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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87

You know, we have a saying here for what is happening in the US in 2020: La Totale. It's when you get every fucking thing that could go bad that goes even worse. You accidentally served to a critical customer at your company, a close friend of CEO, something they're allergic to, got in a car accident totaling your car just as your insurance payment was rejected, only for you to come back home and see your son trying to massage him being expelled from school by showing you the entire litter your dog brought back after doing the neighbour's one, your wife telling you about the charming revenue service inspector who wants to see you tomorrow at 8 am, your favourite football team losing a crucial game to an amateur team, and when you serve yourself a large glass of whiskey to forget about the day, a fucking pigeon enters your house by the window and shits in your drink.


That's pretty much 2020 for the US so far. La Totale.
 
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McTurtle has already vowed to ram through a replacement, hopefully within the next week.

The US is so completely fucked. They need four senators with spines to block a nomination, and they will be supremely lucky to find three who won't flip.

Trumpy is trying to rig the election, and will absolutely try to whine to the courts to dispute any loss. Now they will have a stacked court to say that it is fine to throw away votes for Biden.

Again, the US is fuckity fuck fucked. Even that dream of defeating Don the Con and fighting like hell to restore some sanity and normality to the country and the world is shattered.

Looking just fine for those of us who wanted the world's bully to be knocked off their perch though.
 
small problem for the world this will make things worse for everyone not better
 
small problem for the world this will make things worse for everyone not better
Better, actually. As pointed out in other threads, a "business as usual" POTUS will tell what people want to hear and everyone else will rely on their "leadership", trusting that things are under control, except they aren't by definition, as they'll still be beholden to the usual interests. Compare to what is happening right now, AKA the entire US lobbying system being bypassed by the rest of the planet:
- the EU is going for increasingly ambitious climate change reduction goals and is becoming a policy leader there:
- individual US States and cities are telling the Feds to get fucked and are working together with the idea to follow the EU lead and standards;
- if the US gets fucked as a global power and no longer is a competitor to China, Beijing has a lot less reasons to delay investments and policies that could have endangered its position relative to the US.
 
Better, actually. As pointed out in other threads, a "business as usual" POTUS will tell what people want to hear and everyone else will rely on their "leadership", trusting that things are under control, except they aren't by definition, as they'll still be beholden to the usual interests. Compare to what is happening right now, AKA the entire US lobbying system being bypassed by the rest of the planet:
- the EU is going for increasingly ambitious climate change reduction goals and is becoming a policy leader there:
- individual US States and cities are telling the Feds to get fucked and are working together with the idea to follow the EU lead and standards;
- if the US gets fucked as a global power and no longer is a competitor to China, Beijing has a lot less reasons to delay investments and policies that could have endangered its position relative to the US.
you seem to be under the impression that backed into the corner of irrelevance the leadership wont resort to cartoon villainy with what is for now still the most dangerous conventional military on the planet
 
you seem to be under the impression that backed into the corner of irrelevance the leadership wont resort to cartoon villainy with what is for now still the most dangerous conventional military on the planet
I would be more afraid of that military if the country that wielded it was unified enough to actually use it. Plus, its projection power is falling down pretty fast thanks to the shiftest of its procurement to which you can add the very subpar performance it showed over the past decades that are making it a lot less frightening than what the propaganda makes it appear.

On-topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies/616132/
 
This is far from actually being important, but you know that thing Leftist twitter does every time the Right does something bad that literally everyone on the planet has come to expect them to do by this point, where they act like Liberals have been utterly bamboozled into not expecting that bad thing to happen?
 
*Compromise* offered by moderate conservatives at the spectre of the Dems packing the Supreme court.

"We let the new President nominate the replacement for RBG THIS TIME but we pass an amendment removing court packing as an option!"

Sounds like a great deal gov!
 
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you seem to be under the impression that backed into the corner of irrelevance the leadership wont resort to cartoon villainy with what is for now still the most dangerous conventional military on the planet
I'd be more worried about nukes falling into the hands of extremist successor/rump states and the horrors that will befall the American people than anyone else anywhere in the world. The rest of the world will be fine, the US, internally, will be fucked (its already fucked externally as has actually been the case in several instances of American history a la isolationism, protectionism, etc)
 
I'd be more worried about nukes falling into the hands of extremist successor/rump states and the horrors that will befall the American people than anyone else anywhere in the world. The rest of the world will be fine, the US, internally, will be fucked (its already fucked externally as has actually been the case in several instances of American history a la isolationism, protectionism, etc)
Nukes fly it's the next intelligent life on this planets problem
 
This is far from actually being important, but you know that thing Leftist twitter does every time the Right does something bad that literally everyone on the planet has come to expect them to do by this point, where they act like Liberals have been utterly bamboozled into not expecting that bad thing to happen?

The "resistance" had feted Romney as this great moderate opponent to trump, but when push comes to shove, the mask comes off.
 
The "resistance" had feted Romney as this great moderate opponent to trump, but when push comes to shove, the mask comes off.
at this point it looks like bipartisan ship is finally going to die when it comes to dealing with the gop
 
at this point it looks like bipartisan ship is finally going to die when it comes to dealing with the gop

And never trumpers like the Lincoln project are going to sting them. Big tent politics doesn't survive scorpion and the frog scenarios.
 
The "resistance" had feted Romney as this great moderate opponent to trump, but when push comes to shove, the mask comes off.
Not really. Never thought he was a moderate, just counted on him to be spiteful enough.
 
at this point it looks like bipartisan ship is finally going to die when it comes to dealing with the gop
Nah. The Democrats just backed a funding bill to avoid another shutdown. Right after Nancy vowed to use every single lever to hold up the nomination process. The one-sided undeserved bipartisanship is alive, stupid, and very healthy.

"We will use every resource within our power. Except for the power of the purse, which is our single greatest power. Also don't look to us to impeach anyone else, even though calling out all the criminal and unconstitutional bullshit is supposed to be part of our job. We have an election to choke on here."
 
Nah. The Democrats just backed a funding bill to avoid another shutdown. Right after Nancy vowed to use every single lever to hold up the nomination process. The one-sided undeserved bipartisanship is alive, stupid, and very healthy.

"We will use every resource within our power. Except for the power of the purse, which is our single greatest power. Also don't look to us to impeach anyone else, even though calling out all the criminal and unconstitutional bullshit is supposed to be part of our job. We have an election to choke on here."
Well, I kinda wonder what would be the effects of a shutdown right in the middle of the pandemic...
 
Well, I kinda wonder what would be the effects of a shutdown right in the middle of the pandemic...
Not much of anything since the Republicans have stopped pretending that they will offer services or support for anyone other than billionaires and corporations. All offers to actually help commoners has been dead in the water for months. Beyond calculating statistics, the pandemic response has not much to do with federal services at all (all according to Trumpy's plan).

So.. some feds unemployed for a few paychecks. At least they still have jobs, so the banks won't try to foreclose on them and send them out to the streets during a pandemic. Hell, they are actually safer at home.

End result of this action: Republicans get everything they want and give nothing back, and Democrats are stunned to discover that they somehow do not have any power to stop the people they just gave everything.
 
They thought that they had it all under control.

But Corona-chan was watching. Waiting.

Good lord what a clusterfuck.

Edit: Referring to all them Rep Senators hugging and kissing with patient zero just a few days ago and now starting to get sick.
 
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Corona-chan is such a prankster.
Well when recieving such an invitation how can she resist.

Great googly moogly the sheer arrogance of all those people who had helpers and colleagues be infected in the past but still just HAD to pat each other in the back and share hugs and kisses for RGB dying and having the chance to push their crazy cultist through!?

Corona chan must have been furious of the affront to her pestillential dignity.

Patient Zero even looks like some of the Corona Chan pics out there
 
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