09-19-2020, 01:49 PM
(09-19-2020, 01:08 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-18-2020, 08:06 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I understand Ruth Ginsberg died. Fortunately for us liberals, senate majority leader McConnell has established himself that he is a strong man of principle, and that a supreme courts seat should not be decided in an election year. He just will not schedule a...
Never mind.
I guess one more thing to do in the never again phase of the crisis. Make it so that if the Senate does not confirm or act within a reasonable amount of time, the nomination automatically succeeds?
If you could go back and slap the Obama Administration and Harry Reid upside the head and instill the value of respect/ teach respect the old fashioned way like it was probably taught to you by you're old man if you were lucky enough to have an old man who wasn't afraid to man handle and scare the shit (pampered arrogance) out of you like mine. In short, if the Liberal women and their docile men ain't up to par with the equals (the men and women who are more or less equals on the other side. You can pretty much guarantee there's going to be a parting of ways and the only debate is over the means that will be used to accomplish it. You and I will be parting ways soon enough the natural way. RBG was right, we won't see another strong independent judge/woman like her again because there aren't any women like her left to pick because the Democratic party has moved away from merit in favor of race and gender and younger age groups. If you're lucky, you'll end up on the side that values Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and you're lucky that there is a wing of the Republican party that's on your side that's there to fill the void. I guess that's the best that we can do to come out of this with the bulk of the country intact and functioning as a country.
You missed the irony.
Trump, McConnell, and the current GOP (not to mention such former figures as Karl Rove and Scott Walker) have but one principle: power on behalf of their backers. Get power, exploit it, and entrench it. It's all about concentrating as much wealth, income, and political power in people who want cheap labor, monopoly profits, and perhaps even wars for profit.
Trump and McConnell will be pushing for someone who supports the monopolization of business and the peonization of the workforce. This could be their last victory, and might even be a pyrrhic victory. (It would be especially ironic if Mitch McConnell lost his Senate seat as well as his position of Senate Majority Leader -- wouldn't you think?).
Don't confuse a contempt for violence or a preference for peace with the inability to put up a fight.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.