Don’t think this is true. They hadn’t overturned Roe at that point and my understanding is that no one gave a shit about the court. Definitely there were way more pressing issues in 2020. I never saw focus groups talking about this as a major issue and the polls didn’t move in any dramatic way.
The gap between Trump and Biden remains almost constant for months. For reference, RBG died in mid September.
As long as we’re talking about strategic retirements, I think Sotomayor probably should’ve stepped down during Biden’s term as well given her age and type 1 diabetes. Hopefully she sun runs like Breyer did though.
First someone mentioned Obama kidnapping RGB’s dog, then Seal Team 6 operation, but I’m going to go with drone strike. That was his preferred method!
No one would even know
‘I said RPG not RBG!’
Absolutely ridiculous to suggest Obama should have killed RBG so he could replace her, even in jest. Obviously you kill Thomas and Alito and replace them, and then tell RBG, you’re next if you don’t retire.
As long as we’re in full fantasy mode, one does wonder why Obama didn’t just have these guys eliminated and also have Trump executed.
Why would he have Trump executed? He was so far behind Hillary nobody thought he actually had a chance. I guess he could have had him executed after the election though, so fair point
Yeah, HRC thought she hit the fucking jackpot drawing Trump as an opponent. So did most most everyone else.
Absolutely wild Trump hasn’t been executing his enemies under official act doctrine. He is probably too dumb to figure it out, but surely Miller or Bannon could have explained it to him with puppets by now.
Need a Mamdami thread. Maybe rename this one?
Title change makes my OP stupid.
I like the change!
Sorry it messed up your OP.
Are people going back and reading things like that after all these months?
I hope not or it will make it look like I don’t like Mamdani when I do.
They got em! Dress code violation. All the norm lovers are going to abandon him now.
We got him!
Should have worn a tan suit.
But then no one in the world would be able to mow their lawn.
Mamdani adjacent
Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.
Avila Chevalier, a sociology PhD student whose victory sent shockwaves throughout the Democratic establishment, has been under fire for a since-deleted Twitter account, previously reported by CNN, that included phrases such as “seize the means of production,” along with calls to abolish police, prisons and borders.
“I just cannot get over the fact that the universe has foisted upon us the perfect illustration of literally every failing of capitalism and people are still like we can’t be communists cuz there won’t be enough types of soup,” the post she retweeted read.
Another 2020 retweet argued for democratic worker control of wealth, dismissing ideological labels by concluding: “You can call that communism, you can call it socialism, you can call it pancakes.”
And previously, CNN had surfaced an April 2020 post where Avila-Chevalier said that while most of the political theory she had read was communist, “the pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me,” punctuating the remark with a laughing emoji.
I could live with not supporting DAC if centrist Dems agree to wholeheartedly support every other DSA and DSA-adjacent primary winner.
Huge news. Socialist cites socialist stuff.
Next CNN headline
“Chuck Schumer says something nice about Greenspan”
