• Billegh
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    511 months ago

    Oh, no, many of the things he did. What a nightmare. Won’t anyone consider the plight of the male, pale, and stale. Oh the humanity.

  • @[email protected]
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    7711 months ago

    Is this guy delusional? After the way his party treated him in the convention, he still doubles down that the problem is the democrats?

  • FuglyDuck
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    3911 months ago

    what an assholish shitstain.

    he’s totally okay with handing fascists over as long as those fascists “promise” to give him a seat at the table when they take over the country

    and you know what they say about people who sit at the table of fascists? (they’re also fascists)

  • @[email protected]
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    2311 months ago

    whatever their ‘worst nightmares’ are, are more than likely just what we need, and what most of us actually want.

  • @[email protected]
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    511 months ago

    McConnell continued. “By the way, on packing the Supreme Court … you may know this already. It’s unconstitutional.”

    Alternative headline ‘McConnell Admits Packing Supreme Court Unconstitutional’.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Hahaha, I had almost forgotten how good that face is. The eyes, the lip, the ears… perfection.

  • @[email protected]
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    3111 months ago

    By the way, on packing the Supreme Court … you may know this already. It’s unconstitutional.

    The only things the constitution has to say on the matter of the supreme court are: there has to be one, the supreme court judges should be paid, and the president can appoint supreme court justices with the advice and consent of the senate. It is completely silent on matters of how many supreme court justices there should be, or how long their terms should be.

    For all his many, many faults, Mitch McConnell is not a profoundly stupid man, so I’m sure he knows this. Since he very likely knows this already, he probably has a reason for lying to the public on the matter. If the president does appoint several more justices, it’s not like the Republicans can sue: no lower court would take the case, and the supreme court would already be packed with people who will actually be faithful to the constitution. So legal threats are a complete non-starter. That just leaves non-legal threats, which is what I think this is. I think Glitch is previewing the Republican strategy in the case of Harris getting more justices hired, which is they’ll stoke up the fear and hatred of their idiotic, mouth breathing supporters. It’s a thinly-veiled threat of treason.

  • @[email protected]
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    811 months ago

    Man, that’s the worst nightmare scenario? Fucking weaksauce. They’d still be breathing, instead of, y’know, put up against a wall and shot, like SCOTUS has ruled is perfectly legal now. As always, every word out of his mouth is self-serving bullshit.

  • @[email protected]M
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    4711 months ago

    Fun fact, Congress can change the size of the Supreme Court at will for any reason.

    They SHRUNK the court in 1866 from 9 to 7 because they just fucking hated Andrew Johnson THAT MUCH and they wanted to deny him a nomination.

    After Johnson was out, they raised it back up to 9 in 1869, Granting 2, and it stayed that way ever since.

    https://www.history.com/news/supreme-court-justices-number-constitution

    “The Supreme Court had just ruled that paper money was unconstitutional, which would have ‘wreaked havoc’ with the U.S. Treasury, says Marcus. But Grant and Congress quickly confirmed two new justices who reversed the Court’s decision in the earlier case, saving the Republicans from having to undo the nation’s entire system of legal tender.”

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      2611 months ago

      The Supreme Court had just ruled that paper money was unconstitutional

      Jesus and I thought our court was making the most dumbass decisions. Wierdly gives me hope that the Harris administration can fix a whole bumcha bullshit though.

      • @[email protected]M
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        611 months ago

        That was a little different, they didn’t actually change the size of the court, they just maintained the vacancy.

        In 1866 they actually went and said “Nah, 7 is good.” Which not only kept Johnson from filling a vacancy, it bounced someone else out.

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    2011 months ago

    By the way, on packing the Supreme Court … you may know this already. It’s unconstitutional.

    Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation.

  • Coelacanth
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    3511 months ago

    I see the man behind “making election day a national holiday is a power grab by the democrats”[1] is rolling out some new hits. Never ceases to amaze that he can get away with saying this stuff out loud.


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    • @[email protected]OP
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      1211 months ago

      Well, of course. Consider your own reference. Mitch knows they are wildly unpopular, and making it easier for the common folk they’ve been fucking over for years to vote would be disastrous for them.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      I’d rather he stroke out and have to sit drooling all over himself in a puddle of his own shit trapped in his mind and unable to communicate with anyone for a few years. Death is too easy for this asshole.