Jon Oliver was great - as always

[question everything]

and, no doubt, the video will be posted here later.

First, he mentioned that the prep school has a 9-hole (I think) golf course. Anyone going to such a school should not be a justice of the supreme court.

But then he talked about THE Calendar.

I did not watch his testimony but he said that he followed his dad who started keeping his calendars from... 1978. And how every Christmas dad would be using the calendar to tell stories of family events.

1978? Kavanaugh was then 13! What kind of stories do you tell him? And... dad was sitting in the room, just behind him. The whole thing was bizarre.

And of course, as has been mentioned here, trying to show that he and the same friends did not go to a similar party while, of course, they did.

Curiouser and curiouser.

[rusty quoin]

1. I'll try to look for it now.

[SamKnause]

2. It is already on YouTube.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Here you go:

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Brett Kavanaugh
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017513203

[question everything]

7. Oh, thank you. Was already in bed

Are you on Hawaii time?

back at you

[musicblind]

4. The line that hit the hardest wasn't a joke. It was chilling.

He said (paraphrasing) "Something darker happened. The Republicans believe she is telling the truth, they just don't care."

He also said (paraphrasing) that for Republicans this was no longer about getting a conservative on the court since there are plenty of conservatives they could nominate, this is about sticking it to the Democrats by putting a rapist on the Supreme Court to spite them.

Those bits were chilling because he wasn't trying to be funny or tell a joke. He was just telling the truth.

[Hortensis]

6. A profound display of how low and unprincipled, to the

point of depravity, their leadership has become.

It's dreadfully unfortunate for the human race that most of us essentially align with a group of "people like me," accept its leaders at some point, and then adopt the views of those leaders. We like to think it's the opposite, but we now know for most it is not, and we've been watching people who didn't like Trump before he became the nominee afterward supporting him and whatever he does determinedly. The same for their totally corrupted leaders in the senate.

What we don't seem to know as well, or have established political mechanisms for, is how to break the syndrome when bad leaders take over a party, before they threaten to break the nation. Most people align with one general type for years, decades, life depending, a very dangerous reality in a world of galloping change in almost everything but partisan alignment.

[Gothmog]

5. John Oliver was great last night

[renate]

8. I'm watching it right now--it's excellent!

It's not easy to work a half-hour video into the day, but I strongly recommend it for lunch-hour viewing.

I wasn't able to watch Kavanaugh's testimony live, so I missed a lot of the sheer weirdness of it that John Oliver shows so pointedly. It's not making me feel any better about the fact that he may still end up on the Supreme Court, but it's making me feel pretty damn smug that Republicans are really flashing their asses by supporting him.