24th September 2020, 8:47 PM
Darunia, frankly the system's already been invalidated. It needs to change anyway, so I don't care if I have to manipulate the rules to stop horrors from being unleashed. The consequences of allowing Trump to do ANYTHING right now are that the whole system becomes a dictatorship.
Here's the reality, the Supreme Court's life appointment system was created when life expectancy was mid 30's. It's downright morbid that we look at obituaries to determine when the next seat is available. Term limit the dang thing. 16 - 20 years. Nothing more than that. No justice after that can occupy ANY other seat in government. (Give them lifetime retirement pay I suppose.) Heck let's go even further beyond. Trumps platform in 2016 was opposing the current President and (among other racist things) term limits for congress. I actually support that. Technically, they didn't a platform in the RNC this year. By their own party's rules, that means the 2016 platform stands. Trump's platform is thus to oppose himself and to give term limits to congress critters.
Addressing everyone else, look where we are. Trump has reached the final bullet point on that now famous list of fascist warning signs. He's trying to deligitimize the election itself. Getting in that supreme court justice puts the republican party in a position to make themselves the fiat rulers of the nation forever. Meanwhile, the democrats are NOT doing enough to fight them. That is to say, they're not doing anything! They're wagging fingers at them, but they aren't trying to impeach Bill Barr. Do that! No, it won't actually work, but it'll delay their supreme court pick. Make a spectacle, drag it out! Drag it out all the way to January's end.
Here's the reality, the Supreme Court's life appointment system was created when life expectancy was mid 30's. It's downright morbid that we look at obituaries to determine when the next seat is available. Term limit the dang thing. 16 - 20 years. Nothing more than that. No justice after that can occupy ANY other seat in government. (Give them lifetime retirement pay I suppose.) Heck let's go even further beyond. Trumps platform in 2016 was opposing the current President and (among other racist things) term limits for congress. I actually support that. Technically, they didn't a platform in the RNC this year. By their own party's rules, that means the 2016 platform stands. Trump's platform is thus to oppose himself and to give term limits to congress critters.
Addressing everyone else, look where we are. Trump has reached the final bullet point on that now famous list of fascist warning signs. He's trying to deligitimize the election itself. Getting in that supreme court justice puts the republican party in a position to make themselves the fiat rulers of the nation forever. Meanwhile, the democrats are NOT doing enough to fight them. That is to say, they're not doing anything! They're wagging fingers at them, but they aren't trying to impeach Bill Barr. Do that! No, it won't actually work, but it'll delay their supreme court pick. Make a spectacle, drag it out! Drag it out all the way to January's end.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)