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Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States

posted by takyon on Saturday October 06 2018, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-'er-rip dept.

Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vote was 50-48 in favor of Kavanaugh.

Senators Collins, Flake, and Manchin had already announced their intentions to confirm Kavanaugh before the vote was held. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was previously ready to vote "no", agreed to vote "present" instead so that Senator Steve Daines could attend his daughter's wedding instead of being present in the Senate to support Kavanaugh.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:11PM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:11PM (#745173) Homepage

    I believe QAnon was High Level Insider. My psychoanalysis of High Level Insider is that he is a mid-twenties Catholic male with a private educational background of philosophy, maybe even theology. Then, when known as High Level Insider, he became bored with people actually believing his LARPS and not offering real creative challenges. Then he started making ever-increasingly idiotic comments such as "Obama is Osama."

    Qanon tells tales like Tori Amos writes lyrics -- vague word-salads that compel others to interpret them how they see fit, and since the directions are so vague, anybody can correlate the information to anything given only a few degrees of separation. In short, it's the same shit that fortune tellers do.

    Don't get me wrong, I love conspiracy shit. But sometimes LARPS can get out of hand. Look at organized religion, for example.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:17PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:17PM (#745176) Journal

    Wait, wait, WAIT!

    Fortune tellers? You have a problem with Gypsies? You don't like the Romany? Dude, I thought you were "woke". It's the Jews who have spread all the propaganda against the Romany. Romany are real, and Jews are fake. Fortune tellers know the truth, and Jews lie. What are you, racist?

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:40PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:40PM (#745192) Homepage

      Even Thomas Harris hates the Roma, he (is an American expat who feel in love with living in Italy) doesn't call them "Gypsies" in his book but he goes to great lengths to discuss how scummy the Roma are:

      " Romula's Italian was passable, as was her French, English, Spanish, and
      Romany. She spoke without affect her best theatrics had not prevented this
      three-month term for picking pockets.
      She went behind the screen. In a plastic bag concealed in the baby's swaddling
      clothes were forty cigarettes and sixty-five thousand lire, a little more than
      forty-one dollars, in ragged notes...
      Romula's business was reading the street for a living, and pick-pocketing was
      a subset of that. She was a weathered thirty-five and she had antennae like
      the great luna moth. This policeman-she studied him over the screen-look how
      neat, the wedding ring, the shined shoes, lived with his wife but had a good
      maid-his collar stays were put in after the collar was ironed. Wallet in the
      jacket pocket, keys in the right front trouser, money in the left front
      trouser folded flat probably with a rubber band around. "