Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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I want to feel her passing for what it should be, for the awesome woman she was, but I can't because all I can do is worry about the politics that are gonna swirl up around it.
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The swirl is fucking inevitable. And more pragmatically, I'm not sure it would be better after the election.
If things destabilize to some extent no matter the outcome, trying to install a new member of SCOTUS would be like trying to drag a bag of dogfood up Mount Everest while wearing glitter, crocs, and a smile.
This is perhaps a pragmatic coping mechanism on my part but the pragmatic Jew in me is watching my Facebook feed spiral the fuck out and it's just screaming:
IF ITS THIS FRAGILE WE DON'T DESERVE DEMOCRACY IF IT HINGES ON THE DEATH OF ONE WOMAN
I realize it's way more complicated than that but-
Fuck.
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Do people really think Mitch won't ram a justice through in a lame duck session? Lol. I wish.
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@GangOfDolls said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
IF ITS THIS FRAGILE WE DON'T DESERVE DEMOCRACY IF IT HINGES ON THE DEATH OF ONE WOMAN
It won't.
You can fix the solution by expanding the Court.
Not difficult.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@mietze Well, right now, the 'legal' minds I'm hearing from on the news, it's not enough time before election. I'm hoping enough shit changes after. And I hope the democrats scream at him about the voice of the people, like he did about Merrick Garland.
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You're overlooking the fact that the voice of the people are going to elect Trump again because Americans are fucking stupid.
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Guess it's time for the Republicans to forget they held Scalia's seat open for months as they froth about how Trump is the only person who can appoint the replacement and we get thirty years of rolling back every right since the 60's.
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I'm being delusional.
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I agree. I guess we'll see where it goes.
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@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@GangOfDolls said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
IF ITS THIS FRAGILE WE DON'T DESERVE DEMOCRACY IF IT HINGES ON THE DEATH OF ONE WOMAN
It won't.
You can fix the solution by expanding the Court.
I mean, if history is an indication, you don't even have to do it. Just threaten to.
Not difficult.
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everything happens so much
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@SixRegrets said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
everything happens so much
I need that on a shirt.
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Mitch McConnell in 2016: "The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
293 days.
293 days he blocked the introduction of another Justice.
Remember that.
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I don't want to say this but democracies deserve the leadership they elect, so unless Trump stays in the White House through force of arms then there comes a point it's not really on him any more.
Y'all had four years of that presidency so it's not like he's an unknown. Vote him out, or live with the idea that - for better or for worse - that's the will of the people. No one promised it'd be perfect.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel If the United States were a democracy, I'd agree with you.
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@Arkandel It hasn't been on him in a long time. There have been numerous chances to either remove, censure, balance, or put him in check and they've all been passed up by the systems the US has in place and the people elected by those systems - both in 2016 and in 2018.
So regardless of what you call the US, yes, it deserves exactly whatever it chooses.
@Testament said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Mitch McConnell in 2016: "The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
If anyone thought for a second that he wouldn't completely revert course when it favored him, they have no business expressing their thoughts on politics.
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I'm fairly certain we have a politics section for a reason.
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I'm feeling some Pelican Brief action coming on.
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Night terrors. Started last week. Goes great. Screamed loud enough to wake the deep sleeper (my partner) and the cats (mostly Sagan - he turned into a bottle brush and hid under the bed.) Brahms sleeps the sleep of the sweet angel babies.
I'm jealous.
