scumP wants to avoid Dems being able to question his nominees, because both the questions to his lunatics and their answers will prompt at least a handful of people who voted for scumP (but aren't full-on MAGA) to say, "Wait -- I don't want this lunatic in charge of _____" and to call their sens. and protest.
Please stop criticizing Dems for continuing to treat laws, rules, and laws as meaningful / as worthy of being upheld. Their doing so is overall a good thing, although we're all going to pay a price in the short term.
The idea that the party that straight-up stole SCOTUS seats from a Democratic president by stalling and refusing to bring nominees to a vote would be screeching bloody vengeance over the idea of Senate Democrats, who don't have the numbers to block a fucking thing, simply questioning their nominees is so blatantly hypocritical that I feel absolutely nauseated.
Democrats are wondering why Trump is demanding that Senate Republicans cede their Article II power to consent to appointments when they have a 53 or 54 to 47 or 46 majority. Easy question. It's to make it clear from the get-go that he has their balls in his little hands and he ain't letting go for one second. And, they will knuckle under without even a whimper of protest. Take it to the bank.
Dems' questions to the lunatic nominees, and the lunatics' answers, would prompt some people to call their GOP sens. and protest the nominees. GOPs want to avoid all that, by side-stepping everything that normally occurs after a prez nominates someone for a post.
And how, exactly, is a 47-member minority supposed to take meaningful action against any majority, let alone a vengeful, lying, bullying majority that has a huge lie-factory (Fox) at its disposal? FFS, stop piling on the Dems! Flawed though they are, they're infinitely better than the alternatives. And it's not Dems' fault that the GOP has, for almost 40 years, built up a massive dis- and misinfo network (hate radio, Fox, etc.). Dems can't FORCE people to ingest actual news.
"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments"
Not to make a bad situation worse, but there's nothing in there about needing individual votes for ANYTHING, it just says "the Advice and Consent of the Senate". So, J. D. Vance could literally walk into the Senate, ask for blanket consent for Trump's appointments, get that granted by majority vote, and VOILA, DONE. The "nuclear option" is literally baked into the Constitution.
Ya know how the MSM keeps saying its Democrats' fault that Republicans control the Supreme Court because Democrats used the "nuclear option" to abolish the filibuster...even though it was Republicans who abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS justices?
Or how the "shoplifting epidemic" (which isn't even real) is the result of the Democrat Party defunding the police?
If the current SCOTUS does hand Democrats even a tiny win, Republicans in Congress can just expand the court, and then those of us who haven't been sent to the gulags will have to hear about how it's the Democrat Party's fault for talking about expanding the courts.
It’s time to use the same rules that the republicans have used when they are in the minority. It’s time to stop trying to use the same tactics that automatically assume your opponent is playing by the same rules you do. Take it to the republicans and use their own tactics against them. And foffs to msm and the beating in the media that democrats will get anyway. Whether they use the minority tactics or not. Msm is not on our side. If the entirety of President Joe Biden’s msm coverage has not yet made you throw up in your mouth, burning a hole in your throat and braising your tongue, then you’re going to be in for an even bigger shock when trump is sanewased in real time by maggie haberman, ross douchehat, ezra klein, chris cilliza, etc. Oh. Let’s not forget Nikolas Kristof can take a big old middle finger from me. Seriously. Woke is what doomed the Democrats? Fuck you.
Yes, yes. I only picked on the NyTimes up there. Jeff Bezos, faux news, WSJ, LATiimes, you can all fuck off.
The beauty is that, while these tactics have been so effective against Dems, the R's never attempted to develop ways to counter them, because they didn't have to. R's, through their lack of experience (among other things), are even more flummoxed by these tactics being used against them.
Weird was a good example of this. They had no idea how to effectively respond to that.
Speaking of the LAT (as I know you were), I see that Patrick Soon-Shiong will be busting the editorial board to make it more fair and balanced or some other tripe because the edit board fought back so strongly against his non-endorsement policy. He will, in essence, be removing those members of the edit board who pushed back.
Well since he sat on his hands and let his talentless daughter tell him what to (not) do, the Orange nightmare was elected and will proceed to allow Netanyahu to completely bulldoze Gaza (her pet issue) so that Jared may build beachfront condos in Ramaleh.
Which shows Soon-Shiong’s daughter is a virtue signaler. She might genuinely believe (bullshit) that she cares about the victims of Israel. She has the luxury of living in a safe country where people don’t get locked up or killed for being. That’s it. Just. Being. Alive.
Oh. Wait. Wait. Wait.
We’re about to become one. Victims of a lawless government.
Nika Soon-Shiong is all 'apartheid, I lived under apartheid, I know what it's like, blah blah.'
Actually, no. She's 31, apartheid ended in SA in 1994. It looks like she was US-born, since her parents moved here in the 50s. She never lived under apartheid. It's the social democratic equivalent of stolen valor. I strongly doubt she gives a rat's patootie about Gaza or the people there.
Virtue Signaling is exactly it. Nika Soon-Shiong is annoying in the extreme, but Daddy owns a newspaper and he's big-footing the editorial staff.
“L’État, c’est moi, et moi, c’est la merde 💩.”
scumP wants to avoid Dems being able to question his nominees, because both the questions to his lunatics and their answers will prompt at least a handful of people who voted for scumP (but aren't full-on MAGA) to say, "Wait -- I don't want this lunatic in charge of _____" and to call their sens. and protest.
Oh, please. Even when the weak, sad Democrats had power, they refused to use it. I am so done with these pussies. Will no one fight?
Please stop criticizing Dems for continuing to treat laws, rules, and laws as meaningful / as worthy of being upheld. Their doing so is overall a good thing, although we're all going to pay a price in the short term.
The idea that the party that straight-up stole SCOTUS seats from a Democratic president by stalling and refusing to bring nominees to a vote would be screeching bloody vengeance over the idea of Senate Democrats, who don't have the numbers to block a fucking thing, simply questioning their nominees is so blatantly hypocritical that I feel absolutely nauseated.
Oh fuck. The dog pit executionist is going to run the DHS. Noem……
It might not be dogs this time.
Democrats are wondering why Trump is demanding that Senate Republicans cede their Article II power to consent to appointments when they have a 53 or 54 to 47 or 46 majority. Easy question. It's to make it clear from the get-go that he has their balls in his little hands and he ain't letting go for one second. And, they will knuckle under without even a whimper of protest. Take it to the bank.
They're not wondering. They know why.
Dems' questions to the lunatic nominees, and the lunatics' answers, would prompt some people to call their GOP sens. and protest the nominees. GOPs want to avoid all that, by side-stepping everything that normally occurs after a prez nominates someone for a post.
And how, exactly, is a 47-member minority supposed to take meaningful action against any majority, let alone a vengeful, lying, bullying majority that has a huge lie-factory (Fox) at its disposal? FFS, stop piling on the Dems! Flawed though they are, they're infinitely better than the alternatives. And it's not Dems' fault that the GOP has, for almost 40 years, built up a massive dis- and misinfo network (hate radio, Fox, etc.). Dems can't FORCE people to ingest actual news.
SCOTUS: That was then, this is now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ebkj9x5Ko
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NAZI AMERIKKKA
"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments"
Not to make a bad situation worse, but there's nothing in there about needing individual votes for ANYTHING, it just says "the Advice and Consent of the Senate". So, J. D. Vance could literally walk into the Senate, ask for blanket consent for Trump's appointments, get that granted by majority vote, and VOILA, DONE. The "nuclear option" is literally baked into the Constitution.
Something occurs to me...
Ya know how the MSM keeps saying its Democrats' fault that Republicans control the Supreme Court because Democrats used the "nuclear option" to abolish the filibuster...even though it was Republicans who abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS justices?
Or how the "shoplifting epidemic" (which isn't even real) is the result of the Democrat Party defunding the police?
If the current SCOTUS does hand Democrats even a tiny win, Republicans in Congress can just expand the court, and then those of us who haven't been sent to the gulags will have to hear about how it's the Democrat Party's fault for talking about expanding the courts.
'Dollar Store Michael Chiklas'? I am DED D-E-D.
There's a fantastic story attached to that very spelling (DED) in Harpo Marx's autobiography, "Harpo Speaks", a book I highly recommend.
IKR?? That was hilarious
@doktorzoom
Whar our Kurt Vonnegut Armistice Day post? :-(
It’s time to use the same rules that the republicans have used when they are in the minority. It’s time to stop trying to use the same tactics that automatically assume your opponent is playing by the same rules you do. Take it to the republicans and use their own tactics against them. And foffs to msm and the beating in the media that democrats will get anyway. Whether they use the minority tactics or not. Msm is not on our side. If the entirety of President Joe Biden’s msm coverage has not yet made you throw up in your mouth, burning a hole in your throat and braising your tongue, then you’re going to be in for an even bigger shock when trump is sanewased in real time by maggie haberman, ross douchehat, ezra klein, chris cilliza, etc. Oh. Let’s not forget Nikolas Kristof can take a big old middle finger from me. Seriously. Woke is what doomed the Democrats? Fuck you.
Yes, yes. I only picked on the NyTimes up there. Jeff Bezos, faux news, WSJ, LATiimes, you can all fuck off.
" It’s time to stop trying to use the same tactics that automatically assume your opponent is playing by the same rules you do. "
Time and way past it for this.
The beauty is that, while these tactics have been so effective against Dems, the R's never attempted to develop ways to counter them, because they didn't have to. R's, through their lack of experience (among other things), are even more flummoxed by these tactics being used against them.
Weird was a good example of this. They had no idea how to effectively respond to that.
Democratic Senators. Heads up. Time for a little life lesson.
I'm not holding my breath waiting for Dems to do the "fuck you" politics we've so desperately needed in the Shitler era.
Speaking of the LAT (as I know you were), I see that Patrick Soon-Shiong will be busting the editorial board to make it more fair and balanced or some other tripe because the edit board fought back so strongly against his non-endorsement policy. He will, in essence, be removing those members of the edit board who pushed back.
Well since he sat on his hands and let his talentless daughter tell him what to (not) do, the Orange nightmare was elected and will proceed to allow Netanyahu to completely bulldoze Gaza (her pet issue) so that Jared may build beachfront condos in Ramaleh.
Which shows Soon-Shiong’s daughter is a virtue signaler. She might genuinely believe (bullshit) that she cares about the victims of Israel. She has the luxury of living in a safe country where people don’t get locked up or killed for being. That’s it. Just. Being. Alive.
Oh. Wait. Wait. Wait.
We’re about to become one. Victims of a lawless government.
Nika Soon-Shiong is all 'apartheid, I lived under apartheid, I know what it's like, blah blah.'
Actually, no. She's 31, apartheid ended in SA in 1994. It looks like she was US-born, since her parents moved here in the 50s. She never lived under apartheid. It's the social democratic equivalent of stolen valor. I strongly doubt she gives a rat's patootie about Gaza or the people there.
Virtue Signaling is exactly it. Nika Soon-Shiong is annoying in the extreme, but Daddy owns a newspaper and he's big-footing the editorial staff.
I can’t wait til steel is illegal!!
Cuz then it will be more fun to smoke it?
Oh, but we love our Constitution, don’t we folks?