Ruth Bader Ginsburg died

[Tgo01]

This is sad. Given her health issues and age it was kind of expected, but at the same time she was fighting like a champ until the end so it was also kind of surprising.

I don't think I have agreed with her on a single issue but it's still sad to see. She never struck me as evil like a lot of people in politics clearly are today, she was just misguided. May she rest in peace.

As if 2020 couldn't get worse, imagine the absolute cluster fuck both if Trump and Senate Republicans try to fill her seat before the elections and if they don't and instead it will be yet another campaign issue for both sides.

[kutter]

I doubt they will fill it before the election but it will get filled before the next presidential term is started though. If nothing else as a fuck you from the outgoing administration. Assuming Trump fills it and Biden wins, watch for the left to want to add justices to the court.

[Blazar]

Trump has a list he just added to and revised, and Graham and McConnell have both said any vacancies this year would absolutely be filled, so you can pretty much guarantee it will be filled. And they will be sure to fil it with an old, bitter, unscrupulous white man that is just like them. Chances are, it'll be someone who Trump has dirt on as I'm sure they've learned their lesson from Roberts with the handful of times he's gone against their regime. This is how politics works, because it's how you "win". Trump isn't any different in spite of you liking to think he "isn't a politician".

[Tgo01]

Trump has a list he just added to and revised, and Graham and McConnell have both said any vacancies this year would absolutely be filled, so you can pretty much guarantee it will be filled. And they will be sure to fil it with an old, bitter, unscrupulous white man that is just like them. Chances are, it'll be someone who Trump has dirt on as I'm sure they've learned their lesson from Roberts with the handful of times he's gone against their regime. This is how politics works, because it's how you "win". Trump isn't any different in spite of you liking to think he "isn't a politician".

Experts say you should take your tin foil hat off from time to time to allow your brain to breath.

Also you're especially wrong about this part:

"And they will be sure to fil it with an old, bitter, unscrupulous white man that is just like them."

I think the name of the game lately has been to fill lifetime seats with younger people.

[kutter]

Trump has a list he just added to and revised, and Graham and McConnell have both said any vacancies this year would absolutely be filled, so you can pretty much guarantee it will be filled. And they will be sure to fil it with an old, bitter, unscrupulous white man that is just like them. Chances are, it'll be someone who Trump has dirt on as I'm sure they've learned their lesson from Roberts with the handful of times he's gone against their regime. This is how politics works, because it's how you "win". Trump isn't any different in spite of you liking to think he "isn't a politician".

I am not going to say you are wrong about that but I think it will be Amy Coney Barrett. It takes out all of the MeToo stuff, which is a big deal. It will also make the liberals look like bullies if they go after a woman like they did Kavanaugh. Yes, that should not matter, but it does to a lot of people still.

[Methais]

Trump has a list he just added to and revised, and Graham and McConnell have both said any vacancies this year would absolutely be filled, so you can pretty much guarantee it will be filled. And they will be sure to fil it with an old, bitter, unscrupulous white man that is just like them. Chances are, it'll be someone who Trump has dirt on as I'm sure they've learned their lesson from Roberts with the handful of times he's gone against their regime. This is how politics works, because it's how you "win". Trump isn't any different in spite of you liking to think he "isn't a politician".

[Tgo01]

"Journalists" already threatening riots if Trump fills her seat:

https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status...561825280?s=20

If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots.

[Taernath]

Remember when Senate Republicans refused to consider Supreme Court nominations from Obama because "it was an election year"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[Tgo01]

Remember when Senate Republicans refused to consider Supreme Court nominations from Obama because "it was an election year"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

I seem to recall Democrats saying that was a terrible idea and that the Senate should have totally filled that seat in an election year. For once it sounds like Democrats were right about something.

[Blazar]

Remember when Senate Republicans refused to consider Supreme Court nominations from Obama because "it was an election year"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

The justification there is that at that time, the president was a democrat and the senate was controlled by Republicans, so they consider it a different situation, since basically both have to rubber stamp the appointee. Again, this is how you "win", no one wins at politics being the nice guy, because there are way too many sharks that eat the nice guys alive. Once a nice guy gets eaten a few times, he either gives up or becomes a shark. Over and over again we go.

I'll be *really* surprised if it is someone Trump doesn't have a past with. And I mean really, really, really surprised. Which would be nice to be surprised these days, because not a lot is.