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Just like the God strike me down thing, it doesn’t impact you if you have your fingers crossed. So I’ve been told.

If “God Strike ME Down” were REAL, there would 11 less White Male US GOP Senators to vote on the Kavanaugh nomination! Fascists, like the 11 old farts in the GOP, do not believe in GOD! They are fascists who promote fascism which all about GREED [Get Rich Eradicating Everything Democratic]!

Love that acronym!  Mind if I use it again? 

The Acronym is NOT copyrighted and the more use of it to inform people about the truth about the fascist GOP the better so, please, use it and encourage others to use it, too.

technically speaking, it’s an acrostic ;-)

Well, I don’t mind if God strikes down Mark Judge – but I sincerely hope She waits until he has testified to the FBI, and been cross-examined.

As for the 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I implore Her to strike them down ASAP – possibly with a one-week delay for Jeff Flake. That way special elections to find their replacements may be held as soon as possible.

Well said! The Divine Feminine! IF those guys realized that God is  a SHE, they would wet their pants. LOL

Unless you add, “cross my fingers. hope to die, stick a needle in my eye.”

Nope, "paxies" (as they were know in England) beats all. Them's the rules. 😂

Its actually...May God strike me dead...which is more what i d lk to see happen here...

This was actually pretty close to Kennedy’s line of questioning yesterday...

He’s obviously not doing well in recovery, or he wouldn’t be hiding. If my best friend were having troubles like Kavanaugh is, and I could attest to or prove her innocence or provide an alibi, I’d move heaven and earth to do it. Most people I know would — Judge is afraid to be deposed or testify under oath because he knows something that will hurt both of them.

My thoughts exactly. If he’s truly in recovery, he should probably take a long hard look at Steps 4, 8, and 9 of the 12 Step Program.

Step 4 — Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of himself.

Step 8 — Make a list of all persons he has harmed, and be willing to make amends to them all.

Step 9 — Make direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Get going Mark. You’ve got a lot of work to do. And being honest about what you did to Dr. Blasey will be difficult for Brett Kavanaugh and his family, but you will not be directly doing harm. Kavanaugh is the one who is doing harm to Dr. Blasely, his family, and our country by continuing to lie about his history of sexual assault. Step away from the lies and you will be further along your road to true recovery.

Not to mention rigorous honesty.

Yes. Being honest is the key for Mark Judge to a better life. Now we’ll see if he’s man enough to do that.

Life of r i g o r o u s honesty...is what i v bn taught in recovery.

Thank you for adding the correct emphasis and original intent.

He’d have to take the 5th.

Let him drink a fifth – then testify.

Would love to see him take the 5th. That would be huge.

Word is that Mr. Judge will be cooperating fully with the FBI investigation.

In medieval times one could swear by God and the penalty for lying would be that you’d be struck dead, struck blind, or dwarfed.  They believed this literally. 

Since no one was, I guess they were all telling the truth!

They’d be having to make at least 13 little caskets, with instructions in braile, if those rules existed for the senate hearing yesterday...

In Medieval times, “Ordeal by water was associated with the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries: an accused who sank was considered innocent, while floating indicatedwitchcraft. Some argued that witches floated because they had renounced baptism when entering the Devil's service.”  from wiki  This week had me thinking of all these tests for women.

U.S. Code sections 1621 and 1001 of Title 18.

Section 1621 covers general perjury, and stipulates that anyone who "willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true" is guilty of perjury and shall be fined or imprisoned up to five years, or both. Section 1001covers false statements more generally, without requiring an oath. The section stipulates that "whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the government of the United States, knowingly and willfully" falsifies or conceals information, including before a congressional committee's inquiry, may also be fined or imprisoned up to five years.

Somebody ought to be bringing charges against the judge for lying to the committee on a few key things since the hearings began.  I’m betting Kamala Harris has been keeping track — she nailed him yesterday in a lie:  Did you watch the hearing this morning?  No.

Wish she’d followed that up by:  “Then how could you recount her travel plans for vacations?”

He also lied about drinking legally. The age was 18 in D.C. at the time but had been changed to 21 months before Kavanaugh turned 18. In the words of Terry McAuliffe, “Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.”

Kavanaugh really does seem to have only the slightest acquaintance with the truth, and to me his giant hissy fit yesterday made him sound less like a man defending his honor and more like a guy who’s outraged that anyone dare to deny him his entitled white male privilege or stand in the way of him getting what he wants, when he wants.

I wouldn’t trust a word he said outside a court of law.

I’m thinking I wouldn’t trust a word he said INSIDE a court of Law. 

He showed no respect for the Cmte hearing, and tigers don't change their stripes when they move to a new cave. 

True that.

Boy now that would be a bad optic.

That’s why he isn’t there.

As they told me they FFFFFFFifth.

FFFFFFFing A

Looks like Ted Cruz agrees. Lol.    slate.com/...

No, that’s on the publisher’s website TODAY.

As of today, when I checked the site, Judge was still “available for media and speaking engagements.”

We have a media and speaking engagement for him, and we can promise he’ll have a large and attentive audience.

I can’t find him, or “wasted” at Hazelden’s website.

Not on amazon either....i was curious....who the hell would read some random memoir about a sloppy typical drunk? Askibg for a friend.

Very few people are anxiety-free

about public speaking. Even cheerful teetotalers. That’s why Toastmasters Clubs exist. But despite wide spread public speaking anxiety, people are called upon all the time to speak to the public, with or without preparation. 

Sounds to me like he’s asserting his white male privilege to not be called before a Senate committee. Too bad the Republicans in charge of this committee recognize and respect his privilege and don’t just tell him to ‘suck it up, buttercup, and get your ass down here!’

If they actually wanted the information he could provide, that’s exactly what they’d tell him, before threatening him with a subpoena.

The problem with incompetent, corrupt, fascist government is incompetence, corruption and fascism,  not government (Jerome a Paris - paraphrased)
 

The Senators don’  want the truth any more than he wants to give it. If Collins or Flake or someone don’t save this, maybe the voters will get their attention. If we win big enough and the crowds keep getting more info, maybe he will get impeached. But I doubt it.

I agree.  If we want to demonstrate that the public speaking statement is a lie, we need material a lot more recent than 21 years ago.

Yes, it’s on the publisher’s website today.

Here’s the link.

That book was published in 2004. That’s 14 years ago, hardly an improvement. 

It would be better to find out when he last spoke publicly and how that engagement was initiated.

I guess clicking on “book this author” would answer some questions.

Ah, different publisher than the one I found. Thanks for the link.

It’s up to date; the Daily Mail spoke to his publisher: www.dailymail.co.uk/…

Thanks!

How about if it’s on his web page today?

(Assuming someone in the GOP Senate staff hasn’t had it deleted in the past few minutes, of course…….)

I think it’s on his publisher’s website. So yeah, they didn’t change the copy on the original dust-jacket of the book as the book aged in the market, probably because it sold too few copies to bother. I really don’t think that holding him to something like this published 11 years ago is inbounds.

Just an update- Stephanie  Ruhle just brought up (on MSNBC panel) the same point- that the guy who claims he’s afraid to speak in public is willing to do so for money according to his author webpage. FWIW? 

Then we should try to book him through the publisher.

The up his sorry ass in the back of a black Chevy Tahoe and drive his candy ass in front of the Senate.  We will wait the few more days for the delivery to be made.

   Good to nail that detail down I was just going to ask if he had done any public speaking since the cancer and his alcohol recovery.

Who on earth would go listen to him? For a n y reason!

I think I-am but not sure. He will have little choice but to lie or incriminate himself in a sex crime.

The issue with an FBI investigation without a grand jury or anything to subpoena with. They show up at Judges door.. he says hi, sorry I don't want to talk to you. FBI does what?

Congress could issue a subpoena, but would they?

they could, but the republicans control that

And they spent a lot of time criticizing Ford yesterday for not asking them to come to her (insinuating that she lied about her fear of flying). Flying always makes me anxious too, something I try to avoid doing if I can.

There’s been a lot of talk in the RW media that her fear of flying was a sham intended to cause delay.

I’d love to see a doctor’s written eval that says his anxiety is that severe, given that he is available for public speaking per his website...

Mark Judge is just hiding out while waiting for this to blow over.

Yeah, and I’m waiting for it to blow up.   In their faces.  

I also have some concern that he’ll end up with a couple of rounds to the back of the head.  Dead men can’t testify.  

Devils Triangle is slang for a 3 some with 3 guys and one girl. I wonder if that’s what they were going for with Ford?

An incapacitated or inebriated girl usually. If they were using grain alcohol, they’re lucky they didn’t kill someone. If they bothered to memorialize the term in their yearbook, they must have done it and been proud of it.

His best bet is to really lay low. Then call up his buddy Brett for a favor or two later.

Why do you assume he’s in AA?  It’s not the only recovery program out there.

He might not been any program at all, and he may not be “recovering” either. After all, he’s a proven liar….

Nah, he’s too rapey even for them.

I usually just chuckle and go on reading when I see snark, but this one could actually pass for truth,  so I HAD to rec it…

Some false statements made to agencies of the federal government are punishable as a felony under 18 U.S.C. 1001.  In particular, the statute applies to statements made in “any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee, subcommittee, commission or office of the Congress, consistent with applicable rules of the House or Senate.”

In my area of practice, a notice is placed on all paperwork being submitted to the federal government that the person signing the paperwork is aware of the penalties for a false statement.

Thank you.  Do you know off the top of your head if it’s the same or different penalty for lying under oath?  Avenatti’s client submitted a sworn Declaration, I thought that was a notable contrast.

Also, does a statement made and signed by your lawyer on your behalf, Judge’s first iirc, does the statute apply there? Seems it shd, but wanted confirmation.

I was struck by his hand too, the two middle fingers together.  Seemed awkward.  Or maybe a sign of maximum stress.

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