just sent 200 texts for GOTV in Michigan, yay. Now I will clean house while I wait for responses.
I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Consuela - Sep 19, 2020 10:23:58 am PDT #26434 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Dana - Sep 19, 2020 11:34:54 am PDT #26435 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Collins says whoever wins the election should appoint the next justice. I just don't know if I'm convinced that she'll stick to that, or if she'll turn around later and be like, "Oh, Trump has promised that the person he nominates won't be Satan incarnate, so I'm okay voting for them."
msbelle - Sep 19, 2020 11:37:43 am PDT #26436 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
WTG Consuela!
I don't trust Collins AT ALL.
Consuela - Sep 19, 2020 11:38:45 am PDT #26437 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Collins cannot be relied upon.
And even if they can stall for six weeks, there's another ten weeks after the election when they can get the nomination through.
I think the plan should be to expand the Court when the Dems take the Senate. There's all sorts of options to reduce the polarization/partisanship in the Court.
Jesse - Sep 19, 2020 11:42:04 am PDT #26438 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Collins says whoever wins the election should appoint the next justice. I just don't know if I'm convinced that she'll stick to that, or if she'll turn around later and be like, "Oh, Trump has promised that the person he nominates won't be Satan incarnate, so I'm okay voting for them."
She will 1000% do that second one. Fuck her.
Laura - Sep 19, 2020 12:12:17 pm PDT #26439 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I think the plan should be to expand the Court when the Dems take the Senate. There's all sorts of options to reduce the polarization/partisanship in the Court.
Yes, and make DC a state, and every single other thing that can be done to help reverse the damage done the past few years.
Consuela - Sep 19, 2020 12:25:27 pm PDT #26440 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I hope someone on Biden's team has a Google Docs list of all the new conflict-of-interest rules (and legislation) that needs to be put in place. Plus getting a Constitutional Amendment reifying the right to vote. Plus cutting back the number of political appointees in the executive branch. Plus making Inspectors General un-fireable except for cause (and that has to be reviewed by an outside non-partisan body). Plus requiring the President to actually fill positions with Senate-approved nominees, and fill board and commission spots (like the FEC), with something enforceable.
Basically, make norms enforceable for once.
meara - Sep 19, 2020 1:21:45 pm PDT #26441 of 30019
Yeah, she can say whatever she wants before the election and then change her mind as a big fuck you after, if she gets voted out.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 19, 2020 1:30:39 pm PDT #26442 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think the *next* person who spills their food on McConnell should make sure to order saganaki or cherries jubilee before doing so.
Trudy Booth - Sep 19, 2020 1:35:12 pm PDT #26443 of 30019
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah, all those things reasonable people who differed did as a respectful standard of behavior will need to be laws now.
The Republicans will bitch about us regulating everything - but if Presidents won't willingly release their financials and medicals and give up their business interests and if they treat the Secret Service as a source of revenue we need to pass some laws.