https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/opinion/columnists/kavanaugh-georgetown-supreme-court.html

Here’s a really good perspective on why we shouldn’t be so quick to excuse Kavanaugh being an unapologetic slime ball to women.

Quote :

"In the rarefied social world that produces so many of our putative leaders, a young man who frequently gets blackout drunk, as Kavanaugh reportedly did, is a fun guy. A young woman who does so is a mess."

[Edited on September 24, 2018 at 10:20 PM. Reason : ]

9/24/2018 10:16:08 PM

Kavanaugh would pull surprise anal on your little sister and laugh about it to your face.

But Geppetto's out here genuinely reflecting and sharing stories and shit.


This whole episode is really fucking stupid.

9/25/2018 5:46:06 AM

https://www.newsweek.com/kavanaugh-i-was-virgin-high-school-and-many-years-thereafter-1137069

so kavanaugh claims he was a virgin and therefore couldn't have sexually assaulted somebody.

buddy, that ain't how it works. that kind of tone deaf statement perpetuates this idea that sexual assault = forced sex and nothing else. there are countless forms of sexual harassment and assault that may not include actual sex.

9/25/2018 6:31:39 AM

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if most full blown rapists weren't virgins until they lost patience and took what they wanted and no one would give them

[Edited on September 25, 2018 at 8:36 AM. Reason : .]

9/25/2018 8:34:38 AM

He fits the incel profile.

9/25/2018 9:58:23 AM

^^ it's not about desperation, this guy clearly has a thirst for power and control. His initial lying to congress is enough to show this.

9/25/2018 1:49:12 PM

Outside of the question of whether or not he did the things he's been accused of, what were the lies to congress?

That is an honest question - I've been so disillusioned with politics lately that I haven't really kept up.

9/25/2018 1:57:01 PM

lmgtfy

9/25/2018 2:28:41 PM

https://qz.com/1380258/did-trumps-supreme-court-pick-brett-kavanaugh-lie-to-congress/

9/25/2018 2:33:34 PM

moron , now, i'm no seismologist, but typically the need for control and domination usually comes from a lack of control or weakness of some sort that one is compensating for.

9/25/2018 3:16:11 PM

I didn't wanna be the one to post it this morning...but if you wanna have a mean laugh:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/business/brett-kavanaugh-yearbook-renate.html

Evidently, this Kavanaugh-supporting woman was a nice girl some time during the 80s, and thanks to this insane garbage we're having to deal with today:

Quote :

"“I learned about these yearbook pages only a few days ago,” Ms. Dolphin said in a statement to The New York Times. “I don’t know what ‘Renate Alumnus’ actually means. I can’t begin to comprehend what goes through the minds of 17-year-old boys who write such things, but the insinuation is horrible, hurtful and simply untrue. I pray their daughters are never treated this way. I will have no further comment.”"

9/25/2018 7:46:35 PM

Yeah that’s pretty fucked. Either she slept with a lot of guys and is being unfairly judged for that by her, likely, conservative family or she was the subject of lies.

There is no clean alternative here and, for me, that’s the real story. We shame women to the point they can’t say they had sex with people they found attractive in high school and promote guys who lie about sleeping with women. Either way it’s fucked and that component deserves lots of attention outside of this appointment. But, no, it’ll be an obvious point of conversation that goes ignored in the midst of the conversation about other issues.

9/25/2018 8:38:06 PM

https://twitter.com/politidope/status/1045047850583887873?s=21

A woman tells her 2 daughters it’s not a big deal for them to get groped

9/26/2018 5:14:22 PM

This press conference is a train wreck.

9/26/2018 5:30:11 PM

A little sampling of our President slowly descending into madness

https://twitter.com/erickfernandez/status/1045063006026190849?s=21

9/26/2018 6:02:11 PM

God bless Trump... it is no wonder many of you liberals hate him; it is because you hate God, and Trump was chosen by God and is God's right-hand man to clean out the cesspool that America has become under 8 years of Obama.

9/28/2018 12:38:15 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-says-he-north-korea-s-kim-jong-un-fell-ncna915436

Quote :

"Speaking at a rally on Saturday night in West Virginia...“I was really being tough and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love, ok? No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they’re great letters. And then we fell in love.”"

10/2/2018 1:03:01 PM

While taking a break from searching for the lost Ark

10/8/2018 11:00:22 AM

apparently this is hanging in the White House

10/15/2018 11:19:38 AM

no apparently about it

it’s there

10/15/2018 11:32:32 AM

"Nobody loves you like I love you," Donald said to the painting. Unwrapping the last Kraft single, he shoved the slice into his mouth and reached for a bowl of Starbursts.

"You're fucking awesome."

10/15/2018 12:07:25 PM

Quote :

"Donald J. Trump ? Verified account @realDonaldTrump Follow Follow @realDonaldTrump More “Federal Judge throws out Stormy Danials lawsuit versus Trump. Trump is entitled to full legal fees.” @FoxNews Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!"

10/16/2018 12:57:42 PM

https://news.avclub.com/tim-heidecker-debuts-new-song-about-trump-supporters-ca-1830072515

Tim Heidecker [of Tim & Eric] debuts new song about Trump supporters called “Ballad Of The Incel Man”

10/29/2018 2:43:32 PM

what are those white lines of powder doing on the table in that painting?

10/29/2018 3:07:20 PM

^Waiting for Ford to take a big toot. Look in his eyes, man--You know he wants it.

10/30/2018 12:54:19 AM

I mean, Trump's a teetotaler. So he needs to get his bump somehow.

10/30/2018 7:31:15 AM

So... how is the country doing, y'all?

Enjoying the ride?

10/30/2018 10:40:26 AM

^^^Now that I'm sober I realize I mixed up Eisenhower and Ford.

My bad.

10/30/2018 10:51:09 AM

^^ How's everything going in Pakistan?

10/30/2018 12:28:49 PM

those lines of blow...

ummm...

what are they supposed to be, if not lines of blow?

10/31/2018 4:32:14 AM

^^ shitty as always, though things might be improving with the new PM, but too early to say.

anyway, i have never lived there and never want to live there, so it is irrelevant.

how is TrumpLand? have you guys (i.e., Americans) figured out/decided on how to treat humans of different colors and languages? i mean, it has been 500+ years since you people have been living there, bringing people from different parts of the world there... should have solved the "how to treat people" enigma by now, no? i heard Trump is helping with that process... is that true?

10/31/2018 12:15:09 PM

^ I thought you lived in Baton Rouge at the moment?

10/31/2018 12:48:41 PM

^^I realize you're not good good at picking up on subtley and sarcasm.... but in case you haven't figured it out yet, almost noone on tww supports the current president and is not enjoying the ride.

10/31/2018 1:29:31 PM

^^ I left the US 2+ months ago. ("Never lived there" was not in reference to US, BTW)

^ I know that, don't worry. In fact, my post asking how the country is doing was sarcasm... who is not good at picking up sarcasm now?

Having said that, I would really like the handful who do support him on here to answer my question!

10/31/2018 6:51:36 PM

0EP moved to a place that's more friendly to underwear sniffers

[Edited on October 31, 2018 at 7:33 PM. Reason : sniiiiiffffffffff]

10/31/2018 7:33:27 PM

https://indyweek.com/news/soapboxer/trump-wants-you-to-be-very-afraid/

Quote :

"“The world is a very dangerous place!” The exclamation point got me. There were six others in that outrageous 631-word White House statement—and several other outrages in the week since, including trying to bury a damning climate change report on Black Friday and teargassing asylum-seekers at the border—but it was this one, in the statement’s first line, that stuck with me. President Trump was arguing that Middle Eastern politics necessitated turning a blind eye to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s apparent murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. Saudi Arabia, he wrote, was a “great ally” in “our very important fight against Iran” (the Saudis have killed thousands of Yemeni civilians in a proxy war against Iran), and the kingdom was poised to spend $450 billion on American weapons (the actual number is $14.5 billion). Besides, Trump continued, Saudi Arabia claimed Khashoggi was an “enemy of the state” (Khashoggi was a legal American resident) and bin Salman had assured Trump that he wasn’t behind the killing, so what can you do? “It could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” Trump wrote (the CIA has high confidence that bin Salman ordered the hit). “… In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” In the name of “safety and security,” Trump lectured, sometimes you leave your values at the door: “As President of the United States I intend to ensure that, in a very dangerous world, America is pursuing its national interests and vigorously contesting countries that wish to do us harm. Very simply it is called America First!” The world is a very dangerous place. Exclamation point. That sentence and its concluding punctuation jolted me not just because it’s a weird entry point to an official presidential statement—or because, were it in all caps, it would read exactly like your racist uncle’s Facebook punditry—but because I’d never seen a better distillation of the essence of Donald Trump, the thing that animates his devotees and to which he owes his political success: fear. This notion—that the world is a scary place, and America needs a strongman to protect her—is the through-line connecting Trump’s domestic and foreign policies, and connecting him to his base. Throughout the campaign, he called Mexican immigrants “rapists,” demonized Muslims, and exaggerated crime data to suggest that blacks and Hispanics posed an increasing threat in urban areas. In office, he’s called neo-Nazis “very good people,” African countries “shitholes,” sought to make good on his promised Muslim ban, and separated thousands of children from their migrant parents and stuffed them in cages. To rally support ahead of the midterms, he conjured a “migrant caravan” crisis and dispatched thousands of troops to the border, which were quickly recalled soon after the elections and long before the caravan arrived; his campaign PAC also released a misleading, race-baiting ad featuring an undocumented Mexican boasting about killing cops. And just this weekend, Trump’s Border Patrol shut down a popular port of entry to head off a wave of Central American migrants who were seeking asylum—a legal right under American and international law—then shot tear gas and rubber bullets at them, claiming that some in the group had thrown rocks across the border. Expect these images—Scary brown people! Chaos!—to play heavily in Trump’s push for border wall funding in the lame-duck Congress. All of these things are hallmarks of Trump’s racism, of course. But they’re also flashing-neon-billboard signs of authoritarianism—and the two are related. Authoritarianism, at its core, is rooted in fear. As University of North Carolina political scientists Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler wrote in their seminal 2009 book, Authoritarianism & Polarization in American Politics, authoritarians tend to “have a greater than average need for order” that leads them toward “ethnocentric and generally prejudicial thinking” and a distrust of out-groups—minorities, feminists, LGBTQ people—that could upend social cohesion. That’s what Trump’s tapped into: fear of a changing world—a more educated, diverse, progressive world. By instinct or calculation, Trump understands this, and he understands that he owes his election to it, as research shows that his base—i.e., lower-educated and fundamentalist whites—tends to score high on measures of authoritarianism. As long as Trump manipulates that fear—of Muslims, of refugees, of a dangerous world in general—and positions himself as the only person who can impose order on chaos (“I alone can fix it,” Trump famously said during the Republican National Convention in 2016), he figures his base will have his back. What Trump also intuits is that most Americans have these fears in some measure—latent authoritarian inclinations that can be activated by perceived threats (real or imagined), leading us to defer to authority figures who promise to protect us. If you have to shatter a few democratic norms to make that happen, so be it. Thus, we have the quintessential Trump doctrine: The world is a very dangerous place. Exclamation point. Contact editor in chief Jeffrey C. Billman by email at jbillman@indyweek.com, by phone at 919-286-1972, or on Twitter @jeffreybillman."

11/27/2018 10:49:15 AM

Trump 'storms out and throws briefing papers across floor' after extraordinary televised row with Pelosi and Schumer
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pelosi-schumer-meeting-white-house-oval-office-democrats-mexico-wall-shutdown-a8679361.html

Quote :

"Following the dispute, Mr Trump “stormed out” of the Oval Office, and, holding a folder of briefing papers, “scattered them out of frustration – threw them across the room”, according to the LA Times’ White House reporter Eli Stokols. "

12/12/2018 11:17:43 PM

why don't you link the LA Times then instead of some British tabloid

12/12/2018 11:40:28 PM

1) The Independent is not a 'tabloid'
2) I linked what I read
3) I will link what I want
4) If you don't like it, get out
5) Don't be high all the time

12/13/2018 4:25:47 AM

12/17/2018 9:39:29 AM

seems logical

12/17/2018 5:04:12 PM

Hahahahahaha

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/18/blind-amphibian-named-after-trumps-climate-change-stance

Not the first newly discovered creature to be named after him either! Read to find more.

12/18/2018 6:19:35 PM

Weird

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ev38y7/trump-ad-thank-you-president-trump-voicemail-brad-parscale-campaign-manager-video-vgtrn

Quote :

""We need to let President Trump know that we appreciate what he’s doing for America," Parscale begs viewers in the clip. "I need you to call the number on your screen and deliver a thank you to President Trump.""

12/19/2018 9:34:49 AM

I didn't watch the ad, but what's weird about it? They're harvesting information on donors and potential donors.

12/19/2018 10:35:39 AM

I dunno, I'd never heard of a campaign asking people to call to thank the president. But maybe it's not that weird.

12/19/2018 12:31:43 PM

It's just a hook to get people to interact. It's no different than the click campaigns you see online: "Click here to tell politician X you [support/oppose] issue Y!"

You can infer the demographic they're targeting by airing an ad on daytime cable news that encourages viewers to call instead of visit a website.

12/19/2018 12:39:38 PM

can you leave a message?

12/19/2018 2:55:31 PM

That's what the article says. Do you have a heartfelt message of love and support for President T?

12/19/2018 3:35:13 PM

Quote :

"“They say a wall is medieval, well so is a wheel. A wheel is older than a wall,” said President Trump while pitching his border wall in Texas."

1/14/2019 12:12:26 PM

Wall is dumb as fuck

Can we end the shutdown and move the fuck on. Jesus. Having said that we should change birthright citizenship laws imo

1/14/2019 1:00:29 PM