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Tracks for shitstain partisan judges like alito. "Not a political organization" then coordinates retirements with the party lol.
Could be worse. You could be a liberal justice and refuse to step down despite your age and health. Then decide to kill over when Trump is in office and allow a supreme court to destroy everything you represented or accomplished.
RBG was the ultimate boomer refusing to pass the torch and choosing to recognize their own mortality. She was 87 fucking years old.
Alito is being smart and not being stupid like RBG was. She should have stepped down as soon as Obama was elected the 2nd time.
Friendly correction in case it wasn't an autocorrect screw up, it's keel over
Let's just keep in mind that RBG was the deciding vote in handing the 2000 election to it's loser, George Bush, and right after that the R party started their voter fraud allegations and laws.
You can draw a straight line from the 2000 election, to 2020, to now. RBG was a trecherous piece of shit.
RBG was the ultimate boomer refusing to pass the torch and choosing to recognize their own mortality. She was 87 fucking years old.
Definitely not a boomer.
Nope, she would have been "Silent Generation", I believe.
Its the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
You missed the point by thi________________________s much.
The ONLY reason billionaires have the power they have is because of conservatives (including neo-liberals). Conservatives have always protected the wealthy. They worship the rich.
If not for conservatives, the normal people would be able to charge billionaires with crimes. If not for conservatives, billionaires would be required to pay fair taxes. As long as conservatives continue to breathe our air, billionaires will remain untouchable.
We cannot defeat the boss until his foot-soldiers are dead.
Question if you asked a multi-millionaire boomer to give up there social security to someone who needs it. Say the family makes $400k a year which includes $40,000 in social security. Do you think they would willingly give that up? Do you think thats an easy political goal?
"hey social security is intended for people who depend on it financially and not a buffer to your large portfolio"
We could solve social security by capping the OUTFLOWs at $250k. Go poll some boomers on that lmao let me know if you still think they are working class.
Boomers are not working class since most of them are actually taking money from the working class right now, and are incentivized to keep electing these god awful politicians. They were working class now they live off investments, and social security, both held up by the actual working people.
She should have stepped down as soon as Obama was elected the 2nd time.
Not that it likely would matter, as Turtlefucker would have found a way to stall and kill his nominee for her spot anyway.
One failure of the Democratic party is not an excuse for another failure. Obama had the same power under the reading of the constitution to appoint a Judge without Congress if Congress refuses to hold a vote.
When the constitution was written they didn't write down specifically about what happens if Congress refuses to do its job. That's the exact reasoning that the Republicans were acting on.
The Democrats have lost so much for this country by standing by and "following the rules". They get dunked on by a dog playing basketball while the Republicans say "nothing in the rules that says a dog can't play basketball".
You'd benefit from watching this nearly 8 year old video. It will give you a lot of perspective on how we have gotten to where we are today and why we continue to see the same thing.
They all did this though. RBG was certainly holding out until after Trump was out of office.
Woops for her I guess. Maybe the lesson there is retire when younger and skip the "holding out for better circumstances" bullshit because you never know what might happen. Sounds like alito got the memo.
I’m not disagreeing.
Roll the dice. They don't get more loathsome than Alito. Pardon me, for a moment I forgot that Thomas exists. Fuck it, roll the dice anyway. Maybe we get a non-lizard-person by accident.
The federalist society was created just so we don't get a non lizard person in by accident, and since it's inception, we haven't had a single one, even as they were majority until that point in the modern era.
They handpick these guys from law school and groom them and make sure they won't come down with a case of morality. Picking guys they have evidence of crimes on probably helps in that respect.
Yup. They never ever want another Souter.
If the democrats take the senate back it would be rather funny to see an appointment locked out "until the people can have a say"
The problem is if Alito retires between the election and Republican senators being replaced on January 3, the Senate would rush to confirm his replacement to prevent the potential blocking of Trump's nominated candidate.
Yep. We'll never see the Do Nothing Cons work so hard as they will to fuck over the will of the people.
Lol, as if congressional Democrats would ever actually do something.
Establishment Dems (AKA neo-liberals) are conservatives. They are controlled opposition, so obviously they will seat whomever Trump appoints. He could appoint Elon or even Grok, and the conservative Dem leadership will do it.
We need to be voting for progressives if we want progressives. And we need to be calling out establishment Dems and neo-liberals as the vile, subhuman conservatives they are.
Do it after the Midterms, so the Democratic Senate can do the McConnell Shuffle, and just block every single nominee they put up for two straight years, until the Dems take it back in 2028.
It will be so much fun to hear the MAGAs cry that it isn't fair! BWAHAHAHAHA!
Can you imagine if Trump nominated himself to the supreme court?
Well you spoke this into existence now, he’s gonna do it
That'd be awesome. Dude has about 2 years left.
I’m sympathetic to the idea that we don’t need a “Supreme Court” at all. We have a representative legislature, we have federal judges. All these fucking assholes do is distort the constitution to serve an aristocracy that is not unlike the aristocracy we fought a revolution to overthrow. They’re goddamn traitors.
It's pretty trivial to cut the Supreme Court out of the loop. All you have to do is write into the language of a law that ruling on this law is outside the jurisdiction of SCOTUS. SCOTUS has original jurisdiction on a few issues, like issues involving disputes between states. But most of what it rules on are it's jurisdiction simply because Congress hasn't assigned the issue to any other court.
He’s just waiting to see how the midterms play out. Pretty much guarantee he’ll retire if the Dems gain a bunch of seats.
Well, we can't approve an appointment with only two years left before an election. That would just be unreasonable. Guess we'll just have to wait until after 2028 to seat anyone.
Yep. Bitch McConnell rules.
Dropping news like this seems akin to “don’t announce close to an election where it could potentially impact election”
… or am I incorrect, here?
That's why they're announcing it. They want to bring out their voters to make sure he gets replaced with another asshole.
Oh shit, that's it.
Supreme Court appointments? Congress? Constitution?
These silly games yall want to play are so outdated.
The only games we need to be playing right now are making plans to publicly execute traitors the instant we resume control. All conservatives are traitors and should be dealt with as such, starting with these illegitimate SCOTUS conservative cockroaches.
If only we could get the timid and tepid lot that think they are the American left on board with that, but they are so goddamn squeamish about violence of any kind that they believe we will imprison the bastards, which really means that they will walk, just like Nixon, Reagan, the Confederates...
Lol. Better do it in the next week, buddy.
The cons are great at ramming through people in record time when they need to. See Amy Coney Barrett...
