Absolutely, and let me tout my less-radical-than-it-seems suggestion of what to do about SCOTUS: sortition.
Only the role of the chief justice is constitutionally enshrined. Write a Judiciary Act prescribing that the other seats get filled by a yearly random draw from the courts of appeals.
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What due process? The state wasn't trying to take his property or freedom. He had a job that required public trust, and he lost it. I voted for Franken, & Smith for Lt.G. I was happy Franken resigned & Smith was appointed, & happy to vote for her for Senate in her own right, as were most MN voters.
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The "Biden Too Old" drama is actually extremely relevant to the Supreme Court / Trump dictator conversations.
The Democrats keep annointing flawed, white centrist candidates with 1970s politics who everyone is already kinda sick of. That's how we got stuck with Trump in 2016. Build a bench, ffs!
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Again, imagine if the alternative that those 62% of Trump-too-old voters had was someone that wasn't *4 years older* than Trump
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Fine, media bias is bad. But, when ~3/4 *of your own party* thinks you're too old for another term, compared to 1/3 on the other side, that's a really big problem. A problem that the party, until now, was happy to blow off as "it's only February"
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Like what's the D contingency if their 81 year-old candidate strokes out or dies? Can't we just use that?
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73% of Ds think Biden is too old vs ~30ish% of Rs that think Trump is too old. That's one reason for the headline.
Plus, imagine what all those disenchanted Indys would think if they had a Not Old to vote for
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In which 73% of *Democrats* said he was too old to serve, back in February. There have been fun little data points like these popping up since the midterms at least.
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Double Dare!
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Like, I want to be really clear here: I want Biden to do much better, because I want him to win. But I also think everyone saying this is entirely a function of the media being mean and not due to campaign errors are just wrong. The concerns here are real, and they need to fix that.
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Accusations of sexual assault of women much, much, much younger than him.
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Yeah, but we're in a pick-one scenario here.
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And with that big advantage, he's still losing. He's been losing pretty consistently for a year. A June debate was *his campaign's idea* to turn things around.
And it's not just journos, it's the D party, because he's fucking up the damage control almost as badly as he fucked up the debate.
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You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...
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Satellite images analysed by Al Jazeera's digital investigation team, Sanad show that more than half (60 percent) of Gaza's farmland, crucial for feeding the war-ravaged territory’s hungry population, has been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks.
A genocidal campaign in clear view.
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Well guess what pal, I'm Nostradamus
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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism
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You could be referring to any number of Kennedys.
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Did a search On Here, and there are posts using Franken as a warning not to force out Biden. As if Tina Smith weren't a big improvement.
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We got a much better senator in Tina Smith?
Thanks! That *was* an instructive example.
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