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(The Intellectualist)   Not to alarm anyone, but Trump's top pick for the Supreme Court seems to be in a cult   (mavenroundtable.io) divider line
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koder [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 4:30:47 AM  
129 votes:
are assigned and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a "head" for men and a "handmaid" for women.

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Mike_LowELL [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 6:55:35 AM  
89 votes:
Hearing rumors that it's either going to be her or a series of chain emails promising to expose the unconstitutionality of atheism.  You Libs™ are going to be Re: Re: Re: Re: Really Pissed.
 
markie_farkie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-21 10:41:15 PM  
83 votes:
"We don't try to control people," said Mr. Lent, who is also a professor of electrical engineering and physics at Notre Dame.

He might be book smart, but he gave up sanity permanently for...his last name.
 
Calypsocookie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 7:32:51 AM  
59 votes:
*looks down at my vagina*

Well it was nice making our own decisions for awhile huh?

*sadly walks away*

/me not my vagina
 
wearsmanyhats [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-21 10:31:36 PM  
44 votes:
Jesus Christ!
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 4:15:39 AM  
38 votes:

GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?


That's what the Catholic Church did to Jesus?
 
Armchair_Invective
2020-09-22 7:40:34 AM  
35 votes:
It's mansplained in her campaign brochure.

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GardenWeasel [TotalFark]
2020-09-21 10:36:25 PM  
34 votes:
Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?
 
AuralArgument
2020-09-22 7:37:35 AM  
30 votes:
Calypsocookie:

You just left, your vagina there?
 
dittybopper
2020-09-22 7:54:07 AM  
27 votes:
Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-doc​s​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.
 
MegaLib
2020-09-22 8:29:44 AM  
22 votes:
It is irrelevant.  Vice President Biden will win.  We will win the house and senate.  We will double the number of Justices and pack the SCOTUS with Progressives.  Republicans will never be relevant again.  They had the chance to pack the court, and were too week.  We won't make that mistake.  We will implement Medicare for all, free Public education, UBI and legally take the guns.  We will build a modern progressive nation with equal rights for all
 
Calypsocookie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 7:40:11 AM  
21 votes:

AuralArgument: Calypsocookie:

You just left, your vagina there?


Yes in the corner it's softly weeping.

/I told it I'll come back after November 3rd
//either with packed bags or two shots of whiskey
 
HypnozombieX
2020-09-22 7:45:59 AM  
20 votes:
Biden just has to put a man on the court next who can tell her to stfu and sit down, and she'll instinctively comply since it's an order from a man.
 
Animatronik
2020-09-22 7:40:16 AM  
19 votes:
And so the organized smear campaign begins...
 
dittybopper
2020-09-22 8:05:59 AM  
17 votes:

qorkfiend: You think that means no one can ever talk about it?


Yes, when it comes to her confirmation or not.

If any senators bring it up in the hearings, then yes, absolute violation of Article VI.

And if the senators can't bring it up, what's the point of talking about it?   It's a nullity.   It's like discussing why water is wet.
 
HighOnCraic [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:38:58 AM  
16 votes:
According to Craig S. Lent, the group's leader, People of Praise is neither "nefarious" nor "controversial"; however, per group policy, he would not confirm or deny Barrett's membership status.

If it's not controversial, why keep secrets?

Lent needs to give it up!
 
anwserman
2020-09-22 8:17:29 AM  
15 votes:
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Thankfully Lindsey is a man of honor and integrity - https://usemywordsagainstme.com
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:14:14 AM  
15 votes:

FreakyBunny: The only thing that matters to his base is being cruel to "liberals". That's it. They cannot be persuaded by logic, decency, compassion, kindness, or even being harmed by his policies themselves.They are a sneering mass of hate, and they must be overwhelmed by the opposite of that.


Well... liberals have been cruel to them for 40+ years... payback is a biatch, ain't it.
 
way south
2020-09-22 8:10:02 AM  
14 votes:
*Sigh*, So now Catholics are a cult...

I think the democrats forgot that they needed people to vote for them at some point.
 
ar393
2020-09-22 7:41:19 AM  
14 votes:

AuralArgument: Calypsocookie:

You just left, your vagina there?


Maybe it is near st mark's place...it's detachable.

/Not obscure
 
Resident Muslim [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 7:37:44 AM  
14 votes:

Natalie Portmanteau: GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?

right? Gimme a Sikh.


And be the bailiff for free, just as long as I can, whenever a ruling comes out, say "Sikh call, Judge."
 
bloobeary [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-21 10:50:53 PM  
14 votes:
Anyone trump picks is illegitimate.
 
What_Would_Jimi_Do
2020-09-22 9:39:56 AM  
12 votes:
biden is in the same cult.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:19:20 AM  
11 votes:

neongoats: dwrash: I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?

This is your stupid talking point? Go back to bed gramps. Sentient humans are talking.


You are all so predictable.. don't you see that.  You have always had limited choices to be outraged about and this is one of a handful of tactics that is always used... you guys are so boring.. yawn.
 
sirrerun [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:18:51 AM  
11 votes:

Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.


And they were slaveholders.
 
Flincher [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:00:21 AM  
10 votes:
Might have to drop the weed and go with heroin.

I have been hearing nice things.


/s
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 9:16:31 AM  
9 votes:

Prank Call of Cthulhu: dwrash: experts' have no place in our government

Wow.

"Ah want people in the gummint jes lahk me, folks as seems like ah cu'd goan hev a beer with em. Don' need no fancy book larnin'."


I see you cut the qualifying statement at the end of that sentence.  Our 'experts' have shown just how much they are only useful idiots in this crisis.  They flip flop and lie while playing us for chumps.

As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:13:12 AM  
9 votes:
I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?
 
damageddude [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:34:59 AM  
9 votes:
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Associate Justice Ofdon?
 
rudemix [OhFark]
2020-09-22 7:31:39 AM  
9 votes:
10 to 1 she's tugged him off at least.
 
PaulRB [TotalFark]
2020-09-21 11:11:14 PM  
9 votes:

Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.


The framers didn't hang out with Jedidiah Trump.
 
JDAT [OhFark]
2020-09-22 12:43:41 PM  
8 votes:
Fark:
"She must not become a Justice because we do not want a Catholic to have that much power over us!"

Also Fark:
"We want Joe Biden (Catholic) to be our President!"
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 11:52:58 AM  
8 votes:

raius: This is why I think politicians should require more then just getting elected to hold office.  You should have to pass at least a basic civics course, something to show you understand how government is supposed to function.  All these common sense outsiders are generally disasters.


I am 100% against academia having any involvement in vetting or determining the suitability of a candidate.  That would be like the blind leading the blind.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 10:53:37 AM  
8 votes:
godxam:

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The years haven't been kind to Jenny McCarthy.
 
Psylence [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:52:34 AM  
8 votes:
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dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:46:43 AM  
8 votes:

neongoats: dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?

This is your stupid talking point? Go back to bed gramps. Sentient humans are talking.

You are all so predictable.. don't you see that.  You have always had limited choices to be outraged about and this is one of a handful of tactics that is always used... you guys are so boring.. yawn.

Yawn. Amoral trash thinks I'm boring. I'll care when a human being with morals calls me boring, not you shiat people.

You don't even know what I believe.  I've been observer of American culture and the conservative/liberal divide all my life.  And I know the attitudes that prevail.

You're just a little micro-trump that thinks you're a farking expert on every subject.


I think a government of and for the people should be understandable to the average citizens.  'experts' have no place in our government unless they can relate to and understand who they are supposed to be working for.  That is all.  Our government has been taken over by professional 'experts' that hold the citizenry in contempt.
 
darth sunshine
2020-09-22 8:39:19 AM  
8 votes:

Natalie Portmanteau: GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?

right? Gimme a Sikh.


I first read that as sith...I'm Ok with that...
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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:23:26 AM  
8 votes:
posted TFA on Facebook, with a "I do not want to hear any dissenting opinions from married women here"
 
jiggitysmith
2020-09-22 7:41:59 AM  
8 votes:

Animatronik: And so the organized smear campaign begins...


In in 2020, reporting the truth is a smear campaign because right-wing people have gone so far right, they have fallen off the edge of the earth.
 
elaw [BareFark]
2020-09-22 7:34:24 AM  
8 votes:

Gubbo: You mean they are a Republican?


No, he means that 4 years ago under these same circumstances, Republicans claimed a candidate named by Obama would be illegitimate due to the fact it was an election year.  Now, in a heroic attempt to up their game of hypocrisy, they're acting in a completely opposite manner.
 
Gubbo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-21 11:02:56 PM  
8 votes:
You mean they are a Republican?
 
bearded clamorer [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-21 10:36:25 PM  
8 votes:
I was hoping it was Eric Bloom.
 
JDAT [OhFark]
2020-09-22 12:31:05 PM  
7 votes:
Hasn't even been picked yet and the smearing has already begun.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 11:10:13 AM  
7 votes:

Fart_Machine: dwrash: dwrash: thatguyoverthere70: dwrash: As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.

Wow. You don't usually get to see someone admit in public that they don't believe in the concept of expertise.

For everyone that claims to be an expert.. there are many others that are even better in the subject/field... always.

And how do you measure whether someone is an expert anymore given that college degrees are pretty much passed out like pez candy to undeserving and unqualified folks?

I see the graduate from Dunning-Kruger U has spoken.


Degree inflation is real.. an associates degree is like a high school degree of 40 years ago, an bachelors degree is equivalent to an associates degree and so on and so on.  The real world knows that academia is failing and is continually upping their degree requirements because graduates are just really that bad.
 
thehobbes
2020-09-22 9:59:29 AM  
7 votes:

Calypsocookie: *looks down at my vagina*

Well it was nice making our own decisions for awhile huh?

*sadly walks away*

/me not my vagina


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Astorix [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:49:16 AM  
7 votes:
Do you now see why we need to completely expunge a belief system dreamed up by illiterate, uneducated, unwise, angry and ignorant, goathearders in an endless state of war.

Christianity is the boat anchor on the world's neck.
 
qorkfiend [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:00:01 AM  
7 votes:

dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


Also doesn't the group in question maintain that they are strictly secular? So this clause doesn't even begin to apply.

Or, are you admitting that she's in a religious cult?
 
vygramul [TotalFark]
2020-09-21 11:20:36 PM  
7 votes:
I want him to nominate Alex Jones or Ivanka or Julian Assange. I want to see someone incredibly bad nominated just to see what the GOP will tolerate. Because if it's anything, we should be informed of such.
 
Exluddite [TotalFark]
2020-09-21 10:38:11 PM  
7 votes:
It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 11:04:37 AM  
6 votes:

dwrash: thatguyoverthere70: dwrash: As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.

Wow. You don't usually get to see someone admit in public that they don't believe in the concept of expertise.

For everyone that claims to be an expert.. there are many others that are even better in the subject/field... always.


And how do you measure whether someone is an expert anymore given that college degrees are pretty much passed out like pez candy to undeserving and unqualified folks?
 
Eli WhiskeyDik [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 10:10:41 AM  
6 votes:
I found a vagina lying around. Anyone missing one?
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 9:59:42 AM  
6 votes:

Graffito: gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union

Wrong.  The Dems went nuclear because McConnell put obstructing Obama above the functioning of the U.S. government.   Positions were going vacant because the Repubs wouldn't confirm anyone besides who they wanted.  In fact, they weren't even willing to approve people they approved of it gave Obama a chance to accomplish something.

Repubs weren't willing to vet candidates honestly and approve them based on qualifications.  THAT's how we got here.  Remember that when Schumer goes nuclear in January,


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gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 9:54:48 AM  
6 votes:

raius: What_Would_Jimi_Do: biden is in the same cult.

No one cares that she's Catholic.  Stop conflating Catholicism with what she's doing.


Can you even read? Go back and see how many people are complaining about her being Catholic.

FFS, stop lying.
 
mdemon81
2020-09-22 9:49:27 AM  
6 votes:
Oh thread's on the main tab. The explains the higher than normal number of mouthbreathers.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:32:42 AM  
6 votes:
Has the country been so viciously divided like 20 years ago as it is now? I mean 20 years ago was when the electoral college stole the election for Dubya and farked up the world but people weren't as pissed off about it as they are now about everything.
 
jso2897
2020-09-22 8:32:35 AM  
6 votes:

FreakyBunny: Cruel. Right.


Well, as cruel as it is possible to be with zero power.
Since 1980, the "Left" has barely existed in this country, and has had no hand in policy decisions or the exercise of political power. We are literally living in the pure form of Regan/Bush/Trump's America - everything these people are crying about and claiming victimization over is THEIR OWN WORK.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:30:13 AM  
6 votes:

neongoats: dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?

This is your stupid talking point? Go back to bed gramps. Sentient humans are talking.

You are all so predictable.. don't you see that.  You have always had limited choices to be outraged about and this is one of a handful of tactics that is always used... you guys are so boring.. yawn.

Yawn. Amoral trash thinks I'm boring. I'll care when a human being with morals calls me boring, not you shiat people.


You don't even know what I believe.  I've been observer of American culture and the conservative/liberal divide all my life.  And I know the attitudes that prevail.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:18:52 AM  
6 votes:

qorkfiend: dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.

You think that means no one can ever talk about it?


It's illegal for the Senators to consider it.

It's just normal bigotry for you to consider it.
 
Vlad_the_Inaner
2020-09-22 8:15:58 AM  
6 votes:

dittybopper: If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not. It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


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/What's the problem, its just a religion.  Participation should be no bar to office
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:10:36 AM  
6 votes:

dittybopper: qorkfiend: You think that means no one can ever talk about it?

Yes, when it comes to her confirmation or not.

If any senators bring it up in the hearings, then yes, absolute violation of Article VI.

And if the senators can't bring it up, what's the point of talking about it?   It's a nullity.   It's like discussing why water is wet.


Water isn't wet.  Whatever is in water or gets splashed by it is wet.  Jesus Christ.
 
Leader O'Cola
2020-09-22 7:56:23 AM  
6 votes:
If you truly believe that life begins at conception, will she push that we get rid of birthdays as official legal standards for age?  How do we determine conception days? Government installs little video cameras in every woman's womb?  Also, how do we retroactively apply this to the born, just use 9 months? What is a month... 30.4 days?  Also, if you believe abstinence prevents pregnancy, was Mary a liar?
 
Klyukva
2020-09-22 7:42:04 AM  
6 votes:
One of the individuals reportedly topping President Donald Trump's shortlist to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg belongs to a religious group that believes husbands should rule over their wives, among other highly conservative and traditional beliefs.

I was hoping for some kinky dom/sub stuff in the article. Leaving disappointed.
 
EyeballKid
2020-09-22 7:38:41 AM  
6 votes:

elaw: I want to make myself a blue baseball cap that says "Make America great".  Anyone with me?


And they say people have a hard time telling the two parties apart!
 
EyeballKid
2020-09-22 7:37:37 AM  
6 votes:
Oh, look. It's the global child-raping cabal conservatives swore they were stopping.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 12:54:12 AM  
6 votes:
Republicans are a cult.
 
Kornchex [TotalFark]
2020-09-21 10:36:54 PM  
6 votes:
That oath automatically disqualifies her.

/or it would in a normal world
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 12:07:51 PM  
5 votes:

Fart_Machine: dwrash: raius: This is why I think politicians should require more then just getting elected to hold office.  You should have to pass at least a basic civics course, something to show you understand how government is supposed to function.  All these common sense outsiders are generally disasters.

I am 100% against academia having any involvement in vetting or determining the suitability of a candidate.  That would be like the blind leading the blind.

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It has nothing to do with that.  I watched the State Board of Land Surveyors change their tests back in the 80's and moved away from tests that measured actual work experience to being more academic oriented and the quality of Land Surveyors in the state went in the toilet.

Academia exists to perpetuate itself.. not to actually educate or determine suitability for anything outside of academia.
 
GrinzGrimly
2020-09-22 12:01:32 PM  
5 votes:

elaw: Gubbo: You mean they are a Republican?

No, he means that 4 years ago under these same circumstances, Republicans claimed a candidate named by Obama would be illegitimate due to the fact it was an election year.  Now, in a heroic attempt to up their game of hypocrisy, they're acting in a completely opposite manner.


The circumstances are not the same though. The key differentiator is whether the Senate is the same party as the president.  And please try to recall Democrats yelled and screamed that the American people deserved a full court of 9 when the Senate was holding up the hearing in 2016. The Dems position then was "fill it, fill it now!" now they say we must wait until after the election.  You absolutely cannot say the Republicans are being hypocritical without acknowledging that the democrats are equally hypocritical.
 
Cbillrun
2020-09-22 11:29:18 AM  
5 votes:
Lol so it begins, the nutty attacks by the unhinged. LOL LOONS
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 11:14:34 AM  
5 votes:

Mugato: dwrash: dwrash: thatguyoverthere70: dwrash: As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.

Wow. You don't usually get to see someone admit in public that they don't believe in the concept of expertise.

For everyone that claims to be an expert.. there are many others that are even better in the subject/field... always.

And how do you measure whether someone is an expert anymore given that college degrees are pretty much passed out like pez candy to undeserving and unqualified folks?

Agin, dat book lernin' got notin on good ole horse sense.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credent​i​alism_and_educational_inflation

its real.  Your degree is worth maybe half of what it used to be and is no longer an indication of ability or talent.
 
big pig peaches
2020-09-22 10:14:36 AM  
5 votes:

way south: *Sigh*, So now Catholics are a cult...

I think the democrats forgot that they needed people to vote for them at some point.


Apperently they can't go with the usual unfounded rape allegations and usual racist accusations are also aren't going to pan out for them either.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 9:51:22 AM  
5 votes:

freakay: And cue in the smug children

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We get it.

You couldn't get a date in HS and now you hate women.
 
HypnozombieX
2020-09-22 9:24:33 AM  
5 votes:

gar1013: Magorn: MegaLib: It is irrelevant.  Vice President Biden will win.  We will win the house and senate.  We will double the number of Justices and pack the SCOTUS with Progressives.  Republicans will never be relevant again.  They had the chance to pack the court, and were too week.  We won't make that mistake.  We will implement Medicare for all, free Public education, UBI and legally take the guns.  We will build a modern progressive nation with equal rights for all

13 justices, not 18

we have 13 judicial circuits and each of the Justices is supposed to also be the Chief admin judge of a circuit...the number 9 for justices was set when we had nine circuits.  Therefore 13 is merely correctly updating the court.   The fact that it will give dems a 7-6 majority?  well just icing on the cake

Cool.

If Dems pack the court, once we regain control of Congress and the Presidency, we'll expand it to 50...maybe even throw in a few for our various territories as well.

Dems suck at strategy. Don't say you weren't warned.


Oh so vewy vewy conswerned. republicans have already shown they will do anything. Democrats would profoundly stupid not to do exactly the same and you know it. Basically your 'advice' to Democrats is to just accept a fascist dictatorship where a corrupt plutocrat robs em blind. Get farked dupshiat, only russians would put up with that nonsense.
 
freakay [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:17:40 AM  
5 votes:
And cue in the smug children

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TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 9:07:00 AM  
5 votes:

Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

I'm pretty sure if she were Muslim (HERPA DERPA SHARIA LAW) or a Satanist you guys would be hooting and hollering like enraged howler monkeys.

Be my guest. Keep up the good work!

Oh, or an atheist. You dumbs-dumbs really hate that. How dare someone not believe in a magic invisible white man who lives in the sky and grants wishes.


Hey, I'm not a religious person. But, I do know that attacking people for practicing the predominant religion in a country in which you wish to attain power is not smart.
 
Animatronik
2020-09-22 9:03:28 AM  
5 votes:

jiggitysmith: Animatronik: And so the organized smear campaign begins...

In in 2020, reporting the truth is a smear campaign because right-wing people have gone so far right, they have fallen off the edge of the earth.



No, you.  Bernie Sanders is a nutty marxist demagogue, and he ruined your party.
 
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 9:03:12 AM  
5 votes:

raius: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

People don't care about her religion, they care about her weird cult.


You've been told she's in a weird cult by a hit piece. You are gullible and probably don't even know it.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:45:25 AM  
5 votes:

Magorn: MegaLib: It is irrelevant.  Vice President Biden will win.  We will win the house and senate.  We will double the number of Justices and pack the SCOTUS with Progressives.  Republicans will never be relevant again.  They had the chance to pack the court, and were too week.  We won't make that mistake.  We will implement Medicare for all, free Public education, UBI and legally take the guns.  We will build a modern progressive nation with equal rights for all

13 justices, not 18

we have 13 judicial circuits and each of the Justices is supposed to also be the Chief admin judge of a circuit...the number 9 for justices was set when we had nine circuits.  Therefore 13 is merely correctly updating the court.   The fact that it will give dems a 7-6 majority?  well just icing on the cake


Cool.

If Dems pack the court, once we regain control of Congress and the Presidency, we'll expand it to 50...maybe even throw in a few for our various territories as well.

Dems suck at strategy. Don't say you weren't warned.
 
Farkonaut
2020-09-22 8:43:27 AM  
5 votes:
Is it time for the civil strike yet?

Can we blockade D.C.? Make it an impassable wall of humanity?
 
neongoats [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:32:22 AM  
5 votes:

dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?

This is your stupid talking point? Go back to bed gramps. Sentient humans are talking.

You are all so predictable.. don't you see that.  You have always had limited choices to be outraged about and this is one of a handful of tactics that is always used... you guys are so boring.. yawn.

Yawn. Amoral trash thinks I'm boring. I'll care when a human being with morals calls me boring, not you shiat people.

You don't even know what I believe.  I've been observer of American culture and the conservative/liberal divide all my life.  And I know the attitudes that prevail.


You're just a little micro-trump that thinks you're a farking expert on every subject.
 
Leader O'Cola
2020-09-22 8:19:08 AM  
5 votes:

Kraftwerk Orange: Natalie Portmanteau: GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?

right? Gimme a Sikh.

Be careful what you ask for.

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Thats a tan white christian lady. Her name is Nikki !.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:18:52 AM  
5 votes:

dwrash: Well... liberals have been cruel to them for 40+ years..


Liberals cruelly making conservatives...uh, not be allowed to poke their noses into what people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms, put up with the smell of the occasional taco truck, have some neighbors that don't look like them, stop them from lynching blacks, gays, and trans folks, getting rid of child labor, providing a 40-hour work week, giving women equal rights, ensuring air and water are clean, inspecting food for safety...

Those farking monsters.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:12:59 AM  
5 votes:

sniderman: The framers of the Constitution didn't expect nearly half of the U.S. population to be pants-on-head stupid either. And yet here we are


I think that's why they came up with the Electoral College. "Moſt of the populace are ſo ſtupid, they wear their pantaloons atop their heads! Theſe numbſkulls can't be truſted to actually vote for the candidate, we'll have electors actually do the electing."
 
bobug [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 7:51:46 AM  
5 votes:
But, hey, at least she firmly believes that life begins before conception, and punishes those dirty sluts, who get raped, or have medical issues, or where the baby'll never survive outside of the womb, right?

/screams internally, so as not to wake up Mr. Bobug
//consoles herself with the response Mr. Bobug would give if I said "How may I submit to you?"
///It's a toss up: Either a) heart attack, b) uncontrollable laughter
 
elaw [BareFark]
2020-09-22 7:38:01 AM  
5 votes:
I want to make myself a blue baseball cap that says "Make America great".  Anyone with me?
 
theteacher [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:36:13 AM  
5 votes:
This is good. Long senate confirmation hearing means beaucoup $$$ to Dem coffers.
 
durbnpoisn [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:35:14 AM  
5 votes:
She's a Trump supporter.  So we knew this already.  Unless you mean another cult, in addition to that.
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:34:41 AM  
5 votes:

Tr0mBoNe: What's she doing out there without her husband?!?


Maybe she made sandwiches earlier.
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 6:49:54 AM  
5 votes:
What's she doing out there without her husband?!?
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 1:23:58 PM  
4 votes:

Fart_Machine: Vlad_the_Inaner: dwrash: raius: dwrash: raius: This is why I think politicians should require more then just getting elected to hold office.  You should have to pass at least a basic civics course, something to show you understand how government is supposed to function.  All these common sense outsiders are generally disasters.

I am 100% against academia having any involvement in vetting or determining the suitability of a candidate.  That would be like the blind leading the blind.

You shouldn't be a politician if you can't understand the job.  There's some dipshiat in Kansas who might be elected as a 19 year old dishwasher.  I don't care if you're right or left but that's not enough qualification to represent other people.

Politician is the only job where being a complete dumbass is seen as a benefit to some people.  Can you imagine if pilots were hired this way?  Sure Frank has all the certification and book learning, but Jack is a straight shooter who tells it like it is so he gets to fly the plane today.

If you think Academia in any way shape or form is any kind of arbiter as to ability.... you just might be a dumbass.

Using Thundedome to select a plane's pilot would be a bad idea.

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Do you think they learned how to fly entirely in a school?  Hell no.   If the pilot only had an academic knowledge of flight would you let them fly your plane?  Hell no.  They attended a commercial flight school.. not a college.
 
AngryDragon [BareFark]
2020-09-22 12:38:55 PM  
4 votes:
Holy shiat the Democrats have completely lost their minds haven't they?

I'm voting for Trump now just because I want 4 more years of screechy entertainment.  Y'all need Jesus.
 
dittybopper
2020-09-22 10:44:36 AM  
4 votes:
Just to be clear:  Article VI doesn't mean *WE* can't talk about it.   First Amendment and all of that.

But it does mean that Senators can't bring it up in the hearings.  If they do, they should be censured.
 
godxam
2020-09-22 10:22:00 AM  
4 votes:
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EyeballKid
2020-09-22 9:34:27 AM  
4 votes:

Mugato: Has the country been so viciously divided like 20 years ago as it is now? I mean 20 years ago was when the electoral college stole the election for Dubya and farked up the world but people weren't as pissed off about it as they are now about everything.


To be fair, the Supreme Court stoke the presidency for Dubya. The electoral college was how they covered their crooked asses.
 
Graffito [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 9:32:23 AM  
4 votes:

Animatronik: And so the organized smear campaign begins...


How is this article a smear?  It's only a smear if you think that there's something wrong with religious cults that tell women to submit to men.


As for the comments here, well, you can't really call us organized.
 
raius
2020-09-22 9:12:23 AM  
4 votes:
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe:​ raius: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

People don't care about her religion, they care about her weird cult.

You've been told she's in a weird cult by a hit piece. You are gullible and probably don't even know it.

Investigating someone isn't a hit piece.  It's what Trump's team should have done before they floated her name,
 
Metastatic Capricorn [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:03:46 AM  
4 votes:

koder: are assigned and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a "head" for men and a "handmaid" for women.

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Who wants a handmaid? I want a shieldmaiden

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TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 8:56:28 AM  
4 votes:
Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:46:41 AM  
4 votes:

raius: gar1013: raius: gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union

The only reason the Democrats removed it was because the Republicans filibustered everything.  They weren't letting Obama appoint any judges since McConnell decided his primary purpose was to stop anything Obama did.  The Democrats should remove the filibuster, all it does is prevent anything from happening since the Republicans act like a petulant child

Lol. You think Dems don't try to use the filibuster to stop things.

At any rate, glad you agree with the changes that render the Dems impotent in this situation.

You're trying way to hard.


I don't have to try. You leftists make it too easy.
 
The Pope of Manwich Village [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:46:37 AM  
4 votes:
The irony is, if instead of a Christian "cult" where she's dominated by her husband, she was in a S&M relationship, you conservative weirdos would be twice as turned on.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:41:02 AM  
4 votes:

EyeballKid: gar1013: EyeballKid: Tyrone Slothrop: The candidate could be a literal swastika-wearing Nazi, and McConnell would get them passed as long as they opposed abortion and supported businesses over people.

\amd even that last bit is optional

Why are we acting like conservatives don't have a hard-on for Nazis, or that at the very least, they don't share the very same belief system?

Because that's the stupidest and most idiotic farking thing I'll read all day?

In that you probably don't read too much and every time you do, you throw a fit and declare that it's stupid, I'll grant some partial truth to your statement.


I bet you never got good grades in classes that required the use of grammar or writing.

To be clear:  getting a "B" is acceptable, not "good".
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:40:23 AM  
4 votes:

MegaLib: It is irrelevant.  Vice President Biden will win.  We will win the house and senate.  We will double the number of Justices and pack the SCOTUS with Progressives.  Republicans will never be relevant again.  They had the chance to pack the court, and were too week.  We won't make that mistake.  We will implement Medicare for all, free Public education, UBI and legally take the guns.  We will build a modern progressive nation with equal rights for all


13 justices, not 18

we have 13 judicial circuits and each of the Justices is supposed to also be the Chief admin judge of a circuit...the number 9 for justices was set when we had nine circuits.  Therefore 13 is merely correctly updating the court.   The fact that it will give dems a 7-6 majority?  well just icing on the cake
 
TexasDavid
2020-09-22 8:39:55 AM  
4 votes:

AnotherAussiefarker: My guess is President Trump didn't have the slightest idea who to pick and Veep Pence came in with the idea. She seems like his pick, an ultra religious person who submits to her husband. I'd be surprised is Pence's fingers weren't on this.


The obsession with Trump is dangerous.  The actual endgame has always been a President Pence and that way lies the road to Gilead.
 
godxam
2020-09-22 8:32:40 AM  
4 votes:
and some are concerned about Sharia law.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:30:43 AM  
4 votes:

way south: *Sigh*, So now Catholics are a cult...

I think the democrats forgot that they needed people to vote for them at some point.


They believe that if you badger and yell at people, you can browbeat them into voting for their leftist nonsense.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:27:19 AM  
4 votes:

havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?


Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union
 
Nick Nostril [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:16:26 AM  
4 votes:

way south: *Sigh*, So now Catholics are a cult...

I think the democrats forgot that they needed people to vote for them at some point.


Having been raised Cathaholic I can attest most fall into three different camps. The C&Es, the normal everyday types, and the shiite Catholics. This person is no doubt the latter.
 
exqqqme [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:11:58 AM  
4 votes:

vygramul: I want him to nominate Alex Jones or Ivanka or Julian Assange. I want to see someone incredibly bad nominated just to see what the GOP will tolerate. Because if it's anything, we should be informed of such.


Farkers...I keep telling ya, it's going to be Pirro

/Drink!
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sniderman
2020-09-22 8:06:31 AM  
4 votes:

Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.


The framers of the Constitution didn't expect nearly half of the U.S. population to be pants-on-head stupid either. And yet here we are.
 
keldaria
2020-09-22 8:05:43 AM  
4 votes:
So are all Trump supporters. What makes her any different.

*clicks link*

Oh for fark sakes, fark you 2020!!!!
 
havocmike
2020-09-22 8:00:34 AM  
4 votes:
Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?
 
LurkLongAndProsper [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:40:06 AM  
4 votes:
"Craig Lent, the group's overall coordinator, told The South Bend Tribune in 2018 that the organization is officially ecumenical, but its membership is predominantly Catholic.
He has also insisted in several interviews that the group is not a cult, but is about building community and friendships, with members that have a range of political views."

I saw this in another article that talked to the same guy. I've always said that the best way to convince people you aren't a cult, is to deny that you are a cult. If you ever have to say the words  "I am not in a cult" out loud, to another person, chances are 100% that you are in a cult. Unless you're emo or listen to ICP I guess.
 
Voiceofreason01
2020-09-22 7:39:19 AM  
4 votes:
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
 
neongoats [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:34:45 AM  
4 votes:
I'm sorry, was someone expecting a decent human being? Because I was expecting a piece of farking human trash and that's what we got, some garbage cultist like most right wingnuts.
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 5:41:36 AM  
4 votes:
She's a Jesus freak whackaloon.  Not surprising.
 
Natalie Portmanteau
2020-09-22 2:01:46 AM  
4 votes:

PaulRB: Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.

The framers didn't hang out with Jedidiah Trump.


he was still mucking out pigstyes in Duesseldorf
 
west.la.lawyer [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-21 10:49:28 PM  
4 votes:
This is madness
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 1:09:45 PM  
3 votes:

raius: dwrash: raius: This is why I think politicians should require more then just getting elected to hold office.  You should have to pass at least a basic civics course, something to show you understand how government is supposed to function.  All these common sense outsiders are generally disasters.

I am 100% against academia having any involvement in vetting or determining the suitability of a candidate.  That would be like the blind leading the blind.

You shouldn't be a politician if you can't understand the job.  There's some dipshiat in Kansas who might be elected as a 19 year old dishwasher.  I don't care if you're right or left but that's not enough qualification to represent other people.

Politician is the only job where being a complete dumbass is seen as a benefit to some people.  Can you imagine if pilots were hired this way?  Sure Frank has all the certification and book learning, but Jack is a straight shooter who tells it like it is so he gets to fly the plane today.


If you think Academia in any way shape or form is any kind of arbiter as to ability.... you just might be a dumbass.
 
Moosedick Gladys Greengroin [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 12:18:24 PM  
3 votes:
yes no 37 yrs tot he replace her with his thing?? yeah no

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Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 11:41:05 AM  
3 votes:

thespindrifter: The framers of the Constitution were very much aware that allowing governing by popular vote alone was the tyranny of the stupid.


You're saying that the electoral college is preventing that? Because giving the shiat kicking hicks in the sticks  disproportional representation is the answer.
 
thisisyourbrainonFark
2020-09-22 11:08:11 AM  
3 votes:

Snort: Billy Bathsalt: mksmith: GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?

Most Jews are too liberal, at least in the U.S.

Nih ga wut?
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Talk about a smear campaign.  He didn't actually dance.


Just the banjo, eh?

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dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 11:02:43 AM  
3 votes:

thatguyoverthere70: dwrash: As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.

Wow. You don't usually get to see someone admit in public that they don't believe in the concept of expertise.


For everyone that claims to be an expert.. there are many others that are even better in the subject/field... always.
 
thehobbes
2020-09-22 10:49:45 AM  
3 votes:

mdemon81: thehobbes: while serving as a pseudo-Marxist outreach throughout Africa, East Asia, and South America?

Marx is spinning at high speed in his grave watching you characterize the Catholic church's conversion efforts in the developing countries as .... Marxist.

Stick to your day job.

/"outreach"
//snort


I'd ask you to educate yourself, but we both know that ain't going to happen. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera​ti​on_theology
 
paygun [OhFark]
2020-09-22 10:43:06 AM  
3 votes:
it was either this or a sex scandal
 
BigSquibowski [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 10:17:56 AM  
3 votes:

raius: gar1013: raius: gar1013: raius: What_Would_Jimi_Do: biden is in the same cult.

No one cares that she's Catholic.  Stop conflating Catholicism with what she's doing.

Can you even read? Go back and see how many people are complaining about her being Catholic.

FFS, stop lying.

You're still trying way to hard for some attention sport.

And yet you keep feeling the need to pause from your lies to respond to me.

Sorry, you're not my type.

I don't lie, responding to you on occasion isn't really that hard.  You don't really add anything to a conversation so it doesn't even take effort.

Keep on being a troll though, it's super cool and edgy.


Stop kicking the masochist, he likes it.
 
Graffito [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 9:52:33 AM  
3 votes:

gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union


Wrong.  The Dems went nuclear because McConnell put obstructing Obama above the functioning of the U.S. government.   Positions were going vacant because the Repubs wouldn't confirm anyone besides who they wanted.  In fact, they weren't even willing to approve people they approved of it gave Obama a chance to accomplish something.

Repubs weren't willing to vet candidates honestly and approve them based on qualifications.  THAT's how we got here.  Remember that when Schumer goes nuclear in January,
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:47:30 AM  
3 votes:

Unikitty: sniderman: Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.

The framers of the Constitution didn't expect nearly half of the U.S. population to be pants-on-head stupid either. And yet here we are.

Yes they did. That's why we have the Electoral College.


...to make the pants-on-head stupid people have disproportion representation.
 
Smelly Pirate Hooker
2020-09-22 9:41:52 AM  
3 votes:
But her emails. This is fine.
 
mdemon81
2020-09-22 9:26:24 AM  
3 votes:

stlbluez: and their women were most definitely at HOME with their mouths shut and their aprons on.


You seem like a person whose opinions are worth listening to.
 
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 9:21:34 AM  
3 votes:

raius: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: raius: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

People don't care about her religion, they care about her weird cult.

You've been told she's in a weird cult by a hit piece. You are gullible and probably don't even know it.

Investigating someone isn't a hit piece.  It's what Trump's team should have done before they floated her name,


Hit piece.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:19:22 AM  
3 votes:

dwrash: As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.


I can't comprehend any of that but it sounds like something one of your friends would say.
 
ScrimBoy [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:13:09 AM  
3 votes:
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raius
2020-09-22 9:00:13 AM  
3 votes:
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe:​ Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

People don't care about her religion, they care about her weird cult.
 
raius
2020-09-22 8:59:12 AM  
3 votes:

Prank Call of Cthulhu: dwrash: experts' have no place in our government

Wow.

"Ah want people in the gummint jes lahk me, folks as seems like ah cu'd goan hev a beer with em. Don' need no fancy book larnin'."


Idiocracy was never supposed to be prophetic.
 
raius
2020-09-22 8:49:12 AM  
3 votes:

dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?

This is your stupid talking point? Go back to bed gramps. Sentient humans are talking.

You are all so predictable.. don't you see that.  You have always had limited choices to be outraged about and this is one of a handful of tactics that is always used... you guys are so boring.. yawn.

Yawn. Amoral trash thinks I'm boring. I'll care when a human being with morals calls me boring, not you shiat people.

You don't even know what I believe.  I've been observer of American culture and the conservative/liberal divide all my life.  And I know the attitudes that prevail.

You're just a little micro-trump that thinks you're a farking expert on every subject.

I think a government of and for the people should be understandable to the average citizens.  'experts' have no place in our government unless they can relate to and understand who they are supposed to be working for.  That is all.  Our government has been taken over by professional 'experts' that hold the citizenry in contempt.


Why in the world would you want a government of average people? Would you want to go a hospital where everything was dumbed down so the average layperson could understand it?
 
raius
2020-09-22 8:47:40 AM  
3 votes:

gar1013: raius: gar1013: raius: gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union

The only reason the Democrats removed it was because the Republicans filibustered everything.  They weren't letting Obama appoint any judges since McConnell decided his primary purpose was to stop anything Obama did.  The Democrats should remove the filibuster, all it does is prevent anything from happening since the Republicans act like a petulant child

Lol. You think Dems don't try to use the filibuster to stop things.

At any rate, glad you agree with the changes that render the Dems impotent in this situation.

You're trying way to hard.

I don't have to try. You leftists make it too easy.


This is just getting sad, get a life.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:42:06 AM  
3 votes:

physt: gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union

If Biden wins, hopefully the DOJ will investigate and prosecute all the traitorous Republicans. It's a good possibility that the GOP won't survive as all their tops leaders are involved. Hard to pack the courts when you're top officials are hanging in the streets doing Mussolini impressions.

Of course, that vacuum would give QAnon the space they need to become a political party so the crazy ain't over.

/Remember kids... No Republican is safe to elect... evah...


Good to see you haven't gained a grip on reality.
 
Huggermugger [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:38:40 AM  
3 votes:

bloobeary: Anyone trump picks is illegitimate.


Trump doesn't 'pick' anyone, he simply repeats what he's  been instructed by his Dominionist handlers.

He barely understands what a Supreme Court Justice does.  Yes, I know he has a sister who was a judge, and he's been involved in thousands of legal cases, but reading his depositions reveals that he's oblivious to the actual legal issues, and just blathers on and on about himself.
 
physt [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:36:32 AM  
3 votes:

gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union


If Biden wins, hopefully the DOJ will investigate and prosecute all the traitorous Republicans. It's a good possibility that the GOP won't survive as all their tops leaders are involved. Hard to pack the courts when you're top officials are hanging in the streets doing Mussolini impressions.

Of course, that vacuum would give QAnon the space they need to become a political party so the crazy ain't over.

/Remember kids... No Republican is safe to elect... evah...
 
sniderman
2020-09-22 8:36:06 AM  
3 votes:

MegaLib: It is irrelevant.  Vice President Biden will win.  We will win the house and senate.  We will double the number of Justices and pack the SCOTUS with Progressives.  Republicans will never be relevant again.  They had the chance to pack the court, and were too week.  We won't make that mistake.  We will implement Medicare for all, free Public education, UBI and legally take the guns.  We will build a modern progressive nation with equal rights for all


User name checks out.
 
jbtilley
2020-09-22 8:36:01 AM  
3 votes:
FTA: One of the individuals reportedly topping President Donald Trump's shortlist to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg belongs to a religious group that believes husbands should rule over their wives, among other highly conservative and traditional beliefs.

Why not nominate her husband and cut out the middle man?
 
EyeballKid
2020-09-22 8:34:16 AM  
3 votes:

gar1013: EyeballKid: Tyrone Slothrop: The candidate could be a literal swastika-wearing Nazi, and McConnell would get them passed as long as they opposed abortion and supported businesses over people.

\amd even that last bit is optional

Why are we acting like conservatives don't have a hard-on for Nazis, or that at the very least, they don't share the very same belief system?

Because that's the stupidest and most idiotic farking thing I'll read all day?


In that you probably don't read too much and every time you do, you throw a fit and declare that it's stupid, I'll grant some partial truth to your statement.
 
raius
2020-09-22 8:33:28 AM  
3 votes:

gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union


The only reason the Democrats removed it was because the Republicans filibustered everything.  They weren't letting Obama appoint any judges since McConnell decided his primary purpose was to stop anything Obama did.  The Democrats should remove the filibuster, all it does is prevent anything from happening since the Republicans act like a petulant child
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:31:27 AM  
3 votes:

EyeballKid: Tyrone Slothrop: The candidate could be a literal swastika-wearing Nazi, and McConnell would get them passed as long as they opposed abortion and supported businesses over people.

\amd even that last bit is optional

Why are we acting like conservatives don't have a hard-on for Nazis, or that at the very least, they don't share the very same belief system?


Because that's the stupidest and most idiotic farking thing I'll read all day?
 
Nurglitch
2020-09-22 8:23:34 AM  
3 votes:

bobug: But, hey, at least she firmly believes that life begins before conception, and punishes those dirty sluts, who get raped, or have medical issues, or where the baby'll never survive outside of the womb, right?

/screams internally, so as not to wake up Mr. Bobug
//consoles herself with the response Mr. Bobug would give if I said "How may I submit to you?"
///It's a toss up: Either a) heart attack, b) uncontrollable laughter


I know if Mrs Nurglitch said that I'd be checking her for pod-person stuff.
 
neongoats [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:21:52 AM  
3 votes:

dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?

This is your stupid talking point? Go back to bed gramps. Sentient humans are talking.

You are all so predictable.. don't you see that.  You have always had limited choices to be outraged about and this is one of a handful of tactics that is always used... you guys are so boring.. yawn.


Yawn. Amoral trash thinks I'm boring. I'll care when a human being with morals calls me boring, not you shiat people.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:19:41 AM  
3 votes:

bostonguy: I would love for all of those people who say they want to protect children to do something about those currently kidnapped from their parents and kept in cages.


We should totally send them home.

Shame the lawyers are fighting tk prevent them from traveling back to their home countries.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:18:03 AM  
3 votes:

dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


How dare you bring in the Constitution into a ranting session about someone who could be charged with applying the Constitution to the cases in front of her.
 
born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:15:30 AM  
3 votes:
Funny how some threads seem to collect them like flypaper.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:15:10 AM  
3 votes:

Animatronik: And so the organized smear campaign begins...


The funniest part is that she isn't going to be the pick.
 
odinsposse
2020-09-22 8:12:21 AM  
3 votes:
Republicans are already so deep in their own cult they won't see being in one as an issue.
 
FreakyBunny [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:12:09 AM  
3 votes:
The only thing that matters to his base is being cruel to "liberals". That's it. They cannot be persuaded by logic, decency, compassion, kindness, or even being harmed by his policies themselves.They are a sneering mass of hate, and they must be overwhelmed by the opposite of that.
 
EyeballKid
2020-09-22 8:09:06 AM  
3 votes:

sniderman: Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.

The framers of the Constitution didn't expect nearly half of the U.S. population to be pants-on-head stupid either. And yet here we are.


It's as if 18th century slave-owning deadbeats who believed in bloodletting and phrenology shouldn't be regarded as omniscient, infallible beings.
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2020-09-22 8:07:48 AM  
3 votes:
The candidate could be a literal swastika-wearing Nazi, and McConnell would get them passed as long as they opposed abortion and supported businesses over people.

\amd even that last bit is optional
 
Rav Tokomi [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:03:15 AM  
3 votes:
So can we just throw out all of Trump's appointments/nominations after he is convicted of treason?
 
Leader O'Cola
2020-09-22 7:50:09 AM  
3 votes:

sirrerun: Voiceofreason01: "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

[Fark user image image 850x478]


Needs a side by side with his upside down bible
 
elaw [BareFark]
2020-09-22 7:40:22 AM  
3 votes:

HighOnCraic: According to Craig S. Lent, the group's leader, People of Praise is neither "nefarious" nor "controversial"...


Yeah, and according to Nixon, Nixon wasn't a crook.
 
FatherChaos [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:36:01 AM  
3 votes:
So a perfect choice by Dump:

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The MAGAts aren't normal people. They've been conned and don't even realize it.
 
LiberalConservative [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:34:12 AM  
3 votes:
Most of American population are in cults.
 
Farking Clown Shoes [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 6:51:04 AM  
3 votes:

Tr0mBoNe: What's she doing out there without her husband?!?


Trying to control other women's uterii on his behalf.
 
Natalie Portmanteau
2020-09-22 2:01:05 AM  
3 votes:

GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?


right? Gimme a Sikh.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 3:57:15 PM  
2 votes:

Mugato: dwrash: A: A bachelor's degree is not required to be an airline pilot.

I suppose you could get to be a pilot to transfer some "goods" to some "clients" but look at legitimate job listings. There aren't a whole lot of above minimum wage jobs that don't require a degree,


Times have really changed since our schools have tanked.  I've been through 4 difference career changes with just a high school degree (1978) and I have been into the 6 figure range for about the last 20 years.  Would my career path been easier with a degree?  Up to a certain point yes, but after 20 years it becomes irrelevant and your track record speaks louder.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 2:47:35 PM  
2 votes:

raius: dwrash: Mugato: I'd like to see you hire a guy who took two law classes in high school to defend you in your sheep molestation case or the guy who read a pop up book on anatomy to get your head out of Trump's ass.

If he passed the bar exam with only that education than the public has ensured his/her competency.   Career exams are supposed to be a stop gap in making sure academia actually turns out competent people.

Would you support the equivalent of a bar exam for politicians?  I'm not saying they need a Phd, they just need to have basic competency for the job.


That is a good question... In a sense, our entire system from municipal to federal elected positions should serve as a farm type of system where those that get to the federal level have already demonstrated their abilities while working up the governmental chain.  The next issue is that the parties themselves should vet their candidates and should control who can primary in their party.  Trump never should have been allowed to campaign on the Republican ticket and Bernie (a staunch independent until 2016 had contributed nothing to the party) should never have been allowed to run as a democrat.   Party politics should not be about popularity but who is best for the party and the people.

So the answer is that the local, county and state committee members should have already vetted candidates and no one should be able to declare their candidacy and run without their consent.
 
whitroth
2020-09-22 2:42:41 PM  
2 votes:

mpirooz: It needs to be about how she'll vote, not her personally.

The ACA and Roe vs Wade are on the chopping block. The ACA is getting voted on a week after the election - she will vote against it. Roe vs Wade will be overturned, and that's just the beginning.

If Trump issued an order banning a political candidate from opposing him in the election or some other crazy shiat, with this woman on the court does anybody here think there's be enough opposition to stop him? If so, you don't belong here.

She will end up on the court. The only move now is to make the GOP pay the ultimate price. Full sweep of the government, ending the filibuster, clear super majority, court packing, adding states to the Union and focusing on getting rid of the EC to get rid of this minority rule bullshiat once and for all.

Attacking her personally, despite how much she may deserve it, will undermine all of that.


Wrong. She's biased. She not just biased, she's out there on the ledge biased.

With her, "equal justice before the law" is builshirt.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 2:41:14 PM  
2 votes:

Fart_Machine: dwrash: Fart_Machine: It requires a BA in aeronautics, aviation, or aerospace science so yes they did go to
a four-year college or university for the academic portion of the program.

Q: Do you need to go to college to become an airline pilot?

A: A bachelor's degree is not required to be an airline pilot. Some airlines do require it, while others do not. I would recommend attending a college or university. Having a degree will give you greater options and leave you in a better position if a medical issue were to prevent you from flying professionally.

Career Requirements
To become a pilot, you need a bachelor's degree in aircraft operations, aviation, aeronautical engineering, or a related field. In addition, you will complete up to two months of ground training and need more than 1,500 hours of flight experience.

Apr 30, 2020


While the regional airlines do not require a bachelor's degree from a reputable college or university, major airlines do. This fact leads us to the next logical question, should you get an aviation degree to become a pilot? The answer is no. Getting an aviation degree or going to an aviation college is not a requirement to become an airline pilot. In fact, major airlines accept any and all bachelor fields and aren't the least bit concerned with what you studied in college. The degree is more of a tool to demonstrate an applicant's ability, discipline, and commitment. So, when choosing a degree major, choose something that you not only enjoy, but also think you could fall back on if necessary.

https://atpflightschool.com/become-a-​p​ilot/airline-career/do-you-need-a-degr​ee-to-be-a-pilot.html
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 2:21:46 PM  
2 votes:

Fart_Machine: It requires a BA in aeronautics, aviation, or aerospace science so yes they did go to
a four-year college

or university for the academic portion of the program.

Q: Do you need to go to college to become an airline pilot?

A: A bachelor's degree is not required to be an airline pilot. Some airlines do require it, while others do not. I would recommend attending a college or university. Having a degree will give you greater options and leave you in a better position if a medical issue were to prevent you from flying professionally.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 2:18:24 PM  
2 votes:

Mugato: I'd like to see you hire a guy who took two law classes in high school to defend you in your sheep molestation case or the guy who read a pop up book on anatomy to get your head out of Trump's ass.


If he passed the bar exam with only that education than the public has ensured his/her competency.   Career exams are supposed to be a stop gap in making sure academia actually turns out competent people.
 
Vlad_the_Inaner
2020-09-22 12:52:04 PM  
2 votes:

JDAT: Fark:
"She must not become a Justice because we do not want a Catholic to have that much power over us!"

Also Fark:
"We want Joe Biden (Catholic) to be our President!"


Cult, not simply Catholic.

Also you forget what a low bar Trump sets
 
raius
2020-09-22 12:50:48 PM  
2 votes:

JDAT: Fark:
"She must not become a Justice because we do not want a Catholic to have that much power over us!"

Also Fark:
"We want Joe Biden (Catholic) to be our President!"


Catholicism is not issue, the weird cult is.  Keep repeating the same dumb talking point the other trolls keep using though.  It's not at all desperate.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 11:11:35 AM  
2 votes:
The People of Praise website is amazing. It has this incredible story on its blog:

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Pretty amazing, god manifesting a stove like that!

Well, actually what happened was that some dingbat started a grease fire on her stove that burned up the kitchen wall, filled the house with greasy smoke, and destroyed her stove. But, as luck would have it, somebody else in town was getting rid of some old used stove and...(get ready, this is the miraculous part)...gave it to her. Absolutely incredible. Way to go, god. I mean, he could have put out that grease fire, or protected that stove with magic, or stopped the fire from even starting in the first place, but redirecting some crap used appliance from the landfill to her house was the next best miracle. The part where they actually had to drag it through some cruddy ally to get it to her house, instead of it levitating there, or a rental truck being hired on the Holy Credit Card was also a particularly miraculous detail. I know I'm a believer now.
 
khatores
2020-09-22 11:06:20 AM  
2 votes:
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Russian influence? I don't know what you're talking about. Why don't we discuss it alone...don't mind that idling car with an oversized trunk outside...
 
LikeALeafOnTheWind
2020-09-22 10:58:39 AM  
2 votes:

dwrash: liberals have been cruel to them for 40+ years


so so cruel.. what with those evil social safety nets.. and the right to privacy and freedom and justic for ALL.. so so mean and cruel. gtfo
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 10:51:13 AM  
2 votes:

Animatronik: And so the organized smear campaign begins...


What's the point of a smear campaign? She isn't running for President. The people have no say on who is appointed to the SCOTUS.
 
PapermonkeyExpress
2020-09-22 10:42:53 AM  
2 votes:
Wow, the pick hasn't even been announced yet the talking points and unsubstantiated rumor mill has already cranked up to '11'

/FARK, you never fail to disappoint.
//Kavanaugh redux.
 
EyeballKid
2020-09-22 10:33:19 AM  
2 votes:

eagles95: News reports are saying Rmoney is onboard with a vote right now. So all you saying that Mittens is a Republican with some integrity can go fark yourselves


My surprised face is on a planet that I'll own after I die.
 
The Glorified Jailer
2020-09-22 10:33:04 AM  
2 votes:
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Embrace the cult leader, Idiots all of you.
 
Someone Else's Alt [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 10:32:20 AM  
2 votes:
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe:​ Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

Yeah because no time in history have people used their religion to suppress the people in their charge.

Fark off.
 
MrBiggest
2020-09-22 10:30:12 AM  
2 votes:

LurkLongAndProsper: "Craig Lent, the group's overall coordinator, told The South Bend Tribune in 2018 that the organization is officially ecumenical, but its membership is predominantly Catholic.
He has also insisted in several interviews that the group is not a cult, but is about building community and friendships, with members that have a range of political views."

I saw this in another article that talked to the same guy. I've always said that the best way to convince people you aren't a cult, is to deny that you are a cult. If you ever have to say the words  "I am not in a cult" out loud, to another person, chances are 100% that you are in a cult. Unless you're emo or listen to ICP I guess.


Denial is the first sign of being in a cult.

Strangely it is also the first sign of not being in a cult.

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eagles95 [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 10:29:29 AM  
2 votes:
News reports are saying Rmoney is onboard with a vote right now. So all you saying that Mittens is a Republican with some integrity can go fark yourselves
 
Modified Cornstarch
2020-09-22 10:22:40 AM  
2 votes:

elaw: Trump supporter + Republican = two cults.  At least.


Two cults at the same time?
 
thehobbes
2020-09-22 10:20:11 AM  
2 votes:

Someone Else's Alt: way south: *Sigh*, So now Catholics are a cult...

I think the democrats forgot that they needed people to vote for them at some point.

Yep, what would you call an organization that has systematically covered up, from threatening and lying to to the victims families all the way to the farking Pope, and lied about decades of rape and sexual assault of thousands of minors in their charge?


A massive bureaucracy that has over a billion of followers, nearly a half million priests, millions of other religious followers, that has been the bedrock of Europe since the fall of Rome while serving as a pseudo-Marxist outreach throughout Africa, East Asia, and South America?
 
give me doughnuts [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 10:19:04 AM  
2 votes:

Unikitty: sniderman: Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.

The framers of the Constitution didn't expect nearly half of the U.S. population to be pants-on-head stupid either. And yet here we are.

Yes they did. That's why we have the Electoral College.



And one of the reasons they created the EC was to prevent people like Trump from ever getting elected.
See: The Federalist Papers No. 68.

Looks as if the system has failed.
 
raius
2020-09-22 10:03:23 AM  
2 votes:

gar1013: raius: gar1013: raius: What_Would_Jimi_Do: biden is in the same cult.

No one cares that she's Catholic.  Stop conflating Catholicism with what she's doing.

Can you even read? Go back and see how many people are complaining about her being Catholic.

FFS, stop lying.

You're still trying way to hard for some attention sport.

And yet you keep feeling the need to pause from your lies to respond to me.

Sorry, you're not my type.


I don't lie, responding to you on occasion isn't really that hard.  You don't really add anything to a conversation so it doesn't even take effort.

Keep on being a troll though, it's super cool and edgy.
 
mdemon81
2020-09-22 10:02:20 AM  
2 votes:

gar1013: raius: gar1013: raius: What_Would_Jimi_Do: biden is in the same cult.

No one cares that she's Catholic.  Stop conflating Catholicism with what she's doing.

Can you even read? Go back and see how many people are complaining about her being Catholic.

FFS, stop lying.

You're still trying way to hard for some attention sport.

And yet you keep feeling the need to pause from your lies to respond to me.

Sorry, you're not my type.


Which Mod's alt are you anyway?
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 10:00:48 AM  
2 votes:

raius: gar1013: raius: What_Would_Jimi_Do: biden is in the same cult.

No one cares that she's Catholic.  Stop conflating Catholicism with what she's doing.

Can you even read? Go back and see how many people are complaining about her being Catholic.

FFS, stop lying.

You're still trying way to hard for some attention sport.


And yet you keep feeling the need to pause from your lies to respond to me.

Sorry, you're not my type.
 
Koodz
2020-09-22 9:58:02 AM  
2 votes:

vygramul: I want him to nominate Alex Jones or Ivanka or Julian Assange. I want to see someone incredibly bad nominated just to see what the GOP will tolerate. Because if it's anything, we should be informed of such.


Per CNN they already have the votes lined up without a name.

I'd like to see them confirm a justice today, name TBD, just to really underscore the horror of the whole episode. No hearings. We can't stop them so let's see them completely drop kayfabe and go for it.
 
cartersdad
2020-09-22 9:52:40 AM  
2 votes:
If we are freaking out over her husband being the Leader...it is kinda like following the Bible.  As Christians should do.

so that is Cultish now?  we are really bouncing the bar all over the place.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 9:52:32 AM  
2 votes:

HypnozombieX: gar1013: Magorn: MegaLib: It is irrelevant.  Vice President Biden will win.  We will win the house and senate.  We will double the number of Justices and pack the SCOTUS with Progressives.  Republicans will never be relevant again.  They had the chance to pack the court, and were too week.  We won't make that mistake.  We will implement Medicare for all, free Public education, UBI and legally take the guns.  We will build a modern progressive nation with equal rights for all

13 justices, not 18

we have 13 judicial circuits and each of the Justices is supposed to also be the Chief admin judge of a circuit...the number 9 for justices was set when we had nine circuits.  Therefore 13 is merely correctly updating the court.   The fact that it will give dems a 7-6 majority?  well just icing on the cake

Cool.

If Dems pack the court, once we regain control of Congress and the Presidency, we'll expand it to 50...maybe even throw in a few for our various territories as well.

Dems suck at strategy. Don't say you weren't warned.

Oh so vewy vewy conswerned. republicans have already shown they will do anything. Democrats would profoundly stupid not to do exactly the same and you know it. Basically your 'advice' to Democrats is to just accept a fascist dictatorship where a corrupt plutocrat robs em blind. Get farked dupshiat, only russians would put up with that nonsense.


My advice to you is to switch to decaf.
 
Harlee [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 9:51:45 AM  
2 votes:
This is so disappointing.

I was hoping for Tomi Lahren or Laura Loomer.
 
jgilb
2020-09-22 9:45:05 AM  
2 votes:

Calypsocookie: *looks down at my vagina*

Well it was nice making our own decisions for awhile huh?

*sadly walks away*

/me not my vagina


Oh - I finally understand your user name.
 
raius
2020-09-22 9:44:26 AM  
2 votes:

What_Would_Jimi_Do: biden is in the same cult.


No one cares that she's Catholic.  Stop conflating Catholicism with what she's doing.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:37:07 AM  
2 votes:

TexasDavid: Mugato: Has the country been so viciously divided like 20 years ago as it is now? I mean 20 years ago was when the electoral college stole the election for Dubya and farked up the world but people weren't as pissed off about it as they are now about everything.

The country had a literal Civil War.  For the moment this is still okay...


Obviously when I said "20 years ago" I wasn't referring to the Civil War.
 
The Glorified Jailer
2020-09-22 9:32:54 AM  
2 votes:
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If only he was still in the Senate.
 
bronskrat
2020-09-22 9:29:06 AM  
2 votes:
Check to see if she's branded first

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TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 9:19:38 AM  
2 votes:

Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

I'm pretty sure if she were Muslim (HERPA DERPA SHARIA LAW) or a Satanist you guys would be hooting and hollering like enraged howler monkeys.

Be my guest. Keep up the good work!

Oh, or an atheist. You dumbs-dumbs really hate that. How dare someone not believe in a magic invisible white man who lives in the sky and grants wishes.

Hey, I'm not a religious person. But, I do know that attacking people for practicing the predominant religion in a country in which you wish to attain power is not smart.

Nobody's attacking her for being Catholic; they're attacking her for being part of some weirdo misogynistic sub-cult that thinks husbands own their wives, and women are subordinate to men. Because this concept is anathema to our laws, it's kind of a reason to dump on her, no?


Well, yeah, if you put all your cards on an article by these guys.
 
chewielouie
2020-09-22 9:19:20 AM  
2 votes:
Wow, her husband and that "cult" did a lousy job keeping her in the kitchen where she belongs.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:14:25 AM  
2 votes:
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe:​ Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

I'm pretty sure if she were Muslim (HERPA DERPA SHARIA LAW) or a Satanist you guys would be hooting and hollering like enraged howler monkeys.

Be my guest. Keep up the good work!

Oh, or an atheist. You dumbs-dumbs really hate that. How dare someone not believe in a magic invisible white man who lives in the sky and grants wishes.

Hey, I'm not a religious person. But, I do know that attacking people for practicing the predominant religion in a country in which you wish to attain power is not smart.

Nobody's attacking her for being Catholic; they're attacking her for being part of some weirdo misogynistic sub-cult that thinks husbands own their wives, and women are subordinate to men. Because this concept is anathema to our laws, it's kind of a reason to dump on her, no?
 
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 9:08:35 AM  
2 votes:

mdemon81: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

I'm pretty sure if she were Muslim (HERPA DERPA SHARIA LAW) or a Satanist you guys would be hooting and hollering like enraged howler monkeys.

Be my guest. Keep up the good work!

So brave of you to run away when called out on your bullshiat.


Who's running chief? Fire away with your flaccid remarks.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:07:01 AM  
2 votes:

born_yesterday: Huh, Had to bring in relief from the "B" team.


Rooftop Ralph's shtick of late has been to show up, threadshiat   with something trivially disprovable, and then depart, leaving other trolls to smear poop on the walls.
 
BigSquibowski [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:57:55 AM  
2 votes:

dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


Your party has been wiping its butt with that document and now you want to cite it? Fark right off with that shiat.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:57:38 AM  
2 votes:

dwrash: I think a government of and for the people should be understandable to the average citizens. 'experts' have no place in our government unless they can relate to and understand who they are supposed to be working for. That is all. Our government has been taken over by professional 'experts' that hold the citizenry in contempt.


Yeah, that confounded book lernin has no place in out govment, dangnammit!

Can you be more stereotypical?
 
Farkonaut
2020-09-22 8:55:32 AM  
2 votes:
People follow power, and just want to prattle on about whatever side is winning like they're on it, and part of the team because their lives have no other redeeming qualities.

The unifying theme however, is that they are always assholes no matter where they land.
They use policy and power to bully, not unite.

Just like this scab on our Nation.
It too will get picked and new skin will grow back.
 
AsparagusFTW [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:53:32 AM  
2 votes:
Pack the courts 1.21.21
 
zsharon
2020-09-22 8:53:22 AM  
2 votes:

Jake Havechek: dittybopper: qorkfiend: You think that means no one can ever talk about it?

Yes, when it comes to her confirmation or not.

If any senators bring it up in the hearings, then yes, absolute violation of Article VI.

And if the senators can't bring it up, what's the point of talking about it?   It's a nullity.   It's like discussing why water is wet.

Water isn't wet.  Whatever is in water or gets splashed by it is wet.  Jesus Christ.


A smart and a funny for you.
 
Farkonaut
2020-09-22 8:48:48 AM  
2 votes:

Wine Sipping Elitist: I respect fundamentalists


Uh, bub, things are "black and white" to those folks because their religious fundamentalism is a cult and they are indoctrinated. 

And you respect those people more than people that saw the cult for what it was, but still wanted to claim faith but NOT want to have to be in a cult to do it?

Oh, and lets not even get into the part about "wishy-washy" oh you mean, taking in a bunch of new info and finding the best course from all of it instead of just sticking to whatever you think blindly and without reason.

That's what you respect?

You're an odd one.
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:47:00 AM  
2 votes:

Tyrone Slothrop: GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?

Catholics are more likely to be anti-abortion, of course. And a better question is why are there only 2 religions represented on the SC at all?


It is a bit strange,but what Catholics and Jews have in common is that the both come from very legalistic faiths with Canon Law and Talmudic law respectively making up a significant part of their belief systems.   I think it inspires a certain "reverence" for secular law as well that lead people to be passionate about the law and judging that makes them tend to stand out ... (Put a less charitable way, they are used to standing on their heads and bending logic like a pretzel from a young age, o law comes naturally)  but it's just a guess
 
Egalitarian
2020-09-22 8:45:54 AM  
2 votes:
Pretty sure Trump's admin is nominating her so Democrats tear her apart, then try to nominate somebody who's a little less obvious.
 
raius
2020-09-22 8:45:41 AM  
2 votes:

gar1013: raius: gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union

The only reason the Democrats removed it was because the Republicans filibustered everything.  They weren't letting Obama appoint any judges since McConnell decided his primary purpose was to stop anything Obama did.  The Democrats should remove the filibuster, all it does is prevent anything from happening since the Republicans act like a petulant child

Lol. You think Dems don't try to use the filibuster to stop things.

At any rate, glad you agree with the changes that render the Dems impotent in this situation.


You're trying way to hard.
 
Wine Sipping Elitist
2020-09-22 8:43:30 AM  
2 votes:
How is this different from the standard wedding vows? How is this different from standard Christianity?

She is a fundamentalist Christian. This is what they all believe. Big deal.

Honestly, I disagree with them, but I respect fundamentalists more than wishy washy new age types that believe the next thing that sounds good. What the fundies believe is written down, in black and white.

I certainly don't want them having power over me, that's for sure, but I don't see anything extra whack-a-doodle about her oath. It's standard fundy Christian social club stuff. You know, the usual whack-a-doodle stuff.
 
cefm
2020-09-22 8:38:23 AM  
2 votes:
It's the US. We are all in a cult. Crazy right wingers sponsored by billionaires run your lives.
 
TexasDavid
2020-09-22 8:36:18 AM  
2 votes:

elaw: HighOnCraic: According to Craig S. Lent, the group's leader, People of Praise is neither "nefarious" nor "controversial"...

Yeah, and according to Nixon, Nixon wasn't a crook.


Everyone is the hero of their own story...
 
Glitchwerks [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:31:14 AM  
2 votes:

Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.


They did.  That's why they had the 2nd amendment.
 
neongoats [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:28:28 AM  
2 votes:

dwrash: FreakyBunny: The only thing that matters to his base is being cruel to "liberals". That's it. They cannot be persuaded by logic, decency, compassion, kindness, or even being harmed by his policies themselves.They are a sneering mass of hate, and they must be overwhelmed by the opposite of that.

Well... liberals have been cruel to them for 40+ years... payback is a biatch, ain't it.


Please detail how the liberals have been cruel to them. I'd really like to hear this tale of bullshiat. Please, spare no tears in telling us how oppressed the right has been.

This ought to be good for a laugh.
 
jso2897
2020-09-22 8:27:41 AM  
2 votes:
I don't mind people who seek power over me being asked to explain their views and attitudes.
Sorry.
If what you think and believe is a deep dark secret, I don't want you having any power over me.
Any politician who runs for office will be forced to explain him/herself over the course of their campaign.
Others who wish power over me can be required to explain themselves as well - I have no problem with it.
 
raius
2020-09-22 8:26:56 AM  
2 votes:

dwrash: neongoats: dwrash: I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?

This is your stupid talking point? Go back to bed gramps. Sentient humans are talking.

You are all so predictable.. don't you see that.  You have always had limited choices to be outraged about and this is one of a handful of tactics that is always used... you guys are so boring.. yawn.


Or just don't nominate someone who belongs to weird cult?  Pointing out disqualifying attributes is part of vetting someone.  It used to be universal that people wanted judges who were normal and not weird and creepy theocrats.  That shouldn't be a partisan issue.
 
physt [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:26:36 AM  
2 votes:
FARKING NEWS FLASH! ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ARE IN A CULT.
 
FreakyBunny [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:24:41 AM  
2 votes:

dwrash: FreakyBunny: The only thing that matters to his base is being cruel to "liberals". That's it. They cannot be persuaded by logic, decency, compassion, kindness, or even being harmed by his policies themselves.They are a sneering mass of hate, and they must be overwhelmed by the opposite of that.

Well... liberals have been cruel to them for 40+ years... payback is a biatch, ain't it.


Cruel. Right.
 
Truck Fump [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:22:19 AM  
2 votes:

markie_farkie: "We don't try to control people," said Mr. Lent, who is also a professor of electrical engineering and physics at Notre Dame.

He might be book smart, but he gave up sanity permanently for...his last name.


Oh, no. They encourage the husbands to do that.  And assign everyone a "minder".  Nothing creepy about that at all.
 
dryknife
2020-09-22 8:22:02 AM  
2 votes:
The Flagellants?
 
Great_Milenko
2020-09-22 8:20:45 AM  
2 votes:

GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?


Its funny that the evangelicals who would ask this question in most circumstances will be silent this time.   Not that I think it's in any way a valid position, but they can't even keep their hypocrisy out of their prejudices.
 
Leader O'Cola
2020-09-22 8:16:57 AM  
2 votes:

qorkfiend: havocmike: qorkfiend: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

No

because?

Why should it be?


Why should ratifying an amendment require more than a majority vote?
 
neongoats [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:15:07 AM  
2 votes:

dwrash: I was wondering what the democratic angle was going to be.. they cannot bring people out of the woodwork and said she raped or sexually abused them decades ago.  So y'all are deciding this is the hill to die on when opposing her nomination?


This is your stupid talking point? Go back to bed gramps. Sentient humans are talking.
 
Nick Nostril [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:14:38 AM  
2 votes:

EyeballKid: sniderman: Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.

The framers of the Constitution didn't expect nearly half of the U.S. population to be pants-on-head stupid either. And yet here we are.

It's as if 18th century slave-owning deadbeats who believed in bloodletting and phrenology shouldn't be regarded as omniscient, infallible beings.


Nor Bronze-aged goatherders.
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2020-09-22 8:13:19 AM  
2 votes:

Calypsocookie: *looks down at my vagina*

Well it was nice making our own decisions for awhile huh?

*sadly walks away*

/me not my vagina


If you can, I suggest getting out of the country as soon as possible. It's not safe.
 
Klyukva
2020-09-22 8:12:26 AM  
2 votes:

way south: *Sigh*, So now Catholics are a cult...

I think the democrats forgot that they needed people to vote for them at some point.


They have it figured out, they don't need to win elections just control the courts. Wait...
 
EyeballKid
2020-09-22 8:10:06 AM  
2 votes:

Tyrone Slothrop: The candidate could be a literal swastika-wearing Nazi, and McConnell would get them passed as long as they opposed abortion and supported businesses over people.

\amd even that last bit is optional


Why are we acting like conservatives don't have a hard-on for Nazis, or that at the very least, they don't share the very same belief system?
 
Pharmdawg
2020-09-22 8:04:14 AM  
2 votes:

AuralArgument: Calypsocookie:

You just left, your vagina there?


No, you can't borrow it!
 
neongoats [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:02:31 AM  
2 votes:

dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


It's not unconstitutional to shiat all over her on the internet, and to tell you to fark off.
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:01:37 AM  
2 votes:
She'll have her ironing board with her.
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:59:08 AM  
2 votes:
I would love for all of those people who say they want to protect children to do something about those currently kidnapped from their parents and kept in cages.
 
Flincher [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:58:45 AM  
2 votes:

gremlin79: Calypsocookie: *looks down at my vagina*

Well it was nice making our own decisions for awhile huh?

*sadly walks away*

/me not my vagina

You left it by itself?


I know right? Under this administration it should be making all of us menfolk sammiches.
 
Farking Clown Shoes [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:58:25 AM  
2 votes:

Animatronik: And so the organized smear campaign begins...


Just because you rub your poop all over yourself doesn't make it an organized smear campaign.
 
qorkfiend [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:58:21 AM  
2 votes:

dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


You think that means no one can ever talk about it?
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 7:54:00 AM  
2 votes:
When will she have time for rulings if she's making the damn turkey pot pie and peach cobbler?
 
Leader O'Cola
2020-09-22 7:49:02 AM  
2 votes:
So is she marrying john roberts, trump, putin, or all ?
 
wage0048
2020-09-22 7:47:06 AM  
2 votes:
The entire GOP is a cult.

Cult (n):
1) a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object.
2) a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.
3) a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
 
Marcos P
2020-09-22 7:45:58 AM  
2 votes:

Calypsocookie: *looks down at my vagina*

Well it was nice making our own decisions for awhile huh?

*sadly walks away*

/me not my vagina


well technically you are both walking away
 
Marcos P
2020-09-22 7:44:13 AM  
2 votes:
Stepford.
 
PunGent
2020-09-22 7:37:28 AM  
2 votes:

vygramul: I want him to nominate Alex Jones or Ivanka or Julian Assange. I want to see someone incredibly bad nominated just to see what the GOP will tolerate. Because if it's anything, we should be informed of such.


Pretty sure Trump's election in the first place told us that.  Never mind Hillary...there were plenty of sane GOP nominees they could've gone with.

They showed their true colors, and they're a sickly orange/tan.
 
elaw [BareFark]
2020-09-22 7:36:21 AM  
2 votes:
Trump supporter + Republican = two cults.  At least.
 
Voiceofreason01
2020-09-22 7:36:20 AM  
2 votes:
Senate Republicans have been fast tracking dozens of appointees to Federal Judgeships who have no business being anywhere near the bench.

/The alcoholic who's been caught lying to Congress at least twice(depending on how you count) is just the most egregious example
 
enry [TotalFark]
2020-09-21 10:33:17 PM  
2 votes:
Dammit
 
Halfabee64
2020-09-22 9:53:35 PM  
1 vote:

exqqqme: exqqqme: vygramul: I want him to nominate Alex Jones or Ivanka or Julian Assange. I want to see someone incredibly bad nominated just to see what the GOP will tolerate. Because if it's anything, we should be informed of such.

Farkers...I keep telling ya, it's going to be Pirro

/Drink!


Judge Sotomayor:  JUDGE PIRRO!  Drinking on the job?  This is NOT a nightclub!

Judge Pirro:  What?  I thought the red light meant last call.
 
BBH [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:03:26 PM  
1 vote:

vygramul: I want him to nominate Alex Jones or Ivanka or Julian Assange. I want to see someone incredibly bad nominated just to see what the GOP will tolerate. Because if it's anything, we should be informed of such.


Wouldn't that be "Judge" Jeanine Pirro?
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 4:48:47 PM  
1 vote:

dwrash: Up to a certain point yes, but after 20 years it becomes irrelevant and your track record speaks louder.


I hope your track record in the real world is different than your track record on Fark, because based on your Fark track record I wouldn't trust you to flip a burger without getting boogers on it.
 
whitroth
2020-09-22 4:17:04 PM  
1 vote:

mpirooz: whitroth: mpirooz: It needs to be about how she'll vote, not her personally.

The ACA and Roe vs Wade are on the chopping block. The ACA is getting voted on a week after the election - she will vote against it. Roe vs Wade will be overturned, and that's just the beginning.

If Trump issued an order banning a political candidate from opposing him in the election or some other crazy shiat, with this woman on the court does anybody here think there's be enough opposition to stop him? If so, you don't belong here.

She will end up on the court. The only move now is to make the GOP pay the ultimate price. Full sweep of the government, ending the filibuster, clear super majority, court packing, adding states to the Union and focusing on getting rid of the EC to get rid of this minority rule bullshiat once and for all.

Attacking her personally, despite how much she may deserve it, will undermine all of that.

Wrong. She's biased. She not just biased, she's out there on the ledge biased.

With her, "equal justice before the law" is builshirt.

I'm not wrong, and I'm not saying she's not biased. I'm saying that attacking her bias as a political strategy is a terrible idea. Instead you have to protect the things she will dismantle - the ACA, RvW, etc.

Can you be more specific as to why you think I'm wrong?


One of the alleged requirements for a judge is to be IMPARTIAL. She's really going to *ever* recuse herself?

No. He overwhelming bias disqualifies her. I'd love to see an impartial bar association rating on her.
 
dwrash [OhFark]
2020-09-22 4:09:20 PM  
1 vote:

Mugato: dwrash: Mugato: dwrash: A: A bachelor's degree is not required to be an airline pilot.

I suppose you could get to be a pilot to transfer some "goods" to some "clients" but look at legitimate job listings. There aren't a whole lot of above minimum wage jobs that don't require a degree,

Times have really changed since our schools have tanked.  I've been through 4 difference career changes with just a high school degree (1978) and I have been into the 6 figure range for about the last 20 years.  Would my career path been easier with a degree?  Up to a certain point yes, but after 20 years it becomes irrelevant and your track record speaks louder.

Can I ask what you do now?

"You may ask."

--James T. Kirk, Wrath of Khan


Software Developer/Cloud Architect/CI-CD Engineer/Database Engineer (SQL and No-SQL)
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 4:04:29 PM  
1 vote:

dwrash: Mugato: dwrash: A: A bachelor's degree is not required to be an airline pilot.

I suppose you could get to be a pilot to transfer some "goods" to some "clients" but look at legitimate job listings. There aren't a whole lot of above minimum wage jobs that don't require a degree,

Times have really changed since our schools have tanked.  I've been through 4 difference career changes with just a high school degree (1978) and I have been into the 6 figure range for about the last 20 years.  Would my career path been easier with a degree?  Up to a certain point yes, but after 20 years it becomes irrelevant and your track record speaks louder.


Can I ask what you do now?

"You may ask."

--James T. Kirk, Wrath of Khan
 
RecoveringLibertarian
2020-09-22 3:59:32 PM  
1 vote:

Jake Havechek: dittybopper: qorkfiend: You think that means no one can ever talk about it?

Yes, when it comes to her confirmation or not.

If any senators bring it up in the hearings, then yes, absolute violation of Article VI.

And if the senators can't bring it up, what's the point of talking about it?   It's a nullity.   It's like discussing why water is wet.

Water isn't wet.  Whatever is in water or gets splashed by it is wet.  Jesus Christ.


And when it hits him it's wine, so why talk about wine?
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 3:07:12 PM  
1 vote:

Myrdinn: Kit Fister: No, you don't understand. Goreans are worse.

I will admit that I do not know much about them, other than an apparent fascination with a stylized 'k' that, as a leg man, absolutely ruins the scenery.


Let's put it this way. All of the trappings of Ren Fair "LARP"ing, with more misogyny than every Evangelical religious nutter and GOP member combined.
 
dletter [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 3:06:27 PM  
1 vote:

exqqqme: vygramul: I want him to nominate Alex Jones or Ivanka or Julian Assange. I want to see someone incredibly bad nominated just to see what the GOP will tolerate. Because if it's anything, we should be informed of such.

Farkers...I keep telling ya, it's going to be Pirro

/Drink!
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Pirro or Candice Owens... Trump could beat Biden to the "black woman" punch then.
 
raius
2020-09-22 2:49:55 PM  
1 vote:

dwrash: raius: dwrash: Mugato: I'd like to see you hire a guy who took two law classes in high school to defend you in your sheep molestation case or the guy who read a pop up book on anatomy to get your head out of Trump's ass.

If he passed the bar exam with only that education than the public has ensured his/her competency.   Career exams are supposed to be a stop gap in making sure academia actually turns out competent people.

Would you support the equivalent of a bar exam for politicians?  I'm not saying they need a Phd, they just need to have basic competency for the job.

That is a good question... In a sense, our entire system from municipal to federal elected positions should serve as a farm type of system where those that get to the federal level have already demonstrated their abilities while working up the governmental chain.  The next issue is that the parties themselves should vet their candidates and should control who can primary in their party.  Trump never should have been allowed to campaign on the Republican ticket and Bernie (a staunch independent until 2016 had contributed nothing to the party) should never have been allowed to run as a democrat.   Party politics should not be about popularity but who is best for the party and the people.

So the answer is that the local, county and state committee members should have already vetted candidates and no one should be able to declare their candidacy and run without their consent.


The fact a party can't disqualify someone from running for their party never made sense to me.  The party should be responsible for ensuring their candidates are proficient for the job.  You can run as an independent if you don't like them having any say.
 
raius
2020-09-22 2:46:27 PM  
1 vote:

dwrash: Fart_Machine: dwrash: Fart_Machine: It requires a BA in aeronautics, aviation, or aerospace science so yes they did go to
a four-year college or university for the academic portion of the program.

Q: Do you need to go to college to become an airline pilot?

A: A bachelor's degree is not required to be an airline pilot. Some airlines do require it, while others do not. I would recommend attending a college or university. Having a degree will give you greater options and leave you in a better position if a medical issue were to prevent you from flying professionally.

Career Requirements
To become a pilot, you need a bachelor's degree in aircraft operations, aviation, aeronautical engineering, or a related field. In addition, you will complete up to two months of ground training and need more than 1,500 hours of flight experience.

Apr 30, 2020

While the regional airlines do not require a bachelor's degree from a reputable college or university, major airlines do. This fact leads us to the next logical question, should you get an aviation degree to become a pilot? The answer is no. Getting an aviation degree or going to an aviation college is not a requirement to become an airline pilot. In fact, major airlines accept any and all bachelor fields and aren't the least bit concerned with what you studied in college. The degree is more of a tool to demonstrate an applicant's ability, discipline, and commitment. So, when choosing a degree major, choose something that you not only enjoy, but also think you could fall back on if necessary.

https://atpflightschool.com/become-a-p​ilot/airline-career/do-you-need-a-degr​ee-to-be-a-pilot.html


They still don't let you fly the plane just because the other passengers thought your promises to reduce the flight time in half was popular.  You're getting stuck on the degree part, and ignoring the shows basic competency for the job part.
 
foxy_canuck
2020-09-22 2:24:09 PM  
1 vote:
That's a Catholic group that's fringe enough I've never heard of them, and I'm pretty familiar with most.  Sounds like they have fallen into the heresy of Biblical fundamentalism (i.e. tenets of the group fall outside of Catholic doctrine).  It hurts to see American Christian Fundamentalism seeping into the mainline denominations.

Fun side note, the majority of the current court is Catholic... in fact, they are all either Catholic (one was Catholic, converted to Episcopalian... close enough) or Jewish.  Both religions have very strong academic traditions.  I doubt that it's a coincidence.
 
mpirooz
2020-09-22 2:18:03 PM  
1 vote:
It needs to be about how she'll vote, not her personally.

The ACA and Roe vs Wade are on the chopping block. The ACA is getting voted on a week after the election - she will vote against it. Roe vs Wade will be overturned, and that's just the beginning.

If Trump issued an order banning a political candidate from opposing him in the election or some other crazy shiat, with this woman on the court does anybody here think there's be enough opposition to stop him? If so, you don't belong here.

She will end up on the court. The only move now is to make the GOP pay the ultimate price. Full sweep of the government, ending the filibuster, clear super majority, court packing, adding states to the Union and focusing on getting rid of the EC to get rid of this minority rule bullshiat once and for all.

Attacking her personally, despite how much she may deserve it, will undermine all of that.
 
HoratioGates
2020-09-22 2:01:07 PM  
1 vote:
I'm sure her husband will do fine during his confirmation hearings.
 
rv4-farker
2020-09-22 1:58:22 PM  
1 vote:
She's just one name leaked from the list.  Just a guess, but maybe they leaked her name in order to rattle certain republican senators with an obviously looney-tune prospect.  In a few days, he'll nominate an candidate who's actually more dangerous and sworn to unswervingly following Trump and his cadre's movement to dismantle  American democracy.  However, since the real candidate won't be so obvious about it, those GOP senators will relieved enough to blindly follow along.
 
bcostlow [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 1:32:25 PM  
1 vote:

GrinzGrimly: elaw: Gubbo: You mean they are a Republican?

No, he means that 4 years ago under these same circumstances, Republicans claimed a candidate named by Obama would be illegitimate due to the fact it was an election year.  Now, in a heroic attempt to up their game of hypocrisy, they're acting in a completely opposite manner.

The circumstances are not the same though. The key differentiator is whether the Senate is the same party as the president.  And please try to recall Democrats yelled and screamed that the American people deserved a full court of 9 when the Senate was holding up the hearing in 2016. The Dems position then was "fill it, fill it now!" now they say we must wait until after the election.  You absolutely cannot say the Republicans are being hypocritical without acknowledging that the democrats are equally hypocritical.


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The idea that the Senate has to be in the same party to properly perform the Advise and Consent role is just a made up excuse for the trolls to have talking points. 

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/su​p​reme-court-vacancies-in-presidential-e​lection-years/

Yep, we yelled and screamed for you to do what is right. You did not. You chose to change the rules anyway.

Now we want you to abide by them.
 
raius
2020-09-22 1:29:16 PM  
1 vote:

dwrash: Fart_Machine: Vlad_the_Inaner: dwrash: raius: dwrash: raius: This is why I think politicians should require more then just getting elected to hold office.  You should have to pass at least a basic civics course, something to show you understand how government is supposed to function.  All these common sense outsiders are generally disasters.

I am 100% against academia having any involvement in vetting or determining the suitability of a candidate.  That would be like the blind leading the blind.

You shouldn't be a politician if you can't understand the job.  There's some dipshiat in Kansas who might be elected as a 19 year old dishwasher.  I don't care if you're right or left but that's not enough qualification to represent other people.

Politician is the only job where being a complete dumbass is seen as a benefit to some people.  Can you imagine if pilots were hired this way?  Sure Frank has all the certification and book learning, but Jack is a straight shooter who tells it like it is so he gets to fly the plane today.

If you think Academia in any way shape or form is any kind of arbiter as to ability.... you just might be a dumbass.

Using Thundedome to select a plane's pilot would be a bad idea.

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Do you think they learned how to fly entirely in a school?  Hell no.   If the pilot only had an academic knowledge of flight would you let them fly your plane?  Hell no.  They attended a commercial flight school.. not a college.


You seem to be confusing showing basic competency for the job with needing university degree's.
 
Farkonaut
2020-09-22 1:29:14 PM  
1 vote:
Some really basic assholes in this thread think having a SCOTUS justice that will defer her decisions on matters that will effect all peoples (even you tools) to some sky fairies dictate or the man she is married to sounds like a good plan.

Sure why not.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Stunningly stupid.
 
firefly212 [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 1:21:42 PM  
1 vote:

JDAT: Hasn't even been picked yet and the smearing has already begun.


oh fark your crocodile tears, the GOP runs decades long hits on people, your lame ass leader was out extorting Ukraine for dirt on Biden before  he got nominated... cry somewhere else, nobody's buying it here.
 
Fart_Machine
2020-09-22 1:14:50 PM  
1 vote:

Vlad_the_Inaner: dwrash: raius: dwrash: raius: This is why I think politicians should require more then just getting elected to hold office.  You should have to pass at least a basic civics course, something to show you understand how government is supposed to function.  All these common sense outsiders are generally disasters.

I am 100% against academia having any involvement in vetting or determining the suitability of a candidate.  That would be like the blind leading the blind.

You shouldn't be a politician if you can't understand the job.  There's some dipshiat in Kansas who might be elected as a 19 year old dishwasher.  I don't care if you're right or left but that's not enough qualification to represent other people.

Politician is the only job where being a complete dumbass is seen as a benefit to some people.  Can you imagine if pilots were hired this way?  Sure Frank has all the certification and book learning, but Jack is a straight shooter who tells it like it is so he gets to fly the plane today.

If you think Academia in any way shape or form is any kind of arbiter as to ability.... you just might be a dumbass.

Using Thundedome to select a plane's pilot would be a bad idea.


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badcommand
2020-09-22 1:01:46 PM  
1 vote:

Voiceofreason01: When fascism comes to America it will be


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sin​c​lair-lewis-on-fascism/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ron​a​ld-reagan-fascism-liberalism/

I'm hoping for Barrett. If RBG cared she would have stepped down during Obama, not sad to see her go.
 
jso2897
2020-09-22 12:34:00 PM  
1 vote:
If the things you believe and endorse are deep dark secrets that you must needs conceal, that's your business - but not if you wish to have power over me.
If someone is to have power over me, I have no problem whatsoever with their answering a few questions about the deeply held beliefs they would presumably be acting on.
The reason the righties ITT are pretending that this would violate the rules against religious tests is that they know that, if exposed, this stupid biatche's insane god bother dogshiat would repulse and alarm any moderates in the Senate - Republican or Democrat - so the strategy is to hush it up and try to get it done on the sly, real fast.
This has nothing to do with any religious "test" so stow that bullshiat and STFU.
 
tyyreaunn
2020-09-22 12:14:33 PM  
1 vote:

luna1580: do you think for one second she will let "legal precedent" have more impact on her decisions than reshaping america to be more "godly"?


Worse than that - a lot of her legal scholarship has been on the argument that precedent shouldn't bind judges - she's against stare decisis.
 
Someone Else's Alt [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 12:03:58 PM  
1 vote:

dwrash: Mugato: dwrash: dwrash: thatguyoverthere70: dwrash: As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.

Wow. You don't usually get to see someone admit in public that they don't believe in the concept of expertise.

For everyone that claims to be an expert.. there are many others that are even better in the subject/field... always.

And how do you measure whether someone is an expert anymore given that college degrees are pretty much passed out like pez candy to undeserving and unqualified folks?

Agin, dat book lernin' got notin on good ole horse sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credenti​alism_and_educational_inflation

its real.  Your degree is worth maybe half of what it used to be and is no longer an indication of ability or talent.


drash is not wrong about this. Here are some perfect examples of degrees being awarded to complete morons:

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What college would give degrees to these idiots? Checks notes...Wharton? To all of them? Huh.

We at least Eric went to a different college. Checks notes...Georgetown, wonder why daddy didn't buy Eric a degree from Wharton?
 
thespindrifter
2020-09-22 11:50:25 AM  
1 vote:

Mugato: thespindrifter: The framers of the Constitution were very much aware that allowing governing by popular vote alone was the tyranny of the stupid.

You're saying that the electoral college is preventing that? Because giving the shiat kicking hicks in the sticks  disproportional representation is the answer.


There had to be balance, but the loss of a true representative Republic where the best and brightest are chosen as representatives was lost long ago.

We used to tar & feather the likes of the scoundrels we have now, that was power of the common people. They lost that, they became lazy and complacent.

The tRump presidentcy is proof that every American has failed in their duty and succumbed to selfishness or sloth. This shiat should have never happened, much less gone past year 1 and the impeachment.

This country is finished.
 
TelemonianAjax [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 11:44:00 AM  
1 vote:
luna1580:

Holy rollers?

Leroy-Good Time
Youtube cjoOu2BPl78
 
thespindrifter
2020-09-22 11:32:22 AM  
1 vote:

Rav Tokomi: So can we just throw out all of Trump's appointments/nominations after he is convicted of treason?


Good luck with that. You'd be better off wishing for a bullet aimed at their collective heads at this point, because that's what it will actually take to stop them.
 
luna1580 [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 11:19:17 AM  
1 vote:

way south: *Sigh*, So now Catholics are a cult...

I think the democrats forgot that they needed people to vote for them at some point.


NO.

barret is catholic, but not a "normal" one. just as pence and mother are "evangelical catholics" she is a "charismatic catholic".

what the hell does that mean? it means she's a sworn life-long member of "people of praise" a "parachurch" group that embraces things like speaking in tongues. this is NOT standard catholic practice or doctrine, the most famous charismatic church in america is probably the pentecostals AKA "holy rollers" and "snake handlers".

barret may be a brilliant woman and an honest legal scholar and practitioner, but make no mistake she herself said:

"I'm just going to identify one way in which I hope that you, as graduates of Notre Dame, will fulfill the promise of being a different kind of lawyer. And that is this: that you will always keep in mind that your legal career is but a means to an end, and as Father Jenkins told you this morning, that end is building the kingdom of God."

Associate Professor Amy Coney Barrett, Diploma Ceremony Address

this is much MORE dangerous than a hyper-partisan court justice, this woman believes with her whole heart she is on a mission from god. do you think for one second she will let "legal precedent" have more impact on her decisions than reshaping america to be more "godly"?

she's respected. she's smart, she's female, she's conventionally attractive, she's only 48 years old, and she is DANGEROUS to every single american who wishes NOT to live under a theocracy.

she's also a trumper on immigration issues, but she probably chalks that up to "jesus" as well.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/p​o​litics/2020/09/19/amy-coney-barrett-fi​ve-things-you-need-know-possible-supre​me-court-pick/5839478002/

https://heavy.com/news/2018/06/amy-co​n​ey-barrett-people-of-praise/

http://thecultofpraise.blogspot.com/2​0​08/05/people-of-praise-sleeping-quarte​rs.html
 
raius
2020-09-22 11:16:52 AM  
1 vote:

Mugato: dwrash: dwrash: thatguyoverthere70: dwrash: As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.

Wow. You don't usually get to see someone admit in public that they don't believe in the concept of expertise.

For everyone that claims to be an expert.. there are many others that are even better in the subject/field... always.

And how do you measure whether someone is an expert anymore given that college degrees are pretty much passed out like pez candy to undeserving and unqualified folks?

Agin, dat book lernin' got notin on good ole horse sense.


This is why I think politicians should require more then just getting elected to hold office.  You should have to pass at least a basic civics course, something to show you understand how government is supposed to function.  All these common sense outsiders are generally disasters.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 11:11:34 AM  
1 vote:

dwrash: dwrash: thatguyoverthere70: dwrash: As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.

Wow. You don't usually get to see someone admit in public that they don't believe in the concept of expertise.

For everyone that claims to be an expert.. there are many others that are even better in the subject/field... always.

And how do you measure whether someone is an expert anymore given that college degrees are pretty much passed out like pez candy to undeserving and unqualified folks?


Agin, dat book lernin' got notin on good ole horse sense.
 
EyeballKid
2020-09-22 11:09:37 AM  
1 vote:

Malenfant: What_Would_Jimi_Do: biden is in the same cult.

Jimi would not try to mislead people on Fark.


And pick up your puppy!

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EyeballKid
2020-09-22 10:55:46 AM  
1 vote:

PapermonkeyExpress: //Kavanaugh redux.


She's a rapist, too?!
 
Astorix [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 10:53:45 AM  
1 vote:
Don't bother looking up People Of Praise on Wikipedia. It is quite sanitized.
 
Snort
2020-09-22 10:49:46 AM  
1 vote:

Billy Bathsalt: mksmith: GardenWeasel: Why are we replacing a Jew with a Catholic?

Most Jews are too liberal, at least in the U.S.

Nih ga wut?
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Talk about a smear campaign.  He didn't actually dance.
 
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 10:47:39 AM  
1 vote:

paygun: it was either this or a sex scandal


At least one upthread brought up her smirking children.

/smirk
 
Flaming Yawn
2020-09-22 10:47:22 AM  
1 vote:

Leader O'Cola: sirrerun: Voiceofreason01: "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

[Fark user image image 850x478]

Needs a side by side with his upside down bible


Fact checkers apparently agree the Bible was not upside down. Just shows you once again how everything the Libs say is a lie.
 
Flaming Yawn
2020-09-22 10:44:41 AM  
1 vote:

Animatronik: And so the organized smear campaign begins...


Sort of like "Obama is a Muslim" or "Hilary's the head of a secret worldwide pedophile ring"? That kind of smear campaign?
 
TexasDavid
2020-09-22 10:19:56 AM  
1 vote:

Fart_Machine: Someone Else's Alt: way south: *Sigh*, So now Catholics are a cult...

I think the democrats forgot that they needed people to vote for them at some point.

Yep, what would you call an organization that has systematically covered up, from threatening and lying to to the victims families all the way to the farking Pope, and lied about decades of rape and sexual assault of thousands of minors in their charge?

Problems with the Church aside, the issue isn't that she's Catholic.  The issue is that she's part of a loony Para church cult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_o​f_Praise



Loony aside, she has a protected right to any religion that makes her happy.  You've got to get her to discuss how her faith informs her jurisprudence, that she "belongs to a cult" is a non-starter.  You couldn't stop Kavanaugh and he's an accused date rapist and demonstrated raging alcoholic  

We've got to do better this time...
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 10:18:30 AM  
1 vote:
As a man, why should I ever have to submit to this woman telling me what the law is or is not? By her own logic, she can GTFO.
 
freakay [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 10:06:40 AM  
1 vote:
This person is not just a Catholic...lets get that straight.  If she was just Catholic, the teachings of the Catholic Church are public, well known, and scrutinized (obviously not everyone adheres to those beliefs, and everyone is free to say she is a whack job for being Catholic because of transubstantiation or whatever).  The thing is, though, the teachings and rules of "People of Praise" are not public, and their community has a habit of making their members swear some weird fealty to their "head."

So do we want a Supreme Court Justice who will do what her husband or leader tells her?  Forget about Rome telling her what to do.  Thats not the issue here.  The issue is who is actually guiding her.  She will probably laugh this off and say "of course I make my own decisions and think my own thoughts."  But this is a life time appointment.  I cant see this being a good idea.
 
ScrimBoy [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:58:46 AM  
1 vote:
Someone should make an ad comparing this and this admin./gop to the Taliban.  I would think the results would be hauntingly similar.
 
raius
2020-09-22 9:56:50 AM  
1 vote:

gar1013: raius: What_Would_Jimi_Do: biden is in the same cult.

No one cares that she's Catholic.  Stop conflating Catholicism with what she's doing.

Can you even read? Go back and see how many people are complaining about her being Catholic.

FFS, stop lying.


You're still trying way to hard for some attention sport.
 
dsmith42 [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:45:19 AM  
1 vote:

markie_farkie: "We don't try to control people," said Mr. Lent, who is also a professor of electrical engineering and physics at Notre Dame.

He might be book smart, but he gave up sanity permanently for...his last name.


The Salem Hypothesis is the observation of an apparent correlation between the engineering trade and creationist beliefs (possibly due to crank magnetism, this can also include climate-change denial and other crackpot beliefs).
The hypothesis suggests that people who claim science expertise, whilst advocating creationism, tend to be formally trained as engineers[1] (with the possible exception of chemical engineers).
 
Martian_Astronomer [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:44:43 AM  
1 vote:

Martian_Astronomer: So, yeah. When it comes to cults, (as in all-encompassing authoritarian religious groups,) it's about about behavior. You can have a relatively mainstream religious beliefs and still be in a cult. And I have no doubt Barret is in one. This is very bad.


And to the "religious test" talking point: You can absolutely still object to the content of a nominee's religion. If the nominee is a religious geocentrist, that can absolutely still be disqualifying, as can believing that men and women are not fundamentally equal, or that American government should be explicitly Christian.
 
TexasDavid
2020-09-22 9:38:38 AM  
1 vote:

HighOnCraic: TexasDavid: elaw: HighOnCraic: According to Craig S. Lent, the group's leader, People of Praise is neither "nefarious" nor "controversial"...

Yeah, and according to Nixon, Nixon wasn't a crook.

Everyone is the hero of their own story...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

And then the murders began.


If the shoe fits...
 
HighOnCraic [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:36:48 AM  
1 vote:

TexasDavid: elaw: HighOnCraic: According to Craig S. Lent, the group's leader, People of Praise is neither "nefarious" nor "controversial"...

Yeah, and according to Nixon, Nixon wasn't a crook.

Everyone is the hero of their own story...


Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

And then the murders began.
 
raius
2020-09-22 9:35:31 AM  
1 vote:

Bennie Crabtree: "Head: and "handmaid" are not part of the Roman Catholic Church. That is not Roman Catholic.

I have heard that in the USA there are other kinds of bespoke "Catholic Church" like the, IIRC, the Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch.

What is really weird, though, is that the article makes it sound like wives being subservient to husbands is, in some way, uncommon in the USA. Even in atheist households, that is the dominant norm. It is also normal for a priest, pastor, reverend, etcetcetc, to give marriage counseling and whatnot.

The weirdness in this woman's "Catholic" cult is the "head" and "handmaid" members of the community.


Yeah, I'm not sure why some are acting like people are attacking Catholics.  This sect isn't really Catholic and these Head and Handmaid positions are abnormal.
 
TexasDavid
2020-09-22 9:35:10 AM  
1 vote:

Mugato: Has the country been so viciously divided like 20 years ago as it is now? I mean 20 years ago was when the electoral college stole the election for Dubya and farked up the world but people weren't as pissed off about it as they are now about everything.


The country had a literal Civil War.  For the moment this is still okay...
 
BigSquibowski [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:31:58 AM  
1 vote:

dwrash: Prank Call of Cthulhu: dwrash: experts' have no place in our government

Wow.

"Ah want people in the gummint jes lahk me, folks as seems like ah cu'd goan hev a beer with em. Don' need no fancy book larnin'."

I see you cut the qualifying statement at the end of that sentence.  Our 'experts' have shown just how much they are only useful idiots in this crisis.  They flip flop and lie while playing us for chumps.

As a friend used to say to me.. 'experts' are nothing more than 'normalsperts' with attitude.


Thanks for the partial insight into why you are the way you are. Be sure to seek a "normalspert" like your buddy when you need surgery or your power goes out or...
 
Bennie Crabtree [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:28:45 AM  
1 vote:
"Head: and "handmaid" are not part of the Roman Catholic Church. That is not Roman Catholic.

I have heard that in the USA there are other kinds of bespoke "Catholic Church" like the, IIRC, the Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch.

What is really weird, though, is that the article makes it sound like wives being subservient to husbands is, in some way, uncommon in the USA. Even in atheist households, that is the dominant norm. It is also normal for a priest, pastor, reverend, etcetcetc, to give marriage counseling and whatnot.

The weirdness in this woman's "Catholic" cult is the "head" and "handmaid" members of the community.
 
raius
2020-09-22 9:24:37 AM  
1 vote:

stlbluez: Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.

lol.
The framers of the constitution in many cases owned slaves.. were devout Christians ... and their women were most definitely at HOME with their mouths shut and their aprons on.
If they were shocked at anything.... it would be the liberal lunacy of the far left.

/shhh... adults are talking.


Which makes the weird fetish you have about them all the more strange. They were flawed humans, just like everyone else.  They had some truly great idea's and some truly awful ones.  It's okay to acknowledge the bad, while still respecting the good they did.
 
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 9:22:45 AM  
1 vote:

raius: Magorn: Let me play the contrarian here.   SHe can BELIEVE whatever the fark she wants, I don't farking care.  I Care about her judicial qualifications and she has...well, none really.   RBG was a judge of the second highet court in the land, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals (aka the Supreme Court's Waiting room) for 13 years before Clinton nominated her to the SCOTUS.  Prior t that she had been a litigator responsible for winning a landmark case.


Comey-Barrett has almost zero courtroom experience, she was a law prof, and she been a judge on the far less consequential 7th circuit for under 3 years.   Put simply she ain't got the chops for the big leagues no matter WHAT her religious beliefs are.

Don't make the Kavanaugh mistake. Blassey-Ford's allegations were important, but they were the wrong focus.   Kavanaugh committed perjury in his first confirmation hearing to be a federal judge in 2005, and the emails released before his scotus confirmation provided written proof of that.   THAT should have been the focus of the questions by Democratic Senators, the FELONY he committed that made him eligible to be disbarred and not able to even serve as a judge

This post deserves more attention.  You're right the cult thing shouldn't nearly be as disqualifying as the lack of experience.  They should in no way to be nominated to a life long position with so little accomplishments to their name.


Oh, smartening up a little I see. Well at least you recognize a bad strategy now.
 
raius
2020-09-22 9:21:10 AM  
1 vote:

Magorn: Let me play the contrarian here.   SHe can BELIEVE whatever the fark she wants, I don't farking care.  I Care about her judicial qualifications and she has...well, none really.   RBG was a judge of the second highet court in the land, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals (aka the Supreme Court's Waiting room) for 13 years before Clinton nominated her to the SCOTUS.  Prior t that she had been a litigator responsible for winning a landmark case.


Comey-Barrett has almost zero courtroom experience, she was a law prof, and she been a judge on the far less consequential 7th circuit for under 3 years.   Put simply she ain't got the chops for the big leagues no matter WHAT her religious beliefs are.

Don't make the Kavanaugh mistake. Blassey-Ford's allegations were important, but they were the wrong focus.   Kavanaugh committed perjury in his first confirmation hearing to be a federal judge in 2005, and the emails released before his scotus confirmation provided written proof of that.   THAT should have been the focus of the questions by Democratic Senators, the FELONY he committed that made him eligible to be disbarred and not able to even serve as a judge


This post deserves more attention.  You're right the cult thing shouldn't nearly be as disqualifying as the lack of experience.  They should in no way to be nominated to a life long position with so little accomplishments to their name.
 
freakay [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:15:27 AM  
1 vote:
Tell me she is not crazy.

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Ker_Thwap [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:13:33 AM  
1 vote:
Trumpy is big on personal loyalty oaths, to him.  I've no doubt he's had a private conversation with her/her husband that include the phrases "if I appoint you" and "as a favor to me"
 
TexasDavid
2020-09-22 9:09:53 AM  
1 vote:
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe:​ Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

I'm pretty sure if she were Muslim (HERPA DERPA SHARIA LAW) or a Satanist you guys would be hooting and hollering like enraged howler monkeys.

Be my guest. Keep up the good work!

Oh, or an atheist. You dumbs-dumbs really hate that. How dare someone not believe in a magic invisible white man who lives in the sky and grants wishes.

Hey, I'm not a religious person. But, I do know that attacking people for practicing the predominant religion in a country in which you wish to attain power is not smart.

Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.  I am as opposed to the woman as is humanly possible, but I agree the current angle of attack is a bad idea.
 
mdemon81
2020-09-22 9:04:56 AM  
1 vote:
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe:​ Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

I'm pretty sure if she were Muslim (HERPA DERPA SHARIA LAW) or a Satanist you guys would be hooting and hollering like enraged howler monkeys.

Be my guest. Keep up the good work!

So brave of you to run away when called out on your bullshiat.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 9:04:55 AM  
1 vote:

raius: gar1013: raius: gar1013: raius: gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union

The only reason the Democrats removed it was because the Republicans filibustered everything.  They weren't letting Obama appoint any judges since McConnell decided his primary purpose was to stop anything Obama did.  The Democrats should remove the filibuster, all it does is prevent anything from happening since the Republicans act like a petulant child

Lol. You think Dems don't try to use the filibuster to stop things.

At any rate, glad you agree with the changes that render the Dems impotent in this situation.

You're trying way to hard.

I don't have to try. You leftists make it too easy.

This is just getting sad, get a life.


Lol.

Bless your heart.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:03:47 AM  
1 vote:
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe:​ Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

I'm pretty sure if she were Muslim (HERPA DERPA SHARIA LAW) or a Satanist you guys would be hooting and hollering like enraged howler monkeys.

Be my guest. Keep up the good work!

Oh, or an atheist. You dumbs-dumbs really hate that. How dare someone not believe in a magic invisible white man who lives in the sky and grants wishes.
 
TexasDavid
2020-09-22 9:03:11 AM  
1 vote:

raius: Prank Call of Cthulhu: dwrash: experts' have no place in our government

Wow.

"Ah want people in the gummint jes lahk me, folks as seems like ah cu'd goan hev a beer with em. Don' need no fancy book larnin'."

Idiocracy was never supposed to be prophetic.


Idiocracy was a documentary from the future...
 
TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe
2020-09-22 9:01:19 AM  
1 vote:

Prank Call of Cthulhu: TheCruxOfTheBiscuitIsTheApostrophe: Watching the liberals shiat themselves over a woman's religion is just...well....hilarious. Here's a hint. This is not a politically sound strategy.

I'm pretty sure if she were Muslim (HERPA DERPA SHARIA LAW) or a Satanist you guys would be hooting and hollering like enraged howler monkeys.


Be my guest. Keep up the good work!
 
groppet [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 9:01:12 AM  
1 vote:
So her husband will be the justice?
 
give me doughnuts [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:57:17 AM  
1 vote:

dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


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mdemon81
2020-09-22 8:54:03 AM  
1 vote:

dwrash: 'experts' have no place in our government unless they can relate to and understand who they are supposed to be working for.


Experts bad, gotcha.
 
feanorn
2020-09-22 8:48:01 AM  
1 vote:

Armchair_Invective: It's mansplained in her campaign brochure.

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The "New for 1977!" is fantastic.
 
SpectroBoy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-09-22 8:46:33 AM  
1 vote:

dittybopper: qorkfiend: You think that means no one can ever talk about it?

Yes, when it comes to her confirmation or not.

If any senators bring it up in the hearings, then yes, absolute violation of Article VI.

And if the senators can't bring it up, what's the point of talking about it?   It's a nullity.   It's like discussing why water is wet.


Your intellect is truly dizzying.

Of course we can and should talk about it. We can express concerns to senators. They can't act on the religious aspect, but they can still count the "Holy crap she's crazy" calls.
 
Bennie Crabtree [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:46:19 AM  
1 vote:
Those positions of "head" and "handmaid" are not part of Catholicism of any stripe.

That is a cult.
 
TexasDavid
2020-09-22 8:46:18 AM  
1 vote:

sniderman: Exluddite: It has become glaringly obvious that the framers of the constitution didn't count on people this corrupt, this stupid, or both actually getting elected.

The framers of the Constitution didn't expect nearly half of the U.S. population to be pants-on-head stupid either. And yet here we are.


To be fair, they didn't really intend to let most of those people vote...
 
GardenWeasel [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:45:27 AM  
1 vote:

MegaLib: It is irrelevant.  Vice President Biden will win.  We will win the house and senate.  We will double the number of Justices and pack the SCOTUS with Progressives.  Republicans will never be relevant again.  They had the chance to pack the court, and were too week.  We won't make that mistake.  We will implement Medicare for all, free Public education, UBI and legally take the guns.  We will build a modern progressive nation with equal rights for all


F*ck off, troll.
 
The Pope of Manwich Village [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:39:46 AM  
1 vote:
One person's cult is another person's key party.
 
The Repeated Meme [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:39:46 AM  
1 vote:
If Ginsburg had retired when she was EIGHTY YEARS OLD instead of wanting to be replaced by someone with the same genitalia then there wouldn't be an argument about a Protestant replacing a Jew with a Catholic against the wishes of another Catholic.

There's no point in being pissed about it now. Everyone has always known the R's main concern is the SC. It was a monumental farkup that will have ramifications for decades.
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:39:04 AM  
1 vote:

raius: gar1013: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

Well, the Democrats decided to get rid of the 60 vote requirement for all nominees except Supreme Court Justices because they wanted to stop Republicans from using the filibuster.

Then, when the Dems tried to use the filibuster against Gorsuch, the Republicans decided to return the favor by removing the Supreme Court exception.

Meanwhile, Democrats (like Obama) are fond of saying that the filibuster is racist (despite engaging in the practice), but now find themselves unable to do anything because they put the wheels into motion to limit the ability to use the filibuster to stop nominees.

So in short, the Dems decided to play hardball because Republicans wouldn't just go along with what the Dems wanted, and in the process, they shot themselves in the foot.

Remember this story when you hear Schumer talk about how they should pack the court. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all three branches, and it will happen again. At that point, if court packing has occurred, expect to see as many justices as there are states in the union

The only reason the Democrats removed it was because the Republicans filibustered everything.  They weren't letting Obama appoint any judges since McConnell decided his primary purpose was to stop anything Obama did.  The Democrats should remove the filibuster, all it does is prevent anything from happening since the Republicans act like a petulant child


Lol. You think Dems don't try to use the filibuster to stop things.

At any rate, glad you agree with the changes that render the Dems impotent in this situation.
 
born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:37:58 AM  
1 vote:

jso2897: everything these people are crying about and claiming victimization over is THEIR OWN WORK.


"The government is broken--and I intend to prove it!"

"Imma vote for this guy, he ain't some stinking lib!"
"Hey my government is broken!  Stinkin libs!"

Repeat ad nauseum for half a century.
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:37:02 AM  
1 vote:
Let me play the contrarian here.   SHe can BELIEVE whatever the fark she wants, I don't farking care.  I Care about her judicial qualifications and she has...well, none really.   RBG was a judge of the second highet court in the land, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals (aka the Supreme Court's Waiting room) for 13 years before Clinton nominated her to the SCOTUS.  Prior t that she had been a litigator responsible for winning a landmark case.


Comey-Barrett has almost zero courtroom experience, she was a law prof, and she been a judge on the far less consequential 7th circuit for under 3 years.   Put simply she ain't got the chops for the big leagues no matter WHAT her religious beliefs are.

Don't make the Kavanaugh mistake. Blassey-Ford's allegations were important, but they were the wrong focus.   Kavanaugh committed perjury in his first confirmation hearing to be a federal judge in 2005, and the emails released before his scotus confirmation provided written proof of that.   THAT should have been the focus of the questions by Democratic Senators, the FELONY he committed that made him eligible to be disbarred and not able to even serve as a judge
 
PadreScout
2020-09-22 8:33:03 AM  
1 vote:
Don't be alarmed?  I'd be alarmed if he chose someone who wasn't a wingnut or a rapist or whatever societal cancer he's decided is pretty great that day.   I don't know if you've noticed but he doesn't make very good choices.
 
Keyser_Soze_Death
2020-09-22 8:31:19 AM  
1 vote:

physt: FARKING NEWS FLASH! ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ARE IN A CULT.


Thank you.

I must now consult with my lord and savior, Joe Pesci.
 
raius
2020-09-22 8:29:05 AM  
1 vote:

physt: FARKING NEWS FLASH! ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ARE IN A CULT.


No, that's not at all true.  You can be religious and not be in a cult, at least not based on the actual meaning of cult.
 
DO NOT WANT Poster Girl [TotalFark]
2020-09-22 8:24:20 AM  
1 vote:

dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


"Ms. Barret, do you obey your husband in all ways extending to when professional decisions and conduct conflict with his?"

How is that religious?
 
Leader O'Cola
2020-09-22 8:22:14 AM  
1 vote:

qorkfiend: Leader O'Cola: qorkfiend: havocmike: qorkfiend: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

No

because?

Why should it be?

Why should ratifying an amendment require more than a majority vote?

Because it's supposed to be difficult


Why?
 
jso2897
2020-09-22 8:20:32 AM  
1 vote:

gar1013: Animatronik: And so the organized smear campaign begins...

The funniest part is that she isn't going to be the pick.


This is more probable than some may think.
Drumft needs Florida BAD, and will be more than willing to lick some Cuban asshole to get it, at least in one scenario.
Hopefully so, because Lagoa is a relatively innocuous pick.
 
sniderman
2020-09-22 8:18:49 AM  
1 vote:

Prank Call of Cthulhu: sniderman: The framers of the Constitution didn't expect nearly half of the U.S. population to be pants-on-head stupid either. And yet here we are

I think that's why they came up with the Electoral College. "Moſt of the populace are ſo ſtupid, they wear their pantaloons atop their heads! Theſe numbſkulls can't be truſted to actually vote for the candidate, we'll have electors actually do the electing."


Ah yes. And THAT'S worked out swimmingly!
 
mdemon81
2020-09-22 8:17:45 AM  
1 vote:
The MAGATs in the thread aren't even trying.
 
havocmike
2020-09-22 8:13:14 AM  
1 vote:

qorkfiend: havocmike: Why is such an important decision a simple majority vote? Shouldn't something like this be a 2/3rds vote?

No


because?
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-09-22 8:11:53 AM  
1 vote:

Kornchex: That oath automatically disqualifies her.

/or it would in a normal world


Lol.

I bet you worry about Freemasons.
 
kindms
2020-09-22 8:08:53 AM  
1 vote:

dittybopper: Irrelevant, and if used against her in the hearings, a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs​/constitution-transcript
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

If you're saying she can't be confirmed because of her religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if that applied), that's a flat-out violation of Article VI.

Doesn't matter if she's in a "cult" or not.   It's a blanket prohibition with no exceptions.


this just means having religion or not cannot be used to deny you the office. no where does it say your views shaped by your lunacy cannot be called in to question.
 
No Line For Beer
2020-09-22 8:04:05 AM  
1 vote:
Eh. I'm more concerned about what Biden's two picks are like.
 
padraig
2020-09-22 8:04:02 AM  
1 vote:

EyeballKid: elaw: I want to make myself a blue baseball cap that says "Make America great".  Anyone with me?

And they say people have a hard time telling the two parties apart!


If right now you can't tell the two parties apart, you are being willfully obtuse.
 
Nimbull
2020-09-22 8:01:40 AM