Real patriots knew. They smelled the treachery, the Democrat, in those H-D executives. You can know who will stand by God and Uncle Sam's own appointed one.
Thomas is also the best chance of ever getting a 5-4 progressive majority. If Dems get to 51 in November, I don't see them having a real chance at losing the Senate until 2024. A solid 6 year window for Thomas to retire.
The place between Freemont and Bollard? I think we're going to Capital Hill or SeaTack - maybe Bellview.
Apparently Trump tweets have grammatical errors on purpose to appeal to his low iq base. It makes him more a man of the people. Attacking him for grammatical errors doesn't benefit anyone except him.
But how does that work if they're too dumb to notice the errors themselves? How would they know he's appealing to them?
Because the media will call him out on it and Fox News will go "har har libs think they are smarter than you"
Maybe the fake news media literally pour over his tweets. Like, printing them out, grinding them up, and making coffee out of the grounds. *sips tweet-tea* “This tastes grammatically incorrect, not that that is any of my business” If only English had an established way to emphasize words, then we wouldn’t all be eating our drinking his words.
Thomas isn’t going to retire under a Democratic president. I bet his current plans are to retire next year under Trump, only if the GOP retains the Senate. The only hope here is that Democrats retake the Senate this year, maximize the amount of seats they win in 2018/2020, and win the presidency in 2020. Thomas will be the Scalia to the potential 2020 Democrat president.
Right, so if Dems get to 51 this year, they'll very likely have a 6 year window to replace Thomas. He'd have to wait out that entire window. 2020 - Dems should be favored to win the presidency, and would gain seats in the Senate since 2014 was such a good year for Republicans. 2022 - Midterm year under a Dem president, but it's the 2016 map. Republicans almost maximized their seats that year. Senate would be unlikely to flip back. 2024 would be key. It would be this year's map with a Dem incumbent. Ideally Thomas would be gone by then, one way or another.
You're thinking in only a six year timeframe. Thomas and the Heritage group are thinking in generations. From the article: " But if you’re asking how effectively Thomas helped sway Chief Justice John Roberts or Justice Anthony Kennedy to his own views, you are asking the wrong question. In a series of opinions joined by no other justice, Thomas waged a quiet war of ideas against twentieth century liberalism — and he won the hearts of a legion of conservative law students. Many of those former students are now old enough to be judges. As of this writing, fully 20 percent of the judges Donald Trump appointed to the federal appellate bench are former Thomas clerks. Thomas lost the war for the present, but he is the future of legal conservatism. And he may soon be America’s future. Thomas, in other words, was a man ahead of his time. He showed a conservative movement, that primarily aspired to weaken the judiciary, that it could have much larger ambitions. He taught them that, if they were determined enough, conservative judges could build a bridge back to the Gilded Age, frogmarch the nation across this bridge, and then burn it behind them. And, while Thomas’ longest-serving colleagues reject this vision, the next generation of conservative judges view it as an inspiration. "
That is true, but it won't necessarily matter if the Dems can get a six year window to replace both Thomas and the entire liberal wing if necessary (likely just Breyer and RBG). The question will be solely whether Thomas wants to stick around until January 2025 at a minimum.
But the point of that article isn't about the current makeup of the court or replacing judges, it's about the bigger picture of how his thinking, which no one takes seriously because of how extreme it is, is actually affecting younger conservative jurisprudence. Replace Thomas, replace the liberal wing, but the ideological bench of the conservatives will forever be tainted by his views. It isn't even a "forrest vs the trees" line of thinking, it's that the forrest will forever be polluted, or at least for many decades to come. That's the danger, not just one justice on a court.
Democrats are going to have to lock out the opposition from the executive branch for probably 3 or 4 terms. Going forward, most members of the SCOTUS are only going to retire unless their party is in control of the White House, and maybe Senate. Thomas is only 70, and some members of the court have lived on the bench will into their eighties. FDR might have failed at packing the court, but because he and Truman had twenty years of holding the White House, we did get a liberal court out of it. Also, Alito is only two years younger than Thomas. He’s definitely another potential pickup for the Democrats in the next 10 to 15 years.
Oh Wilsong T, the libs the libs are crying. From GAF to GAF and down the Era side. End times are here and all the tweets are flying It's true it's true, they've all been verified But come ye back if he fires Mike Pompeo Or when Nunes' staff puts out a new memo, I'll be here for Chris Hayes or for Maddow Oh, Wilsong T, oh Wilsong T, we need oppo. But if ye come and all the dems are winning And I am glad, as glad I well may be, Go out and find where MAGAs are all crying Drink in deep and save a bottle just for me. And we will hear the cronies' pleading guilty, And see the tapes of beds all soaked with pee, The tweets will stop and he'll no longer bully And we will post in peace without a covfefe.
Why the fuck do they insist on putting Lee there, that's not even a fucking meme worthy joke to keep going.
pore (v.): to peruse or look at something closely He confused it with its homophone pour, as in to pour a glass of tea.
The order of that list, their clerkship and ages: Scalia - age 46 Don't know - age 52 Kennedy - age 53 Kennedy - age 51 Scalia - age 49 Alito - age 47 Don't know - age 49 (all Federalists, far as I can see)
He's a crook. Or Putin loaned him out to Xi It's really worrying me the brazeness; I mean, he goes into this disassociated fugue state over the walls closing in then the Cohen raid, but...without pushback or punishment, it's "allowed". Too fucking dangerous, especially this willful ignoring of Congressional authority rather than filling a vacuum of no Congressional action. Put a pin in this, cuz I feel alot of left-leaning media puts this broader ethical/natsec issues on a lower burner than moral ones and the right just ignore it or play "how did '4' come about" while 2+2 sits in plain sight. Not a fun feeling with this clock ticking. A worse feeling is not enough getting the message of The Auburn Orban completely did this and can't be trusted to not do it in the future and assumes complete responsibility for their pain and worry. Just alot of head-shaking today from me.
I’m not against packing, but I seriously doubt Schumer or any of the red state Democrats would have the backbone to do something like this. Democrats would need another 2008 supermajority to pull off packing the court.
