Here is a particularly bitter irony: Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote in 2016 by nearly

[Atticus]

3 million, is about to nominate an extreme right wing conservative to the SCOTUS and we are fearful that that nominee will be confirmed by the Senate Republican majority which received 12 million fewer votes than the Democratic minority.

And, we in the majority will be expected to quietly accept the transparent injustice and hope that maybe somehow "democracy" will one day again mean "rule by the majority".

[Sogo]

1. I personally think we're into "taxation without representation"-type territory....

[chriscan64]

2. Heads they win, tails we lose.

This may not be a technically true fact, but it feels like the Democrats need 60 Senators to move Flag Day back one day, but the republicans can cut taxes for the wealthy or install justices with 50 and a vice president.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

3. And together they will have chosen 1/3 of the Supreme Court Justces

And their 1/3 is younger than the other 2/3