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I have known that about several of you for a long, long time. It is a cheap, nasty tactic, and it makes me mad and sad. 

(NY Times)

Republican Senators Play the QAnon Game
March 26, 2022, 10:10 a.m. ET


By Jamelle Bouie
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have spent the last week smearing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, as indifferent to (and soft on) child sexual abuse.

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri began the attack last week with a lengthy thread on Twitter, accusing Jackson of showing undue leniency toward child pornographers while serving as vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. “I think we just have a basic question to ask,” Hawley told Fox News. “Are we gonna get a judge here who’s gonna protect children, or who’s gonna protect child predators?”

Senator Mike Lee of Utah joined his colleague in attempting to tie Jackson to child pornographers. “The White House’s whataboutist response to Judge Jackson’s very real record in child pornography cases is dismissive, dangerous and offensive,” he said on Twitter “We need real answers.”

Hawley and Lee followed through on their promise to get “answers” from Jackson, taking every available opportunity to paint the judge — who would be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court — as overly lenient toward, if not somehow sympathetic to, child pornographers and other sexual predators. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Tom Cotton of Arkansas joined in.

“Judge Jackson, like so many far left activists, thinks that mandatory minimums for drug crimes are too harsh, just like she apparently thinks that mandatory minimums for child pornography are too harsh,” Cotton told Laura Ingraham. “She consistently sentences on the lowest end of the sentencing guidelines or even deviates downward from the sentencing guidelines. That’s what we’ve seen over the last two days examining her record — she is a far left activist who always — almost always — finds a way to sympathize with the criminals, not with the victims.”

“Every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited,” Graham said.


These attacks are nonsense, a willful twisting of the facts. What those facts show is that Jackson is no more lenient than her colleagues in the federal judiciary when it comes to sentencing for “nonproduction” child pornography crimes, meaning crimes where the offender views or distributes material but does not produce it. As the legal scholar Douglas A. Berman wrote in response to Hawley, Judge Jackson’s sentencing decisions placed her in the “mainstream” of federal judges. Her record, he writes, “does show she is quite skeptical of the ranges set by the guidelines, but so too were prosecutors in the majority of her cases and so too are district judges nationwide (appointed by presidents of both parties).”

This attack is so spurious and dishonest that National Review denounced it as “meritless to the point of demagoguery.”

Of course, “demagoguery” is the point. It’s no accident that Republicans have landed on this particular accusation. The belief that Democrats are pedophiles — and that at its top levels the Democratic Party is an elaborate pedophilia ring — looms large in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which is something like orthodoxy for a substantial portion of the Republican base. In a poll taken just before the 2020 election, half of Donald Trump supporters agreed that “top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings.” And in a poll taken last year by the Public Religion Research Institute, 15 percent of Americans say that “the levers of power are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.”

 

The Republican attacks on Jackson are a QAnon dogwhistle, and QAnon followers have heard the message. In a recent piece, my newsroom colleagues David D. Kirkpatrick and Stuart A. Thompson describe how “the online world of adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theory sprang into action almost as soon as Senator Josh Hawley tweeted his alarm.” On forums and in videos, QAnon supporters have blasted Judge Jackson as “an apologist for child molesters” and a “pedophile-enabler.”

Where the Republican base goes, the politicians follow. That was true with the Tea Party, it was true with Trump, and now it is true with QAnon. Indeed, it is already the case that one of the most high-profile and sought-after politicians within the Republican Party, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, is a QAnon influencer. For Hawley, Cotton and Cruz, whose presidential ambitions were clear from the moment they entered office, playing the QAnon game is a no-brainer.

It is also a travesty, a wicked and immoral use of the power of public office. Of course, neither wickedness nor immorality are, or have ever been, obstacles to political power. If they were then, well, we wouldn’t be living in this world.

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@BarryLaverty, I hear what you’re saying, though I am concerned about why she was picked by Biden, the actual driving factors for her nomination.

When I say I hear what you’re saying, I mean I am tired of both parties being so 180 from the other that they fight tooth and nail anything the other party wants to do or anyone the other nominates for any post.

Just months ago the Democrats did to Tump’s SCOTUS nominees what we are seeing the Republicans do with this Biden nominee, except WAY worse.

So, calling out the R’s is ok, but we need to call out the D’s for their childish antics as well.

I’d like to see us come together and be truthful with each other. 
We’re all Americans and we need to protect each other and actually be on the same team.

We won’t always agree D to R and R to D, and that’s ok.

We need to have some differences of opinion to drive discussions that can push our country forward, but we need to do it in a constructive not destructive way.

I want Barry, JETT, CTown and others to be able to express their opinions without being viciously attacked and vice versa. I want conservatives to speak their minds without being ridiculed by libs.

We’re all Americans, and there may come a time when we have to come together due to being attacked by China or Russia.

If that were to happen, I’d be ready to defend and fight the enemy with Barry, JETT, CTown and all our libs across the country I don’t agree with on some topics.  
I truly believe we agree on a lot of issues if we’d just have respectful and civil conversations with each other.

That is my prayer for our country, for us to give each respect and to listen to each other with an open mind rather than simply attempting to shout each other down.

 

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30 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Good points and very well stated. 

 

25 minutes ago, HearEmaGrowlin said:

Thank you sir, I appreciate that post.

Yall stop it, you're making me sick.  You libtards and trumplicans know better than to act like that! 

Now,  back to the name calling

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14 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

I have known that about several of you for a long, long time. It is a cheap, nasty tactic, and it makes me mad and sad. 

(NY Times)

Republican Senators Play the QAnon Game
March 26, 2022, 10:10 a.m. ET


By Jamelle Bouie
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have spent the last week smearing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, as indifferent to (and soft on) child sexual abuse.

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri began the attack last week with a lengthy thread on Twitter, accusing Jackson of showing undue leniency toward child pornographers while serving as vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. “I think we just have a basic question to ask,” Hawley told Fox News. “Are we gonna get a judge here who’s gonna protect children, or who’s gonna protect child predators?”

Senator Mike Lee of Utah joined his colleague in attempting to tie Jackson to child pornographers. “The White House’s whataboutist response to Judge Jackson’s very real record in child pornography cases is dismissive, dangerous and offensive,” he said on Twitter “We need real answers.”

Hawley and Lee followed through on their promise to get “answers” from Jackson, taking every available opportunity to paint the judge — who would be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court — as overly lenient toward, if not somehow sympathetic to, child pornographers and other sexual predators. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Tom Cotton of Arkansas joined in.

“Judge Jackson, like so many far left activists, thinks that mandatory minimums for drug crimes are too harsh, just like she apparently thinks that mandatory minimums for child pornography are too harsh,” Cotton told Laura Ingraham. “She consistently sentences on the lowest end of the sentencing guidelines or even deviates downward from the sentencing guidelines. That’s what we’ve seen over the last two days examining her record — she is a far left activist who always — almost always — finds a way to sympathize with the criminals, not with the victims.”

“Every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited,” Graham said.


These attacks are nonsense, a willful twisting of the facts. What those facts show is that Jackson is no more lenient than her colleagues in the federal judiciary when it comes to sentencing for “nonproduction” child pornography crimes, meaning crimes where the offender views or distributes material but does not produce it. As the legal scholar Douglas A. Berman wrote in response to Hawley, Judge Jackson’s sentencing decisions placed her in the “mainstream” of federal judges. Her record, he writes, “does show she is quite skeptical of the ranges set by the guidelines, but so too were prosecutors in the majority of her cases and so too are district judges nationwide (appointed by presidents of both parties).”

This attack is so spurious and dishonest that National Review denounced it as “meritless to the point of demagoguery.”

Of course, “demagoguery” is the point. It’s no accident that Republicans have landed on this particular accusation. The belief that Democrats are pedophiles — and that at its top levels the Democratic Party is an elaborate pedophilia ring — looms large in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which is something like orthodoxy for a substantial portion of the Republican base. In a poll taken just before the 2020 election, half of Donald Trump supporters agreed that “top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings.” And in a poll taken last year by the Public Religion Research Institute, 15 percent of Americans say that “the levers of power are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.”

 

The Republican attacks on Jackson are a QAnon dogwhistle, and QAnon followers have heard the message. In a recent piece, my newsroom colleagues David D. Kirkpatrick and Stuart A. Thompson describe how “the online world of adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theory sprang into action almost as soon as Senator Josh Hawley tweeted his alarm.” On forums and in videos, QAnon supporters have blasted Judge Jackson as “an apologist for child molesters” and a “pedophile-enabler.”

Where the Republican base goes, the politicians follow. That was true with the Tea Party, it was true with Trump, and now it is true with QAnon. Indeed, it is already the case that one of the most high-profile and sought-after politicians within the Republican Party, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, is a QAnon influencer. For Hawley, Cotton and Cruz, whose presidential ambitions were clear from the moment they entered office, playing the QAnon game is a no-brainer.

It is also a travesty, a wicked and immoral use of the power of public office. Of course, neither wickedness nor immorality are, or have ever been, obstacles to political power. If they were then, well, we wouldn’t be living in this world.

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Another OP-ED from the Parrot Boy. SMH

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I don't care if the viewers didn't produce, film, or act in these films.  They are crimes against children, and the viewers are in essence accomplices in the crime.  There's nothing Q about looking at her judicial rulings and lighter sentences than the law calls for in these cases.  This is total nonsense, and thus Barry and this opinion writer are okay with people watching children being sexually exploited for the enjoyment of others as well as Judge Jackson.  This is shameful.  

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45 minutes ago, JBizzle said:

So anyone who cares about child pornography is a QAnon conspiracist?  Come on Barry, you're better than that.  

The only care I have about child pornography is to shut it down, but Judge Jackson and Barry think that it's okay to watch, but you get a slap on the wrist, and not what the law requires, because you only watched it.  Bull corn, they spread the disease, and they enable child predators to continue in their folly, because after all their brain is wired towards molesting these precious children.  Barry, you can poop all you want, but you need to repent, and so does Judge Jackson.  

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On 3/26/2022 at 6:46 PM, BarryLaverty said:

I have known that about several of you for a long, long time. It is a cheap, nasty tactic, and it makes me mad and sad. 

(NY Times)

Republican Senators Play the QAnon Game
March 26, 2022, 10:10 a.m. ET


By Jamelle Bouie
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have spent the last week smearing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, as indifferent to (and soft on) child sexual abuse.

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri began the attack last week with a lengthy thread on Twitter, accusing Jackson of showing undue leniency toward child pornographers while serving as vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. “I think we just have a basic question to ask,” Hawley told Fox News. “Are we gonna get a judge here who’s gonna protect children, or who’s gonna protect child predators?”

Senator Mike Lee of Utah joined his colleague in attempting to tie Jackson to child pornographers. “The White House’s whataboutist response to Judge Jackson’s very real record in child pornography cases is dismissive, dangerous and offensive,” he said on Twitter “We need real answers.”

Hawley and Lee followed through on their promise to get “answers” from Jackson, taking every available opportunity to paint the judge — who would be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court — as overly lenient toward, if not somehow sympathetic to, child pornographers and other sexual predators. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Tom Cotton of Arkansas joined in.

“Judge Jackson, like so many far left activists, thinks that mandatory minimums for drug crimes are too harsh, just like she apparently thinks that mandatory minimums for child pornography are too harsh,” Cotton told Laura Ingraham. “She consistently sentences on the lowest end of the sentencing guidelines or even deviates downward from the sentencing guidelines. That’s what we’ve seen over the last two days examining her record — she is a far left activist who always — almost always — finds a way to sympathize with the criminals, not with the victims.”

“Every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited,” Graham said.


These attacks are nonsense, a willful twisting of the facts. What those facts show is that Jackson is no more lenient than her colleagues in the federal judiciary when it comes to sentencing for “nonproduction” child pornography crimes, meaning crimes where the offender views or distributes material but does not produce it. As the legal scholar Douglas A. Berman wrote in response to Hawley, Judge Jackson’s sentencing decisions placed her in the “mainstream” of federal judges. Her record, he writes, “does show she is quite skeptical of the ranges set by the guidelines, but so too were prosecutors in the majority of her cases and so too are district judges nationwide (appointed by presidents of both parties).”

This attack is so spurious and dishonest that National Review denounced it as “meritless to the point of demagoguery.”

Of course, “demagoguery” is the point. It’s no accident that Republicans have landed on this particular accusation. The belief that Democrats are pedophiles — and that at its top levels the Democratic Party is an elaborate pedophilia ring — looms large in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which is something like orthodoxy for a substantial portion of the Republican base. In a poll taken just before the 2020 election, half of Donald Trump supporters agreed that “top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings.” And in a poll taken last year by the Public Religion Research Institute, 15 percent of Americans say that “the levers of power are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.”

 

The Republican attacks on Jackson are a QAnon dogwhistle, and QAnon followers have heard the message. In a recent piece, my newsroom colleagues David D. Kirkpatrick and Stuart A. Thompson describe how “the online world of adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theory sprang into action almost as soon as Senator Josh Hawley tweeted his alarm.” On forums and in videos, QAnon supporters have blasted Judge Jackson as “an apologist for child molesters” and a “pedophile-enabler.”

Where the Republican base goes, the politicians follow. That was true with the Tea Party, it was true with Trump, and now it is true with QAnon. Indeed, it is already the case that one of the most high-profile and sought-after politicians within the Republican Party, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, is a QAnon influencer. For Hawley, Cotton and Cruz, whose presidential ambitions were clear from the moment they entered office, playing the QAnon game is a no-brainer.

It is also a travesty, a wicked and immoral use of the power of public office. Of course, neither wickedness nor immorality are, or have ever been, obstacles to political power. If they were then, well, we wouldn’t be living in this world.

Do one about the democrats failures!!

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9 hours ago, DaveTV1 said:

The only care I have about child pornography is to shut it down, but Judge Jackson and Barry think that it's okay to watch, but you get a slap on the wrist, and not what the law requires, because you only watched it.  Bull corn, they spread the disease, and they enable child predators to continue in their folly, because after all their brain is wired towards molesting these precious children.  Barry, you can poop all you want, but you need to repent, and so does Judge Jackson.  

Larry is a 10%er lockstep libtard .... tru storie  .....

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10 hours ago, DaveTV1 said:

The only care I have about child pornography is to shut it down, but Judge Jackson and Barry think that it's okay to watch, but you get a slap on the wrist, and not what the law requires, because you only watched it.  Bull corn, they spread the disease, and they enable child predators to continue in their folly, because after all their brain is wired towards molesting these precious children.  Barry, you can poop all you want, but you need to repent, and so does Judge Jackson.  

That's complete #####. Your cherrypicking self righteousness for political talking points is just more of the same water carrying. 

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6 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

So she has NOT been soft on pedophiles??? 

Nope, no more than the average. But, you should definitely believe the word of QANON driven senators who are willing to lie to steal the spotlight for their political aspirations. 

 https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-judge-jacksons-sentencing-in-child-porn-cases/

 

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2 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Nope, no more than the average. But, you should definitely believe the word of QANON driven senators who are willing to lie to steal the spotlight for their political aspirations. 

 https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-judge-jacksons-sentencing-in-child-porn-cases/

 

Fact checkers are all tools and pawns of the libnuts......we proved THAT on here over a decade ago.......LEGITIMATE sources, such as her actual court rulings, show her to be soft on pedophiles, dope heads, and terrorists......just like all the rest of you dimnuts......always defending perversion but denigrating non-perverts.......own it, libnut......

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5 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Nope, no more than the average. But, you should definitely believe the word of QANON driven senators who are willing to lie to steal the spotlight for their political aspirations. 

 https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-judge-jacksons-sentencing-in-child-porn-cases/

 

Here are some FACTS for you......

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/29/in_depth_ketanji_brown_jacksons_soft_spot_for_drug_dealers_pedophiles_and_terrorists_823900.html

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1 minute ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Fact checkers are all tools and pawns of the libnuts......we proved THAT on here over a decade ago.......LEGITIMATE sources, such as her actual court rulings, show her to be soft on pedophiles, dope heads, and terrorists......just like all the rest of you dimnuts......always defending perversion but denigrating non-perverts.......own it, libnut......

Blah blah blah Images, Stock Photos & Vectors | Shutterstock Same ol' tactic, same ol' noise. Facts are inconvenient, I know. 

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