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Just a reminder, SCOTUS appointments have nothing to do with the House.

The Senate is behind Trump, and the two big Never Trumpers are dead or resigned.

rdm says

Hmm. I thought you were predicting a gain in the House for the republicans?

I was. Strongly!
It didn’t work out. Guess my crystal ball is a bit foggy. All that Red in the Senate pinked over to occlude the House race.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

The Senate is behind Trump, and the two big Never Trumpers are dead or resigned

If you look at it that way, the gain was +6 Senate seats for MAGA. Two GOPe gone and replaced with MAGA, one Arizona seat McStain vacated and is now solidly MAGA (once the Dem concedes), two pickups in Missouri and N Dakota, and one more in Florida.
That’s a nice cushion. No wonder Trump is feeling froggy!

Getting rid of McCain and Flake were huge for Trump.

Evan F. says

krc says

But this idea that you should serve until you die just isn't working.

I suppose you must've thought Scalia should've retired ages before he bought the farm then.

Scalia would have lasted longer had he not been murdered by Soros.

Goran_K says

murdered by Soros

ALIENS!!!

Quigley says

House races lost can be attributed to gerrymandering and local politics as well as a huge influx of Democrat money into contested races.

Influx of damned Yankees into TX, who have destroyed economy in their own states and now come to destroy it in the Great State of Texas.

Alright Get her out of there, next!

If this were Boxing they would have thrown in the towel years ago.

She won't quit until she's achieved a lifetime best of 3000 metric long tons of circuitous, ambiguous, mumbling legal ramblings at hundreds if not thousands of dollars per page leading up to arbitrary SCOTUS legislations.

The last great justice was Earl Warren, who conspicuously sold his soul under color of authority and integrity to the FBI and CIA by by helping to forge the Warren Commission results to bend to their will. He showed how a double jointed legal whore could really operate.

According to the Mayo Clinic, 29% of elderly die from complications from 3 broken ribs.

Note: Add to Dead Pool.

Booger says

According to the Mayo Clinic, 29% of elderly die from complications from 3 broken ribs.

That woman will live forever.

Didn't she survive both colon and pancreatic cancer and also have heart surgery recently?

Broken ribs are a bitch though and really hurt, probably requiring some major pain medication.

Where is that animated gif of Ginsburg dying when you need it?

The comment about blue-state folks moving to texas and corrupting the value is too true! I have a good liberal friend who is moving out of state(CA) because he doesn't like the taxes and is retiring - and yet he voted yes on all tax increases, etc... His view is that someone "else" should be paying - he can flee when he wants - for a low tax state, and then once there start voting for "high taxes". :)

Could you imagine if she dies this week?

In the same week Trump gets a bullet proof Senate.

How cool would that be? I mean it would suck for HER! And the Libs offering her a rib and liver.
But it would be really cool for us Patriots that were insulted by the first LBGT SCOTUS.

Booger says

According to the Mayo Clinic, 29% of elderly die from complications from 3 broken ribs.

That’s because they make it hurt to breathe normally, causing the person to breathe shallowly. This leads quickly to pneumonia due to various factors. And old immune systems aren’t great at fighting off disease. Additionally, old livers and kidneys aren’t great at eliminating toxins the bacteria produce, so the body slips into sepsis and then organ failure. When the heart shuts down it can’t be restarted and the patient dies.
All from broken ribs!

MegaForce says

But they lose U.S. Senate races in red areas –”

“Because of gerrymandering,” Behar interrupted.

What a dumbass! Senate contests are decided on a state-wide vote, not one that can be carefully apportioned into drawn districts where gerrymandering can happen! With Senators, every vote counts. She’s just plain ignorant, as are her fans.

Goran_K says

Getting rid of McCain and Flake were huge for Trump.

Those were D votes whenever it counted. Remember the ACA vote!

The libs will put her brain floating in a jar with a vocoder and some flashing LED lights for whenever she is supposed to be rubber stamping the libby agenda at SCOTUS.

MegaForce says

...tell that to the batshit crazy left. Even their own 'experts' are so ignorant of constitutional basics they say crazy shit like this:

Joy Behar said Democrats lost key senate races because of gerrymandering in a segment on ABC’s ‘The View’ Wednesday morning.

I think Ocascio the Neiman Marcus Socialist made a stupid comment about her stopping appointments when she's in the House, too.

Edit: Here's another retarded remark, this one from Manchin (Trump told WV he'd caucus with the Dems on most everything important!)
Firing Sessions is a Constitutional Crisis, for some reason, as if the President doesn't have the power to fire from his own Cabinet..
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/415716-manchin-were-on-the-verge-of-a-constitutional-crisis-due-to-sessions

We get a new on in January.

Ginsburg-ageddon

REPORT: Retirement in January?

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had a re-occurrence of malignant melanoma, she has told her law clerks. Ginsburg was treated in 1999 for colon cancer and had surgery in 2009 for pancreatic cancer.

It's time, Ginsberg has to go.

To cling on so with all these health problems is ridiculous at this point. She's 85.

Man, this is going to get crazy if Ginsburg steps down or retires.

Kavanaugh is going to look like Sunday school.

Hope she doesn't have an organ doner permission card. She could wind up whacking a few donees yet. They'd wake up from anesthesia demanding $2000.00 an hour, then die screaming of cancer.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

MegaForce says

...tell that to the batshit crazy left. Even their own 'experts' are so ignorant of constitutional basics they say crazy shit like this:

Joy Behar said Democrats lost key senate races because of gerrymandering in a segment on ABC’s ‘The View’ Wednesday morning.

I think Ocascio the Neiman Marcus Socialist made a stupid comment about her stopping appointments when she's in the House, too.

"Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.
The same applies when you are stupid."
-- Ricky Gervais

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Goran_K says

Getting rid of McCain and Flake were huge for Trump.

Those were D votes whenever it counted. Remember the ACA vote!

Of course I remember. Mccain and Flake were the douchiest never Trumpers alive (RIP John).

But now with a solid senate majority, I wonder what Democrats will pull when Ginsburg leaves the bench (by her will or not). I would bet on there being multiple false flag type events happening in a short span.

Goran_K says

Scalia would have lasted longer had he not been murdered by Soros.

Hey TPB, it's not cool to hack Goran's account like that

I'm so glad that this happened after the election!

Nothing instructs an imbecile better than bribery. Ocascio has a bright future.

MegaForce says

Actually, we had a constitutional crisis over just that. The first POTUS to get impeached was because he fired a cabinet officer Congress forbade him to. Seriously.

From the Wikipedia article you linked:
In 1887, the Tenure of Office Act was repealed by Congress, and subsequent rulings by the United States Supreme Court seemed to support Johnson's position that he was entitled to fire Stanton without Congressional approval. The Supreme Court's ruling on a similar piece of later legislation in the 1926 Myers v. United States affirmed the ability of the president to remove a postmaster without Congressional approval, and stated in its majority opinion "that the Tenure of Office Act of 1867 ... was invalid".[47]

So the very act of law for the violation of which Andrew Johnson was impeached, was both repealed and deemed unconstitutional.
This means that going forward we can firmly discount all arguments that begin with the presupposition that the POTUS can’t fire someone from his cabinet. He can and he has and he will. There’s not even an unconstitutional act in force to oppose him.

MegaForce says

Actually, we had a constitutional crisis over just that. The first POTUS to get impeached was because he fired a cabinet officer Congress forbade him to. Seriously.

Everybody in the executive branch serves at the President's pleasure. Congress can't forbid him to fire anybody, nor claim it's a high crime or misdemeanor for him to do so.

Quigley says

This means that going forward we can firmly discount all arguments that begin with the presupposition that the POTUS can’t fire someone from his cabinet. He can and he has and he will. There’s not even an unconstitutional act in force to oppose him.

You forget that ORANGE MAN BAD, ORANGE MAN EVIL, ANYTHING HE DOES IS WRONG. WHEN HE HIRED SESSIONS, HE WAS WRONG; HE WAS WRONG WHEN HE FIRED SESSIONS BECAUSE ORANGE MAN.

MegaForce says

can impeach

I suspect we might see 2 years of hearings and impeachment theater, and the Senate won't remove, so it would replay 1996. Many Democrats feel motivated by 'revenge', 'vengeance', OrangeManBad, whatever, so they will resort to self-destructive behavior rather than trying to make deals with someone they consider the devil.

Also, the House has no role in judicial confirmations. Democrats could try to use House control as leverage in negotiations over judicial nominations, but that would require dealing with the "devil" OrangeManBad. I doubt that Democrats would really prioritize judicial nominations in that way, or make the necessary deals, and besides Republican Senators might prefer partisan appointees.

The election result was predicted by polls but remains disappointing IMO: Democrats got the wrong house of Congress. If Democrats had won the Senate but not the House, then they could not impeach, but they could insist on nonpartisan judicial appointments. Instead, we have the opposite.

Shrill, screaming torrents of raging, tearful psychotic abuse, echoing through the halls of Congress in an incessant flood lasting years, honoring every fake news meme generated about OrangeManBad, in so-called hearings, keeping the HATE alive!

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

It's time, Ginsberg has to go.

To cling on so with all these health problems is ridiculous at this point. She's 85.

"to go": I hope you meant "to retire".

Folks, If the SCOTUS is seen as partisan and rubber-stamping policies that are seen as unconstitutional by half the country, then we have a constitutional crisis.
It means half the country no longer respects the institutions overall.
No citizen should want that to happen.

Heraclitusstudent says

It means half the country no longer respects the institutions overall.

Ummm..... you are waiting? Though this happened 105years ago in liberal America

Prop her UP........Prop her UP!