Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away

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@Vikergirl said:
Mitch McConnell is sitting on Coronavirus relief and restoration of the voting rights act but wants to ram through a Supreme Court judge. The ultimate in hypocrisy.

Yep, why I puke a little, every time I hear that SOB say "The American People".  Between him and his wife I don't know who's worse.

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@BigAl99 said:

@Vikergirl said:
Mitch McConnell is sitting on Coronavirus relief and restoration of the voting rights act but wants to ram through a Supreme Court judge. The ultimate in hypocrisy.

Yep, why I puke a little, every time I hear that SOB say "The American People".  Between him and his wife I don't know who's worse.

McConnell, the leader of a state that has done horrific over his reign.  The only Kentuckian to benefit from his leadership is Mitch himself.

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@Vikergirl said:
Mitch McConnell is sitting on Coronavirus relief and restoration of the voting rights act but wants to ram through a Supreme Court judge. The ultimate in hypocrisy.

Not one of the Banana Republicans have a leg to stand on to defend him.

Good, I hope all his voters suffer because of it.  Claim their unemployment, the socialism they hate

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Hypocrisy no?  This is why America is tearing apart.  No one will be interested in keeping their word moving forward.  A country that can not trust, can not be united.  Get ready for the civil war 2.0

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa: “Given that we are in the midst of the presidential election process, we believe that the American people should seize the opportunity to weigh in on whom they trust to nominate the next person for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina: “As I have repeatedly stated, the election cycle is well underway, and the precedent of the Senate is not to confirm a nominee at this stage in the process. I strongly support giving the American people a voice in choosing the next Supreme Court nominee by electing a new president.” 

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina: “It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas: “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida: “I don’t think we should be moving forward with a nominee in the last year of this president’s term. I would say that even if it was a Republican president.”

Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado: “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah: “We think that the American people need a chance to weigh in on this issue, on who will fill that seat. They’ll have that chance this November, and they ought to have that chance.” 

Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania: “With the U.S. Supreme Court’s balance at stake, and with the presidential election fewer than eight months away, it is wise to give the American people a more direct voice in the selection and confirmation of the next justice.”

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota: “Since the next presidential election is already underway, the next president should make this lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas: “President Barack Obama has exercised his authority to nominate someone to fill the vacancy, but the Senate has an equal authority to determine whether to proceed with that nomination. I believe the American people deserve to have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice, and the best way to ensure that happens is to have the Senate consider a nomination made by the next president.”

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa: “We will see what the people say this fall, and our next president, regardless of party, will be making that nomination.”

Sen. David Purdue of Georgia: “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia: “The American people are going to the polls in November to pick the next president, and I think the next president ought to be the one who fills that vacancy, not the one who’s on the way out.”

Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina: “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

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And just about every one invokes the wishes of the "American People".

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From RBG to....THIS?
Amy Coney Barrett, a favorite to be President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is affiliated with a Christian religious group that served as inspiration for Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

Barrett, a devout Catholic, and her husband both belong to the People of Praise group, current and former members have said, according to The New York Times. Their fathers have served as leaders in the group.
The group, which was founded in South Bend, Indiana in 1971, teaches that men have authority over their wives. Members swear a lifelong oath of loyalty to one another and are expected to donate at least 5 per cent of their earnings to the group.
How People of Praise inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale'Members of People of Praise are assigned to personal advisers of the same sex—called a "head" for men and "handmaid" for women, until the rise in popularity of Atwood's novel and the television series based on it forced a change in the latter.
Atwood herself has indicated that the group's existence motivated her to write The Handmaid's Tale, set in the fictional Gilead, where women's bodies are governed and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime.
"I delayed writing it for about three years after I got the idea because I felt it was too crazy," Atwood told The New York Times Book Review in 1986.

'Then two things happened. I started noticing that a lot of the things I thought I was more or less making up were now happening, and indeed more of them have happened since the publication of the book."
She added: "There is a sect now, a Catholic charismatic spinoff sect, which calls the women handmaids. They don't go in for polygamy of this kind but they do threaten the handmaids according to the biblical verse I use in the book—sit down and shut up."
....Some former members have described how "heads" and "handmaids"—now known as "leaders"—can play a huge role in the lives of members, such as directing their choice of partner, where they live and how they raise children.
...People of Praise believes that only married couples should have sex, and that marriage is only between a man and a woman, Lent added.

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@MaroonBells said:
From RBG to....THIS?
Amy Coney Barrett, a favorite to be President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is affiliated with a Christian religious group that served as inspiration for Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

Barrett, a devout Catholic, and her husband both belong to the People of Praise group, current and former members have said, according to The New York Times. Their fathers have served as leaders in the group.
The group, which was founded in South Bend, Indiana in 1971, teaches that men have authority over their wives. Members swear a lifelong oath of loyalty to one another and are expected to donate at least 5 per cent of their earnings to the group.
How People of Praise inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale'Members of People of Praise are assigned to personal advisers of the same sex—called a "head" for men and "handmaid" for women, until the rise in popularity of Atwood's novel and the television series based on it forced a change in the latter.
Atwood herself has indicated that the group's existence motivated her to write The Handmaid's Tale, set in the fictional Gilead, where women's bodies are governed and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime.
"I delayed writing it for about three years after I got the idea because I felt it was too crazy," Atwood told The New York Times Book Review in 1986.

'Then two things happened. I started noticing that a lot of the things I thought I was more or less making up were now happening, and indeed more of them have happened since the publication of the book."
She added: "There is a sect now, a Catholic charismatic spinoff sect, which calls the women handmaids. They don't go in for polygamy of this kind but they do threaten the handmaids according to the biblical verse I use in the book—sit down and shut up."
....Some former members have described how "heads" and "handmaids"—now known as "leaders"—can play a huge role in the lives of members, such as directing their choice of partner, where they live and how they raise children.
...People of Praise believes that only married couples should have sex, and that marriage is only between a man and a woman, Lent added.

Just lovely, living in the past dictated by 2000 year old fairytales.

My 2 questions for the anti-abortion crowd is this:

1) When is an embryo an alive human being with rights?
2) Why do you think you get to tell someone else what to do with their body?

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GOP priorities:

STILL no healthcare plan
No infrastructure plan
No federal pandemic plan
Economy in shambles
No immigration plan, nothing for DACA
No platform, no goals for 2020 election

But they can manage to get a Supreme Court justice confirmed in 6 weeks


Republicans proven beyond all doubt they are completely incapable of governing, and can only accomplish 2 things:  bitching about the Dems/media, and appointing lifetime federal judges 

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@SFVikeFan said:
GOP priorities:

STILL no healthcare plan
No infrastructure plan
No federal pandemic plan
Economy in shambles
No immigration plan, nothing for DACA
No platform, no goals for 2020 election

But they can manage to get a Supreme Court justice confirmed in 6 weeks


Republicans proven beyond all doubt they are completely incapable of governing, and can only accomplish 2 things:  bitching about the Dems/media, and appointing lifetime federal judges 

That's coming in a few weeks. It's going to be something terrific. 

 https://khn.org/news/back-to-the-future-trumps-history-of-promising-a-health-plan-that-never-comes/

Just how much crap are people willing to swallow?

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There are no American institutions that Trump has not contaminated.  Trump has now stained the whole legal system.  Putin has gotten exactly what he has wanted.  What a shit show my generation has left, hope they are up to the task.