> Libs lash out in despair admitting 2.5 decades of total despair. Blame Al Gore for picking Jew Lieberman as VP & losing in 2000.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221213914

-misanthroptimist
That's pretty much Mitch McConnell
22 hrs ago
He stole one from Obama.
He stole one from Biden.
Without those thefts, Republicans would be 4-5 on the Court instead of 6-3.
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Be mad at him instead.

apucelle
If Al Gore had won in 2000, there would be no Roberts Court, no Samuel Alito, no Citizens United,
22 hrs ago
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and no initial erosion of the Voting Rights Act.
If Hillary Clinton had won, there would be no Neil Gorsuch, no Brett Kavanaugh, no Amy Coney Barrett, and no absolute demolition of the Voting Rights Act.
As for the rest who just couldn't bring themselves to vote for Kamala Harris despite what was anticipated by Project 2025 and then came to pass, the heartiest of all "FUQ YOUs" on the general principle that we have a civic and moral duty to reduce harm to the marginalized among us.
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lapucelle
There's nothing "strange and inconsistent" about calling out the folks who help Republicans win.
20 hrs ago
All of us continue to live with the consequences of their actions a quarter of a century later.
It's pretty clear at this point that, for some, Democrats will never be good enough to actually vote for.
Call them out. Shame them. Let them know that they are among those who bear the blame.
Let them know that they need to sit the fuq down and shut the fuq up.
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Fiendish Thingy
Unless one of the Liberals dies or retires, any new appointments won't matter.
20 hrs ago
Clarence and Alito could retire, and Trump could appoint Barron and Melania to take their places, but the MAGA majority would remain 6-3.

Any new appointments to SCOTUS during Trump’s second term won’t make a bit of difference in the long run, as long as enough courageous democrats are elected so the court is expanded in 2029.

That is why court expansion, and killing the filibuster to do so, must be Democrats #1 priority moving forward. (Reminder: Dems can walk and chew gum, so while court expansion must be priority #1, protecting the rights and wellbeing of Americans is the assumed foundation for everything Dems pursue in power).
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SocialDemocrat61
That's short term thinking
19 hrs ago
The Supreme Court is a long term issue and there is no guarantee that it can be expanded in the future. I refuse to make excuses for anyone who didn’t vote for Harris in 24, Clinton in 16, Kerry in 04 and Gore in 2000. They fuqed the country.
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Fiendish Thingy
The mechanism is legislation passed through congress
18 hrs ago
The court has been shrunk/expanded before - from as few as 6 justices to as many as 10, all through congressional legislation.

The likelihood of expansion depends on two factors:
1) the awareness and motivation of the voters to select and elect candidates who support expansion, and
2) the courage of the elected officials to pass the legislation, especially the courage of those in the senate, who will need to kill the filibuster to pass court expansion.

To those who say we shouldn’t expand the court because the republicans will just do the same thing once they regain power, I say:

Democrats must never again govern out of fear of what republicans might do in retaliation.

After all, republicans never govern out of fear of what Democrats might do, do they?

If the court is expanded, and with the filibuster dead, Democrats ram through bill after bill restoring lost rights and repairing the damage of the Trump era, and then govern fearlessly, unhesitatingly and progressively for the benefit of all Americans (well except maybe the billionaires), it will be decades before republicans again have a chance to regain the trifecta of power, if ever.
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Cha
Yeah, isn't it, though.
6 hrs ago
Oh, and Hillary and Kamala told America All this Horror Show was going to happen.. Hillary warned about the Supreme Court, and they both warned about Putin.

I saw so-called "progs" (they call themselves that, but they are not), including Sarandan, post that the sC didn't matter. How stupid and bitter do you have to be?

So heartbreaking that many don't care about Democracy. Only themselves
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leftstreet
Gore shouldn't have run with LIEberman
20 hrs ago
11 Democrats shouldn't have voted to confirm Thomas

4 Democrats shouldn't have voted to confirm Alito

22 Democrats TWENTY TWO shouldn't have voted to confirm Roberts
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lapucelle
Remarkable that folks blame Al Gore and Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
20 hrs ago
but have nothing whatsoever to say about third party voters and whiny, entitled stay-at-homes who consistently cannot bring themselves to vote for a Democrat.
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lees1975
We could have packed that damn court between 2020 and 2022 if Democrats had been bold risk takers instead of
19 hrs ago
the same old attempts at political games. More people interested in protecting their own turf and feathering their own nests instead of going after Trump based on multple indictments. Letting the foot dragging and all of the incompetence of the Justice department go on as if Republicans hadn't turned into Fascists.

Yes, there were risks and dangers. But what would be better, Trump ineligible for the Presidency and in jail because a Supreme Court removed all of the legal obsticals he was using to let Garland dilly dally around, or what we have now?
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biocube
People who want to blame voters, I wonder what your plan is for the next race?
16 hrs ago
Do you want the next candidate to stomp their feet and shout "vote for me you wretched bigot!"

We can't do anything about how the mainstream media is more interested in calling an equal number of fouls on both parties than telling the truth.

We can't do anything about third-party voters, especially in 2024 when Joe Biden gives the green light to let Israel kill many Arab-Americans extended families in Gaza.

We can only control how we fight. We have to campaign like New Deal Democrats. It's time. Ideas like paid family leave, higher wages, mandatory sick leave win in referendums even in deep red states. If that means kicking guys like Reid Hoffman and Mark Cuban out of the tent, then good riddance. I do not care if this stuff is on some party website no one is going to read. Campaign on it and ignore all the pearl clutchers that will call you "socialist". This centrist crap (at least on economics) isn't working.

Or we do the same crap in 2028 and then complain America is too misogynist/racist/homophobic to support our candidate.
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Grim Chieftain
I have never in my life been so miserable for so long
16 hrs ago
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I knew it would be bad if he got back in the White House, but I didn't know it would be this bad. I cried for a full week after the election.

I'm a female baby boomer and I have lived through some very rough and challenging times for this country, but nothing like this. Every day is a new affront to our democracy, a new evisceration of the rule of law.

My heart breaks for what the young people are going to inherit. The fetid orange felon has made the golden years a daily, unending nightmare for those of us who are seniors.

If ever there was a personification of unbridled evil, it's Trump.
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