Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[CaptainHenreh]

but the Democrats have already talking about packing the court and removing filibuster to do so. There's literally no incentive for Republicans to not go forward with it, even if it means they have to flip on their own words from a few years ago.

This is kind of my view as well.

In fact, HEAR ME OUT, I think that as a political strategy what the DNC *should* be doing is working with Trump to find a nominee that is "conservative, but not on the shit we actually care about," and push them through. Here's why:

1: It's probably gonna happen and there's really not much the DNC can do to stop it, so in the words of RJ "Come to the table or get nothing."

2: If certain hot-button, but ultimately nonstarter issues (you know the one I'm talking about) get "settled in court" from this nominee, then there is (IMHO) a large number of people "leaning trump" over those issues who are just gonna stay home. I know personally I can swallow a Uncle Joe Presidency (Or let's be real, a Harris presidency after midterms) knowing this idiotic bullshit fuckery will die with a stake in it's chest with a 6-3 Scotus decision: 

Biden will also institute a program to buy back weapons of war currently on our streets. This will give individuals who now possess assault weapons or high-capacity magazines two options: sell the weapons to the government, or register them under the National Firearms Act.

3:It will project an image of "reaching across the aisle" and "working together with those whom we disagree" and "spirit of reconciliation and healing" kumbaya bullshit that the Biden/Harris campaign could use to reach the trump-leaners.

4: Threats of court-packing are NOT going to sit well with anyone who isn't a rabid leftist. it's not going to sit well with the COURT. I know it's an old school democrat threat (Dear FDR: I spit on your grave) but it's not going to be a popular threat. It FEELS like pre-revenge, and RBG could have retired at eighty fuckin' years old during Obama's term and been replaced with the most hyperliberal candidate in history, because the DNC had the votes to do it and instead she held on. That's not the GOP's fault, but the DNC is threatening them with the consequence.


Frankly, I don't really see a way this hurts Trump. The GOP is gonna say "We have a constitutional mandate to do this, so we're gonna do it" and there's not a single person alive who was going to vote for Trump that's gonna say "Oh the president doing a job that's outlined in the constitution for him to do? THAT'S THE LAST STRAW."

Also, before you're too hard on Cocaine Mitch...you're doing exactly what the GOP wants you to do. The SML and Speaker serve at the pleasure of their parties and they serve to do one job: Take this exact kind of shit on the chin. They aren't elected by the people, they're appointed by the party so everything Pelosi and McConnell say and do is in fact exactly what the Party will it to be. The man's doing his job, and the minute he stops doing his job (or Pelosi for same) is the same minute he doesn't have it, and is replaced by someone who will. That's politics, and it's ugly, but it's what it is.

I'm still not going to vote for Trump, I'll be voting my conscience as always, but if anything this whole debacle has just further entrenched me in the idea that the federal government has too much influence over our daily lives. If a single SCOTUS justice can "ruin lives", and entire livelihoods and safety hinge on a single person...well we don't have a very free, very fault tolerant government now do we? So if you're mad about it, start advocating for smaller, less, and free.