Wondering if you have the right to be as angry as you feel? YES-YES-YES You are allowed & compelled

[kpete]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/fury-is-a-political-weapon-and-women-need-to-wield-it.html

[calimary]

1. NOBODY'S going to "allow" me to be angry about this.

NONE. NOBODY. Nor does anyone get to “allow” me to be completely and utterly IN-FUCKING-FURIATED about this.

I’m going to feel enraged and ripped off about this for a loooooooonnnnnnng time.

Our Supreme Court will have become thoroughly compromised and delegitimized. I won’t be able to think about this third-of-three branches of government any other way than hopelessly corrupted.

He’s done it alright. trump has freakin’ done it. Screwed up the last pillar of our government. Yet another institution bites the dust. Kavanaugh is grievously damaged goods, and if he ascends to the highest court in the land, then it, too, will be grievously damaged goods.

[CrispyQ]

3. I am seething on the inside.

I couldn't even watch it. The SNL version was enough to give me a clue how awful the real version was. The images of Kavanaugh's rage filled face & the republican men's contempt for the will of The People has left me boiling on the inside. We are in such a dire situation.

Edited to add, this is what it's about for Trump. If the stacked SCOTUS implements the rest of the GOP agenda, so be it, but this is what it's about for Trump.

A Supreme Court Case Could Liberate Trump to Pardon His Associates
Gamble v. United States isn’t related to the Russia investigation. But the outcome—which one senior Republican senator has tried to influence—could still have consequences for the probe.

NATASHA BERTRAND
SEP 25, 2018


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-pardon-orrin-hatch-supreme-court/571285/

snip...

If Trump were to shut down the investigation or pardon his associates, “the escape hatch, then, is for cases to be farmed out or picked up by state-level attorneys general, who cannot be shut down by Trump and who generally—but with some existing limits—can charge state crimes even after a federal pardon,” explained Elie Honig, a former assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey. “If Hatch gets his way, however, a federal pardon would essentially block a subsequent state-level prosecution.”

[rzemanfl]

2. To the Greatest Page. n/t