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  1. Excellent opinion piece

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/22/ruth-bader-ginsburg-court-seat-victim-republican-warfare-column/5853211002/

     

    "Part of the asymmetrical nature of the behavior of the Republicans is that no matter how outrageously they behave — whether refusing to work with a two-term Democratic president or making up bogus rules to take a Supreme Court seat — if Democrats respond in any way, the GOP goes straight into victim mode, acting like the Democratic response just came out of nowhere. Don’t fall for it. The Democrats have shown incredible restraint, due to their commitment to the institutions of this country — the same institutions that Trump has been firebombing for the past four years."

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  2. 8 hours ago, Voldemort86 said:

    I hope nobody donated to that spineless cunt.

    Unfortunately I think once the hearing start and he gets to showboat and whine about how he, dotard and Kavanaugh are the real victims, the cash will flow like wine.  Regrettably  this is probably gonna save him cause “conservatives” love being cast as the ultimate victim.

  3. 30 minutes ago, Fletch said:

    Dude. I’ve been hearing this from my fairly well off uncle in the woodlands. But he’s like a legit white supremacist. One night in like 2015 he came over for Christmas. Everyone went to bed and I was watching the daily show. They were talking about shit in the Middle East and my uncle just goes “you know what we outta do? Bomb em back to the Stone Age! They’re just fuckin animals!!” That was after he said “I can’t stand fucking N-words(and he landed the ‘r’). I don’t want em around me, my wife, my kids, their friends, my neighborhood!” And yeah you get the point. And I’ve posted what my trumptard friends have been saying on here. Yep. The people preaching peace and equality and shit like that are the violent ones. Our public education system has failed us in every way possible

    Got damn Fletch.  You may actually have to fake your own death to get away from your family/friends!

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  4. Thats because its really difficult to run a functional society with a stated philosophy of “interpret everything like its 1776”.  Sure it sounds ‘principled’ when you are issuing harmless dissents,  but it causes real problems when actually applied. 

  5. 2 hours ago, softlynow said:

    I seem to recall each party predicting decades in the wilderness for the other party every 2-4 years. I've never understood why people think one party in a two-party system could ever gain that kind of dominance absent a cataclysmic event like the Civil War.

    This is remarkable. 

     

  6. 49 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

    OK let me give another example. Democrats insisted that a President has a right to nominate a candidate and that candidate has a right to an up or down vote even in an election year. They argued it to the bitter end in 2016. Now precedent is OK? Like I said the only difference is Democrats will try to explain why they changed their mind while Republicans say fuck off.

    Is this for real?  This is like saying that if both of us are standing there with guns pointed at each other, and I say "I think we need to put the guns down and talk it out", and you say "Fuck that I'm shooting" and you shoot, that your response when I shoot back will be "You said we needed to put the guns down... hypocrite!"

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  7. 2 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Exactly.  Yall act like a one time win and you pack AOC across the courts wouldnt piss off a large portion of the country. It'd be cool for a few years, then the pendulum would swing right back.  People want power, they dont give af what letter is behind their name. 

    Pissing off large portions of the country with regards to the courts has worked out pretty well for the R's for decades. 

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  8. 14 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I think there is still a large swath of people in the country who ride somewhere in the "middle, on (oh no) both sides.  I don't believe the court will get packed.  I think it if ever did, it would just pack the other way in the next 4-6 years.  The "middle" is sick and tired of the bullshit on (fuck, again) both sides.    We'd already be a failed democracy by then anyhow.  

    The problem is the large swath of people who are sick of the bullshit (from both sides) do not punish the pubs for it.  Its like playing a basketball game where the ref is sick of all the fouls but doesn't blow his whistle.  What do you do?   Let the other side foul while you play clean, or foul like shit to force the whistle?  

    3 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    You realize that if the Dems get to pack the court it’s over for the GOP for quite some time right?

    Exactly.  And the pack the courts is the first step.  Add the senators and expand the house and the pubs will be walking the desert for the remainder of our lifetimes.

  9. 3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

     

    They are going to try to pack it either way. 

    Agree that this was being talked about by the left fringe, but if the pubs show restraint, there is NO WAY the majority of the population will support it, which of course means the dems will not proceed.  The only way this happens is if the pubs force this through without Trump winning reelection.  The American people are dumb asses, but they have a sense of justice.

    The only way the pubs could force a nominee through and NOT cause a severe backlash would be if they nominated Merrick.   That would be a 4-D chess move and would make heads explode , so of course will never happen.

  10. If someone told you one month ago that you could trade losing SC cases 5-4 to losing them 6-3 for a year or two, in exchange you get a fantastic chance to pack the court, and shift ALL 3 branches of government away from the dipshit party for decades, would you take it?   Do it Mitch!

     

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  11. 31 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The senate is in a downward spiral that each time the majority flips, there is an increase of punishment of the now-minority. Either in their voice or actual voting. Court packing is feeling justified the way McConnell restricted nominations in Obama’s years and has opened the floodgates for trump. And his behavior with election year nominees.

    if the Dems take the WH, senate and house, I would expect a punishment by packing the courts which may not be limited to scotus.

    Which will then lead to the reverse happening when it flips back to gop control.  This is a cycle that is bad for America. Everyone feels justified in the actions because they want to hurt the other side for action X.

    Don’t start none won’t be none.  But since it’s been started and its a full blown gun fight now thanks to McConnell, objective one is kill the opponent.   Pack the courts, add the states, expand HOR representatives, address voter suppression.  Sure the GOP will one day hold all 3 levers of power, but hopefully when that happens in 100yrs, they will be a different entity.

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  12. 1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

    He forgot the left wing mobs will rape your family part 

    That would suppress some of this core turn out since a large amount of his male base would be turned on by that possibility 

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  13. 32 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

    I would put that chance higher than 50%. They might be more comfortable doing it after the 2022 midterms when they hopefully pick up more seats. It would also give more time for the conservative court to fuck more people and sway public opinion. 

    They better do away with the filibuster right away though. 

    Agree but chances go way up if the pubs force this through, which is why I am all in favor of it.  Also, fuck that wait till next election cycle to do what is needed.  No more waiting.  No more pussy shit from the dems.  Do it immediately.   Make DC and PR states immediately....although who wants to make a bet that the SC somehow rules that it is unconstitutional to expand the court or add states without the consent of  South Dakota.

  14. 40 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    As an actual independent, I don't see how Republicans can justify this when LITERALLY the same exact thing happened in 2015-16 and they wouldn't even hold a fucking hearing.

    Now, a month and a half out from another presidential election, you... wanna railroad through someone? Bold strategy. 

    This is all the GOP is about these days.  Good job “conservatives”!

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/ginsburg-voter-reactions.html?referringSource=articleShare
     

    “We might as well just add this to the list of things that make them cry and whine and make snowflake tears fall,” he said of Democrats. “We might as well try to get a justice in there to give us a little more advantage.”
     


    “Absolutely, it’s hypocritical,” he said. “But it will be good for the Republican Party and good for America.”

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  15. 1 hour ago, Planet Houston said:

    This is what I donated to last night. They strategically allocate your donation to the most important senate races. 

    https://secure.actblue.com/donate/getmitch

     

    Looks like they split the contribution EVENLY amongst the listed candidates.  Is there any fund that allocates donations strategically to maximize effect?  For instance, i don’t think Hegar is anywhere near as good an investment as Greenfield or Harrison

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  16. 1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:


    Careful about PR—it’s not necessarily Democratic.


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    Good point.  Ok how about every city with a population greater than Wyoming gets to become its own state.

  17. 8 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    The reality is she failed. Who was to blame can be argued about all day but that was a great time to reform it and she blew it. She was in charge. You don’t get to not get blamed for failure when you are in charge. 

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