FTFYThats a pretty realistic assumption
FTFYThats a pretty realistic assumption
In that interview Franken asks a lot of irrelevant questions such as his opinion on congressional Republican's political moves and his opinion on matters he hasn't ruled on, which he can't answer so that he avoids appearing prejudiced in the event he has to rule on a case about them later. Even when talking about a previous case Gorsuch ruled on, an actual relevant line of questioning, he pretty much just makes an appeal to emotion saying that he shouldn't have dissented about what the law means because it would be bad and tries to out-lawyer an actual expert in the law.This interview is much more telling, and no, he's not a better candidate, I wouldn't want this man ruling on anything concerning regular folks for the next 20-40 years.
Why wouldn't you hold it against him? If people are doing the bad things, even if it's expected, it's still bad things. Maybe not as bad as doing something innovative and bad, but if the norm is bad, the person is still bad for conforming to it.Now, that's not to say I hold it against Franken, this is pretty much what confirmation hearings seem to be now a days, congresspeople of the same political party ask softball questions and opposition party members try to get them to say anything to hold against them.
I mean specifically against him. The whole hearings just political theater, either the Democrats will filibuster, in which case it'll hold until they give up or the Republicans initiate the nuclear option, or he'll be confirmed. So it's not a personal failing of his, but a flaw in the system.Why wouldn't you hold it against him? If people are doing the bad things, even if it's expected, it's still bad things. Maybe not as bad as doing something innovative and bad, but if the norm is bad, the person is still bad for conforming to it.
I agree it's theatre, but conforming to it is also bad IMO, and thus I hold it against members of both parties for softballs on one side, and idiotic questions on the other. They are perpetuating the bad system they are a part of, and thus I blame them all for it. You apparently disagree.I mean specifically against him. The whole hearings just political theater, either the Democrats will filibuster, in which case it'll hold until they give up or the Republicans initiate the nuclear option, or he'll be confirmed. So it's not a personal failing of his, but a flaw in the system.
That's what I was trying to get at. My point was merely that I'm not isolating blame to Senator Franken when it's all sucks.I agree it's theatre, but conforming to it is also bad IMO, and thus I hold it against members of both parties for softballs on one side, and idiotic questions on the other. They are perpetuating the bad system they are a part of, and thus I blame them all for it. You apparently disagree.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I was taking your original comments more like that you didn't blame any of them, not your clarification that you blame them all the same.That's what I was trying to get at. My point was merely that I'm not isolating blame to Senator Franken when it's all sucks.
Look, sometimes kids need to learn ire if hot by getting burned...[DOUBLEPOST=1490734003,1490733944][/DOUBLEPOST]What is bad, his protectionism hurts the people that voted for him the most, the farmers and miners.
Man surprised about getting his face eaten off by leopards after voting for the "Leopards eating your face party"!And at the end of the day there are a lot of good folks out there that don't deserve to have their faces eaten off, even if they did release said panther.
Well of course the Man is surprised. The Leopards kept their campaign promise!Man surprised about getting his face eaten of by leopards after voting for the "Leopards eating your face party"!
Those kids have been standing in the middle of the flames since the fucking 1950s! Not only has nothing changed, it's actually gotten far worse. At this point the only thing that will fix southern WV is military intervention, because no one has both the courage and the resources to extract the state from the yoke of the extraction industries. Charleston will only be changed by force.Look, sometimes kids need to learn ire if hot by getting burned...
Those kids have been standing in the middle of the flames since the fucking 1950s! Not only has nothing changed, it's actually gotten far worse.
It's the "Inc."... no self respecting evil corporation is just 1 word... they need to differentiate themselves from all the other run-of-the-mill evil overlords by something, after all.Am I alone here in thinking that "Alphabet Inc." sounds a whole lot more dystopian/corporate/Conglomo-overlordish than Google?
What is bad, his protectionism hurts the people that voted for him the most, the farmers and miners.
Lexcorp... DataDyne... SinTek, GenTek, Versalife, Hyperion, Vault-Tec (does a hyphen mean it is two words?), Abstergo, Ultor...It's the "Inc."... no self respecting evil corporation is just 1 word... they need to differentiate themselves from all the other run-of-the-mill evil overlords by something, after all.
Lexcorp... DataDyne... SinTek, GenTek, Versalife, Hyperion, Vault-Tec (does a hyphen mean it is two words?), Abstergo, Ultor...
I dunno if it's about the number, I mean "OCP" (Omni Consumer Products) sounds rather bland.
Well, there's a mental image...Notice how most of those are two words forced together... probably against their will too.
Makes you look at that hyphen a little differently, doesn't it?Well, there's a mental image...
Now that's fuckin' delicious.