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    There's still a chance covid could bop him. Every four months.

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    The best bit is Trump using footage of America now and saying 'this is what will happen if Biden gets in!'

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    That clip of America's racist granddad banging on about cans of soup as if they're akin to WMDs is quite something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post

    It's going to be round-the-clock gold as we approach the vote.


    'Joe Hiden' is pretty good, but them emojis.

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    Giving out to Dan Scaving posts?

    Stop being a mark.

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    The CDC are planning a rollout of the Covid vaccine by November.

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    No they’re not.

    They’re saying hospitals have to prepare to distribute a vaccine even though it won’t be there. It’s a Trump election thing.

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    There’s an article out today about Trump complaining to people that Maggie Haberman keeps saying he has Parkinson’s which she’s never done so that pretty much confirms he’s got Parkinson’s.

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    I know America loves a bit of revisionism but I've just seen Paul Krugman claim that America took 9/11 'quite calmly' and didn't 'fly off the handle into anti-muslim bigotry'.

    How are these people still employed?

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    He is a solid case for 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' being real. He is obviously seriously intelligent, and yet he seems to produce some of the shittest content out there, which I don't recall him always having done.

    On a related media idiots note, Trump saying (thinking out loud) that the generals/arms companies love perpetual warfare being reported as AN ATTACK ON THE MILITARY made me lol. Not only because it obviously isn't, and that he was right, but it assumes that what passes for his base conflate the two as stupidly as they do.

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    It's one of those times when him brain-farting out everything that comes into his head means he accidentally says the truth, like a dementia-addled speaking clock

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    I would watch all four hours of a presidential debate moderated by Joe Rogan.

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    Yeah, dead trees do dry out and become volatile. Austria's summer is not as hot as California's, though. And that last bit is ..... odd. Great tie, Donald.

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    Criminality and dehumanisation is rampant. Dangerous times.

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    What the absolute fuck? That can't be legit, surely? Jesus.

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    VICE story in here.

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    This sounds bonkers, even for the US. 50 days to an election, I await some decent evidence.

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    It's horrendous if it's true but I can't pretend it surprises me. It's not like them locking up and doing unspeakable things to foreigners is new information.

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    Seems like it's being done by a private prison company who are housing these people, which is honestly no surprise given the absolutely ridiculously cruel things that happen in for-profit prisons in the US.

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    These Israeli doings are pretty serious, although you can see why everyone has an interest in pretending otherwise. And not just the media whoppers. Trump showing up forty years of 'realist' foreign policy nonces by being an actual realist - treating it all like a property deal because he's an idiot - is seriously lol to me. He probably asked why they bother listening to the Palestinians, called them losers, and when nobody could explain why it all just worked itself out somehow.

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    This is disgusting and terrifying.


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    Gotta stop those anchor babies somehow

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    Ruth Bader Ginsberg's dead. Will Trump have time to replace her before the election?

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    My friend has had a theory for a while now that she died ages ago but they were keeping it hidden until the Democrats were in a position to replace her. This must mean the postal votes are looking promising.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Ruth Bader Ginsberg's dead. Will Trump have time to replace her before the election?
    Easily. Filibuster was nuked for Trumps first nomination, but it would've definitely been for this regardless.

    It's actually insane how big an anchor this will tie around the country's neck compared to if the old bat just managed to last a few more months. Trump will have nominated three justices in his first term lol.

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    Ginsburg died.

    America is fucked.

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    I doubt they'll nominate anyone before the election though. Hold it up as a way to drive conservative turn-out, and then regardless if they win or lose just jam one through during the lame duck period.

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    And if he can't replace her in time, all of those 'Republican Voters Against Trump' suddenly start seeing their arse if the election means something again.

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    I would like to state that I posted that before his post appeared, so my use of 'seeing their arse' is entirely unintentional.

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    I'm surprised to see loads of regular people posting condolences and RIP's about her on social media like they would if it was a singer or an actor. I honestly never even heard her name before today. Was she famous for something else too?

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    No.

    It'll be the same sort of people who lionised Lady Hale (great as she may be) in the wake of her becoming more publicly known.

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    It’s in no way even slightly equivalent. Courts affect politics in a way they don’t in the UK because of their role in interpreting the constitution.

    As someone who was supposed to be on ‘my side’ She sucks and her refusal to resign despite having 8 types of cancer is a perfect encapsulation of how incompetent the Democratic Party is.

    For anyone interested I reccomend listening to Five Four, which is a podcast that breaks down why the supreme court is a disgusting institution.

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    I'm not saying the positions are in any way similar (other than perhaps in their essence as the top judge) you cretinous fanny, just that people virtue signalling the passing of someone they'd likely barely heard of during her long tenure is equivalent to the people who started wearing massive brooches in solidarity with Lady Hale when that was going on. Oh look how abreast of things I am!

    They can do what the fuck they want with their constitution as far as I care. It's their [stupid] country and their [stupid] system.

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    Are you talking about English people or Americans?

    I presumed Giggles was talking about Americans because of his sports interests. Any American interested in politics post Bush v Gore will be aware of her. Yaaas queening her despite Sotomayor being 10x the justice Ginsburg was/is idiotic.

    It's very funny watching all these white women get mad that people are calling RBG out because 'she represented us'. Only hired one black clerk in 27 years, strange that.

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    No, Irish people. People that I've never heard mention US politics any further than "yer man trump is some dickhead". Very odd.

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    Ginsburg was great

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    I'm surprised to see loads of regular people posting condolences and RIP's about her on social media like they would if it was a singer or an actor. I honestly never even heard her name before today. Was she famous for something else too?
    Wasn't there a movie about her a year or two ago?

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    The personality cult around her is a bit weird, and also a bit lol today given that it was in part down to her refusal to retire when it was safe[r] to do so. Jewish privilege that.

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    She was a huge icon on one side of the American culture wars.


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    Any bookies offering markets on the next SCOTUS appointment? It's going to be crazy Amy.

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    Why RBG just retire during the Obama presidency? She was already in her fucking 80's.

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    I work with/around a few seriously past-it people, and the feeling is that once they get to a certain age they either think that retirement is a death sentence, or (possibly to avoid retiring) convince themselves that only they know how to do it properly, when in reality they aren't because they're still doing it how they were ten sets of rule changes ago and nobody can tell them otherwise.

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    The politicisation of the appointments means they should have term limits so they don't have to worry about when they retire, it is just already set.

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    They would still be appointed by whoever happens to be in charge.

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    I'm not sure about term limits as such, as if someone is a stand-out jurist or whatever you want to call them, and can still do the job, then that experience shouldn't just be binned due to age/expiration of a term. You do sort of want the best of the best doing the job, but then, you have the way they get appointed and nowadays it doesn't feel like you're getting that in the first place. Maybe they should sit for fixed terms (of say 10 years) and be re-appointable? Of course, it should probably be apolitical but good luck with that.

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    They are supposed to be apolitical and usually arent appointed until they're 50, so a 20 year term limit should be fine realistically. Supposedly some of the other ancient ones had wanted to retire at points but felt unable to.

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    They have never and never will be apolitical.

    I believe the phrase ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ is literally about the Supreme Court backing FDR because he said he’d make them irrelevant by adding Justices if they didn’t.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Guardian
    [Amy Coney] Barrett has some experience of the storm. She was on Trump's list of possible nominees in 2018, when he was considering who would replace Anthony Kennedy, a justice who retired. But the president had other plans for Barrett. "I'm saving her for Ginsburg," Trump said, according to an Axios report last year.

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    Is that the one they are touting as the favorite? If so, she looks like a good choice.

    Tronald with the 4d chess there.

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