for them. Look at the ideas driving that support, not 'job protection', as the motive. It is much deeper than a "political process run amok".
Kavanaugh served on Bush's team as a paper-handler for the legal team. He didn't write anything or give opinion, but Democrats are claiming that because he touched those papers they have to be turned over for examination. It's completely bogus - those papers have nothing to do with Kavanaugh. Rather, they are legal opinions and discussions held by the White House in a confidential setting and as such are protected by Executive Privilege - and rightly so.
This whole thing is grandstanding of the most hypocritical degree. Did those very same Senators object to the literally-overnight passage of the Affordable Care Act wherein Nancy Pelosi famously stated "We have to pass the bill to see what's in it."
As pointed out by Fox News, the number of documents argument is an attempt to stonewall and stall. More pages have been turned over than the last five Supreme Court judicial nominees combined and includes the work he did as a prosecutor on Ken Starr's team as well as his teaching at Yale and Harvard. And all of it has been available for months.
It is about stonewalling. If they somehow could get the hearings postponed, then maybe it could get delayed until after the mid-terms. Any reason will do.
Maybe conservatives pay for the programs they want, and get the benefits from those. Liberals pay for their programs and get the benefits from those. Might be a start.
Its all about money and whose gets used anyway.
What's the definition of insanity? Oh yeah...doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.
The disasters tell people they are unhappy; it doesn't tell them what is right. The only significant political opposition the left has had to worry about is the Republican theme of 'me too but slower', which is only a variation on the process and serves as a scapegoat, used to blame the results on and as demagoguery to push faster. Republicans may occasionally roll back the degree of some particular controls, but don't stop, let alone reverse, the trend.
All that prevents the whole process from going over the cliff now are the remnants of an American sense of life that balks at the extreme measures even while the moral goals are conceded. With little philosophical opposition to the establishment intellectuals, that sense of life has been diminishing. People still want their smart phones but vote for more collectivist policies. They want a higher income but increasingly vote for government-guaranteed minimum wages, 'family leave', and subsidies for medical care, education and everything else.
There is no question of "if socialism actually did work"; it doesn't and can't. Whatever is still accomplished is in spite of the collectivist statism, not because of it or compatible with it.
Whether the best people would leave depends on whether there is somewhere to go, which there increasingly is not in "one world" -- which is "one neck for one leash". What we do know is that the best stop producing or severely cut back. Very few continue producing while idealistically embracing the sacrificial ethics.
In the Soviet Union the only creative 'production' was by some theoretical scientists who thought they could continue their intellectual passion in fields like mathematics and theoretical physics -- until they were killed or ordered to do the impossible. The only people who "wound up rich" were the party elite, just like their feudalist counterparts, and even that level of wealth is arrested or collapses, with those at the top the most susceptible to assassination.
I think it’s basic human emotion that enables the blind addiction to collectivism. I think hillary’s Slogan “stronger together” , to which I would add “weaker alone” was spot on.
Carry this forward to what’s happening today- - the liberals don’t want a fixed constitution. liberals feel more secure with all people’s “together”. Liberals hate the whole idea of a trump who kind of made it in his own. I think the rise of collectivism is to justify and validate their emotional lay based decision. That’s why rational discussion with collectivists goes nowhere. It’s like trying to extract eels from a bucke. They just slip through one’s fingers. Sorry for ramblingt
How would leftists know they finally achieved their objective?
Pragmatism and the Progressive version of socialism have no final objective. But the goal of socialism is collectivist control; from there it is just a sequence of variations.
At that point, people adopt collectivism philosophically. But the real REASON for sticking with collectivisim is not that it works, but that it continues to "feel right" in the emotionally controlled life.
I wil agree that the "leaders" want the social control and goodies that always accrue to them. But the masses go along with them emotionally as they have always done.
I postulate this as the reason the mass of people are unaffected by arguments based on reason. Thats not why they adopted collectivisim in the frist place.
The leaders' collectivist ideal is definitely control. But they get their power from people who are attracted emotionally because thats all they guide their lives by.
I think it all happens very early in life where the young people do not make the transition from helpless infants to being able to control their own lives.
Solving problems would mean no more money or power was required. A little like drugs that treat but do not cure. Imagine if a cure for cancer was found how many industries would collapse tht support the current treatments.
When nothing seems to work, maybe the people working on it dont want it to work.
Just a thought, but government is such a collossal failure at so many things, it makes me wonder.
It also explains why government kicks the can down the road so much- maybe they know all along that the goal is not the picking up of the can, but the kicking it further down the road
It Should, be obvious to even the most casual observer, that few if any understand what the SC is supposed to do, never mind, know the law and purpose of the SC in the first place.
Even among those that can read, it is clear that they lack the ability to understand even the simplest of sentences.
Ruled by the dumbest among us...or shall we just say we are governed by a Kakistocracy and call it a day.
Enjoy the show...it's good for a laugh or two.
They have lost control, the laws of nature and existence itself will win, their dream of making this place an alternative universe has failed and this is their last breath.
They know Kavanaugh's position against racial profiling. The left always calls that "racist".
(Please proofread your posts.)
1. An attack by Sen Whitehouse (D-RI) smearing the pro-property rights Pacific Legal Foundation. Whitehouse was trying to get Kavanaugh to either condemn PLF or be smeared through association with Whitehouse's mischaracterization. Either way PLF is intended to be smeared. PLF "Public interest litigation, Senator Whitehouse, and the Kavanaugh hearings" https://pacificlegal.org/public-inter...
2. The statists fear that the Kavanaugh might help reverse the infamous Chevron decision under which the court gives deference to agencies in interpreting Congressional authority for themselves. The Hill "Stop letting agencies tell judges how to interpret statutes" http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/...
The dim clowns know they can't stop the process of affirming Kavanaugh, so they attempt to slow it down and possibly get it delayed until after the midterms. Expecting a "blue wave" to save them with all the talk of impeachment and discrediting Trump's pick for SCOTUS.
Doesn't look like thats gonna happen either. lol.