RBG Politcal Discussion

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Anonymous wrote:I think if Trump and McConnell manage to ram through a nominee, this could seriously backfire on them. This would only energize the Democrats and they aren’ going to win any more Republican votes.

I think if Trump filled the seat before the election it would backfire. For whatever reason, SCOTUS control is a "controls my vote" issue for more Rs than Ds. If they know the seat is filled and safe, it frees more of them up to vote for Biden. Which is silly because RBG would have stepped down as soon as Biden was in office anyway, but not everybody is rational when it comes to politics.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t like this. Again the evangelicals will ignore a incumbent standing over 200,000 dead Americans if it gets them a SCOTUS seat.

So never let them get away with their lies that they’re “pro life.” They’re not. Please realize that they’re obsessed only with controlling women, full stop. The 200,000 dead doesn’t give them pause, the sterilized immigrants doesn’t bother them, the caged children shouldn’t have come here in the first place, who cares if you can’t get healthcare.... Let’s all agree never to let Evangelicals pretend to be holy ever again.

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Anonymous wrote:Was this a fake "just heard" reaction? I'm not sure of the time of death being public, what he was doing prior to question, and question. Someone must have told him before reporters, right?

Who was that? Those words... those words don’t sound like Trump at all so who the heck was that?

There’s no way that was a spontaneous, sincere reaction. He knew and was prepped on how to respond.

I think it was spontaneous. If he’d been prepped, he’d have been egged on by the horrible people around him and been fired up by them reminding him of what “it could get for him”. He’s not a conservative and he doesn’t care about Roe v. Wade. He’ll say plenty of stupid stuff tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:If they win Democrats must pack the court.

?? So as long as Democrats control the court, it is OK, no matter the means?

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Anonymous wrote:I think if Trump and McConnell manage to ram through a nominee, this could seriously backfire on them. This would only energize the Democrats and they aren’ going to win any more Republican votes.

Filling this seat is worth more than the 2020 election. The GOP can lock up SCOTUS for a generation if we play our cards right.

I'm going to keep repeating this. That's not how this is supposed to work!

Republican voters keep proving that they are small, horribly damaged people.

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Anonymous wrote:Was this a fake "just heard" reaction? I'm not sure of the time of death being public, what he was doing prior to question, and question. Someone must have told him before reporters, right?

Who was that? Those words... those words don’t sound like Trump at all so who the heck was that?

There’s no way that was a spontaneous, sincere reaction. He knew and was prepped on how to respond.

Good grief. Is there *nothing* you ghouls won’t just leave alone? What he said was perfectly appropriate. The end.

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Anonymous wrote:If they win Democrats must pack the court.

What does this mean and how would we do this? Increase the number of justices from nine? What does that require? Constitutional amendment?

I don’t think there’s anything in the constitution that says that there needs to be nine justices. FDR tried to do this during one of his terms.

And he was roundly mocked as a monarch wannabe, and so gave up on the idea. Seriously, people...

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Anonymous wrote:Was this a fake "just heard" reaction? I'm not sure of the time of death being public, what he was doing prior to question, and question. Someone must have told him before reporters, right?

Who was that? Those words... those words don’t sound like Trump at all so who the heck was that?

There’s no way that was a spontaneous, sincere reaction. He knew and was prepped on how to respond.

Good grief. Is there *nothing* you ghouls won’t just leave alone? What he said was perfectly appropriate. The end.

Tell us again how Biden has dementia but also got the questions for the town hall in advance and memorized all the answers. The end.

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So McConnell can ram through a SC confirmation but cannot pass another bill to help people who have lost their jobs because of Covid? Interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:Was this a fake "just heard" reaction? I'm not sure of the time of death being public, what he was doing prior to question, and question. Someone must have told him before reporters, right?

Who was that? Those words... those words don’t sound like Trump at all so who the heck was that?

There’s no way that was a spontaneous, sincere reaction. He knew and was prepped on how to respond.

I think it was spontaneous. If he’d been prepped, he’d have been egged on by the horrible people around him and been fired up by them reminding him of what “it could get for him”. He’s not a conservative and he doesn’t care about Roe v. Wade. He’ll say plenty of stupid stuff tomorrow.

Wow, he has you snowed.

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Anonymous wrote:I think if Trump and McConnell manage to ram through a nominee, this could seriously backfire on them. This would only energize the Democrats and they aren’ going to win any more Republican votes.

Filling this seat is worth more than the 2020 election. The GOP can lock up SCOTUS for a generation if we play our cards right.

I'm going to keep repeating this. That's not how this is supposed to work!

Not how what is supposed to work? Democrat SCOTUS justices have been forcing MASSIVE social and economic changes on the nation for 90 years. Is THAT how it is supposed to work?

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Anonymous wrote:So McConnell can ram through a SC confirmation but cannot pass another bill to help people who have lost their jobs because of Covid? Interesting.

Yup. Because the democrats got rid of the filibuster for judicial nominations. Resp the whirlwind.

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Anonymous wrote:Speculation that Amy Coney Barrett will be trumps pick. Antiabortion and very Catholic.

What’s with the GOP obsession with Catholics on the court?

Pro-life stuff?

Catholic Church’s obsession with sex and with controlling women’s bodies.

Not fair. MANY MANY of us are just as D as you. This is R v. D, not Catholic v. something else.

+1. My whole family is Catholic and they're all Democrats. And my FIL is on the parish council at his Catholic church and he's also a hardcore Democrat. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox tend to vote D.

NP. Curious - how do you reconcile being pro-choice with being Catholic?

PP. I'm not Catholic anymore (converted to Eastern Orthodoxy) and I do consider myself pro-life. I vote Democrat because at this point I disagree with almost everything else the Republicans stand for. Especially after the last four years. And I think that as a PP said, a better social safety net, maternity leave, etc will do more to help women and decrease abortions than reversing Roe v Wade.

For what it's worth, one man I know who is in his late 70s is a hardcore Trump supporter but he's always been pro-choice because he remembers what it was like before 1973 and doesn't want to go back to that.

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Anonymous wrote:Was this a fake "just heard" reaction? I'm not sure of the time of death being public, what he was doing prior to question, and question. Someone must have told him before reporters, right?

Who was that? Those words... those words don’t sound like Trump at all so who the heck was that?

There’s no way that was a spontaneous, sincere reaction. He knew and was prepped on how to respond.

Good grief. Is there *nothing* you ghouls won’t just leave alone? What he said was perfectly appropriate. The end.

Tell us again how Biden has dementia but also got the questions for the town hall in advance and memorized all the answers. The end.

I’ve never said Biden has dementia. Next...

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Anonymous wrote:Was this a fake "just heard" reaction? I'm not sure of the time of death being public, what he was doing prior to question, and question. Someone must have told him before reporters, right?

Who was that? Those words... those words don’t sound like Trump at all so who the heck was that?

He knew well in advance that it was coming - why do you think he put out that list of potential SC nominees?