Why would a lame duck President be allowed to appoint a Supreme court justice 10 months before leaving office? Why would Congress even be willing to sit through deliberations during the middle of major election campaigns? There was no precedent broken. There were 15 other nomination attempts prior to Garland that were either "postponed", "withdrawn", or simply had no action taken in the last year of a presidency. You're not only misrepresenting the situation, you're giving actively false information on the subject. If anything, the precedent was set when J.Q. Adams' nominee was refused confirmation. AKA, democrats set the precedent, if a precedent was even needed, back in 1828, and that same precedent has been used by both parties numerous times since. Though the funniest had to be with John Tyler.

At any rate, the loudest among the left are the far left. The moderates want to work with Republicans, and Republicans want to work with them. It's nearly impossible, because any time it's tried, the far left shouts them down. Maybe if Harris and AOC and the like all lose their seats, it might be possible again in the near future. Otherwise, probably not.



What'd Mitch McConnell do that you dislike, specifically?

Kamala Harris is not far left. She's neo liberal to the core. The establishment would have loved it if Tulsi Gabbard didn't obliterate her.

And I'm not really sure what to say other than we disagree on the main contention of what Republicans did with their refusal to do their job. The conservative supreme court justices even said that it was dangerous what Republican leadership was doing.

Republicans, independents, and even a democrat or two did their jobs to perfection. SCOTUS appointments are lifetime appointments. Allowing Presidents to appoint them in their last year of Presidency is nearly always a bad decision.

While there have been a few confirmations in the last year of a Presidency, the overwhelming majority of nominations simply were not allowed. That's a historical fact, you can easily verify it, and it's done by both parties pretty consistently, and I agree with it completely.

You notice I'm not even arguing Garland's qualifications. Merely the idea that a President who is beyond any real worry of consequence and is reigning free and clear in their last year shouldn't be allowed to appoint a lifetime seat.

Regarding Harris' politics, yeah no. Co-author of the "Green New Deal" is "Neo-Liberal". Just lol.

Harris's record is what speaks the most. She's a pro hard on crime candidate and is in bed with big money just like all the other neo-liberals.

None of the far left consider her one of their own. She's a joke.

Most of the far left is either in bed with big money, or is utilizing their position in government (or government institutions) to fake themselves up big money out of the taxpayer's labor. Seems a minor difference.

And I didn't realize the far left were big on supporting crime. That's an honest to god new one on me.

Harris was meme'd into oblivion on black twitter for her imprisonment of black criminals.

many on the far left see even police pretense in poor neighborhoods as oppression.

she's about as center as anyone was on that stage, she just mixed in a few cheap ploys like challenging Biden's 40 year old record on busing in an attempt to stop the bleeding of black votes.

no one likes crooked cops and Harris background being half-Jamaica half-India wasnt going to absolve her lmao

Seeing Gabbard ruin her political career was top kek.

she was dead to black twitter when she claimed she got high in school and listened to Tupac, but it was years before Tupac's first album.

dont invoke Tupac for a lie, tsk tsk.



so so so satisfying

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yeah Tulsi yeeted Kamala’s campaign in 30 seconds with ruthless efficiency


lol she also was bragging about smoking weed while locking up black men for dealing dime bags while she was assistant DA

i know people joke about the (certainly its happened before) cops confiscating contra-band during a bust but damn Kamala straight up said ‘yeah i locked those dudes up and then smoked the spoils after my shift ended’ lmfao