it was the bathos of a sobbing Irish asshole 'being persecuted.' I thought it was pathetic but it turned on that, not Graham (although his remarks - I think he was the first to speak after BK's opening statement - made it clear the air had changed). of course it resonated with a lot of Americans.
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 November 2019 05:16 (four years ago) link
The confirmation hearing was the first time I'd ever tuned in to a livestream of US Senate and wow I didn't realise I had that much respect to lose.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 November 2019 07:24 (four years ago) link
idk if this has been shared but it's an interview with mike davis, the strategist responsible for the intense doubling down on kavanaugh's innocence after it became clear he might lose the appointment. it is CHILLING and if you don't know about the "dead chicken strategy" i recommend reading the transcript or listening to the interview.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/podcasts/the-daily/impeachment-inquiry-democrats-republicans-kavanaugh.html?showTranscript=1
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
you learn all you need to know about him in the opening lines where he says he grew up the son of liberal democrats and won the Alex P Keaton award in 6th gr. summary: his entire belief system/chilling worldview is a reactionary FU to his parents ;_;
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
Graham's tantrum was one of the most disgusting moments in US political history, I remember getting this sinking feeling in my stomach because I knew it was gonna work. it sucked because after Ford gave her testimony I thought he was sunk. I was like...there's no way anyone's gonna call this woman a liar, her credibility is clear as day. and of course the endgame was just to get her out of the room, send the prosecutor home (!!!) and spend hours thumping the table & apologizing profusely to Kavanaugh
― frogbs, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
It was basically 'all hands on deck to defend the white male patriarchy/"meritocracy"'
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 1 November 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
there's no way anyone's gonna call this woman a liar,
the grossest part about it (arguably...there were a lot of gross things about that day) was that the talking point republicans that day was "we don't think she was lying. we believe that she was assaulted that day. we just don't believe she remembers correctly that it was brett kavanaugh, the golden boy."
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
of course, within a couple days that morphed into "this was a scheme by the democrats to take down the golden boy brett kavanaugh and it failed, and ford is a liar", the kind of blatant lies we've all become accustomed to, but the day of, in particular, was filled with such disingenuous bullshit that it was fucking unbearable
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
My dad posted on some public fb post that Dr Ford is a "loon that couldn't keep her story straight" and I felt very good about no longer speaking with him.
― Yerac, Friday, 1 November 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
which is an incredibly nuts argument to make! how do you remember everything so vividly except for the one small detail about who it actually was. the only reason you'd make that argument is because you're too much of a coward to call her a liar to her face. its almost as if each and every one of them know that yeah, he probably did it
― frogbs, Friday, 1 November 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
the only reason you'd make that argument is because you're too much of a coward to call her a liar to her face.
remember when the GOP senators hid behind a female prosecutor
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
it was the bathos of a sobbing Irish asshole 'being persecuted.'
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 November 2019 05:16 (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is ok?
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
well, he's not Irish, he's American, so prob not
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
yes the sexual assault prosecutor who was there solely to question....the victim
god it was so insane at the time but in retrospect it's even more nuts
― frogbs, Friday, 1 November 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
no, Judge KAVANAUGH was the victim, sporty
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
um, i think you mean JUSTICE KAVAVANUGH, THE GOLDEN BOY OF THE SUPREME COURT
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
first of his name
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
has anyone read the link i posted? they describe the orchestrated attempt to destroy CBF's credibility as part of their attempt to get him onto the supreme court at all costs.
baby beer boy bret was not going to fail, in other words. they would have said and did say anything to ensure his success.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Really resonated. He said when dogs killed chickens, they would take those chickens and wrap it around those dogs’ necks. And as those chickens rotted around those dogs’ necks, those dogs lost the taste for chicken. And I think that’s what Republicans need to start doing with the left.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
there it is! the dead chicken strategy :(
i haven't stopped thinking about this fool ever since i heard the interview on the radio (in the car in the rain on the way to see a show w a friend) weeks ago. it's DARVO + dead chicken shame, a real cocktail of coercive/abusive tactics. being exposed to the details of their slandering of her character over and over takes its toll. the only thing that makes me feel better is to share it with others.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
it = information about the larger strategic push by conservatives to force their agenda on all of us
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
I read the link and was deeply disturbed. I just have this feeling that alternate reality is going to win over facts and it depresses the heck outta me.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 1 November 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
well, don't get depressed and fucking fight.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
yes, i agree! it is really depressing and also we need to check the urge to tap out on account of it being depressing.
i believe it will help if the greater dynamic (the shockingly cruel coercive behavior of those pushing the conservative agenda) can be exposed. one conversation at a time, if necessary. that's why i listened to it even though tbh it was quite hard!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
Maybe my capacity for comprehending metaphor is slipping but ... is he calling Trump a dead chicken?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
i heard it when it came out! don't feel too bad - i've pushed various segments from the daily over the last several months that i thought were genuinely good and unique and containing information that wasn't anywhere else, and i'm pretty sure no one has ever clicked/read any of them
mike davis is one of the worst people on the planet. he shares many similarities with the people involved in the disinformation campaigns with tobacco and climate change. i'm sure they have a secret poker game in a really smoky, hot room where they talk about all the terrible things they've accomplished over the past week
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
yes he is evil
regarding the dead chicken -- no, it's not trump -- i would recommend reading the transcript of the interview -- they go into detail about what the chicken is. i can copy and paste it but it's really long. i would read from the point where they list the tenets of the strategy and the dead chicken stuff is in there.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
not only evil but his entire evil philosophy is predicated on "FU mom & dad!" which is juvenile and petty on top of being evil
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
Saw an awful, awful play last week.The protagonist is a meek and lonely man who can’t get dates because he stalked a girl when he was 17. His name ended up in a blog, that detailed the things he did to the girl—and the blog took on a life of its own, where other women came forward to detail their own experiences of being victimized. Now, when women google his name, they find this blog with some true and some fictional stories about what he did as a perpetrator.The play centers on a court case, where the man is trying to get the blog removed from the internet. Some things the playwright did to try and get you to feel that the perpetrator was the victim:1) The protagonist is meek, soft-spoken, boyishly charming in a bumbling sort of way.2) His mom and dad died of cancer back to back when he was younger.3) The girl who he stalked was the one who started the blog, and she herself may or may not have embellished things to reflect how being stalked made her feel (which she finds out by believing his words instead of her memory)I went into the play thinking it would be one of two things: something informational about digital privacy and its importance, or some bullshit Brett Kavanaugh garbage. It was the latter.Instead of trying to explore what forgiveness and atonement look like in the digital age, it paints the victim as a liar who has ruined the life of a young man. Further, the play misrepresents the GDPR, which is damaging to digital privacy in a big way.I assumed it was written by some white guy, but in fact, it was written by one of the women who wrote on Suits, which I’ve heard is similarly intolerable.Anyway, fuck this play and fuck Kavanaugh apologists.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
Oh, the other thing that’s vomit-inducing is how the protagonist’s love interest who eventually accepts him and absolves him of his sins and gives him meaning is peak manic pixie dream girl.Her: “You’re funny.”Him: “what? No one has ever told me that before.”Her: “Weird is good. I have a screwy sense of humor.”Jesus fucking Christ, do better.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
written by a man, I presume?
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 November 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
As I mentioned above, I thought so too. In fact, it wasn’t.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Saturday, 2 November 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
a fellow traveler I guess
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 November 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link