I’m still doing the same things to cope during the Apocalypse Administration. Before Emperor Baby Fists took the oath of office, I avoided the news and just watched The Cooking Channel or The Tennis Channel. I try to go to bed early. I go to the gym. That’s how I cope. I’m so proud of other people for being so engaged and putting boots on the ground for all of these issues we hold so near and dear to our democracy. Which is why I hope we take a page from Senator Mitch McConnell, who famously said just days before President Obama’s inauguration that the GOP needed to do everything they could to make Obama a one-term president. Well, we need to do everything we can to make Baby Fists a one-month president. The damage he’s done to our country and the world in less than two weeks is astounding. So let’s make America great again by making Trump a one-month president, please.
Let’s start by saying “no way, Jose” to Baby Fists’ choice to fill the seat left by the late Justice Scalia. Trump nominated Neil M. Gorsuch in what was described as the “final rose ceremony” of this apocalyptic reality show we’re now all a part of. I’m not going to go on and on about Gorsuch, but I’ll just say this: he has a problem with birth control. Think about that. While he doesn’t have a record on specific abortion rights cases, if he doesn’t think women should have easy and affordable access to birth control, that alone says all you need to know about him (nevermind the fact that all of the most Deplorable people in the country are totally jazzed about him). So let’s do our part to make sure that Gorsuch never makes it to the bench, much like the GOP worked to never confirm Obama’s choice to fill the vacancy, Merrick Garland.
The Democrats should treat Trump's SCOTUS pick with the exact same courtesy the GOP showed Merrick Garland. Don't flinch, don't back down
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) February 1, 2017
Can Anyone Explain Why The GOP Thinks Trump should get to appoint a #SCOTUS Justice in His FINAL YEAR as President, but Not Obama?
— Impeach Donald Trump (@Impeach_D_Trump) February 1, 2017
So to clarify, here's where we are: #DavidDuke—fmr Grand Wizard of the #KKK—is ECSTATIC at @realDonaldTrump's #Gorsuch #SCOTUS pick #RESIST pic.twitter.com/S8DCidClID
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) February 1, 2017
Photos courtesy of Getty.
What does that one tweet about Trumps FINAL year mean?
This Twitter user hopes that Donald Trump will be impeached this year.
I was reading in SALON, a former Bush Administrator official has a warning about Pres Trump’s Administration. Condoleessa Rice Aide – Eliot A Cohen has strong words for concertatives who are working for DT.
Cohen wrote in the Atlantic – he predicted that DT ‘s character and choice of advisors will probably end in Calimity – substantial domestic protest and violence, a breakdown of international economic relationships, the collapse major alliances, or perhaps one or more new wars (even with China) on top of the ones we already have… It will not be surprising if he does not serve out his term and may be impeached … Very good article.
I will google the article, thanks for the tip.
@B n A fn I read this article, too and it gave me much hope! @Jmooo here it is: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history/514868/
@ida: Thanks!
Thanks, @Ida and @B n A fn – that’s a great article in the Atlantic. It gives me hope, which is desperately needed these days!
The Atlantic is doing great work and it’s one of the periodicals I subscribed. We need to support the outlets that are stepping up and exposing this administration.
If he were to be impeached, we’d be stuck with Pence. Do we really want that either? Talk about a rock and a hard place.
I wouldn’t be surprised if his presidency didn’t last a full year, but it’s (sadly) possible that it will.
I think it’s a joke about him being impeached this year. We could only be so lucky.
And this is the judge that republicans wanted. This is the least shocking thing Trump has done so far this week. Honestly, the court was screwed regardless of who the republican president was.
Yes-it could have been a moderate Republican like Jeb Bush and they still would have picked a super conservative judge.
Yes. This morning I realized that this was another factor in Trump’s victory — people who didn’t really like him but voted for him purely because of the SCOTUS vacancy. Screw them.
The Russian government killed at least one of Its head intelligence and arrested others for treason after the Steele dossier. You thought goldenshowergate was far fetched but if the Russians are going after their own it makes it more credible. The Russian oil company just sold 15% to Unknown party with Cayman island cover. Read more international news and stay active! This shock and awe Trump administration is doing this on purpose to distract!
Yes not shocking. We can go back to protesting the Muslim ban that Trump is trying to distract us from. Don’t take the bate!
I think they meant “FIRST” year. But praying to all the deities it is his final year.
It’s from a site called IMPEACHtrump, so I assume they think he’ll be out this year.
What exactly are his impeachable offenses?
His name is “Impeach Donald Trump” so I guess he – just like everyone else – is hoping for an impeachment this year.
Hi everyone, just thought I would mention that NPR’s Fresh Air had a good interview with a Constitutional law scholar today on the topic of…this dude…and the relationship between the AG and the president (about 3/4s of the way through the podcast). I know a lot of you are interested in both of those topics, so I thought I’d mention it.
I should buy shares in alcohol companies or the makers of Xanax. I would bet sales have skyrocketed since Trump took office. New day fresh “WTF??!!!”
Alcohol and the new pot companies in CA, CO and MA. Cuz honestly, I am starting to crack at the seams.
But I have to comment on Kaiser’s statement
“Which is why I hope we take a page from Senator Mitch McConnell”. cuz honestly before the Trump Apocalypse we never would be looking at Senator McConnell for anything good. The world is upside down. 🙁
Washington State legalized weed at the same time Colorado did. We don’t get the publicity though.
I bartend, and there has been no such thing as Dryuary this year – the people have spoken, and the rest of us are drinking.
gorsuch’s mother was head of the EPA under reagan. An agency she tried to destroy.
http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/anne-gorsuch-burford-epa-reagan-neil-mom-supreme-court-scandal-controversy-resign-who-is-die-death-net-worth-wife-family/
What the GOP did to poor Merrick Garland was absolutely disgusting. Let’s hope the Dems won’t forgive or forget.
To be honest, the bar has been set so low with his other appointees that this guy doesn’t seem so horrible to me. And there is precious little that the Democrats can do right now. The ranks have been gutted. Maybe we need to pick our battles. Unfortunately, once he gets on the bench, if he’s a closet sexist, racist, homophobe, etc., nothing will get him out (and he’s really young).
On another note, there’s a new petition on Change.org to deport all white, Christian men to their countries of origin, starting with Donald Trump, since they have been responsible for most of the mass murders in this country’s history. Obviously tongue-in-cheek and designed to make a point. I hope it gains traction. https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-deport-white-christian-men-from-the-united-states?recruiter=674709296&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
Seven Democrats in the Senate have already called for an up or down vote. They get one more and the filibuster is over Gorsuch is confirmed.
It is well past time for a revolution in the Democratic Party. Gorsuch could be on the bench for 40 years.
Thats hilarious – the petition – and appropriate!
I also don’t think he seems as bad as all the others nominated for appointment. clearly he was going to select a republican conservative. the NYT though showed that he is to the right of Scalia so that’s scary.
He has agreed with decisions that allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT people based so called “religious freedom” That is code for “we hate the gays.” I have a gay child, and I [somewhat obnoxiously, I admit] point that out when the subject of Supreme Court nominees comes up. I’m sure there are many other parents like me.
I want to point out that Gorush is already serving in the Court of Appeals. That means he was previously vetted and approved by Congress. I’m sure many of the same Congressmen who approved his appointment for Circuit Court are still in office. We could do a whole lot worse. Orangino could have picked an unknown/crazy person and you wouldn’t know what would happen.
Plus you never know how they will rule until they are on the bench. Sure you can study his rulings in Circuit court but some judges do a reverse on a lot of things once they are on board. David Souter was a good example.
@Holly Hobby, David Souter was appointed as a political favor to the Sununu family.
You (and a good many Republicans, I’ve noticed) keep bringing up Gorsuck’s earlier appointment and how, well, nothing has changed since those Democrats voted for him then. That vote was nearly ELEVEN years ago during which time he has built up a record of cases, which he previously did not have and upon which those who previously voted for him might find cause to regret that earlier vote.
One thing I do find of interest, in 2002, he complained about the Senate delaying the appointment of Merrick Garland to the Appeals Court. Yes, THAT Merrick Garland. I do hope a Senator asks him now whether his views on that delay have changed and how he would apply those views to the Senate’s more recent treatment of Merrick Garland.
I hope the Dems dig in like McConnell and his friends did about Garland…but based on the little analysis I’ve heard so far it sounds like they’re trying to play nice, or at least make it appear they are. I don’t get it.
Your coping sounds better than mine. I too have been avoiding the news but I have been binge watching shows, shopping like a mad woman and drinking too much.
I’m worried the Senate Dems will try to be all “we’re better than them” and confirm him as some kind of display of “class”. They lack spines.
Exactly the time for that is over. And if the Dems want a chance in the midterms they need to stop voting yes on these people and leave the seat open
Dems are already backing down for fear Republicans will invoke the “nuclear option” and remove the right to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee. The genius behind this thinking … they may want to invoke the filibuster for Trump’s next nominee and they naively think the Republicans won’t go nuclear in the future. Honestly, you just can’t make this sh$t up.
I recently joined my local Democratic Party because it is time to start rebuilding from the ground up. I am disgusted by our current party leadership.
Actually, McConnell is threatening to destroy the filibuster so they may cut a deal that they won’t oppose Gorsuck if the filibuster stays. But I trust McConnell as far as I can throw Putin.
American politics makes my head spin with complications so I’m not really understanding this. Does this mean that the Dem’s won’t oppose the appointment but he will never serve because they will filibuster him and keep him out that way?
Yes, I said something similar above. The little I’ve heard makes it sounds idk they are leaning that way and I really hope they reconsider this. Nina Totenberg of NPR, who to me seems like one of the most incredibly well versed on the SCOTUS of our journalists, even seems resigned to his confirmation.
Why is that dessicated chicken shit David Duke mispelling Obama as Obongo? Did the education system fail him or is that supposed to be an insult that just flew over my head.
This guy is only 49 and now I am seething mad at Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She should have stepped down during Obamas term, now you can bet Bannon has a RBG death watch going and a spritely 45 year old already lined up to replace her. With our luck Trumps SCOTUS appointees will outlive us all.
It’s likening Obama to a monkey because he’s a racist fuckwad
That is very much a racist insult.
Definitely an insult.
How has this racist still got a twitter account? Twitter has rules, which includes those against abusive behaviour
twitter.com/rules
I’ve just reported him – if anyone else has an account, please do the same.
Another nasty is @jauthor: she spends all day r-t’ing alt right wing propaganda and is obviously a bigot, but I can’t see anything clearly racist that she’s posted, though she’s spreading hateful, islamaphobic nonsense.
Twitter is selective and full of it
Nicole, I know it is, but when someone is making obvious racist terms I can at least try.
I report every one of Trump’s tweets. I encourage all to do the same.
There are a few accounts like that. One I always see is this Amy Mek, who I don’t think is real, I think they stole a woman’s picture. There are also Linda Shuler PhD, BlacksForTrump, some ChristieC lady etc who I’m not sure are even real, but their accounts are all the same type.
Oh and James Woods. Seriously James Woods is your super racist uncle who no one wants to invite to Thanksgiving. He is drunk uncle.
If RBG had stepped down last year, Trump would be filling two seats this month
It was reported thats Obamas aministration began to let her know it was time to let go as soon as he won his second term. They wanted to replace her during his honey moon period when it would have been easier to pick someone similar to her and even the editorials at the time pointed out that the longer she waited the more centrist his pick would have to be. Had she stepped down, he could have nominated someone with 50 years ahead of them, giving us another liberal for two more generations. But she refused to see this bigger picture. The only way I will ever forgive her if she defies expectations and lives at least another 4 years.
The “rose ceremony.” This was a tv ratings grab and it humiliated both potential picks for SCROTUS (spelling deliberate).
It’s Genghis Con at his finest. Pfft
Such a f^cking travesty.
Last night, before the winner of the fascist apprentice was announced, Ted Cruz said the Democrats are engaged in “an unprecedented level of obstruction” right now. The selective memory is absolutely astounding. I guess the last 8 years just didn’t happen, huh? I’m sure they’d rather just pretend we never had a progressive black president anyway.
I find Cruz’s statement particularly egregious as he was one of the most vocal members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to giving Garland even a hearing, never mind a committee or a floor vote.
Yeah, Ted can go f^ck himself.
This coming from a man who read “Green Eggs and Ham” on the Senate floor. The lack of insight and/or memory is disgusting.
I don’t think it’s lack of memory or insight. I think they feel emboldened by Trump’s brave new world where you can straight up tell lies and 30% of the population believes you.
And didn’t understand the meaning of Green Eggs & Ham.
He also applied for the ACA and didn’t understand why he was denied (he already had coverage)
Shambles, ITA that’s what’s happening. Johnny Isakson (R- GA) was whingeing that the Dems’ boycott of the cabinet vote on Price is “partisan politics.” O RLY???? I just had to tweet at him in response to that. My sentiments were: “Dear Senator Isakson: two words for you on partisan politics: MERRICK GARLAND. Thoughts on that? 😂”
They know EXACTLY what they’re doing, and they’re doing it because they can. These cretins need to be voted out ASAP.
Also, if we are lucky enough to see Dump impeached, does anyone know if Bannon will go down with him?
Ted Cruz, who said we could get by with only 8 Supreme Court justices?
I honestly don’t know how these people can sleep at night. How can they be such hypocrites?
If you don’t have a conscience, you don’t suffer.
Unfortunately this is not new Republicans has always lied creatively or exaggerated and kept moving whether or not the press held their feet to the fires. They are all lawyers with no conscience. Pull up any interview from the last 20 years. Remember welfare queens? But you know Hillary Clinton is the biggest liar who ever lived (obvious sarcasm)!!!!
Apparently, Senate republicans just up and decided to change the rules this morning. As of yesterday, senate deomcrats have been boycotting the hearings of Trump’s cabinet picks, beacause it’s required that at least 1 democrat be present for the vote. This morning, the senate repubs voted to suspend the committee rules to go ahead and advance Mnuchin and Price’s confirmations to the full senate. Here we go, you guys.
It’s completely dysfunctional. There are no more rules.
I read that – so scary. The republicans are out of control with the Dems playing right into their hands – they are only following the lead of the dear leader who is ignoring the rules himself and isn’t being challenged.
I pray that the Dems can fight back and fight back soon before they are outright banned, being branded a terrorist party. Not the first time its happened – Bannon seems determined to follow the 3rd riech’s approach. We know whats coming.
JFC. I don’t know if I can take anymore of this. It’s just such an ASTOUNDING abuse of power.
Can I share your comment on FB, Shambles?
Fuuuuuuck. Once again, Dems playing checkers while Repubs playing chess. Sigh.
Feel free to share, Kitten.
Yeah. This is nutballs. I can’t do anything but laugh at this point.
Chris Christie went on MSNBC, and they asked him to talk about what went wrong in the rollout of the Muslim ban. He goes, “First of all let’s talk about what went right.” So all those human rights violations that happened in airports across the country? Hold that thought.
THEN, this spineless, brown-nosed lump says, “This is MUCH better than what President Trump promised during the campaign. During the campaign, he proposed a Muslim ban. That’s not what this is.”
So that’s the argument here. We should be thankful that they’re not technically calling it a Muslim ban. YAY, SUCCESS.
I just can’t do anything but laugh.
Two old white men who want to tell women what to do with their bodies. There is something Talibanish about such men.
That’s why the right-wing Christian movement is called the American Taliban.
I think everyone should put Democratic lawmakers on notice. I’ve already contacted my reps regarding this Supreme Court pick and informed them that if they don’t filibuster and fight this nominee, I’ll do everything in my power to see that they are not reelected. It’s time Democratic lawmakers are put on blast and made to worry about being “primaried” by their base.
I’m not American so even though I keep an eye on what’s happening, I don’t always get the full picture. But, it seems to me that the Democrats are doing nothing. And I don’t understand why. They should be making hay right now. Trump has the lowest approval ratings of all time, people hate him so much they are protesting everything they do. Why are the Democrats not leading the charge against them?
@Ninks, in the past 12 days, Boston has had 4 major protests, one of which – at Logan airport- was spontaneous. Our two democratic Senators missed the first but attended the Woman’s march, the spontaneous airport protest, and the protest in support of our Muslim community. So, no, they’re not sitting back. They don’t have enough votes to do anything in Congress unless they can convince Republicans to turn against McConnell and Ryan.
@Lightpurple is right, the dems in the House and Senate can do virtually nothing to stop this, and even when they try the Republicans change the procedural rules and just do an end-run around them.
For the moment, I think the best hope lies with the blue-state governors and legislators doing what they can to prevent the more horrific stuff from being enforced in their states, or taking steps to replace on a state level what the federal gov’t is trying to strip away. We’ve already seen some of that surrounding the immigrant ban.
My sister shared this with e, and I think this is something everyone needs to see (from Robert Reich), and listen to: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LDNnPgAVpJY&feature=youtu.be
Trump’s presidency:
“Spotted on the briefing room podium. Was passed to @PressSec Sean Spicer during the briefing.” https://twitter.com/AlliemalCNN/status/826537573971525633
“During @PressSec briefing he was passed long notes: big letters written w/ red Sharpie. Journos speculate they’re from a watching Trump. 1/2” https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/826533124708397056
“One journo at @PressSec briefing says he could see & one of the notes for Spicer written in red Sharpie began: “It was Obama’s fault.” 2/2″ https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/826533430389272580
I think Spicer is already working on an exit strategy. It’s an impossible job when Trump is demanding Spicer spew easily provable lies at every briefing. The dude can’t win. He should have never taken the job in the first place, so I have no sympathy. I hope he dreads going to work every day.
At this point, I’m guessing that a lot of people who work at the White House are dreading going to work every day.
I am already weary of the Sean Spicer “hostage video” press conferences.
Spicer defending handcuffing a 5 year old as part of Trump’s EO on immigration is just the end for me. I couldn’t care less about whatever Trumpian doublespeak comes out of Spicer’s squeal hole now and will assume going forward it’s all lies.
@Bleu_moon: I feel no sympathy for SS Spicer having a difficult time AT ALL either
Patiently waiting for the day the GOP is considered a terrorist organisation because I don’t know what this is if it isn’t terrorism..
Thank you! I’ve been saying that for a long time. The GOP are the biggest existential threat to America right now (after Trump, of course). They wouldn’t even allow Obama to pass a budget (thus harming our credit rating), they were willing to let the Supreme Court essentially die out if Hilary got elected, they are trying to take away healthcare from 30 million Americans (thus causing untold death and misery), they want to eliminate the EPA, destroy our environment, oh, and sell off millions of acres of federal land that belong to THE PEOPLE. They are terrorists. Their objective is to destroy this country by privatizing vital government services and selling off our lands to the highest bidder, all to satisfy their corporate overlords.
And because the mere thought of harming millions seems to bring Paul Ryan to orgasm.
Indeed. They are the Christian Corporate Taliban. Have been destroying our democratic republic since Reagan.
Oh I like that. From here on out, I’m calling these fuckers the CCT. They clearly are no longer “the grand old party.”
Amen.
Absolutely.
Ugh…. I am so afraid for Roe v Wade.
And fu– you to anyone who is both anti birth control and anti abortion. You don’t like abortion? Let women plan their pregnancies.
Also on the birth control tip: I’m 37, and was born with Turner Syndrome– I need birth control for the hormones. Prior to the ACA, I was paying sometimes close to 500$ for a month’s supply (I have to use a specific type of BC which isn’t generic). That was with insurance. Now it’s 15$. Women need affordable BC. I’m so depressed that SCOTUS is likely gonna cease protecting women’s health.
That’s crazy, Rapunzel! If you haven’t already, I urge you to contact your Rep and Senators, if they’re Democrats. This is the type of story they like to reference when arguing for keeping the ACA. Please don’t give up.
I’m still furious that the republicans got away with their refusal to hold hearings for Garland. And their faux outrage now over the Dems’ decision to boycott some of Trump’s cabinet picks and possibly filibuster Gorsuch’s nomination is SO AMUSING to me! These hypocrites don’t have a leg to stand on! When they thought Hilary was going to get elected, they threatened to never allow her to nominate a replacement for Scalia! So I hope the Dems filibuster every single SCOTUS nomination that’s not Garland! They need to grow a spine and start fighting fire with fire.
Me, too. Except I don’t find their hypocrisy and faux outrage as amusing as I find it rage-inducing. Sigh.
Oh I don’t find it amusing either, that’s why that part is in caps – to signify my internal screaming 🙁
May we just pause for a moment of silence for the passing of Kelly “The Sherpa” Ayotte’s last shredded cell of dignity and self-respect.
Is this the problem? These men that are anti-birth control, are their ladies withholding the treats to avoid pregnancy? It’s a downward spiral, chaps.
Ok what about those of us who just don’t want or like children and have planned that out responsibly since we were teens? Do they just want us to pop out kids anyways? I am 34 yrs old and have been on birth control since I was 16 because I know they are not for me. Its a chore just trying to deal with family members’ kids, much less a lifetime dealing with my own. I guess in old white repuglicans’ opinion women like me should die alone or all become lesbians. Or maybe they just don’t want to pay for it, but then why is Viagra covered??? …I’ve never felt so depressed. These past 2 weeks have been hell.
Oh no, Repubs don’t want you to be a lesbian. If you’re not married with kids, you need to be a spinster who takes care of your aging parents (see: Jana Duggar).
What I want to know is who marries these assholes?
Lady assholes. KellyAnne Conway and her ilk.
So many women who want to be controlled and told what to do their entire married life, and they’re okay with it! WTH is wrong with them? I’d say upbringing, but they’re scattered across the country. Submissive, servile Michelle Duggars everywhere.
I’m not too hype about a conservative replacing a conservative…although, I’m sad it wasn’t Hardiman who was a bit more moderate and exposed to more viewpoints — he married into a prominent Democratic family. Although, based on the other names on that list, it could’ve been far, far worse than Gorsuch.
Question from a Canadian, baffled/horrified by what’s going on south of us. Some of you must know Trump voters. What’s the deal with the birth control thing? Do the ‘deplorables’ just not use it at all? Or do they just not connect that they too with lose it/pay more if these guys get their way?
They want women barefoot and pregnant, so they can be controlled. They do not consider us full humans. They want us to play one role in society only–birthers and caretakers. They want to play while we pay. They want no competition for all the other jobs and careers and sports teams. They want to make sure that we can’t make any family without them as the head of it. They want our reproductive health to be compromised, so we are too weak to fight back. They fetishize women with stick bodies and fake breasts. They sexualize the idea of female weakness and attack our little girls. They want us to be as sick and broke as possible. It is the most age old, cross-cultural, disgustingly primal, and absolutely revolting ploy to keep women down.
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. RESIST!
I think most republicans just assume we can all afford it (and hence shouldn’t talk about it) or if we can’t afford it we should abstain or deal with the consequences. Never mind that stats show in other countries that the more open-minded about sex education and affordable BC, the less abortions.
There also seems to be some hardcore anti-BC supporters who literally think the pill and IUD causes miscarriage/abortion or in their mind “murder” (just like the Duggars). I am curious about his guy though. I wikipedia’d him last night and he only has 2 kids which seems like a small number for someone who is vocal about not supporting BC.
But what about the women? I get the Christian Con dudes POV on this, but what about the average “Lady Trump” voter? None of them use birth control? They’re all Duggars? Or is the cognitive dissonance so bad they don’t think it will happen to them?
I think a lot is cognitive dissonance. I know plenty of white republican ladies who have used the pill and IUD and yet still voted (and probably still support) this Agent Orange and his choices. But I think in their mind nothing bad will happen to them. Its that me me me mentality. They think they’re white, Christian and married so they’re safe. They also don’t want to pay for others access and assume they can afford their own needs. The people I truly don’t get are the poor white women who voted for this guy and don’t have the money for BC or things like health insurance and food without social programs like Medicaid and Food Stamps. And these are the same people who seem to oppose abortion, seem to either not afford or forget BC and have kids that they can’t afford without government help. SMH.
A lot of them want it for themselves, but don’t want other people to have it (these are people who can pay for it privately). Similarly, there are stories from people who work in abortion clinics about women who protest there regularly, then, one day, sneak their daughter in for an abortion, and are back to protesting by the next week.
I agree with all of the above and I also think men who don’t have the religious objection don’t think about it that much because birth control is always seen as the woman’s problem. They simply don’t think about it or they don’t prioritize it and they certainly don’t see how it fits in the big picture.
I think the Trump supporters I know don’t think of themselves as racist. I live in NYC so Republicans are the minority here and tend to be moderate. First off I think they have this weird concept of Trump. Like he’s the cartoon stereotype of a rich guy ala Daddy Warbucks and they like the idea of being associated with him. He’s a con man but the point is he cons people. If they don’t see through the act all of his wealth, the fact that he had a TV show etc impresses them.
Also FWIW every Republican I’ve ever met will say something like I don’t agree with the social issues. I think most of them just don’t care about issues that don’t affect them personally until and unless it somehow does start hitting them on a personal level they simply see all social issues as secondary to pocketbook issues. Also right wing media is just so full of it. And moderate Republicans that get exposed to it even nominally get the worst kind of misinformation.
They use birth control but they stupidly believed the lies of Limbaugh & O’Reilly, which the party picked up and spread that the ACA was about promiscuous, lazy liberal women wanting them to pay for their birth control. They refuse to learn truth. The Hobby Lobby case, for which Gorsuck wrote the lower court opinion, involved an employer excluding certain types of birth control from the formulary of the group health insurance plan it offered, but did not pay for, to its employees, who paid the full premiums. These women don’t get the idea that if their employers pulled this stunt, they could lose coverage too. They think it’s a welfare thing; it isn’t.
Cognitive dissonance. Also, they believe there are evil, liberal women out there using abortion as birth control. As in, having multiple abortions like Pennsatucky from Orange is the New Black. They also think these women are lazy, on welfare, leeching off the government, doing drugs etc. Oh and they also think the majority of them have darker skin than they do.
I have seen a lot of Trumpettes say “those women need to keep their legs shut.” Ummm what?
Has anyone seen the video of the woman “ranting” in her 12 passenger van about the Women’s March and how those aren’t real women, those are vulgar baby murderers and the real women’s march was the March for Life? She has a van like that because she has ten kids and actually brings her children to protest in front of Planned Parenthood with signs saying Murder happens here.
Is it some super religious thing I am not getting? Because I do not understand this at all. I’m a mother who is super pro choice and feminist. Is it religion driving this?
Some of these people don’t even seem to realize how anti-birth control- policies are counterproductive to their anti-abortion stances.
This SCOTUS pick is also anti right to die. It’s not only women who’ll lose rights (and, believe me, bigly, the focus of this pick is to overturn Roe v Wade), but also the terminally ill.
And yet these right to life, pro-life aka anti abortion hypocrites love the death penalty, yet hate that someone with terminal brain cancer can make their own decision when its the right time. Go figure.
Don’t forget that the right loves their GUNS!
When Pol Pot-belly starts a civil war (2.0), the guns and ammo will come out of the lockboxes. I’m so glad I love in CA, where there are 40 million people and many (despite appearances) gun owners.
rose ceremony? is this for real the title?
is he picking SCOTUS judges like he picks miss beauties?
He brought two finalists to Washington and then dissed one a la The Bachelor. A real d!ck move. Why put anyone through that? Simply for the theatrics of it and to distract from the Muslim ban debacle. He’s an @ss.
he sure knows how to make friends this guy. and is he supersquinty now?
America needs a huge paper bag to put over its head the next 4 years.
They should have declined to participate. Absolutely disgusting.
To be fair, from what I’ve read the other guy knew he wasn’t getting it but pretended he was headed to Washington so Trump could keep up the drama. In fact the dude just went two hours out of town and got a hotel or something. That could be even more disgusting than dragging him all the way in. TRUMP NEEDS SCOTUS RATINGS! HOW CAN WE DRAW THIS OUT AND THEN HE’LL TELL ONE OF THEM, “YOU’RE FIRED!”
He thinks this is a reality show. This ain’t the Apprentice, Dump!!
He tweeted something like… Big Announcement at 8 PM, Watch!!
People trolled him hard for making this into a god damned reality show.
This is more like American Horror Story.
The completely unnecessary theatrics by Orange Apocalypse really drive home the fact that he is not living in the same reality as the rest of the world. He’s truly mentally ill.
His SCOTUS pick is as disturbing as expected. A white male to dictate to everyone else how they need to live. Rule #1: White males don’t have to share or care as white Jesus himself intended. Nice. This is not a thing that can be undone once he’s confirmed. I’m at a loss…
Trump has debts to pay to the Christian Right who, en masse apparently, ditched Jesus’ values to line up behind the most distinctly un-Christian candidate ever. And in keeping with the spirit of this site, Gorsuch looks like he’s lived a rotten 49 years. He looks 69.
I thought he was at least mid-50s. It’s not the gray hair, but the worn-weathered look.
Yep. This was Trump paying back the social conservatives that abandoned their “values” to get a Scalia junior on the SCOTUS. I’m certain Trump personally does not give a crap about strict constructionist judges. To me his Muslim Ban was a similar tactic. It won’t do crap to keep us safer from terrorists (I’d argue it will do the exact opposite!) but it thrills his hardcore nativist supporters and the dummies that think it will.
He is consolidating his support. He wants to keep them on his side against the resistance.
The most affordable birth control is for the guy to keep it in his pants. How much do they like that? Birth control should be affordable and available
The one comforting thing is that he’d be replacing Scalia so at the end of the day it wouldn’t change much. I still think as a matter of principle the Democrats in the Senate need to be tough and block/filibuster this but we got gay marriage with Scalia on the court. It’s the next person who leaves that I’m worried about.
Apparently, there is a plan in the works to deport immigrants who have been living in the USA for awhile and use public assistance. Also, to kick them out of jobs and give those jobs to “real” Americans. This would ultimately end up in the SCOTUS.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-circulates-more-draft-immigration-restrictions-focusing-on-protecting-us-jobs/2017/01/31/38529236-e741-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?utm_term=.33e8a97c0887
Many of the jobs that immigrants perform are those that “real” Americans won’t do. So they will be shooting themselves in the foot.
To borrow the stereotypes of what new immigrants do: no food, no lawn care, no construction, no roadwork, no nannies…
@whoarethesepeople: no wives for Trump
The challenge here is, the guy is replacing Scalia, a reliable conservative. If the Dems fight this tooth and nail, they GOP congress may pass a rule saying that only a majority and not a supermajority (2/3) vote is needed.
Then, when Ginsburg (83) goes, the GOP can put in a real creep. I don’t think this is the time to filibuster- we have no cards in the hand right now and there’s too much to lose.
I feel the same. Also Trump could have picked a much more extreme choice.
I think Bannon is rubbing his hands together hoping for a liberal circular firing squad.
Kennedy is the one in play here–he’s considering retirement, according to the NYT.
Can I just type a frustrated scream noise?
Aaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!
Another question from a Canadian. Is it just me, or are the Dems always being outplayed here? Do they just refuse to get in the muck and want to stay clean and pious, or are they enablers because they’re too chicken to nut up and do something (ANYTHING) to be a real force of opposition? Because to me, it always seems like they are standing around with their proverbial d*ck in their hand while the Repubs run corrupt circles around them.
There’s more GOP’s than Dems, Layla. Unless one of them breaks ranks, there’s little chance of things going the Dem way. Moderates are rare and even rarer is a GOP that breaks ranks.
The Repubs can do whatever they want. The secondary party in the US has never been termed “the opposition” and it doesn’t see itself that way. In the past, party members broke ranks to do what they thought was right/right for their state/district as well, it was more mixed up. Over time, the party lines have gotten drawn much harder and Republicans, being more authoritarian by nature, are rigidly disciplined whereas the Democrats are not. The Republicans have out -manuevered the Democrats at nearly every turn, the Russian hacking and more pulled the left-wing of the Democrats away from the center, and the Democrats in charge have been too weak and fractured to stand up. They need a good house cleaning – if they get the chance. They don’t seem to grasp that this is an emergency…they are proceeding with the election of the DNC head leisurely and on the original schedule…and Pelosi should have been replaced last year.
Didn’t Canada just have 7 or 8 years of conservative rule? An anti-climate change guy? The US isn’t so different. We have progressives years, then backlash (and laziness by voters)and we get people like Bush and now Trump. I’m hoping this is the dying gasps of an old white demographic and everyone who sat on their butts on voting day (or said there was no difference between Clinton and Trump) now understands the havoc that is being wreaked by the GOP and how it will take us years to recover. Hopefully we will find our Trudeau in 2020. Wish Obama could run again.
Yes, we did have a Conservative government, but our conservatives are left of the Dems on your spectrum. Oy vey, I feel for you guys.
The big news over here this morning is that your latest polls show more Americans support the Muslim ban than oppose it.
Perhaps this really IS what America wants then? Perhaps Trump is right when he says he has a mandate?
@layla beans-yes, I know conservatives in other western countries are far more liberal than our increasingly nutty GOP. I’ve even read that Marine La Pen is pro choice, pro national health. That would get you drawn and quartered in today’s GOP. Sometimes I think the US is just to big and contains too many wildly different people. California, with the world’s 6th largest economy, has to abide by decisions made by senators from Alabama and Utah, places that are tiny and that we Californians not have much in common with. I’m getting more pro #calexit these days. Good news is that country getting increasingly diverse and will be 50% non white in next 20-30 years.
They don’t have enough numbers. They aren’t being silent; they’re just aren’t enough of them
The horrible thought that just occurred to me, is that the suits in the Repub party have enough resources to dig up and expose some really nasty dirt on the Dems (true or not) – how else would you get them to back down?
To everyone who feels like they aren’t doing enough right now as boots on the ground: Eventually the front lines are going to flag. It’s all so exhausting. It’s hard to keep up. We’ll all need people who are now resting, reading, coping and taking care of themselves to be fresh and ready in the days that come. So, do what you need to do and step in when you are up to it, because other people will need to step back for some respite. It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon.
Absolutely – it sounds like the protests are having some effect. Supposedly, they were going to issue an executive order this week regarding LGBTQ, but held off because of all the protests over immigration. Also, Trump was supposed to visit Harley Davidso in Milwaukee this week, but they told him not to come because they were expecting protests.
http://mindy-fischer-writer.com/2017/01/trump-scheduled-trip-cancelled-fears-protests/
The protests seem to be having an effect, but we will have to keep it up for the duration.
There are calls for a general strike Feb 17, before President’s Day weekend. Just FYI. This is one of the only things that could really start to have an impact.
There is supposed to be a cyber security EO this week too but things got moved around because he moved up the Supremes pick. I don’t think Trump, Bannon or Ryan care about the protests. Bannon is just going to do what he wants and Ryan has unplugged his fax machines.
Gorsuch sounds like a strange guy. Someone posted his picture from the Columbia University yearbook on twitter and he has chosen a quotation to appear next to his name: “The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” – Henry Kissinger. What kind of person chooses a quote like that for their yearbook quote? What sort of weird preoccupations does this guy have?
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/826804880643915781/photo/1
Ugh. I didn’t see that about him. Sounds like a guy right up Pres Bannon’s alley. Ironic how a strict constructionist of the Constitution would say something like that – did he start loving the Constitution in law school?
That’s crazy…but my first instinct now is to fact check so that we don’t sink to the level of the fake news machine. It could be a hoax.
Esmom, fact check away. Here is another source.
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/826645604159852548
Both sources include pictures – not sure why anyone would go to so much trouble to fake something so random.
Ok, I believe you. Although people have gone to a lot of trouble to fake seemingly random things. I wasn’t trying to pick on you but all this fake news makes me wary of everything. The right seems to be more guilty but the left isn’t above it either.
In fact, I had a very depressing conversation with a fairly new co-worker this week. Turns out she voted for Trump. She said she hates “all” the media but that the right at least presents the facts, albeit somewhat twisted sometimes, and that the left just lies. I didn’t know how to even respond to that and was thankful when our boss walked in and we could drop the topic.
I think that a couple of days ago someone posted an article here explaining how that is one of the purposes of all of their lies – to leave us not knowing what to believe and suspicious of everything.
ps Esmom, meant to add that you do have a point. The information was coming from twitter reports – it’s not like it is coming from the New York Times. 🙂
The time to filibuster is not right now. The Dems can’t stop this guy from being confirmed. It’s better they just let him through, then when another position opens up, they can fight tooth and nail (hopefully with a majority after the 2018 primaries). Gorsuch actually clerked under Kennedy, and while I’m not 100% thrilled with him, he was endorsed by Obama’s administration. He’s not going to overturn Roe vs. Wade, which is more important to me. He actually is qualified, and his appointment will put the court back to status quo before Scalia passed away. The Dems really need to be careful. 10 Dem seats are up in 2018 in states that voted for Trump. The GOP can use any type of filibuster against this pick to win those seats. Personally, I think they should just have a tough hearing, but just confirm him. Save the nuclear option for when one of the liberal justices go. Also, McConnell will never get rid of the filibuster because then the Republicans can’t use it in the future.
This is the most thoughtful comment on here IMO.
Thanks for that post, I’m so confused about American politics right now, all I’m seeing is one sh!t storm after another and this now makes more sense, thanks for that.
Yeah, I’m not going to put a lot into this. More important to get Bannon and/or Trump out. That dynamic duo has got to go.
Finally a non hysterical post on here. By the way, I’ve read that Justice Kennedy has been waiting to see how President Trump would handle this process and may be wanting to step down. Add to the fact the RBG isn’t the poster child for health, the Dems may not want to blow their load on this nomination!
That’s one way of looking at it, but I totally disagree. The very idea that this is Trump’s seat to fill in any way is ludicrous, and the Dems need to come out strongly in opposition to Gorsuch exactly for that reason. It does not matter who this guy is or what he believes, he is not taking SCALIA’s seat, he is taking MERRICK GARLAND’s. It makes me crazy when people say, oh, well, it’s just Scalia’s seat, because it is NOT. That is a stolen seat, stolen by Mitch McConnell and the senate Republicans in an assault on our constitution and our whole system of checks and balances for the three branches of government, which is one of the cornerstones of our democracy. A democracy, by the way, which is already under full-on assault by one Donald J. Trump and his executive branch. If the Dems give in on this, they are essentially endorsing what is actually a completely unconstitutional move by the Senate Republicans and they simply cannot do that for the absolutely horrible precedent it sets. Additionally, the idea that they should “save” the filibuster for down the road and compromise also doesn’t hold a lot of water, because it implies that the Dems have any room for error with their own base and they just simply do not. Whether they invoke it now or later is completely a moot point, if Republicans are willing to go nuclear with Gorsuch, they will most certainly do it when it matters more to them, like when they would gain Kennedy or Ginsberg (stay safe, Ruth, please!)’s seat and move the court far enough right that it can’t swing back for generations. The filibuster of supreme nominees is going to fall one way or the other, so they are not saving anything. And at least if they do it now they are doing what their constituents are BEGGING them to do, which is fight, fight, fight, as hard as the massive crowds of protesters are literally fighting every weekend. It’s not red state dems who are in danger here, it’s blue state ones. With the way his presidency is going, Donald Trump is on track to be astoundingly unpopular by 2018 (if he makes it that far), so in red states not being associated with him will turn out to be a plus. If for some reason he turns it around and suddenly becomes a guy everyone likes (ha!), people’s memories for specific votes are mostly very short. It will be hard to hang a SCOTUS filibuster from two years ago on a red state Dem and if the red states are leaning more red by that time they will have much bigger problems anyway. But in blue states, people will remember that you didn’t stand up and fight beside them when they endlessly marched and protested and called and begged Senate Dems to do something because this is a movement and is therefore larger than any one vote. If Dems are not looking out for the interests of a rising progressive left and we are already the minority party anyway, we have absolutely no reason not to replace you too. Primary challenge, another Dem nominee, more progressive, in an already blue state, you are GONE. This is the exact same theory that gave rise to the Tea Party and it will do the same on the left. So, no, the Dems should not just give in and shrug their shoulders or save their fight for another, hypothetical day down the line. The time is NOW.
Look, I understand being angry with the Republicans, but the Dems literally have no power right now. Their focus needs to be on obstructing worse legislature and winning back the House and Senate in 2018. This is not the hill to die on. Focus your anger on getting swing districts back in the blue and mobilizing people to vote in 2018. Take a look at this website: https://swingleft.org/ Stay angry, but also don’t burn yourself out (there is such a thing as protest burnout). Pick and choose your battles. This is not one.
But @nuggetbrain, if the Dems treat this like any other SC seat vacancy, when it is really a stolen seat, doesn’t that just make stealing seats legit? I agree that there are other hills to die on, but how much more do we let them get away with?
@adastraperaspera again, the Dems can’t block his confirmation anyway. If they go the nuclear option route, they can’t use it when a liberal justice bites the bullet. I understand the anger over Garland not being confirmed, but you have to accept this loss. The Dems have to be very careful with how they proceed because any misstep will be used against them in the 2018 primaries.
I think it’s a very good idea to focus on 2018. We need to get more Democratic congressmen/women and Democratic governors. Absolutely get your boots on the ground and start backing those Dem candidates, really push the youth vote ( I don’t think they vote in large numbers during midterms), volunteering for campaigns, helping register voters etc.
Lolo- they absolutely fought dirty and unfairly. I understand the dems cannot be supper passive because McConnel and Ryan will never, ever play fair.
I’m still educating myself on his judicial record and philosophy, but I’m inclined to agree with you, nuggetbrain. On the one hand, he’s anti-regulation/anti-govt. “overreach” and that will favor corporations and cause a lot of problems for progressives. But someone on NPR argued it can cut both ways, in that he is specifically unlikely to support Trump WH executive orders (good!). I’m concerned about his social conservatism and his closeness with “swing” justice Kennedy (could push him more to the conservative side) but, honestly, I do think it could have been worse. As much as I wanted Merrick Garland to have the seat, Dems could not figure out a successful strategy there and his nomination has expired. I could be wrong, but my sense is that Gorsuch is not an ideologue in the manner of Scalia–the birth control case seems to have been in his view a matter of govt. regulation rather than morality. He is Episcopalian, and the Episcopal Church is neutral on birth control (states family decision in consultation with physician). He is a respected jurist who is well respected for his integrity and close reading of the law. I’m no fan of “originalists,” but he might not be too terrible. At any rate, he’s very well qualified and I agree it will only incite the Repub base if we “obstruct” him. I’m well aware of the irony of sayjng this (I’m angry too, Lolo). But I do think we should save the fight for when/if a second seat opens up.
The law does not bestow religious rights on corporations.
I agree, but doesn’t that depend on how one defines separation of church and state? Gorsuch seems to view govt. interference with a private corporation board’s religious views as improper. I assume that would work the other way as well (if the board wanted to give out free condoms and ultra-religious employees didn’t like it). Legally, I want women to have whatever birth control they want–I’m simply trying to figure out how to argue it effectively in a case like this.
I guess my point is, it’s not much of a fight, really at any time. Dems filibuster, republicans go nuclear and the nominee gets through. Saving that for the next nominee, who it is generally agreed will be “worse,” literally changes nothing about that sequence of events. So why do it? What exactly are they preserving? The right to toothlessly register their objection just…later? Sounds good! Definitely don’t do it now that would just be ridiculous!
Your response is definitely measured and sensible, and very classic Dem strategy, being the grownup in the room, so I get it, don’t get me wrong. And I get how mine can seem angry and rash in comparison. But measured and sensible has left the Dems pretty flat-footed and reliably losing for a while now, and I just think that when your formula not only lands you on the complete outskirts of any kind of power (again), but also in this specific instance helps elect a racist, sexist, xenophobic, amoral, apathetic, likely criminal, aspiring autocrat who thinks WWIII sounds mighty profitable, then maybe your strategy isn’t necessarily working and maybe think about changing it? Do dems really think an electorate that it turns out is actually pretty comfortable with a pussy grabber-in-chief and can’t wait for the next exciting installment of President Trump’s traveling sideshow is really going to blink twice at an unsuccessful filibuster? Seriously?
Lolo, I completely agree, just don’t know what the right answer is. These days I worry a lot about playing into their malevolent little hands though.
We need to stay involved, stay mad and keep in their faces, but MOST IMPORTANTLY people need to vote in 2018. We need to take back some of these ex- blue states (Fla, Pa, Michigan and Wisconsin) that have Repub governors. Voter suppression laws were one of the reasons we lost the last election and we need democratic governors in these places. Census will be done in 2020 and states get new congressional districts and lines drawn. Right now, 30 states have Repub governors. That must change if we are to get back congress and White House.
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Just wanted to add in a comment sort of related to this topic:
There is a theory floating around the Emperor Zero and his decreasing inner circle are staging a coup from the inside. In the words of another person, the Muslim Ban was a trial balloon to see how and where a continuing coup could be staged of further organized.
Think about Bannon. Think about Yates being fired. Think about senior officials being let go. Sean Spicer said “get on board or get out” to political members during his presser. KellyAnne and alternative facts, thd weakening of the press as “fake news.” Moving the SCROTUS nom up to cover up discussion of the Ban.
Go back now and read through all the Melarky this admin has been saying and doing.
Next up is the Reichstag Fire event to completely confuse/distract from what’s really going in here: complete consolidation of power into a full-blown dictatorship.
Yup, this is what I think is happening too. Yesterday, I read a former Republican congressman’s response to a question asking what Republicans think about Trump. Basically, he said they all think he’s crazy, but they’re using him for now to push forward their agenda. As soon as he stops playing ball, or as soon as he does something really crazy that even a majority of Americans cannot overlook, they will move to impeach him.
The problem is that the Republican leadership doesn’t seem to understand what’s going on. They think they’re dealing with an idiot (Trump), when they are actually dealing with Bannon (who is a Leninist and is on the record saying his goal is to “destroy the state). They are dealing with someone who has already defied a court order, and who will inevitably go after Congress as soon as *they* stop playing ball with *him.* They are dealing with a dictator, someone who wants to destroy our entire government. By the time they move to impeach him, it will be too late.
The Republicans are FOOLS!!! Just like the German politicians who thought they could use Hitler. Read this if you like to see how quickly any oposition in Germany 1933 was destroyed. spoiler: it took only 5 months! quote: “Hitler only had to puff — and the edifice of German politics collapsed like a house of cards”: http://www.zeit.de/wissen/geschichte/2017-02/adolf-hitler-chancellor-appointment-anniversary
I agree. The Republicans are Bannon stooges. One or the other of these will end up with heads on a pike, for sure.
Of course he did..bleh. 😡
That title is EVERYTHING, TY for making me laugh.
This is a fun read if you need a breather.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/06/melanias-diary-1-21-2017
I’m in such a fury reading all this, that I’m going to hold it down to one single thought: David Duke is an unimaginable pig. The revolting evil of this sub-human creature…..my head spins. He actually believes he’s a Christian.
Reasonable, good and decent people must do everything possible to THROW THE BUMS OUT.
It goes hand in hand with his Russian friends point of view: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/27/russian-parliament-decrimiinalizes-domestic-violence/97129912/&ved=0ahUKEwjznYqexu_RAhVMVhoKHY1jAwsQFggpMAI&usg=AFQjCNE-jbE2ZlGV3F4LLXRi8_AcBaizYA&sig2=axyE1R9dUcSqmp-hxSNORA
It’s birth control now. Soon it will be open season on every women rights.
As much as I’m completely on board with this site’s ongoing and intelligent and really welcome toxic orange coverage, is there any way that you can continue to do it without pics of him?
Because pics of him actually make me feel physically sick and I’ve never experienced that with anyone ever before.
Also, a pic of someone who really riles him on every post would very likely over time (5 minutes at best, and you know he’s reading) raise his blood pressure to the degree that he’ll very likely collapse and die.
I love this idea @Guesto! I hope Celebitchy listens because it could end up being pretty fun and give us a much needed laugh during this terrible time.
I think even a cartoon would be better than the photo image, which plays into authoritarian iconography that deflates opposition.
One of my friends constantly tweets to him pictures of his own wide ass.
I think people on msm and sms should start consistently calling him fake and a hack, a puppet with SB hand up his @ss. Dismiss his tweets and sound bites by insisting on getting “president” SBs statements. Let everyone laugh at him when he speaks and seek out the other one. How long do you think his ego would let that keep happening before he turns on his Rasputin? Pit crazy against crazy.
I hate to say it, but that might actually be effective.
FYI Obama voted for this guy in 2006 as did Schumer. Also – studied the hobby lobby case while getting my PHD in Political Science and he is not against birth control. He ruled in favor of separation of church and state and the right for a private organization to determine which benefits to give employers in exchange for their work based upon the religious freedoms of a corporation. All in all this is good. The government should not be able to mandate what a private organization does. He is a textualist.
Do you think that maybe Trump the mob boss has vetted him and found something in his life with which to extort him when the time is right and he wants a certain decision on a case? I really doubt that Trump cares about his qualifications. Authoritarians look for people to have things about them that allow them to be controlled.
Those Senate votes occurred 11 years ago. He has developed a longer record of decisions since then.
Corporations do not have religion. Hobby Lobby did not pay for the insurance; it only offered a group plan (many employers do this because it enables employees to purchase at a group rate that is lower than individual rates) and the employees paid the full premiums. Hobby Lobby was forcing its religious beliefs on its employees and determining what health care they could access through the plans The EMPLOYEES purchased. Ginsburg’s descent goes into quite a bit of detail about how doing so would prevent many women, like those who suffer endometriosis or ovarian cysts, from accessing medically necessary health care.
BTW, my religion says the death penalty is wrong and to support it, which I am forced to do each time my federal tax dollars pay to execute someone, is a mortal sin. Gorsuck is just fine with violating my religious freedom and sending me to Hell.
Kaiser-don’t normally agree with a lot of your opinions-but I must say, you are killing it with the comrade tangerine twittler commentary-I look forward to reading your insight every day-it’s giving me hope(as well as amusement, and btw, that is a big friggin talent to be witty enough to pull off) I admire you all for taking such a strong stand, -please keep up the good work, much appreciated-thanks
@ The Original T.C. – yes, this is all a distraction. Not to say the Muslim ban isn’t important, but while we are all focusing on it, The Repulicons are gearing up to give away millions of acres of Bureau of Land Management Land, destroying clean water and air protections, gutting net neutrality, defunding Planned Parenthood, etc, etc. This is their tactic, distracting us, while they do their dirty work of giving all their rich crony friends like Koch brothers everything they want. We really have to pay more attention to what Congress is trying to ram through instead of just focusing on Trumps executive orders.