Sorry if I have been spiking the ball. But literally I have not been in this end zone before.
— Rick Duncan☘️ (@FedSocLawProf) October 6, 2018
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Trump is undermining fundamental institutional norms of the Republic. Also We must do away with the Senate, electoral college & the Supreme Court is now illegitimate. Same exact people.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 7, 2018
Cannot get over the irony of feminist commentary right now. Their Kavanaugh reactions can be boiled down to something like, “All 175 million American women now know you hate them, and our rage will never go away.” But women think for themselves, I was told?
— Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) October 7, 2018
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From a conservative who has been disgusted by the Trumpified GOP: “I didn’t think I could drag myself to the polls. But after the Left’s performance in the Kavanaugh affair, I would crawl across broken glass.” I believe this sentiment is common.
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) October 7, 2018
(I have not yet reached “broken glass” phase, but this débâcle has made me likelier to vote for candidates of my former party. Both parties deserve to lose, but the Republicans don’t affirmatively hate people like me and mine. That’s not nothing.)
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Just a note to remember: if Democrats weren’t such corrupt, warmongering, corporate crony facilitators of oligarchy and Orwellian dystopia, more people would vote for them. pic.twitter.com/HkvXGq2Ucw
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 7, 2018
You might want to click the link to see what she was trolling.
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“Everyone form a protective circle around RBG!”-Democrats pic.twitter.com/edgvCGOWds
— Funny Libertarian (@funylibertarian) October 7, 2018
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Ted Cruz: I’m the most hated person in the Senate.
Susan Collins: Hold my beer.
Brett Kavanaugh: Who said beer?
— Unreasonably early Christmas name. (@Amanda_Kerri) October 5, 2018
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Just because you did not get your way does not mean your voice was not heard. I have raised my voice against abortion for over thirty years, and it’s still legal for now. I know my voice has been heard and it will continue to be. And we will end the abortion holocaust. https://t.co/WZu4IfMKim
— Bryan Kemper (@BryanKemper) October 6, 2018
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Try and convince me these people are sane. I dare you. pic.twitter.com/uLaF7JZJ22
— chels (@thefunnymuggle) October 6, 2018
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This September, it was 17 years since I started writing about politics on the web. I’ve done this for longer than I’ve done anything else in my life, except (barely) attending school. It’s a very strange feeling, and a sad one, given where politics has gone in that time.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) October 6, 2018
If there is one thin, bright light in all this, it is that the Kavanaugh vote will be bipartisan. Only in the narrowest possible sense, with one Republican senator — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — likely to vote no, and a lone Democrat voting to confirm. But a straight party-line vote would have been even worse and, these days, we have to count the smallest blessings.
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