Trump nominated Jay Clayton for the spot yesterday.
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joined 8 months ago
A distant family member of mine was (is) a Marine, and made it to Drill Instructor before the effects of his PTSD from 3 tours and a TBI became too much (ie he basically had a psychotic break) and he medically retired.
After he got out, he and I talked about it one time. He told me that he'd had a lot of trauma growing up and was fairly bigoted when he first went in. But that he couldn't care less about someone's sex, gender, race, religion, etc (at least as far as the people who had joined; he admits civilians are still a tough thing for him), because when you're in the suck, none of that matters. The only thing he cared about is whether the person next to him was properly trained and willing to put their life on the line for him, just like he would for them.
It's not to piss them off, but to send a message. Just like Putin, he's going to put the screws to somebody wealthy to send the message "I did it to them, I can do it to you."
2 reasons, I would presume.
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He doesn't want his appointees to have to deal with the questions that come up during the confirmation process, and
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This way he can appoint the worst of the worst without worrying about Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins persuading 1 or 2 others to defect.
"Authoritarians get voted in. They never get voted out."
Fuck Kyrsten Sinema and her fucking curtsy.
I know it was during the $15 minimum wage vote and not the ACA vote, but this thread reminded me of it.
It's not about the House or the EC, it's the Senate. 2 more reliably R senators makes things worse
Primary and secondary schooling is just practice to be good little worker bees. That's why conservatives view college/tertiary school as iNdOctrINATIOn cEntERS
Completely agree on people not understanding statistics. See: most of the polls showing a slight edge to Harris, but with a 3 to 4 point margin of error, being taken to mean that Harris had it in the bag.
SOMETHING HAPPENING 49 OUT OF 100 TIMES IS STILL VERY LIKELY!
But you yadda yadda'd over the best part...
They won't need to pack the court. Alito and Thomas will retire in about 18 months, just after having upheld a national abortion ban. They'll view it as their crowning achievement and walk into the sunset as GOP heroes. Then they'll be replaced with like-minded ideologues in their mid-40s to ensure that the right wing of the court will remain intact for at least the next 20 years.
If they packed the court, they will have just opened the door for Dems to do the same. Instead, they'll leave it at 9 and dare the Dems to do something about it.
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"Cluster headaches"
Sitting in my closet, rocking back and forth waiting for it to be over. Exactly the same, I told my wife afterwards "If I'd had an ice pick, I would have shoved it through my eye."