oh fuck, rbg is dead
 

:( :( :(

This is it, game over.

Fuck it. FUCK IT, I don't give a single flying fuck if the following sounds like one of Son of a Bitch Mitch's tactics; enough of taking the high road and getting walked all over. DEMOCRACY TRULY IS AT STAKE. From Demand Progress:

This is truly a frightening moment. GD republican hypocrites.

“If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought my work was as important as his, and I think that made all the difference for me.”

-RBG

RIP, RBG. You were a maverick and an inspiration to all!

As far as the nomination is concerned, it’s payback time for the Kavanaugh atrocity as I see it. Game on.

This is why your country's fucked, when your idea of absolute judicial power is 'nine old people, often picked explicitly politically, who serve until they die'. But whatever, have a circus, punt your deep and fundamental problems further down the road for someone else to deal with.

Well at least you got the red part right.

Quiz: Who said this 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."

Lindsey Graham according to what I see on Twitter.

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/m...mod=1559166314

Edit: I never did learn how to do images.

Ooops, I forgot that I'm not supposed to post until that crazy lawyer vacates this place, which he won't.

Carry on.

That was my other guess.

skuj returns......thanks for dropping in!










Odd how none of them have the wisdom to step down before reaching the end......best statement regarding RBG:

“RGB was/is a myth sitting at intersecting vectors of ideology, mass media & merchandising. She's a retweeted Warhol print who has been invested w/power she never had. The idea that the fate of a democracy hangs on an elderly human staying alive as long as possible is apocalyptic.” - J. Farrar

oh I'm not on your side, the sooner Trump fucks off and dies the better. he and all his acolytes. I just feel that he's more of a symptom of a deeply failed political landscape rather than the cause.

if all the acolyte followers died with him, I'd lose my entire immediate family. I mostly wish that Trump would fade away into obscurity

I wasn't thinking voters (many I'd say are just misguided), more everyone who's up in the halls of power with him. Draining the swamp, if you will.

To be fair, my brother's go to solution for everything he disagrees with seems to be "shoot them". So I don't have THAT much to work with.

I hate this year, just everything about it.
RIP RBG. Legend.

The ramifications of this have me all fucked up, too.

If I understand Jewish traditions correctly, a person who dies on Rosh Hashanah is a tzaddik, which is a person of great righteousness. Rosh Hashanah began at sundown Friday evening and ends at sundown tonight.

I heard one radio show mention RBG might have actually died Thursday night or in the wee hours Friday morning. I wasn’t necessarily trying to bestow an ordained death with her passing, but with RBG being Jewish, I thought it could possibly be appropriate???

Rosh Hashanah coincides with the Feast of Trumpets and I’ve always wondered if that played into John Zorn using tzadik as the name for his label?

Robert, are your concerns about future decisions for decades to come or her ability to be confirmed before the election?

For those who missed it, Joe Biden was on record in 2016 DEMANDING that the Senate vote on a presidential nomination to the Supreme Court, even in an election year!

“The Constitution clearly states that the President ‘shall’ -not may- ‘shall’ nominate someone to the Supreme Court when there’s a vacancy. That includes the Senate consulting...but voting.

For 17 years I was the chairman or ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees nominations to the Supreme Court. And every nominee, including Justice Kennedy, in an election year, got an up or down vote by the Senate.

Not much of the time

Not most of the time

EVERY

SINGLE

TIME

And deciding in advance before naming a nominee that their gonna turn their backs, that’s not an option that the Constitution leaves open.

For the sake of the country we all love, we all have to do our job, including the US Senate.”

Christ we just have a few straight-up Trump supporters on this site now.
The fuck.

Not only do I anticipate re-election, I see him outright winning:

Michigan
Minnesota (someone will need to check on Savage Clone)
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin

Picking up two Senate seats and possibly having a new Speaker : )

Sadly, the demonstrating and rioting will continue until Election Day, escalate like nothing we’ve ever seen in the days/weeks/months following the outcome we foresee......but what a grand and glorious day that will be!

how ridiculous are they though? i say 10/10

Yeah dude...pretty nuts if you ask me. But I mean...like...I dunno....something something be open minded? But yeah....like....I can see some shallow PJ fans being Trump supporters, but seeing some hardcore Pearl Jam fans surprised to see how they're against Trump is also funny to see....like bruh....Eddie is crazily against guns...how did you not know that?

What do you know? :eek:

As mentioned earlier - to delay a nomination for almost an entire year, then try to rush through one in six weeks is blatantly absurd, and surely even Bytor can notice the inconsistency.

say what? political inconsistency regardless of party? I never would have guessed

you can be open minded with someone who has a legitimate argument, not with a faithful sycophant who will twist themselves into a pretzel to justify anything and everything their master orders up.

me at this point i’ve started to take the simplified categorical position of FUCK’EM because shit has crossed the line long long long ago. so the time for discussion is long over ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

and to pretend otherwise is, frankly, bullshit. sort of like having a civilized conversation with your attempted murderer while he attempts to murder you.

so... nah. fuck’em.

On the Democrats' so-called "political inconsistency": this is just their completely justified open attempt at "Oh yeah? Fuck YOU now, McConnell!" payback. The BIG difference is they don't control the Senate. Which is why we're all fucked. (Actually, even if they did control the Senate we'd still be fucked because of this. So now not only do we need a Democratic tsunami, which is hard enough, but we need it on election night. Fuck, fuck, and fuck.)

Yeah, there’s zero benefit to being open minded to people who are supportive of this president. I’m not going to “Two Sides” that shit. There’s being against hateful, criminal behavior, and not being against it, and those who aren’t against it might as well be flat-earthers for all the time or consideration I’m going to give their fucked views.

Maybe that means I’m closed minded for not being open minded to closed-minded people, but I don’t care