Absolutely. My family is feverishly working on how to leave this hellscape of a country we’re in. The United States is dead.
Personally, I love this country. Best of luck to you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
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#392I wonder if he will go down in American history as a more poisonous senator than McCarthy.
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#393Here's my prediction: Trump will nominate a successor in the next couple weeks. McConnell will start the process, but delay the vote until after the November election. This way: If Trump wins, McConnell can say that he was entirely reasonable and consistent, and he waited until after the election to ensure that the people really wanted Trump's SCOTUS nomination to be confirmed. If Trump loses, McConnell still has the…
A political showdown over the nominee would very well be the decisive moment of this campaign and determine the presidency.
The Dems took a huge risk with Kavanaugh going after the way they did (allegations against an 18 year old at a party where technically nothing happened???) but were saved by a a deeply emotive testimony by a woman who pulled a lot of heartstrings and came off credibly.
That was an incredible risk because if that performance was not across the line ... it would have completely backfired.
Also - merely making a nomination makes Trump look strong.
Winning a competition against Dems - which I think he can because he has the votes - looks strong.
I don't see any way for the Dems to win with this unless Trump nominates a total fool.
Trump is flirting with the same poll numbers Hillary had las time and Biden is not a strong candidate ... this is not a good position for the Dems to be in.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
As much as I respected and admired RBG, even she would’ve known it’s at best a wish and nothing else. If things weren’t so polarized, they absolutely should spare no time in replacing the seat, as is their duty. But we know it’ll be yet another cynical and dishonest process as it was last time.
What do you mean "even she"? She literally said it was a wish!
Yep a wish. Like magic. I mean to say that even she knows that our constitution isn’t written for wishes.
I say this as a completely dejected person knowing that the Republicans will fill that seat with another solidly conservative judge, not out of glee.
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#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's crazy about that rant? Trump already has his reasoning for wanting a third term. Two remaining lines of defense for the American people were (1) Elections and (2) the Supreme Court. 2 is now gone. Republicans (Aka trump) are working hard on 1. By the way, what happens when election results are contested? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
I’ll extend my $10k wager to you as well then. Will Trump get a 3rd term? I’ll get “no” and you can have “yes”.
I am an immigrant who relied on the Supreme Court to stay in the US legally. I don't think it'll do you much good to have a 10k wager with me, lol.
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#396Remove the Publicly visible Like Count and those kind of conversations and connections are easy. The Like count makes people defensive or aggressive especially when they are called out in public leading to never ending reaction and counter reaction cycles. Without that dumb random signal interfering in conversations all kinds of strange connections are possible. I see it at work meetings between highly competitive pe…
People were horrible to each other online long before modern social media, and indeed in print and in person long before that. While some people do indeed pursue likes for their own sake, it's not the root cause of social aggression.
It's not the catalyst, it's the accelerant - when you have 1000 points for your troll post you're sure as heck gonna do more of them.
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
There would seem to be precedent for this now. Justice Antonin Scalia died in February of 2016, a replacement was nominated in March of 2016, and because Scalia's seat had become vacant during an election year, the Senate would not even consider a nomination from the president [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_...
McConnell immediately clarified his position was "the Senate shouldn't consider a nomination in an election year if it's controlled by my party and the president isn't in my party" -- no kidding, this was his actual clarification.
Honest at least.
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#398> According to her granddaughter Clara Spera, Ginsburg said, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/13071014175225610...
There would seem to be precedent for this now. Justice Antonin Scalia died in February of 2016, a replacement was nominated in March of 2016, and because Scalia's seat had become vacant during an election year, the Senate would not even consider a nomination from the president [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_...
That is not the precedent: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/history-is-on-the-sid...
> History supports Republicans filling the seat. Doing so would not be in any way inconsistent with Senate Republicans’ holding open the seat vacated by Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. The reason is simple, and was explained by Mitch McConnell at the time. Historically, throughout American history, when their party controls the Senate, presidents get to fill Supreme Court vacancies at any time — even in a presidential election year, even in a lame-duck session after the election, even after defeat. Historically, when the opposite party controls the Senate, the Senate gets to block Supreme Court nominees sent up in a presidential election year, and hold the seat open for the winner. Both of those precedents are settled by experience as old as the republic.
The linked article actually goes on to describe every situation where there was an election year Supreme Court vacancy. Please read.
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McConnell is pretty transparent about his hypocritical political bullshit: > "Oh, we’d fill it,” McConnell told supporters in Kentucky on Tuesday when asked what he would do if a Supreme Court justice died in 2020 while President Trump was still in office > https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/29/oh-wed-fi... edit: Am I really getting downvoted for pointing out how the current administration already said i…
McConnell has done more harm to the USA than any other politician I can think of in recent memory.
More than Trump? McConnell is at least a professional politician and not a washed-up reality TV heir.
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How would it be an amazing feat? Trump already has a list of candidates, and all it takes is 50 Senators to say yes (plus Pence breaking a tie if they somehow don't get 51). There's no requirement to allow any but the most perfunctory of floor debates, and the filibuster has been eliminated for SCOTUS justices. Guaranteed McConnell will ram this through with plenty of time to spare.
Trump's campaign has been blasting SCOTUS picks to their email list for weeks. From the latest one: > Did you hear the news? President Trump has released his shortlist for candidates for the Supreme Court. Here is a sneak preview of a few of the names on the list: > Senator Tom Cotton > Senator Josh Hawley > Senator Ted Cruz > And more…
Wow Hawley and Cotton have risen meteorically. I would have half-expected Hawley's crypto-unionist populism to have kept him off such a list, but he'd surely be better than the others mentioned. Somehow, he ran for MO Attorney General without promising to further brutalize minorities. Within two years he was in the Senate and now within two more years he would be on the Supreme Court? Wow.