RT @kwissoker: As a friend put it: “Apparently, the GOP thinks that Black Presidents only get 3/5ths a term.”
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@mary_grace or to ease up on the O2 you’ve been pumping into the room to keep them going at speed.
@jcenters Sociopathy makes some things easy.
If I’m reading this right, last time Senate rejected SCOTUS nominee and next pres got the appt was 1968, LBJ-Nixon. https://t.co/mDpRXjq205
So just for the sake of argument: let’s say that yesterday I had the opinion that someone was a cancerous tumor on American democracy, who was in favor of executing the innocent, repealing laws that support equality, enthroning second-place losers in the White House, and basing his beliefs on the deification—and his personal interpretation—of a bunch of 20-somethings and 30-somethings in the 18th century.
This person dies.
I’m having trouble understanding why the statement of opinion that this person was, up until the moment of his death, a cancerous tumor, is somehow less polite or reflects on me poorly in a way it didn’t yesterday. Wouldn’t the reverse be true—that if I suddenly decided this person was a paragon because he was no longer breathing, then *that* indicates that my opinion has no value?
Interesting. Kasich #2 in NH and #2 polling in SC, and suddenly my Twitter feed is filling up with Kasich attacks.
RT @howtobetopp: @BilldeBlasio #Scalia requested cremation in his will but millions of women will meet tomorrow to discuss if that’s really best for his body
If I’m reading this right, last time Senate rejected SCOTUS nominee and next pres got the appt was 1968, LBJ-Nixon. Am I right?
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If I’m reading this right, last time Senate rejected SCOTUS nominee and next pres got the appt was 1968, LBJ-Nixon. Am I right?
List of nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interesting. Kasich #2 in NH and #2 polling in SC, and suddenly my Twitter feed is filling up with Kasich attacks.
RT @AliceAvizandum: does… does wikipedia want me to fuck the pope https://t.co/yqDAAMOGLw
@angry_drunk Presumably, it’s one thing to hold up a nomination for 1 year, quite another to do it for four.
RT @millerpolsci: Nightmare scenario: Senate doesn’t fill the spot. Cruz is elected, his eligibility is challenged, and the Court deadlocks at 4-4.
@jessespector Hey, it’s news that he’s announcing this so quickly. I do *not* want to see the Dems roll over on this one.
Grateful that the expletive I just uttered loudly at Starbucks was a mild one.
@jcenters Conservatives have shown they’ll consider any Dem to be the Antichrist. Liberals have shown they’ll compromise with anyone.
@glennf @theincomparable Been over 40 years since I owned this comic, and yet this is what came to mind first: https://t.co/ATQwjUt2YA
@atlauren Sorry about your parents. Hope it wasn’t too hard. Cancer’s a bitch.
@atlauren …and now if you’ll excuse me, Starbucks is closing and I need to go out for a smoke. :-)
@atlauren My thinking? Life is short. Enjoy your damn drink.