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44 minutes ago, LSHMEAB said:

Facts are your friend.

 

The right controls every single aspect of government and they're STILL a bunch of malingerers.

 

I can't for the life of me understand why you people are so uncomfortable with success

 

Explain yourself, and respond to my post please.

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1 hour ago, LABillzFan said:

 

But only for certain women.The ones who know when to shut up. Like Murkowski. 

 

Meanwhile...

 

 

Methinks Meathead needs to brush up on the definition of "representative democracy":

What is the definition of representative democracy?

Freebase(3.78 / 9 votes)Rate this definition: Representative democracy. Representative democracy is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.

 

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32 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

This was in the replies:

 

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Holy schiff, that's funny.

  Been over 45 years since the start of All in the Family but Rob is still a Meathead.  Rob, have engraved on your tombstone as you had always feared others doing to it.  Just be done with it, Meathead.

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31 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

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You went full progressive man... never go full progressive.  Remember Sean Penn, Milk... 2008... went full progressive.  Went home empty handed. Never go full progressive man.

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1 hour ago, LABillzFan said:

 

But only for certain women.The ones who know when to shut up. Like Murkowski. 

 

Meanwhile...

 

 

 

I'm starting to lean towards CA seceding, just because I want to see how this grand "progressive democracy of victimized identity groups" works out. 

 

Who knows?  Maybe Reiner goes down in history as one of the great political philosophers.  Solon, Plato, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Hobbes, Jefferson, Marx,...Meathead.

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On 10/6/2018 at 4:23 PM, Doc Brown said:

Prediction:  If Democrats retake all three branches they will increase the number of Supreme Court Justices to give them a majority citing McConnell's refusal to hold a vote on Garland as the betrayal of 150 years of an unspoken agreement between the parties of the Supreme Court appointment process.

It's already being brought up as an option.....

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-s-confirmation-means-democrats-won-t-trust-supreme-ncna917456

 

The idea that Kavanaugh will work as a consensus-restoring wound healer is absolutely ludicrous to anyone who knows anything about his history. He’s a long-time Republican operative who spent millions of dollars investigating discredited conspiracy theories while serving under Ken Starr’s investigation of the Clintons. His record on the D.C. Circuit, contrary to Collins’s disingenuous attempts to portray him as a moderate, is extremely and consistently conservative. And at his final appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, he delivered an angry partisan rant (complete with imaginary conspiracy theories about the Clintons) while treating the Democratic senators on the committee with open contempt.

 
 

Placing an open Republican partisan who was also credibly accused of attempted sexual assault on the Supreme Court may well be the beginning of the end of a political dynamic that has been very favorable to the Republican Party. On one hand, the Supreme Court has become increasingly conservative, issuing decisions that have eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, largely eliminated the ability of state and federal governments to regulate campaigns’ finance, limited civil rights and consumer protections and attacked the rights of workers — among many other policy results desired by Republicans.

 

A more likely scenario — especially if a Trumpified Supreme Court not only effectively overrules Roe v. Wade but then keeps striking down legislation passed by the next unified Democratic government — is expanding the size of the Supreme Court. The constitution does not fix the size of any federal appellate court, and the number of justices can be changed with simple majorities of both houses of Congress. Doing so isn’t hypothetical: After the Civil War, congressional Republicans manipulated the size of the court to ensure that it wouldn’t interfere with Reconstruction.

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8 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

 

Democrats had been floating the idea of packing the court since around the time Gorsuch was nominated.

 

Another concept to keep in the back of your mind is nullification.  Lefties have been theorycrafting that since Russia hacked the election :rolleyes: and Trump lost the popular vote, his Presidency is illegitimate.  Upon retaking the White House and Congress, Democrats should remove Trump's Supreme Court (and lower court) appointees.  Any rulings by Trump courts are nullified.  Any Executive Orders signed by Trump become illegitimate.  Any legislation signed by Trump becomes illegitimate.  Basically a political mulligan where they can come in and scream DO OVER!

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24 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

It's already being brought up as an option.....

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-s-confirmation-means-democrats-won-t-trust-supreme-ncna917456

 

The idea that Kavanaugh will work as a consensus-restoring wound healer is absolutely ludicrous to anyone who knows anything about his history. He’s a long-time Republican operative who spent millions of dollars investigating discredited conspiracy theories while serving under Ken Starr’s investigation of the Clintons. His record on the D.C. Circuit, contrary to Collins’s disingenuous attempts to portray him as a moderate, is extremely and consistently conservative. And at his final appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, he delivered an angry partisan rant (complete with imaginary conspiracy theories about the Clintons) while treating the Democratic senators on the committee with open contempt.

 
 

Placing an open Republican partisan who was also credibly accused of attempted sexual assault on the Supreme Court may well be the beginning of the end of a political dynamic that has been very favorable to the Republican Party. On one hand, the Supreme Court has become increasingly conservative, issuing decisions that have eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, largely eliminated the ability of state and federal governments to regulate campaigns’ finance, limited civil rights and consumer protections and attacked the rights of workers — among many other policy results desired by Republicans.

 

A more likely scenario — especially if a Trumpified Supreme Court not only effectively overrules Roe v. Wade but then keeps striking down legislation passed by the next unified Democratic government — is expanding the size of the Supreme Court. The constitution does not fix the size of any federal appellate court, and the number of justices can be changed with simple majorities of both houses of Congress. Doing so isn’t hypothetical: After the Civil War, congressional Republicans manipulated the size of the court to ensure that it wouldn’t interfere with Reconstruction.

Did you just respond to your own post?

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27 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

...and attacked the rights of workers

 

I'm going to guess that the author is talking about the Court not forcing people to pay unions to engage in political activities they don't want to support, as a condition of their employment.

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2 hours ago, LABillzFan said:

 

But only for certain women.The ones who know when to shut up. Like Murkowski. 

 

Meanwhile...

 

 

 

 

Thought that about summed it up. 

 

53 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

I'm starting to lean towards CA seceding, just because I want to see how this grand "progressive democracy of victimized identity groups" works out. 

 

Who knows?  Maybe Reiner goes down in history as one of the great political philosophers.  Solon, Plato, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Hobbes, Jefferson, Marx,...Meathead.

 

:lol: 

 

They're really talking about it at the local level in LA. Based on the amount of military equipment/personnel/assets in the state (especially near the bluest bits of the state) would make that an ugly affair. 

 

26 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

Democrats had been floating the idea of packing the court since around the time Gorsuch was nominated.

 

Another concept to keep in the back of your mind is nullification.  Lefties have been theorycrafting that since Russia hacked the election :rolleyes: and Trump lost the popular vote, his Presidency is illegitimate.  Upon retaking the White House and Congress, Democrats should remove Trump's Supreme Court (and lower court) appointees.  Any rulings by Trump courts are nullified.  Any Executive Orders signed by Trump become illegitimate.  Any legislation signed by Trump becomes illegitimate.  Basically a political mulligan where they can come in and scream DO OVER!

 

:beer: 

 

It was always a coup.

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10 hours ago, LSHMEAB said:

Yet in the House, Dems must have a million plus margin in order to maintain control. That is fundamentally unfair.

 

Again, I don't blame you for enjoying the fruits of the inequity. But even the house doesn't represent the will of the people.

 

Actually there is a case to be made that some states like California are over represented in the house.  The 2010 census counted illegal immigrants and there are many in California and several other states.  It's utterly ridiculous that non-citizens would be counted among the voting population, and while the Trump admin is trying to make that common sense change for the 2020 census, the left is fighting to keep questions of citizenship out of the census. 

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