Reaping the whirlwind

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"He who sows the wind, shall reap the whirlwind" Hosea 8-7

Judge Kavanaugh referred to that verse during his hearing today. It was in regard to the state of politics, and the personal attacks he perceived on his character as he was called to answer for accusations of sexual assault made against him when he was a teenager.

Judge Kavanaugh is a dedicated Republican. He has been for quite some time. He worked for Ken Starr, when the latter was Special Prosecutor investigating President Clinton. While on the Starr team Kavanaugh pushed the team to investigate the Vince Foster suicide fueling conspiracy theory that he was offed by the Clintons.

Judge Kavanaugh also supported more aggressive lines of questioning in the Lewinsky affair. He felt in appropriate to force President Clinton, and 20something intern Lewinsky answer invasive questions regarding their inappropriate affair because a sexual realtionship was relevant - then.

Full disclosure, I don't think he should be on the SCOTUS. He has not had his record in Bush Admin fully disclosed, he has dodged questions on executive authority, whether a President can pardon himself, his views on established law, and respect for precedent. This accusation of full on shittiness as a teenager. Seems unfair on the surface considering the timing of it all. But seriously, fuck it, fuck the Senate GOP, and fuck Judge Kavanaugh. Merrick Garland did not get a hearing for 200+ days. Kavanaugh may yet be confirmed. GOP has the votes as majority, and it's hard to say if Senators Murkowski, Collins, or Flake may defect. Likewise there on blue dog Dems like Manchin who may vote to confirm.

It's kind of ironic that a shit peddling little fuck that 20 years dragged us through hit conspiracies, Oval office ejaculations, and vagina cigars now gets questions about his past as a drunken spoiled little preppy grinding, and groping girls who didn't want it.

Judge Kavanaugh, your citation of Hosea is correct, but the Democrats are not sowing the wind. You, Judge, are reaping the whirlwind.

Can you believe Trump said "___________"??

Latest "can you believe Trump said" has the trust-fund baby, come crypto fascist, calling Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries "shitholes."

We're asked rhetorically - or may be some are asking genuinely - if we can believe Trump said this.

YES!

I can totally believe he said that. I don't have any doubt, nor do I have any residual of surprise that Trump said that. What I can't believe is that other people are surprised.

He was born in 1946. He's old. Old people are known for some things; thinking younger generation is lazy, new music sucks, and "when I was a kid soda pop was a nickel." The other thing you can attribute to old people is unvarnished racism.

He's a narcissistic, intellectually incurious, lazy, McDonalds eating, spoiled all-grown-up-spoiled-little-rich-kid. He complains about Obama's golf trips and vacations, yet has golfed, and vacated WAY more.

He's the guy who called for the Central Park 5 to be executed, and even when they were exonerated, wouldn't back track insisting they were guilty.

He's a con man who founded a fraud of a university, and put his name on steaks, and bottled water - had displays of same water at campaign stops - went bankrupt so many times only Russian mobsters loan him money, and STILL is able to brag of followers who think he's a business genius.

He's a guy who, many times as a landlord, was in violation of the Fair Housing Act. How racist do you need to be to have Nixon Administration take you to court?

He's the guy who started his campaign by insisting that Mexico was "sending us their rapists."

He's the guy who said some of the White Nationalists were "very fine people."

He's the guy who spent years "investigating" the birthplace of President Obama.

Can we stop being surprised when this orange raccoon faced, cotton candy haired, ignorant, intellectually lazy, buffoon says something racist? He's been doing it for decades.

Have your opinion, but don't be stupid on the facts. Seriously........this is fucking stupid.

This meme has been making the rounds. It wins the "Stupidest Fucking Thing On The Internet" for Febraury 2016. The nuttiness that will surely follow the passing of Justice Scalia, and the DC shitstorm to come regarding his replacement not withstanding. There will certainly be some crazy stupid shit to come.

"Socialism" is out of the Marxian idea of workers control of means of production. Not to be confused with the state control in "Communism."

The Nazi Party destroyed the political apparatus of the working class, broke the trade union movement, and handed the economy over to German capitalist economies. "Socialism" in the mind of the NSDAP involved either the SA's street fighting fantasy of a German nation recast in the image of the right wing worker; or the NSDAP's central apparatus' conception of a pliant breeding nation. "Socialism" was for the NSDAP the forced mobilization of the ethnic nation.

Many Germans at the time, especially right wing Germans, associated these values with a Bismarkian right wing policy that had been called "Socialism," in the sense of state provided goods and services. NSDAP named itself "National Socialist" to take advantage of this feeling. Make no mistake, the NSDAP did not hope for the abolition of capitalism, nor did it work towards workers control.

In addition to this economic position, the NSDAP wished to reunify the imaginary German nation by force; impose a German order on Europe through war, and to eliminate the imaginary racial "other." The combination of these policies, and other implemented by the NSDAP are considered "right wing." Definitively, the Nazis were not "socialist." They were "facsist." Please learn the difference.

If your political analysis doesn't go deeper than a label, you might want to rethink that. The reason you should rethink that is because it's plainly stupid. East Germany was labeled the "German Democratic Republic." It was German, but that's where the honesty in the label ends. What's in a name? Nothing.