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His original, openly-stated cause for refusing to vote on Garland has simply disappeared
Pointing out hypocrisy in politicians is a waste of time. Wasting your time with headaches is the entire point of the wrestling show. You knew the words they said to justify not even bothering with a "no" vote were just there to fill space when they said it, don't go crazy thinking about it. Once again, they want to distract you from anything actually important, stop entertaining yourself too much with the antics of Lamb Chop. (If it makes you feel any better, the material outcome would have been exactly the same had they held the vote, their lie just saved us from the awkwardness of having to formalize it.)
Floating Ted Cruz's name for the slot is... probably just to fuck with us, too. Ted has to be our next president after Trump, after all. It'll be his turn.
... jesus christ.
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So, she liked what she did and didn't want to quit... that made her a cunt?
I would never call anyone a cunt. It's a coarse, dehumanizing word used by horrific people to try to diminish the humanity of their victims. Using it on a person of immense power such as Clinton, people second only to the godlike power of the donors, only serves to humanize them and generate sympathy from people who actually have souls or qualia.
It's testament to our irreconcilable terminal values that you think someone knowingly endangering the lives of others because they "like their job" is okay. There is no logical argument to dissuade you from thinking it's okay to harm other people for your personal gain, Hume's Guillotine and all that. I'll still yell at you whenever you rationalize something horrible with the ancient "it's not really harming other people" canard as the sky burns tho.
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I wasn't taking it that far. As disconcerting as this all is (I think it's shit to be frank) I think it needs to serve as a catalyst for the next time the Dems have all branches (who knows when that will be) to just finally go for the jugular.
If you can stretch your mind to its widest ranges and even imagine the capitalist democratic party to ever oppose capitalism, to the extreme degree they'll pack the supreme court or ignore it (as the supreme court's rulings only have power insofar the legislature and executive branches deign to obey them), you're living in an upside down fantasy world. You can't possibly believe Charlie Brown will kick the football someday with the track record he has.
Even if you replace the democrats with a bunch of commie socialists that would like to try to ameliorate the crises of global warming and resource depletion, it's way too late. It's all downhill from here. You can't replenish
the zinc supply with good feelings and hippy intentions.
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Are you trying to kill me with laughter, with the phrase "democrats might go for the jugular"? They're not doormats for vampires, that's a character they play on TV. They're the party of George W Bush now. They haven't made a single mistake, they are
not stupid, they've done what they're paid to do. What their personal incentives tell them to do:
"Take the money and do their bidding, everyone else get fucked."
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With a job as consequential as a seat on SCOTUS, her precious feelings shouldn't have even been a factor. Now we're all going to suffer for her arrogance.
The article I linked says her goal was to get the high score in the history books as the oldest justice on the court.
The thing that makes me puke blood is she was right to do so for her values. She'll get a passing mention as a novelty in history books and mindless tv documentaries. Honest historians like Thomas Frank will note she wasn't a great person, but who ever cares or can even hear what leftists think.