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Biden worries ‘extreme’ supreme court can’t be relied on to uphold rule of law
(www.theguardian.com)
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The reasons he was Obama's VP:
He was "the Republican Senator whisper"
He was supposed to be there to guide Obama
He was supposed to be the one that got that SC pick thru, but I don't remember seeing a single article or interview where he tried.
That 5 years later people forgot and started claiming Joe was "the Senate whisper" again was just fucking ridiculous. The only thing worse was when Biden implied once the Dems had a white man as president, suddenly Republicans would be super cool again.
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With hindsight, given the dirty tricks the GOP played in order to secure Trump two Supreme Court appointments; the Dem’s should have just gone full radical and take the Senates refusal to put the nomination up for a vote as a tacit ‘approval’ (seeing as they didn’t technically vote him down), and sit Garland on the court.
It’s the political equivalent of not negotiating with Terrorists, akin to the Paradox of Tolerance.
It's like playing checkers with a kid who openly cheats...
If you keep following the rules, the kid will always win. If you can't make them stop cheating, your only options are to stop playing or cheat back.
This isn't a game of checkers tho. We can't just stop, and if we keep following the rules then we'll never win.
So literally the only thing we can do is play like they do.
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They don't give a fuck about the rules. Why should the Dems? They don't want to play by the rules, then we shouldn't hamstring ourselves with following the rules. If they want to knock over all the pieces and shit all over the board, that means we can do whatever we want, whenever we want because they threw the rule of law out the window, after wiping their ass with it.
Change the playing field during the few weeks he had a supermajority in the house and Congress.
Campaign finance reform, voting rights guarantees, fucking anything rather than pissing away an opportunity to actually enact some meaningful changes.