Quite like this -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/trump-supporters-pandemic-wildfires-wind

 

nathan: RIP RBG

 

The New York Times - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87

breaking

WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday of “complications of metastatic pancreas cancer,” the Supreme Court announced.

 

“Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in a statement. “We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her - a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”

 

The development will give President Trump the opportunity to name her replacement, and Senate Republicans have promised to try to fill the vacancy even in the waning days of his first term. 

 

The confirmation battle, in the midst of a pandemic and a presidential election, is sure to be titanic. ...

 

So what, now Trump tries to create on the US election's credibility so he can challenge the result? That's the only thing he's actually any good at. 

Watch the GOP hypocrisy on this one.

They blocked an Obama appointment 9 months before the 2016 election:

 

In February 2016, days after the conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died, Republicans made an unprecedented declaration: The Senate would not hear or confirm any nominee to fill the unexpected vacancy until the country had elected a new president in November.

 

Don't even try nominating anyone, McConnell told Obama, the Constitution requires "the advice and consent of the Senate."

 

"We intend to exercise the constitutional power granted the Senate under Article II, Section 2 to ensure the American people are not deprived of the opportunity to engage in a full and robust debate over the type of jurist they wish to decide some of the most critical issues of our time," Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote in a letter, claiming the move was "born of a necessity to protect the will of the American people."

Sideface:

 

The New York Times - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87

 

breaking

 

WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday of “complications of metastatic pancreas cancer,” the Supreme Court announced.

 

“Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in a statement. “We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her - a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”

 

The development will give President Trump the opportunity to name her replacement, and Senate Republicans have promised to try to fill the vacancy even in the waning days of his first term. 

 

The confirmation battle, in the midst of a pandemic and a presidential election, is sure to be titanic. ...

 

 

God hates us.

Fred99:

 

Watch the GOP hypocrisy on this one.

 

There is a special place in Hell waiting for McConnell

Fred99:

 

Watch the GOP hypocrisy on this one.

 

but also the same, same hypocrisy from the Dems.  Probably every single senator is going to argue the complete opposite position today, from what they said just back in 2016.

nathan:

 

Fred99:

 

Watch the GOP hypocrisy on this one.

 

 

but also the same, same hypocrisy from the Dems.  Probably every single senator is going to argue the complete opposite position today, from what they said just back in 2016.

 

Well they should be punished by the electorate if they do, and they should understand that's the consequence.

Democracy dies in darkness.  Do people actually vote on principles - or is it like being a fan of a sport team?

Two serious mistakes by Dems. RBG should have probably resigned / retired during Obama's reign, and Obama should have never used the "nuclear option".  

Welcome to Gilead.  Too bad if you're not a wealthy white "christian" man, but if you don't get used to it, you'll be punished.

Under His Eye.

nathan:

Trump loves metaphors - across his nomination acceptance speech, his victory speech and his inaugural address, Trump used nearly 350 metaphors, 85% of the speeches.

Sideface:

The development will give President Trump the opportunity to name her replacement, and Senate Republicans have promised to try to fill the vacancy even in the waning days of his first term. The confirmation battle, in the midst of a pandemic and a presidential election, is sure to be titanic. ...

 

Ginsburg, who once called then-presidential candidate Trump a “faker” and more recently described this period of American history as “an aberration,” dictated the following statement days before her death: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”

 

I was surprised he was actually reasonably civil when told about her death.

The Washington Post - 19 aides, allies and even family members who have spoken against Trump

today

As the 2020 election draws near, it seems that every few days brings a new former Trump ally or adviser - or even, in a couple of cases, a family member  speaking out against him. ...

 

Trump and the White House have continually dismissed these voices as disgruntled ones.

 

But the sheer volume of them is without precedent in recent American history.  ...

 

(paragraph headings only)

 

• Olivia Troye - Homeland security adviser to Vice President Pence
• Michael Cohen - Trump’s personal lawyer
• Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman - Director for European affairs for the White House’s National Security Council
• Gordon Sondland - Ambassador to the European Union
• Jim Mattis - Defense secretary
• John Bolton - White House national security adviser
• Rex Tillerson - Secretary of state
• John Kelly - White House chief of staff
• Gary Cohn - White House economic adviser
• Mary Trump - Trump’s niece
• Maryanne Trump Barry - Trump’s sister and a retired federal judge
• Miles Taylor - Chief of staff, Department of Homeland Security
• Elizabeth Neumann - Assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy, DHS
• Rick Bright - Director of HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
• James Miller - Member of the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board
• Mary Elizabeth Taylor - Assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs
• Kyle Murphy - Senior analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency
• Anthony Scaramucci - White House communications director
• Omarosa Manigault Newman - Assistant to the president and director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison