Midnight Meme Of The Day!
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by Noah
It's pretty stunning to some people that a nominee to the Supreme Court or any court would evade a question by saying they "don't recall." It was a tactic used in the Watergate hearings and led to perjury charges in a case or two. More recently such suspect individuals as Jeff Sessions and Scooter Libby have said they "don't recall" during Congressional hearings, but a nominee to the Supreme Court? At a confirmation hearing? The Kavanaugh Circus wasn't far enough?
What Amy Coney Barrett did crosses a line even in corrupt Washington quarters. It's the kind of thing accused criminals resort to, not court nominees, unless they are the kind of judges that might as well be wearing a "For Sale" sign. In that sense, perhaps we should thank Back Alley Amy for making it clear as to what kind of Supreme Court "justice" she wants to be.
People in my generation first became aware of that slimy loophole back in those aforementioned Watergate hearings when Richard Nixon's tapes revealed him advising a fellow criminal that, when encountering an incriminating question, they could "always say you don't recall." When Amy Coney Barrett chose to take that approach to answering a question from Senator Kamala Harris at her confirmation hearing Tuesday, the question was whether or not Barrett had heard or seen Trump make comments about wanting a justice who would vote to end the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. Barrett's answer, "I don't recall hearing about or seeing such statements" was legal but also beyond the pale. You'd have to have been literally, not just figuratively, living under a rock to have missed Trump's multiple statements about the matter. Barrett also might as well have been a mobster taking the 5th and saying "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me" or asserted Attorney-Client privilege and just said that Trump is her client, which, for all intents and purposes, he is, right up to representing him in any future election or tax evasion cases. But, make no mistake, Amy Coney Barrett is officially adopting a mobster lifestyle. In that, she is no different than anyone who has willingly entered the orbit of Donald Trump, his party, and his whole crime family. She tainted herself the moment she sat down with him. She has now officially signed up with gangsters and grifters, and embraces those for whom such things as racism, having anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, anti-voting rights, and anti-healthcare views, and making excuses for domestic terrorists are not, to say the least, deal breakers when it comes to support or voting. Amy Coney Barrett is a perversion, a perversion of alleged American ideals, and a would-be perversion of justice.
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posted by DownWithTyranny @ 12:01 AM
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I haven't made it a policy to watch judicial confirmations sine Joe Biden wasted the time of everyone who was part of the opposition to the "Uncle" Thomas confirmation by voting with the other Republican corporatist racists just like him.
Biden's treatment of Anita Hill to save Thomas' lifetime tenure was disgusting then. His reputation with me has not improved since, despite that he's now treated as the Savior of the Western White World -and Affiliated non-Caucasian Auxiliaries- merely for being the Anti-Trump.
But this "I don't recall" dodge has gone on regularly at least since then. IIRC, we heard Roberts use this to evade answering questions, followed by Alito, Goresuch, Kavanaugh, and now Amy the Conehead (she' NOT from France) who were or are about to be confirmed. We also heard this dodge from Harriet Miers, who was not confirmed.
On the other hand, as I recall, Sotomayor and Kagan were grilled so thoroughly by Republicans that each considered invoking St. Laurence the Martyr and requesting to be turned over as the first side was now well-done.
Just another fine mess the "Democrats" got us into across the past 40 years - not that they didn't do this often prior to that time. JFK wasn't the only person to die in the corporatist doup of 1963. The entire Democratic Party went with him, never to return. No one ever stepped up to replace them as the Party of the People.
That film from the Grassy Knoll still works.
Nice anon, sums it up quite nicely. If I might add...
Seems obvious overlooked in the obfuscation ten or so days ago Our Very Own Very Stable “J is for Jenious” Jenious Tea Pot Dictator hosted a Rose Garden event to announce Amy Covid Barrett’s appointment to the already ideologically stacked panel of non-elected vigilantes, and within days was diagnosed positive for the Trump-Virus; he and several other attendees, who in turn spread it through the Whitey House, home to their families and out to the public.
Just days into drumpf uck’s infection Barrett admitted she had “tested positive” this summer. Summer was three weeks ago! Her children’s infections have shut down their private school. The court she sits, in another stolen seat, is zooming around in isolation, in quarantine. She looks like she’s doped to the gills.
Amy "she's got Charlie Manson eyes" Covid Barrett is the super-spreader, patient zero. Who has infected and continues to infect the highest echelons of power, first the Executive and now the Legislature. A plot worthy of Opus Dei, the Catholic Illuminati.
I used to call them an ideologically stacked court of non-elected activist judges.
Now it'a panel of partisan vigilantes.
And... as you brought him up, as recently as John F Kennedy most of the country thought Catholics Satanist heathens bowing down to a graven image, sworn to a foreign potentate. Some of us still do.
Maybe another way of putting it... I've been voting as long as Status Quo Joe has held elected office. With the exception of Jimmy Carter (and you must admit things were different in '76) I can't think of an election with choices I wanted to make. I wrote in a lot of cartoon characters - from Donald Duck to Roger Rabbit - before I wrote in None of the Above. Although I could, I live in a safely blue state (the governor endorsed and the electoral college declared for Clinton before the primaries), I'm gonna give Fritz the Kat a rest and flip the switch tomorrow not for Joe and a generation of politicos that need be as retired as me, but for Kamala Harris and a generation of politicos younger than me, for my children, and my grandchildren. I could come to regret it, as I did with Obama, but I think before we pick up the bullet box we should drop a vote in the ballot box at least one last time.
My ballot has been confirmed as submitted and will be counted, according to the BallotTrax notification service I signed up for here in CA. If your state doesn't have something like this, you need to pitch for it. It's that last possible option we mere voters have to prove we participated.
Amy Phoney Barrett
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