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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Underwent Cancer Treatment (Tumor Removed. No Further Signs of Infection)
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This is her fourth cancer surgery. Colon cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009, lung cancer in 2018, and now pancreatic cancer again in 2019.
You will LIVE, RBG!!
What? Mitch McConnell has already said that he absolutely would fill a seat if one opened during the election. If she dies, it's happening.
What? Mitch McConnell has already said that he absolutely would fill a seat if one opened during the election. If she dies, it's happening.
Really? We'd see a bunch of token resistance and then the Republicans would do whatever they want. Meanwhile everyone would complain on Twitter and then move on.
Depends on what you mean. It should be the duty of everyone against the far right to ensure they lose in the next election. But right now, we're in a primary. And it is so important to crap on Joe Biden, precisely because he is invested in lying about the danger Republicans at large pose to everyone. Not good at all.
what on earth would give you that impression? if any more supreme court seats open under Trump, the republican senate will fill it. installing an ultra-conservative judiciary is the whole reason for their existence and there is literally nothing democrats can do to stop it as long as they hold the presidency and 50 senate seats.
It can work. Look at Puerto Rico. But obviously it has to be a massive multi state movement.
The "rule" that McConnell used to block Garland in the last year of Obama's presidency is completely made up bullshit. He blocked it because he had the Senate majority. There is no legal artifice in the Constitution or on the books preventing a nominee in the last year of a president's term. It was all gentleman's agreement back when it was broadly understood that the two parties traded the big chair.
There is more or less nothing stopping them from immediately replacing RGB unless we literally storm the Capitol and do a sit in. Probably not even then.
There is more or less nothing stopping them from immediately replacing RGB unless we literally storm the Capitol and do a sit in. Probably not even then.
Those fuckers who "didn't like Hillary" really screwed us for most of our lifetimes. Die in a fucking fire.
You register any voters or flip nonvoters in the meantime?
LOL
She's beat pancreatic cancer before and hopefully she'll beat it again. She's lucky they keep catching this shit early.
A-fucking-men.
Godspeed, Justice Ginsburg. May you outlive us all.
Same. Worrying about (notorious) RBG's cancer is going to give me an ulcer at the very least.
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I wasn't referring to what McConnell will try to do. He's waited his entire life to change the balance of the Supreme Court. I'm talking about what the PUBLIC will allow. I seriously doubt folks will stand idly by if the Senate allows Trump to have a third seat. Yeah, you're gonna say, "how's this time different from when Trump started the Muslim ban, or locking children in cages?" Having a 6-3 rightward slant will directly impact folks on the left, which will definitely get butts out of seats to protest and disrupt.
Don't you think democrats ought to do better than just pull up a sign that says "we are not the republican party"?
As a public servant she absolutely does. She is such a public figure BY CHOICE that her health is most certainly not in a bottle and subject to scrutiny.
If she doesn't want to be subject to criticism about how her hubris put the welfare of millions at stake she could've retired. Serving on the highest court in the country ain't like some goddamn pop music career; with power comes responsibility.
This is some stupid shit, there are massive differences and if you didn't vote Hillary this is on you.
It won't happen here. The US as a whole is not set up that way. People need to take off of work to protest, and most peoples' healthcare is tied to their employer. Not everyone has the PTO to go protest either, so they're not going to risk getting fired and losing their healthcare. And I've got bad news for you, but even the people who DO have PTO, for the most part...aren't taking it to go protest.
There might be some weekend protests in major cities, and those would go maybe 2 weekends. After that, it will be mostly just strongly worded Facebook posts.
That's basically what happened when we learned that Trump and Crew were putting kids in cages, and something as terrible as that was barely enough to get people out of the house on a weekend.
Not happening. See above for the reason why.
Ugh, what? Senate is controlled by Republicans. They probably have already lined up her replacement...
She was bffs with Scalia. Most of this shit is theoretical to them.
This is exactly why supreme court justices should not have lifetime terms. They should not be pressured to stay or leave because the party of their ideology is in the White House.
They should serve a regular term like other government officials. I don't care what the length is. They can even request a second term and have the senate reconfirm them, but lifetime should not be an option.
She was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer years ago, during Obama's presidency.
Bile duct stent in the setting of pancreatic cancer, even in a treated one, is never a good sign.
It's almost like we could be shoring up political capital for stacking the courts by delegitimizing this laughably corrupt administration but our House leadership is completely letting us down or something.
Hillary didn't win because she was a bad candidate. It's not the voters fault if candidates don't win - it's the candidates themselves who failed to win the vote.
Blaming the voters will only lead to more defeats.
there are massive differences between the parties and if you can't recognize that the democrats would be immeasurably better on, say, THE SUPREME COURT, you are a moron. i'm sorry. we had a chance to put a left-leaning majority on the court for the first time in decades and blew it and now there's a decent chance it'll end up 6-3 conservative or worse.
yes. if you aren't scared shitless, you don't understand the stakes.
real heroes know when it's time to let go. like ginsburg should have done when obama still had the majority.
Well she was at a public performance of Fiddler on the Roof just last week (Michael Moore of all people brought it up and there are photos of her and the cast) so that's something.
Hm I'm glad that she has tolerated treatment.
However I'm in the medical field, and a "malignant pancreatic tumor with bile duct stent placement," is a dire scenario for anyone, let alone someone that old.
If the wording used is accurate of course. None of us know the details of her diagnosis other than her physicians, and there are various different types of tumors that affect that region. I hope she hangs in there, but there is a very real scenario she can get seriously sick in the near future.
I'm not saying this to scare anyone, but it's my semi-professional hunch. It is all up to her however, and none of us should expect anything from her in her circumstances.
However I'm in the medical field, and a "malignant pancreatic tumor with bile duct stent placement," is a dire scenario for anyone, let alone someone that old.
If the wording used is accurate of course. None of us know the details of her diagnosis other than her physicians, and there are various different types of tumors that affect that region. I hope she hangs in there, but there is a very real scenario she can get seriously sick in the near future.
I'm not saying this to scare anyone, but it's my semi-professional hunch. It is all up to her however, and none of us should expect anything from her in her circumstances.
Is there any value in her having beaten off pancreatic cancer before? Also WTH is a bile duct stent.
From what I read it is a plastic or metal tube made to ensure the bile duct stays open.