I don't get this despair, what has changed?

[gabeana]

Once 2016 was lost/stolen the court was gone, we knew it was going to be 5-4, granted now a stronger 5-4 with a much younger conservative judge than Kennedy,
Kavanaugh was sailing easily to confirmation until Ford heroically stood in the way, and ended up becoming a symbol for victims of abuse at the hands of drunk teens, men who have for generation in group behavior have dismissed women, "the Sleeping Giant" was already awake but is now roaring.

Enthusiasm is going to be high on both sides but remember there is more of us than there is of them even in their red enclaves there is pockets of blue that are going to come out, and oust a lot of Red incumbents

[RandySF]

1. Activism feels good but losing sucks

Even when the deck is stacked.

[gabeana]

2. Yeah and even with it stacked made

the Fuckers work for it, didn't make it easy for them, 50 votes, the lowest since senate went to 100

[renate]

3. That's a very good point!

The only way they won was by delivering a giant Fuck You to women (half the voting population) and survivors of sexual assault (which makes them the worst people). It wasn’t a cakewalk for them.

[Snake Plissken]

4. A conservative on the Supreme Court is what concerns me, it's the consequence of losing an election

Having a lowlife, lying, sexual assaulting, politically biased, self entitled, elitist piece of shit on the Supreme Court is what I have a problem with. He is not fit to be sitting on the Supreme Court. trump did this just to troll liberals and piss people off because he's a juvenile douchebag.

[empedocles]

10. However, we got the most vulnerable conservative ever.

It's possible his term can be cut short.

[bdamomma]

5. I just don't

need to listen to those pricks lies anymore, and how the democrats are to blame. Such assholes starting with Lindsey Graham, and how they didn't have the courage to speak to Dr Ford. And never in my life I heard Kava-not yelling and spewing lies about how it was a left wing conspiracy. Sickening and this man is now sitting on the SC?

This regime is nothing but a bunch of criminals. Everyone should take a knee when they play the anthem.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. 👏🏾

[donkeypoofed]

6. Because of the way he got In, that's why we despair

Our assaults don't matter. That's very depressing. So now you can understand.

[JarOCats]

8. What changed...

...is that, until the final vote, there was always a flicker of hope, no matter how tiny, that he would not be confirmed. If it was always a given, then there was no reason for Dr. Ford to upend her life, nor even any reason for debate.

What changed is that that tiny flicker of hope has been doused.

[Codeine]

12. Why would anyone have believed

there was any chance whatsoever that he wouldn’t be confirmed? I never understood that weird kind of senseless, blind, uniformed naivety. The Republicans were never going to fail to confirm Trump’s nominee. Politics 101.

[JarOCats]

14. Then why even bother to hold hearings?

Why bother with with an FBI investigation (sham that it was)?

Why bother to protest? Why bother to vote?

Because there is always a chance to prevent the worst.

That's not senseless, blind, uninformed, or naive; to believe everything is predestined and inevitable is.

[Ms. Toad]

9. There is a significant difference between installing a conservative justice -

elections have consequences, after all.

And all but completely ignoring credible and corroborated claims of sexual abuse, blatant lies under oath, his complete inability to exercise a suitable judicial and impartial temperament in order to meet some arbitrary confirmation deadline.

One is a normal consquence of the election. The other is destroying the last facade of impartiality on the court or in the process by which nominations are confirmed. And almost intentionally triggering mild to severe PTSD in nearly every woman I know.

[budkin]

11. Said this to a friend... we knew all this was going to happen on election night

We've just had to digest it bite by bite.

[mzmolly]

13. Conservative is one thing. Attempted rapist

is another.