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Workers are ready for their cut of this booming economy

First, for the first time in years, workers are telling us it is time for them to get their fair share of the economic growth they are helping to produce.

with no memory of Merrick Garland

About time. The top 1% has been taking a bigger and bigger cut of the total wealth of the country since the early 80s.

Everyone Lost at the Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings
By Andrew Sullivan

And for what it’s worth, I’m not sure we have any idea how the politics of this will play out. Both political parties may be pursuing pyrrhic victories. If the GOP manages to muscle Kavanaugh onto the court, it may galvanize the Democratic base to such an extent it will create a blue tsunami in November. It could poison the Republican brand for women even more than it is already.

But if this nomination falters, Kavanaugh will be a clarion call for Republicans to turn out. It could help them in November. And if Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett as a replacement in the lame duck session of the Senate, another attempt at character assassination will be a very risky option for the Democrats, as would be attacks on Barrett’s religious faith.

So on the substance of the Court’s future, it seems to me that the Democrats have ensured this past week that if Kavanaugh is confirmed, they will have created an embittered foe in the Thomas mold. And if they end up with Barrett, they will have have someone on the Court more certain to strike down Roe than Kavanaugh.

He [Kvanaugh] was sweaty and flushed and overwhelmed and pissed off, the way no woman gets to be ever. He was defensive and evasive and arrogant and chippy, the way no person of color gets to be. And he’s still headed for a plum lifetime position, thanks to a weaponized troop of grandstanding cretins in the GOP with no memory of Merrick Garland and no concern whatsoever for anyone outside of their tight little demographic of chuckling good old boys.

you don't post squat about charts unless it's right off a right wing website.

Study finds top 1% thrived under Obama. The rest of us not so much

Then later in the day, when the first shift came on duty in the internet troll company in St. Petersburg, Russia, we saw all the crap about how "great" Kavanaugh supposedly was.

Fact is, Kavanaugh was a flop.

Dems Get it Wrong, American Bar Association STILL Supports Kavanaugh

Anti-Trump Latino Dem makes stunning reversal after Democrats’ performance at Kavanaugh hearing

What did Mendoza say?

He wrote:

I am a college-educated, suburban, first-generation Latino immigrant. I voted for President Obama in 2008 and 2012. I find President Trump to lack the basic moral character that we should expect in our political leaders and did not consider, even for a moment, voting for him in 2016. After watching how Senate Democrats and the media handled the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, however, I will be voting Republican in 2018 and for Trump in 2020.

Kavanaugh was hardly a flop. In fact he convinced many women of his innocence and is of the charts with men who also believe him.

Yeah, Kavanaugh was such a hit that the next day even Trump claimed he was supporting an FBI investigation.

The Democrats forced Trumps hand, try again.

Professor Ford's testimony had put the whole country in that room and had everyone experience, in a small but potent way, the terror she felt.