America is no longer a shining city on a hill, just another city on a plain.
US Politics
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Who gives a shit about perjury and multiple sexual assault accusations.
America is truly backwards in so many ways.
America is truly backwards in so many ways.
RBG - 85
Breyer - 80
Sotomayor - 64 but has type 1 diabetes
If the Republicans have power until 2024 or even 2028 this will getugly even uglier.
Breyer - 80
Sotomayor - 64 but has type 1 diabetes
If the Republicans have power until 2024 or even 2028 this will get
The disappointing pall of despairing reality. A president under investigation has installed two supreme court justices. This should never have been allowed to happen.
Worth remembering that Obama was barred from making a nomination because an election was months away. It's sickening.
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It gets fecking worse. Absolute BS. The state of the law in the USA that allows this kind of bullshit to happen. The same bs that allows a crook like Trump to get elected and act like a dictator without repercussions or consequence.
The land of the free? What a joke.
More like the land of me me me!
Just another step in the process. You keep telling yourself everything will change and normality will be restored, and you'll continue to delude yourself as it continues to get worse.
Didn't take the gloater in chief long.
murkowski voted present...disgraceful
If the Republicans have power for that long, the Americans deserve everything they get.
At some point perhaps you also have to say the republicans are better at playing politics...
Sickening as that may be I'm sure they don't care and the long term gain (shifting the balance of the supreme court) is worth the short term pain
You can go back to normality by altering it.
They are better at playing dirty nasty deceitful and dishonest politics. This whole "When they go low, we go high" only reinforces that. And to be honest, where does it get the Dems by playing fair?
Don't get me wrong, many of the Dems are corrupt sons of bitches too, and this holier than thou attitude is what really pisses the Republicans off. But you're right, the Dems sure suck at playing politics.
Well, in that case they deserve to put there whatever judges they want. The people give power to them by keeping them in power from 2017 to 2024/2028 (in reality from 2015 when they got the senate), so American people would want conservative judges if that's the case.
So that’s US politics even more fecked for the next decades.
Not much will change. Kennedy was around as much conservative as Roberts is, as Kananaugh won't even be the most conservative judge in the court.
It will still be a 5-4 court for conservatives, with Roberts not being a totally reliable vote (see Obamacare).
Was that just a safeguard in case Munchin has a change of heart in the last moment?
Still not tired of winning. 
Never thought I would see Graham, Grassley and Collins have a backbone.
Never thought I would see Graham, Grassley and Collins have a backbone.
Wish this limelight chaser would stick to just representing Stormy.
It's so sad seeing some people whose lives will progressively get worse gloating about this just because their team won.
Well that's the Supreme Court taking a rightward lurch for a generation.
Abortion, affirmative action, voting rights, minimum wage all fecked and a green light to all gerrymandering.
Any Democratic nominated justice would be far far to the left of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Ah well.
Abortion, affirmative action, voting rights, minimum wage all fecked and a green light to all gerrymandering.
Any Democratic nominated justice would be far far to the left of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Ah well.
It's sickening seeing the trolls come out too. That little fecker Jacob Troll just had the fecking nerve to Tweet
"Any self respecting woman will be CELEBRATING the appointment of Judge I like Beer"
It's not even funny. This shit has real consequences and could cause real pain and sufferring, but hey, it's called winning in Trumpland.
its funny watching rich white women make handmaids tale analogies. there are like a million people who have ever watched that show and they all have a college degree and an amazon wishlist
thats nice. a gesture towards the man who wants a rapist on the court. as always, every member of congress has more in common with each other than they do with you and i.
Jordon gets it.
They deserve it to be honest. I used to shy away from this kind of thinking, but the attacks on a woman who dared to come forward against a man who sexually assaulted her were disturbing.
The perfect scenario would be for all the conservatives to live in a half of the US with their GOP overlords, in their wonderland of guns, Christianity, no abortions and winning.
In abstract it is funny seeing news like that guy who campaigned for Trump getting deported, but then you think about those kids in the family, or people in the poorer states suffering because they don't have healthcare (especially kids who have no say in politics) and it becomes a tragedy. No amount of "well, they voted for it" will make it any easier to swallow for someone like me with no dog in the race.
I can't think like that because my mind immediately goes to the millions who opposed this, and teenagers and kids. They will all suffer too even if their mind they're winning.
But even if she voted 'against', it would still have been 50-49. The only way this makes sense, is if they didn't trust Munchin to vote 'nay', which obviously would have put it 50-49 against. By her not voting, it means that at worst case, it will be a tie which meant that Pence would have done the decisive vote.
I reckon for the next week or two, there won't be a day that passes without a new story that will make him look even less qualified to be a justice.
The Democrats had better hold WV given Senator Joe's vote.
Maybe those people don't agree with you that their lives will get progressively worse, and actually hold conservative opinions? Just cause you and me are left wing, it doesn't mean that we're right and all the others are morons. That is a very Eboue-ish opinion to hold.
There may be a chance that Roberts now tries to be the swing vote to avoid the court becoming nakedly partisan (which it has not been in the past). After all, the court is named after him - I am not sure he would want his legacy to be tarnished in that way. That is probably a very slim hope.
How refreshing it is to read your comment.
Losing healthcare, for example, is objectively a bad thing that has nothing to do with being left or right wing. Or a teenage girl getting her life ruined because she got pregnant and can't have an abortion.