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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

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  1. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    We’re going back to the days of the Slaughterhouse Cases soon enough, so I don’t see why you are bitching.
     
    dixiehack, Mar 24, 2022
    #29905
  2. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    That's sedition. A U.S. attorney general with a spine would arrest him right now.
     
    hondo, Mar 24, 2022
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  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Whatever your feelings on Garland - he has been perhaps the quietest AGs I can think of. They usually tend to be lightning rods for criticism. I haven't heard anyone from the right utter his name once.
     
    DanOregon, Mar 24, 2022
    #29907
  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

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    Songbird, Mar 24, 2022
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  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    This is where you are wrong. We have the same court, and the same "create law" focus that doesn't even bother anymore to bullshit around the Constitution. What's changed are the social agendas of a majority of the judges.

    It's really nothing like the time you are talking about.
     
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    The Big Ragu, Mar 24, 2022
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  6. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Someone would have to wake him up first.
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Mar 24, 2022
    #29910
  7. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Stronger, schmonger.

    If he can't get elected, he can't appoint anyone. It was a campaign promise to appoint an eminently-qualified black woman, one he has fulfilled. Everyone who voted for him knew this would happen; everyone who voted against him did too. Guess the racists and women-haters will just have to quit being such snowflakes and deal with it. Elections have consequences.
     
    micropolitan guy, Mar 24, 2022
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  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    He fulfilled a campaign promise.
     
    heyabbott, Mar 24, 2022
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  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    If 99.87% of all people in American life make this statement in public, they are promptly hauled into jail at gunpoint
     
    Starman, Mar 24, 2022
    #29913
  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I don't want the Supreme Court to be a campaign promise prop. I also don't want politics to be about dividing people based on their race, gender, sexuality and using that divisiveness to turn our governance into a system of patronage where everyone is vying for some favor. If she's eminently qualified as you said, what I would have liked to have seen was her nominated on her merits. You want meaningful change? Stop making it ABOUT race. That's the goal isn't it? If you want to make it so that race doesn't matter, you have to actually do things that way.

    I also hate your attitude. The consequences you are a talking about are a country dominated by people who treat elections like a Yankees-Red Sox rivalry and act like this is blood sport. It's the toxicity all around us now. ... you are a part of it. Like elections should be victors getting their spoils. Change the rhetoric and you sound exactly like a typical Trump supporter. And you don't even see it.
     
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    The Big Ragu, Mar 24, 2022
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  11. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with the president making a campaign promise about who he would appoint on the Supreme Court. There are probably people that cast their votes based on that. And I've said before and I'll say again and I will keep saying, representation matters. It is the year 2022 there should be a black woman on the Supreme Court and there should have been a female president by now. But still, after centuries, we still have to fight for every single step and it is exhausting.
     
    Mngwa, Mar 24, 2022
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  12. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Elections are about candidates taking positions on issues and about voters choosing the person who positions on the issues most align with theirs. Voters have the right to expect the guy/woman they voted for to do the things he/she promised they would do. And apparently about 85 million voters in this country had absolutely no problem with Biden's promise to FINALLY reserve a seat on the bench for a black woman ALMOST 246 YEARS after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

    You hate my attitude? Tough shit. It's about damn time the Supreme Court started looking like America instead of an Elks Club meeting and if Biden has to ruffle a bunch of crackers feelings to do so then good on him.

    I guess Biden should have said he'd nominate another middle-age white dude or evangelical church lady and he could have prevented all this noise altogether.
     
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    micropolitan guy, Mar 24, 2022
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