Rants and Raves

[SkyWookie]

Not accurate. Obama in WH, Repubs were majority in senate in 2016 when Scalia died. McConnell refused to call hearings until after election. Article III states Pres nominates, senate advise and consent. Majority rules. Doesn't need firepower, needs 50 votes

All I will post is an article where Joe Biden said in 2016 the president has a 'constitutional duty' to fill SCOTUS seat even before an election, so even the democrat candidate for president thinks Trump needs to nominate someone. I understand that Obama didn't do it in 2016, then again Obama said their was NO way Trump would win so he waited expecting Hillary would be nominating someone. If he had the slightest clue Hillary would lose I think his reaction would have been different.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/127180...l-scotus-seat/

[Aaron Hamlet]

but I stand by the fact that the rules change between when your party is in the majority and when it is in the minority.

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Of course it does. It's a democracy, a democratic republic. Majority rules.

[TMeister]

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The next time you do this I will ban you. I will not warn you again, if you try and include me in your stupidity one more time I will ban you without notice.

I am a progressive but you are nothing more than a troll. You don't give a shit what your content means, you only care if they will incite somebody to anger. I have no doubt on other sites you troll progressives as a conservative. I'm not angry at you, I hold you in contempt and feel nothing good nor bad about you but I will not pretend to be on your "side."

Do it again and see if I'm fucking lying.

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[HobbyMan51]

I completely agree, the two parties, the Dims and Repugs, are basically both peas off the same pod.

Finally, something Sgt. George and I can agree on. The Dims have become the party of mindless anarchy and the Repugs the party of self serving putzbags, something they have always been. Disgusting.

[TMeister]

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Do not ever try and include me into your stupidity again.

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[Wizard22]

You can talk about how you disagreed with her rulings. You can talk about her ideology but I simply will not tolerate a person of her character and intelligence referred to in that manner. Before anybody complains that I'm taking sides because I'm known to be progressive, I did the same thing when Justice Scalia died. I disagreed with nearly every decision he handed down but he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and deserved respect. Those of you who's posts I deleted if you do it again I will ban your users. I simply will not tolerate it.

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Thank you.

[Sgt Soros]

I was watching the USA Open and completely screwed up one paragraph, but I stand by the fact that the rules change between when your party is in the majority and when it is in the minority.

It IS all political and the whole system has become FAR too polarized in the last few decades. We need a viable third and possibly fourth party to keep the big two honest.

Absent that, we need to start electing statesmen, not just politicians.

I completely agree, the two parties, the Dims and Repugs, are basically both peas off the same pod.

[Niteluvr]

I was watching the USA Open and completely screwed up one paragraph, but I stand by the fact that the rules change between when your party is in the majority and when it is in the minority.

It IS all political and the whole system has become FAR too polarized in the last few decades. We need a viable third and possibly fourth party to keep the big two honest.

Absent that, we need to start electing statesmen, not just politicians.

I would concur. It's been about money and power and that hasn't changed since way before Christ was a Corporal. True statesmen? They never get into the limelight in these times. It'll take Armageddon-level stink to restore normalcy and I'm all for it.

[Admin2]

You can talk about how you disagreed with her rulings. You can talk about her ideology but I simply will not tolerate a person of her character and intelligence referred to in that manner. Before anybody complains that I'm taking sides because I'm known to be progressive, I did the same thing when Justice Scalia died. I disagreed with nearly every decision he handed down but he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and deserved respect. Those of you who's posts I deleted if you do it again I will ban your users. I simply will not tolerate it.

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[Bullett64]

Not accurate.

I was watching the USA Open and completely screwed up one paragraph, but I stand by the fact that the rules change between when your party is in the majority and when it is in the minority.

It IS all political and the whole system has become FAR too polarized in the last few decades. We need a viable third and possibly fourth party to keep the big two honest.

Absent that, we need to start electing statesmen, not just politicians.

[Aaron Hamlet]

This is politics, so I would be hesitant to predict anything. I'm not sure Sen. McConnell has the firepower to push a nominee through before the election. If President Trump wins re-election it will become a moot point, however if VP / Sen / Mr (as you prefer) Biden wins, there will be huge pressure to have the new President make the appointment.

Is there precedence for this? Yes. You only need to go back to the end of the Obama administration when Sen. McConnell was adamant that the decision be postponed until after the (then) upcoming election.

Why the change of position? Then the Republicans were the minority and didn't want to be steamrolled by the Democratic majority. Now they are the majority and wish to steamroll the Democrats in the minority.

Will it play? Time will tell.

Not accurate. Obama in WH, Repubs were majority in senate in 2016 when Scalia died. McConnell refused to call hearings until after election. Article III states Pres nominates, senate advise and consent. Majority rules. Doesn't need firepower, needs 50 votes

[Bullett64]

Yep, she is looked at by liberals as an icon, but she screwed her own party by not stepping down under Obama, now we'll get another conservative justice, I'm not complaining, I look forward to Roe V Wade being overturned.

This is politics, so I would be hesitant to predict anything. I'm not sure Sen. McConnell has the firepower to push a nominee through before the election. If President Trump wins re-election it will become a moot point, however if VP / Sen / Mr (as you prefer) Biden wins, there will be huge pressure to have the new President make the appointment.

Is there precedence for this? Yes. You only need to go back to the end of the Obama administration when Sen. McConnell was adamant that the decision be postponed until after the (then) upcoming election.

Why the change of position? Then the Republicans were the minority and didn't want to be steamrolled by the Democratic majority. Now they are the majority and wish to steamroll the Democrats in the minority.

Will it play? Time will tell.

[SkyWookie]

She swore up and down she would outlive Trump's presidency. She gambled and lost.

Yep, she is looked at by liberals as an icon, but she screwed her own party by not stepping down under Obama, now we'll get another conservative justice, I'm not complaining, I look forward to Roe V Wade being overturned.

[Aaron Hamlet]

The douchy Catholic school kid?

O.

Out of curiosity, what did he do (perhaps something that affected you?) that you disagreed with?

(Just making sure you don't like him for your own reasons and not simply because you've been told not to by whatever media you follow.).

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[Worf359]

Out of curiosity, what did she do (perhaps something that affected you?) that you disagreed with? A ruling? Etc?

(Just making sure you don't like her for your own reasons and not simply because you've been told not to by whatever media you follow.).

O.

RBG did what no other Supreme Court justices ever has. She spoke out against a sitting president. It has always been tradition that Supreme Court justices stay out of politics. Even Justice Kavanaugh who was basically raped by Democrats in the Senate with bullshit charges and who in fact has sided with more liberal justices on the court on several rulings has stayed out of election politics. RBG was even admonished by Sotomayor who is the only other female justice and is as Liberal as they come. When it came to her rulings she has in the past been on the conservative side more than once I respect that but I do not respect how she tried to put her opinion into presidential election politics in her last few years.