RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1307099466449776640

Uh oh.

In retrospect, Democrats pining their hopes on an 87 year old cancer survivor wasn’t the greatest idea.

 

[909]

Well, this country is fucked

 

[snuffbox]

I really hope we choose to do better at voting in a handful of weeks.

 

[King Kamala]

There is no way that Trump can push through a Supreme Court nominee this close to the election, right? Right?

 

[909]

I really hope we choose to do better at voting in a handful of weeks.

Might not matter. Any election disputes will be pushed to a 6-3 SCOTUS.

 

[King Kamala]

Average time from nomination to final Senate vote is 67 days and we have 46 days until the election. No doubt Trump and Moscow Mitch will try to push someone through though.

 

[snuffbox]

Of course they will try. And I wouldn't bet against them succeeding. For so many reasons, each of them bad, the Republican Party has been given so much power, and have been allowed to avoid consequences, that it could happen. For those who have been dehumanized and killed and will continue to be done so, we desperately need to get this election right.

 

[snuffbox]

McConnell has already stated that they will fill the seat.

 

[909]

It seems to me that Mitch has decided they will already lose, and that it will make the Democrats look very bad to do the things required to unfuck the country, and that they can just get power back in two years if they make Democrats do those things.

Correctly, he has surmised that fucking up doesn't really affect Republicans in a long-term, meaningful way. And besides, with the filibuster gone they can utilize that play to do a whole lot worse than they've already done. He just thinks they can't be the ones to do it first.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

RIP

 

[BruiserBrody]

McConnell has already stated that they will fill the seat.

I'm curious if they don't see this as a chance to motivate voters out for Trump. Obv. the power grab seems like the best choice since it will set up decades of votes. The GOP could keep power now AND secure it in the future with a little patience. Ramming through a SCOTUS seems like a good way to stir liberals up for a November sweep.

 

[snuffbox]

I worry that it could motivate some of the evangelicals/etc who may have rediscovered their moral compass to change their mind about voting for Biden or just not voting for Trump. A nomination of scum like Cotton/Cruz/whatever could gin up the deplorables.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308403638897958914

Well the fix is in.

 

[snuffbox]

Someone has misplaced their moral compass, again.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308411961659580416

 

[BruiserBrody]

Honestly, Romney could be setting up for a NO vote, ala John McCain. I think that news was overblown.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308575190503370752

 

[snuffbox]

No, he's not. He's just another amoral Republican coward.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1311689358295085056

(Nick Nolte grumble)

 

[snuffbox]

Anyone that's ever watched a Dusty Rhodes match is also a Rhodes Scholar.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

gonna put that on my resume brb

 

[Brocklock]

Damn, I still get a chill across my spine when I read the thread title.