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The Hoarse Whisperer
@TheRealHoarse
Tonight, the White House is going to rub Americas nose in their successful corruption of the Supreme Court.
Mark my words: The pictures of a corrupt president on the White House lawn politicizing a SCOTUS appointment 8 days before an election will live in infamy.
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7:31 AM · Oct 26, 2020
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Tonight, the White House is going to rub Americas nose in their successful corruption of the Supreme Court.
Mark my words: The pictures of a corrupt president on the White House lawn politicizing a SCOTUS appointment 8 days before an election will live in infamy.
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Trump cannot help but see Coney Barrett being illegitimately pushed through as a victory because his disordered mind sees every time he successfully cheats as proof of his power.
But the public wont see that.
It wont see that today and it wont see it tomorrow.
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The public will see it as the distilling image of the reduction of the Supreme Court to an illegitimate political body no longer a coequal branch.
It will see it as the moment SCOTUS became a wholly owned subsidiary of an unpopular president and even less popular Congress.
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The move to ram through Coney Barretts appointment is short-sighted, rash, and poised to boomerang both politically and practically.
It is an overreach far more likely to ultimately wipe out years of Republican efforts to stack the courts than extend them.
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It is a move a younger Mitch McConnell wouldnt have made.
A younger McConnell would have been more pragmatic about the risk-reward.
He would have seen the likelihood of backlash and likely consequences and been more measured.
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But there is a subtext to this.
Mitch McConnell is dying.
Both politically and physically, Mitch McConnell knows both he and his power are drifting closer and closer to the horizon.
McConnell is 78 years old. Time tends to shine dimly on an eighth decade post polio.
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The move to cram through Coney Barrett is a product of two things:
1) Trumps slavish compulsion to serve a primitive, disordered id
2) McConnells recognition that his days at the head of the chess board are drawing near to their end and this may be his last big move
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Trump will take his doomed victory lap and bask in the brief narcissistic fuel today.
It will do nothing to save him from a wallowing depression after being unequivocally rejected a mere week from now.
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McConnell will smugly crow about the feat thinking that this is where his future biopic will cut to the credits no matter what may come.
He will gleam and smirk in the belief that this is his careers high water mark while any future defeats accrue to whoever comes next.
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This will all be short lived. Be angry but not in despair.
The move to rush through Coney Barrett is craven, corrupt and contemptible but it is not canny.
It has only a thin veneer of the mercenary-but-effective politics McConnell has played for years. It isnt shrewd.
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It risks the whole board to merely briefly queen another pawn.
It is reckless and short-sighted.
It is the kind of rash move a careful man only makes when he knows they have few another days to live and fight for.
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This is Mitch McConnells unsaid swan song.
It will burnish only an irrelevant last few pages of a corrupt mans hagiography.
Meanwhile, the Congress that marches on without him as Majority Leader - and eventually, without him at all - will erase its impact.
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And in the not-at-all-distant months and years ahead, the single searing image of what led to the reformation of our judiciary will be the ceremony on White House grounds tonight.
A corrupt president on the eve of being deposed.
A craven Senator desperate in his last hours.
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A nominee so disingenuous in her alleged moral turpitude and so thirsty for dominion over others lives that she would knowingly delegitimize the Supreme Court so as to join it.
Record and remember the image this evening.
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History will remember it as of the same type as Joseph Welch asking Have you no sense of decency? to the bullies of government.
Tonight, it will be a question un-asked but answered.
They have no decency.
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Trump and McConnell will peacock tonight.
Icarus and Icarus wheeling over a crowd.
Foolish, indecent men at their closest to the sun; smug in their soaring; soon to plummet back to earth in a fatal tangle of wax and feathers.
Mark the moment. It is the apogee before a fall.
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Poiuyt
(18,129 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,685 posts)Fuck bipartisanship. Screw the Republicans at every opportunity. I hate what they have done to our country. Fuck them all. Eradicate them. And one final fuck you to emperor trump you piece of shit.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Botany
(70,551 posts)A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/ ( listen) PIRR-ik) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Winning a Pyrrhic victory takes a heavy toll that negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress.
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I know that it is a reach but I hope this gets the good people in KY to vote Mitch "Dead Hands Walking" out
and flip KY into a nice blue state.
Walleye
(31,034 posts)cp
(6,649 posts)Best line: "A nominee so disingenuous in her alleged moral turpitude and so thirsty for dominion over others lives that she would knowingly delegitimize the Supreme Court so as to join it. "
leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)I needed to read this today.
Icarus indeed.
Nevilledog
(51,167 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,682 posts)and longer.
Hugin
(33,177 posts)More like a crown in checkers, but, I get the picture.
maxsolomon
(33,357 posts)He can read the tea leaves as well as anyone; it was now or never.
Hypocrisy is irrelevant if you win. Trump will take the credit, but this is the fruit of the McConnell's strategy of total obstruction.
Burn the Senate to the ground.
C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)In eight days, we can start to get this country back on track
larwdem
(759 posts)this will drive more Dems to the polls
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,388 posts)Vinca
(50,300 posts)election, Biden needs to install a young, liberal judge. No more kumbayah.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Screw trying to make nice with Republicans anymore when they are only a Cabal of criminal thugs and traitors. 'Friends' would have never knifed you in the back years ago and repeated the same actions over and over. And while exposing all of the Republican criminal activity, do make sure that if the Federalist Society is linked to any Russian involvement or crimes, then make sure a spotlight is shined on that activity.
Make them all never want to be in the public spotlight or be a part of the government again in their lives. If they are so damn proud of their achievements, then let them face the public without any disguise or honorable claim. Shame them all from their ill gotten positions.
bdamomma
(63,913 posts)stupid spreader is planned at the WH for Phoney-Barrett, go ahead COVID do your thing.