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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 29

    emptywheel Retweeted Nate Silver

    I keep coming back to this. This man argued aggressively that lying about sex was an impeachable offense. *He* helped set that standard. He should be held to it.https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1046048160483815425 …

    emptywheel added,

    Nate SilverVerified account @NateSilver538
    During the Whitehouse questions about the yearbook, he's literally almost sneering with contempt while launching into a series of wildly implausible explanations on ralphing, devil's triangle, Renate Dolphin, "boofed", etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccXpDhMmBY … https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1046019746070745090 …
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      1. New conversation
      2. Rob Salkowitz‏ @robsalk Sep 29
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I wish a Senator at the hearing had made note of his temperament and bearing in real time. That would have been a powerful moment.

        3 replies 4 retweets 45 likes
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 29
        Replying to @robsalk

        Hirono did.

        1 reply 1 retweet 65 likes
      4. Rob Salkowitz‏ @robsalk Sep 29
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Missed that, Good for her. It needed saying.

        2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
      5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 29
        Replying to @robsalk

        Never miss a Mazie round. She's incredibly well staffed and quietly relentless.

        6 replies 6 retweets 92 likes
      6. watertigernyc‏ @watertigernyc Sep 29
        Replying to @emptywheel @robsalk

        She is a godsend.

        1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
      7. Saving democracy=crushing GOP‏ @KatinkaTheKat Sep 30
        Replying to @watertigernyc @emptywheel @robsalk

        Harris gets the attention but Hirono & Klobuchar are both quietly great. The exchange with Klobuchar really damaged him.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. Rob Salkowitz‏ @robsalk Sep 30
        Replying to @KatinkaTheKat @watertigernyc @emptywheel

        Well I'm glad to have all of them on our side. I just wish that one of them would have firmly said to him, "Do not interrupt me, do not talk over me. Show some respect, you whiny-ass punk."

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. End of conversation
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      2. Karmatella‏ @Karmatella Sep 29
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I can't forget the cruel, sneering disdain when he asked Amy Klobuchar if she blacked out drinking. Showed his attitude to women right there, and the GOP knew it, they got him out of there right then for a "break".

        1 reply 8 retweets 38 likes
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 29
        Replying to @Karmatella

        I didn't take that to be sexism. I just think he, like most Republican operatives, will project about anything, even to the point of absurdity, which this was in context.

        6 replies 2 retweets 18 likes
      4. Michael Strauss‏ @Earth_Media_ Sep 29
        Replying to @emptywheel @Karmatella

        And that bullying-back is the instinctive go-to strategy for an wannabe alpha when confronted by a perceived personal attack. Standard bar-fight mentality - reinforced by prep sessions with Orange Leader.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      5. gupwalla‏ @gupwalla Sep 29
        Replying to @Earth_Media_ @emptywheel @Karmatella

        It's also the kind of over-compensating that certain people do when confronted with their own vices. Their ego won't let them hate themselves, so the hate has to be projected outwards. (I guess we're saying the same thing). Think, eg, Ted Haggard.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      6. Saving democracy=crushing GOP‏ @KatinkaTheKat Sep 30
        Replying to @gupwalla @Earth_Media_ and

        That look she gave him when he threw her Q back at her. It's like she knew she was dealing w another defensive drunk.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      7. gupwalla‏ @gupwalla Sep 30
        Replying to @KatinkaTheKat @Earth_Media_ and

        She's also a skilled prosecutor and would pick up on something like that when interrogating a witness in court.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Craig Beilinson‏Verified account @cbeilinson Sep 29
        Replying to @emptywheel

        It would be ironic if the man that developed these questions gets declined for the Supreme Court because he lied about sex.pic.twitter.com/knWNWOREYr

        2 replies 12 retweets 32 likes
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 29
        Replying to @cbeilinson

        Ironic, yes, but also just.

        1 reply 1 retweet 28 likes
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      1. Justin Activate the Children Eisele‏ @Jteisele Sep 29
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Similarly, I am hoping that this is all part of the karmic whiplash from his politicizing of Vince Foster's death. You can't torture a family who has had to deal with depression and suicide like that without some kind of repercussion. (hopefully)

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      2. spider 🕷️web 🕸️ rant  🌊‏ @web_rant Sep 29
        Replying to @emptywheel

        “The idea of going easy on him at the questioning is ... abhorrent to me...It is our job to make his pattern of revolting behavior clear — piece by painful piece," Kavanaugh wrote in the two-page memo, which was sent to Starr and all other attorneys on his staff on Aug. 15, 1998.

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