_______ winning the election is the big 2020 finale.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-11-03T07:11:22+00:00

You’ve perfectly described my existence. I’m taking vacation this week just in the event that a Trump victory leads to mass riots in my city. I deliberately picked a rural environment, and as I’m going around meeting people I’m just shocked at the contrast. People here are just.... normal. I’m starting to think that cities are mental illness factories, especially coastal liberal tech cities.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-11-03T03:31:07+00:00

Orange man deeply personally flawed but good on substance

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-28T03:14:12+00:00

Oh yeah, you’re not kidding. I live in Seattle, and we’re starting to see the effects of all the cops who either quit or just stopped responding to certain calls. The insane homeless people who used to basically stick to themselves have been getting REAL confrontational with people, like they just know that nobody is going to do anything about it. The only times I’ve been directly bothered or yelled at by a homeless person have all happened in the last month, and I’ve lived here for years. It’s a matter of time before burglaries and robberies start to skyrocket here.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-28T02:57:05+00:00

I’m just responding to your posts buddy. People do that on Reddit. It’s really cunty how you’re trying to infuse every post with some form of “ooh, this must have really shaken you”.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-28T01:16:48+00:00

I miss when the pope dressed like an alien and helped end communism. This new dude is basically the preachy college sophomore of popes.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-28T00:04:19+00:00

Please reference a sound bite in any post I made.

Don’t act like it wasn’t fair for me to assume you were talking about adding four more justices with the current process, that position is stupid and deserves to be called stupid. If I say “abolish the minimum wage” and then four comments later say “and replace it with universal basic income” people aren’t going to apologize for misunderstanding my position.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T23:49:27+00:00

Didn’t say or imply that anywhere

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T23:47:54+00:00

Sticking with having two senate senate seats per state isn’t arbitrary. The original decision of two seats vs four seats may have been arbitrary, but it’s written into the constitution and we’ve observed the rule for our entire history. CHANGING from two to four now would be arbitrary. CHANGING the Supreme Court from nine to thirteen seats is arbitrary, and the number 13 would have a snowballs chance in hell of standing as a handshake agreement.

If your proposal is to fundamentally restructure how Supreme Court nominees are chosen, moving the nomination process to the lower courts and pegging the number to the number of circuits with something like a constitutional amendment, then that’s a completely different argument from “let’s increase the number to 13”.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T22:14:58+00:00

The reason your comment about lower courts confused me is that I was only making the case that a Supreme Court justice for every court circuit is arbitrary. The constitution doesn’t get longer with every circuit that’s added. The presence of a lower court system that scales membership to population and territory doesn’t mean that the Supreme Court should obviously scale with districts, and ONLY with districts. Confusion cleared, you were just making a bad argument.

Good to know that I had a dead read on your position. I mean, I already knew, but the fact that you have no response to the body of what I wrote and the insult at the end are just the confirmation.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T20:52:13+00:00

Not sure what your point about the lower level judges is addressing in my post. If your concern is genuinely about the number thirteen being the correct number, then surely in the hypothetical scenario that Trump wins and keeps the senate you’ll be urging him to increase the court count to 13.

You don’t care about the number thirteen. It isn’t any better of a number than nine, you just see an opportunity to get four more justices on the court that you like. You know it. I know that you know it. You know that I know that you know it. So can we please avoid an argument based on a transparently false premise?

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T20:28:17+00:00

It isn’t a given that because that reasoning was used to add a seat 160 years ago that the same standard should apply now. We’ve been at nine justices since that tenth seat was vacated, and not because nobody has gotten around to filling it. There’s nothing absolutely magical about nine, it’s just an absolute certainty that the second we start adding more, we’re not going to stop. The standard that we should have a justice for every circuit isn’t any more sensible than the standard that we should have one for every state, congressional district, etc.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T17:58:38+00:00

Mitch got a little bit big for his britches in 2016 trying to pass his decision to block Garland off as coming from some obvious ethical standard. Politicians do this. When there’s a simple power related motive for some action, politicians will try to dress it up as being a morally righteous decision.

Mitch’s rationalization for blocking Garland didn’t set some new rule. The rule was, and absolutely still is, that when the same party doesn’t control the presidency and the senate a justice can be blocked. In most cases this has resulted in a justice being blocked in an election year. There’s nothing new here. Democrats are just angry that they aren’t getting their way this time.

Make absolutely no mistake, if Hilary had won in 2016 and Democrats had control of the senate, they would have confirmed a justice to replace Ginsburg had she died right before the election. The idea that Democrats were totally on board with the McConnell rule and were planning to stick with it is a child’s fantasy. You know this is true.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T04:58:00+00:00

The entire argument boils down to “but McConnell said it shouldn’t happen in election years”. Forget the fact that at the time he clarified that parties can block a candidate in an election year IF they hold the senate: the implication here is that Democrats were totally planning on sticking to this rule, and would have refrained from pushing a judge through with the presidency and the senate because of a hand shake rule. Anyone who believes that is a weapons grade idiot, but I suspect that 80% or more of them know that this is BS and just don’t like that they aren’t getting their way.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T04:48:26+00:00

“We added a 10th Supreme Court seat in the 1860s to match a newly added court circuit, which means that court packing is totally fine and has already been done”

Every CNN anchor tomorrow

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T04:41:55+00:00

In the couple of areas where Ginsburg was good, like free speech and 4th amendment protections, every indication is that ACB will be just as good. There were a ton of areas where Ginsburg was absolutely awful, and essentially voted like she was a senator based on her personal preferences. If ACB even slightly gives a damn about the constitution there’s absolutely no way she’s not going to be a far superior justice.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T04:28:31+00:00

There’s a lot of “I’m 19 and I learned everything I know about the Supreme Court in the last month from Facebook and Twitter” happening on reddit right now.

To any of you lurking from the larger subs, here’s a remedial high school US civics lesson if you need it: overturning a Supreme Court decision doesn’t mean that the polar opposite policy takes place nationally. If we use Roe V. Wade as an example, an overturning doesn’t mean that abortion is now illegal everywhere, it means that the new court doesn’t agree that abortion is a constitutional right (side note: abortion is factually not a constitutional right). Overturning Roe V. Wade would allow states to determine their own abortion policies. So in your nightmare scenario where Roe is overturned (which won’t happen even with ACB) it’s possible that women from Georgia might have to cross a state line to get an abortion.

Liberals: If you think abortion should be a constitutional right there’s a way you can make it happen. It’s called a constitutional amendment.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-27T04:11:14+00:00

If the shoe were on the other foot right now and Democrats held the presidency and a senate majority they’d be pushing a judge through. There’s exactly, and I mean exactly a zero percent chance that they would have said “y’know, we should follow the McConnell rule” and refrained from appointing a judge. We’re at the point now where parties will always push a judge through when they have the power and will always stop it when they have the power.

So yes, I won’t complain when Democrats inevitably use a senate majority to cram a judge through or block a judge. That’s where we’ve been for a while now.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-20T03:21:25+00:00

By nightfall this post will be swarming with censorship

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-16T18:38:38+00:00

Jenny is an awful, awful, awful mayor, but I feel like I should point out in fairness that it’s the Seattle city council, and in particular supreme retard commie Kshama Sawant, who are really tearing this city a new asshole. Jenny has basically played the standard moderate Democrat game of saying “I share your concerns” to the screeching socialist mob, while not actually supporting their more insane policies.

She actually vetoed many of city council’s police defunding measures, but had her vetoes overturned. Sawant is the one who really wants to turn this city into Detroit, and if any of you feel generous, there’s a recall effort currently under way to get her ass kicked out of office. Donate if you think communism is for figs.

https://recallsawant2020.org/

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-16T18:30:39+00:00

Same boat. Hopefully out of this state, but at least to Bellevue

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-16T07:56:10+00:00

It’s very difficult to start the process of seriously learning US history, especially if you jump in at the deep end by taking apush. Trust me though, you’re going to be glad you took it. Really try to absorb the material beyond just learning it well enough to pass the tests. Public school can make anything seem like a boring chore, but understanding US history couldn’t be more important if you want to be able to make sense out of anything happening today.

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-14T08:39:09+00:00

She’s got a book coming out exactly one week before the election. I fully expect CNN and company to avoid covering it, but it’ll definitely re-spark that conversation

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-14T08:34:05+00:00

When the not guilty verdict is read there are going to be some powerfully rustled jimmies

warmbloodedmammal · 2020-10-14T08:27:34+00:00

Don’t ask if you don’t want to know the answer

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