Poll: Kavanaugh confirmation. Place your bets, ladies and gents!

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.

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.

it = information about the larger strategic push by conservatives to force their agenda on all of us

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.

well, don't get depressed and fucking fight.

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!

Maybe my capacity for comprehending metaphor is slipping but ... is he calling Trump a dead chicken?

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.

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

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.

not only evil but his entire evil philosophy is predicated on "FU mom & dad!" which is juvenile and petty on top of being evil

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.

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.

written by a man, I presume?

As I mentioned above, I thought so too. In fact, it wasn’t.

a fellow traveler I guess