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[–]BEB 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Very sad about RBG, but it's time to spring into action to save the US.

McConnell wouldn't allow Obama's choice for the US Supreme Court because he claimed it was not lawful for a president to nominate a Supreme Court judge during an election year.

Well, it's an election year now so NO Trump doesn't get a nomination.

So I want the Democrats to refuse to go into the US Capitol building and instead all stand outside, surrounded by protestors, with Mitch McConnell's own words on how he wouldn't Obama to have Garland's nomination playing on the loudest speaker in the world over and over.

This is a coup. I hate the Democrats but they have to stand up to McConnell and Trump.

Please call your three congresspeople - leave a message since it will be Saturday but CALL. Also call McConnell's office. Office numbers are on their websites.

Tell them: TRUMP DOESN'T GET A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE UNDER THE SAME McCONNELL JUSTIFICATION THAT OBAMA DIDN'T

Otherwise we're a fucking Banana Republic.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tell them: TRUMP DOESN'T GET A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE UNDER THE SAME McCONNELL JUSTIFICATION THAT OBAMA DIDN'T

Why? If you want SCOTUS appointees you need both the White House and the Senate. The rules were very clear. This "electoral college didn't work"/"Pack the courts!"/"Senate seats should be proportional to population"-I-didn't-know-the-rules-so-we-have-to-change-them is the real banana republic BS.

Dems have garbage, trash strategists working for them. It's not the system, the laws, or the luck of how things keep playing out, and its not like you can turn and blame it on the GOP - your opponent's not going to just play at a handicap because your team captain is a moron and delivers results with the odds of a scratch-off lottery ticket. The DNC is broke, has been for over a decade, so of course they can't hire anyone worthwhile and instead stick with the establishment cronyism leadership that's driven the party into the gutter.

Case-in-point, the Dems allow John Podesta to continue calling the shots this election cycle...why, exactly!? As if he weren't a senile old clueless bastard who fell for a simple phishing scam ("Russian hackers") and compromised the entirety of his professional career, after 2016 he has proven himself a total loser, bungling the easiest lay-up of a presidential election ever possible.

The Senate only needs a simple majority to confirm. Dems needed 2/3rds to convict on impeachment and couldn't even get a simple majority. It's not the GOP's fault that the clueless Dem leadership continues to plow forward into these contests without ever doing the simple math beforehand. Democrat senators can go outside and scream and the GOP can confirm whoever Trump puts forward without even needing their input.

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

I agree that Democrats have trash strategists, but Mitch McConnell himself said no Supreme Court justices during an election year.

That was when it was Obama's turn to choose a Supreme Court Justice. When Trump wants one, McConnell changes the rules.

THAT is one of the hallmarks of a Banana Republic.

[–]Marsupial 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Otherwise we're a fucking Banana Republic.

Kind of are at this point.

[–]emptiedriver 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tell them: TRUMP DOESN'T GET A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE UNDER THE SAME McCONNELL JUSTIFICATION THAT OBAMA DIDN'T Otherwise we're a fucking Banana Republic.

Is it better with a vacancy? I just can't tell. I can't think straight... But let's consider...

With a vacancy, people will be more motivated to vote: the left may be more motivated to vote for Dems instead of for random green party or for Trump bc he might not pass the Equal Rights thingy that is actually anti-natal women, since it may wake them up to the realities of what a president does. On the other hand, seeing reactions in this thread I'm not sure if that's true.

On the right, some of the Repubs who were thinking, ugh I'll just take Biden bc Trump is too gross, at least Biden respects soldiers and can do a decent memorial for 9-11, at least he doesn't make us look like a joke - like every living Republican president who's been floating over to the Biden camp - maybe they will start to say, ooooh, wait just a little second. This will remind them of very specific standards they want met that Trump is more likely to hit, like how a Justice votes, not the way they follow protocol.

So an empty seat could be just as bad since it pushes voters to be more concerned, and then a lame duck presidency might make ridiculous moves to fill it anyway if that doesn't work in their favor. I don't feel like the worst is that they try to do it right this second. It's just that it's there.

What we need to take from it is VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE who will nominate the JUDGES and JUSTICES YOU WANT. When it comes to the details of laws, vote for the right senate candidates first, and then make sure your voice is heard when we have a nationwide conversation about it, but don't choose a president based on whether he will or won't pass one bill.

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One of my fears, having lived through the coup that was the (s)election of George Dubya Hanging Chad Bush the Second, is that if Donnie gets to stack the Supreme Court with justices favorable to Republican/ Mitch McConnell thug tactics, when we get an even more extreme Republican presidential candidate and any kind of election inconsistencies has to be decided by the Supreme Court, the Court will vote on party lines and WE WILL GET AN EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE WANNABE DICTATOR than TRUMP & HIS CRIME FAMILY.

[–]YourSister 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you honestly think they are going to follow the rules now?

[–]BEB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

David Sirota is tweeting about a way that the Democrats in the Senate can stop McConnell. According to Sirota, Senators can NOT grant unanimous consent and that would stop McConnell.

The Twitter hashtag to search for is : #ShutdownTheSenate

Sirota:

"Democratic senator to right now publicly declare that they will not grant unanimous consent to anything in order to block all Senate business and stop a Trump SCOTUS pick"

https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1307392270379802624