Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo — Page 781

^ Pleasing to see and hopefully there’ll be more to come.

A similar thing has occurred with the Labour Party in the UK - a once proud leftist party that chased the central/floating/business vote for so long… it lost it almost became detached from it’s roots and it’s traditional support (many of whom left or became disillusioned) - and lost ground in doing so.

Now things in the Party are considerably different (with the Party being re-structured to give average people a larger say in how the Party is run) - and the last election, where many analysts and pundits thought Labour would be almost wiped out, actually came close to defeating the Tories. With more young and disaffected people joining Labour all the time… whilst the Tories resort to clinging to power with £b bribes with some unsavoury characters from Northern Ireland on a power-grab - people see that - and won’t likely forget it… let alone the uncertainly and lack of plan for Brexit and post-Brexit deals, Grenfell, NHS and so on…
 

Back to the US…

I hope this (and hopefully other similar results) can be a catalyst for the Democrats - right now I don’t know who your leader is, what the Party is standing for, what they are calling up Trump and Republicans on, what their plan is - how they plan to defeat Trump… as the news cycle seems to be dominated by Trump and the circus he has created. As a Brit, that’s not a problem here in the UK - though I hope this view isn’t representative of what is actually happening in the US.
 

Well done Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
 

Trump takes credit for Ocasio-Cortez win, because of course he does

Wow! Big Trump Hater Congressman Joe Crowley, who many expected was going to take Nancy Pelosi’s place, just LOST his primary election. In other words, he’s out! That is a big one that nobody saw happening. Perhaps he should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!

But judges?

TV’s Frink said:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/supreme-court-justice-anthony-kennedy-retiring/story?id=55052718

This country is about to get demonstrably worse, yet again. Wonderful.

You mean to tell me that Reps would’ve gotten their right-wing judge anyway even if they didn’t force Obama to not pick one? And now they’re going to have two? Fuuuuuuuck off.

Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

But judges?

I don’t understand.

Frink occasionally mocks conservatives/Republicans who rationalize Trump’s victory because at least we get judges we like. The implication is “but judges” is a weaksauce excuse for Trump.

I don’t totally disagree but clearly judges are a big deal.

Either that or it was a typo and I left out the second “t.” (I hope DE offers no insight on that.)

TV’s Frink said:

Butt judges.

2.75/10.00

An all-time high for me.

TV’s Frink said:

Butt judges.

2.75/10.00

Whose butt are you judging there?

Mrebo said:

Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

But judges?

I don’t understand.

Frink occasionally mocks conservatives/Republicans who rationalize Trump’s victory because at least we get judges we like. The implication is “but judges” is a weaksauce excuse for Trump.

It’s a “weaksauce” excuse because the judges that conservatives want are horrible. They’re typically family-values, police state, corporate piles of shit.

Jay said:

What should be more worrisome is that the two oldest remaining justices, Ginsburg and Breyer, are both liberal. If Trump sees a full 8 years in office, he might end up nominating their replacements as well.

I doubt that’ll happen. Trump has never had an approval rating above 50%. Even if he does win, he’s an old, obese man that will likely die any day now.

moviefreakedmind said:

Mrebo said:

Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

But judges?

I don’t understand.

Frink occasionally mocks conservatives/Republicans who rationalize Trump’s victory because at least we get judges we like. The implication is “but judges” is a weaksauce excuse for Trump.

It’s a “weaksauce” excuse because the judges that conservatives want are horrible. They’re typically family-values, police state, corporate piles of shit.

Well if that’s the kind of thing a conservative likes, that sounds like a pretty good excuse. I take Frink’s phrasing to mean that even if you like those judges that isn’t a good enough excuse for Trump.

I think many conservatives will rethink their support of a conservative court once they see how certain issues are decided. When it comes to privacy issues especially the libertarian-minded conservatives won’t always be pleased.

As they say, “Darkness rises and Light to meet it”.

There are no libertarian-minded rightwingers in our federal government. It was the rightwingers on the Supreme Court that dissented on the ruling against fascist police officers that don’t want to have warrants to spy on people’s phones. If you’re a “libertarian-minded conservative” and you support rightwing judges then you are a total hypocrite.

Netflix continues to be a shithole:

https://ijr.com/2018/06/1103557-new-netflix-harassment-policies/

moviefreakedmind said:

There are no libertarian-minded rightwingers in our federal government. It was the rightwingers on the Supreme Court that dissented on the ruling against fascist police officers that don’t want to have warrants to spy on people’s phones. If you’re a “libertarian-minded conservative” and you support rightwing judges then you are a total hypocrite.

Lucky for me I don’t have that conflict 😉

I don’t know, you seem to be really defensive of the people that do want these rightwing judges.

I don’t know why you get that sense. I’m pretty pleased about getting another conservative justice.