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Question: "Do you hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights, yes or no?"

KBJ Response: "I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights."

She doesn't understand the fundamentals of life or America and its Constitution she is going to swear an oath to defend. Three 'republicans' are voting for this cretin.

She is "black and a woman". For godsakes, isn't it embarrassing to be considered for something based on immutable characteristics?

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Anyone who can't answer the question, "what is a woman?" should go back to kindergarten.

https://themadmommy.substack.com/p/the-worms?r=b7p1n&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Baloney. It as a fair question and basic. No reason she should not have been able to answer it even if she wasn't a biologist. Check out Heather Heyring's Substack posted on Tuesday.

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Dear JDFree: You posted this about me: "You are a true portrait of evil." Your comment has since disappeared, so I wanted to get back to you with my reply:

"Yes, JD, I am a portrait of evil. Get on your knees and worship me as your dark king, beyotch."

Thanks for cheering up my day!

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Antonio García Martínez's piece was criticized by every commenter for a reason. It shouldn't be recommended in this otherwise excellent link collection.

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"It is tricky to think of a good definition quickly"

How about "adult, human female". That took me about 3 seconds.

A society in which the definition of "woman" is up for popular debate is a society in which the definition of "human" will be up for popular debate soon. And if you value human rights, that's not a society you want to live in.

"We so desperately need a real, muscular environmental movement to return."

Agreed. We don't need more people who want to use political power to "save the Earth"; we need people willing to make personal sacrifices to save "a piece of" the Earth. Paul Kingsnorth is a great example of how to do this.

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The whole "define a woman" contretemps was merely comical. Hearing Republican Senators more or less demand that Ketanji Brown declare her unwavering support for the all-American torture regime at Guantanamo Bay was chilling. Fortunately, Judge Brown possesses the even disposition and deliberative quickness to evade those snares.

I suppose that we're in for more Senator Claghorn/Foghorn Leghorn charades in the full Senate hearings.

Meanwhile, the cages at Guantanamo Bay are still there. And the Eighth Amendment is still in shreds, in the wastebasket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

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MSNBC did not say that fitness was fascism. When you're writing this, you're doing the same thing the left does. What they said was that in SOME dojos and gyms, SOME people ARE both recruiting people for their fascist organizations and working out for the purpose of becoming Aryan warriors of the future. I've quit jiu jitsu dojos where I saw this myself. Politics should have no place inside a gym or dojo. But in some it does. Sorry, but it's true. They never held that anyone in Planet Fitness is there to become part of a fascist underworld. To hold that is ridiculous.

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Fantastic roundup. I'm a He/Him, and my biology is Sperm Swinger/Shooter. How ludicrous is modern society right now? Really.

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Missed TGIF on F, so late with a comment about yesterday’s post. Once again, Nellie Bowles, American Treasure, has outdone herself. Sperm slingers and vulva havers. Only on Common Sense. And thanks for the link to the Rod Dreher response. Very helpful. I have been reading too much about Rod and not enough from Rod and was getting mislead about where he actually stands. TG for TGIF, even on an S.

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On the subject of Ukraine:

Shlomo Avineri, one of Israel’s foremost intellectuals and an authority on Marx and Hegel published an oped in the Hebrew edition of Haaretz. He focuses on Marx's view of Russia as a way to offer an explanation of the factors prompting Putin launch the war against Ukraine. Avineri’s interpretation is drawn partly from unpublished writing and according to him, lots of what Marx wrote about Russia has never been translated or published. After the failed revolutions of 1848, Marx saw Russia as a reactionary force that would try to stop any moves in Europe toward democracy and liberation. Marx argued that Russia saw itself not as a nation but rather as an empire and thus could not countenance democracies in any realm that it thought might influence its own society and polity which included most of Europe. For that reason, Marx supported the Ottomans in the Crimean War [ca. 1856] and thought the British Conservative Party more reliable on Russia than Liberals because they were more hawkish. One line struck me. At some point not long before he died, Marx was asked if Russia could skip the capitalist stage and move right into emancipation. Avineri describes the question this way as [in the same language Jews might ask a question of Rabbis for a ruling: וביקשו ממנו פסק הלכה

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This sort of mush is not what I hoped from Substack or from this column. If you wanted to say something meaningful about Madeleine Albright, and not just a paragraph of hagiography, you might have mentioned her notorious interview with Leslie Stahl, to wit:

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died... is the price worth it?"

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it."

After crap like this, Obama's covert drone-war, Syria and arming ISIS, Libya, Kosovo, et al, how can anyone whine about Putin's war crimes?

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Common Sense wit Bari Weiss has gotten more strident since I initially subscribed. The interrogations by Republicans, including Senators Cruz, Hawley, Blackburn, and Graham, on the Senate Judiciary committee in the questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson were disgraceful, bordering on racism with wolf whistles involving critical race theory, and complete distortion of her sentencing record. I was ashamed listening to them. The mainstream media were completely correct in this matter. I agree completely with the Washington Post that the questioning of Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown was worse than that of Kavanaugh.

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" I agree completely with the Washington Post that the questioning of Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown was worse than that of Kavanaugh."

Then you have publicly renounced all credibility you might ever plausibly possess.

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Kavanaugh was falsely accused of committing a sexual assault and engaging in gang rape at a party which never took place 35 years ago. Judge Brown Jackson was questioned on her views concerning highly divisive and dangerous CRT and WOKE Genderism, both of which are relevant to whether she is likely to be able to faithfully apply the law. She was treated with respect even as her answers were embarrassing.

Your comment is putinesque.

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Mar 26, 2022·edited Mar 26, 2022

I disagree with the criticism of Ted Cruz. What I think is most objectionable about Judge Jackson is that she is dishonest. Anyone listening to her would think she was an Originalist. She was prepared to say just about anything in order to be confirmed. But there were two areas where she stuck to her Woke essence. Marsha Blackburn brought out one of those areas. So Jackson believes, or is prepared to say, that your gender is what you claim it is.

But Ted Cruz brought out an even more dangerous belief, which is that it is acceptable to counteract the racism of the past by practicing racism today. It is inarguable that CRT (creating racial tension) is dangerous and is being taught to America’s children. So Kudos to Ted Cruz for demonstrating a more important reason why Judge Jackson should not be confirmed.

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Here is a gay man breaking down the WaPo fiction regarding KBJ.

https://youtu.be/Q9RpNydZc-U

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Mar 26, 2022·edited Mar 26, 2022

As you make snarky comment about Ginni Thomas have you thought about the consequences of a partisan select committee sending out waves of subpoenas against Americans in a mass fishing expedition and then cherry picking info for selective release?

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