Who Are You, and What Have You Done…Update Kav Confirmed!
…with CNN?
President Donald Trump’s winning streak
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 12:27 PM ET, Sat October 6, 2018
Donald Trump may have never had a better time being President.
Only a re-election party on the night of November 3, 2020, could possibly offer the same vindication for America’s most unconventional commander in chief as the 36 hours in which two foundational strands of his political career are combining in a sudden burst of history.Trump will become an undeniably consequential President with the Senate due to vote Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, consecrating the conservative majority that has long been the impossible dream of the GOP.
On Friday, Trump had celebrated the best jobs data for 49 years as the unemployment rate dipped to 3.7%, offering more proof of a vibrant economy that the President says has been unshackled by his tax-reduction program and scything cuts to business regulations.
While his 2016 election campaign was most notable for swirling chaos and shattered norms, Trump’s vows to nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court and to fire up the economy were the glue for his winning coalition.
The struggle to confirm Kavanaugh split the country, deepened mistrust festering between rival lawmakers and threatens to further drag the Supreme Court into Washington’s poisoned political stew. But Trump stuck with it and ground out a win.
So he has every right to return to voters in the next four weeks ahead of the midterm elections to argue he has done exactly what he said he would do. He now has a strong message to convince grass-roots Republicans that it’s well worth showing up at the polls.
While not exactly pro-Trump, this article at least reports the facts on the ground, a refreshing change from the anti-conservative bias shown by nearly the entire Main Stream Media since 2016.
Trump has indeed changed the dynamics in America’s foreign policy, taxes and the economy, placing Constitutional judges in Federal courts, and now on the Supreme Court. Twice. Rebuilding the military is a work in progress- the only misstep has been The Wall, and even that is on-going, albeit slowly.
All this in spite of the distraction of supposed collusion with Russia during the election that placed him in the White House. It’s been a pretty amazing two years, and I am looking forward to the next six.
The entire article may be viewed at, no really, CNN.
Category: Politics, Reality Check
Off topic:
Kavanaugh confirmed!
Good news is never off topic!
Fox News Link
Here are the votes by individual. Scroll down the page.
https://www.newsweek.com/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-vote-count-senator-1155842
In re: collusion with Russia? The only collusion that I have been able to document at all had to do with shrillary’s campaign. The insistence on recounts led to finding more Trump votes than had been counted so that stopped.
I have to wonder. At what point do the folks in the news business notice the market for moderately balanced content, versus shrill partisanship?
Sooner or later, the bean counter reckoning will occur.
AS long as Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg have money, the people in the DNC media will continue doing what they’ve been doing.
True, very true. I think President Trump hit a home run when he told the Press that he regarded them as a part of the D-rat Party!
I believe this is an example of what the left calls “market failure”. It requires government intervention to make the market do what they think it should do. They will go for censorship of “Faux” news before they change their behavior.
Winning. I just got 2 tickets to Trumps rally next Saturday. I am excited to go. I’m planning on getting there early to see the libtards crying and screeching. Has anyone else gone to any of his rallies?
Not to my knowledge, check your email.
Be sure to act like you have a slight handicap, take a stout wood walking stick with you…. just in case.
I actually do use a cane and not afraid to use it if needed.
If you need to beat an Antifa/progtard in self-defense please feel free to do so. Some of us here are actual undisbarred lawers and will come to your defense, if necessary.
Get a shillelagh and put a rubber cane tip on the small end!
Broke my heel last April, I’ve grown very fond of this particular cane!
https://www.coldsteel.com/products/walking-canes-by-cold-steel/irish-blackthorn-walking-stick-1542.html
Knock an antifa down and pretend to help him up with your knee in his groin all the while yelling for help for the guy. Then vanish.
Yes, in Pensacola. Be prepared to go through several layers of security. The crowd was in a frenzy. He probably generates more enthusiasm than any politician in modern history.
Yes, the dipshitdemocrats were outside waving their multicolored pussy flags, carrying their signs condemning all things Trump: Trump is evil; Trump kills women and children; Trump hates LGBT (and every other alphabet lowlife freak group).
Getting in takes time. Don’t take anything to drink. We weren’t even allowed beverages, IIRC.
It’s a Gala event. And my visit was packed. At dildocrat rallies, the cameras capture only part of the arena so they can show on TV the appearance of a packed crowd. Trump rallies don’t have that problem.
Go, brother, go!!
Have a good time, do make friends, don’t bring home any pamphlets (we have plenty of kindling) and we’ll leave the light on for you.
Well. That’s done.
Too bad that sore losers demand that it’s not over.
So, LC and Cthulu: I believe you two were bleating about how Kavanaugh wasn’t going to win. May I suggest pressure cooking your crow?
They’ve never heard of humble pie, you know.
Another dish best served cold.
Pretty sure I never said he wouldn’t be confirmed – I said I didn’t know what would happen. I also said I thought Barrett would’ve been an easier pick, and just as conservative.
And I said I’d have liked a full investigation of Kavanaugh. We got a partial one, and the results of it are a 10K page document, in a SCIF, that senators and some aides get a few minutes to read. And, naturally, both sides have claimed it vindicates their position. Good to see our government working ‘for the people’ as usual.
Kavanaugh had 7 investigations, pray tell, what do you think they missed?
You’ll continue hearing crickets from them.
For starters, none of them would’ve covered his high school years, which is when the Ford allegations happened. And nothing but the first would’ve covered his college years (Ramirez), and I have to imagine that exposing one’s self to someone at a party doesn’t exactly rank high on the list of concerns for the FBI without a charge behind it, even if they did hear about it.
But do you honestly think it serves us well to have Democrats saying the secret report doesn’t vindicate Kavanaugh and the Republicans saying it does? That’s just idiocy of a level usually unreached even within Congress.
“But do you honestly think it serves us well to have Democrats saying the secret report doesn’t vindicate Kavanaugh and the Republicans saying it does?”
No it doesn’t LC, but the leftists that were in such a hurry to oppose who ever President Trump nominated that they put our there opposition flyer with “insert name” still on it would do exactly that, even if the investigation went on for 10 years, and delved into his behavior in preschool. For them, it had nothing to do with the truth and everything to do with destroying the man, and #resist…
If you don’t believe that, look at the tweet, now deleted, by Ariel Dumas, a writer for Colbert show, when she said “NO matter what happens, I’m just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaughs life”…
Expecting rational, civil, adult behavior from the likes of that is like expecting ice water in hell..
They missed nothing, UpNorth, including the FBI’s additional and final go-round which they said produced NOTHING NEW. LC is just being the usual ass he always is.
There is nothing more to discover or explore. Period. It is bullshit to say ‘things are missing’ or ‘something was left undone’.
If anything, the doxxing asshole who decided he could intimidate people by posting their private info online should have been thoroughly investigate before he was ever hired as a staffer by ANY Congress critter, but apparently, somebody missed the boat on him and he is FAR more dangerous than anyone else in the room.
That may not be true when he gets where he’s going. I’m sure that there will plenty of very dangerous people in most of the rooms in his next domicile.
Trued, and let’s hope he gets no parole. A good place for someone like him would the the federal lockup at Beaumont, TX. Really, really nasty place.
My respect for the FBI is renewed. Good job, special agents!
To me it boils down to this; if Ford was so sure that it was Kavanaugh who assaulter her she could have gone to the local police and filed charges against him. But she didn’t. Instead we, and Kavanaugh and his family were subjected to a kangaroo court, a true three ring circus complete with bellowing hippos blowing obnoxious flatulence and shrieking monkeys flinging poo. How anyone cannot see that confirmation hearings were nothing more than a pathetic power grab by the Democrats is beyond me. Feinstein could have brought the letter to the SJC at the beginning of August. Instead, she waited till the 11th hour to drop her bomb. Nobody but the uber-partisan believes that the Democrats care one whit about Ford. She was nothing but a pawn in their disgusting game.
I think many people are getting very tired of the moonbats in the ‘court of public opinion’ screeching that “she must be given the benefit of the doubt!” I believe many people are sick and tired of seeing others lives destroyed simply due to allegations, many that turn out to be lies. Far too many people forget or ignore the fact that in this country there’s a presumption of innocence and the accused has the right to due process.
I understand what you’re saying and, as I said above, I don’t know what happened. The funny thing about the ‘presumption of innocence’ is that it works both ways here – Kavanaugh is innocent of the charges, and Ford is innocent of lying under oath about the rape. But the only way that’s true is if Ford honestly believes her testimony, even though it’s inaccurate. That doesn’t seem likely, though it’s obviously far from impossible. Are you willing to extend that same presumption of innocence to her? I’m neither a liberal nor conservative; I lean towards each on different things. I don’t have any strong ideological opposition to Kavanaugh’s legal positions, and even if I did, the simple fact is a conservative was going to be seated anyway. And you’re absolutely correct that the idea that all it takes to smear someone is an allegation, absent any supporting evidence, is a terrible thing. The flip side of that, though, is that most cases of sexual assault (using it in the generic sense) happen without witnesses. That’s the second part of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ – in a court of law. Every day in this country, cases like that are argued, some won, some lost, and generally on indirect evidence, because it often comes down to he said / she said. As for me, my personal issue with Kavanaugh right now isn’t these allegations, for which we don’t have the information to adequately judge (note that Warren says the FBI report doesn’t vindicate him, and Grassley says it does – go figure.) It’s that he seems to have lied under oath. You’ve got roommates saying he was black-out drunk. Others claiming he lied about his sex life. Some are, as you might imagine, saying the ‘Devil’s Triangle’ isn’t a drinking game. It seems he may have texted some of his witnesses yet claimed he hadn’t heard of the Ramirez allegation before it was public. And his own court has some ethics issues with him. Surely, some of that deserves consideration? A SCOTUS judge shouldn’t be lying while under oath. And if… Read more »
You don’t know because you have no need to know. Quit whining about it.
That is all.
LC, are you claiming that the FBI is so incompetent at conducting background investigations that they were unable to find that this man had a watch set for Rape O’Clock? Or are you saying that an investigation should have been held until the “correct” decision was reached?
I’m saying that background checks don’t generally cover anything from before you were 18 unless there’s a damn good reason to. And without a police report, allegation or admission of something, there certainly wouldn’t have been.
And given the lack of allegations later than his college days, it certainly doesn’t seem like his alleged bad behavior continued on past then. I just think that an investigation should’ve talked to potential witnesses, and some care claiming that they contacted the FBI and never received a response. If Hillary Clinton were accused of doing X, and five people said they witnessed it and the FBI didn’t talk to them and then produced a secret report that, shockingly, Democrats say shows she’s innocent and Republicans contest that,… would you feel that investigation was thorough?
” If Hillary Clinton were accused of doing X, and five people said they witnessed it ” Well then 5 people would be found dead of apparent suicide by multiple gunshots to the back of the head… if history is any guide..
LC, just wait for RBG to finally keel over. Barrett will be nominated to replace her. Then the left will play these same, exact games on her. She’ll be a gender-traitor Nazi who will literally eat children if confirmed.
Did they do that to Gorsuch? Sure, there was opposition, but not allegations of crimes, at least to my knowledge.
They already attacked Barrett at the confirmation hearing for her to the 7th circuit. Specifically DiFi.. to believe that hag wouldn’t ramp things up when she comes up for the SCOTUS is just silly
No, they didn’t. The tactic was apparently effective with you, not that that small win actually is significant. The rest of us correctly forecast exactly what happened with the next nomination. I would have much preferred to have been proven wrong.
They didn’t because Gorsuch wasn’t replacing one of “their” justices.
The “easier pick” is not necessarily the “right pick”. That’s how we got a House and Senate full of dipshits. We got people who were “electable” v. people who are “qualified”.
You misspelled xher name. It is spelled CUNTHULU.
What a beautiful day it has been in New England, made better by the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh as a brand new Associate Justice.
Now, if only Ginsburg will honor America and allow Trump to appoint yet a third Justice, then all of this social justice shit will start to make some authentic sense.
The thing of it is, Kavanaugh is a born and raised resident of Montgomery County Maryland. What they call a Republican is more akin to a Northern California Democrat. I have no reason to think that Kavanaugh, make that JUSTICE Kavanaugh, is a conservative.
That’s Ok, if he works out to be a moderate Constitutionalist then the court should be well ordered.
I can’t imagine he’ll forget his treatment from the left for a very long time. Any chance they had of him being a “moderate” has been shattered.
Though I do think he’s a man of conviction and integrity. So he might actually just do his job properly, within the constitution, and not allow partisanship to enter in to things.
That’s exactly the problem.
Libtards decide everything on politics and ideology, while conservatives try to keep partisanship out.
Fuk dat sheet.
Fight fire with fire. Destroy America’s enemies and MAS (make America stronger).
I’ll never get tired of winning, MAGA!!!
See below. And watch the video. One of the best scripts ST:NG ever ran with.
I have something to add to this, while you are all weeping tears of angst at the defeat of the Lefterds’ hopes of dominance. There are people who call themselves astrologers who, for some reason, never seem to quite get things right. One of them was a financial analyst who discovered some correspondence between market cycles and astrological cycles. He started making a living giving markets forecasts based on those cycles. He completely missed the 2009 crash and recession – never saw it coming, despite the fact that all the signs were there in the financial news. And this is why you should never pay an astrologer a damned cent for any advice: He predicted that Clinton would win the presidential election in 2016 by a landslide. You will recall the Clinton recount demands in some states, which resulted in more votes for Trump, which ended that. And no, she did not win by a landslide, she had a narrow popular vote margin, but the electoral vote went to Trump. His mos recent diagnostic was that Kavanaugh would not get the majority vote or the SCOTUS seat, based on Venus this and Jupiter that, and I wondered how many times he’d fail before he quit publishing this nonsense. I did, myself, have some doubts about Kavanaugh staying to get the majority vote because of the public hysteria and the effect it migyht have on his family. But that doubt was gone when the doxxing announcement and arrest were made public, and I realized that the backlash from something that horrific would be enough to send any sane person to the support of Judge Kavanaugh. Now this same numbskull is predicting that the Democrats with overtake Congress in the midterms. Let’s make sure that we prove him wrong AGAIN! Please, even though it may be cold and rainy, with sleet blowing down your neck, get yourself to the polls next Tuesday and vote GOPer. Thank you. And do NOT ever pay anyone who says s/he’s an astrologer for anything. It is balderdash, not because things don’t go in cycles – they… Read more »
Patrick Stewart is a great actor!
That was a great Star Trek episode!
Never give up, never give in
That was one of their best scripts – EVER.
Probably because of not having had the benefit of a Gender Studies education, it strikes me as curious how all the sturm und drang has worked out over the Kavanaugh hearings.
Back in the day, roughly grammar school through high school, justice about such things tended to be more immediate. If you were too aggressive hitting on a chick at a party, you were looking at any or all of the following results:
The first risk was that the chick who didn’t like being hit on would have likely slapped your stupid face hard enough to make your ears ring if you didn’t dial things down.
All of the young ladies I grew up with also tended to have older brothers or male relatives who would have cheerfully kicked my ass if called upon.
An even more grim result would have been the mother of the girl calling up my mother who would have said, “Wait until your father gets home.” I really hated that.
Or alternatively, the father of the girl would have called up my father who would have cheerfully kicked my ass– and then grounded me until the sun in our solar system flickered out like a cheap lightbulb.
There’s a question lurking in all of that somewhere and it seems to me a fair one to ask.
And that one, perhaps with a few more, occurred to many of us during all this mess.
Worse yet, all of the above.
When I was a kid and middle schooler, the only thing worse that getting whacked by Mom, was waiting until Dad got home, because that meant an encounter with the infamous “Singing Belt.” It was called that because it would always make you sing in pain.
My dad never used the “the belt” but he would take it out of the closet, fold it and snap the two sections with a terrifying crack.
We used to laugh like hell at him as we grew older. Eventually, he started laughing also.
My dad did the same most times, so we were threatened with it more often than actually having it hit our butts.
My father did this, I have done it, and now my daughter does it. May this “cycle” never be broken.
I only got a belt a couple times, but was sometimes threatened with something even worse…the “special” belt…a belt so devastating that it would be almost death to even look upon it…once I reached the age of eighteen, I was officially advised (though I had suspected for some time) that the “special” belt wasn’t real.
T-t-t-talking ’bout my g-generation! Ambiguity was easier to parse during those years.
The scariest phrase ever uttered in the English language is “wait until your father gets home”. My Father was not the one who usually doled out the punishments in my house, but when then phrase was said I knew I messed up bad.
The price of domestic liberty is eternal vigilance and readiness against the progs and their Antifa sturmtruppen goons.
They will be coming after everyone and everything, from trying to impeach Justice Kavanaugh and other conservative judges, to attacking and destroying conservative leaders and politicians, and right down to physically mobbing and attacking and assaulting random Trump supporters and average joes on the street and in their workplaces and homes.
Be prepared, be vigilant, keep a lookout when out in public. Be ready to defend yourself and your loved ones when the goons descend on you. They have declared war on us, and they are coming…
Okay, so should I carry a spray can of Off! or should I get cooking spray and a Bic lighter?
You do realize that just targeting someone based on a t-shirt color or on nothing but an assumption carries a law enforcement penalty, right? And in many, many precincts and municipalities, the police people are losing patience with this tantrum-throwing bunch and are perfectly willing to lock them up in the slammer until they cool down, which might take a few days or a few weeks, depending on the court schedule.
Also, these screaming infants in adult bodies tend to want everyone to know what kind of illegal activities they are up to, and they post themselves online, in those videos of them engaging in vandalism and aggravated battery, which is legal evidence.
So they are kind of outsmarting themselves in regard to violence by pretending it is free speech when it is no such thing. It is property damage, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and in some cases, arson, all of which are very illegal. Jail sentences will keep them from getting real jobs, so they’ll have to resort to being bums and hobos living on the street in tents, on Lower Wacker Drive.
CNN speaking the truth……?
It’s a trap!
“I have sounded forth the trumpets that will never call retreat”
For decades the left has been building all the legal walls they could via legislation from the bench, proverbial walls that are crumbling.
“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.” Hebrews 11:30
“The struggle to confirm Kavanaugh split the country….”
That’s so laughable. The country was split before Trump won the election. But to CNN every new issue is a new split. This confirmation was a battle in a war that began more than a few years ago by cocaine smoking president. We won this one. And we’ll win the next one. Winning is fun.
According to this article the left is now turning on Avenatti. Schadenfreude, anyone?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-06/michael-avenatti-turns-radioactive-liberals-blame-porn-lawyer-kavanaugh-nomination
Of course they blame Avenatti. And Trump. And Grassley. And…anyone except themselves, where the real fault lies. The way they attacked Kavanaugh with patently false accusations, the optics of turning the floor of the Senate into a circus, the way they howled when Kavanaugh took the mike and gave back some of what he had been receiving for a week and a half.
Yeah, blame the creepy porn lawyer, clearly he’s at fault here,
/sarc
I especially enjoyed the wailing from the Senate Gallery as each “turncoat” voted aye.
“the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery”
I was waiting to hear “don’t taze me bro”
and perhaps a thud follwed by silence.
Blumenthal walked around looking for someone to talk to but was obviously being avoided so he scurried out with his tiny stature. Little thin tail showing under his jacket.
…leaving a trail of slime behind him.
Thank you, Milo Bloom.
So I missed a show of The Howling by not having a TV?
Or did I really miss anything worth watching? Video at 8, maybe?
I chanced upon the proceedings by clicking on “live” video in the Bangor Daily News. I could not find it on tv. Odd.
The proceedings were boring and often interupted but to watch each Senator milling about in their natural habitat was well worth the time. Many got up and left immediately after voting.
Collins just sat there. It was obvious some Senators were approaching others in a bid to change their vote at the last minute. Schumer stood, said no
and sat back down slumping in his seat not far from Susan Collins.
The Trib this morning said ‘hundreds gathered’ to protest the vote outside the Supreme Court building. So I checked the photo included with that short article. It looked like about 125 to maybe 150 in a bunch, all grouped together. That is hardly ‘hundreds’.
It was cropped to the edges of the crowd, of course, to make it look more – well “crowded”.
If the people who run the media ever grow up, would someone send me a notice about it? Just a brief note re: when and where, and how long it took will be sufficient.
Back from Trannytown/Bernieville (a/k/a VT) and I must say, it’s good to be away from the people there. Cripes. Bunch of used up old hippies. Like with Joisey, I don’t need to be told there’s another side to the place: I have never seen the other side.
nyway, I missed my FY to LC and Cunthulu. At least Cunthulu, who famously said, among other things about the Justice Kavanaugh Democratic Socialist debacle, “Told you all the next allegation was going to end the nomination” and “…so both Kavanuagh and the GoP are going to decide to end the nomination before tomorrow morning.” In your face Cunthulu. As for LC, I’ve had enough of the bullshit. The FBI never had jurisdiction to investigate any fantasy crime that Ford alleged. The supplental background check did precisely what it should have. Thank goodness the FBI leadership changed or we would have had a mess. BTW, to date Ford has not signed a release for the polygraph she claimed to have taken and she has not signed a release for her therapist’s notes. Gawd, was she full of shit. Now, if Ginsburg would please die, we can have another round.
Ditto. Right on, brother.