***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[RustyShackleford]

This is ****ing terrible, I am so ****ing sad right now.

Reproductive rights, voting rights, universal healthcare, the EPA's power, government's power to put gun control in place, the parts of the Civil Right Acts, will all be destroyed

****, ****, ****, ****.

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

Most important election EVER! we need to come out in ****ing numbers virus be damned

 

[Belgium]

 

[plansb]

Is there anything that can be done to stop them from forcing someone through, short of the gop playing by their own rules?

 

[elpablo21]

"after election day"

Here they go with the pump fakes.....

 

[DK972805]

GOP can appoint another seat before Jan 20th. It’s a wrap.

 

[mister friendly]

What happens now? Trump jams a 3rd Supreme Court pick in?

 

[the natural mystic]

RIP to her.
I’m sick to my stomach. Our only chance is for Biden to pack the courts but for that to happen we have to vote.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Four Republicans would have to agree stop this.

Trump is filling this seat

 

[KHUFU]

um...this election probably gets decided in the Supreme Court, huh?

This.

 

[Benny Hinn]

Rafael Cruz's bootylicking about to pay off

I'm siiiiiiiiiick

 

[elpablo21]

Is there anything that can be done to stop them from forcing someone through, short of the gop playing by their own rules?

Nothing. Only way out of this is expanding the court

 

[...So]

How this year has gone on, I still feel that he's going to get reelected...

 

[RustyShackleford]

2014, people were warned that losing the Senate would be catastrophic, and a low turnout election allowed the GOP to take it

2016, people were warned this would be the most important election in recent history, and folk still sat at home

2020, people need to realize that they either show up to the polls and fight or America become a full fledged fascist state

This might be the last even reasonably fair election we get in your lifetime if Trump wins.

 

[rexanglorum]

What happens now? Trump jams a 3rd Supreme Court pick in?

He will.

The remedy is to flip the senate, abolish the filibuster and pack the court. It should have been done in ‘09 but 2021 will be as good a time as ever.

 

[mister friendly]

Four Republicans would have to agree stop this.

Trump is filling this seat

Murkowski
Romney
Collins?
Grassley?

 

[aepps20]

If this doesn't fire people up nothing will.

 

[aepps20]

Murkowski
Romney
Collins?
Grassley?

Gardener would be my thought.

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

Man.....what can even be done now? If the election goes to the Supreme Court to be decided, that's pretty much a wrap right? 2020, man.

somebody correct me if I´m wrong but at this point we´re outside the letters. a big dramatic spending strike might speak pretty loud...can´t even hope for an unfortunate event like blocked roads or cut power to delay hearings like you could normally, given that half the country is waiting for some financial help to be approved.

it is, indeed, a cluster****.

 

[Belgium]

Remember that upholding the Afforable Care Act was also a 5-4 decision, with Ginsberg in the majority of course.
If Trump replaces Ginsberg, that's practically a guarantee the ACA will be completely invalidated.

 

[DLF]

Delk probably feels how I felt when clippers lost game 7.

 

[cedric ceballos]

People need to show up and vote.

But I swear, whenever the Dems get back into power, they need to grow some balls collectively and play the same game the GOP has been playing for decades. The hell with the moral high ground. The GOP plays to stupid, uneducated low information voters by dumbing things down and being intentionally misleading, do the same. The GOP gerrymanders and tries to suppress the vote. Do the same to conservatives. You know Mitch McConnell is going to pull his bs. Openly disrespect and delegitimize him. Hopefully someone can assassinate him, but I don’t see that happening. But they need to out GOP the GOP. Politics is a dirty game.

 

[Armada]

This is it this so the fork in the road. This is quite possibly the last chance

 

[RustyShackleford]

WIth this, most of the Supreme Court would have been appointed by Presidents that didn't win the popular vote.

Conservatives cheat to win, then get to rig the system so they are never held accountable.

We are officially in minority rule.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Four Republicans would have to agree stop this.

Trump is filling this seat

I think he won't fill it, what's a better way to motivate squishy republicans and turn out the base than an open supreme court seat.

i think he will fake try to fill it,


and when it fails, he will say vote for me and my second term and then i will fill it.