Short Term Thinking

Republicans have allowed their rat-fuckers so much leeway to do their thing, the results are starting to eat away at their long-con strategy.

The story of Ed Whelan is a case-in-point.

Politico:

Ed Whelan may have just crossed a line he can’t jump back over.

Yesterday, Whelan, the president of the Ethics and & Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank, and an assertive supporter of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, took to Twitter to lay out a Hardy Boys-inspired scenario, suggesting that Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of attempted rape in high school, might have been mistaken about the identity of her alleged sexual assaulter. Using a mash-up of yearbook photos, Zillow information, Google Maps and Facebook, Whelan laid out a “case” that another man, a former classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Georgetown Prep—whom he named and provided a current photograph of—might have been the person Ford has in mind. After his wild theory received widespread criticism, Whelan deleted the tweets, and tried to walk back the accusation this morning.

But, if it’s false, it’s already too late to protect him against a possible defamation claim.

The common law of defamation isn’t that complicated. To be liable, the defendant must make an intentionally or negligently false statement about the plaintiff that tends to cause reputational harm, and harm must actually ensue.

Desperate to fill the federal bench with guys like Kavanaugh, the Daddy Staters are throwing caution to the wind, and forgetting what their operatives are telling us thru their idiotic short-term tactics.

Ed Whalen's attempt to deflect from the Blasey-Ford issue isn't just stoopid on is face.

By mounting this bullshit Scooby-and-the-gang "defense", they signal that at least some of them know (or have reason to strongly suspect) that something did in fact happen. 

They're admitting to the allegation that Dr Ford was assaulted. Which is why it got swept under the rug almost before it got out. Almost.

And of course, it fits with all the other shitty things Republicans have been doing:

• Nothing happened - you're lying
• OK, maybe something happened but it's not illegal, and it happened too long ago to worry about
• OK, something happened and it was illegal, but it's not a big deal - everybody does it
• OK, Something illegal happened and it's a big deal, but

Today's Tweet

The Rude Pundit

Remind me of the crimes Democrats accused Gorsuch of, you lummox. Or Roberts. Or Alito. Go away, you fucking child. https://t.co/JGXOO1xA0g

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) September 23, 2018

Quick Lesson

We stay because we believe
We leave because we're disillusioned
We come back because we're lost
We die because we're committed

Why I prefer my Revolution without the "R".

hat tip = driftglass

Today's Tweet

"...brain like a full voicemail box - you can call, but you can't leave a message."

If there was a nutrition label on Trump's ass it would say 35% Fat 65%
Narcissistic Personality Disorder. pic.twitter.com/Ca9y8ro81v

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) September 22, 2018

Whoa Momma

You're not necessarily an idiot just because everybody says you're an idiot, but one of things you have to consider is the possibility that you're an idiot.

Gonna needs lotsa ice for that kinda burn.

David Brill (D) AZ04

Today's GIF

So how's that diet-n-exercise thing goin', Mike?

The Podcast

Make the connections - because nothing scares the Daddy State more than a voter with a properly functioning memory.

• It's OK if the guy's a racist asshole - he'll keep the wrong people from voting
• It's OK if he advocates in favor of torture - we'll get a muscular foreign policy
• It's OK if he thinks Jews control all media- we'll get schools that teach the bible
• It's OK if he wants to short-circuit Due Process - we'll get law-n-order
• It's OK - boys will be boys
• It's OK - we'll get Roe v Wade overturned
• It's OK - we'll get tax cuts
• It's OK - we'll get back to a profit-taking healthcare system
• It's OK - we'll protect the rent-seeking bankers
• It's OK - thoughts & prayers

When all of that's been drilled into the heads of your voters, don't be so surprised when those voters begin acting like the assholes you've told them it's OK to be.

The Professional Left

Do the merch, bitches

Remembering others who've been where we are now
is how we move from despair to celebration
We will find each other in the darkness
and move the light to where we need it
--MJR

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“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness

Trae Crowder

On the need to remember Climate Change - a hoax perpetrated by - who? - Big Bicycle? - together with the shadowy California Vegan Cartel?

Stoopid Repub Tricks

Just need to get this off my chest:

I'm sick-n-goddamned-tired of these entitlement-laden fat-cat legacy pukes. They need to be thrown out with the rest of the hog slop - they're stinkin' up the whole fuckin' joint.

Marc Fisher and Perry Stein, WaPo:

As Christine Blasey Ford tells it, only one person can offer eyewitness confirmation of her account of a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh: Mark Judge, Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Prep.

Ford says Judge watched Kavanaugh attack her at a high school party in the early 1980s and then literally piled on, leaping on top of her and Kavanaugh. Judge says he does not remember the party and never saw his buddy behave like that. Ford’s legal team has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to compel Judge to testify.

A review of books, articles and blog posts by Judge — a freelance writer who has shifted among jobs at a record store, substitute teaching, housesitting and most recently at a liquor store — describes an ’80s private-school party scene in which heavy drinking and sexual encounters were standard fare.

Judge wrote about the pledge he and his friends at the all-male school on Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, Md., made to drink 100 kegs of beer before graduation. On their way to that goal, there was a “disastrous” party “at my house where the place was trashed,” Judge wrote in his book “God and Man at Georgetown Prep.” Kavanaugh listed himself in the class yearbook as treasurer of the “100 Kegs or Bust” club.

“I’ll be the first one to defend guys being guys,” Judge wrote in a 2015 article on the website Acculturated. He described a party culture of “drinking and smoking and hooking up.” During senior year, Judge said he and his pals hired a stripper and bought a keg for a bachelor party they threw to honor their school’s music teacher.
"...guys being guys"...because they'd drink too much and do stoopid things. Oh well, whutcha gonna do? Hey, how 'bout them Red Sox, huh?

Try to think about the effect that has on young girls growing up, and what effect it might have on young boys.

And that's just the obvious basic stuff that you have to assume even a complete bonehead would start to understand eventually. But here we are - not again, but still.

Feel free to go out and find a Leftie Equivalent - 10 stoopid quotes from Dems about rape.  Because, of course - the Dems are just as bad - it's the Evil Duopoly!!! 

I'll wait here.

A PSA

How To Prevent Rape

1. Don’t put drugs in a woman’s drink

2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone

3. If you pull over because a woman’s car has broken down, always remember not to rape her

4. If a woman steps into an elevator with you, don’t rape her

5. Should you encounter a woman who’s asleep or otherwise unconscious, the safest thing to do is not rape her

6. Don’t break into a woman’s house, and don’t pounce on a woman in the parking garage, so as not to rape her

7. Remember, some women go alone to the laundry room or storage lockers - avoid raping them at all times

8. Use the Buddy System - sometimes, a friend is all you need to help you not rape

9. Be honest with her - state your intentions so a woman doesn’t get the mistaken idea that you’re not going to rape her

10. Always carry a Rape Whistle. If you’re about to commit rape, blow the whistle until someone comes and stomps your punk ass into a greasy spot on the pavement

Thank you for your time and attention. We hope you find this helpful as you navigate the tricky world of interpersonal dealings at a human level.

The Management