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Kotzenjunge said:
Lindsey Graham has been painted as a vocal critic of the President, but he isn't. If he was, his voting record wouldn't look the way it does.

https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/21992/lindsey-graham#.W7A--LxKjrc

In May he voted against Net Neutrality as well. Dude's only a dissentor in name. Don't get worked.
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Like Jeff Flake, who goes on Twitter and rails against Trump for months, meanwhile he keeps voting for the GOP garbage platter.
 
September 12th American said:
https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/1046175953888653312
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That's ... not how you allow an investigation to work.
 
>:( Knew he had a history of this behavior. Fucking knew it.
 
Murkowski just voted No on going forward. Flake, Collins, Manchin voted to move forward but haven't announced what they'll vote tomorrow. Collins says she'll announce her vote during her 3pm eastern time speech today.
 
Why are we not out in the streets with guns just randomly shooting people? That's the point we're at as a society. Fuck this God damned planet and everyone on it.
 
A host of Democratic senators and senior aides told CNN that the allegations from Avenatti's client gave the GOP an opening to conflate -- and dismiss -- all the allegations in one broad brush.

"Well you know at some point there were a lot of folks coming forward making all sorts of accusations," said Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, when asked about the allegations raised by Avenatti and his client. "It turns it into a circus atmosphere and certainly that's not where we should be."

Asked if Avenatti was helpful, Peters said: "I think we should have focused on the serious allegations that certainly appeared very credible to me that would be our best course of action."
Privately, the assessment was far more scathing.

"Democrats and the country would have been better off if Mr. Avenatti spent his time on his Iowa vanity project rather than meddling in Supreme Court fights," a senior Senate Democratic aide fumed, referring to Avenatti toying with the idea of seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. "His involvement set us back, absolutely."

A Democratic senator, who asked to remain anonymous to speak candidly, said: "Not helpful at all. I think Susan was always yes, but Avenatti was a useful foil."
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https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/06/politics/democrats-avenatti-swetnick-accusation/index.html
 
Whelp, should've realized the democrats would try to pin this on Avenatti.
 
I've wanted him to retreat to the background and work quietly for a while now. He's the kind of loudmouth that hurts the Left. It's the same shit Rudy does, where you find yourself asking "why the fuck are you always on TV?" Every time he opens his mouth he *hurts* his client's case, just like Rudy.

How has the Left not fucking figured out that none of this ever helps them? It's fucked, but any position that stresses empathy is a loser with the American public. Decency doesn't sell, because it's been systematically removed from our society thanks to a toxic mix of Prosperity Theology and (ironically) Social Darwinism.
 
Kotzenjunge said:
I've wanted him to retreat to the background and work quietly for a while now. He's the kind of loudmouth that hurts the Left. It's the same shit Rudy does, where you find yourself asking "why the fuck are you always on TV?" Every time he opens his mouth he *hurts* his client's case, just like Rudy.
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To that end:

https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1049743419512303618

Anyone who was defending him to me yesterday care to defend him now?
 
I've had fantasies of walking up to the White House gates and telling the guards that I'm there to challenge the President, his son, or son-in-law to trial by combat. Thing is, I never thought of it as a shoot option unlike Avenatti.
 
Firmino of the 909 said:
To that end:

https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1049743419512303618

Anyone who was defending him to me yesterday care to defend him now?
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I would honestly consider that a joke from Avenatti. Why? Because no Trump would do anything for charity. At least not any charity that they can't take all the money for.

Edit: Not defending him, just saying that I consider it a joke of a statement.
 
lol he had his chance to make a big statement and maybe launch himself for 2020 but he threw that away. Trying to walk the line now isn't going to do anything for him.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/politics/supreme-court-gerrymandering-citizenship-census/index.html

Republicans got gerrymandering but didn't get the census question about citizen status.
 
Former Judge resigns from Supreme Court Bar and writes a good letter

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/judge-james-dannenberg-supreme-court-bar-roberts-letter.html
 
These decisions are a massive blow to Trump. His big "accomplishment" in his first term was that he could claim he turned the SCOTUS right-wing and "saved" America. but now they aren't doing what they were supposed to do. No wonder he's been going totally insane on twitter. More so than usual.


Also Sotomayer is the fucking best. Only Justice willing to call a spade a spade or in this case a racist a racist.
 
Trump had to know pissing off and alienating literally every politician he has encountered in the past 10 years would backfire on him eventually. I see John Roberts (and weirdly, Gorsuch, to an extent even though he was a Trump nominee) as Bush guys (IE "compassionate conservatives")

I'm cautiously optimistic that yesterday was a sign that center right doesn't want to fight the culture war that Trump is waging.
 
i wouldn't read too much into it tbh. I think it just proves they aren't corrupt idealouges like Kavanagh/Thomas/Alito. They aren't puppets but they'll still make the wrong decisions most of the time.
 
apnews.com

Split high court throws out Louisiana abortion clinic limit

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.
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A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.

Chief Justice John Roberts and his four more liberal colleagues ruled that the law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals violates the abortion rights the court first announced in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
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yet another blow to trump and a victory for people who aren't awful
 
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