There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
"I love mankind...it's people I can't stand!!"
- Charles Schultz.
It is sad if they had any kind of balls the GOP would push Trump to the the back and make him a nonentity. A nothing. Make his followers not a force. But they are still kissing his ass and towing his line. it is sick how this man was able to do this to the party. But the direction the GOP has been taking the last few years it was only a matter of time before someone like Trump came along.
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https://news.yahoo.com/mike-pence-wi...135455120.html
And here I thought Dan Quayle had the Hoosier Goober legend status on lock, but Mr. Pence just keeps blowing past those roadblocks at 100 m.p.h., White Evangelical Tupac style:Word has it the former Second Family is staying at the Indiana governor’s cabin or crashing with kinfolk back in their home state.
Former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, are reportedly looking for a new home after their free, taxpayer-funded housing officially ended just over a week ago.
The story was originally shared by Business Insider but reposted to other outlets: Pence is reportedly staying at a cabin that Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb uses as a retreat, while two other Indiana Republican insiders say that the former second-in-command and ex-Second Lady are staying with family.
Former Vice President Mike Pence and ex-Second Lady Karen Pence are reportedly looking for a new home in Indiana after their taxpayer-funded free housing officially ended just over a week ago. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)
Just picture me rollin’
Flossin’ a Benz on rims that isn’t stolen
My dreams is censored, my hopes are gone
I’m like a fiend that finally sees when all the dope is gone
the MAGA-Geddon crowd ere surely inspired by his YOLO example! Oh, wait... A bunch of them want homebody to be hanged? daaaaang..
Well, he could always borrow some hair dye from Rudy, buy some fake beards, and see about renting an apartment near a Wal-Mart or Big Lots store. I hear they’re looking for part-time managers...
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By who?
Like I said, she's not psychic. Attacking an 80 year old because she wasn't able to predict what Trump or McConnell would do later on is terrible. How about focusing on the bigger issues about why she wasn't able to get replaced by a Democratic president?
It was foreseeable that if Republicans had the White House and the Senate, they would replace her with a Republican if the opportunity emerged.
She might have thought the filibuster could protect her, not predicting how the filibuster was nuked for Supreme Court candidates in 2017 in the fight over Gorsuch (which meant the more controversial Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett would enter with simple majorities.)
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https://www.vox.com/2014/9/24/683609...g-not-retiring
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...0G12V020140801
These are 2014 articles where people from liberal voices ask her toa retire all citing fears of her dying on the watch of a GOP. Fact is she gambled that she would die with a Dem in the WH, and she came close but second-place winner of the SCOTUS deathmatch means squat. Some articles in 2018 and one in 2020 highlighting the same. The fact is RBG's advanced age meant that the situation last Autumn was entirely forseeable. People repeatedly pointed this out.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...g-obama-trump/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...-question.html
In politics when you gamble, you usually gamble with other people's lives and if your gamble works, you get the praise for landing on your feet. But if you lose, your action and decision to take that gamble doesn't look so hot. RBG focused a lot more on her career as a SCOTUS judge and a jurist and maybe she did good but the fact is that as a result of her refusal to step down a whole lot of innocent people are going to suffer under a fascist and fascisizing ideology of the GOP, while she shuffles off stage with a state funeral.
I don't think it's being disrespectful to call that out. Yes, it should never have come down to that. Yes it's unfair that we have a SCOTUS system without term limits or without court packing or other measures that doesn't put so many undue stakes on the court...but given that was the governing rules as far as RBG was concerned, she should have retired when she had the chance to hand her seat to a Dem appointee.
Here's an interesting thought- what if she had decided to retire shortly after Scalia died? Do you think Mitch would have held open TWO seats on the court for almost a year? Do you think he could have gotten away with it? Or would the pressure be too great and maybe he would have caved and done his f'ing job?
At that point, the die was cast, and the window had closed. She should have retired when the Dems had the Senate and the WH but once the GOP got the Senate in Fall 2014, that was the ball game.
But anyway, if she had declared that...then maybe that energizes the Dem base and drives up voter turnout and the Democrats go with fire in their belly to talk about issues and campaign harder that year but the Republicans would also be super-energized because judicial supremacy is a real party thing for them.
Is the Pope Catholic? McConnell would absolutely have done that.Do you think Mitch would have held open TWO seats on the court for almost a year?
Barring a backlash in midterms, yeah would have.Do you think he could have gotten away with it?
McConnell is a constitutional and procedural nihilist, completely amoral, and profoundly corrupt.Or would the pressure be too great and maybe he would have caved and done his f'ing job?
If HRC won in 2016, Mitch would have refused to seat Scalia's seat and let it gather dust, which HRC might have gotten around had she done it via a recess appointment (which Obama arguably should have done with Scalia's replacement, SCOTUS have had recess appointments).