All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It's a real good look that the GOP are already talking about holding hearings a week after she's dead...

About an hour after she died.

F*** these hypocritical jackals.

As has already been stated, McConnell doesn’t care how it looks, hell, he probably danced a jig in his living room, then popped open a bottle of Dom after the news came out about RBG having passed. The GOP damn sure doesn’t care because they’re on the brink of a 6-3 majority on SCOTUS for the next several decades. All of us here today could well be in the ground before the scales are balanced again.

[Tendrin]

McConnel doesn't care, no. He's thrilled to get to push through a replacement for RBG The ONLY question is whether or not he can get vulnerable senators aboard the same, shameless train thinking it'll help them retain their seats, or that convservative control for generations is worth it.

That's the ball game, really.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Pretty much any threat the Democrats can make and any hell they can raise they need to do it now. They should have went all in when Mitch was screwing Obama and that’s what the election should have been about. It’s rare you get a do over. Don’t fucking blow it. This is the time to unload your armory

[worstblogever]

A bill has sat waiting for a vote for four months on further Covid-19 stimulus that isn't all about enriching Republican donors. He's done nothing.

RBG passes away, and the f***ing turtle suddenly moves with the speed of a cruise missile. And he tries justifying it by moving goalposts right out of the stadium.

F*** Mitch McConnell forever, man. I hope there are four Republicans who tell him to get f***ed on this. I don't trust that there are that many people with spines in the GOP Senate.

[The no face guy]

I agree with this.

History should be told as it is. Not from the perspective of winners or losers but just as it is so people can learn from it.

The problem with US history is that it's been so distorted over time and has a very clearly white supremacist slant to it. Right now, there is a school in Texas that asked students to right essays about heroes and they included the murderous 17 year old Rittenhouse idiot. There are schools that are taking Helen Keller and other important female historical figures out of school books. And this isn't even taking into account the historical revisionism around the civil war not being about slavery.

A good chunk of people didn't even know the Tulsa race riots even happened and more people don't even know about Jim Crow, one drop laws and economic redlining against black people.

The 1619 project has the right ideas but the implementation is flawed. There is a need to highlight the contribution of minorities and females to the history of the US but it should be told in an entirely non-political manner.

Seconded. History no longer has to be written by the victor. We have enough tools to compile an accurate - or reasonably so - and unbiased look at it. Sometimes, otherwise good people do baaaaaaad things. We shouldn’t flinch away from the very real bad of our collective pasts, but we can’t dwell on it. We need to look at the good and think about how it stood up against the bad. And what we can LEARN from that. It’s part of us, the good and the bad. Erasing or weighting things in favor of one or the other just erases a piece of ourselves in the process.

Look how long we’ve been telling the stories of the Greek myths, just as one example. Those heroes and their histories got all tied up in the mythologizing, but we remember them, and the lessons they taught, not because they were pious paragons of virtue who did nothing wrong, but because they drank and screwed and messed up EPICALLY...and LEARNED from their mistakes or died by them. Just like real people do! Mythologizing the Founders really only works if you retain their flaws and accept them as the reality and LEARN from them. Otherwise, they’re just...two-dimensional characters in a cheap shadow play.

And worth about as much...

Thank you, it's good to see people putting scientific objectivity before politics.

[Farealmer]

This is a messed up situation, but a potentially positive outcome could be for Trump, Biden, McConnell and Schumer to announce a deal, that there will be no vote for a Supreme Court nominee until after the inauguration of a new President, in exchange for Democrats to agree not to allow court packing.

Weren't you defending Mitch blocking Obama on Garland? Because it was "his right to do so" or something to that effect? Why the concern here?

[GindyPosts]

*sigh*

Add another to scumbag to the pile...

[GindyPosts]

Weren't you defending Mitch blocking Obama on Garland? Because it was "his right to do so" or something to that effect? Why the concern here?

Because it's a Republican insisting that we fast-track a conservative judge into the Supreme Court ASAP.

Which is a good thing for Republicans.

As opposed to when a Democrat wanted a judge to go through the nomination process, which was a bad thing.

[babyblob]

*sigh*

Add another to scumbag to the pile...

And that is the GOP in a nutshell.

[BeastieRunner]

Hell has frozen over.

Trump is the most respectable Republican in the room.

[kidfresh512]

*sigh*

Add another to scumbag to the pile...

I like one of the comments there. Pro life but celebrating a woman's death.

[kidfresh512]

Like trump wrote that lol. It was a canned response by PR team. He will be saying something disgusting any minute. Especially since she flat out said she didn't want her replacement appointed by him.

[Kevinroc]

Hell has frozen over.

Trump is the most respectable Republican in the room.

Thanks so much for not voting for Hillary because she wasn't "inspiring" or whatever your excuse was.

[The no face guy]

Hell has frozen over.

Trump is the most respectable Republican in the room.

The US election just got a whole lot more interesting.

[Kevinroc]

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1307164511787462657

Fox guest warns Republican senators “they can call their careers over” if they don’t vote to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee https://t.co/asvGYtVxqq?amp=1