U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87
Scape @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:40 pm
rickc @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:41 pm
llama66 llama66:
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I do not recommend a political career for you if you get this worked up about politics in another country.
If only your stupidity remained on your side of the fence.
Isn't it? I thought that the border was closed.
Thanos @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:42 pm
Not going to participate in the battle this time around. It's too exhausting and self-defeating. Can't win against these delusional clowns who'll probably think that Trump nominating and McConnell confirming some fucking right-wing sadist who'd like to use the courts to overturn the results of the US Civil War is in the best interest of their country. Seriously, what's the point of talking about any of this anymore. Everybody knows the war is over, everybody knows that the good guys lost, as the poet once so accurately said. All the old tales were lies because in reality only the monsters really win anything.
It's over. Time to move on through life the best we can and leave all the crap like this behind. America's gone, and it ain't coming back. 
rickc @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:44 pm
Pretty sure that the Republicans were on the winning side of the civil war.
Thanos @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:57 pm
Like I just said, what's the fucking point in bothering anymore? 
Tricks @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:24 pm
rickc rickc:
What hypocrisy? The President of the United States nominates candidates for the Supreme Court. The Senate calls ALL the shots on the nomination process. The Senate decides whether to proceed. The Senate confirms or rejects nominations.
The way that the senate is elected is stacked in favour of Republicans because it's not real representation. To ignore this is hilarious to me. But hey, democracy is going down the shitter in your country and you, along with millions of other Americans, don't really seem to give a shit.$1:
Its that simple. What is so hard to understand about that? The party that controls the Senate controls the Supreme Court nomination process. The Senate has not filled a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year when there was a divided government since 1888.
Oh I see your listening to your republican talking points. Tell me, how many Supreme Court vacancies have there been in an election year of a divided government while the senate has been sitting since 1888?
I'll give you a hint, it's zero. So lets dispense with this meaningless statistic.
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That is a long time. Long before any of us were born, so lets not pretend that the whole Merrick Garland thing is a new thing created by the GOP.
Except it is. It absolutely is. 6 justices have left a vacancy in an election year since then. 4 were not a divided government. 1 was 1888. 1 the justice left in the middle of october when the senate wasn't sitting (for the election), so one was appointed during recess and later confirmed after the election. The last one the could have occurred was 1888. And guess what? They were allowed to vote on it. So yes, Moscow Mitch not allowing for a vote on Merrick Garland was the first time that had happened in history as far as I can see. Not even CONSIDERING the nomination, that from as far as I can tell was the first time in history. He set the precedent.
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Divided government, election year, no Supreme Court confirmation. Long track record. 132 years to be exact. Divided government being the catch phrase here. There is no divided government now. The GOP controls the White House and the Senate. They are free to proceed with the confirmation process.
That was the last time it could have happened. I'm curious, of the last 6 times there has been a vacancy during an election year, when was the last time it was literally weeks away from an election? I'll give you a hint, the only time it was even remotely this close, confirmation happened after the election. $1:
Senator Reid and the democrats were the first to use the nuclear option to kill a filibuster. Now its going to bite them in the ass. What goes around, comes around. They made their bed, let them lay in it. What is hypocritical about that?
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The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice, therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
If you don't see the hypocrisy of saying that in 2016 and turning around and doing the complete opposite 4 years later, then I honestly can't help you. If this is the response who, compared to many in your country, is reasonably intelligent, it's no wonder your country is literally on fire and dying.
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What is up with the insults and why are you taking this so personal? LOL! I do not recommend a political career for you if you get this worked up about politics in another country.
1) Because the USA stupidity affects everyone on the planet.
2) Because there are people in your government who want a theocracy.
3) Because I actually give a shit about my fellow man, and I have concerns of the USA regressing and women, PoC, and the LGBT community losing rights because of a stacked supreme court. It should ALWAYS be balanced. Otherwise you lose a major check in the system of government. And considering we've seen another major one fail spectacularly in the last year, suddenly you're allowing corruption and the ability for major abuses of power to be wielded. Having 6 liberal or 6 conservative judges is not a good thing.
Tricks @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:26 pm
rickc rickc:
llama66 llama66:
$1:
I do not recommend a political career for you if you get this worked up about politics in another country.
If only your stupidity remained on your side of the fence.
Isn't it? I thought that the border was closed.
At this point, hopefully permanently.
BeaverFever @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:41 pm
rickc rickc:
Pretty sure that the Republicans were on the winning side of the civil war.
True. They were. Then they were gradually taken over by the losers starting n the 1960s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
BeaverFever @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:45 pm
rickc rickc:
Tricks Tricks:
rickc rickc:
I think that President Obama said it best: Elections have consequences!
So you're completely fine with Senate republicans not allowing a new Supreme Court Justice to be picked in an election year when they weren't in charge, only to turn around and allow it a month and a half right before what is likely going to be one of the most contentious elections in history? Keeping in mind they refused to do it for 7 MONTHS last time.
Cool. Cool cool cool. Lets vote in some more hypocrisy. Your country is a fucking joke.
What hypocrisy? The President of the United States nominates candidates for the Supreme Court. The Senate calls ALL the shots on the nomination process. The Senate decides whether to proceed. The Senate confirms or rejects nominations. Its that simple. What is so hard to understand about that? The party that controls the Senate controls the Supreme Court nomination process. The Senate has not filled a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year when there was a divided government since 1888. That is a long time. Long before any of us were born, so lets not pretend that the whole Merrick Garland thing is a new thing created by the GOP. Divided government, election year, no Supreme Court confirmation. Long track record. 132 years to be exact. Divided government being the catch phrase here. There is no divided government now. The GOP controls the White House and the Senate. They are free to proceed with the confirmation process.
Why should a divided government matter or not? This is a newly invented excuse to justify doing rhe exact opposite of what they argued previously.
rickc @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:54 pm
Thanos Thanos:
Like I just said, what's the fucking point in bothering anymore?
Does not look like YOU are bothering any more. I am going off to work in a few hours. When is the last time that you went to work? When is the last time that you left your house for that matter? You are a smart man, but you missed your calling in life. What is going on in the states has fuck all to do with your situation in life. President Obama was in office for eight years and could not get the Keystone pipeline approved. President Trump was in office for two months when he approved the Keystone pipeline. Whatever fucked up things that are going on your life has zero to do with President Trump, yet you spend your entire existence bitching about the man. A man who has fuck all to do with your station in life.
Thanos @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:14 pm
Hard to make a go of it in Alberta anymore ever since your nation's best friends in Saudi Arabia deliberately destroyed the value of the commodity our wealth was built on. Did you forget that part due to all the red-hat koolaid you people guzzle down by the gallon and are so happily addicted to?
Thanos @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:34 pm
And here's the low-down on the fucking psychotic that Trump is most likely to appoint:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... uture.html
If he was still alive and kicking and hadn't been killed in an Allied bombing raid these evil hate-filled GOP bastards would appoint Roland Freisler to the Court if they could.
xerxes @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:01 pm
They would appoint Benedict Arnold if they could. Tokyo Rose too. Anyone who can do as much damage to America as possible.
llama66 @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:06 pm
$1:
Does not look like YOU are bothering any more. I am going off to work in a few hours. When is the last time that you went to work? When is the last time that you left your house for that matter? You are a smart man, but you missed your calling in life. What is going on in the states has fuck all to do with your situation in life. President Obama was in office for eight years and could not get the Keystone pipeline approved. President Trump was in office for two months when he approved the Keystone pipeline. Whatever fucked up things that are going on your life has zero to do with President Trump, yet you spend your entire existence bitching about the man. A man who has fuck all to do with your station in life.
Couple things,
I doubt this was directed at me, but-
I'm essential service, so I've been to work everyday since this Pandemic started.
I know you are not so simple to believe that what goes on in your country stops magically at your borders.
Our two countries are tied together- for better or for worse, so what goes on in your country does affect us.
Thanos @ Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:07 pm
xerxes xerxes:
They would appoint Benedict Arnold if they could. Tokyo Rose too. Anyone who can do as much damage to America as possible.
It's all worth it though to put the bitches back in their proper places and to own the libs. When was the last time the GOP even had a single coherent policy that was based in the real world, that would have benefited the entire country instead of just the rich & the members of the cult, and didn't have anything to do with mindless worship of Dear Leader? When Romney ran against Obama? Might as well have been a century ago, given how much they've devolved into total savagery in the last eight years.