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SunSeeker

(51,545 posts)
1. The GOP "lost the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections,..."
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 04:53 AM
Apr 2021

"...yet only 4 of the last 19 Supreme Court justices were appointed by Democratic Presidents."

--Rep. Mondaire Jones (D - N.Y.)

Ligyron

(7,622 posts)
2. That's the main takeaway.
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 05:14 AM
Apr 2021

It needs to be shouted from the mountain tops and heard far and wide, all across the
Land

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,986 posts)
3. It is not respecting the will of the People. It is power grabbing. And tRump is +2 he shouldn't hav
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 05:39 AM
Apr 2021

Garland got blocked and Barrett got rushed.

That is two justices that tRump stole.

SunSeeker

(51,545 posts)
7. That's what the law student should have kept saying, instead of just referring to "2016" & "2020."
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 12:35 PM
Apr 2021

The hypocrisy of refusing a vote on Garland because we were 10 months before an election, then ramming Barrett through in 2 weeks DURING an election they were losing should be repeatedly thrown in Republicans' faces. They went against the will of tge American people. They stole 2 seats, plain and simple.

elias7

(3,994 posts)
5. Just as they call any news not blatantly right wing the liberal media
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 05:59 AM
Apr 2021

These are the most intellectually dishonest times, and conservatives are the Mose intellectually dishonest people

ancianita

(36,009 posts)
6. Right. Because, bottom line, their news and information
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 11:00 AM
Apr 2021

are not fact based -- all facts are debatable as 'theory' to them, even their own; their truths are fears and beliefs valued as the basis of their politics.

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