Russia/Ukraine?

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Originally Posted by Alan

The first one I noticed was about 35 years ago, Robert Bork.

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So you were cool with his opinion that southern states should be able to prevent blacks from voting? If that’s what the ‘states rights’ folks are going to hang their hat on they shouldn’t be surprised why the rest of us consider the Republican Party to be the white supremecist party. We all understand exactly what ‘states rights’ actually means to republicans.

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Originally Posted by jp1

. We all understand exactly what ‘states rights’ actually means to republicans.

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No, I don't think you do.

We also understand that Bork didn’t fail just because of democrats. Only 40 republicans were willing to go full racist back then. Today I assume he would’ve gotten a 100% republican yes vote for his racism from republicans.

I always thought that “credibly accused”, at least in the context used here, was a weasel term people use to try to add a little gravitas to unsubstantiated allegations. Sort of like “fake but accurate”. The credibility depends on the credulity of the listener.

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Originally Posted by LDAHL

I always thought that “credibly accused”, at least in the context used here, was a weasel term people use to try to add a little gravitas to unsubstantiated allegations. Sort of like “fake but accurate”. The credibility depends on the credulity of the listener.

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Again, if the FBI had done its job, we would probably know for sure.

My daily humor a few days ago were headlines saying the GOP promised not to make a circus out of the nomination. Then the clowns showed up. When you open the article, there's a photo of Ted Cruz

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Originally Posted by JaneV2.0

Again, if the FBI had done its job, we would probably know for sure.

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Or they could have expended as many man hours as the Mueller investigation and come up with similar results. But even then, I doubt the true believers would be satisfied.

That’s why these hearings are more performative than informative. The only fact actually revealed here was that the nominee is not a biologist.

We also learned the fact that several republican senators are shamelessly willing to spew the Qanonsense about all democrats being pedophiles if they think it will play well with their voters.

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Originally Posted by jp1

We also learned the fact that several republican senators are shamelessly willing to spew the Qanonsense about all democrats being pedophiles if they think it will play well with their voters.

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oh! I didn’t know it was ALL Democrats!

Guess I’d better check my Q anon subscription to make sure it’s up-to-date

I heard a new term recently for the practice of identifying the looniest possible member of a group and trying to generalize their craziness to the entire group: “nut-picking”. Sort of a variation on “cherry-picking”.