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  • #16
    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
    Which is why poor Nadler often looked dazed and confused, and why a number of the Democrats seemed quite angry that the Republicans didn't buy their "we have the SOLE AUTHORITY......".
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    I'm always still in trouble again

    "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
    "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
    "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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    • #17
      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
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      It is so unfair of you to use a picture of him 397 pounds ago.
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
        It is so unfair of you to use a picture of him 397 pounds ago.


        That woulda been:


        I'm always still in trouble again

        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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        • #19
          Originally posted by seer View Post
          I watched a lot of the impeachment hearings and the Republicans did not back down!
          Democrats are still using the same playbook they're been using for decades and don't seem to realize that the game has changed.
          Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
          But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
          Than a fool in the eyes of God


          From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Starlight View Post
            Perhaps the Republicans should stop nominating wildly inappropriate candidates for judicial positions?

            And stop trying to pretend it's the Dem's fault for rightly pointing out the obvious flaws in Republicans' woeful nominees. Try instead asking what is wrong with the Republican party such that so many of its presidential administrations are so full of criminals and so many of its judicial appointments have such obvious flaws.
            “Anyone that disagrees with me, is unqualified or a criminal.”

            Yet again Starlight shows what a total partisan hack he truly is.
            "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
            GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
              Perhaps the Republicans should stop nominating wildly inappropriate candidates for judicial positions?

              And stop trying to pretend it's the Dem's fault for rightly pointing out the obvious flaws in Republicans' woeful nominees. Try instead asking what is wrong with the Republican party such that so many of its presidential administrations are so full of criminals and so many of its judicial appointments have such obvious flaws.
              Well with an opinion like that, I am more convinced than ever that Trump has done good!

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                Which is why poor Nadler often looked dazed and confused, and why a number of the Democrats seemed quite angry that the Republicans didn't buy their "we have the SOLE AUTHORITY......".
                I think his new nickname is "Noddler" since he keeps nodding off and drooling on himself.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                  Which is why poor Nadler often looked dazed and confused, and why a number of the Democrats seemed quite angry that the Republicans didn't buy their "we have the SOLE AUTHORITY......".
                  I watched some of it last night. It seems many of the Democrats are doing damage control. Several were trying to reassure their constituents that they were not just a kangaroo court out to get Trump but were genuinely worried about our country and democracy. It sounded contrived and weak.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    I watched some of it last night. It seems many of the Democrats are doing damage control. Several were trying to reassure their constituents that they were not just a kangaroo court out to get Trump but were genuinely worried about our country and democracy. It sounded contrived and weak.
                    Yeah, and several of them "turned to the camera" to appeal their case directly to the "American public".
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                      Perhaps the Republicans should stop nominating wildly inappropriate candidates for judicial positions?

                      And stop trying to pretend it's the Dem's fault for rightly pointing out the obvious flaws in Republicans' woeful nominees. Try instead asking what is wrong with the Republican party such that so many of its presidential administrations are so full of criminals and so many of its judicial appointments have such obvious flaws.
                      So you consider it a good tactic to disparage the incoming judge of the Supreme Court -- with expectation that they will have that judge's full support?

                      Many (like 5) accusers against Kavanaugh have recanted their claims. Is this Dems promotion of these false testimonies good for America?

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                        So you consider it a good tactic to disparage the incoming judge of the Supreme Court -- with expectation that they will have that judge's full support?
                        Are you suggesting Dems should pursue the policy of deliberately failing at their constitutional duty to accurately assess the merits of the nominee, and instead try to ingratiate themselves with the future judge in the hopes that the judge has positive feelings toward them that override justice and reasoning?

                        Many (like 5) accusers against Kavanaugh have recanted their claims. Is this Dems promotion of these false testimonies good for America?
                        That's misleading - nobody the dems put in the witness stand has recanted their claims. The people who made up stories and later changed them were kooks who the Dems didn't take seriously at the time and that the general public never heard from or of. All the major witness about Kavanaugh continue to stand by their stories, and as far as I can tell, their stories were accurate. Whereas Kavanaugh lied repeatedly under oath during his confirmation about even basic stuff (what boofing was, what a devil's triangle was, what the comments they had put in a yearbook about another student meant etc), so that means I don't have any trust of his word with regard to him denying the sexual assaults.
                        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                          Are you suggesting Dems should pursue the policy of deliberately failing at their constitutional duty to accurately assess the merits of the nominee, and instead try to ingratiate themselves with the future judge in the hopes that the judge has positive feelings toward them that override justice and reasoning?
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                          That was not the nature of my question. Should I avoid asking questions that address psychological effects of denigrating candidates that may become judges?

                          I could only ask that Dems would start putting the constitution first. It is funny -- you don't like our constitution and neither do the Dems. So what is the sudden interest in virtue signalling the adherence to the constitution?

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                          • #28
                            So what is the sudden interest in virtue signalling the adherence to the constitution?
                            That was virtue signaling as well? That phrase sure has a lot of meanings.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
                              That was virtue signaling as well? That phrase sure has a lot of meanings.
                              I was thinking about the post you are responding to. I see your interest has arisen on this phrase.

                              The aspect that stands out to me is of the statement of a belief (or one's standing) that shouldn't be said -- or shouldn't need to be said. I would apply this to any of the three examples at hand (Pelosi, the confessing Christian, the confessing white boy). In the case of Pelosi, the adherence to the constitution should have been inherent to her work and thus would be fully redundant to state aloud.

                              So the issue in my estimation is that there is an obligatory claim to virtue (or greater virtue). Maybe the Christian confession or the white boy confession would be one of stating superfluous context for asking a question.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                                I was thinking about the post you are responding to. I see your interest has arisen on this phrase.

                                The aspect that stands out to me is of the statement of a belief (or one's standing) that shouldn't be said -- or shouldn't need to be said. I would apply this to any of the three examples at hand (Pelosi, the confessing Christian, the confessing white boy). In the case of Pelosi, the adherence to the constitution should have been inherent to her work and thus would be fully redundant to state aloud.

                                So the issue in my estimation is that there is an obligatory claim to virtue (or greater virtue). Maybe the Christian confession or the white boy confession would be one of stating superfluous context for asking a question.
                                Kinda like how I’m expected to state categorically that I am pro-life here, when conservatives presume I am pro-abortion?

                                Is it also virtue signaling when a conservative says something positive about conservatism to a fellow conservative?

                                Say a Facebook post of himself holding an AR-15, “From my cold dead hands” etc?

                                Is it that sort of stuff?

                                I insist on using conservative examples, because I’m rather dubious of the concept at the moment.

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