and joy of joys, you can vote and be in a gerrymandered district and still not matter. woohoo!
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next election, will i have to produce valid documents stating that i matter? i’m white. that used to be enough.
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Are all Republicans racists, or only a majority of them? Discuss.
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They could have at least sued the Congress for not doing their job. At the very least.
Gorsuch is doing the bidding of his masters nicely. They are pleased, I am sure.
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While Stein, Sarandon and other brogressives who voted third party or stood on the sidelines last November certainly deserve all the enmity that history will pile on them, we shouldn’t absolve those cretinous 2000 Nader voters in Florida and New Hampshire, or the thoroughly degenerate MSM media, either. A President Gore never nominates jurists like Roberts or Alito.
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A thank you is the least we can give to the people who saved us from Hillary’s nuclear war with Russia. Such a nasty woman. A real hothead.
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The first step toward changing the court’s mind–even before changing its composition, is to win elections.
And in the case of the Democratic Party, to win elections that don’t occur in Presidential years.
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But you will.
There is a lot money behind pushing that on the left (on the right that same money pushes the notion that all Democrats are traitors or worse).
There are a enough corrupt people willing to mouth Progressive sounding platitudes, push this meme, and take dirty money - Jill Stein I am looking at you.
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Remember “It’s the SCOTUS, stupid”? 'member? Them were the days…
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This is what happens when Democrars in congress dont fight holding up a supreme court nomination[/quote]
This topic was discussed extensively as it played out but since you want to bring it up again what do you suggest the Senate Democrats should have done? There was no process that would allow the minority to force McConnell to bring the Garland nomination to the floor for a vote. If the Senate Democrats went to court to challenge McConnell’s actions they would have to overcome both a short time line and a judicial cop out that “Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, [Article I, Section 5].” Finally, even if by some miracle the democrats managed to force a vote on Garland they were in the minority and were powerless to confirm his appointment. But keep on blaming the Senate Democrats for the actions of the GOP majority leader.
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Sadly, our institutions will not save us either. As someone else said, the politicization of the SCOTUS has killed what was supposed to be our fail-safe. The Republican hegemony is working overtime to preserve all of its power and to this point is winning handily with only minor battles and skirmishes going our way.
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There are a enough of corrupt people willing to mouth Progressive sounding platitudes, push this meme, and take dirty money - Jill Stein I am looking at you.
Cut Jill some slack—you can’t really expect her to pass up that authentic Russian caviar.
Two representatives of the Russian Green Party eviscerated American Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein today for her cozy relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The Russian Greens said Stein was a willing accomplice of Putin’s human rights abuses against the LGBT community, environmentalists, artists, journalists and political dissidents:
“By silencing Putin’s crimes you are silencing our struggle. By shaking his hand and failing to criticize his regime you are becoming his accomplice. By forgetting what international solidarity means you are insulting the Russian environmental movement.”
In particular, Russian environmental activists Yevgeniya Chirikova and Nadezda Kutepova criticized Stein for her recent trip last winter to Moscow to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Russian state propaganda organ. The event included a dinner at which Stein sat at the same dinner table as Putin.
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I’m starting to feel more and more that the country should just get a divorce. Irreconcilable differences between those who want progress and those who want to drag us back to the 19th century. Just make sure there are a couple states with good weather for us liberal snowflakes with an aversion to actual snow.
The conservative majority will promptly point to even a single election win and declare that it proves they don’t have to interfere in any GOP-run redistricting unless those who drew the lines swear in court that they formed the districts solely to reduce minority voting power.
Again, I thank the Jill Stein voters, Bernie Bros and those who sat out the election thinking there is no difference between the parties.
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I would say a very large majority of them, but not every single one.
But it has become a basic requirement to being willing to maintain Republican ID now.
The number of people who ID as Republican is down 25% since January, so the tendency is for people who are appalled by Trump to abandon the Republican party!
And polling also shows the (remaining) Republicans approval of Trump right now at 80%. To a first approximation we can say that this represents the racist portion of the Republican party.
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This proves the conservatives on the court are a malignancy on the country. Since when is allowing an election that may be tainted with the excuse, oh we’ll got to it later? Our Democracy is so fucked by these fascists.
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About those Stein voters.
PPP’s latest poll show that they support Trump to the tune of 54%.
There is something very wrong with anyone that voted for Stein, but Progressive purity hardly seems the major factor.
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Like being high minded about Pearl Harbor?
Many people are thinking that we’ve gone the high road for over two decades, now. Consider the intransigence that Obama faced – that was likely our best scenario. Instead, a foreign nation interfered in our election – and Mitch McConnell threatened to play politics with it; meaning there was little we could do about it then. And now, of course, they Republican led legislature has removed the flimsy security legislation for voting machines, gerrymandering is running amok and now the supreme court is participating in the mitigation of the one real recourse a citizen has to effect the so-called representative republic that is the US government…
Couple this with the vilification of “the left” from “both sides” Dump Truck and Fox Propaganda Network, the murders of innocents by Trump supporters, the existential threat to our entire planet that the head of the EPA refuses to acknowledge because he wants more money for himself and his buddies, and all the other vicissitudes of horrendous that continually assault us – particularly the disenfranchised – it’s a recipe for violence. That’s just human nature; and the considerable lack of violent leftist outbursts (in comparison with right wing violent outbursts) is a testament to how far people are bending over backwards to play a game whose rules are written by those who lack a conscience and seek to win at any cost and/or their dedication to resolving things via peace & law.
Now, I’m all for feeling pity for those who are misinformed and, by virtue of being born in the wrong place, into a rather one sided trust network that funnels their idea of truth towards Fox News. But senators? The Supreme Court? Any non-psychotic/narcissist congressional representative? They know better. They know that what they are doing will cause harm, and they want it to be irreparable. Why should they be shielded from invective? And at what point do you think violent revolution becomes a necessary option? Should we wait for when Trump can kill reporters he doesn’t like with impunity? Or should we just wait until we’re gathering liberals up in concentration camps and hope that we can be saved by other nations around the world before too many of our loved ones die in poverty?
Furthermore, I think emotional outbursts are more psychologically healthy than emotional repression. And, I think that we need to acknowledge that we are facing a national test, possibly even a tipping point, the ripples of which will impact the quality of life for several generations of the American public. So, what is that… 600 million people? (322 million people in US-2014, per wolframalpha; say 2 iterations of said public dealing with the fallout of this…)
Anyway, I don’t think it’s constructive to criticize someone for being extremely upset by the state of affairs – and for, frankly, calling a spade a spade. Maybe, instead, it would be better to suggest meaningful activities through which they could funnel their angst – provide them with possible methods of actually effecting change in a reasonable time period – than suggest that we continue to clutch our bibles and pearls while our opponents turn the US become the next Rome.