Has any Dem asked Barrett about her cult membership?

[Arazi]

Have they asked her about her cult's requirements that wives are subservient to their husbands?

Have they asked her if she has any embarrassment about the unseemly and disrespectful haste of her appointment? How she was announced before RBG was even buried? And how she'd feel if her own last wishes were utterly disregarded and her memory stomped on with this repulsive rush to confirm?

I only listened to a few Dem senators and they're deferential with a lot of futile focus on trying to get her to answer any questions on policy, law etc. Futile.

I would impugn her character tbh. Not sure why they're being so cautious

[underpants]

1. No they are avoiding it like the Spanish Inquisition

That hasn’t stopped Repubs from complaining about it at the hearings (where it’s not happening).

[Faux pas]

3. Lol

[Shermann]

2. The religion issue is a trap the Democrats aren't going to fall into nt

[Arazi]

4. She's in a cult. Avoiding it is a big mistake. And why not ask about this repulsive haste?

Is she comfortable with this?

[BlueMTexpat]

5. It's not just a

"religion issue."

She belongs to an honest-to-God cult. Period.

[Shermann]

6. Irrelevant

The Democrats are going to lose in this nomination struggle. There is an election in three weeks, however, that is theirs to lose. They shall do no harm here.

[Arazi]

7. Opus Dei should have been brought up with Scalia, Barr etc

We've danced around these cults for too long. Now we pay the piper and can't mention that Amy Coney Barrett is a literal fucking handmaid.

It's nuts

[StarfishSaver]

9. The Democrats are smart not to bring it up. It's a trap that would backfire

while reaping no net benefit


But who says the 10 Democratic senators on Judiciary are the only people who can talk about it?

[Arazi]

10. Are you or have you ever been a handmaid Ms Barrett?

We know it's true. She knows it's true. Keep the questions short and to the point.

They're already dancing around her faith ad nauseam as she gets to assert (without pushback) that she won't let her personal beliefs interfere with her jurisprudence.

After Barr's unhinged theocratic rants, or Scalia's descent into full throated Opus Dei shit, enough of the coy allusions

[StarfishSaver]

11. Oh, yeah. THAT'S a great idea

[Arazi]

12. Yes because what the Dems are doing now is having a MASSIVE effect

[FBaggins]

13. It isn't hurting dems

It's possible to screw that up and still have no positive effect.

[Arazi]

14. We. Are. Letting. Cult. Members. Skate. In. Without. Calling. Them. Out

It's fucked up.

It should end. Now please.

We should also be assailing her eager participation in stomping all over RBG by accepting this nom before she was buried. Or bringing her kids to a superspreader event.

She's unfit. Get on it ffs

[BlueMTexpat]

15. NOT irrelevant

in these circumstances! And NO tiptoeing about it!

We shall have to agree to disagree.

[rso]

8. Barrett

Realizing how insane and unstable Trump is, and knowing that Trump could pull her nomination before she is confirmed, could Barrett be purposefully evasive and obtuse only to avoid saying something that Trump does not like ?.

[BlueMTexpat]

16. If she has anything

to say at all.

The blank pages are as blank as her religiously programmed mind - or what's left of it.

[Buckeyeblue]

17. There is not much they can do with this

No one wants to be seen attacking her religion. Unless they were doing animal sacrifices (and someone has video) it off limits. The last thing we need is Amy to come across as sympathetic.

I think continuing to point out the absurdity of moving forward with a SC nomination at this point is a good strategy.

Let's face it, if this hearing were on 11.4 or after, it would have a much different tone.

But it's not. This is a lesson. If we run the tables on 11.3, we need to aggressively push forward without apology. Kill the filibuster, pass our agenda and get to the bottom of the 2016, and investigate and prosecute the crimes of this administration.