Was a pretty good ~10 min speech too, on the House floor.
Is there any chance this will ever pass?
I don’t really know what it would take to get this done
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Would require the GOP to no longer exist to get this done.
She could also try to convince Biden to have them assassinated, which would be totally legal.
With the current SCOTUS, it’s only an official act if a Republican does it.
I’m not advocating for it, but like, if they are dead they can’t really speak up about their opinions. Again, not condoning murder, but just thinking through the logic on this.
Wait, that’s an option?
Ever played Suzerain? There’s a timeline where this is possible, but you gotta play it right.
That said, this speech would make a big impact in that game. But it’s obviously fictional and based in the beginning of a the Cold War within the Eastern Bloc, so it’s more realistic in expected outcomes than the reality of 2024 United States. Maybe they can make a hardcore mode DLC based on those societal and political conditions.
In truth, regardless of camps, all Americans should be livid if they are those that refer to themselves as real Americans—honestly, patriotic conservatives the most, in protection of the constitution. Unfortunately that unity is gone, so the words will get washed away by a torrent of bias before they can be pondered on.
By the president ordering the assassination of every Republican legislator, lobbyist and RNC operative.
We’d need every Democrat and a few Republicans. Since these traitorous justices are what’s giving Republicans power, it’s pretty unlikely. Still worth trying.
Yeah, you push the issue and get people on record voting to defend blatant corruption. Then you can use it against them in the next election. House Reps run for office every two years. It’s really frustrating to watch the Democrats abandon a cause because “it will never pass the House.”
There’s always a chance, it’s just very small. These corrupt justices are the end game for the republican party, the odds of any of them breaking ranks to convict is very low.
That said, it’s almost certainly not about conviction, so much as upholding the rule of law and creating political pressure and support for something like packing the court.
The motion will get assigned to a committee, run by Republicans, where it will die. Even if there is a sympathetic Republican on that committee, all House members are up for re-election in November, and voting for this is a sure way to get the MAGAs all up in their grill and would likely lead to that person losing a ton of MAGA support, and likely losing their job.
AOC knows this and is doing this to help Democrats in vulnerable districts, to help turn the House in the next Congress. “Elect us into the majority, and we will actually look into this.”
You are arguing that Republicans are, ”To busy keeping their job to do their job”. While that may be true in some cases, I fear that for some of them, breaking the Supreme Court like this was the goal all along.
Would need at least some republican support, since they still hold the majority. So, not holding my breath, they tend to stick together.
No, this is pro forma only. Which doesn’t mean it’s unimportant because it’s about the message. But it will not go anywhere judicially.
I’m willing to bet that even if the two judges were removed tomorrow, the Democrats wouldn’t add any judges because they’d want to “play fair” and not assign someone right before an election.
It was Mitch McConnell and the Republics that blocked Merrick Garland, not the Democrats.
They’ve been playing that game since Reagan, so yeah.
You also want that juicy carrot at the end of that stick during an election year. Ensure your voters are going to vote for you or else risking losing your whole democracy.
Counter point - you get them installed so they can make meaningful decisions that help the people and then constantly remind the public:
We did that! We did that! We did that! Vote for us and there will be more of that.
They would. But Democrats don’t have a majority in the Senate, so confirmation won’t happen. Manchin and Sinema are the necessary independents likely to refuse to confirm.
She needs to force everyone involved to read the Pro Publica piece and call it an executive summary lol
Hell she should just get the people who worked on that piece to advise
Nothing like a good bit of public shaming for these corrupt judges.
Don’t follow much US politics because yous cunts shoehorn it into every fuckin thread about squirrels, dog food or whatever, but why is that lassie not your president? Instead of the two pish-reeking geriatric cunts you’ve got at the moment
She will not be the minimum age of 35 until next year and this is ineligible to run for the position till 2028
Also, we have a racism and sexism issue in this country so it would be an uphill battle.
She’s 35 in October, she is eligible
She wasn’t eligible last time around, which is why she couldn’t be president now.
We have an election this year in November. A month after her 35th birthday. She could be the nominee instead of Biden.
Soooo, there is a minimum age but not a maximum ?
Yet cognitive decline starts way earlier than people are willing to admit !
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Yeah, at least as early as 1776
LMAO, cognitive decline does not begin in your 30s, but yeah I guess so. There is something to be said about intelligence plus life experience.
Lol but reading comprehension starts at 4 mate 😅
According to the SCOTUS, being ineligible for the Presidency isn’t a barrier, to running or winning. So I say bring on AOC as the nominee instead of Biden!
I find somehow telling that US got a black president before it get (if it even go there) a woman president
It’s pretty consistent. Black men got the right to vote long before women too. The US has more deep rooted misogyny than racism, and it’s got plenty of racism.
Blew my mind when I found out women couldn’t have their own bank accounts in the United states until 1974.
Because as president you serve 4-8 years and then become generally irrelevant. In congress you can serve for decades.
why is that lassie not your president?
She needs to be about a century older, white, male, sell out to corporations, and shed her sense of ethics.
Then maybe, if the GOP is running enough of a Nazi.
Technically, she wasn’t old enough to run until this year.
More practically, we have a center-right party and a fascist party in this country. The center-right party has a few actual leftists in it, but they tend not to gain much power.
A politician, for the people? Strange.
There’s a handful.
Love to see it. AOC doing great work. To drive turnout, the November election should be about this issue: electoral and judicial reform. We can’t fix this country without it.
it will not go anywhere but good for her for doing it.
Would much rather have the senate actually investigate them
I wonder how you can spend 500 000$ on an Indonesian trip… are those Indonesian dollars, or are they having coke and hooker every minutes?
And here’s the big fucking shocker. Guess who seated these two into their positions?
George Fucking Bush.
Republicans will still blame dems tho. Thanks to their lack of an educational system or ability to think critically or objectively for anyone that has anything to do with their party lines. Keep defunding that education and pushing the norm away from progress, tolerance, and respect for thy neighbor.
Sycophants.
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