Jump to content

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead

Michael Knight

By Michael Knight
in Cloak Room

 Share

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 2k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

travelingtexan
travelingtexan

Just think, if RBG doesnt enter feminist ways into goverment, we dont have insta thots and tik tok sluts. I regret both of them exist.

travelingtexan
travelingtexan

No wonder anyone with sense avoids this subforum. This is Texags level of hivemind groupthink right here. Yall make Texans ashamed everywhere. Enjoy 4 more years of Trump you strap on loving biden sig

travelingtexan
travelingtexan

I'll joke about her right now. That woman is responsible for more abortions than south chicago!

Posted Images

hobbes2702

hobbes2702 12844

Posted
Posted
Just now, Michael Knight said:

49% of Republican voters identify as Trump supports. He has a 99.99999% approval rating among those voters. A Republican cannot win an election by going against Trump 

That’s factually untrue. 
It’s even more factually untrue in purple states 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
wildcat09

wildcat09 29256

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

I will say that any Republican Senators who oppose filling the nomination this year better have damned good security, because you're going to see Qanon rallying the mouth breathers to do something.  

This. I actually believe Murkowski and Romney might consider standing on principle...for about five minutes.

They’ll whip the votes with guns to heads if they have to.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Blotto

Blotto 23434

Posted
Posted (edited)

Damn, just read the news. Set aside all of the political bullshit for now, I hate how she had to spend her last days. I'm a huge term limit guy for Congress and every bit as much for the Supreme Court. A 12 year term would have allowed her  to serve her country on the bench and then 15 years of life after the court. As it is, she no doubt felt obligated to soldier on when her prognosis was grim. Rather than pack the court, I would prefer a more constant churn of justices. 

Edited by Blotto
  • Hook 'Em 5
  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Horn Dog

Horn Dog 9672

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, HRSchenker said:

Logistically speaking, could the Dems block a nominee at all?

No.  Nor should they.  Let the Pubs do their thing so we can rip the bandaid off and there will be no excuse for fighting back with the same ruthlessness that only the pubs can pull off up to this point.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Paul Wesley

Paul Wesley 3277

Posted
Posted
5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I will say that any Republican Senators who oppose filling the nomination this year better have damned good security

You can say the same for McConnell and whoever he nominates.  
 

Hence my earlier comment that this is the event that lights the fuse.  

  • Hook 'Em 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
27-25

27-25 2040

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, Blotto said:

Damn, just read the news. Set aside all of the political bullshit for now, I hate that how she had to spend her last days. I'm a huge term limit guy for Congress and every bit as much for the Supreme Court. A 12 year term would have allowed her  to serve her country on the bench and then 15 years of life after the court. As it is, she no doubt felt obligated to soldier on when her prognosis was grim. Rather than pack the court, I would prefer a more constant churn of justices. 

This.  The GOP has caught on to a very important point about lifetime appointments.  Get on the bench young and you've effectively packed the court for a couple of generations.  But it also means you risk elevating someone with less than complete life experiences.  Term limits for the SC should be something looked at.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dnaguy

Dnaguy 11775

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, Blotto said:

Damn, just read the news. Set aside all of the political bullshit for now, I hate that how she had to spend her last days. I'm a huge term limit guy for Congress and every bit as much for the Supreme Court. A 12 year term would have allowed her  to serve her country on the bench and then 15 years of life after the court. As it is, she no doubt felt obligated to soldier on when her prognosis was grim. Rather than pack the court, I would prefer a more constant churn of justices. 

If she didn’t want to be on the court, she would have retired back in 2014.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
BradInATX

BradInATX 9208

Posted
Posted

RIP RBG.

It's such an amazing confluence of luck, timing, and a better killer instinct than the opponent that the Republicans will have successfully and methodically pushed the government rightward and authoritarian since 2000 while the population as a whole has become much more liberal and libertarian. It's a shame.

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 2
  • Fuck You 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Knighthawk

Knighthawk 284

Posted
Posted

RIP RBG.  

she should have hung up her robe during Obama’s term given her health issues.    Would be fascinating to understand her decision Process to stay in place and roll the dice on Hillary in 2016.   Maybe the story is already posted on prior pages but I’m not going back ...

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Fuck You 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
hobbes2702

hobbes2702 12844

Posted
Posted
Just now, Dnaguy said:

Hope in one hand, shit in the other.

See which ones fills up faster.

I actually don’t think it’s all that hopeful. I see no reason for any of those three to support the nominee and I doubt any in close races in purple states want to take the fall for Trump.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
TwiceHorn

TwiceHorn 31280

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

If she didn’t want to be on the court, she would have retired back in 2014.

Yeah, RBG was devoted to the law.  She was widowed and her children grown. I do think her final final days were dictated by politics, but before that, she wasn't leaving the bench with her faculties intact.

  • Hook 'Em 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Popular Post
ChiTownDoc

ChiTownDoc 21101

Posted
  • Popular Post
Posted
1 minute ago, McCroskey said:

I really like reading the stories about her relationship with Scalia. We need more of that right now, and less of this “opposing beliefs are poisonous” bullshit. Goes for both sides.

RIP.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No, people need to be fucking pissed.  They're about to legislate your mom, sister, daughter's vagina for fuck's sake.  The democrats got here by being contrite and polite.  FUCK all of that. 

  • Hook 'Em 6
  • Like 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites
ChiTownDoc

ChiTownDoc 21101

Posted
Posted
Just now, hobbes2702 said:

I disagree entirely. It’s a horrible messaging moment for anyone in a close race. 

So it's a close race, you say?  I'd say it's horrible messaging to half the crowd, and fucking fantastic to the other half.  Guess which half got their ass that seat in the first place? 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
 Share
Go to topic listing


Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...