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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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It's obvious that Roberts and Gorsuch would not help Trump. Thomas, Alito and Karen on the other hand...
Seriously, if the Dems win the Senate, then they can expand the court to add more Justices (including Obama?) and possibly investigate Alito for blatant partisanship, so that Mitch and the Republicans don't get what they want.
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Maybe if Trump and co. continue to show their ugly behavior fighting fellow Republicans, maybe Karen could be disgusted at the man who got her confirmed and pull a Heel–Face Turn by turning leftwards. I hope.
The Supreme Court is conservative, yes, but they also - for the most part - care about the basic credibility of the Supreme Court. Which is why I can’t see them overturning Obergfell or Roe, much less handing Trump an election he has clearly lost.
They’re partisan, but they don’t want to be seen as overly partisan. They may weaken Roe, allow more state restriction on abortion without permitting absolute bans, but I don’t think they’ll overturn it alltogether.
And could we call ACB by her name? It gets confusing otherwise.
Edited by Galadriel on Nov 16th 2020 at 8:37:50 AM
Sounds like they decided if they can't have a unicorn, they decided being accelerationists is the next best thing. Not worth a second thought.
Anyone who wanted Trump to win should not be taken seriously, no matter their reasoning.
Accelerationism is possibly the dumbest thing to come out of the political left. Although it has to compete with various forms of authoritarianism/totalitarianism...
Ignore the loud minority, all they do is make it harder for more reasonable people to criticize Biden from the left.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Honestly the thought that accelerationism even has the slightest amount of chance to succeed is laughable at best. If you let people like Trump take power with the expectation that people who oppose him will unite to cast him down, you're just going to let the authoritarian get more power and crush your side with that power.
We don't even have a list of cabinet members and the few that are circulating around out there are of questionable veracity regardless. For sure, we can and maybe should signal to the Biden camp our displeasure with certain candidates, just to help make sure that he doesn't pick them, but we should also recognize that they aren't necessarily locked in stone and that the news of him considering them may be nothing more than false hearsay.
Though the reverse of that is that Trump got the second-most votes for a presidential candidate ever. The whole thing was cut way too close.
Yes. Voter turnout was up, but not in a mass repudiation of Trump. More anti-Trump people voted than in 2016, and more pro-Trump people voted than in 2016.
And the fact that Trump could increase the number of votes he got after everything he’s done is very troubling.
Edited by Galadriel on Nov 16th 2020 at 9:06:47 AM

Though I seriously hope the Dems focus their attention on the Georgia run-off election later in December and do everything they can to win back those two Senate seats. Hopefully if they do so then Biden can more easily undo everything Trump did.
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