Tuesday News: Trump Tells Female Reporter “I know you’re not thinking, you never do”; Trumpism=”The Angry White Male Caucus”; Dave Brat and Other Far-Right Republicans’ “Double Lives”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, October 2.

• Indonesia tsunami: food and water run out as death toll tops 1,200 (“Residents block roads to intercept aid deliveries as police and troops guard fuel and shops in stricken city of Palu”)
• The Angry White Male Caucus (“Trumpism is all about the fear of losing traditional privilege.” Agreed, that’s a huge chunk of it – “An increasingly diverse society no longer accepts the God-given right of white males from the right families to run things, and a society with many empowered, educated women is finally rejecting the droit de seigneur once granted to powerful men.”)
• Trump Clears Deck for China Trade War With New Nafta Deal
• John Roberts Has Tried to Keep the Supreme Court Above the Partisan Fray. Kavanaugh Could Undo All That. (“Confirming Kavanaugh would deal ‘a significant blow to the perceived legitimacy and integrity of the court.'” I’d point out that Gorsuch is a stolen Supreme Court seat.)
• Think Republican women will turn on Brett Kavanaugh — or Donald Trump? Think again (“Gender equality is a partisan issue: Most Republican women are just as sexist as Republican men. Remember 2016?”)
• Trump’s ‘historic’ trade deal doesn’t look so historic after all (“Trump has wrought a lot of destruction to land us in roughly the same trade position we were already in.”)
• Trump promised a comprehensive investigation on Kavanaugh. We can’t settle for a fig leaf. (The problem here is the two words “Trump promised.” Hahahaha.)
• White House authorizes FBI to expand Kavanaugh investigation: report
• A 1985 Police Report Shows Kavanaugh Was Involved in a Bloody Bar Fight at Yale Revolving Around UB40 and Drunk Bros (“Drunk Bros” basically sums up Kavanaugh and his friends.)
• The GOP wants women to shut up and go away (“Christine Blasey Ford was an ideal witness — and Republican senators still believed Brett Kavanaugh”)
• Dems see Kavanaugh fight driving women to polls
• Brett Kavanaugh Missed His Chance to Kill the Dusky Gopher Frog (“The Supreme Court’s conservatives don’t have the votes to kneecap the Endangered Species Act. Yet.”)
• ‘I know you’re not thinking’: Trump berates women reporters over Kavanaugh questions (“I know you’re not thinking. You never do.”)
• The man who gave his Supreme Court seat to Donald Trump is very upset about incivility (“Justice Kennedy did more than any living American to undermine democracy. Now he’s mad about it.”)
• Republicans Are Cutting Bait on Four House Races That Are Actually Pretty Close
• Pro-Kavanaugh conspiracy theory suggests Christine Ford hypnotized herself into creating false memory of assault by Kavanaugh (“Study co-author blasts this conspiracy theory as ‘absolutely ridiculous'”)
• Brett Kavanaugh’s Lies Are Catching Up With Him
• Anthony Kennedy Is an Enemy of Democracy (“Even as he laments its decline.”)
• All the Ways a Justice Kavanaugh Would Have to Recuse Himself (“Given his blatant partisanship and personal animosity toward liberals, how could he be an effective member of the Supreme Court?”)
• Democrats “trying to destroy a very fine person” in Kavanaugh, Trump tells rally (Yep, “a very fine person”…just like scumbag Trump himself.)
• Text messages suggest Kavanaugh wanted to refute accuser’s claim before it became public (“A former classmate of the Supreme Court nominee has reached out to the FBI but hasn’t received a response.”)
• Trump administration’s car emissions rule would cause more illnesses, deaths, study finds (“The government report projects that, under current policies, the Earth would warm by seven degrees Fahrenheit, well above the increase that scientists say the Earth must maintain to prevent catastrophic outcomes.”)
• Trump administration halts visas for unmarried same-sex partners of foreign diplomats (Pure idiocy, bigotry, etc.)
• Cruz Forced Into Toss-Up by El Paso Liberal in Deep Red Texas
• Fox News’ Tucker Carlson warns viewers about white ‘genocide’ — his most overt dog whistle yet
• Migrant Children Describe Tent City As ‘Punishment,’ Experts Say (“Hundreds of children have been sent to a tent city in Texas where basic child welfare standards do not apply.” This is raw evil right here.)
• Sex crimes prosecutors explain why GOP ‘hired gun’ Rachel Mitchell’s attack on Kavanaugh’s accuser was so ‘ludicrous’
• The Note: 2020 pace picks up with Kavanaugh nomination
• The double lives of vulnerable House Republicans (“Take Dave Brat. At a private fundraiser in early September, the Virginia Republican joked to a roomful of Republicans about how he mimics archconservative House Freedom Caucus founder Jim Jordan on Fox News when discussing the FBI’s Russia investigation. He then encouraged Sebastian Gorka, a controversial former adviser to President Donald Trump, to get involved in Brat’s campaign to gin up the base, according to a recording of the private event obtained by POLITICO.”)
• Warner and Kaine say Kavanaugh’s nomination fight exposes raw anger in Senate
• New Slideshow on 2018, 2020 Elections Ranks TMac LEAST Progressive, MOST “Establishment” of 23 Possible Dem Presidential Candidates
• Corey Stewart Still Employs Virulent Racist, Misogynist Who Called Christine Blasey Ford “DoctorFraud” and Shared a Post Saying “The Only Gang Rape Is The One Happening to Brett Kavanaugh”
• Kaine, Stewart to debate Tuesday on CBS 6 (“The People’s Debate will broadcast live on CBS 6, on WTVR.com, and the CBS 6 Facebook page starting at 7 p.m.”)
• I voted against an assault weapons ban. Here’s why I changed my mind. (Mark Warner finally figures out the glaringly obvious. “We have cultural divisions that must be bridged, but we should not allow these differences to become excuses for inaction.”)
• Va. Republican Party seeks to get out vote against Kaine without mentioning Corey Stewart
• Danville leaders walk out of Corey Stewart speech in protest (Good for the Danville leaders!)
• Rep. Dave Brat backs out of second debate, Democratic opponent says
• VP Joe Biden Endorses Abigail Spanberger for Congress in VA07 (“President Barack Obama endorses Elaine Luria, Jennifer Wexton, Abigail Spanberger in ‘second wave’…”)
• Obama endorses three Democrats running for Congress in Virginia
• Spanberger and Brat spar over debate and ‘harassing’ note left at Brat’s home (Sounds like it was four high school students being dumbasses.)
• Forest Service emails raise questions about pipeline approval, catch judge’s eye
• Northam, McAuliffe speak at NOVA Pride Festival
• All Peninsula-area school divisions best statewide graduation rate
• In the former capital of the Confederacy, there’s no longer a Museum of the Confederacy
• Where did Virginia’s food-to-liquor ratio come from and does it still serve a purpose?
• Former Charlottesville police chief, who resigned in December 2017, is getting a city paycheck until July 2019
• Richmond Public Schools has the worst high school graduation rate in Virginia
• Showers, storms possible this afternoon, even warmer tomorrow and Thursday