Lemme change that:
“any countries that aren’t too cold, or too humid (“dry” heat I’m good with), and have an actual functional government that actually seems to work for the general populace?”
and when I get there, can I have a unicorn as well?
One way for Democrats to make clear they will not tolerate Republicans trying to fill this seat in advance of the election would be for them to pledge that, if they take the White House and Senate in November, they will increase the size of the Supreme Court to 13 justices.
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Par for the course for politicians.
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A refreshignly unpartisan article anouncing her death:
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Hm. I haven’t seen him too worried about any blowback from the shameful things the Senate Republicans have already done.
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Such courage! Such resolve! /starts stopwatch to time it.
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“Justice” Trump?
Now that’s truly twisted!
Yeesh!
I doubt being a(n) SCJ would shield him from prosecution, though; and I’m not sure any non-lawyers have been members of the court.
I could see Cruz getting nominated, though. He seems to be despised by many of his peers in the Senate, & they would be glad to be rid of him. Ayatollah Abbott would get to name his replacement to serve the remainder of his term & I wouldn’t be surprised if Lt. Gov. Taliban Dan Patrick gets the nod. He has lusted after that job for years. Not sure if the Ayatollah get to name Taliban Dan’s replacement, or if he would need to call a special election. I haven’t studied Texas government since the Nixon regime.
“Justice” Trump…
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“YES, RBG ADVOCATED FOR LOWERING THE AGE OF CONSENT TO 12,” reads a Sept. 18 Instagram post with the caption: “I anticipate pushback. This has been debated for almost 50 years.”
Sometimes I wonder how we’ve had any progressive government at all, given what appears now to be such a huge level of human filth in the US. I dunno what it is gonna take for them to go back to sleep, but I’m happy to buy it for them.
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Evidently another name being mentioned. Could be offered in hopes of bump in Florida, maybe.
It struck me, too, I wonder if he is talking about Tom Cotton for SCOTUS because he thinks he can really finagle a third term? Tom Cotton would be old enough in 2024 to run against him.
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Enjoy.
Please, if you can, listen through all the way to the end.
And then comes the kicker, as Phoebe introduces herself with the words “I hope everybody’s enjoying their apocalypse,” as the band kicks into her surreal doomsday tune “I Know the End.” And what an end it is: The trio expands to an ensemble and a crowd-sourced chorus of fans — recording from bedrooms, cars, backyards and trampolines — lets out the kind of cathartic scream that has come to define 2020 for so many of us.
If you want to cut to the chase, the fun starts ~10 minutes 30 seconds in.
The screaming is really quite cathartic.
The end is here. 
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There’s no way I’m clicking like on that. It’s too dark. But, surprise: all too possible. Underscores how pivotal the next two months are.
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Except it’s not dire. They already had a 5-4 majority, and this would just make it 6-3, which in the short term (which is all R voters are capable of caring about) is the same thing.
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The Republicans only held the senate majority Jan 2015-Jan 2017, while Obama was president.
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God forbid mango musolini packs yet another court… duh… I doubt a single mutant disagrees on that point. The best outcome in November is that we could have much more interesting things to talk about than what that walking talking orange hued dbag of distraction did today.
I’d much rather hear about the notorious RBG, celebrate her. I doubt the number is very large that could pack as much as she into 87 orbits.
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Anyone wanna remind me where the Deprecated Journalism button is when I hear there is a Sept. 14ish Monash U. / Fox (…so much slash…) poll of ‘Americans’ claiming there should be hearings to install a new Justice in 2020. Clearly people who would answer such a poll would be the ones with the given Red pseudo-opinion, but I didn’t have a thumbs down handy in Google News before it refreshed or crashed (was using crufty phone, in same wrong timeline.)
Pleased to scream inside now. Wait…Monash is a ‘Public Research’ university in Australia? Someone say the Malaysian extension wouldn’t publish such tasteless work.
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Antonin Scalia died February 13, 2016… a full six months before Hillary Clinton formally got the Democratic nomination and long before most people expected Trump to win the Republican nomination. Guess what? Republicans didn’t allow Obama to appoint his successor either.
Even if Ginsberg had decided to retire earlier than she preferred out of partisan considerations (again, something a SCOTUS Justice should never feel pressured to do) then it may well have backfired and just given Trump two vacancies to fill as he entered office instead of one.
Also, saying “she undid her legacy” by having the gall to die while a Republican was in office is just gross. If Dukakis had won in '88 then I don’t think it’s reasonable to say Thurgood Marshall would have “undone his legacy” for choosing to stick around instead of retiring.
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Don’t know if it fits the weather conditions but I hear Uruguay’s quite nice.
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She’ll make those mouth noises, but she’ll always vote with repugnicans.
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