No, she did, somewhat.
United States Amy Coney Barrett Nominated & Confirmed to Supreme Court
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No, she did, somewhat.
To be fair, that Senator asks literally everyone up for confirmation before her if they have ever been accused of sexual harassment/sexually harassed anyone.
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IIRC she was asked if she made sexual assaults, advances, approaches, or basically any form of inappropriate behavior.
It was probably one of the most bizarre elements of the hearing.
Given it was asked with total earnestness and sincerity. And not just as a rote box check.
It was probably one of the most bizarre elements of the hearing.
Given it was asked with total earnestness and sincerity. And not just as a rote box check.
Again, she asks it of literally everyone. So it's somewhat odd but it really isn't anything "special".
There was literally a news story about members of her church group being sexually assaulted, as an attack ad on her. But I didn't see it on my first google search and I'm too lazy to dig more.
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
Sen. Hirono loves playing to her "MeToo" base, she essentially threw her lot in with them during the Kavanaugh debacle, when she wasn't dog-whistling the racial injustice crowd. So her asking Barrett those questions didn't surprise me at all. Can only imagine what Barrett was thinking though.
That said, IMO Hirono is a condescending, opportunistic POS, much like Harris. I would have her on the shortlist besides Booker and Harris as to who leaked the Christine Blaisey Ford letter to the press...assuming the whole thing wasn't a setup to begin with (and I'm leaning more to the latter now that I'm seeing how much Debra Katz was involved.)
That said, IMO Hirono is a condescending, opportunistic POS, much like Harris. I would have her on the shortlist besides Booker and Harris as to who leaked the Christine Blaisey Ford letter to the press...assuming the whole thing wasn't a setup to begin with (and I'm leaning more to the latter now that I'm seeing how much Debra Katz was involved.)
Ok....
There are more important issues then abortion, women can and do successfully go their entire lives with out needing an abortion even once. Women have an almost literal mountain of birthcontrol options including the plan b pill.
Meanwhile we all use freedom of speech, the riots clearly showed us we need the second amendment because the cops will do fuck all to protect you or your property if there is a riot, and we all need the right to due process. These things are all more important then abortion.
It works well with the base. And that's a good move when you aren't near an election. That does not work well in the middle of an election cycle. Because all it does is show that you aren't willing to compromise. Compromise is built into the American consciousness. Our entire federal system is based on having to compromise. NOT showing up to confirm a SCOTUS just makes swing voters second guess.
Overall, Barrett was a well placed nomination. She is in a word, the kryptonite to the leftist narrative of a modern woman. Smart, successful, married, and with children. Some of who were adopted black children. And for the left, that ruled out general attacks on her being a rapist (simply does not compute with leftist ideology) nor could they attack her well on race, as she would strike back that she raised black children. And while there was a small degree of woke morons trying to raise that issue, it was not taken up by the majority of leftists for obvious reasons.
What most leftists did land on, was a characteristic that most of them grew up hating with every ounce of themselves; religion. Barrett is religious and the far left hates religion as a general rule. Most especially domestic Christians, who they associate mostly with white people. And since a great deal of what Barrett threatens (LGBT, abortions) stem from her Christian background, the avenue of attack was logical. Call her a religious zealot. The media (more wisely) modified this as an issue of her being a radical. Multiple attempts to paint her as a cultist.
The problem is that was not a good strategic move for leftists to take. There is some argument (some, I don't really buy into it, but some) that Trump alienated some of his religious voters when he went for that photo-op outside the church during the riots. Trump's move of putting in Barrett was a gift to those voters. And for the left to attack her, based on her religion only reinforces their view that the left is going after them. Worse, the left's attack on her religion actually helps to alienate Hispanic and Catholic voters. Swing voters that the left needs to cater to.
To a Hispanic woman, calling a successful judge who is religious and honors traditional family values is an attack upon their own social and religious beliefs. Calling her a "zealot" or a "cultist" does not work. To Hispanic women, Barrett could be called a pious woman. It's really what a lot of Hispanic women, I think, can admire. They may not want her life, but they want that kind of success. And for the left who tells them they can have it all, attacking her was not a good move.
Worse, worse--it doesn't EVEN play well with black voters. They don't give two shits about LGBT or Abortion and to attack her on religion does not play well with them. They are all very, very religious.
The left though, they had to react. Because SCOTUS has been for the past several decades, some of their best means or projecting power through the country. If they lose those two key court decisions, they lose ground in lots and lots of places. Especially because they seized those laws from the voters and their representatives. I voted for gay marriage when I was in Maryland...I am not as keen to vote for it in Wisconsin. Not because I dislike gay people, but when the Democrats seized that kind of power away from the states, it does not make me eager to hand them any victories or power.
Duke Nukem
Hail to the king baby
What the hell? look at the date this was posted
Does Twitter use a server based time or a local based time?
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For the Left, and honestly, a lot of the secular West, the concept of religion is a lot like culture. It's a flavoring that can be added on top of a homogenous, multicultural whole. Maybe you wear a headscarf, or don't eat pork, or do a special ceremony when you're 13 or something else, but underneath it all everyone is really just the same kind of agnostic but moral individual. The concept that someone might legitimately, truly, wholeheartedly believe in the sky fairy without reservation is something only primitive peoples do. A superstition they at least implicitly cast aside once they've become sufficiently civilized.
It's why I'm personally highly critical of many politicians that use their faith as a shield, particularly otherwise non-practicing Jews. Pelosi and Biden are Catholic insomuch as that's the type of priest they'd want at a wedding. If they were actual Believers both would spend nights wondering about their immortal soul in light of the flagrantly heretical beliefs they've espoused.
Incidentally, it's also why Christians are so 'Islamaphobic'. They take the Koran at its word and assume that good Muslims will follow its tenants. After all, don't good Christians obey the Bible?
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I wouldn't say its just the Left that thinks this(though they do), but the Secular West in general thinks this. Religion at most might be something you cling to as a matter of identity, but its basically a drug-either dulling you to the real world-"opium of the people", or giving one a sense of belonging and community. Note the emphasis on "faith communities"-religion is assumed as being therapeutic, the actual content of religious beliefs is immaterial. Which is why the left and secular political and academic elite's explanation for Islamic terrorism-is "marginalization, oppression, exclusion, racism" and why they respond more aggressively to alleged "Islamophobia". Islamic terrorists can't possibly believe what they believe, their just lashing out and alienated from a society that doesn't accept their brown skinned-ness, or weird dress. That is the Western Elite and Left's explanation for Islamic terrorism.
Oh gosh, so much of Western Jewry is pretty much Atheist or Agnostic. They might have shabbat dinners and do bar mitzvahs for their boys, but its just a cultural marker. The same applies to a lot of "cultural" Catholics, like in Congress. They'll attend Mass, and say nice words to the Priest, but they don't actually take the precepts of their supposed religion with any seriousness.
Once again, its our Liberal-Left modernist elites attitudes. Christians are Islamophobic because uh brown people are scary and icky and stuff. They're a different "community". They can't possibly imagine Christians taking Muslim proclamations of jihad as serious and genuine. Christians take religion seriously so they take Muslims at their word when they commit actions in the name of their religion.
Our intellectual and governing classes however take no religions seriously and thus assume any proclamations of religious belief or justification are irrelevant cover for motives based on either self interest or identity.
MrBirthday
Agent of Catgirl Genocide
This is the end of our Republic.
No matter who wins now SCOTUS will decide the election and vote 6-3 for Trump in office.
Roe v. Wade will be overturned and abortions, then birth control made illegal.
Gay marriages will be annulled, sodomy laws brought back into law.
All forms of gun control removed. Gun ownership will be linked to voting rights.
Big Tech will lose its platform protections.
Children will be ripped from their parents arms at the border and caged, forced to build the wall.
Only citizens with ID's will be allowed to vote.
Bakers and photographers won't have to serve gay weddings because gayness will be a felony... Like Islam and the separation of church and state.
What's worse is that we don't even know if this is what she believes since she'll be taking orders from her husband and Catholic Cult Masters...
It's all less then a year away and she'll look good doing it all.
RIP.
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Duke Nukem
Hail to the king baby
Kek
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Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Lol.
Duke Nukem
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Duke Nukem
Hail to the king baby
Here's a live stream of Trump participating in swearing her in.
Oh man, this ACB speech is calling out the left.