I will probably give money to the groups you have already mentioned. So I’m not saying doing nothing. I just don’t think there is anything that can change the obvious trajectory we are on. I feel helpless and angry like I’m guessing we all do. I’ve mostly given up. Maybe that makes me a terrible person I’m not sure. I know for certain I don’t want to live here through what comes next though.
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The US isn’t a country I would be willing to die for. Not even close. What that has to do with Ukrainians I’m not sure.
They’re both bad obviously, but it’s kinda wild how much better Schumer has become than Pelosi.
People are working through their feelings and that’s more than reasonable, but the solution to getting what you want is to vote for more and better democrats at the end of the day. Sucks that is really the only option with a chance of success
I don’t. But women shouldn’t have to live with this shit alone.
That seems to be the game plan. Let the republicans do this then hope it carries a presidential election.
It’s heinous, and probably won’t work, regardless. So we can have the worst of all worlds as republicans take control of the majority of states and we sit in it for the next fifty years.
It was a joke. Lighten up, Francis.
What’s the joke?
Is he actually better or is he better at acting the part?
What parlay said.
This plan will likely work, if it is followed meticulously by almost all Dem voters for 30-50 years.
Yeah because Mitch won’t cancel the filibuster (or whomever succeeds him) whenever he needs to.
This notion that the republicans hold this high esteem for the democrats having a filibuster is ridiculous,
So there’s no option with a chance of success is what you’re saying.
Expecting a whole bunch of people to go out and vote on a workday in exchange for things either getting worse or at best staying the same is not a plan.
This political situation ends with the collapse of the empire and not before. Sometimes the hole in the side of the boat is so big that there’s no possible way for it to end but at the bottom of whatever body of water it’s currently ‘floating’ on.
It’s not esteem, it’s fear the Democrats will do all of the things @anon38180840 says they don’t really want to do.
Right, explain the joke to me. What’s funny? I don’t get it!
Actually not a joke, but to be precise, Keed said they would definitely give the person a hearing. To me it’s clear that not providing a hearing is a superior strategy than voting them down after the hearing, so I see them as one in the same. But he’s correct that my statement isn’t totally accurate.
right, so if you’re going to tag me out of the fucking blue into a conversation I have nothing to do with, don’t fucking lie about what I said.
haha funny joke.
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It’s possible, and perhaps more probable, that this leak came from somewhere in the court’s conservative wing to lock in an anti- Roe majority. The Wall Street Journal ’s editorial board published a curious editorial last week on Dobbs where it warned of a pressure campaign to convince Kavanaugh and Barrett not to overturn Roe . The board expressed concern about Roberts’ potential interest in finding a middle ground that would limit Roe while leaving it intact. “If he pulls another justice to his side, he could write the plurality opinion that controls in a 6-3 decision,” the board wrote. “If he can’t, then Justice Thomas would assign the opinion and the vote could be 5-4. Our guess is that Justice Alito would then get the assignment.”
A pretty good guess, as it turns out! “The justices first declare their votes on a case during their private conference after oral argument, but they can change their mind,” the board continued. “That’s what the chief did in the Obamacare case in 2012, much to the dismay of the other conservatives. He may be trying to turn another justice now. We hope he doesn’t succeed—for the good of the Court and the country.” This is technically speculation on the court’s part, but it reads now as fairly well-informed speculation, and it comes from the same editorial board that correctly warned its conservative readers that Gorsuch might rule in favor with gay and transgender workers in Bostock two years ago.
weird how you always have some contrarian position
I never said it was a joke, and calling it a lie is a bit dramatic.