Will Wheaton on Kavirginaugh... from his FB page

[Roland99]

Another thing about Kavanaugh's meltdown/tantrum in front of the SJC today, that I can't stop thinking about: lost in the theatrics of his performance is the shocking reality, on full display, that he is not a neutral arbiter of the law. If you listen to the things he said and the specific language he used, it's undeniable that he is a right wing partisan who is not particularly different from the right wing activists we see masquerading as hosts on Fox News Channel.

The thing that's horrifying to me is the reality that he is as much of a lunatic (buying into Clinton conspiracy theories, for instance) who delivered a rant that would be right at home at the top of Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity, but this man has the tremendous power as a sitting Federal Appellate Judge to shape the laws of our nation in a way that makes people like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump happy. He isn't someone who will call balls and strikes, as Roberts claimed a SCOTUS justice should (Roberts lied about that). He's an activist who will consistently and for the rest of my life shape the laws that affect the most important things that confront Americans: should corporations have more rights than consumers? Should women be allowed to have autonomous control of their own bodies? Should presidents be allowed to rule as if they are above the law? Should Americans have the same access to healthcare as the citizens in every other first world country on the planet? Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry and have the same rights as opposite-sex couples?

These are significant and substantial questions, and today's tantrum/rant/meltdown from Kavanaugh shows that he has already decided what the answers to those questions are, and his answers are opposed by an overwhelming majority of Americans.

Everything about him is terrible. He's *clearly* a rich prep school kid who has never been told "no" in his life, and we saw today what happens whenever someone tries to tell him no. It wasn't particularly difficult to see this guy as a belligerent drunk who won't take no for an answer. You could clearly see it in his ranting and raving, his angry yelling at a female senator, and his overwhelming, palpable sense of entitlement.

He's clearly a liar, who probably lies because he believes that he's on a mission from his version of God, and that the ends justify the means. I don't believe he has any credibility, and I don't believe him when he denies the allegations against him.

I'm pretty sure that the GOP is going to push his confirmation through the Senate, because (among other things) it's *painfully* clear that the Republican Party hates women. He was a liar who perjured himself before today's hearing, and at today's hearing he demonstrated clearly that he is also an entitled, belligerent, arrogant, temperamentally-unfit candidate for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. "his overwhelming, palpable sense of entitlement"

And THAT statement sums it all up completely.

Entitlement to -

1.) Flout the law without repercussions
2.) "Have" any woman he wants and to do anything he wants with her
3.) Live where he wants and work where he wants, when he wants

And the entire power structure has his back.

[Jokerman]

2. Well said, Will!

[ms liberty]

3. I haven't seen this one yet. I love Wil Wheaton

I follow him on fb too,, he's an interesting guy. I'm enjoying his Bob Ross painting adventures! He's a good writer. This is a really good piece, so I'm on my way over there to find and share it. K&R

[BSdetect]

4. Well said. We are living in interesting times, indeed.

[Cha]

5. Yeah Big Flounder Fishy Brett is faux news wannabe.

[watoos]

6. I hate to tell you people,

but this monster is more than just anti-women. Anti-union, anti-worker, anti-minority, anti-affirmative action, anti-democracy. Kavanaugh will take away the voices of the little people. No more protests, free speech or especially, no more blind justice.

[catbyte]

19. We know.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. He's a republican, all the way.

[brush]

32. Unfortunately for the country you are right.

[SunSeeker]

40. And he will laugh while doing it, like he laughed while sexually assaulting Dr. Ford.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. .

[George Eliot]

54. Yes!! Under the radar, Trump has appointed more justices than Obama, Bush, Clinton

https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/08/10/trump-appoints-more-judges-in-200-days-than-obama-bush-clinton/

"Trump has taken some criticism for not filling executive branch jobs more quickly. But the same cannot be said for appointments to the judiciary, as he is also surpassing Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in the first 200 days.

Trump entered office Jan. 20 with 105 judicial vacancies, about twice as many as Obama’s 54 openings. And more judges have left the bench over the last half year, bringing the current number of vacancies to 138.

Last week, before going on a two-week “working vacation” at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump submitted a sixth wave of judicial candidates to the Senate, this time with 10 nominees. The Senate is in recess until after Labor Day.

People think Trump is losing it. He is not. He is changing America by keeping us all distracted and he is quietly and is Machiavellian "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct" in his doing so. Why aren't the Dems or the media exposing all this carnage that affects everyday lives. Kavanaugh is only one man who will be powerful I agree. But all the lower courts will shape America far more. Who is paying attention?

[appalachiablue]

62. Correct, they purposely blocked many Obama appointees, just waiting...

[Sparkly]

55. By the time you're anti-woman,

you're more than halfway there.

[PatrickforO]

64. Yeah, what's not to hate about the guy?

[Soxfan58]

7. Well done Mr. Crusher

[druidity33]

51. you know I love Wil Wheaton...

but I fucking hated Wesley Crusher.

[sandensea]

60. Hate is a strong word - but I know what you mean.

The character came off, at times, as bratty and pedantic.

Gordie Lachance - now, there was a role.

He was the kid we all wish we could've been (I did, anyway).

[alphafemale]

65. Stand by Me - All those kids were incredible in that movie

I also loved Stat Trek NG but I think Wesley was supposed to come off as a smug brat.

And regarding Stand by Me again. River Phoenix's self destruction was a loss to the world. He would have been an actor with huge box office appeal.

[sandensea]

66. That's the truth.

Seems like yesterday. The ironies of life, I suppose.

If you haven't already, check out, Little Nikita. Very prescient for our times - as Cheeto and his gang would know.

[orangecrush]

8. K&R

[joshdawg]

9. Mr. Wheaton's last paragraph is exactly

why kavanaugh will be appointed to the SC., to wit: "I'm pretty sure that the GOP is going to push his confirmation through the Senate, because (among other things) it's *painfully* clear that the Republican Party hates women. He was a liar who perjured himself before today's hearing, and at today's hearing he demonstrated clearly that he is also an entitled, belligerent, arrogant, temperamentally-unfit candidate for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court."

A near perfect republican.

[yardwork]

10. Well said.

[dreamland]

11. Well done.

tRUMP and Kavnaughty, liars who stick together helping each other to damage our democracy.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. I totally agree w/ Will Wheaton, well written, and to the point...it is scary that this ...

person, who yelled at an senator no less, who said that the Clintons were out to 'get' him, etc. scares me to death. This is not an American who'll consider the feelings of other Americans and how the constitution shapes their lives. I love it when Will said:

"Everything about him is terrible. He's *clearly* a rich prep school kid who has never been told "no" in his life, and we saw today what happens whenever someone tries to tell him no. It wasn't particularly difficult to see this guy as a belligerent drunk who won't take no for an answer. You could clearly see it in his ranting and raving, his angry yelling at a female senator, and his overwhelming, palpable sense of entitlement."

I'm am praying to the high heavens that there are senators out there on the fence who feel as we do. This person is not fit to be a supreme court justice...as Mr. Wheaton so skillfully said in his facebook posting and that Roland99 was so kind to provide here on DU via their post. Thanks Roland99!

[7962]

13. I must admit I have a reflexive disdain for the "exclusive prep school" types.

I'm not proud of it, i just aways think of getting everything you want and being raised to think you can do no wrong.
I'm sure the majority are fine folks, but the image is see sometimes taints my initial impression. And I hate that

[Cosmocat]

14. Been saying this all along

since he was on the "short list."

He is a long standing partisan operative.

All that was done yesterday was cement the fact he is a sociopath.

[calimary]

15. Got a link? I completely agree with this assessment.

What I think I found particularly disturbing yesterday was how he blew up. Watching his face grow flushed. Looked like a couple of glaring red spots or enlarged pimples that appeared on his face. Large angry-looking red rashes on his cheeks that spread down the sides of his neck, looking like they continued on down under his shirt collar.

It was VERY easy to see how he could be a belligerent drunk - angry, menacing, terrorizing, intimidating. My husband calls it “turning big and red” when you get really angry.

He reminded me of something Carl Sagan once said about one of the moons of Jupiter. Io, I think it was. Strange hot blemished swollen-looking orb he described as “a diseased fruit.” He’d be terrifying to be around when he got angry. Loud, loutish, bullying, arguing and interrupting and domineering. Really rather unnerving and frightening.

I can TOTALLY see how Dr. Ford felt that awful night when she was only 15 years old. If I were pinned under that with his hand clamped over my mouth to keep me from screaming while he was trying to tear my clothes off, I too would be terrified that he was about to kill me.

Hey Brett, you may have bullied your way onto the Supreme Court. You may have buffaloed unpteen old white men with superiority complexes. But you never fooled us women. Millions of us know EXACTLY who you are, and what you are. You are a MONSTER.

[Roland99]

18. His Facebook post

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1732664380193430&id=100003496539869

[calimary]

22. Ahh, good. Thanks!

I agree with what he's written here.

[Roland99]

37. You're welcome!

[peekaloo]

35. very minor point but the sniffing

drove me crazy.

Either like a bull flaring its nostrils before a rampage

or

something was starting to drain.

Or the manifestation of a snot nosed kid who was finally feeling the heat for his misdeeds.

[orleans]

63. i'm gonna go with door number 3

your last line

[rogue emissary]

16. Great take on Kav.

He'll have to recuse himself on any issue that deals with political groups, left wing civil rights groups or for example any challenge to Citizens United. They'll use his melt down as exhibit one.

[charliea]

44. Or Not.

Because he's such an honest, neutral, and fair umpire he has no reason to recuse himself from anything. /s

I don't know anyway he could be made to do it, as recusal is a choice of individual Justices, and why would he do that when he can protect the president (Gamble vs. US), expand the state's power over woman's lives and bodies, and do whatever it was he promised to do for that 200,000 debt that was mysteriously paid off...

Oh BTW, if they vote him in I want him impeached, if he isn't confirmed I want him impeached from his current position for the various instances of perjury he committed yesterday. (even that "I didn't watch her testimony", was a lie If I remember correctly wasn't he under oath?

"a Senate Judiciary Committee aide told The Wall Street Journal that Kavanaugh was watching Ford testify from a monitor in a separate room in the Dirksen Senate Building."

(http://theweek.com/speedreads/798713/did-kavanaugh-lie-under-oath-about-watching-fords-testimony)

Since he says his life has been destroyed can't we at least help him make one of his rants true?

#RESIST

[Martin Eden]

17. K&R Will Wheaton

Rethugs don't necessarily HATE women -- as long as they know their place and stay there.

[watoos]

23. My 85 year old, Trump loving, golfing buddy.

told me that the year 1920 was the year that will go down in infamy, the year they gave women the right to vote.

[AllyCat]

28. And you continue golfing with him?

Sounds like someone I’d limit contact with.

[ginnyinWI]

33. ahem: the year women won the right to vote! n/t

[spooky3]

25. Disagree. The number of examples is extensive, but for

starters, what exactly did 15-year-old Blasey do to get out of place?

Their hatred of, objectification of, and sense of superiority over women is woven into their fabric.

[Martin Eden]

31. Her place for the privileged drunk frat boy

Was an object of lust and conquest.

She resisted

[BlueJac]

20. k&R

[KelleyKramer]

24. That's powerful !

[Nitram]

26. Excellent summation.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. He's Scalia without morals

[uponit7771]

30. +1, Scalia never raped someone

[raging moderate]

29. Preppies have a startling lack of self-awareness.

Life for them is such a web of smoothed pathways, they automatically do whatever they feel like doing at the moment, assuming that whatever damage they do to you must be your fault for making them feel like doing it. Or for not reading their minds and getting out of their way.

[ginnyinWI]

34. What really gets me.

There use to be an idea that we wanted impartiality on the court. Now that's all out the window and a nominee can be a bold-faced partisan. That's what's happening in this country, and all over the world.

[marieo1]

36. Rich Prep School Kids

Oh, my...........reading this I totally agree with every bit of it. As a woman, I feel completely minimized as a human being after listening to him. I have thought all night what my response would be about this performance of his yesterday. I got on DU and Roland99 wrote every single thing I was thinking and feeling. Thank you. BK is clearly a rich prep school kid who has never been told no is their lives. No it is not the Democrats causing this outrage, it's the women. No, you two stupid human beings, BK, LG and we can even add DJT, it is the woman who have always had to fight for our rights.

[OMGWTF]

38. Kavanaugh is the Rethuglican's "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

He voted to allow foreign money to go to US political PACs and thinks presidents are above the law.

[Glaisne]

39. This was great!

Bravo Wil!

[Ilsa]

42. Marvelous!

Imagine Kavanaugh is Sheldon here:

[olegramps]

43. He is on a mission from his version of God...

He displays the classic justification of the zealot. Self rightousness and as you pointed out that the ends justify the means. I don't know what goes on in his mind about the incident. I do believe that it took place and he ascribed it as just another of his and his buddy's pranks without any shred of guilt. Perhaps even suppressed and put out of mind with a couple of more beers and long forgotten on just another day in the life of a privileged brat. Is he the example of the affects of adolescent binge drinking?

[Roland99]

46. And his version is one massive asshole of a god

[Solly Mack]

45. K&R

[Hassin Bin Sober]

47. David Brock worked with the scumbagand says he is as bad as you can imagine.

[Roland99]

50. Yeah. Both were part of the right wing Clinton smear machine

BK’s ridiculous statement about the allegations being Clinton revenge was so much projection of what he did to them

[Raven123]

48. Fairly easy to see what POTUS liked about him

[zentrum]

49. There's a rumor that

...some of these Repukes are asking for an FBI investigation but of "limited scope and time". About a week.

Translation: These limits will allow them to virtuously proclaim they did an FBI probe and so their ass is covered while, in fact, the FBI has no time to invetsigate.

[King_Klonopin]

52. When he invoked the name of the Clintons and blamed the grilling on Dems

because they had sour grapes from the 2016 election, I thought that this guy
is as partisan wack-a-doodle as a person can be.

[elocs]

53. Thanks for posting this.

I have been eagerly waiting, as always, to hear Will Wheaton's perspective on national matters.

[FromTheAshes]

56. AGREED. nt

[unitedwethrive]

57. Perfect analysis

We need to remove him from any position of power, supreme or otherwise.

[lordsummerisle]

58. k&r n/t

[Scurrilous]

59. ...

[Beartracks]

61. "entitled, belligerent, arrogant, temperamentally-unfit"

Sound like someone else we all know, and 30% of the country thinks THAT asshole is a god-genius.

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