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In reply to the discussion: Help me understand this Gorsuch ruling about Jesus on the 50 yard line. [View all]moniss
(8,232 posts)what I said before. They do not care about getting it wrong or purposely altering facts to fit their desired conclusion. They do not have a sense of shame and they do not care about being hypocritical in their arguments. Trying to argue these things with them on those terms is futile. Pointing these things out for ourselves and perhaps other voters is of course a good thing. Sociopaths can be highly functioning, seemingly successful people and carry out their sick actions all while seeming to remain calm as can be. Inside though these people are always twisted in rage that anybody questions their actions as they go about with their plans to "get people" and "to show them". I've had the misfortune to observe this behavior first hand several times over the years by well educated people in corporations and by blue/brown collar workers. It is bad enough when you have one in a group of people. When you get more than one it becomes a pit of snakes. In this case you combine that behavior by one or more (likely Thomas and Rapey Brett, possibly Alito) , combine it with some who are religious zealots (Amy the Cultist at the least) and the group being lead by a weakling like Roberts and this is the result.
Thomas had issues long before Anita Hill but he never got over the fact that she told the world what he really was and remember the most recent lashing out at Hill by low class Ginny proves that they still seethe over her supposed "betrayal" of "Coke Can Clarence". Rapey Brett and his obvious issues with women clearly have been long standing. His problems with alcohol may well have begun as a way for him to cope and then turned into a young man who, according to testimony, regularly was extremely drunk and seeming to force himself on women. Remember that there were other women besides Dr. Ford who wanted to testify but Grassley refused to allow it.