7 Police Officers Shot, 1 Killed in South Carolina Standoff

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From Michael John Scott at MadMikesAmerica:

There are millions who believe the police are the enemy and millions who are sympathetic to the job they do. Most people, however, are ambivalent, unless they get a parking ticket, and then they fall into the first category.

Social media can be a dangerous place for supporters of law enforcement, particularly when confronted by the uninformed who spend their days posting anti-police videos, memes, and etc. while claiming they don’t hate cops. They are the hypocrites; liars and often criminals.

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Kavanaugh’s Male Privilege

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From Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:

Kavanaugh yelled, berated his opponents and, a time or two, openly weeps over how cruel it was that he couldn’t just step into the job that he felt that we was entitled to have.

If a woman had sat there and yelled and cried, she would have been dismissed out of hand as being emotional, hysterical and certainly not of a temperament fit for even a trial court, let alone the Supremes.

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Moral Compass?

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From Iron Knee at Political Irony:

If there was any doubt that conservatives — especially social conservatives who used to champion “respectable social behavior” — have completely lost any and all moral authority, you just have to look at the current situation with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Social conservatives have been pretending to hold the moral high ground, opposing supposed sins including gay marriage, abortion, even (and especially) premarital sex. Even birth control, as if sex without procreation is a sin.

Yes, the same people who condemn birth control and premarital sex are now at best silent and at worst condoning sexual assault, claiming that if you even investigate (never mind punish) Kavanaugh for what he is accused (by multiple women) of doing, then you would disqualify all men from being on the Supreme Court.

Really?

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New DNA Evidence Suggests Children Closely Related To Humans

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From The Onion:

“After painstakingly extracting, sequencing, and analyzing dozens of ancient little-boy fossils, our team has come to the conclusion that there is a strong likelihood that contemporary homo sapiens are a direct, if distant, descendant of children,” said Dr. Evan Rollins of the findings, which seem to indicate that little kids and human beings may have a genetic difference of less than 1 percent.

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The Imperial Senate

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From nojo at Stinque:

We didn’t watch. We couldn’t.

There was nothing to be gained from watching. What we could know, we already did — not only about the witnesses, but the circumstances. It was yet another setup, yet another event engineered to provide the appearance of legitimacy without the substance. We couldn’t watch, because we couldn’t participate in yet another sham ritual. We’re done with that.

We couldn’t watch, but we did follow. We followed the responses, followed the reaction, followed the news coverage that accepted the sham as legitimate, which is why we’re done with news coverage, at least political news. We’re too old for this. We know too much.

Here’s what we know: The Senate majority represents 18 percent of Americans.

That is a sham of legitimacy as well.

That number is not expected to improve over the next twenty years, the next generation. An illegitimate Senate approves nominations from an illegitimate President to stack an illegitimate Supreme Court for decades. The consequences will, have been, and are, real.

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Democrats Commit the Mortal Sin Again

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From Green Eagle:

Will they ever learn?

And what is that mortal sin? Despite decades now of painful lessons to the contrary, they still insist on pretending that there is one God damned thing the Republicans ever do that is done honorably or out of a sense of right and wrong.

The case in point today? The one week FBI “investigation” the Republicans announced yesterday. Democrats (and the mainstream press, of course) fell hook line and sinker for the preposterous notion that there is one Republican on the face of the earth who cares about decency; in this case, Senator Jeff Flake, who “negotiated” this one week halt in the process of putting a lying right wing hack with a rage control problem so great that he can’t help display it on national television, on the Supreme Court.

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About Justice #GangBang’s Oath…

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From tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:

There seems to be a consensus forming that Brett ‘Caveman’ Kavanaugh’s eff’ing relationship with the truth seems to be more of his White Male Privilege and less Friends With Benefits, but you know, FAKE NEWS!1!!

Anyway, we’ve gathered some assorted media blurbs that indicate more than not, he might have perjured himself under oath.

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Trump ‘Personally’ Involved In Stormy Restraining Order This Year

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From Frances Langum:

Good thing Donald Trump has all that Executive Time carved into his schedule. He apparently used some of it THIS YEAR to make sure his fixer, convicted felon Michael Cohen, and his son, Eric Trump (not the one schtupping Kimberly Guilfoyle while his divorce goes through) worked on getting a restraining order on the porn star HE schtupped while his wife was recovering from childbirth.

By the way, did you know Stormy’s book is out today?

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How Do They Sleep at Night?

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From Helen Philpot at Margaret and Helen:

For the love of God, Republicans just elected a man who was videotaped bragging about assault. Are we really surprised they think a calendar showing exercise workouts during the 80’s is proof enough of innocence? If you are a Republican woman, I hope you are paying attention. It doesn’t matter how accomplished, how intelligent or how credible you are. You will be ignored, dismissed and even smeared if you stand between a Republican man and his path to power… regardless of what evidence you have or don’t have. If it happens in their teens, it’s boys will be boys, and if it happens as adults, it’s just locker room talk. Evidently Republicans are just fine electing men who sexually harass and assault women.

Honestly, how do Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins sleep at night?

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Rage Against the Truth!

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From Max’s Dad:

Christine Blasey Ford had lived for 35 years with an incident occurring at age 15 that involved a couple of prep school bullies named Judge and Kavanaugh. How appropriate. We all know what allegedly happened that night in that room. We heard a woman describe it in great detail. We heard Dr Ford be polite and deferring and insistent without raising her voice. Now we all know had Dr Ford shown an inner anger or began weeping over a justifiable reason to do just those things, her demeanor would have called “hysterical” and most old white men would have dismissed her…..Oh wait thats exactly what they did anyway.

Within minutes of coming back from a break, Christine Blasey Ford was dismissed from the memories of 11 white males intent on getting a man onto the Supreme Court who would protect their cult leader forever. Intent on putting into power a man who would own the libs forever. A man who would vote to overturn civil rights laws, keep gerrymandering legal, protect traitors, keep the iron fist of maleness upon womans health and bodies, and with no consequences, accept gifts from his handlers.

The woman was no longer relevant.

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