What was she thinking during that seven second pause?

[Towlie]

Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing into a political circus

Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, turned theatrically to an outsized blow-up of a children’s book, Antiracist Baby by Ibram X Kendi. Pointing to a cartoon from its pages of an infant in diapers taking their first walk, he asked Jackson: “Do you agree with this book … that babies are racist?”

“Senator,” Jackson began with a sigh. And then she paused for seven full seconds, which in the august setting of the Senate judiciary committee hearing felt like a year...

“I have not reviewed any of those books,” she said. “They don’t come up in my work as a judge, which I’m respectfully here to address.”

[lagomorph777]

1. "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change..."

"...the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

That's what I do when I'm being verbally abused. It helps me stay on the high ground and avoid escalation. It seems to work, despite my devout atheism.

[Ray Bruns]

10. And if I ever get a chance to kick Ted Cruz in the nuts, let my aim be straight and true.

[FailureToCommunicate]

18. Aim small, miss small...

[RevBrotherThomas]

45. This made my morning! nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

47. ...

[Katcat]

27. Amen to that!

[MurrayDelph]

35. And please, please, please

May I be wearing my cowboy boots with the pointiest toes.

[evolves]

36. Good luck finding them.

n/t

[Slammer]

42. God, give me the strength to change the things that can be changed...

...the strength to change the things that probably can't be changed, and the strength to change that which can't possibly be changed. Hey, if You can't work miracles, what the hell good are You?

- Walter Slovotsky

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Ted seems to have a thing about children's books.

He is a deeply disturbed man.

[TheBlackAdder]

25. When someone speaks quickly, they are trying to speed pacing to make the other feel rushed.

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This is a tactic Ben Shapiro uses to make people make misstatements. The best way to diffuse that is to slow the pacing down and don't the the other try this manipulation tactic.

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[TrogL]

43. It's part of the Gish Gallop

[TheBlackAdder]

46. Thanks! I learned a new term! 👍

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments. The term was coined in 1994 by anthropologist Eugenie Scott, who named it after American creationist Duane Gish and argued that Gish used the technique frequently when challenging the scientific fact of evolution.[1][2] It is similar to another debating method called spreading, in which one person speaks extremely fast in an attempt to cause their opponent to fail to respond to all the arguments that have been raised.

During a Gish gallop, a debater confronts an opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate.[3][4] Each point raised by the Gish galloper takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place, which is known online as Brandolini's law.[5] The technique wastes an opponent's time and may cast doubt on the opponent's debating ability for an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved or if the audience has limited knowledge of the topics.[6]

Generally, it is more difficult to use the Gish gallop in a structured debate than a free-form one.[7] If a debater is familiar with an opponent who is known to use the Gish gallop, the technique may be countered by pre-empting and refuting the opponent's commonly used arguments before the opponent has an opportunity to launch into a Gish gallop.[8]

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[IamHappy]

44. Cruz, Graham, Hawley, Blackburn and Cotton all seem

to have a thing about child pornography, watch their eyes. They are stepping over each other to talk about it.

[spooky3]

3. "With every word you utter, I become more convinced that you

were an ‘affirmative action admission’ at Harvard, Senator Carnival.”

[Doc Sportello]

4. She's thinking "sheesh I knew these guys were dumb assholes"

But I didn't know they were this dumb and this big of assholes.

[panader0]

5. Judge Jackson knew that the R's would sling do-do and she was ready.

Whether coached ahead of time or not, she has handled the idiocy on the right with grace
and dignity. I'm very impressed with her.

[SergeStorms]

26. No kidding.

I didn't know much about her before Biden chose her for the SCOTUS, but she has done nothing but impress me.

That she can suffer the slings and arrows from these GQP reptilian zombies without snapping their heads off and shitting down their necks is far beyond my capability, and the vast majority of others.

She's as level headed as they come, and makes "I like beer" Kavanagh look like a petulant five year old.

If republicans can manage to affirm ACB and Beer Boy, they should have no qualms about Ms.Jackson. She makes both of them look ridiculous.

[Samrob]

6. A 7 second sigh that showed dignified contempt. Epic! nt

[Spazito]

7. Counting to ten...

that's what I do when an asshole is trying to make me angry, I count to 10 before responding. It works 98% of the time, the other 2% is when I think, 'Fuck it' and let loose without restraint.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Can't speak for her, but I know what I was thinking.

[Towlie]

9. "Not all babies are racist but it's clear that racist babies exist because I'm looking at one now."

 
←

[vlyons]

11. Sen Feinstein warned her early on

Perhaps she was thinking do I take this asshole down now, or do I remain calm and get confirmed ton the supreme court?

[Catherine Vincent]

12. #TedCruzisanidiot

[SergeStorms]

28. Somewhere in Texas....

a village is missing it's idiot.

He can be found in the U.S. Senate making a complete asshole out of himself.

[global1]

13. I Was Thinking That Someone Should Write A Play About This 3 Day Questioning Of Her.....

and substitute how she could or should have answered these Repug Senator's questions - instead of the well-mannered, poised and professional way she did answer their questions.

We were all thinking how we'd respond to those jerks. Just think of what must have been going through her mind as she remained poised and professional.

[ShazzieB]

22. Sounds like great SNL material!

[ChazInAz]

33. Remember President Obama's "Anger Interpretor"?

[ShazzieB]

39. Oh yes, that one was a classic! 😁

[11 Bravo]

14. One word per second: "Eat Shit And Die You Fucking Jackass".

[jonstl08]

15. Fuck you Asshole

Fuck you Asshole was probably going through her mind

[NBachers]

16. This Red Diaper Doper Baby approves Ketanji Brown Jackson's message.

[KT2000]

17. when a person yells and speaks to you

in anger, leave a considerable space of silence because it causes most people to hear themselves and how they said it. Then to respond calmly takes them off their performance.
Was taught this when I worked at a department store "billing adjustments."

[ecstatic]

40. Lol! nt

[lindysalsagal]

19. Stupid people re-elect stupid people to rep them.

But then just because they were elected, they think they're smart. Takes a special kind of stupid to take it as far as ted does.

[druidity33]

20. I have this book...

It's got really clunky rhyming... but it says things like this:

"Babies are taught to be racist or antiracist - there's no neutrality. Take these nine steps to make equity a reality.

1 Open your eyes to all skin colors
Antiracist Baby learns all the colors,
not because race is true.
If you claim to be color-blind,
you deny what's right in front of you.

2 Use your words to talk about race
No one will see racism if we only stay silent.
If we don't name racism,
it won't stop being so violent."

etc...



Not sure what Sen Cruz is going on about...

[raging moderate]

29. Ted Cruz has reading comprehension deficits.

The book title "Antiracist Baby" does not imply that there is such a thing as a "Racist Baby." It implies that babies can begin learning to oppose racism. This is the sort of mistake these rightwing zealots make constantly. They fail to think things through logically.

[SergeStorms]

31. He got to use the race card...

over and over so the pathetic GQP base understands at least one thing being discussed over three days.

He might as well have just repeated, "race, race, race, race, race, race......" for three days straight. It's all the base (is there a more perfect word to describe them?) will have understood.

[WarGamer]

21. counting to seven to avoid shouting obscenities.

[SergeStorms]

23. Cruz is racist to the bone....

so I think we can opine that he was raised a racist from the second he left the womb.

He's playing to the GQP base. They love this and Cruz may have even raised his approval from them a point or two. He'd still be the last person they ever chose as a presidential candidate though. 🙄

[The Jungle 1]

24. Wonder if she likes beer. Snark

She is blowing kavacreep out if the water.

[appleannie1]

30. The only time I saw here lose control was when Cory Booker was talking to her.

Tears streamed down her face the whole time but her expression never changed, She just quietly wiped them away with a Kleen ex and kept on listening without interruption as he bestowed honor after honor on her.

[3825-87867]

32. Ted Crude (Я-Texas)

We need to start referring to all the Яepublicans who support Putin with the Reverse R after their name and the state they represent. I've been putting it on all correspondence to any Senator or Rep (US or State or Local). Got some nasty shit back from them, too. One told me that's not the correct address for him ??? So I replied I thought you supported Russia and Putin! No reply.

Rick Scott (Я-FL)
Toomey (Я-Pa)
Mike Kelly (Я-Pa)
Green (Я-Ga)
Bobert (Я-Col)

I know it's pronounced "ya" in Russian, Crude (ya-Texas), Tommey (ya-Pa) but... why not?

Might just piss them off!

Feel free to copy the Я and post it anywhere you'd use the "R" for the Senator or Rep.
BTW, if you use Word, hold down the "alt" key and press 1071 to get that printed.

Also, here's a link to print ( in Word) other Cyrillic Characters.

You can copy and paste this character from here, also. Я or Я

https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/languages/europe/cyrillic/cyrillicchart/

[FoxNewsSucks]

34. I'm guessing she was agreeing with Biden

[jmowreader]

37. What she was thinking...

"Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag puke piece of shit, Senator Cruz, or did you have to work at it?"

I swear, there are times when Full Metal Jacket quotes are the right thing to say.

[Skittles]

38. but....but...she is black! And a WOMAN!

she has to be an expert on all things racist and babies!!!

[Skittles]

49. HOWDY jfz9580m

I had to google Cleverbot - very interesting stuff. I know all too much about Ted Fucking Cruz from living in Texas.

[bucolic_frolic]

41. Silence under pressure, anger, or plain exasperation is difficult to maneuver

Whether it was a strategy in her back pocket or just the way she felt, it was impressive.