• @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    All it takes is one Supreme Court nomination during Trump’s term and we’re fucked for that much longer. There’s a good chance Thomas dies in the next 4 years, do we really want 40 more years of some young right wing radical in that seat?

    I think that’s what young people really don’t get. It’s not just 4 bad years (although even that argument is a pretty privileged thing to say).

    • donuts
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      226 months ago

      Thomas won’t even have to die. If Trump wins you can be sure we’ll see at least 1 resignation and replacement. They aren’t going to make the same mistake that RBG made, especially since they’ve had their eye on the ball when it comes to packing the courts with conservative judges at every level for decades.

      Everything is in place for Trump to perform an autocratic authoritarian takeover of America. People need to be mentally prepared to fight or flight.

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      126 months ago

      He repealed 112 environmental regulations in one term and wrote a record 220 Executive Orders, without any familiarity with the job of holding office, and during a pandemic. Imagine how much more effective he’ll be at destroying our progress this time around.

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      106 months ago

      A lot of people can’t understand 10 years in the future. Our animal inside wants now now now. Gotta store up for winter.

      The problem with the Democrats is they are poorly selling the future, while the Republicans are “promising” the now, at the expense of the future.

    • NoIWontPickAName
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      76 months ago

      Have we replaced all 3 of the democrats with younger ones so we don’t have another fucking nightmare from someone’s pride about their job?

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      26 months ago

      it goes further, a lot of them don’t trust the court anymore at all. to them it’s beyond redemption so it doesn’t matter who gets appointed by whom.