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I mean he’s kinda right, but he just doesn’t realize he’s on the side threatening America.

I’m not sure a new justice could be appointed this close to the election given Joe Manchin’s previous statements. It also wouldn’t change the balance of power.

Correct, that is the full process. Even if the Senate is unlikely to convict, that doesn’t mean the house shouldn’t Impeach. It elevates the issue, brings attention to it, can dig up more information, and at least shows that some measure of accountability is being sought.

I think with more state level work, Dems could start flipping more Senate seats. AZ and Georgia are recent examples. But it needs to be a 50 state strategy, and too often people just see a red state and throw up their hands as if there’s no way that can change.

Maybe a better way to say it is obvious enough for people not paying close attention to have no doubt about the corruption, and as a result Court reform becomes a mainstream issue that moderate Dems get behind.

One of the reasons this election is so critical is the Supreme Court. If Trump wins, Alito and Thomas likely step down and two new, younger, likely even more conservatives get appointed, leaving Trump with 5 appointees who will fuck us for decades.

We have to keep that from happening. We need Biden to hold the fort if nothing else. Hopefully, it will become quite evident that this court is corrupt AF, and there will be real momentum for reforms and/or impeachment of Alito and/or Thomas. We’ll need Dem senators to actually start pushing for this and probably start pushing for increasing the Senate with DC, Puerto Rico, and Samoa statehood.

But people gotta suck it up and support Biden, while at the same time getting involved at the state level.

We need more Democrats in the Senate. To get that we need better representation in States or more senators. Folks have to start working at the local and state level to start affecting change, because in the current system it’s really hard to make that happen from the top down.

We should totally be going for a judicial reform, both of the district, federal circuit, and supreme Court levels. Republicans have what they have today because they’ve had a 40 to 50-year strategy led by the Federalist society to put conservative judges and positions of power up and down the ladder. And Democrats are about 30 years behind.

I don’t think our industrialized food and unwalkable cities are mutually exclusive when it comes to obesity.

Given that abortion and legal weed will both be on the ballot in Florida this cycle, turnout could a lot different this time around.

She’s not going to beat him in the primary, however there’s a not insignificant chance that Trump flames out (disqualification or conviction) and she’ll be the only candidate left with some delegates and she’ll default her way into the nomination.

The wild thing is that it was two very conservative Federalist lawyers who wrote the initial article (based on originalism) putting out the theory that Trump should be disqualified.

Further, the amendment specifically lays out Congress’s role: they can, with 2/3rds vote, remove the imposed disqualification disability.

Ezra Klein had a great podcast on this awhile back.

The lack of in-person community in modern American life has a profound and far reaching impact that I think many people fail to appreciate.

Thanks for the recommendation. I was wondering what else to try as I sure as hell don’t want to use YouTube and it doesn’t seem like you can have a separate podcast playlist in Spotify.

Trump already lost the civil case, the judge found him guilty of fraud. Everything in the case now is just about damages and penalties.

It’s still so wild to me that after all these years of seeing Trump lie, cheat, bully, grift, and bloviate that anyone looks at him and says, yes this is the man I want to lead our country.

Just listening to him rant for like five minutes should be enough for anyone to realize that he’s an incompetent asshole wholly unworthy of respect, much less public office. And yet, here we are with like 40% of the country saying he’s their guy.

There are a lot of great Democrats out there, but there are plenty of bad ones too. I don’t think we’ll see real change until most of the boomers are dead and gone.

There’s also the issue that with Republicans losing their damn minds, big money and corporations have been shifting their support to Dems.

RANKED. CHOICE. VOTING.