Originally published at: Senate Republicans Surprised, Saddened To Discover That Filling Judicial Vacancies Can Be Political
Another federal judge has decided to reverse their retirement plans in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory — and a few Senate Republicans are performatively up in arms about precedent in response. “I write to advise that, after careful consideration, I have decided to continue in regular active service as a United States Circuit Judge…
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Simple cause and effect: Wynn understood that Trump would chose his replacement and, from Kavanaugh down to Cannon, that means cryptofascist sh*tshow so io ipso babe and F-ing a fortiori. When someone shows you who they are …
ETA: Republican Senators like Tillis need to pull their faces from between Trump’s butt-cheeks, take a deep breath, and think long and hard about what kind of world they would like their grandchildren to live in.
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Donald Trump announced Monday he would sue political pollster Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register. “I’m not doing this because I want to, I’m doing this because I feel I have an obligation to,” the president-elect said.
This is a SLAPP. Especially since he is giddy with the settlement from ABC.
And this joins CBS & 60 Minutes, Bob Woodward, and the Pulitzer committee. There is probably more that I missed.
Can anyone stop his tantrums?
Edit to add: An obligation??? To what harass?
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Perfect. They are all wankers.
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i genuinely feel that i may have reached that saturation point where there is literally nothing left for me to say about the abject thievery, buffoonery & total idiocy of the Republican Party. Not that the Democrats don’t have huge problems of their own but all the tongue clucking and woeful laments aren’t going to change even the tiniest bit of the decline in American society/politics. And it’s been a long slow process engineered by greedheads and evangelicals. And I’m just plain out of words…
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One word : NO
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…the grim reaper, eventually.
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Thank you, Judge Wynn. I am grateful for your patriotism.
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“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) brought his irritation with the first retirement reversals to the Senate floor earlier this month — a cartoonish achievement in hypocrisy by the man who blocked Democrats from filling a Supreme Court seat.”
“McConnell, shown here watching the Zapruder Film on continuous loop, later expressed outrage that Democrats had outmaneuvered him.”
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If McConnell and Tillis and the entire rest of the lot spend the rest of their lives doing nothing but fucking off, they will still not have fucked off enough.
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Meanwhile, on Politico (I know, I know) …
Trump says Turkey orchestrated Assad’s overthrow in Syria
Well, at least now we know what Putin’s story is.
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Continues to infuriate me how these GOoPers can so easily lie, project their own misdeeds on others in such innocence and incredulity at what they are so profoundly guilty of in tearing this country apart. They are traitors to this country to the greatest extent.
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To the right honorable wrong dishonorable Senators McConnell and Tillis.
Re: Complaints about Judges reversing their decision to retire.
5 words. Merrick Garland. Go f*ck yourself.
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Play silly games, get f*cked prizes. How hard is it to remember this?
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I’m rewatching Ted Lasso so I’m laughing my head off here.
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Are they playing “Cat Scratch Fever?”
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“Looking to history, only two judges have ever ‘un-retired’ after a presidential election ― one Democrat in 2004, and one Republican in 2009,” McConnell said. “But now, in just a matter of weeks, Democrats have already met that all-time record. … It’s hard to conclude that this is anything other than open partisanship.”
That’s some fellatious reasoning.
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It’s unclear sometimes just who’s “living in strange dreams, taking prescribed medications” but it’s possible.
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