The disgraceful Supreme Court justice should be held accountable for his actions but probably won’t.

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    Because right-wingers are EXTREMELY, overwhelmingly, almost unanimously corrupt. They would never punish one of their own, no matter heinous, unethical, or repugnant the crime. They know that if they do not all stick together lock-step no matter what, their illegitimately stolen power will fall apart like used wet toiletpaper.

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      left wingers are any better? I got one for you, the state is neither, it has both parties in it and only two parties. it is corrupt, rub two brain cells to together to arrive at a conclusion outside of the left/right framework. I know it is hard but work on it.

      like why are you even make this left right when most of us are the bottom?

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        Because one of the parties is better for lifting people up. Like, immeasurably better.

        I won’t even say which one I think it is. You can decide for yourself.

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          show me these people who have been lifted up?

          statistics point towards largely more poor people, worse health, more debt, less home ownership. who was lifted up and when?

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              Just look at the amount of people living in poverty in the 40’s and early 50’s, then the democrats started the “war on poverty” and started these programs and 70 years later, the number of people living in poverty has continued to rise

              Just look at the number of people living in poverty those stats aren’t hard to find.

              More people are living in poverty in the US today than they were 70 years ago

              You’d think after 20+ trillion dollars spent, the record on poverty would be much much better

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                You’ve never heard of social security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, housing opportunities, mental health services, food banks, soup kitchens, etc etc etc

                Like Jesus Christ with that comment. How fucking stupid are conservatives? Go hit your head with a hammer and see if it helps. Seemingly it couldn’t hurt.

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                  so practically speaking not much of safety net unless you are old, or single poor mother, which i support no doubt but that is [not] a safety net a vast majority of the population.

                  also, note mental health services, food banks, soup kitchens >>> federal government and states hardly provide these, they are provided by private sector…

                  even those have been steadily eroded under successive administration since 1980s, which share of taxes paid by working people have been increasing. so working person pays more taxes and gets no safety net for the most part.

                  You need to get educated instead of vomiting generic talking points, it would help this country if everyone did the same.

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        left wingers are any better?

        Yeah.

        Remember when Al Franken resigned because someone said they were bother by his actions decades ago? Remember how there were bipartisan investigations into Benghazi and Hillary emails? Or when Bill Clinton let an independent special prosecutor attempt to find evidence of corruption?

        How about how Lindsey Graham said that he would never support confirming a supreme court justice before a presidential election and then did that? Or how many of Trump’s administration have went to jail?

        This “both sides are just as bad” number doesn’t work when one side is activity lieing, curtailing freedoms and attempting literal coups, while the other side has obeyed due process and law the overwhelming majority of the time.

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        it is corrupt, rub two brain cells to together to arrive at a conclusion outside of the left/right framework.

        Weird that 1/2 of this framework, the D group, always votes against gigantic tax cuts for the rich, and the R group always votes for the exact opposite. Both sides are the same opposite of each other.

        like why are you even make this left right when most of us are the bottom?

        Because if you are at the bottom, you would be an extreme fool to vote for the party that consistently gives gigantic tax cuts to billionaires.

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          reality check… Trump’s tax cuts passed.

          Biden could not get student loans done… Obama could not get health done properly…

          Trump spend trillions on covid “bail outs” Biden came in did and the same…

          What did you get from Democrats having both house and presidency, limp dick student loan reform that added USD 1T to on the genY and GenZ?

          The cope here is too strong today lol

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            reality check… Trump’s tax cuts passed.

            Exactly! That alone is why it’s very important to vote against the GOP and their gigantic tax cuts for billionaire elites.

            What did you get from Democrats having both house and presidency,

            Increased minimum corporate tax rate from 0% to 20%.

            Increased subsidies for ACA

            Tax Cuts for middle class. $2000 per person. Plus $200 per dependent per month.

            Reduction in medicare drug costs

            Reduction in student loans. Sabotaged by GOP Supreme Court.

            Action on climate change.

            …And Biden got all that stuff done with just one vote Dem majority in the senate, which included Manshin and Arizona lady who isn’t even Dem anymore. If Dems had huge majorities, they could enable a flood of progress just like they did in the 1930’s and 1960’s.

            The cope here is too strong today lol

            The “both sides” nonsense is strong today lol. But still easily refuted by reality.

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            Low education take.

            Joe Biden accomplishments as President:

            2020: Elected President, defeating Donald Trump in the Electoral College 306 to 232, with a popular vote margin of more than 7 million votes.

            2021: Directed USA to rejoin Paris Climate Agreement.

            2021: Halted the Keystone XL pipeline.

            2021: Repealed Trump’s travel bans.

            2021: Repealed Trump’s transgender military ban.

            2021: Ordered an additional 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

            2021: Pledged $4 billion to COVAX global vaccine alliance.

            2021: Signed $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. It includes:

            Small business support. $1,400 per person checks. Increases to the Child Tax Credit, Earned-Income Tax Credit, and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credits. $300 extended unemployment insurance. Lower health insurance premiums for lower- and middle-income families enrolled in health insurance marketplaces.

            2021: Canceled $1.5 billion in student debt for victims of for-profit school fraud.

            2021: Ended the War in Afghanistan after 20 years.

            2021: Negotiated and signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. It includes:

            $110 billion for roads, bridges, and major projects
            $73 billion for power infrastructure
            $66 billion for passenger and freight rail
            $65 billion for broadband
            $55 billion for clean drinking water
            $50 billion for water resilience and Western water storage
            $39 billion for public transit
            $25 billion for airports
            $21 billion for removal of pollution from water and soil
            $17 billion for port infrastructure
            $7.5 billion for electric vehicles
            $7.5 billion for zero/low emission busses and ferries
            $1 billion for the revitalization of communities

            2021: U.S. gross domestic product grew at 5.7 percent for the year, the strongest economic growth in 37 years.

            2021: Favorability of the United States improved sharply around the world.

            2022: Approved a U.S. special forces mission that killed ISIS leader Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.

            2022: Nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman in history to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.

            2022: Signed the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

            2022: Led a massive international response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

            2022: Signed the first major gun safety legislation passed by Congress in nearly 30 years.

            2022: Ordered the drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and the world’s most wanted terrorist.

            2022: Unemployment falls to 3.5 percent, matching the lowest rate in 50 years.

            2022: Signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law, providing $52.7 billion for chip manufacturing and research and $170 billion for scientific research, innovation, and space exploration.

            2022: Signed ratification documents approving NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, strengthening the NATO alliance and reinforcing democracy in the face of Russian brutality against Ukraine.

            2022: Signed PACT Act strengthening health care and benefits for America’s veterans and their survivors.

            2022: Signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. It includes $369 billion to provide energy security, fight climate change, and create clean domestic manufacturing jobs. It also lowers healthcare costs by extending Affordable Care Act subsidies for 3 years, expanding vaccine coverage, and reforming prescription drug pricing. The act also raises revenue by establishing a 15% corporate minimum tax on companies with at least $1 billion in profits. Through revenue and savings, the Inflation Reduction Act reduces the deficit by a net $305 billion dollars.

            2022: Less than 2 years into his presidency, Biden is already one of the most legislatively successful presidents of the modern era.

            2022: Thanks to a Biden executive order, hearing aids become available over the counter without a prescription, lowering costs by up to $3,000 per pair for 30 million Americans.

            2022: Led the Democratic Party to the best midterm election performance of either party since 1934.

            2022: Signed legislation to avoid a potentially catastrophic rail strike after brokering a deal approved by 8 of 12 railway unions, raising workers’ wages by 24%, increasing health care benefits, and preserving two-person crews.

            2022: Approved a deal to bring WNBA star Brittney Griner home after 10 months of wrongful detention in Russia.

            2022: Signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, ensuring federal recognition of marriage regardless of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin, ten years after publicly declaring his support of same-sex marriage on Meet the Press.

            2023: Forced congressional Republicans to swear off Medicare and Social Security cuts on live television while delivering his State of the Union Address.

            2023: Took a 10-hour train trip, each way, through war-torn Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv and reconfirm U.S. support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s criminal aggression.

            2023: Signed an executive order greatly expanding access to long-term care and child care.

            2023: Mounted a major diplomatic effort that got Turkey to agree to admit Sweden into NATO, making that alliance stronger than it has ever been.

            2023: Announced $39 billion in student debt relief for 804,000 borrowers.

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        bUt BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE

        Dems have their problems but jfc. What planet do you “bOtH sIdEs” truthers live on?

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            Fascist gonna fascism. In the face of a right wing court overturning people’s human rights. Talking about a culture war while the world burns due to something they refuse to even believe, and suddenly best of friends with Putin, while trump talks about getting a dictatorship in place, while CPAC runs a statement “we are all domestic terrorists”.

            You guys have to be the most ignorant, and least empathetic humans ever born.

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              The people in charge are smart. The people listening to the people in charge are embarrassing to call compatriots.

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        Centrist Democratic Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power, but we want people to like us so we’ll do some incrementally good things things to keep folks satisfied

        Centrist Republican Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power, and fuck you. If you don’t support us rapist minorities are going to rape you to death, or you might have to see people who aren’t like you in public.

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          Centrist Democratic Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power,

          Then how come 100% of them voted against Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump and the GOP’s gigantic tax cuts for billionaires in 2017? Vague claims mean nothing. Only real things matter.

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            So first let’s be clear. I’m not "both sides"ing. My point is clearly that the overton window for centrists is so far right, that the parties would essentially meet in the center if the republican party hadn’t fully embraced the culture war insanity.

            Voting against Trump (a member of the opposing party) is like, the least they could do. They should hardly get back pats for that.

            How about this for “real things”. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes banning Congress members from owning individual stocks

            She later did an about face and said she would bring legislation to do that, and what do you know, two years later and still nothing.

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              My point is clearly that the overton window for centrists is so far right,

              That’s why it is critical for Dems to have a big majority. That is the only thing that will move the overton window significantly to the left.

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          Have you made any points that are actually debatable or are you just shit posting and crying about the community (and reality) leaning left?

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            We can discuss points if you want, I mean any time I post any in here it’s just downvoted in the hundreds though

            So I don’t really think this is the place for any real discussion. Just another echo chamber probably full of bots

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                You don’t at all question how unlikely it is that a community named ‘politics’ can have such a homogenous point of view as this one without some kind of bullshit being involved?

                Every post is from a liberal-positive perspective, every comment even slightly right is downvoted to oblivion and shouted down immediately. This isn’t natural.

                By the amount of downvotes my posts here receive, it would basically need to be that every single person online decided to downvote my comment.

                You think that’s just natural? You think it’s because you’re sooooooooo right and I’m sooooooo wrong?

                Gotta think about it a little bit more, I think

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                  You think it’s odd that the overwhelming majority of folks support things that help others? Doesn’t say much about the community but definitely says a lot about you.

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    Because of politics.

    1. no chance of removing him
    2. Democrats just impeached Trump twice.
    3. expanding the court makes more sense
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        @ProfThadBach In all honesty though, why would we expect any better when our only major parties are far-right fascists and right-of-center liberals? That’s two right-wing parties controlling everything.

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        Okay but you know expanding the court is a nuclear option. Like the current place we are in is there are 6 “conservative” judges and 3 “liberal” ones. So you would need to introduce 4 new supreme court justices at minimum to upset the current balance. While you are sort of ignoring the Senate has 49 republicans, 48 dems, and 3 “independents”. So who again confirms supreme court justices? Oh yeah senate… This is also ignoring you would have to make a new act to set the number of supreme court justices to 13 and who has majority control over house again? So lets fast forward to some future where dems have unquestionable control over the legislative branch of government where they can’t be filibustered down. What exactly stops conservatives from just increasing that number once again to 18 or so when they have control?

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            Like I’m not happy with the current circumstances but we have to remember there are many systems in this and if we ever get around to do said changes they have to be done in a careful way since they can absolutely backfire on us. Like I’m quite aware many conservatives play dirty ie “you can’t appoint a supreme court justice on an election year, it should be based on the voice of the people” that was quickly ignored once it was advantageous to do.

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    Because in reality its not Republicans vs Democrats. It’s Us against Them. They will never side with Us against one of their own. We exist to fill their coffers, we are necessary bugs in the system.

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      Not sure why you’d need to block it more than once, but if you need assistance let me know and I can get this magazine blocked for you pretty quickly.

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    Cause he’s doing his job well and accurately, according to the text of the constitution itself?

    You know that thing the left likes to pretend doesn’t exist?

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      “The left” aka the rest of the developed world, but OK boss. Ignore the cartoonishly obvious corruption. I guess justices can just accept huge gifts from whoever, business before the court or not. Because it’s not specifically called out in the constitution it’s all good! Ethics is canceled, we can all go home. Cool, cool.

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        justices can just accept huge gifts from whoever

        Right up until some kindergartner gives Jackson a hand drawn picture of a rainbow and Tucker Carlson has an aneurysm over it.

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      Could you explain to me how taking bribes from people he is presiding over is doing his job “well and accurately”? Founding fathers would have kicked him out a long time ago

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      As usual, the conservative chimes in with a comment utterly ignorant of the issues at hand.

      The constitution has nothing to do with this; it’s about ethics violations. Educate yourself.

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      Article II section 4 of the constitution

      The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

      That seems like a part of the constitution he isn’t upholding

      Maybe if you read the constitution you’d understand what’s going on.

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        Yeah but that only applies to the libs. Obviously. And I’m sure they’ve done much worse. The constitution doesn’t matter.

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      Speaking of not thinking the Constitution exists:

      Trump should not be able to run for president based on the disqualification clause of the 14th amendment because of the insurrection.

      Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

      Other things of note: 'In early 2016, Trump again had gutting the First Amendment in view, this time wanting to “open up the libel laws” to infringe on the freedom of the press. That summer, he vowed to protect articles of the Constitution that do not exist. In 2017, he said constitutional checks and balances that required him to share power with Congress are a “very rough” and “archaic” system, which is “a really bad thing for the country.” That fall, he said asserting Fifth Amendment rights is proof of guilt. In 2018, he floated unilaterally ending birthright citizenship in violation of the 14th Amendment.

      In 2019, Trump repeatedly claimed Article II of the Constitution gave him “the right to do whatever I want.” The same year, he argued he should be able to abuse national emergency declarations to expand his own power beyond constitutional boundaries because Democrats would do the same thing if given the chance. In 2020, he reportedly expressed interest in declaring martial law though the constitutional preconditions for it, per Ex parte Milligan (1866), had not been met. And just last month, he called for executing drug dealers after a two-hour trial modeled on communist China’s justice system, a blatant rejection of constitutional due process. By the standard of many of his Republican supporters, even Trump’s record on the Second Amendment falls short."

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          I’m removing this comment because you’ve been reported for trolling.

          Be aware that every member of the mod team has brought up your name and the word “ban” in the same sentence, especially for your behavior in other magazines.

          I defended you and said no - let’s not judge their actions for other parts of the Fediverse. That’s how you become r/pyongyang. But when your behavior in this magazine earns reports from other members of the community, we will act on them.

          You have a choice right now: you are in full control of your actions to participate in this community by not antagonizing or trolling. Nobody is asking you for ideological agreement, just that you don’t spend all your free energy here trying to get a reaction out of others.

          I hope you make the right choice.

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              It takes a real special kind of someone to hear “I defended you against being banned” as “we only permit one type of opinion in this magazine.”

              We welcome a diversity of perspectives for civil discussion. You are aware that you are skirting civility with your words. Especially your penultimate sentence which is easy to interpret as transphobic. We have a zero tolerance policy for bigotry, so you’ve made your choice to no longer participate here. Congrats.

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      He just interprets it in a way that happens to align with his donors and with his extremely conservative views. The constitution itself is an evil document no society should be based on.