The US Supreme Court and its decisions
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look, i used to suffer from doomism and it made me ******* miserable. then i realized doomism is inherently selfish, since you're basically just giving up because you don't want to put any actual effort into making things less shitty for other people. you basically tell yourself "there's no way things are ever going to get better, so there's no reason to put any effort into making things less shitty" to make yourself feel better about doing nothing. it's a defense mechanism, and like, it's understandable to feel that way, but if you've given up on helping people, you're part of the ******* problem.
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Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m still going to vote and fight but “demographic change” isn’t a panacea that’s going to solve all of our problems.
I’m quite afraid it’s going to wind up eventually being John Brown’s horrid, yet endlessly prophetic statement “that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood,”
I’m quite afraid it’s going to wind up eventually being John Brown’s horrid, yet endlessly prophetic statement “that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood,”
see, that's the thing. the bloodshed never stopped. it's still ongoing. *gestures to police shootings and the treatment of BLM protesters by law enforcement, and then gestures to the proud boys and other fascist goons going around stirring jive up*
also while we like to think the GOP is strong and unified, there's a lot of infighting going on inside the GOP. like any fascists, they want to project the image of being strong, but they're actually weak right now, weaker than you'd think. we all assume they're the party of trump, but his grip over the party is weakening. the candidates he's endorsed are failing left and right, polls indicate more republicans identify with the party than with trump (which is an inverse of how it's been for the past four years), and hell, even whites without college degrees are abandoning him. we're probably going to see a bloody showdown in 2024 between trump and desantis that has a good chance of weakening the GOP's vote share. the GOP is dying, and they know it.
oh, and also: there was a study last year that shows that the voter id/suppression republicans have been trying to do? it fails most of the time. they can try to rig the election as much as they want, but voter suppression is a sign of weakness, not strength. they want to project this image of being machiavellian geniuses, when the truth is they're ******* stupid.
the best way to let fascists win is to think they've already won, because if there's enough resistance, they will lose.
also while we like to think the GOP is strong and unified, there's a lot of infighting going on inside the GOP. like any fascists, they want to project the image of being strong, but they're actually weak right now, weaker than you'd think. we all assume they're the party of trump, but his grip over the party is weakening. the candidates he's endorsed are failing left and right, polls indicate more republicans identify with the party than with trump (which is an inverse of how it's been for the past four years), and hell, even whites without college degrees are abandoning him. we're probably going to see a bloody showdown in 2024 between trump and desantis that has a good chance of weakening the GOP's vote share. the GOP is dying, and they know it.
oh, and also: there was a study last year that shows that the voter id/suppression republicans have been trying to do? it fails most of the time. they can try to rig the election as much as they want, but voter suppression is a sign of weakness, not strength. they want to project this image of being machiavellian geniuses, when the truth is they're ******* stupid.
the best way to let fascists win is to think they've already won, because if there's enough resistance, they will lose.
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Texts reveal Justice Clarence Thomas' wife pushed to overturn the 2020 election
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and former President Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows communicated about efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to copies of text messages obtained by CBS News and The Washington Post. CBS News chief election and...
www.cbsnews.com
Justice Thomas has been hospitalized with COVID but there's been no update to his condition for a week. He's either gone or VERY good at laying low...
Looking like Judge Brown will be Justice Brown when all is said and done. Manchin came out and said he'd vote for her.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/politics/joe-manchin-ketanji-brown-jackson-vote/index.html
Graham see's red flags with this nomination when Kavanaugh couldn't keep it together long enough to have his nomination locked in and it took Collins making a stupid decision at the last second to get him in? Graham can go kiss some ass.
Ironbite-and with Thomas hospitalized for Covid...we might be able to swing the court back the other way.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/politics/joe-manchin-ketanji-brown-jackson-vote/index.html
Graham see's red flags with this nomination when Kavanaugh couldn't keep it together long enough to have his nomination locked in and it took Collins making a stupid decision at the last second to get him in? Graham can go kiss some ass.
Ironbite-and with Thomas hospitalized for Covid...we might be able to swing the court back the other way.
Susan Collins becomes the first Republican to say she'll vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Hopefully not the only one. Come on Mittens, keep pissing off Trump.
www.huffpost.com
Susan Collins Will Support Ketanji Brown Jackson's Nomination To Supreme Court
The Maine senator is the first Republican vote Jackson has secured.
Manchin already said he'd vote to confirm her last week.
Oh, you meant first official Republican.
Oh, you meant first official Republican.
*ba-dum-tish*
What about Kyrsten Sinema? Isn't she going to do her performative cutesy-curtsy again while voting no?
Brief aside: I'm so burned out on politics, I'd forgotten who "Mittens" is.
Frighteningly, a brief Google search of "US Republican Senator Mittens" actually yielded the answer...
I guess I'm glad he hasn't run out of things to reach across the aisle over, but really, approving a Supreme Court appointment is one of those things that shouldn't require much reaching. I'm not sure what I'd have to google to find this out, but I'd reckon it used to be common for those to get near-unanimous approval.
I mean, the only way Google results wouldn't indicate the answer would be if those words also appeared together in some other context.Frighteningly, a brief Google search of "US Republican Senator Mittens" actually yielded the answer...
It did.
It also used to be common to treat violent attacks on the capital as serious business needing an immediate response, but here we are.
Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history as first Black woman confirmed to US supreme court
Jackson confirmed 53 votes to 47, and will become first Black woman to serve in court’s more than 200-year history
www.theguardian.com
Finally, some actual progress towards making america great.