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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA darker reason why Trump chose Kavanaugh. Much darker.
Look. Eyes wide open.
Kavanaugh was deliberately chosen TO RILE women and the left.
Kavanaugh was coached to go berserk TO RILE women and the left.
It was the plan.
What happened next?
Plotters (old men) throw fuel on the fire. From the playbook of abusive men. Women=hysterical. Dems=ungovernable.
Trump and the base now assume the victim status. It's his go-to, and it riles the base.
He's building rationale for Act Two. Watch.
And Kavanaugh was the fire starter. His berserk rant set it all in motion.
JUST AS PLANNED. JUST AS F&^(ING PLANNED.
They played us from Kav's first sentence.
anarch
(6,535 posts)deals, etc., I was thinking there's also some measure of control the administration can expect to exert over Rapey Bart. I mean, he's their man, he will rule their way, no question; no other nominee would have had quite the same "qualifications."
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)issuesDemocrats
(91 posts)Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)Not only did he craft the ugly questions that Starr asked Bill Clinton about Monica, but he was instrumental in stopping the Florida recount in 2000.
magicarpet
(14,150 posts)... the vipers Lee Atwater and Roger Stone. Go to guys when the Rethugs want filthy dirty tricks played to decimate the political opposition DemocRat Party. No ethics, no morality, no honesty,.. the most ruthless approach to win at all costs. Down and dirty at every bend and turn.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)And a perv, too.
I wonder if he goes to confession and what the priest thinks. LOL
Volaris
(10,271 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)And staff...this is all about criminality...its been about criminal behavior since nixon....Reagan, bush, trump....repukes are always trying to cover there shit and most of the time they cant even shit in the litter box...
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)Trump can go the full Mussolini at any time he sees it as an advantage.
Riling the base to the point of berserkery is a distinct advantage for him.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)It could be partly or wholly because of his past, but he will do anything for his masters.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Think attack dogs and firehoses at Progressive rallies and demonstrations. Think private riot police at MAGA rallies. Think mass incarceration of protesters against the TRUMP regime. Execution of political leaders who oppose TRUMP.
Think it won't happen? So did many Germans in the 1920s and 30s.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)God help us all.
Then false flag attack. Curfew. Perhaps something to do with the Internet.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)followed by a modern-day Kristallnacht. It's coming. The MAGAs are coming, and they want blood.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)His slim book "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century" as well as his subsequent book "The Road To Unfreedom" and his wife Marci Shore's book "The Ukrainian Night" -- she's a scholar of Eastern European pre-totalitarian and totalitarian era history.
Mister Ed
(5,934 posts)And blood there was. More than the world had ever seen.
But not just the blood of the Brownshirts' intended victims. No, it was their own blood as well, and that of millions of others.
I feel it in my bones: November 6th is the last, best hope to ward off such a disaster as that, for the sake of all.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)There is no data to support this, but they will use this as the explanation when the voting results completely contradict every poll that was done before the election.
I am truly afraid.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)...and GOP leadership is participating, fully.
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)That's just what the ****s did before they outlawed political parties (other than theirs). I think they're moving to criminalize all types of protest and increase the use of private mercenaries for domestic law enforcement in situations such as they did at the pipeline protests in Dakota...modern age Pinkertons breaking up strikes.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)Elie Wiesel said: "It happened so fast."
It happened so fast.
manor321
(3,344 posts)They chose him because he's a GOP operative.
issuesDemocrats
(91 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)He promised them a anti- abortion, anti - gay rights judge.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)But Kavanaugh was coached to go berserk to light the fire that allows Trump et al RIGHT NOW to characterize women and Dems as ungovernable and violent.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)female feels pretty violent towards the GOP right now!
Volaris
(10,271 posts)And THATS what scares the fuck out of him...he KNOWS that even if we just take the house, what the investigations will kick loose WILL ensure he dies in prison
He should be afraid.
The worthless fucker.
kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)their base. The way poor Rapey Brett was victimized by these women and the lefties. Let's face it, these men are deathly afraid of any woman who might stand up to them. I don't know if their calculations will be correct.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)It was a plot. DiFi and her futzing around when Grassley offered an "impromptu" "gentleman's agreement." She should have immediately insisted on parameters. It was a plot.
JudyM
(29,250 posts)When we were shocked at their not even bare bones effort, we then played into their complaint that we were whiners and would never be satisfied. They are playing chess to our checkers every time, we need more shrewd moves. They play us and play us, how come our legislators end up flat footed? Even Obama with getting his arm twisted. They are devious and we need to start seeing just how devious they are and outplaying them.
When we had both houses and the White House we damn well shouldve set some legislation to protect the integrity of the vote.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)in a lot of places. Even more 'grey' bed day areas.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)They're the victims, democrats are an out of control mob.
We should not mention going after Kavanaugh or impeaching the Orange one.
lancelyons
(988 posts)Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Old guard Repugs will not allow 45 to succeed. He spit on them. He continues to thumb his nose at them. And he is anti free trade which runs counter to the Regan wing's trade policy. Mostly, they just don't like him.
So one of the five Repug appointed justices will not look like the others. I say it will be Roberts. It's his court. And his legacy.
Alito is not courageous. Thomas is part of them. The other two are beholden.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)He gets to stand between the people and tyranny. Be a hero.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)But be warned ..the man is NOT a liberal. In the correct order of importance he is a
CHEIF JUSTICE
CORPROTIST
republican
conservative
catholic
He won't let the overall legacy of the court be fuckered around with TOO much, but that does not mean he's gonna be on our side.
Citizens United, anyone?
pansypoo53219
(20,977 posts)UTUSN
(70,695 posts)Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)UTUSN
(70,695 posts)Am I suddenly on the wrong side? Well, I'm not.
Grasswire2
(13,570 posts)Some people say Bill Shine and Sean Hannity are the strategists advising the WH. Some say it's Giuliani. Some say Jared and family. Some say .... well, there are many possibilities. Trump himself too stupid, although canny. Could even be Putin. He asks Putin for advice sometimes.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)And you know Trump will attempt to go there.