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Bad just got worse
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:30 am
by Gendo
The next 2 months were always going to be pretty bad. Now they're going to be an absolute shit-show.
Re: Bad just got worse
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:01 am
by Raxivace
Fuck.
Re: Bad just got worse
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:21 am
by Raxivace
For the love of god, why is Mitch McConnell still alive.
Re: Bad just got worse
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:38 am
by Derived Absurdity
The timing here is impeccable. Someone is fucking with us.
Re: Bad just got worse
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:37 am
by Raxivace
Lmao the argument that convinced me to begrudgingly vote for Obama in '12 and Hillary in '16 was the Supreme Court.
Lmao just lmao. So much for that.
Re: Bad just got worse
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:54 pm
by Gendo
Ironically, that's the same argument that got a bunch of people to begrudgingly vote for Trump in 2016.
I really hate that in our system; the amount of lasting power a president has is so much determined by the random chance of getting to appoint lifetime SCOTUS appointments. I'm not a political scholar, so I couldn't easily suggest a better alternative, but it can't be right that 1 president would get to shape the laws of our country for the next 30-40 years based purely on getting lucky enough to have the right people die while he's in office.
Re: Bad just got worse
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:24 pm
by Raxivace
Term limits on Supreme Court Justices is the argument I keep hearing get thrown about. I'm not sure what a reasonable limit would be though.
Re: Bad just got worse
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:06 am
by phe_de
Raxivace wrote:Term limits on Supreme Court Justices is the argument I keep hearing get thrown about. I'm not sure what a reasonable limit would be though.
In Germany it's 12 years.