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Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed
| gg america no re
| Would anyone care to elaborate on what makes Kav a good/bad justice? I haven't heard a single thing regarding his actual character/viewpoints other than the sexual allegations and that he may or may not have been a drunk in highschool.
| >>416073
Bullshit you haven't.
1 His conspiracy mongering. A justice is supposed to be nonpartisan
2 His tantrum and heckling of an interviewing senator
3 He refused to answer if a president can pardon himself
4 He committed perjury
5 He's against the fourth amendment
| >>416097
He also thinks net neutrality rules would violate the first amendment. The man is a piece of shit who's also against planned parenthood.
| Funny thing is that some Republicans don't like him because he won't overturn Roe v Wade, kek
| >>416097
No, really, I haven't, or at least not from most media outlets I've seen. It feels like his nomation has been twisted entirely into a platform for Dems vs Repubs / Accusers vs Accused, instead of a debate regarding his aptitude for the job. I appreciate the genuine response.
| >>416170
That's the main concern democrats have, not sure what would lead anyone to believe he wouldn't. He tried to force a detained girl to have a baby by prolonging her abortion "decision" in local courts despite doctors and other members of the local govt giving her the go-ahead. There had to be federal intervention before she could get her abortion.
| >>416382 He's been quoted saying Roe v Wade is "settled law". Basically he won't touch it, at least not on his own. Probably a bandwagon vote for if it looks like it might win, but that depends on the other justices.
Said girl was undocumented, which I don't think is a good excuse to 'soft deny' an abortion anyhow but he won't move to outright deny US citizens abortions.
| At least,not yet
| >>416471
Except his word means little to none.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/comments/9kk97y/all_of_brett_kavanaughs_lies_13_under_oath/
| Simply put, hes a liar and potential rapist. And now he as a seat for life on the supreme court...
Not to mention the fact that trump appointed him after changing the supreme court confirmation threshold to over half instead of 60 or more votes out of 100 a year ago.
This was railroaded and completely corrupt.
| >>416507
Let's be clear, Trump didn't institute the 51 votes thing. That was done in 2012 by Democratic Senators as a way to bypass republican filibusters. It's entirely on the Senate for approving that change of procedure in the first place. Once a precedent like that is changed, it's extremely hard to change it back. Because changing it gives no advantage to the party in power.
| Old white chauvinist patriarch men elect an old white chauvinist patriarch man. How often do "liberals" need to be suprised with such things until they finally realize that their liberalism was build on brown mud?
| Good job indeed
| >>416588
>How often do "liberals" need to be surprised with such things until they finally realize that their liberalism was build on brown mud?
But a ton of liberals were against him? I don't understand your point.
| >>416856 The confusion might stem from the British/American differences on the work "liberal" and "liberalism".
European use of liberal mostly refers to centre/centre-right ideology that sees supporting capitalists and their businesses as the most important job of the government. While in America liberal is synonymous with "the left-wing" (and Democrats to a extent)
In short. Imagine liberal as in the TEA party, not Democratic party.
| Okay I used British and European interchangeably cause Britain is basically the part of Europe that speaks English.
We dirty Euros use our own wired non-English words for stuff.
| THE C A L E N D A R
| >>416856
The point is that liberals expected that they can build a liberal democracy on a social-darwinist economy. A lot of socialists, social democrats and ecology parties and movements totally abandoned the ideas and critique of marx and engels, blaming them for the fail of real-socialist estates. In the consequence they became liberals focusing on identity politics and "liberal economy" (euphemism for capitalism). They live in their bourgeois urban bubbles and don't understand
| >>416856 >>417230
what's happening as they face now a big backstroke from the right and the far-right winning masses with reactionist slogans that were thought to be buried with the third reich. And now they are paniking like "how could trump become president?" and "how could kavanaugh become supreme court judge?"
"Liberalism" was nothing but a facade, offering temporary a liberal society build on the rotten core of capitalism which now channels its contradictions in reactionism.
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| Good job, Congress, you tribalistic idiots.