The No-Empathy Gang: Right-wingers react to Christine Blasey Ford’s heartbreaking testimony

Honestly, this is exactly what we expected. The repugnican’ts have no viable rebuttal, because their entire argument is based on the idea that a rich white man committing rape IS NOT REALLY EVEN WRONG.

Empathy is not a conservative emotion, because they only feel for themselves and their ick.

‘scuse me, “their ILK”

http://media.discordapp.net/attachments/226771945897590785/494981326210859008/IMG_20180927_220900.jpg

“But I have a white penis! I’m rich! I supposed to have immuity from consequences!”

So, now, could Trump try more realistic and human nominee like Kefka Palazzo or King Valentine ?

Seriously. It’s not even possible to satire them anymore. From a foreign perspective, it’s like seeing a trainwreck, except midway in the train start to shoot napalm at an orphanage. It start bad and now it’s well into surreal. Except that it’s real life somehow.

@Ohlmann Off topic, but during the U.S. war to conquer the Philippines (1898-1902 or so, during the “Banana Wars” era), we built a railroad through the jungle all the way across the largest of the islands, specifically for a big train that shot napalm out either side.

In case you were wondering if the American government was ever not full of evil shitheads.

so why such anger?

It’s what they do….

of course it is they who are the victims.

Always… and in all ways….

American government was ever not full of evil shitheads.

We didn’t invent evil shitheadedness… but we’ve done our best to perfect it.

Okay, let’s take these motherfuckers apart one at a time:

Dem Senator: ENOUGH TOUGH QUESTIONS, TELL US HOW THE MEAN BOYS LAUGHED AT YOU!

Of course, Stefan Molyneux being…well, what he is, the worst thing he can conceive of is being laughed at by someone of the opposite sex. So of course, to diffuse his own fear, he affects a mocking tone. Too bad nobody but his idiot minions (all three of them) is fooled!

Now I’ve never witnessed a rape first-hand, but I can’t think of any movie rapes in which the rapist was managing to both hold a woman down to rape her and maintain uproarious laughter.

Dude, oh my dude, if the closest you’ve come to witnessing a sexual assault is seeing (and probably pulling your pud over) a SIMULATED rape in a movie, you’ve seen nothing of sexual assault at all. You have ZERO understanding of sexual assault. And therefore, you have nothing to contribute to the conversation. Sit down and shut up.

I’m no psychology professor but it does seem weird to me that someone could have a selective fear of flying.

Can’t do it to testify but for vacation, well it’s not a problem at all.

That’s right, Donnie Jr., you’re no psychology professor. But the woman you’re taking cheap shots at IS one, and I’m sure she could explain that one to you, if you’re actually serious about understanding (which I can tell you’re not).

I don’t recall her saying that she had no trouble getting on a plane to go on vacation, but even if she did, so fucking what? She’s going on vacation. She doesn’t have to face down the man who, with an accomplice, locked her into a room at a house party, tore at her clothes, jumped on her and tried to rape her when she’s going on vacation, so obviously there’s less to be afraid of then.

BTW, I’ve had a “selective” fear of flying myself since seeing those two planes smack into the WTC towers on 9-11. But I have also had no problem getting on planes to visit friends when they lived in Phoenix and Minneapolis, in the years shortly AFTER 9-11. I had never been afraid of flying before that. I had to steel myself every time afterwards, but once the plane was up in the air and safely en route, I wasn’t so afraid anymore. Funny, huh?

I have difficulty buying that a person afraid of flying willingly gets on a plane to fly all over the globe for pleasure.

I have difficulty buying the idea that someone who could afford to pay for her own damn bodyguards “needs” to head the gun-manufacturers’ lobby and play on fellow racist right-wingers’ rampant paranoia to the tune of big buckaroonies, but hey.

I’m laughing

You’re an asshole. Siddown.

“I’m a little slower, my mind is a little tired.” —the woman whose decades-old allegations seek to ruin a federal judge with a hitherto unquestioned record of integrity

“I’m not saying I’m an asshole, but I’m a total asshole.” — the man (and I use the term loosely) who wrote the above tweet in order to defend a man who’s obviously perjuring himself, and should never have gotten into law school, much less become a federal judge.

Did I miss anyone?

JessicaRed

In case you were wondering if the American government was ever not full of evil shitheads.

As far as I can tell, the US government has lied it’s way into every military engagement of the past 140 years.

Spanish American War: The Maine exploded due to some internal matter. Congress (under pressure from the newspaper syndicates, no really) pretended it was bombs planted on the hull by Cubans and declared war.

World War I: We illegally shipped munitions to our friends despite officially being neutral in the war. The Germans, legally, sank the illegally operated smuggling operation, citing it’s violation of our treaty with them. We screamed in horror at all the innocent lives killed (because we put them on a boat full of illegal military goods) and declared war.

World War II: Think that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor without cause? That’s the lie we’ve been telling ourselves for years. We were responsible for an oil embargo around Japan to keep them from being able to expand their military machine. That included heating oil that Japan needed to get through the winter. This situation is much more complicated than US textbooks pretend it is.

Korean War: I actually haven’t researched this, so it might be the sole exception. I’m kind of afraid to check now.

Vietnam War: We violated North Vietnam’s territorial waters (by their claim) and pretended we were attacked.

Persian Gulf war and Fallout: Bush’s non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction.

You can add a lot of lesser conflicts in here two, like the Banana Republic wars we got into to defend US corporations who were literally keeping slaves against freedom-seeking rebels.

But, hey, we’re the heroes, fighting for peace and freedom and truth… except where such truth prevents us from using our military on other people.

{Insert patriotic music here}

Michael Suttkus

I’m gonna push back on WWII, at least.

We did embargo oil to Japan, but that was in direct response to Japan’s very much aggressive and very much illegal war in China, and in particular the various war crimes they were committing there (e.g. Nanjing). Japan could have ended the embargo by withdrawing from China (which would have been a smart idea, since it was the textbook example of an unwinnable war), but the Japanese military was too powerful, and too invested in the war to even consider the idea.

While we’re at it, I would also argue Korea and Gulf War I were legit wars, in that they were both in defense of Allied states under attack by another nation.

@Scildfreja Unnyðnes

That may be the best photo of a crying manbaby with a background of less-than-impressed women I’ve ever seen.

@weirwoodtreehugger:

The ABA doesn’t have the authority to investigate or to disbar any attorney. They aren’t a licensing organization, just a well-respected professional association that many of us choose to join. Attorneys can be disbarred by whatever licensing agency authorizes our practice, i.e. our individual states and/or by the federal judiciary. For instance, I am accountable to NY’s 3rd Judicial Dept and the Federal Northeen District of NY.

You are absolutely correct, though, that being disbarred would not remove someone from a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary. Sadly, we are stuck with Kavanaugh on the federal judiciary, even if his Supreme Court nomination isn’t confirmed.

You are also correct, that the ABA does not generally get involved in politics. They offer an initial endorsement of judicial fitness at the outset, but they do not typically offer follow up guidance like this. I really hope someone in the Republican Party listens.

Michael Suttkus, II

World War I: We illegally shipped munitions to our friends despite officially being neutral in the war. The Germans, legally, sank the illegally operated smuggling operation, citing it’s violation of our treaty with them. We screamed in horror at all the innocent lives killed (because we put them on a boat full of illegal military goods) and declared war.

No. It’s much more complicated than that.
For example, the sinking of the Lusitania happened in May 1915 and the US declared war in April 1917, almost 2 years after the fact.
Unrestricted U-boat warfare and the Zimmermann telegram (which Germany perfectly knew would bring the US into the war), along with a changing popular opinion made the option to enter the war that much easier.

You can’t argue that you will sink every ship that goes into an arbitrary area you defined and not expect someone else to react to it.

WWII was already answered by Drungarios

Good that you kept quiet about Korea, and you should define which Gulf war you mean.

Could have mentioned Grenada though