The Democrats are going to fight to the death on this one, not because it will give the conservatives a 6-3 majority, but because of its effect on the “rule of four”. Cases the libs want to hear won’t even be taken up.
Trump is going to announce his nominee Saturday. Mere days before the vaccine is released.
jesus fucking christ...can we just send all these old fucks out to pasture...
i will admit that this is the best i could find with a cursory look at ages...this is 6 years old, but think most of these people who haven't passed away are still in these positions...this is just the senate...sure the house is just as bad...so we have roughly 25% of our top level politicians who are fucking over 70...feinstein and grassley are still in their positions...feinstein will be over 90 when her term is up in 2024 and grassley will be pushing 90 when his is up in 2022...90, 90 fucking years old...let that sink in...our presidential race is between a guy near 80 and a guy in his mid-70s...both obviously have mental acuity issues...not that the ruling class gives a shit, but it's no wonder why 100M people don't fucking vote...this is complete and utter dogshit...my pops is in his 70s...he's a smart motherfucker, still reads a lot to keep sharp, but he's lost some off his fastball...im glad at this point in his life he's more worried about curing his shitty putting stroke than anything else...couldnt imagine him doing this kinda job at this point in his life...
1 Feinstein 81 years, 217 days
2 Grassley 81 years, 130 days
3 Hatch 80 years, 309 days
4 Shelby 80 years, 264 days
5 Levin 80 years, 211 days
6 Inhofe 80 years, 69 days
7 Roberts 78 years, 280 days
8 Mikulski 78 years, 189 days
9 McCain 78 years, 149 days
10 Rockefeller 77 years, 221 days
11 Cochran 77 years, 49 days
12 Harkin 75 years, 67 days
13 Reid 75 years, 54 days
14 Leahy 74 years, 300 days
15 Alexander 74 years, 206 days
16 Boxer 74 years, 75 days
17 Sanders 73 years, 139 days
18 McConnell 72 years, 339 days
19 Nelson 72 years, 118 days
20 Risch 71 years, 267 days
21 Coats 71 years, 254 days
22 Cardin 71 years, 112 days
23 Chambliss 71 years, 76 days
24 Enzi 70 years, 358 days
25 King 70 years, 300 days
26 Durbin 70 years, 65 days
27 Isakson 70 years, 28 days
Yep. Remember when Republicans shut the U.S. government down back in September 2013? The Democrats are going to shut the U.S. government down on September 30th. They have finally had enough of Trump.
U.S. Government shuts down on September 30th 2020.
Hopefully for good.
Don't re-open until Trump is gone forever.
Nancy Pelosi unveils details of stimulus deal to avoid government shutdown
https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/nancy-...ment-shutdown/
Just shutdown the fucking government, you spineless bitch.
Amy Comey Barrett is going to be the nominee, and it looks like the GOP has the votes to get her through.
Prepare for liberal tilt.
If Biden wins, it remains to be seen if extreme shenanigans such as adding justices or adding states occurs. They've threatened to do this, even though this is completely absurd and would pretty much fuck up the entire concept of both the court and the way the union of states works.
I'm actually worried that there's an outside chance this could lead to the destruction of the US as we know it.
Picture this sceanrio:
Justice Comey Barrett is confirmed, making the court 6-3 Republican, and probably stuck that way for a number of years. It could even end up 7-2 if Trump wins, and Breyer (age 82) dies before 2025. They're not getting better than 3 Democratic justices until Thomas or Alito dies during a Democratic Administration, and both are only in their early 70s.
So the Democrats freak out about these long term prospects, and both add justices and add states. Adding states would place 2 more Democratic Senators each time, probably clinching the Senate majority for them for a long time. The red states will realize they are fucked, and that they're going to get run over by Democrats for the foreseeable future. When this happens due to normal election processed, states understand this and feel it will eventually swing back the other way. If Democrats add justices, legislate from the bench, AND add Guam/DC/PR as states, some red states are going to feel hopeless, and might want to secede.
Sounds far-fetched, but many far-fetched things have become reality these days. Even Trump being President was a crazy thought just 6 years ago.
I'm sure the Dems are going to be pissed, but I hope they don't try to respond by fucking with longstanding cornerstones of America -- basically that you don't add states for political purposes, and you don't pack extra justices into the court if you don't like the numbers at the moment.
YOU AND YOUR CRAZY RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
jk the dems will do anything to never lose another election, lower the age to vote, allowing mass immigration, etc.
sonatine's party yall, throwing temper tantrums that they lost 4 years ago, dragging on fake narrative impeachment hearings, just blowing Americans tax dollars
One problem is that Trump's election in 2016 has made the Democrats (and the media) think that they are morally justified to engage in sleazy, underhanded, and even violent tactics in order to defeat him (and the Republicans). They also think they're morally justified to destroy certain longstanding American institutions or governmental structure, if it will accomplish that.
Basically nothing is off the table. You gotta do what you gotta do in order to protect victim groups from the "evil" of Trump's Republican Party, and it's all defensible.
Think if you could go back in time and do something to prevent Hitler's rise to power. Would you? Would it be morally justified to do so, even if you had to lie, cheat, or perhaps murder child Adolf? The answer would be yes, knowing how history played out with him in power.
Sadly, this is how many on the left treat Trump and the present Repubilcan Party. It's no longer, "We disagree with you and your worldview". It's now, "You're evil, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and you killed 200,000 Americans through incompetence with COVID, so anything we do to get you out of office, and get progressive people in power is justified."
You enter a slippery slope when you use the other side's "evil" to justify doing bad things on your end to counteract the supposed "evil".
That's where I'm afraid we are headed.
Guys, if you think it's bad now, how crazy are the libs gonna go when Breyer dies during Trump's 2nd term?
Imagine a 7-2 conservative court. Just imagine.
Seriously though, he will have to make it near 87 to survive to the 2025 Presidency, so I'd say it's like 50-50 he dies before then.
The question is whether the Dems are going to overreact now and somehow swing this election into Trump's favor in doing so.
Also lol @ many hypocritical libs who claim to be such big feminists, and are now saying, "OMG how she gonna take care of 7 kidz and be a Supreme Court Justice at the same time??!?!?!?" So what should she do? Go back to the kitchen?
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