Progressives (Liberals)

we’ll join you in your Trump-centered crusade, even lead you in it, and you will learn again to love us: the real authors of your misery. …

‘A serpent covered in Vaseline’: Conservative writer launches into epic tirade about why he ‘despises’ Ted Cruz

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/serpent-covered-vaseline-conservative-writer-launches-epic-tirade-despises-ted-cruz/#.W6t4bst2gD8.facebook

Once again.

Red-state Democrats refuse to come out against Kavanaugh
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/25/red-state-democrats-kavanaugh-841400

But please overlook my naivate. I'm just trolling.

Why would they want to connect themselves to the mob rule other Democrats are supporting?

hmm Democrats wobble ... and Collins is finally wavering

that would be weird

NOTHING has happened yet, but you're already bitching.

It's not naivete; it's idiocy.

Schumer said it would be okay.

What, abolishing the presumption of innocence for any other appointee?

First of all, we've always been here. Forever. None of this is new. Women have had to suffer this since the beginning of time. And men have always had friends in high places and systems set up to make sure they've never had to face any consequences for their actions.

The media, over the decades, have failed to confront this issue and have supported, hired and defended their male sexual predator friends. In my new film, "Fahrenheit 11/9", I name names and show how not only did the male media CEOs sic their male stars on women (like Hillary Clinton) who would dare to seek power, they abused the very women who worked for them. Here's a brief clip from my movie about these sexual predators who control the news and information we receive.

But what if we've reached a turning point? What if the women of the U.S. Senate, backed by millions of women around the country, grabbed them all by the collar and gave them the heave-ho? And what if millions of male allies did the right thing and stood strongly behind them?

The Republicans are on a mission to outlaw abortion. Two or four or six allegations of rape and abuse will not get in the way of the government claiming authority over one gender's reproductive organs. They have no shame, no decency and will use use any means necessary to get their way.

We must not let this confirmation go through. We must fight back even harder.

Michael Moore

can't imagine who's around that believes him

Cape Fear River Watch

"Anybody downstream of any hog farm that’s ever been topped or breached would be potentially in the path of that waste. And no one can do a single thing about it. There’s no way to reinforce the berm once they’re totally submerged in water. There’s no way to get the waste out. There’s no way to get the sludge out. There’s absolutely nothing that anyone can do. If it gets in your home, you can’t just take a hose and spray it out, and this sewage is going to end up in homes, schools and churches, and it’s loaded with dangerous pathogens.” -Kemp Burdette, Cape Fear Riverkeeper

https://www.rollingstone.com/…/hurricane-florence-when-cli…/

Thursday Night Football moved to Fox. During half time they had a news break, which featured a clip of Kavanaugh denying misconduct and no mention of Ford or any of her words.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/30/politics/beto-orourke-willie-nelson/index.html

Country music legend Willie Nelson debuted a new election-themed ditty at a Texas rally for Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke on Saturday night, urging those in attendance to "Vote 'Em Out."

Wearing a "Beto for Senate 2018" shirt and playing his trusted guitar Trigger, Nelson took the outdoor stage after a speech by the Democratic candidate before a large crowd in Austin.


Nelson played several country favorites, including "On the Road Again," with O'Rourke, and then sang the new song -- whose lyrics have a straightforward message for November.

"Vote 'em out, vote 'em out.
and when they're gone we'll sing and dance and shout.
And we'll bring some new ones in,
and they will start to show again
that if you don't like who's in there, vote 'em out."

O'Rourke, a congressman, is seeking to unseat Republican US Sen. Ted Cruz in what has for decades been a reliably conservative state. Polls have shown a surprisingly close race between the two, causing Republicans to sweat the election more than usual.

The rally was billed as "a night with Willie and Beto" to better get out the vote for O'Rourke. Both the singer and the politician are in favor of decriminalizing marijuana, among other issues.

"If we're going to win and elect Beto to the Senate, we need Texans to vote for him! And what's more Texan than Willie Nelson? (Nothing!)" the event details said.

After singing "Vote 'Em Out," Nelson closed his set with a shoutout to his favored candidate.

"Thank you Beto!" he said. "All the way, buddy!"

Elizabeth Warren seems to be signaling a run for pres. I have a few reservations about her, but would give her a vote.

The same reservations her ancestors came from?

Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke is apologizing for once criticizing a Broadway musical with actresses “whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”

In 1991, the 19-year-old O’Rourke reviewed the Broadway musical “The Will Rogers Follies” for the Columbia Daily Spectator, the university’s student newspaper. Writing under the byline Robert O’Rourke, he panned the performance as “one of the most glaring examples of the sickening excesses and moral degradations of our culture.”


He went on to bemoan the bevy of “perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”

The review in the Oct. 10, 1991, edition of the Spectator, which according to an archive search was the only article he wrote for the newspaper, offers another glimpse of the former life of the Texas Senate candidate, who has given Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) an unexpectedly serious reelection challenge. It also shows how drastically the sensitivities surrounding descriptions of women have changed over the past three decades: While it’s unclear whether O’Rourke was criticizing the musical’s use of scantily-clad women for effect or commenting on their bodies himself, his prose, in hindsight, is jarring either way.

“Basically, the show documents the life of Will Rogers, the ‘lassoing fool,’ who rose from being an insignificant side show attraction to one of the more prominent political pundits and cultural statesmen in our history. Yet it is produced and directed in such a showy, glitzy, and ultimately, tacky manner, that one cannot help feeling disgusted throughout the show. Keith Carradine in the lead role is surrounded by perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”

In a statement sent to POLITICO shortly after this story was published, O’Rourke offered an apology.

Maybe I'm just really ancient, but it doesn't strike me as lewd or lascivious.

It's pretty mild, but it's out there and will be dealt with.

I would not be at all surprised if this turned out to be staged by Cruz or his buddies.


2 hospitalized after exposure to powdery substance at Cruz's Houston campaign office

HOUSTON, Texas -- Two people have been taken to a hospital after they were exposed to a powdery substance in a piece of mail that was sent to Sen. Ted Cruz's Houston campaign office.

The mail was sent to the Phoenix Tower office building, located at 3200 Southwest Freeway.


According to HFD, two people were taken to a hospital after being exposed to a white powdery substance. HFD later confirmed that all tests were negative for any hazardous substance.