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

[ChangingStation]

If Biden wins, He'll have advisors to come up with a plan. Expanding the court system actually has validity seeing as the population of the country has increased greatly since the last expansion.

Impeachment for her and for Kavanugh is an option, but doing so might be tricky. No one wants to give future presidents, especially future republican presidents an excuse to abuse the system even more then they are currently doing.

So this isn't a decision that should be rushed into.

They could also do want FDR wanted to do, by establishing Term Limits or Age Limits.

[GindyPosts]

So, they rammed through a wholly unqualified judge to the Supreme Court.

Now the question is- do they attempt to impeach her for lying to the Senate by omitting several major things, or do they pack the court?

Pack the lower courts, dammit. Make sure things either stay put at the lower levels or stall things out as long as possible until we can make the Supreme Court more moderate, at the very least.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

If Biden wins, He'll have advisors to come up with a plan. Expanding the court system actually has validity seeing as the population of the country has increased greatly since the last expansion.

I honestly don't think he's gonna have a choice to do anything other than expand the courts.

Impeachment for her and for Kavanugh is an option, but doing so might be tricky. No one wants to give future presidents, especially future republican presidents an excuse to abuse the system even more then they are currently doing.

So this isn't a decision that should be rushed into.

Packing the courts would, in theory, be more easily done and less controversial than impeaching sitting SCOTUS judges, seemslike to me. For one thing the impeachment of Kavanaugh and/or Barrett would be seen as the Dems settling old scores and grudges when coming to power, i.e. lawfare and so on, and that makes for a bitter political spectacle and not something likely to win the Dems sympathy.

Impeaching Scotus justices also has less precedent for it than impeaching a US Potus because the judiciary being independent of political leverage and influence, has a long legacy.

Adding justices to neuter and balance the SCOTUS majority got through by abuse and breaking of rules, procedures, and bad faith will be less bitter and less retributive because the Republican appointees stay. Lincoln didn't impeach Taney...he simply packed the courts.

[GindyPosts]

You know, last night, I watched a video dissecting the hypocrisy of Mike Rowe.

And, it's people like Rowe, whom I used to watch Dirty Jobs endlessly for enjoyment as his misadventures, who argue in favor of profit at all costs (because he believes in a ridiculous theory in which the more regulations a place has, the less safe people are due to carelessness, therefore it should be up to the employee, not the employer, to be in charge of their own safety), and opposes actual college education in favor of trade labor (in spite of being a liberal arts major himself, aka "John Wayne Syndrome", and not understanding that most trade skills do require college education with only the absolute crappiest of jobs being available with no to little education whatsoever) that are a danger to society, because people will believe what he says 'cuz he was on TV.

[Tendrin]

I think that’s from the 1982 remake of The Thing.

It's not

[AnakinFlair]

What did she omit?

Among other things, she omitted she served on the board of a Christian school that would not allow children of LGBTQ parents attend.

[Kirby101]

I thought it was the Ivans.

That's the Trumps, Kushner owes the Saudis.

[Steel Inquisitor]

I honestly don't think he's gonna have a choice to do anything other than expand the courts.

Yup.

Packing the courts would, in theory, be more easily done and less controversial than impeaching sitting SCOTUS judges, seemslike to me. For one thing the impeachment of Kavanaugh and/or Barrett would be seen as the Dems settling old scores and grudges when coming to power, i.e. lawfare and so on, and that makes for a bitter political spectacle and not something likely to win the Dems sympathy.

Impeaching Scotus justices also has less precedent for it than impeaching a US Potus because the judiciary being independent of political leverage and influence, has a long legacy.

Impeaching judges is how it's supposed to work, the reason it's hardly done is because it's nearly impossible to get the numbers in Congress. That slows down a lot of things to modify the government branch into being reasonable.

Adding justices to neuter and balance the SCOTUS majority got through by abuse and breaking of rules, procedures, and bad faith will be less bitter and less retributive because the Republican appointees stay. Lincoln didn't impeach Taney...he simply packed the courts.

Nah, they'd still use it as an excuse to justify giving themselves more power. Lincoln's been dead longer than we've been alive, he never foresaw the conditions of what Congress would be like today.

[zinderel]

It's not

Is it THE HIDDEN? That wierd Kyle McLachlan movie about a bug/slug alien taking over people and making them adrenaline junkie metal heads...?

[Tendrin]

Is it THE HIDDEN? That wierd Kyle McLachlan movie about a bug/slug alien taking over people and making them adrenaline junkie metal heads...?

Can't tell you that but I know it's not Carpenter's Thing. I know every frame of that movie.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted its profiles of Virginia Foxx, the sitting U.S. House Representative for North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District, who has inspired the nickname from Capitol Hill staffers of “HIDE YER BISCUITS!” from her bizarre tendency to, even on a six figure salary, to wear large coats to buffets around Washington D.C. hosted by lobbyists, and stuff her pockets full of as much food as she can carry in them as if her salary does not provide her with enough cash to afford groceries, while maintaining the contradictory optics of trying to cut funding to the National School Lunch Program.

When Foxx was still a North Carolina State Senator, she proudly compared herself to legendary unapologetic segregationalist Jesse Helms, and upon arriving in Congress, became one of only 11 members of Congress to vote against Disaster Relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, which is even more frustrating when you consider how often her home state gets hit with hurricanes. She referred to the AIG bank bailout by calling it a “tar baby” and then defended her remarks by saying she was unaware the term was a racial slur (but didn’t apologize).

Foxx is also a specialist at revising history to fit her own party’s policy stances, like how she tried claiming the death of Matthew Shepherd was not a hate crime, but just a robbery (and anyone who says otherwise is perpetuating a hoax)… or the time that she claimed Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act without much help from Democrats (when Democratic president LBJ passed it by getting bipartisan support from Northern Democrats and a contingent of Republicans)… or the time she claimed Jared Loughner, the shooter in the Tucson, AZ mass shootings was a “communist” and the “liberal of liberals” (he wasn't, at all). Oh, and in 2016, Foxx gave a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference, where she exhibit’s an unhealthy desire to ignore the separation of church and state, saying, “If people of faith are not involved in political life, then you’re leaving it to the Philistines. And I’m not willing to leave it to the Philistines.”

Foxx has become infamous during the Trump administration not for any sort of achievement as a legislator, but because the old cross-eyed twit shows up to Trump’s executive order signings that f*** over the middle and lower class citizens of the country, practically giddy at the though of their suffering. When she has submitted legislation, it’s been utterly revolting towards anyone who isn’t loaded, like when she tried to pass a bill to allow corporations to collect genetic material from employees to look for medical conditions in their family history that would allow them to raise their insurance premiums based on the results.

Seriously, what kind of f***ed up Gattaca plot point is that? And why is it that she’s still taken seriously when she’s trying to eliminate all federal education standards?

Virginia Foxx was re-elected in 2018 with 57% of the vote, and has resumed having one of the most conservative voting records in Congress:

• May 2nd, 2018: Virginia Foxx is one of 18 Republicans who sign on to a letter asking to nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Prize for meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (LIST:
• January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Foxx voted against HR 648, because she was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
• February 28th, 2019: Foxx votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
• March 14th, 2019: Rep. Foxx votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
• April 4th, 2019: Virginia Foxx is one of 158 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
• May 17th, 2019: Foxx votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
• June 4th, 2019: Rep. Foxx votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
• July 16th, 2019: Virginia Foxx votes against vote against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.
• December 18th, 2019: Foxx ignores her Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the impeachment of Donald Trump.
• May 15th, 2020: Foxx votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

At this point, we have to ask the people of North Carolina’s 5th District… WHY? Why do you vote for this woman? She has never shown a care for anyone other than the wealthiest people in the country. She doesn’t look out for your well being as much as her one lazy eye kind of falls on top of it every now and then. We understand that the Cook Partisan Voting Index gives North Carolina’s 5th District a +10 Republican lean, and we’re hoping that maybe in 2020, that her district finally decides it’s time to move on from her brand of “tough love” conservatism. Because Foxx is more than happy to try and just be an obstructionist, as proven by her early announcement that she’s running for an eighth term in 2020 at the ripe old age of 77. Her Democratic opponent is David Wilson Brown, an IT specialist who had an unsuccessful 2018 run in North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District, and is trying his hand at beating Virginia Foxx down the road in NC-5.

We wish him the best in that endeavor, because after 16 years in Washington, Rep. Foxx has done more to sabotage our country’s education than anyone without the surname “DeVos”.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Pompeo said he will release more of Hillary's e-mails. The trump administration is getting laughably desperate.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

There was an officer involved shooting literally right around the corner from my street yesterday afternoon as two white cops were said to have pumped 14 rounds into a knife wielding black man who later lost his life. FOURTEEN rounds. Predictably, things went south, what with looting on a major shopping corridor a mile east of my house and scenes of chaos at the precinct where those cops were stationed that’s only half a mile away. News choppers have been hovering around the area for the last couple of hours as heaven only knows when things will calm down. I’m sure this has probably gone national by now, or so soon will. Even with the virus lurking in the background like some unwelcome specter, life had returned to a semblance of normalcy around here, now it’s all gone to hell again. Damned frustrating.

[worstblogever]

Pompeo said he will release more of Hillary's e-mails. The trump administration is getting laughably desperate.

That sure will stop the Clinton campaign!

[Tendrin]

The Republican party has become dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades and now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic societies than its former centre-right equivalents in Europe, according to a new international study.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ey-study-trump

Doin't worry. I'm sure one of our GOP apologists will try to tell us that our concerns were still all exagerated all along.