[!@#$%!]

[The Soup Nazi]

This is it, game over.

[The Soup Nazi]

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:

Shut down the Senate and stop Trump and McConnell from picking RBG's successor!

Petition to the Senate:
Use every procedural option available to you to shut down the Senate and make sure Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell do not get to pick Ruth Bader Ginsburg's successor on the Supreme Court.

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday evening comes as a shock and a tragedy. We honor her forty years of pathbreaking service on the federal bench, including 27 years on the Supreme Court.

Her dying wish was that her replacement not be confirmed until a new president has been installed. Mitch McConnell just said he will not respect that wish and will instead hold a vote on Trump's nominee. But Senate Democrats have the power to stop them and save the Supreme Court.

The Senate runs on unanimous consent. If a single Senator objects to anything, even routine procedure, everything grinds to a halt. That is what Senate Democrats must do: block unanimous consent on every single thing for the rest of the year. It may be our best chance to stop Trump and McConnell. Will you help?

Sign the petition: Shut down the Senate and stop Trump and McConnell from picking RBG's successor!

This is a frankly terrifying moment. But there is a path forward. Senate Democrats have the power and the leverage to prevent Trump and McConnell from deciding who will succeed Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.

Senate Democrats can block every motion, force every bill to be read in full, and use a wide range of parliamentary tactics to shut down the Senate between now and January, when new Senators and the president are inaugurated.

The Senate still has work ahead, including bills Trump and McConnell want to pass, including bills to fund the government. It's time to block all of it.

McConnell and Trump see this as their best, and perhaps last, opportunity to further stack the federal courts with extreme right-wing nominees who will cripple the next president. As tough a moment as this is, we can stop them -- if Democrats act firmly to shut down the Senate now.

Add your name now: Tell Democrats to shut down the Senate and stop Trump and McConnell from picking RBG's successor!

Thank you for taking action in this urgent moment.

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This is truly a frightening moment. GD republican hypocrites.

[Bytor Peltor]

 

 

“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

[Screaming Skull]

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.

[choc e-Claire]

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.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by Screaming Skull

.....blah blah blah Kavanaugh atrocity blah blah blah......

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."

[tw2113]

Originally Posted by Skuj

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.

[Skuj]

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.

[tw2113]

That was my other guess.

[Bytor Peltor]

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

Originally Posted by Skuj

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

Edit: I never did learn how to do images.

 

 

Originally Posted by Skuj

"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."

 

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

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'.

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

[choc e-Claire]

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.

[tw2113]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

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

[choc e-Claire]

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.

[tw2113]

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.

[Severian]

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

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

[Bytor Peltor]

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.

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

Per Time and Date, Sundown Friday, 18 September 2020 was at 7:10PM, whereas the first time-and-date-stamped account of her death is the NPR news story Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87 was issued at 7:28PM. Eighteen minutes seems a mighty short time time get a news stoiry out, but then NPR's Nina Totenberg was her good friend. Besides, a religious Jew would already have been buried by now, whereas the New York TImes ran this story yesterday: Ginsburg Expected to Lie in Repose at the Supreme Court, which has yet to happen.

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?

[Bytor Peltor]