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Well, it is in the bible. Jericho had the Freedom to piss off Yahweh, and Joshua had the Freedom to massacre an entire city. Freedom!

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Did you even listen to the snippet of the hearing or read his statement? He comes from recent immigrant stock. But be a pissy pedant if you must.

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Like how their pissiness over Elizabeth Warren got her into the Senate.

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THIS^ And this time, avoids Sherman's tragic failure to hang every traitor in defense of slavery he can find.

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The last Confederate Democrat in the Senate. Racist, misogynistic, fascist and cowardly. We will never be able to truly refute the canard that we are the party of slavery until we purge the party of Dixiecrats like Manchin.

Shit, even Byrd had the grace at the end of his life to admit he was wrong.

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phasers not on stun, also, too.

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The Morning Joe host’s clear suggestion is that Kennedy’s homespun folksiness is a bit of a put-on designed to appeal to his Louisiana constituents, and belies his past as a sophisticated academic.

I'm not a Southerner but I'm getting the strange feeling that Kennedy isn't the only one doing that.

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The repos are beating up on him like they think he's trying to be on SCOTUS or something. Considering who their last AG was, they got no bidness even pretending to care about fairness.

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and Republicans were always fully on board with every single sexist smear against Neera. they can all FOAD.

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they care about bad faith and and absolute power.

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"Pretending" is most of what they do. Faux-outrage, faux-good-faith, faux news. Here's the real real: Nothing matters, only power.

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I'm just glad senator folksy kennedy has decided that the attorney general of the united states should also be in charge of inspecting the genitals of every high school track team.

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I both read and watched the statement. It was very moving. I was just nitpicking; "pedant" is my default setting. :-) But I wasn't aiming for "pissy", and my apologies for coming across that way.

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Never met a priest who didn't like his whiskey. But then I haven't met all that many priests.

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Texas Senator John Cornyn grilled Garland about the Steele Dossier (dun-dun-dun) because that is a pressing and vital issue right now.

What, no questions about Benghazi? I thought Republicans had to ask about that in every hearing they hold, till the end of time.

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Garland must feel dirty listening to these f---cking idiots. He's a class act.

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