Yeah, but it's just science. So it just doesn't hold up against a well-cultivated deeply entrenched conspiracy theory. Never forget this one simple thing: Arguing that George W Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11 is the classic Internal Contradiction. ie: You put "George W Bush" and "knowledge" in the same sentence. Your point is not valid.
Francesca Fiorentini "Knowledge makes people question power, so it's no wonder politicians try to defund public schools, raise college costs, keep people working too much to educate themselves and stigmatize higher education as elitist. Knowledge is power to us, but to the people who rule us it's a liability." Yes, it's Al-Jazeera. (bring your own grains of salt) But here's the thing: I'll try to think through my own haze of ideological purity and see if there might be tiny kernels of reality outside my own little bubble.
The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion... When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents...despotic in his ordinary demeanor - known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty - when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity - to join in the cry of danger to liberty - to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bring it under suspicion - to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day - It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may "ride the storm and direct the whirlwind."
Apparently, Sen Booker's been taking his meds regularly.
John Cornyn: If you tell people the truth about Brett Kavanaugh, we'll beat you up. Cory Booker: Here I am, assholes - come and get me. The Hill: (The headline's a little misleading - though marked "confidential", Grassley OK'd the release) Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Thursday released emails from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time as a White House counsel, escalating a heated fight over his documents.
Booker released approximately 12 pages of emails tied to discussions Kavanaugh had on racial inequality including one email thread titled "racial profiling."
The documents are marked "committee confidential," meaning they are not supposed to be discussed or released publicly.
"I am right now, before your process is finished, I am going to release the email about racial profiling, and I understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate," Booker said at the hearing. And Kamala Harris is someone the GOP needs to be wary of - kinda like the way Al Capone needed to be wary of Elliot Ness. She's fierce in a very good way. And she's a bitch in exactly the way men talk admiringly about a '67 GT500, or a P-51 - she's powerful and responsive and she'll fuck you up if you make a mistake. She is to be respected.
I think maybe it's time to put away all the conventional wisdom bullshit about how the Dems are always wishy-washy and fumbling around looking for excuses to beg Republicans for mercy. Let's look at the NTY Op-Ed piece (the "Lodestar" thing); and at Susan Collins waffling on every fucking thing that staggers by; and at Lindsey Graham (aka: Huckleberry ButchMeUp - thanks, Charlie Pierce), who goes around in circles so fast he's about to disappear up his own asshole. I look at these clowns and it has to be very clear that it's the GOP that needs more than a little backbone. And I'm no longer willing to entertain the notion of, "Well gee, the Democrats can't seem to take advantage of their openings, so they must be just as bad as those other guys". Bullshit. You might as well call me a shitty parent for loving my kid even though he crashed the new Toyota - I'm still gonna love him and worry first that he's OK - then we can talk about how he fucked up my car, how pissed off I am about it, and what has to happen next.
