Yeah but but, BERNIE
HRC was a good pick, we could have gone for a more left leaning candidate like Bernie in 2024, but no, people are impatient.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy Will Retire From U.S Supreme Court
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Yeah but but, BERNIE
HRC was a good pick, we could have gone for a more left leaning candidate like Bernie in 2024, but no, people are impatient.
And the 5-4 Kennedy swing in favour of some smattering of social liberal causes will swing 5-4 against.
Roe v Wade is dead, Obergefell could go too tbh.
And we're gonna be here for quite some time. Here's hoping we start giving a damn abut the SC in future elections which requires us to participate instead of crying about the system on the sidelines.
That's ridiculous. She will not let trump replace her until she dies. Because she knows a 6-3 majority is much worse than a 5-4, and it matters for decades not just for the trump era.
Can we stop the 2016 cat fights? It's over. It's 2018 now. Trump won, and now we're here. We need to figure out how to make the best of this, not keep relitigating the last election. Thanks.
Or you know, maybe if some of the Bernie bros hasd compromised their beliefs for the greater good we wouldn't be in this pickle to begin with.
This is not helpful. "BUT BERNIE!" is useless to us now. The only thing we need to focus on is how we can stop the world from descending into a fascist dictatorship.
Do you actually legitimately think that will happen?
Shouldn't be surprising. Republicans don't play fair.
Dems can keep arguing about civility though.
She tried to tell you dummies.
On several fucking occasions. But some of the electorate can't see past Thursday, so shallow shit like "likability" and "favorite color" take a higher position for voting decisions (or apathy) than the prospect of 3 or more Supreme Court picks. I guess people need to lean by way of pain why people have literally fought and died to give us the right to vote. Why people in power fought tooth and nail to stop women and people of color from voting for literally hundreds of years. A right many even posting here shit on in the last 2 elections, casually and flippantly misusing or failing to take the shit seriously.
When the decisions start coming in over the next 20 years that hurt the people around you in ways that make you feel ashamed, remember these days and how your action or inaction contributed.
Will things get worse RIGHT NOW? Do we have to panic at this very minute about every single bad thing that is going to happen in the future?
No, we don't. There's nothing we can do to change anything that is happening. We are completly powerless until November, and by then Kennedy's replacement will have already been confirmed.
Worry about the battles as they come. If you don't, you're just asking for anxiety.
Not a chance. Ginsburg will cling to that seat in the hopes of depriving the conservatives of a 6-3 majority.
That's no small thing. It would delay any hope of replacing one of the conservatives and getting a liberal majority by years.
I fucking quit. I'm gonna go play WarFrame. Fuck this. Fuck Trump. Fuck McConnell. Fuck Kennedy. Fuck the GOP. Fuck all republicans. Fuck the Constitution.
Yeah why let republicans have 5-4 decisions, when she can let them have 6-3 decisions. good call. probably won't affect the next democrat we have in the white house.
That face
He deserves to be on the fucking wall after confessing to his crimes in prison.
Seriously this 2016 shit is stupid and pointless if you didn't get your ass up to vote in 2016 reguardless of the candidate. Its on the voters who didn't vote and didn't understand the stakes. Elections are bigger than the people we elect to power.
I'm with a campaign right now but it's worth letting people know what bad shit is gonna happen
Increase the court size but good luck the media will be all over the Dems for lack of decorum...
If they had their way the minimum voting age would be 25 and multiple forms of ID would be required at the booths. Oh and they'd probably push for a requirement to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and the Our Father before going in as well, as a modern day version of Literacy Tests.
Hey I'm Canadian. I'll be fine (for the most part). I'm worried about my sister and her family though.
Try?
"Berniebros" were Russian bots.
It is
But maybe not right at this very minute while the wounds are still raw
But he was absolutely nowhere close to winning the nomination, because he lost black voters by over 50 points.
I actually kind of agree, though. If we lived in the alternate dimension where Sanders gave a shit about appealing to black voters, maybe he would have won the nomination and the general election. We don't live there, though, and he got fucking destroyed in enough primaries in enough swing states that I don't believe he would have just rolled on to victory.
3 million more people voted for Hillary.
We are not a free nation. The party of oppression keeps winning power without popular support, while undermining voting rights, protest rights, human rights, and being disengaged from their constituents.
Yes there were a lot of people who protest voted or sat out, but that doesn't change the fact that republicans are still winning while losing.
We are suffering from tyrrany
If they can look the other way w/ Trump saying he might pardon himself, I'm sure they'll look the other way for this.
The Bernie or nothing people were bots? Someone just posted about it in this very same thread.
I don't expect the nominee Trump chooses to be a sane one and every goddamn GOP senator will say "fuck it" since they won't have to feel the repercussions of their actions. But future generations? Fuck them.
It use to be a bit smarter when you had to have bipartisan support for a new Justice. Now you could get anyone you wanted on there regardless of stance if one party banded together to vote them in.
The thing that isn't appreciated by many (including me at the time is the fact that, to us, Trump was a joke. He was always a joke.
But to a large part of America, he was never a joke. "Trump" is basically another word for success. We thought everyone would dismiss him as we did, but tons of people never looked at him the way we do.
The interesting theory I've seen, considering the "fall" date McConnell gave, is using this to energize the right-wing base to the polls by dragging out the nomination.