wildcat09

Are you...are you not familiar with who makes up the Republican party these days?

You really can't?

Also, after today it's time for y'all to stop being a bunch of bitches. If Biden does decide to step aside for Harris great, I'll support her fully and I'll call my racist Nam vet stepdad every day for the next few months to convince him he needs to vote for her anyway. If it's still Biden, y'all need to cowboy the fuck up and tell everyone you know you'll vote for his literal corpse over Trump and demand that they do too because of what's at stake. I know it's shocking to many of us, but before today there were still tons of Americans who didn't get what's at stake in this election (hell, we had one here in CR the other day saying this will be the least consequential election ever). SCOTUS has clarified it for everybody. So I don't care if you need to fake optimism until you feel real optimism, or if you can get by with Brits-during-the-blitz style grim determination, but stop with the fucking whining. Start arguing with your friends who are thinking about not voting, or are thinking about voting for RFK, or are thinking about voting for Trump even though they don't think they're fascist. And if they are consciously fascist, why the fuck are you friends with them and don't you know how easy it is to get rid of a body? That's a joke if SCOTUS asks. We still have a chance to stop them from retaking power. And this might actually be their last gasp. Trump is in worse health than Biden and they've put everything they possibly can behind him. That's not the behavior of people who think they'll ever have another shot. They're even more desperate than we feel right now, because they know they can never convince actual majorities to support them. Think how fucking awesome it will feel to beat Trump and know that John Roberts has to confront the fact that he'll go down in history as literally the worst chief justice of all time and that he did it for fucking nothing.

Carville has been living in his weird ass mansion listening to Mary Matalin for fucking decades now. Taking his word as political gospel is like taking Larry Summers' word as economic gospel.

Yup. The GOP will never approve of any halfway decent man as President and they'll never nominate anyone who isn't one of the biggest pieces of shit in the history of the world.

To be clear, you would prefer that Kamala Harris be the candidate? Because I don’t know how many who also want to replace Biden would agree with you, but I know many wouldn’t.

If you're talking about giving Manning a chance that's one thing. If you're talking about pulling a random guy out of the crowd who you've never seen throw a football because he looks pretty that's a completely different thing.

They substantially changed what is considered "official" and greatly limited what evidence can be evaluated when making that determination.

Welcome to finally figuring out what it's like being a Democrat, I guess.

Man, you have no clue what you're talking about. You're just bitching about homeless people and ignoring what the case was actually about. It wasn't "should homeless people pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Y/N?" It wasn't "can a city use its police power to do anything at all about homeless people?" It was "can a city put a homeless person in jail for camping on public property when they have nowhere else to go?" That was the question at issue.

You don't get it. None of us are saying that it's actually fine that the Democratic nominee looks like the cryptkeeper and clearly has dementia. We're not giving Biden the worshipful Notorious RBG "he should get to choose when to step aside" treatment. I personally don't give a fuck about Joe Biden. What we are doing is explaining why all of y'all's magical alternatives are actually even worse options if your goal is to beat Trump. The only plausible alternative to Biden is Kamala Harris. If he decides to step aside and she's our nominee, I'd be fine with that, but there's no reason to think it materially changes our chances of beating Trump. And most of the people demanding an alternative now don't want it to be her. That's precisely why so many of you are dreaming impossible brokered convention scenarios. Whitmer, Newsome, and Pritzker don't want the huge fucking shitshow they would have on their hands from cutting in front of Harris without even running in any primaries. And Michelle Obama doesn't want the fucking job, and even if she did she suffers from most of the same electoral weaknesses (black woman) that are the reason y'all don't want Harris to be the nominee. At least she's not as publicly weird as Harris usually is, but there's actually no evidence that she'd be more likely to beat Trump than Biden is.

Not all authoritarianism is fascism.

Yeah, for anyone who has been following the polls this has been the case all year. It's not like Biden was up before the debate and then cratered.

Not only did they take too long, they didn't even really give any serious guidance on how to distinguish official from unofficial acts or say anything that might limit their ability to immunize him later if the lower courts find a way to say his acts were unofficial. They basically said "take a ton of time to figure it out, but when you do we're still probably going to take a huge shit on you and overrule you anyway."

This wishcasting is getting tiresome. We've moved from actual officeholders to a former first lady who has never run for any elected office. What's next? Y'all gonna start wishing for the Rock?

He should arrest all of the justices in the majority of this decision as well.

But that's not what the case was about! This is just your own tangential rant about homeless people!

All this "the race would've been over if Biden had won the debate" shit is literally insane. Did you people just wake up from a fifty year coma?

The inescapable conclusion is that the justices in the majority actually want Trump to exterminate their political opponents.

No, that's absolutely what this case was about. It about whether being too poor to afford shelter and having nowhere else to go could be penalized as a crime. The dissenters thought it couldn't and you said that sent a shiver down your spine.

Man, they came pretty close to openly saying Trump could have his political opponents assassinated.

Scalia?

Yup. Also, they went way out of their way to bless basically anything Trump wants to do to his enemies or to enrich himself if he wins in November.

Today more than ever, homelessness isn't even about mental illness or substance abuse it's just about poverty. Because there's like five cities that have actually built enough housing to accommodate the growth they've seen in the past decade. It's estimated that anywhere from 40 to 60% of homeless people nationwide have jobs but still can't afford shelter. This specific case that we're discussing was about whether homeless people can be jailed for camping when there are no homeless shelters to go to. I think it's inhuman and un-American to throw someone in jail simply because they can't afford rent and have nowhere to go. Called it.

The idea that being too poor to own a home couldn’t be made a criminal offense sent shivers down your spine?