IMHO, there is a 99% chance that Thomas is retired from the SC

[Buddyzbuddy]

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by this time next year with a very nice supplemental retirement package. Thus, the Felon can nominate Cannon for SC. Control of the Senate is not guaranteed after 2026.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Why stop at Thomas

Alito and Roberts are no spring chickens

[Buddyzbuddy]

7. I don't want any of them to retire before the Felon is out of office.

But, I think Thomas is the most open to the idea and has no shame about it.

[raising2moredems]

11. No no no...

What we want is debilitating strokes or other illnesses that leaves them in a comatose state. Far too many are of the alleged catholic religion (such a f-ing joke). You think ol' Ginny would pull the plug? Or scalito's wife? Both have egos that would not permit them to step down. Roberts will be looking to save face in the history books - though at this juncture, I don't think anything will save his sorry ass.

[JohnSJ]

2. Great job to those idiots who refused to vote for Kamala because of

the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

They contributed to this.

[AloeVera]

9. Well...

There WAS a way to stop that from happening. But everyone ignores the elephant in the room.

But otoh why always single out these voters? There is far greater blame in other groups but we don't like to single them out as much as we do the people supporting Palestinians. For some reason. And now Trump is doing the same.

To be clear, I'm sick about all of Trump's actions and I despise him and his cult. I wish these voters voted, for Kamala, but I understand why they didn't. It's a human reaction to what they saw and felt. Emotions over judgement and reasoning. But they were put in a position where they felt they had no good choices and made the worse one. It was up to the Democratic Candidate to give them better choices or at least take a better defined position on where she stood on this issue. It didn't happen. In fact, some bad decisions were made in the last leg of the campaign, sealing the deal.

But please, let's stop it with the bashing of these voters and by extension the Palestinian cause. Or if you must, spread the blame fairly, there's plenty to go around.

[Dan]

12. When all it takes is a few thousand to swing a State in a Federal Election,

We would hope that those voters would be aware.

When they choose to either not vote or protest vote, when it really is a binary choice in our system of government, you would think that they would be aware.

When you had one Candidate that had previously been president and was incompetent then, combined with trying to overthrow the government, we have the right to say - just what in the hell were you thinking?

And now, bad things are happening and now they are crying - why should I shed any tears for them, I have only so many tears to shed and I reserve them for the people that voted for Kamala.

[AloeVera]

18. We don't withdraw support for other minorities.

Significant numbers of other groups in the Democratic "base" either did not vote or voted for Trump by a higher margin than in 2020. Women, youth, Blacks, Hispanics.

They will all suffer or are suffering already under Trump.

But I don't see a myriad of posts blaming them and declaring "no tears for you" or calling them stupid.

Nor do I expect or wish to see our support withdrawn from these minorities and groups based on how a portion of them voted.

If a black man is killed by police, a woman bleeds out in a parking lot, a young person is burdened by excessive student debt or a Muslim is stabbed or a Jew is a victim of anti-semitism - do we ask how they voted before giving them our sympathy and willingness to fight for them?

What is it about Palestinians/Muslums/Arabs and their supporters that many here can't find it in their hearts to apply the same level of compassion and same principles?
For them, they only get FAFO.

I keep asking that and I haven't heard a straight answer yet.

[Dan]

27. This is just my opinion....

From what I saw on the news…..they were laughing about not voting for the Democratic candidate, like it was a big fuck you to the Democrats. They were going to not vote, vote Jill Stein or Donald Trump, but not the Democratic candidate.

[AloeVera]

30. Those few were not representative, nor Democrats to begin with.

I doubt that the silent majority of those Democrats who stayed home or voted otherwise did it with glee or thought it was a big joke. Likely it made them sick, saddened or hold their nose.

PR and propaganda work by tarring a whole group due to the actions of a few. In this case they served to erase or delegitimize uncomfortable questions that should have been faced.

[W_HAMILTON]

14. Nah, fuck them.

They let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and more Palestinians have died and will die because of it, including the fact that Netanyahu/Trump might not even allow Palestine to exist going forward -- it will be prime Israeli real estate, as Trump himself has already suggested.

Trump thanks them for their support and their stupidity.

[AloeVera]

16. It may be a shock to learn that some people draw the line...

At what they consider to be, if not genocide, then needless and cruel killing and maiming of tens of thousands of women and children and the total dispossession, starvation and immiseration of many more.

Funding and supporting such actions and behaviour - and not putting a stop to it - upset enough voters to have some negative consequences. That this loss of support was not foreseen and addressed certainly contributed - but was not the main factor imo - in Harris' loss. It was a strategic - some would add moral - mistake. But it was a choice.

Yes, it turned out even worse for Palestinians. In that sense it was stupid. I guess people didn't think it could get any worse.

[harumph]

17. It's turning out worse for people in Africa getting treatment for TB or HIV too.

But I guess virtue signalling and purity are more important than actually THINKING.

[W_HAMILTON]

31. Yeah, no -- they were just dragged around by the nose by social media propagandists.

None of which had the Palestinians' best interest at heart nor their own.

If it wasn't """genocide,""" it would have been her fucking emails or her fucking paid speeches -- the underlying issue doesn't matter, it's just whatever they can find to divide *just* enough of the left so as to ensure Republican victories.

It ain't just MAGA who is FAFO'ing right now.

[AloeVera]

32. Uh huh. Nt

[JohnSJ]

20. I will not, or anyone who refused to vote for Harris. Anyone who didn't vote for

Harrris owns this, just like those jackasses in 2000 and 2016.

It is really tiresome to cater to these immature losers, who blame it on everyone else but themself. Oh the Democrats didn’t motivate us enough.

F**k them.

Hamas owns this, and fools who refused to vote for Harris owns this too.

They sealed the deal good. Even if we win both houses of congress, trump will not be removed if he is impeached because the votes to convict aren’t there, and even if he was, Vance is ready to take over.

and with this SC, good luck.

[NJCher]

3. I don't even think these idiots

will fall for Cannon. She has publicly disgraced herself so thoroughly that no...just no. Not gonna' happen.

[Rebl2]

4. Don't bet

on it

[NJCher]

5. I'll do a bet with you

How much do you want to bet?

[Turbineguy]

6. She has all the qualifications.

OK, no sex scandal. We're in with a chance.

[WarGamer]

8. Thomas and Alito will both retire before Summer of 26.

one of the replacements will be that extremist from Texas, Matthew Kacsmaryk just 48 yo and is quite a bit like Thomas and Alito.

HARDCORE.

[JohnSJ]

22. We are screwed. And anyone who thinks the republicans will stop the insanity is

living in and alternate universe.

[WarGamer]

23. agreed... 100%

[JohnSJ]

24. I really wish it wasn't so.

[Polybius]

10. You're leaving one very important thing out

He has an excellent chance to break the record for longest serving Justice. He's in 10th place now. 3 more years he'd be first.

[Efilroft Sul]

13. Matthew Kacsmaryk will be nominated for the first retiree's spot; Eileen Cannon will be nominated second.

[W_HAMILTON]

15. It doesn't matter at this point. When Trump won in 2016, that pretty much guaranteed...

...that the only way we restore some semblance of impartiality/balance to the Court was by reforming it through legislative action (i.e., expanding it, term limits, etc.).

That hasn't changed and it won't change regardless of who or who does not retire from the Court going forward.

The Court will remain hijacked by Republicans until this is done, so I'm not worried about whether Thomas gets replaced or not since the solution to the problem remains the same either way.

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Things could be worse than just Trump replacing Slappy Thomas with a younger Justice.

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If Trump's fascist agenda begins to lag because of Supreme Court decisions, we might see a legitimate push by a MAGA Congress to expand the court.

Could be done if all Republicans Senators are on board and they deploy the "nuclear option" to pass it.

[Celerity]

21. 99-1 means there is a one per cent chance that what you said will happen will actually happen

[Buddyzbuddy]

25. Thank you for pointing that out. Correction on the way.

[Celerity]

26. all good

[BannonsLiver]

28. The upshot is future Democratic presidents can simply ignore the court like Trump does.

The precedent has been set.

[lame54]

29. That's a lateral move...

Except for her age