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Yes, the Hillary campaign warned us about the Supreme Court. And she also told us we could "never, ever" get Medicare for All. And let's not forget "my good friend Henry Kissinger," and the campaign ad featuring Brent Scowcroft. Hillary was supposed to be the Dem candidate, not GOP!

She also correctly identified all the trumpets!

McConnell wouldn't let Obama replace Scalia. You think if Bader-Ginsburg had resigned under Obama that McConnell would have let the Dems have the seat? I think we would have had a new, "Presidents in their second term can't appoint ANY Justices." You think Kennedy's resignation was a fluke?

And McConnell’s willingness to refuse to fill Scalia’s seat, may both of them rot in hell forever.

On the one hand, not luck as the primary cause is parliamentary shenanigans from McConnell. On the other, as it relates to Trump and Trumpism, specifically, 100% luck.

A little "luck", and a lot of "Mitch McConnell rewriting the procedural norms to be whatever benefited MAGA the most in that moment "

Then the Hilary voters (myself included) should have done a better job unifying the party after the nomination so that she could win. You don’t get to say if I would’ve won the Supreme Court would have been different. No shit but you didn’t win and that is on you!

yes, three is timing/luck...but conservative control of the Court for the last 50 years is not timing/luck. It's cuz the Senate is biased in favor of red states & does not accurately reflect the American people. Dem Sens have represented more Americans over the last 25 yrs but rarely had majority.

Trumpism benefited from that. McConnellism created it.

You need to own your support for the spoiler in 2016. I hope to God you’ve learned something.

The dismantling of the regulatory state is also a long term conservative goal

When you don't play hardball , you get you ass handed to you.

The cheating wasn’t a fluke…

Nobody should focus on redebating the past--the relevance of this fact now is that the Democrats *must* take back the Senate and they *must* refuse to confirm any Trump nomination just like Republicans did to Obama.

Not really. bsky.app/profile/west...

not something to be proud of

If he gets to pick his judges, nothing you can do, folks. "Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know." 🫨

*and fraud

…or hubris on the part of an elderly justice

I dunno, I'm pretty convinced the prior Trump administration forced Justice Kennedy out before he really wanted to go

What would the country look like today if Clinton had been able to fill 2-3 spots (assuming Kennedy chose to retire when he did)?

timing/luck and boomer obstinence.

Judicial reform needs to be task one. Anything else will just be shot down by SCOTUS.

Merrick Garland, you might recall, was supposed to be a Barack Obama Supreme Court appointment in 2016. Senate Republicans held that up almost a year so Trump could fill the seat instead. when you're spotted 1 like that, it's not really luck

Washerman Schultz(sp) totally crooked, helped to cost Hillary the election. Time to move on. Bernie should have become president in 2016 or 2020.

Not a fluke, calculated. McConnell refused hearings for Garland because it was an election year and then rushed Barrett after voting had started.

If Roger Stone and WikiLeaks didn't coordinate to save him from the Access Hollywood story, we aren't having his conversation

Cheating to acquire one of those seats doesn't land on my definition of 'victory'. 🙅

And Mitch McConnell’s sliminess.

Thinking that the SCOTUS problem cannot really trace to a "fluke of timing/luck". Mitch McConnell was the first to implement Trumpian strategy/tactics via the cynically engineered Gorsuch appointment. He would have tried the same if Justice Ginsburg had retired during the Obama administration...

This was NOT a fluke. I mean when are we going to come clean w/the corruption w/in politics that led to Trumps first win. Honestly - Comey, the salivating MSM, Bernie BS (he couldn’t and was NEVER fucking winning the Dem Nomination).

Tonight's show has a theme: the Administration is more of a criminal organization than government, with protection money, fraud, bribery, fear of violence, lies & more, but using the levers of government to enforce it all.

McConnell forcing ACB thru after making the people decide 1 year before 2016 is not luck.

And theft by McConnell.

Timing that mitch mcconnell manipulated to meet his purposes

I disagree slightly. My American history teacher drummed it into my head: Every election is about the courts. Every single election. Any time someone to the left of center sits the election out for reasons, they are handing another few dozen appointments to the enemy.

Well, that’s what happens when the Dems call working, flyover country voters deplorable. The DNC still doesn’t get it. They are still eating from the same corporate troughs as the RNC.

Didn’t like 3 conservative justices also retire strategically in the last 25 years compared to just 1 liberal

Three thoughts I always think about 1) unforgivable that Biden era did not prepare a successor the four years leading up and 2) even though I hate him as much as anybody, but his pushing through regardless of facts is a political skill that is successful and 3) garlands approach was the worst.

The timing might have been a fluke, but the willingness of Republicans to dispense with norms and protocols to steal 2 Supreme Court seats was an unvarnished power grab by a radicalized party happy to destroy democracy in order to establish permanent minority rule.

I'll agree that 'trumpism' only benefitted from those 3 openings rather than manipulated them into being, but there was manipulation- by turtle man mitch.

Also, some of it the work of the Still Definitely Alive Mitch McConnell.

Luck had nothing to do with it, or anything, unless you like your thinking magical.

I was part of a Bible study group in 2012 and questioned why after all the years of the "church" telling us we needed to vote for Christians, why I now needed to vote for a Mormon. I woman stood up, put her finger right to my face and said "It's about the courts. We need control of the courts".

Mitch McConnell blocking Obama from appointing and rushing through Barrett is not the result of timing or a fluke

So Bernie couldn't bring himself to say Michael Harrington was right.

Timing/luck but also the hubris of RBG.

Appoint young, push out before they die after beating cancer.

Sorry Chris.. a well funded and intentional campaign that maintains attention over decades to take advantage of probabilities just is not a fluke in any sense.

Not for long 😌

I can cut RBG some slack on this, she (as did most liberals at the time) thought that Hillary would win 2016 easily and she could retire at her leisure in 2017.

And pure political gamesmanship and corruption

Just wait til Alito and Thomas retire in 2028, so Trump can name a couple youngsters to replace them.

Yes, like the luck of a octogenarian with terminal cancer not resigning when her party could replace her. How unlucky.

Except for Mitch McConnell refusing to let Obama nominate Merrick Garland. That was a travesty (that led to a tragedy).

Marrick Garland would like a word

Mitch McConnell Close-UpALT: Mitch McConnell Close-Upstatic.klipy.com

And GOP fuckery…let us not forget that either!

"For EVIL to triumph ..." Everyone knows that quote by now EXCEPT trump's stooges and cronies and cultists who have been brainwashed into NOT even hearing it, let alone thinking about it (or anything else for that matter)! Don't worry republicans, you're in, at least one of those 3 categories!

It’s definitely a huge success for the extreme right: Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Atlas Network and all their other intertwined christofascist orgs. They have almost solidified their death grip on democracy through some luck and their useful idiot trump and the quislings in the GOP.

Luck. Hmmm.

You say fluke / timing. I say CHEATING.

Let’s also not overlook the fact that the Dems could have replaced RBG at an opportune time…not all luck/timing.

I disagree on “fluke of timing/luck.” Scalia died unexpectedly during Obama’s term, and McConnell stole that appointment. Kennedy appears to have made a deal to retire during Trump 1.0. Ginsberg died late in Trump 1.0 and McConnell jammed in ACB. Rs seized every opportunity and Ds dropped every ball

if political and corrupt mean the same thing

Exactly. It wasn’t Trump’s success. He was just the stooge in the seat. The credit, or more like blame, should go to Mitch. He was the man behind stalling Garland’s nomination in 2016 and rushing Barrett’s through the Senate in 2020.

With hindsight of course, but what could the Dems have done at the time that Obama was denied a vote on his nomination? Anything?

they’re also the least popular they have ever been and are looking at potential reform/expansion

Yeah, and Mitch being a Bitch