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[–]Jksmiddlefinger 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (27 children)

Devastating. She was an amazing woman. If the current administration get to pick the next SCJ, It’ll be a disaster.

[–]ekb88[S] 31 insightful - 2 fun31 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I honestly think this could be the end of our democracy. I don’t say that lightly. I feel such deep mourning for her loss, what it means for the future of our country.

[–]ZeWombat 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Obama nominated Merrick Garland on March 16th, 2016, and the republicans wanted to wait for the election in November. We are on the cusp of the election this time around. I don't think there's much excuse to not wait for the election.

EDIT: I'm sure we will soon hear the argument from the republicans on why a nominee should be voted on immediately.

[–]ekb88[S] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Mitch Mconnell put it in his Twitter post about her passing. It’s beyond, beyond disgusting.

[–]buttbuttinator 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That man is pure fucking evil. I can only hope that the Republicans who are likely to be voted out (Martha McSally R-AZ, Susan Collins R-ME, Cory Gardner R-CO...) will not vote for any of Trump's loons right before the election. Three Republican senators have already pledged that they wouldn't (Murkowski, Grassley, and Collins) vote for a new justice until the inauguration, but Collins have proven over and over agains that she cannot be trusted.

[–]Panchino 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Agreed. And Gardner is already on very thin ice in Colorado, which went from red to purple to likely bright blue this go around. Romney might not support Trump on this either. Right before the election is actually terrible for the four shaky senators trying to keep their seats as moderate republicans in increasingly liberal states. Now, after the election, who knows. But even Lindsay graham issued a statement that he didn’t think it was a great idea. The stunt they pulled in 2016 with Merrick Garland will haunt their post 2020 aspirations and many apart from McConnell the Neck Turtle know it.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Romney might not support Trump on this either.

I think Mitt Romney knows what's good for him. I don't think he gets to do that twice and have anything left of a professional legacy as a businessman nor as a politician.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The reason in both cases is because the GOP controls the Senate. The law is written in plain English. If you want to convict a President on an impeachment charge or decide when and if SCOTUS nominations are heard, you're going to want to control the Senate.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (19 children)

I'm sorry, but do you expect a Democrat nominee to issue GC opinions?

[–]Marsupial 29 insightful - 3 fun29 insightful - 2 fun30 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Women must have rights before the TRA crowd can take them away. GC is secondary to the fundamental right of women's autonomy.

[–]ruskiix 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you think the trans rights vs women’s rights conflict is the biggest threat to women with a conservative SC? More importantly, do you think women’s rights are the biggest vulnerability for any of us with a conservative SC steered by THIS president and his enablers? Jesus. It’s like hearing your kids fretting over whether or not bedroom assignments are fair in a house that’s actively burning down. Our country can’t survive another 4 years of looting, corruption, exploitation, and death, and the last hope for ensuring our votes even count just fell.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trans demands might still be a threat to women's rights with a conservative Supreme Court: Trump appointee Gorsuch sided with the gender idealogues on the Bostock decision, which in a few short months other courts have used to roll back women's rights.

Plus, the Republicans have their own version of the Equality Act, the Fairness for All Act in the US House already.

No matter who wins, women are screwed. The GOP are using the trans issue now to win votes, but they will dump women's rights when they get elected.

Which is not an endorsement for the Republicans, just a warning that neither party has women's backs.

[–]ShotTopic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your house burning down analogy is exactly how I feel whenever I see pro-Trump users on here.

[–]Archie 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Gender critical feminism is feminism. A conservative supreme court is a much more dangerous enemy for GC feminism than all the TRAs in the world. Who cares about bathrooms if we have to start using needles again to get an abortion??

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If gender identity is enacted by a liberal SCOTUS as the successor "innate characteristic" to biological sex and "hate speech" laws passed by a liberal legislature are upheld in spite of the 1st Amendment, feminism as you know it will cause to exist in the public forum. As a gay, having learned of the Cotton Ceiling, I'd face similar repercussions if Horseshoe Theory comes full circle to an authoritarian left.

As far as I can tell, it seems like for all the GOP's virtue signaling on abortion, their actual contemporary policy position is to simply hold the line on Roe v. Wade and the Hyde Amendment, apart from the novelty laws you'll see passed e.g. mandatory cardiograms beforehand, etc.

Remember that historically, far-left countries also banned abortion outright - case in point, Communist Romania under Nicolae Ceaușescu - oftentimes taking much more invasive measures to ensure compliance.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Came here to post exactly this. Watching from Canada, I don't understand why the left is still so supported when they're the ones writing gender-based protections that overstep onto women's rights into law.

[–]Aloudmeow 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Because the right in this country is fascism? Because conservatives don’t support ANY women’s rights at all and want more than anything to eliminate legal abortion? Because other than the trans support shit, which hopefully will soon be relegated to fad status, the left is far more interested in crushing the patriarchy and the far left wants to crush free market capitalism in favor of socialism?

[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Left has had a misogyny issue in this country since I can remember.

The Democrats did help women get their rights, but the Democrats' full-throttle support of gender ideology is incredibly dangerous to women now - beyond the heinous federal Equality Act, the Democrats have passed local and state laws that destroy women's right/safety/sports.

That said, the Republicans have their own Equality Act waiting in the wings, the Fairness For All Act, already in the US House.

Women's rights are screwed no matter who wins. It's just the Democrats can be a little saner on other issues.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Can you give examples of fascism on the right? At least any policies that support fascist ideas. (I'm genuinely curious)

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because the right in this country is fascism?

Wrong. The American GOP, particularly under Donald Trump, is proto-fascist. Big leap of faith to take that to full-on fascism.

crush free market capitalism in favor of socialism

You say that as if it would be a positive societal development. If you think socialist political movements have an even mediocre track record on women's rights, go ahead and research the real-life Handmaids Tale that was Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania.

[–]YourSister 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Because the right in the US is racist and misogynistic as hell. The left isn't much better, but they are better.

[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Left has its own soft misogyny and sometimes obvious misogyny like the Equality Act.

But at the moment, Donald Trump and his enabler, Senate Majority Leader Republican Mitch McConnell, are the two most dangerous men on Earth IMO.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

How is the right racist when they've done all this.

Just to summarize (since I know most people won't watch the video): school choice (allowing black families in the inner city to choose to send their kids to suburban schools), music modernization act (more money for musicians who stream music, the majority of successful ones in America are black - just look at the top ten billboard chart at any given time), opportunity zones (bringing jobs to low income communities), first step act (reducing prison sentences by an average of 70 months, majority of whom are black and were put in jail by Biden's policies), tax cuts for small businesses (many owned by immigrants).

If they're racist why are they supported by so many mainstream black people like Candace Owens, Joya Villa, Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, Coleman Hughes, KingFace, Larry Elder, Kim Klacik, etc...?

If they're racist, they really suck at it. Especially since this is more than Obama did for the black community (unless you have evidence to the contrary).

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I can't stand neo-Liberal corporatist Biden either, and agree that he's far from a saint on racial issues, but Trump routinely says things that are meant to incite a race war and even his former cultist, Michael Cohen, says that Trump is very racist.

And I'm not a fan of the version of Critical Race Theory that I was "taught" during a corporate seminar: I prefer Martin Luther King's judge a person by the content of their character not the color of their skin. I went to a very diverse grade school just around the time of MLK and we all just got along or at least, weren't split down racial lines, and there were many close, cross-racial friendships.

And the black writers you mention with whom I'm familiar (so not all on your list) are pretty nuts - except for maybe Thomas Sowell, who I agree with sometimes (pass the smelling salts). Some of them do sometimes make good points, but all-in-all they seem kind of Uncle-Tomish.

I'll leave an Obama fan to talk about Obama's record with blacks.

The Prison Industrial Complex needs to be dismantled, I agree. That should be a priority of whoever the next president is.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

but Trump routinely says things that are meant to incite a race war

like RE: Charlottesville protests

there were very fine people on both sides

because the full quote was actually

there were very fine people on both sides, and I don't mean the neo-Nazis and white supremacists, who I condemn totally

Are you reading about the things Trump supposedly says or are you watching the actual raw footage of his remarks?

[–]forwardback 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Obama paved the way for black transwomen to utilize women's shelters... (I'd put /s, but it's fact, not really sarcasm, sadly.)

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You forgot that the Black unemployment rate under Donald Trump fell under 6% for the first time since the Federal Reserve began tracking by race in 1972.