Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87. - 🦀

[teriyakiburns]

Can someone link the dying wish thing? I missed it in all the insanity.

Right here.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

Right here.

Figures. @Bender I'll give you a beer to beat the hell out of Zoidberg.

 

[12FluidOunces]

Greetings, I have been toiling in the vast salt mines of Metafilter. Once a proud bastion of free thought, now a ghost town filled with agoraphobics and soy-flavored NEETs. Keyboard warriors assemble!

Confirming the suspicions of MRAs everywhere, this poster's version of a liberal utopia is an all-woman supreme court:

Name checking every online boogeyman and a call for everyone else to spill blood in the name of Enlightenment:

The most pointless gesture:

The circular firing squad rolls out and passive-aggressively shames others for not posting ((in the correct way)).

Just some salt:

Even the site admins are delicate enough that the death of someone they don't know and have never met is enough to 'stress-vomit':

Uh-oh, a Mel Gibson reference in a thread about a Jewish woman? Someone's asking to be canceled...

Once again, these shut-ins cannot stop making threats against public officials:

In the middle of it all, someone decides now is the right time to push for unification of the Dakotas(?):

If you'd like an example of how informed these members are, the very next poster comes along to tell the Dakota-person that they're wrong on their premise and have clearly spent zero time researching their pet theory:

Finally a grain of sanity adrift in the vast seas of salty bloodlust. Note that this post has fewer likes than the Dakota one does:

 

[Hungry Hungry Bitch]

Ted Cruz just gave an interviews on CBS. He said that he believes they have the votes to confirm, but wasn't 100% sure yet.

Interesting interview with Barnes. He heavily favors Lagoa. The stated that Barrett was not good on civil rights issues and has a history of siding with corporations and she comes from old Catholic money. Said that Lagoa is probably the most politically expedient also for Trump, given that she's is the daughter of immigrants. The great unknown is Lagoa's stance on gun rights.

 

[Bender]

One of my children is the product of a straight up, hand round the throat, stitch-ripping postpartum rape. I refused all attempts by the rapist to coerce me into a termination. You can argue that that decision was unfair on him, because he didn’t want to have another child. I didn’t want to be raped and impregnated, so you can argue that was pretty unfair on me. Not having unprotected sex can be pretty hard sometimes. The question is, what do you do about it afterwards.

I ain't paying any child support.

Figures. @Bender I'll give you a beer to beat the hell out of Zoidberg.

You didn't even need to offer me a beer for that. But you did, so now I want it.

 

[GuntPunt]

Cross-posting because it's relevant.



If Graham truly does have all fifty of the votes needed to push through a confirmation, that makes me think Trump has already leaked Lagoa in advanced to them and are just waiting to fast track her confirmation process. I seriously doubt Barrett would have the necessary votes given how controversial she is (she barely got through) and that the Democrats have more on her record to attack her for. We can't afford to spend an entire month on Barrett being grilled by the DNC and RINOs and risk a possible rejection, then a major loss for Republicans, and then for the DNC to pack the court. The stakes are too high to nominate anyone but Lagoa now.

He said he was going to announce Friday or Saturday. Coincidently, he will also be in Miami on Saturday.

I wonder what this means for Lagoa since she has not met Trump directly yet and ACB has. Trump said he would maybe visit her in Miami to interview her directly but we shall see.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

I hope whoever drew that dies slowly of radiation poisoning.

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Oopsie

https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-group-inspired-handmaids-tale-1533293 (https://archive.vn/b8UYa)

 

[RockPaper]

Pence casting a vote isn't a crime on the part of the judge, so it's not grounds for impeachment. And there's no other legal way for the legislature or executive to remove a judge. They'd have to sue the Senate, and the Supreme Court would decide whether or not the vote was valid. They will call it a political question and defer to the Senate record, because interfering with their colleague's appointment would seriously damage the Court's reputation. And because it's not their job to count the votes in the Senate, but mainly to maintain their reputation.

True, though the Dems (and their screeching Twitter acolytes) seem to think "We hate this person" is grounds for impeachment. Considering they already did it with a President.

 

[ChikN10der]

The rage coming from the left side of the aisle is born of pure impotency.

Nancy and Co know deep down they have zero chance of stopping this aside from throwing such a tantrum that the GoP balks at the fervor being raised. And so we get the media onslaught, every channel as much as humanly possible from every angle and every discourse.

The SCotUS seat is actually more important then the up coming election IMHO. If the GoP can seat a conservative on the bench it will throw such a wrench into the democrats future plans.

If the bench has a solid conservative majority, especially Constitutional Adherents, then a lot of what the Dems have planned can be torpedoed by the GoP pushing cases up to the SCotUS.

If Biden does happen to win then they'll have no choice but to stack the court and that will run a foul of a lot of people both in and out of Washington. But I guess if the MSM can push Biden into a Presidential win when he can't even be bothered to show up to campaign then they can probably sell the stacking of the Supreme Court to give them Democrats free reign to the American public. Then American Democracy really is in massive danger.

A Trump win will earn the right a breathing space..time to group up and plan how to restart the American Dream.

Watching as an outsider is so very hard, I can do nothing but hope that Trump can pull off another miracle win despite the stacked deck against him.

Please vote if your able guys...America is the last bastion of actual freedom left in the world. The only culture left on Earth raised to reject authority instinctively and inherently as every man is born equal to any other.

Or at least it used to be before the progressive left rose to power and taught your kids to hate everything that made America great. America is a country worth fighting to save, if the left wins the culture war and secures the seats of power the whole world will be affected. The US is the last light out there in a sea of self-righteous authoritarian worldviews bent on something I sure as hell dont want to be part of.

...rant over.

I see it pretty much the same way.

That's a lot of pressure. We want the US to stay a beacon of liberty, but it would be nice to have some fallbacks. Trying to stave off creeping corporate globalism while the vast majority of media derides us as ignorant racists is not easy...

So I appreciate the words of support, but I hope you can affect some positive change in your own region where you do have some control.

 

[RockPaper]

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One of the biggest whoppers the media tells is "We regret the error"

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

Romney hates Trump and wants to ruin his legacy.

Same reason McCain torpedo'd Trump's attempt to replace Obamacare with something after sabotaging it and basically killed any momentum Trump had for the rest of his term on the legislative front.

 

[Garm]

Maybe court justices should learn to retire before they become dinosaurs and spare the Left their freak outs.

Let's be clear about what's happening here: the Dems were all about vote by mail until today. Now are now telling everyone to go vote in person. They planned to send in fake ballots to force this to the Supreme Court, now there will be one more Conservative vote to get past. Their plan is wrecked.

Merrick Garland would be on the court if RGB retired at a reasonable age. It's that simple. Instead we get a shitton of hypocrisy and the Constitution is on trial from a bunch of career politicians turned Communists.

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I think that's the "broken window" fallacy. Doesn't matter when a justice retires/is removed from the bench, the left will freak out.

 

[DeadFish]

So who is next for a grim reaper checkout?
The rage produced by two empty seats before the election would be fun to watch.

 

[It's HK-47]

https://archive.is/OU3zN

http://archive.is/b8UYa

It's not really a "correction" if the core focus of your story is completely wrong. You explicitly said that her specific religious group inspired the book, now you're saying that it was just Catholic groups in general. Well fuck it, by that logic all Muslims are terrorists then.

 

[Gehenna]

So who is next for a grim reaper checkout?
The rage produced by two empty seats before the election woild be fun to watch.

Stephen Breyer (82) is the oldest, a Clinton appointee.

If Trump wins, you might also see Clarence Thomas (72) and/Or Samuel Alito (70) retire to ensure a Republican can replace them. Though both are below the 80 threshold where the most pressure is put.

 

[Hungry Hungry Bitch]

Romney just said he will vote. So, does this mean it's done and dusted?

Grassley confirmed yesterday and Gardner also.

 

[An Avenging Bird]

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It's not really a "correction" if the core focus of your story is completely wrong. You explicitly said that her specific religious group inspired the book, now you're saying that it was just Catholic groups in general. Well fuck it, by that logic all Muslims are terrorists then.

The attacks on Kavanaugh are thought to be the straw that broke the camel's back towards the Republicans cementing their Senate majority in the 2018 mid-terms.
How the Democrats think attacking a white Christian woman immediately before these elections will work well for them is beyond me.
Especially since then the SCOTUS will be 6-3 conservative (rather 5-4 with compromised Roberts) in any mail-in ballot decision.

 

[Gehenna]

The attacks on Kavanaugh are thought to be the straw that broke the camel's back towards the Republicans cementing their Senate majority in the 2018 mid-terms.
How the Democrats think attacking a white Christian woman immediately before these elections will work well for them is beyond me.
Especially since then the SCOTUS will be 6-3 conservative (rather 5-4 with compromised Roberts) in any mail-in ballot decision.

Shotgun approach, they don't HAVE a winning play. I did a lengthy rant somewhere about this... Ah here we go https://kiwifarms.net/threads/trump-derangement-syndrome.25651/post-7393691

Basically, they burnt off every big gun they had, and now have nothing. So they have to fire off every smaller gun and HOPE something sticks. Its not a good hope.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Romney just said he will vote. So, does this mean it's done and dusted?

Until activists for the democrats corner senators in elevators in front of media cameras.

 

[Gehenna]

Until activists for the democrats corner senators in elevators in front of media cameras.

Nah, his pressure back at home is way higher. He's had to do an about face https://apnews.com/ac3554d9962a486f...says-he-would-have-voted-to-confirm-Kavanaugh on Kavanaugh because his constituency -hated- it. McConnel remembers though, and while they didn't field a primary against him last time, they can still do it and the Mormons will remember a stab in the back. Romney is a political opportunist, so out of basic survival instinct he'll likely get behind whatever justice is nominated to avoid that axe. He won't survive doing that a second time.