This line of thinking is remarkably similar to saying "Black women will save the Dem party" ... (Reply #25)

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Hekate (67,195 posts)

25. This line of thinking is remarkably similar to saying "Black women will save the Dem party" ...

This line of thinking is remarkably similar to saying “Black women will save the Dem party” ...

...and then being disappointed that a minority group who have been loyal and hardworking can’t in fact work miracles against overwhelming odds.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg never could walk on water, though she could swim like an Olympic medalist. (That’s a metaphor. So sue me.) She couldn’t change water into wine, either, but she could make gay weddings legal and dance at them.

Just stop it, all of you. Do the work. DO THE WORK AND STOP BLAMING SOMEONE WHO SPENT HER WHOLE LIFE WORKING.

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49 replies	Author	Time	Post
To those who argued it was wrong to suggest RBG should have retired under Obama... [View all]	PTWB	Sep 2020	OP
Two words. Merrick Garland	we can do it	Sep 2020	#1
Democrats controlled the Senate until 2015.	tritsofme	Sep 2020	#10
Exactly. The past is the past but for the future	Statistical	Sep 2020	#17
Then our idiot fellow Dems stayed home in the midterms, right?	Hekate	Sep 2020	#18
JUST STOP IT. Have you no decency? Some of us are actually mourning her and trying to honor her	hlthe2b	Sep 2020	#2
I'm with you. This thread has no place showing up today, of all days.	BComplex	Sep 2020	#21
Thank you Same.	Tanuki	Sep 2020	#26
Agree 100%. May we at least have this	ChazII	Sep 2020	#29
It wasn't up to her to save us from ourselves.	TwilightZone	Sep 2020	#3
I think RBG would be the first to say the personal is political	aikoaiko	Sep 2020	#27
The last time we had Obama and a Democratic Senate was 2010.	yardwork	Sep 2020	#37
Nope. We are going to win in Nov.	LakeArenal	Sep 2020	#4
They better not tear down her statue	DBCooper88	Sep 2020	#5
Hmmmm.....	Mrs. Overall	Sep 2020	#6
I am one who thought she should have retired	marybourg	Sep 2020	#7
Agreed. Good point. We can discuss pragmatism and strategy on some future date	Statistical	Sep 2020	#19
What good does it do looking backwards and figuring out where to place blame?	groundloop	Sep 2020	#8
If we don't learn from our mistakes ...	PTWB	Sep 2020	#9
No disagreement about that.... but your OP is about placing blame, not learning.	groundloop	Sep 2020	#14
We have to act on what is, not what could have been	Olafjoy	Sep 2020	#11
Being called all sorts of names for being realistic about mortality...	BeyondGeography	Sep 2020	#12
Who thought Democratic voters would sit home, vote for trump, vote Green, etc., giving us trump?	Hoyt	Sep 2020	#13
I agree with you	DavidDvorkin	Sep 2020	#15
Excuse me? I'm to blame for somebody else's retirement decision?	yardwork	Sep 2020	#16
Did you refuse to vote for HRC?	PTWB	Sep 2020	#28
Of course not, but that's not what you said. I quote below:	yardwork	Sep 2020	#31
Why would you dismiss political pragmatism?	PTWB	Sep 2020	#33
Bullshit. Ginsburg didn't know me from Adam.	yardwork	Sep 2020	#35
Better brush up on your history there, champ.	PTWB	Sep 2020	#49
RBG is not yet in the ground	Hekate	Sep 2020	#20
She may have thought Hillary was a shoo-in like many others did.	gulliver	Sep 2020	#22
I deeply mourn RBG's passing. And I agree with you. I can do both at once.	Squinch	Sep 2020	#23
She was 80 and had already survived cancer in 2013	Azathoth	Sep 2020	#24
In 2018, she said she wanted to work five more years	BeyondGeography	Sep 2020	#30
In 2018 Trump was president and the Republicans controlled the Senate.	yardwork	Sep 2020	#34
Nobody was asking her to retire in 2018	BeyondGeography	Sep 2020	#39
2018 was two years ago. What has changed since then?	yardwork	Sep 2020	#43
Egotism? Wish I could read people's minds.	zackymilly	Sep 2020	#41
This line of thinking is remarkably similar to saying "Black women will save the Dem party" ...	Hekate	Sep 2020	#25
Hear, hear.	yardwork	Sep 2020	#32
That is nonsense. I love Justice Ginsberg and always will but she should	Demsrule86	Sep 2020	#38
She hasn't had the opportunity to be replaced since 2010.	yardwork	Sep 2020	#44
That's just wrong	BeyondGeography	Sep 2020	#46
We had the Senate until the end of the 2014...she could have been replaced...you don't need the	Demsrule86	Sep 2020	#48
I've always kind of felt that people were entitled	stopdiggin	Sep 2020	#36
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2020	#40
What's the point of the board at all, then?	PTWB	Sep 2020	#42
You really don't listen, do you?	yardwork	Sep 2020	#45
Well, now. Aren't you just the little ray of sunshine......	Paladin	Sep 2020	#47

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