To
Serve Trumpkind
We don't need a few measly new Supreme Court judges,
we need at least fifty. Then have them assigned
randomly to cases just like the Circuit Court does. This
will end this 5-4 bullshit we've been dealing with
since forever.
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I like Joe Biden, always have, but if, by some horrible
off-chance he becomes incapacitated and Kamala Harris,
a woman of
color,
begins running
the country the level of my schadenfreude at the resultant
GOP fury will be freaking thermonuclear.
We're also taking the House and Senate, too, so multiply
my acrimonious delight by three, at least.
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t-Rump is going to lose the election and Fox News will
STILL let him call in at Fox & Fiends and ramble
on about Hillary for an hour at a time.
Of course, it'll be from a jail cell....
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Trump keeps saying he has some secret health care plan
he's going to sign any minute. Why is it secret? Who's
he hiding it from? The Chinese? Are they going to swoop
in, steal the idea and give Americans affordable health
care?
Man, if only.
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Pretend it's 2021.
Remember when Antonin Scalia died of "unknown
causes" and Mitch McConnell held up his replacement
until a "new president" was elected? When
the GOP didn't even have a candidate yet? When everyone
thought the idea of a t-Rump candidacy was a joke (Except
the Russians).
Remember when Justice Anthony Kennedy abruptly "retired" after
an animated hallway discussion with t-Rump? Whose son,
Justin Kennedy, is still deeply mired in the Deutsche
Bank scandal?
Remember when Brett Kavanaugh's massive credit card
debt suddenly disappeared shortly before his nomination
to the bench? Remember his sexual assault charges that
were swept aside by the Republican Senate?
Remember when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died just
in time to be replaced by t-Rump before he lost the
election and fled the country to avoid imprisonment?
Remember when the worst president in U.S. history,
a treasonous, impeached, con-man had the unbelievable
luck to seat three Supreme Court justices in just four
years?
What a lucky guy. Just so VERY lucky.
(And, just like similarly "lucky" Dubya, Trump hit
his own trifecta.)
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There's been some editorial swill floating around the
inter-tubes lately that we, the Democratic Party, failed
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That had we not taken Trump so
lightly in 2016 she could have retired from the Supreme
Court, with honors, in 2017 after Hillary Clinton won
the election. An election which Mrs. Clinton could
have easily won with 80,000 more strategically-placed
votes. Yes, the election was just that close.
But Hillary would have faced a Congress controlled
by the reptilian Republican Party, which would have
ceremoniously and rapturously put the Merrick Garland
kibosh on any sensible nominee for the bench. So with
a Russian plant in the White House RBG remained at
her post for the next four years, determined to sustain
the Republic, for however long it took. Retiring would
have meant being replaced by one of Trump's pool-boys.
Or someone worse, like Brett Kavanaugh.
Stress is a killer, especially with coupled with cancer
and, without doubt, the role of a Supreme Court judge
is a stressful job. (Unless you sit quietly, never
ask questions, and let the Federalist Society write
all your decisions for you…. Clarence!)
Her health had to have suffered under those circumstances,
and the pancreatic cancer she suffered in 2009 returned.
So the Democrats didn't hasten Ginsburg's death, the
Republicans did. Mitch McConnell did. And now they
want to replace her tout suite before Putin's Play-toy
absconds to Russia with millions in campaign donations
stuffed into the lining of his Depends on his way to
a life-long golfing vacay and stimulant binge.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for our Republic right to
the very end, unlike Justice Kennedy who took an offer
he couldn't refuse and is now serving his country by….
who the hell knows.
I can't help but wonder if, some weeks or months ago,
RBG didn't see the political writing on the electoral
walls and her body began to quietly whisper "Trump
is toast". It could be, at that moment, that her
fierce determination to fight and outlive one cancer
before another was removed from the White House relaxed
just enough to let the metastasized camel's nose slip
under her tent. She had done all she could so when
her death came it wasn't a defeat. It was a triumph.
She had held on to the very last, like any good soldier,
as she sensed victory in the air.
So weep for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but also honor her
memory and her accomplishments by voting to protect
the vision of America she saw possible.
Vote Blue... Ruthlessly.
=Lefty=
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