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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I’m wishing he had packed the courts when he had the chance.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yep, exactly. I remember seeing many warnings in 2021-22 saying that then was the right time to pack the courts. Establishment Dems twiddled their thumbs while insisting that everyone everywhere needs to follow proper decorum and procedure. And now look what happened with the string of terrible Supreme Court decisions.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The fact that the US has to 'pack the courts' to get anything through shows how broken the system is.

Not that any other country is better but still, you'd think judges should be impartial and resistant to influence, and yet you get Clarence offering up his chocolate starfish for a vacation in a warm climate

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of countries are far 'better'.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Oh probably, but I didn't want a bunch of Yankees jumping down my throat, and I don't know enough about other countries' legal systems to comment

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

You're 100% correct.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Fuck procedure. Dems need to act instead of just talking about shit. I'm legit terrified for this next election.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

And you think that wasn't the wanted outcome.

[–] the_artic_one 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He never had the chance, Manchin was pretty outspoken about his opposition to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

True, I was just dreaming for a minute.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

no because that would actually have worked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The skeptic in me says democrats love not being in power cause they don’t have to be responsible for what actually happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

And they get more donations