US Politics

Charlie is exactly correct.
Nobody would care if someone drank a lot of beer in university. Lying about it under oath is a more serious issue.
He was underage, and denied it. Lie number two. He contradicted his past statements on abortion. Some reporters picked out five or six definite lies.
The guy is blatantly lying and the GOP senators ignore it.
If he gets in they will be telling him how to rule, this whole process is a disgusting farce.

The SCOTUS is typical of what is wrong with the entire upper echelon of US government. It is a closed circle of ivy league frat boys and girls. Four justices are Catholic, one is lapsed Catholic, Kavanaugh is catholic, is a court with six catholics representative of the community? Where are the Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, or atheists? Or how about someone from a small mid west university who isn't a political insider?

My problem with Kavanaugh is the man himself. He is just another rich frat boy like Trump, most of his cabinet and most of Congress. He is the exact opposite of what the USA needs.

I have just watched his testimony....v v strange. and painted him self a choir boy who enjoyed a beer or two. the answering back and questioning made him look a petulant scolded teenager rather than someone set for the highest court in the USA.
as echoed above there are people comming out to question his lies under oath regarding his character at high school and freshman years.

Literally a moron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnH1ytzueSU

^ is that the one where he says he isn't taking his meds?

He's just playing the controversy game like a lot of famous people these days, it works

It's not difficult to imagine how this idea could be adapted to appeal to Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Ewwww sinister stuff...

But is this just a reference to cases like the Burden sisters or is he really being a cunt?

This is the shit the Tories who are safe enough not to care about ever losing their seats trot out every time ‘unnatural’ union is mooted. So, option B.

Yeah, I don't want to venture onto his tw@tter to try to put any context to it, lest I be forever soiled.

This is not going to go down well...

https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1047281394098028544?s=21

What do you mean? his base love that fucking shit. Lapping it up.

Fucking disgusting. Even if, and its a big IF, Kavanaugh wasn't involved with Ford or anyone else its fairly clear that Ford is a victim of sexual abuse of some sort in some fashion at some place and time. To mock that, openly or in private is...well each day I think Trump cant go lower...

Note the female supporter behind him, grinning and waving a "Women for Trump" placard, as he spouts this puerile, sexist bile.

Revolting.

Also a rally in Mississippi, with nearly 40% black population. I guess they must have all stayed at home then...

This shit is wrong on so many levels.

Aside from being the kind of offensive behaviour that comes naturally to Trump, it might also be an attempt to divert attention away from yesterday's story about the huge tax fraud at the heart of the transfer of his father Fred's wealth to him (i.e. Donald).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

"Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father"

- N.Y.Times

Edit: too slow

Bye Bye Trump Empire

Do liberals actually think that Trump supporters are stupid? How can we change your mind?

I thought this was a pretty good answer, including an eye-opening description of the apparent hell-hole that is Appalachia!

Appalachia is beautiful. And the people there have been badly screwed over for many years, it's not too dissimilar economically to Wales (primary coal industry now dead, not much else left).

Opiates have devastated those communities badly, exacerbating the challenges of poverty and stretching public services beyond the limit. No one has helped them, not Bush, not Obama, and certainly not Trump.

My uncle was a paramedic and later worked in the ER in Hurricane, WV. My aunt was a special ed teacher there. My cousins grew up there. They have seen the devastation wrought by the economy and prescription pain killers. It is not a hell hole. It is an achingly beautiful place full of people trapped by circumstances largely outside of their control.

^THIS!
It's been fucked over since it got "settled" by white people. People moved there to be left alone and they've been made the butt of all sorts of horrible stuff. Never mind the rumours of inbreeding, how about mountain top removal for coal mining?

(not being controversial, can't think of the right terminology. The people that settled it from Europe rather than the people who are indigenous to the region. i.e. scots/irish/german mix?)

Could also be quite easily carried over to the current labour party problems.

Bye Bye Trump Empire

Keeping in mind that the NYC piece doesn't touch on the past 15 years. When, ostensibly, Trump was struggling to hold on to the money handed to him.

I wonder if he reformed during those 15 years, and conducted himself and his business with honesty and integrity, within the confines and structures of the (incredibly friendly to very rich people) law.

Or did he double down and wilfully direct a deeply corrupt and semi- (if not fully) illegal mishmash of businesses, built upon deceit, dishonesty, (maybe outright fraud) and dealing with extraordinarily shifty people that now have a hold on him.

Who knows...

I don't, for sure.
But seeing double down as his standard strategy, I think it's the latter.

Trump is the master dissembler. At his rally in Mississippi his purpose is to undermine the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, the republican senators didn't dare question her directly. Now Trump lies about her testimony in order to undermine her allegations.
He makes a play on Blasey Ford remembering that she had only one beer. Then by mis-representing her testimony he claims that "one beer" was the only thing she remembers. Trump lies when he says she can't remember the year, he lies when he says she can't remember the neighbourhood, he lies when he says she can't remember if it was upstairs or downstairs. Blasey Ford was very clear about what she remembered and what she could not remember. She could remember the year, the neighbourhood, that the assault happened on the 2nd floor of a suburban house and that it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her.

I think Trump is not dishonest as much as he's just totally divorced from reality. He has his beliefs about how the world is and, in his view, the world must be like that, so that's how he tells it.