People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020

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To the people saying we're fucked we put Trump in a bunker already once this year we can do it again and fucking Hitler him this round

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

— ICE must be destroyed 🏴 (@Itmechr3) September 19, 2020

Let’s see how energized the Lincoln Project and company are tomorrow now that there’s something weightier than “ew gross Trump” on the table

Yeah the fact that this will bring Rs back into the fold is what’s really worrying here

God this country is so fucking stupid

the way henry kissinger is just. right there

— giabuchi lastrassi (@jaboukie) September 19, 2020

thing I’m more immediately concerned about is that this will give Trump some squeamish R voters back

Couldn't it also retrieve some of the anti-Biden lefty "tHe parTiEs aRE bOtH thE same" crowd? Because, um, no

BREAKING >> McConnell: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.” pic.twitter.com/BcWlantNph

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) September 19, 2020

i woke up to this news, and now mcconnell's statement.

i do feel sick

You mean he was LYING!???

no you see he is making a very principled argument as to how this is DIFFERENT

are we allowed to panic now?

no

Yeah this feels like the straw that’s gonna break this country’s back. Trumps nominee will get a vote. Every R save Romney and maybe Murkowski will vote for him. The 2020 election and progressive policy goal for the next 25 years will be fucked. RIP

McConnell probably doesn't travel with anywhere near the amount of personal security Trump does.

Just sayin'.

panic now

you sound like a man in need of a friendlier, more helpful towel

McConnell still pretending to not know what "lame duck" actually means is pretty funny

I'd say "all of ILX please collectively pray for Trump to die in his sleep", but all Pence would do is just pick somebody from the same Heritage Foundation list Trump just put together.

also fuck dying in his sleep, his head needs to fall off in the bathtub with Clint Eastwood in it with him

I wish I was as sanguine as you all

Mitch McConnell set the precedent. No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year. If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court.

— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) September 19, 2020

I’m not sanguine, I’m angry as usual. I just don’t see what the point of panic and doomsaying is.

I wish I was as sanguine as you all

― Dan S, Friday, September 18, 2020 9:06 PM bookmarkflaglink

i'm literally about to place an alcohol delivery order, i am far from sanguine

there you go. there it is. not so hard.

xp to ed markey

xp ok :)

too low. say we will pack the court with 43 justices.

Democrats pick 10, Republicans pick 9, Green Party picks 2, Libertarians pick 3, Kanye picks the rest

Mitch McConnell set the precedent. No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year. If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court.

Ginsburg, too, said she did not want her seat to be filled until after the election, according to NPR. Days before she died in her Washington home of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer, she told her granddaughter: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."

mcconnell: REQUEST DENIED

It was foolish of her to not retire 10 years ago.

Now we know the answer to the question “Why doesn’t anyone ask Stephen Breyer if he will resign while A Democrat is president”

Because he wasn’t going to die while trump was in office

I see people gaming out which Republican senators will vote against a trump nominee but feels like we’re missing that manchin will vote to confirm, and if it’s clear it’s going through then probably a few more.

Stop.

Stop what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwI02OHtZTg

God, I love Eric Avery

Bumming me out about Manchin.

the entire point of securing the courts is they can lose elections for decades and still get their way https://t.co/D4yWPDpCtq

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) September 19, 2020

Claire McCaskill is so fucking stupid.

she really is

MSNBC Losing Senate Seats Correspondent Claire McCaskill

even after she lost her senate race, months afterward, i remember listening to her on a podcast talking about it, saying that the lesson was that obama and the 2016 clinton campaign should have focused more on the concerns of white people (she put it a little bit differently, admittedly)

Manchin's not up for re-election this year and he'll be 75 in 2022. Maybe he'll finally grow a spine.

he’s not up for election til 2024

Moscow Mitch would have you believe he's following some kind of hallowed, sacrosanct code of Justice nominations rather that just making this shit up on the fly.
Completely arbitrary, like when you get to make a new rule while playing Quarters.

I honestly don't know why he even bothered with some mealy-mouth justification for the shit everyone knew he'd pull. His aims and intentions are completely transparent to people across the political spectrum.

"...I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."

I like that she even accounted for Trump winning this time.

NEWS: Democratic donors shattered ActBlue's all-time record for donations in an hour after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.

Democrats gave $6.2 million in the 9 pm hour.

Then they broke the record again in 10 pm hour.

More than $100,000 per minute.https://t.co/NeNG52PUnY

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) September 19, 2020

RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended pro-abortion laws. With @realDonaldTrump nominating a replacement that values human life, generations of unborn children have a chance to live.

— Doug Collins (@CollinsforGA) September 19, 2020

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