I'm sick to my stomach. DH was out picking up takeout, when the news broke. I can't eat.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 18, 2020 3:19:47 pm PDT #26399 of 30019
What is even happening?
Dana - Sep 18, 2020 3:22:05 pm PDT #26400 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Let's hear it for a brand new Klonopin prescription.
billytea - Sep 18, 2020 3:22:33 pm PDT #26401 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Oh dear God.
Jesse - Sep 18, 2020 3:24:29 pm PDT #26402 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The good news is that the Senate would never appoint a new justice until after the election, right? Let the people decide????
Calli - Sep 18, 2020 3:24:58 pm PDT #26403 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Well, damn.
Dana - Sep 18, 2020 3:27:06 pm PDT #26404 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I saw on Twitter that Murkowski won't support voting for a new justice, but I'm afraid to look anywhere to confirm that, since I only just managed to stop crying.
Steph L. - Sep 18, 2020 3:27:25 pm PDT #26405 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
What are the odds of 4 Republicans flipping their vote to stop a SCOTUS candidate from getting pushed through? Collins, maybe. Maybe Romney? Murkowski? And Graham's polling is terrible right now.
-t - Sep 18, 2020 3:31:31 pm PDT #26406 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am so sad and worried and scared.
I had only gotten as far as the wine and bread portion of the evening when I saw the news. I may not get any further. Wanted to be here with y'all, though.
Dana - Sep 18, 2020 3:34:16 pm PDT #26407 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Again from Twitter, Claire McCaskill said that McConnell knows pushing through a new justice before the election would lose them the Senate, and doing it in the lame duck session would hurt them in 2022.
I'm trying to figure out how best to yell at Cornyn and Cruz. It's not like I can appeal to their sense of decency.
DavidS - Sep 18, 2020 3:37:09 pm PDT #26408 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I will note that something is very fucked up with our democracy when the death of one person threatens the entire nation.
It is an argument for expanding the number of justices on the court so that the system is more balanced and less volatile.
The number of justices is not set by the Constitution just by tradition. Considering how much Mitch has shit over traditions of civility I'm wondering if a clean sweep election (WH, both houses of Congress) would justify it.