Pack This

While he’s at it, Biden needs to pack the district courts and courts of appeal. There’s nothing magical limiting the number of judges, and frankly their caseloads are so high that there’s nothing even approaching speedy justice in federal civil or criminal cases.

@SanFranLefty: Yup. Of course he just said he’ll do no such thing — at least regarding SCOTUS — so if we get a Double-D Congress, we’ll just have to lean on our congresscritters to pass a damn bill, and dare him to veto it.

Congress should impeach both $hitler and Barrf if they try to fill this fucking seat. FSM knows there’s plenty of high crimes to hang on them.

Here’s some fun for any lawyers listening: Under an originalist interpretation of the Constitution, what’s to prevent a tyrant from declaring judicial review an unfounded usurpation of power residing in the executive and legislature? Sure, we’ve let Marbury slide for a couple hundred years, but times are dire!

In other words, given voter suppression in its myriad forms, an inherently unrepresentative Senate and Electoral College — and the will — how close have we come to the modern Republican party just going for it?

“Get Mitch or Die Trying”

Trump has to go not to a nice Federal prison but to Attica or Greenpoint where he will spend years being torture and abused in exotic, twisted ways that only soulless ultra-violent psychopaths can imagine.

We need to see him on TV shrieking for a bullet, any bullet to end his suffering.

Elizabeth Warren brings it:

“Ruth Ginsburg was a woman who never let any man silence her,” said the Massachusetts senator. “The most fitting tribute to her is to refuse to be silenced, and to name exactly what Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are trying to do—steal another Supreme Court seat.

This kind of sleazy double-dealing is the last gasp of a desperate party that is undemocratically over-represented in Congress and in the halls of power across our country.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/last-rasp-of-a-right-wing-billionaire-fueled-party-dem-senator-rips-trumps-rush-to-fill-rbgs-seat/

IF YOU’RE NOT BAYONETTING A REPUBLICAN AND SHITTING IN THE OPEN WOUND, YOU’RE SURRENDERING, AMERICA!

Serena Joy Barrett is a member of an extremist Handmaid’s Tale-style cult called People of Praise that literally has handmaids, though apparently they function more as patriarchal enforcers against other women, like the Aunts.

It’s sickening that the Republinazis are going to obliterate RBG and her entire life’s work by installing this sadistic lunatic to relentlessly attack women, minorities, and the poor for decades from the bench.

This cruel, malevolent court is totally illegitimate.

What’s really amazing about living through this national collapse is that it’s following all of the same predictable milestones, we have all of the history at our fingertips, and yet it’s still happening here nonetheless:

1. The fascist takeover of government through anti-democratic means, like the Supreme Court’s 2000 coup installation of the disastrous CaliguBush, and the (s)Electoral College’s 2016 installation of Prezinazi AntiChrist after he lost the “election” by nearly 3 million votes;
2. The insanely stupid right-wing lies, racist hatred, conspiracy theories, and gaslighting;
3. State security services, secret police, and right-wing militias beating, gassing, and murdering protestors, while violating the nation’s self-proclaimed values on a daily basis;
4. The feckless, corrupt, and incompetent opposition endlessly dickering over rules and procedures that only they follow until they’re rounded up and either gassed or shot;
5. The cowardly government functionaries and collaborators that go along with all of it;
6. The average citizen’s willful blindness and denial of reality due to their own white supremacist socialization that white people couldn’t possibly be so cruel, brutal, and destructive.
This includes “journalists” like the New York Times’ dog shit political reporters, who’ll be screaming “BOTH SIDES” right til the moment that one of $hitler’s 17 year-old Proud Boys puts a bullet in the back of their heads and kicks their bodies into a mass grave;
7. The insatiably greedy, self-serving oligarchs enabling the calamity due to their own anti-humane lust for money and power.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in 1930s Germany, 1990s Yugoslavia, or contemporary Belarus, Pakistan, or Russia, this is it.

@¡Andrew!: But it’s never exactly like [insert example here], so we also have to deal with people saying we’re hyperbolic because a detail is missing.

@nojo: We’re also hysterical and the Constitution will stop him even though it hasn’t stopped him so far, even after impeachment.

We don’t Constitution good.

@¡Andrew!: That requires a Democratic Society, something we’ve shown ourselves to lack.

I just threw more munnie at Senate campaigns for:

Jaime Harrison, SC – Senate
Theresa Greenfield, IA – Senate
Al Gross, AK – Senate
Raphael Warnock, GA – Senate
Barbara Bollier, KS – Senate
Jon Ossoff, GA – Senate
Amy McGrath, KY – Senate

Serena Joy Barrett also has Michele Bachmann’s Ku Klux Krazy eyes.