Can't wait to see how quickly the Dems fold on the replacement
For electoral harm reduction purposes this is actually sucks tho... Thinking back to how stressed out and legitimately fearful my sister's American trans gf was over the supreme court's vote on transgender workplace discrimination, it just reminds how having another blatant fascist on the supreme court will have immediate and literally life-threatening consequences to vulnerable groups. Although my country is hardly better, America seriously fucking sucks. :amerikkka:
There was no harm reduction to be done.
A 5-4 decision is identical to a 6-3 one.
The court is lost without a packing scheme. That's been true for a while now.
I think the Obergefell decision is in serious jeopardy of being overturned now.
We should get a pool going on which ghoul it's going to be first. My money's on a Cronenberg monster comprised of both Tom Cotton and Eric Trump.
if the only think protecting human rights was a bunch of 80 year old cancer patients maybe america deserves to fucking die (it does)
COVID must have disrupted her adrenochrome supply. :thinkin-lenin:
But seriously, why didn't she step down under Obama? She was in her 80s then, memaw isn't fit to decide laws that hundreds of millions have to live under.
According to her Wiki page, she felt that the "political climate" at the time wouldn't have allowed Democrats to appoint a "like-minded jurist." Which is bullshit, considering they controlled the Senate at the time, and could have rammed a confirmation through with minimal effort. If they weren't controlled opposition, anyway. But I digress.
the dems coulda appointed a full blown commie if they wanted to. Having house senate and supreme court (and presidential seat) is INFINITE fucking power
yeah lets pander to this ONE fucking independent and completely gut the ACA because we TOTALLY care about democracy and what the people want
I read that she also didn't want to retire until she had been on the court for like 23 years because that's the longest term a supreme court justice has ever served
hilarious that she's considered a liberal feminist icon when she just royally fucked over every woman in the country by not retiring when she was already fucking 80 years old
That's liberals for ya! another icon of liberals is Obama yet he royally fucked a shitton of people in the US and abroad as well
First black president stole half of all black wealth and gave it to wealthy white men.
Liberals are not very good at picking identity icons.
Liberals are not very good at picking identity icons
See also: Every single person with the surname Clinton
80, multiple cancer bouts, had the opportunity to retire under Obama and be replaced by a non-fascist, chose to barely cling to life and die under Trump while accomplishing nothing. Fuck her
Funny looking at the r/politics megathread. A lot of people upset... but it really seems just like anger. No talk of breaking this shit up among the libs there. No talk of revolution or even just taking serious action. That's because at the end of the day, politics is a game to reddit libs who are mostly well-off cishet white guys who will be fine no matter who is on the SCOTUS.
Politics is just a show to the moderate cis white person
Nothing more than a sports show. Trying to beat the other team
That's exactly what the lib reaction has been. They don't fear for their lives or the lives of others, they just think "aw damn our quarterback is injured for the next game :("
r/politics is carefully curated for users to vent, validate, and that's it - not planning, not commiserating, not organizing
Could have retired in 2009 after the pancreatic cancer stint, but noooooo.
I was wondering why my initial reaction to this news was that of LMAO JESUS CHRIST
This explains it perfectly
Thank you bb
Election year! Can't appoint a supreme in an election year! By gawd, it would break precedence.
Good bit.
Someone who is not already banned from /r/politics should go reply to that comment with a link to the "self-fuck" subreddit.
Edit: Awww, the coward deleted it.
Tickets to the afterlife must have been 20% of until the new year.
