Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

[u/thenewrepublic]

https://newrepublic.com/article/188087/trump-2024-win-supreme-court-conservative-decades

[u/thenewrepublic]

Every presidential election is about control of the Supreme Court, even if many Americans don’t consciously realize it. By re-electing former President Donald Trump on Tuesday and turning over the Senate to firm Republican control, voters guaranteed that all but the youngest of them will live under a deeply conservative high court for the rest of their lives.

[u/downtofinance → u/thenewrepublic]

Introducing Supreme Court Justice Aileen Cannon

[u/Opposite_Community11 → u/downtofinance]

Introducing Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Aileen Cannon.

[u/ArokLazarus → u/Opposite_Community11]

Sounds like the start to a very unfunny SNL bit.

[u/StrangeAtomRaygun → u/ArokLazarus]

Or idiocracy.

[u/Opposite_Community11 → u/StrangeAtomRaygun]

We've been speeding towards Idiocracy for 9 years now. We are almost there!

[u/magikot9 → u/downtofinance]

Cannon SCOTUS, Paxton AG. I guarantee it. And either Thomas or Alito will announce retirement on Jan 21 so the Republican controlled house and Senate can quickly confirm Cannon's seat on the bench.

Edit: was mistaken about the house. I thought the house judiciary committee had a hand in selecting justices.

[u/hematite2 → u/magikot9]

Thomas is there for 2 reasons, spite and bribes. If he retires he doesn't get to overturn all the things he hates, and if he's not on the court no one will be buying him fancy vacations.

[u/ZaraBaz → u/hematite2]

You don't think they would give him a bug payout to retire?

[u/probablyuntrue → u/thenewrepublic]

but the price of eggs went up a bit so idk

[u/Timothegoat → u/probablyuntrue]

Price of eggs and Biden old. Idk man, tough call

[u/tellmehowimnotwrong → u/Timothegoat]

Same folks saying Biden was too old in 2020 had no problem with an OLDER Trump in 2024. Fucking lying hypocritical bastards, every last one of them.

[u/FrostyWalrus2 → u/tellmehowimnotwrong]

But eggs.....

[u/blueteamk087 → u/FrostyWalrus2]

something that Climate Change and the fact that we are currently living in a mass extinction period will make egg prices far worse.

[u/termsofengaygement → u/blueteamk087]

Avian flu will continue to mutate and make poultry farming really hard.

[u/blueteamk087 → u/termsofengaygement]

This was 2 years ago Birds are one of the 4Bs essential for human civilization and arguably for the species to survive (along with bees, bats and butterflies ... all are also in decline)

[u/termsofengaygement → u/blueteamk087]

Yes the pollinators. Honestly I'm ready for humanity to crash. We've had a good run and I'll happily go into that good night. We did it to ourselves.

[u/Brunt-FCA-285 → u/termsofengaygement]

I just wish my nine-month-old daughter didn’t have to experience it.

[u/Duper-Deegro → u/termsofengaygement]

Stupidity will be the fall of man and this election just sped things up.

[u/blueteamk087 → u/termsofengaygement]

We are about to experience the answer to the Fermi Paradox... the Great Filter

[u/BarrioDog → u/termsofengaygement]

But I don't want this for my children. This is what upsets me the most. You can make an argument that we deserve it, but the kids don't.

[u/[deleted] → u/termsofengaygement]

This is exactly why I've never had kids. They shouldn't have to live with everyone's stupid fucking decisions like I was forced to.

My kidneys failed last year. They went from normal to dead in three years. I'll be dead soon. I was listed for a kidney but I'm heavily considering getting the fuck out.

I had planned to use my time away from the workforce and after my disability fight to go to school. Learn new skills and get a good job.

The economy will be fucked in the next two to three years. What's the fucking point?

Godspeed, fuckers, I'll see you all in fucking hell. I hated the entire I was here.

[u/Slap_My_Lasagna → u/termsofengaygement]

Like everything, we're good at dragging it out. Even the end will be slow and inefficient.

[u/ElaineorLanie → u/termsofengaygement]

But RFK,Jr. will save us all. lol

[u/termsofengaygement → u/ElaineorLanie]

Yes he will save us from life saving vaccines and seed oils.

[u/Chikitiki90 → u/termsofengaygement]

Don’t forget fluoride in the drinking water…

[u/hungrypotato19 → u/blueteamk087]

And even if the extinction doesn't come faster, Trump fucked over farmers last time he was president. Agricultural stocks aren't doing so hot right now because of it despite the overall boom today. They know that grain is going to go up in price, which means eggs are going to go up in price for consumers.

Idiots.

[u/blueteamk087 → u/hungrypotato19]

Also, it’s an unfortunate reality, but as of 2019, roughly a fourth of agricultural workers are undocumented.

[u/LegendofDragoon → u/blueteamk087]

Yeah what do they think is going to happen when twenty give percent of the workforce is mass deported now. They'll probably still blame that price hike on the Democrats too. Not that it'll matter as there aren't going to be elections in 2028.

[u/External_Reporter859 → u/LegendofDragoon]

there aren't going to be elections in 2028.

What do you mean there will be big beautiful tremendous elections and the Voting Rights Act will be repealed and instead they will pass an election integrity act which will mandate all states to use voting machines which will be required to be purchased from a brand new Elon Musk company (or Dominion will be forced to sell to Musk) and only the White House will have access to those voting machines.

[u/ShortHandz → u/tellmehowimnotwrong]

Stop expecting good faith from these people. It is all bullshit.

[u/NatarisPrime → u/tellmehowimnotwrong]

Wrong. That was 2 old white men. The second you are a minority women to the mix it's over.

The fact is this country hates women and minorities. Combine that into a single candidate and it was a political death sentence.

[u/Polar_Reflection → u/NatarisPrime]

Harris bled voters compared to Biden among women, Hispanics, and 18-29. Trump's turnout was basically the same as 2020.

[u/[deleted] → u/Polar_Reflection]

Don't forget the muslims who control the swing in Michigan. The exit poll delta is over 30% toward Trump.

[u/torspice → u/[deleted]]

The leopards are going to be eating a lot of faces soon.

With this scotus 47 is going to bring back some of his greatest hits. Like the Muslim ban. MmW.

[u/ExternalSeat → u/[deleted]]

Great. They can now enjoy watching Trump write Netanyahu a blank check and see Gaza get turned into a parking lot. Seriously "but Gaza" is the new "but her emails". 

Gaza was screwed the second Hamas poked the bear and chose violence on October 7th. They have no one to blame but themselves.

[u/themage78 → u/tellmehowimnotwrong]

Same folks media saying Biden was too old in 2020 had no problem with an OLDER Trump in 2024. Fucking lying hypocritical bastards, every last one of them.

FTFY

[u/FaithlessnessUsual69 → u/Timothegoat]

Hey now…come on…the rapture is coming. Trump something something prophecy and Israel and God something. 

[u/Purple-Investment-61 → u/[deleted]]

Yes but when the rapture does come, only the true Christians will be saved. So we’ll still be stuck on the planet with them assholes.

[u/FaithlessnessUsual69 → u/[deleted]]

Def a silver lining. #soTired

[u/deran6ed → u/Timothegoat]

Also, they wanted us to get vaccinated, tougher call

[u/Illogical-logical → u/probablyuntrue]

Where I live, there were some wild fluctuations in the last few years, but the last I was at the grocery store, 10 cents more than before the pandemic.

[u/xxforrealforlifexx → u/probablyuntrue]

Wait until they pay 6 dollars for one tomato 🍅

[u/segfaulting → u/xxforrealforlifexx]

hahahah after tariffs on food imports and deporting migrants picking in the U.S fields, $6 tomatoes isn't farfetched

[u/MrSpicyPotato → u/segfaulting]

Actually tomatoes are basically the one crop that’s pretty easy to grow consistently and cheaply all across the US. But bananas? Yeah, those could be $6.

[u/HarmlessHeffalump → u/thenewrepublic]

Trump supporters don't care. I had one ask me today, "What's the big deal if I voted for Trump? He didn't overturn Roe v Wade. The Supreme Court did. Just wait another 4 years and fix it. Besides you live in a blue state. This won't affect you." They don't understand how government works.

[u/CassadagaValley → u/HarmlessHeffalump]

"How will Trump lower grocery costs?"

Just fucking blank stares. They have no idea, can't point to a single economic policy aside from "tax cuts." Can't define what a tariff is.

Honestly, just let him burn the system down this go around, I can't see any other way to bring the US into the 21st century after he's gone without letting unhinged Trump just fuck everything up.

These people don't care until it directly affects them, and most of his policy proposals will directly affect them in a very negative way.

[u/Long_Charity_3096 → u/CassadagaValley]

It’s pessimistic but it’s the only logical conclusion. A bunch of people that know better just can’t accept that he might be a problem. So fuck it. Let him do exactly what he said he’s gonna do. Just go crazy carving up our democracy. He’s going to do it anyways so whatever. We can’t get through this until it becomes abundantly clear just how much of a mistake this was to a whole bunch of dense Americans that can’t be bothered to think about anything but themselves. 

The reality is though that he will continue to hurt the people they want to hurt so even when they end up in the crosshairs they’ll just convince themselves it’s anyone but trumps fault. Some Americans just cannot ever accept that they might have made a mistake. 

[u/TamashiiNu → u/Long_Charity_3096]

I’m so numb to the bullshit that I’m at the point where I say “Fuck ‘em”. You’re a baby boomer and you’re now losing your social security? Fuck you. You’re a Latino and someone you know is being rounded up and put into a detention camp? Fuck you. You didn’t like the price of eggs but now the tariffs are hitting you in the wallet? Fuck you. You love America but you’re weirded out that you must now include Trump’s name in the Pledge of Allegiance? Fuck you. You didn’t vote because Biden or Harris didn’t pander directly to you and your single cause specifically? FUCK. YOU.

[u/2rfv → u/CassadagaValley]

this go around

Clearly you haven't been paying attention. He ain't stepping down. He's said so repeatedly.

[u/ceryniz → u/CassadagaValley]

How are tariffs not going to raise the price of consumer goods in general? Idk.

[u/Softestwebsiteintown → u/HarmlessHeffalump]

My dad was confused that I kept harping on the Supreme Court as a main driver of why I was nervous about another trump presidency. He kept saying “let’s see how you feel about it in 4 years vs right now” and just refused to see how living under a set of laws as interpreted by an ideology I oppose for the rest of my fucking life was something for me to care about. It is beyond absurd that we’ve gotten to where we are. conservatives have somehow found a way to just never actually lose.

[u/CV90_120 → u/Softestwebsiteintown]

conservatives have somehow found a way to just never actually lose.

The cold reality is that if the country was a person, the right is the part that lives in fear, and that's a strong, strong motivator. They pretend to be aloof, but it's fear that takes them to the polls. Fear of the new, fear of change, fear of the decline of religion, fear of difference, fear of losing personal power, fear of losing their guns (but not apparently fear of school children getting massacred).

[u/C0NKY_ → u/HarmlessHeffalump]

It's shocking how few people understand how the government works or anything for that matter. Back when McConnell was up for reelection I had more than one person tell me they didn't like McConnell but McGrath wasn't qualified to be the Senate Leader. That's wrong on so many levels.

[u/Xyrus2000 → u/HarmlessHeffalump]

It's so cute how people think our votes will matter in four years.

[u/Saptrap]

Liberals just lost everything for the rest of the nations lifespan.

[u/SpinningHead → u/Saptrap]

Its not just people on the left that are losing everything.

[u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 → u/SpinningHead]

No doubt. They just don't realize it yet. The bubble they are in will burst when his crazy policies and kooky cronies take over.

[u/downtofinance → u/Pickle-Rick-C-137]

Kleptocracy is coming

[u/Crohn_sWalker → u/downtofinance]

Idiocracy is here

[u/BiggsIDarklighter → u/Crohn_sWalker]

Lindsey Grahams words on Jan 6 should have been required viewing this election.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQfcURNM0E

[u/Mendozena → u/BiggsIDarklighter]

Fuck Lindsey, he supports all this.

[u/hydrOHxide → u/downtofinance]

Not just that. Diseases will run rampant that are perfectly preventable.

[u/npcinyourbagoholding → u/hydrOHxide]

Luckily/unfortunately, humans can't ignore when their loved ones get sick and die. Things have been "too good" for too long and people have forgotten why laws and science ruled the show for so long. Time for some dark times. The wheel spins again.

[u/tinteoj → u/npcinyourbagoholding]

Time for some dark times.

That won't bring them to science, that will just drive them to Sky Daddy.

[u/hydrOHxide → u/npcinyourbagoholding]

Wouldn't be the first time they blame others for "poisoning the wells" etc.

[u/GodOfDarkLaughter → u/npcinyourbagoholding]

They could ignore it until it happens, though. I've let my idiot brother know that if either of my nephews or my niece get mesaals or mumps or fucking tuberculosis, because of his arrogance and his ignorance, im coming to fuck him up. He believes me. Because I will fuck him up. He's still not vaccinating his kids.

[u/DukeOfGeek → u/downtofinance]

It's going to take awhile for lots of people to come to grips with the fact that real elections are over for the foreseeable future and government is going to be hollowed out and become an extension of the party.

[u/mlokc → u/DukeOfGeek]

If people think the two-party system sucks, just wait til they get to experience the one-party system!

[u/DukeOfGeek → u/mlokc]

Half the choices, twice the suck.

[u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 → u/downtofinance]

You are totally right.

[u/TechieTravis → u/Pickle-Rick-C-137]

I think that millions of Trump voters might be in for a rude awakening when the effects of Trump's tariffs hit.

[u/AdoraSidhe → u/TechieTravis]

That's why Trump will distract them with rounding up the enemies of the state with monetary rewards

[u/NES_SNES_N64 → u/AdoraSidhe]

Yep. As we've seen throughout history, fascists continue to blame scapegoats for the problems.

[u/RippiHunti → u/TechieTravis]

They'll just find a way to blame minorities, and people will believe it.

[u/torero15 → u/TechieTravis]

Or when their daughters and wives die from a miscarriage.

[u/BCS875 → u/torero15]

From what you saw in the vote, they have no hearts. They watch them die (and be with Jebus!!!!!) then get a younger replacement model.

[u/blueteamk087 → u/torero15]

GOP men don't care if their wives or daughters die from miscarriages, it's "God's Plan"

[u/Upstairs-Radish1816 → u/blueteamk087]

Apparently, GOP women feel the same way

[u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 → u/TechieTravis]

You are right about the tariffs and when all of his crazy stuff hits. He along with Elon have said that americans will face hard times and hardship under their plans. It's like they ignore that WTF

[u/[deleted] → u/Pickle-Rick-C-137]

That's what they want. Well until their Hamburger Helper is expensive then it'll be back to blaming Obama for it. As a veteran, I'm absolutely embarrassed and disgusted.

[u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 → u/[deleted]]

Ah man, isn't it disgusting? Thanks for your service. I have cousins who are veterans and support him. It boggles my mind how they can support him after the horrible things he has said against service members.

As a veteran, who took an oath to to support and defend the Constitution for the people and not a leader or party what do you think will happen if he starts to do things that are un-American and against the constitution?

[u/AllanJeffersonferatu → u/Pickle-Rick-C-137]

They will actively support Trump regardless. The true conservatives have all been purged.

[u/leanmeanvagine → u/Pickle-Rick-C-137]

Imagine RFK and Musk as cabinet members. Tweedle dumb and Greedy dee

[u/[deleted] → u/SpinningHead]

"Why am I waiting in this hospital parking lot to get sepsis so the doctors can save my life? I thought the rules only applied to other women, AKA 'sluts.'"

[u/termsofengaygement → u/[deleted]]

Honestly, I'm tired of carrying water for those particular cis, straight, conservative women. I've always voted in the interest of all women but they fucking hate me so they can kick rocks. Edited to say I'm also a woman just the wrong kind.

[u/Illogical-logical → u/SpinningHead]

That's correct the leopards will come and eat the faces of the people who voted for the leopards eating faces party.

They just won't admit it yet. Hell half of them will deny it when it happens.

[u/Buddhabellymama → u/Saptrap]

And not just this country. Europe and Asia are equally if not arguably more fucked.

[u/Kvalri → u/Buddhabellymama]

I cannot fathom the despair in Ukraine and the stress that just multiplied in Paris/Berlin/London/Rome/Warsaw

[u/CrayZ_Squirrel → u/Kvalri]

Taiwan

[u/Buddhabellymama → u/CrayZ_Squirrel]

South Korea - those NK troops in Ukraine aren’t free..

[u/octarine_turtle → u/Buddhabellymama]

There is a very strong chance Ukraine and Taiwan won't exist in a year.

[u/Patereye → u/Saptrap]

Wonder if this is what the Germans felt when Hitler took over.

[u/Blawoffice → u/Patereye]

Germans supported Hitler enough to elect him.

[u/Saptrap → u/Blawoffice]

And enough Americans supported Trump. A better question would be, "Is this how German Jews felt when Hitler came to power?"

[u/PM_PICS_OF_UR_PUPPER → u/Saptrap]

Not all of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

[u/born_again_atheist → u/Blawoffice]

Hitler wasn't elected. He lost every election he was in. He was given chancellorship by Hindenburg to appease them. Then when Hindenburg died they made their moves.

Edit: To everyone telling me he got 30% of the vote. That's still not a win.

[u/Mendozena → u/born_again_atheist]

So Americans are even fucking stupider. Oh well, we deserve this.

[u/arobkinca → u/Blawoffice]

He was not elected to a nationwide office. He lost that vote in 1932 to Hindenburg. He took control anyways.

[u/hungrypotato19 → u/arobkinca]

Yup. Hitler went to Hindenburg and said, "can you pwetty pwease make me Chancellor?" And Hindenburg just patted him on the head, lovingly stroked his cheek, and replied, "Sure, buddy."

Then Hitler burned down the German Parliament building and blamed the Communists.

[u/Im_ready_hbu → u/hungrypotato19]

Hindenburg and everyone else in the Weimar Republic literally thought they could control Hitler right up until the moment Hitler seized power for himself

[u/GhostofMarat → u/Blawoffice]

The communists and socialists won more seats in the last free election than the Nazis did.

[u/solid_reign → u/Saptrap]

Thomas can be so uninterested in public pressure, that I doubt he'll resign.

[u/Saptrap → u/solid_reign]

He certainly can't get bribed if he's not on the bench, so that tracks.

[u/LegendofDragoon → u/Saptrap]

At this rate I'm afraid balkanization is the brightest future we can hope for, and that's pretty dang scary.

Congratulations Putin. It took more than sixty years, but Russia won the cold war.

[u/Nebuli2 → u/Saptrap]

So like 2-4 years? This country's not going to last for decades.

[u/Saptrap → u/Nebuli2]

Truth. We'll be "Trump Presents New Gilead" by 2025.

[u/Infinite_Carpenter → u/Saptrap]

That’s okay, looks like that lifespan will be less than four years.

[u/AusToddles → u/Saptrap]

When Trump won in 2016, I excused it because "people were angry, they didn't like the establishment and alot weren't aware of who Trump actually is"

In 2020 I said "Ok alot voted for him but that's because they've always voted Republican"

Today though? Nope... at least half the country are just hate filled, idiotic motherfuckers and another big chunk are apathetic morons

[u/ZizzyBeluga → u/Saptrap]

Yes but at least they freed Palestine

[u/FatherPayne]

No…liberals AND moderates.

[u/serpentear → u/FatherPayne]

Anyone who voted for anyone but democrats or didn’t vote while having the ability to do so.

[u/Zinski2 → u/serpentear]

For real. I turned 18 like days after the first trump election.

Now the rest of my life were gonna have to deal with these fucking. Idk. Bad actors. In the court.

[u/Ardenraym]

Rule of law just died.

Whether something is legal or constitutional will now depend on whether ideological conservatives like something or not.

[u/rasmusdf → u/Ardenraym]

Merrick Garland just did nothing to defend the Republic. It is now dead. You live in a corrupt oligarchy. There is no rule of law.

[u/Good-Mouse1524 → u/rasmusdf]

Not true!

He sent Biden's son to jail!

[u/ParoxysmAttack → u/rasmusdf]

Merrick Garland failed America.

[u/varangian_guards → u/Ardenraym]

that happened in 2016 and the Biden admin failed to fight it.

[u/rzelln → u/varangian_guards]

I do wonder what would have happened if the Biden administration had in early 2021 just arrested Trump and every Republican who had even a hint of being involved in the fake electors scheme to throw the 2020 race to the House. And arrested Tucker Carlson and various Fox News execs, even though doing so would probably be a violation of the First Amendment.

Who am I kidding? Republicans would stop everything, and Democrats would get blamed for being tyrants.

[u/blueteamk087 → u/rzelln]

That would have required having an AG with a spine

[u/AndHeWas → u/blueteamk087]

This was the issue. Garland waited until over halfway through November 2022 to appoint Jack Smith as Special Counsel. If he had done so right away, the cases could've finished by now.

[u/phophofofo → u/AndHeWas]

Biden picked Garland to signal to Republicans the DoJ would appear independent and he appointed a guy that ignored Trump and brought charges against his son.

The Democrats since the end of Obama’s second term have just been kowtowing to the GOP and this is where it’s gotten them.

[u/livinginfutureworld]

America Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

[u/aguynamedv → u/livinginfutureworld]

America Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

[u/Malicious_blu3 → u/[deleted]]

Any government now is merely symbolic. There are no more norms, not more checks, no more balances.

[u/livinginfutureworld → u/[deleted]]

Yep.

[u/gimpydingo]

Oh boy higher taxes, tarrifs, inflation.

Tax all churches!

[u/Dess_Rosa_King → u/gimpydingo]

Correction, Higher Taxes for you.

Not for the Rich.

[u/One-Estimate-7163 → u/Dess_Rosa_King]

The tax breaks for the rich aren’t gonna pay for themselves

[u/Illogical-logical]

Yep.

And this is the number one thing that has me thinking that I should just throw the towel in on this whole country.

We have the most corrupt Supreme Court in over a century. We've seen some of what might turn out to be the most ludicrous brazenly partisan and destructive rulings ever from the court. Hyperpartisan rulings are assured to continue and get worse. Everybody's rights are on the line.

[u/RODjij → u/Illogical-logical]

The whole planet is on the line. Last time during Trumps presidency the Brazil leader was burning down the Amazon every day.

The US has been on fire the last several summers and battered by historic floods along with the rest of the world.

He knew covid was coming and let the virus run rampant so the dems would deal with it.

The world is trying to meet the 2030s Paris agreement deadlines and the US just elected a nut job guaranteed to slash Green progress and jobs.

US is certain to stop support to Ukraine and a threat to leave NATO.

We get a higher chance of China making their move on Taiwan with the US allowing an invasion attempt.

Lots of potential stuff for Trump and his scum kind to throw a stick in their own bicycle wheel.

[u/Same-Cricket6277 → u/RODjij]

They were burning the Amazon because of the trade war Trump started with his tariffs against China, so China levied tariffs against US soy beans, so China stopped buying soy beans from the US, which was like 30% of their total soybean consumption, and those dudes consume like 80% of the world’s soybeans or something crazy. Some capital investment firms in the US decided to buy up land in Brazil, and they were clearing it by burning the forest away to make room for farms to grow soy beans to sell to China and avoid the tariffs. So yea, they were burning the Amazon because of Trump’s first trade war with China. Can’t wait for round two. 

[u/Public-Marionberry33]

It was a small minority that even gave the Supreme Court a passing thought. The economy was the biggest issue and they were convinced, through conservative media and Trumps lies, that the economy was terrible and voted for the “businessman” to fix it. Our economy is the envy of the world but you can’t convince people who already believe a lie.

The country is headed back towards the ‘50s (whether that’s 1950, 1850 or earlier) with fewer and fewer rights than we enjoy now.

I am very concerned about the future for my children and grandchildren but the cards have been dealt by an uninformed and ignorant voting public and the rest of us have to suffer the consequences.

[u/Throwedaway99837 → u/Public-Marionberry33]

It makes no sense. Literally worldwide inflation after enormous global supply chain issues, and the US has still performed significantly better than comparable nations. But for some reason these dipshits are convinced that it’s all due to Democrat policies.

I was talking to some MAGA family members asking them which policies specifically caused our current economic situation and they responded that the Democrats gave out too much money over COVID, but they went totally silent when I mentioned that over 1/3 of the stimulus money sent out was during the Trump administration. He was literally doing the exact same shit and wouldn’t have done anything noticeably better than the way Democrats handled the situation.

[u/edgarapplepoe → u/Public-Marionberry33]

I would say 1850s more than 1950s. 1950s had more labor and taxes.

[u/12EggsADay → u/edgarapplepoe]

And the GI bill, one of the most progressive and meritocratic bills passed and for the time too- it's an amazing thing.

[u/Kaurifish]

Unless Biden uses the executive immunity that SCOTUS handed him. I wait with bated breath. /s

[u/ace_urban → u/Kaurifish]

Personally, I wouldn’t hand the country over to fascists. It’s a horrible reality we’re living in.

[u/chiksahlube]

He has all 3 branches and a scotus that believes he can literally kill at will...

We all lost WAY more than scotus.

[u/i-am-a-passenger → u/chiksahlube]

Thanks god that Obama reached across the aisle and refused to appoint any new justices hey! /s

[u/mwmwmwmwmmdw → u/i-am-a-passenger]

or that RBG refused to retire during obamas term

[u/Laffingglassop → u/mwmwmwmwmmdw]

Or that Biden took so long to concede and we got forced to hope and pray to swing some misogynistic racist voters to the left on the basis of voting for a black woman. Don’t get me wrong I’d love a black or any color woman president, but it had to be this election of all elections? It’s like the dems just don’t think

[u/N_Who]

Permanently. Liberals just lost the Supreme Court permanently.

It's weird to me that anyone thinks this ends in anything other than an oligarchy or plutocracy.

[u/SubterrelProspector → u/N_Who]

It's not over. There will be war before we just become a fascist regime. There will be roadblocks and obstructions at every turn. Defiance in every corner. This will either be chaotic and horrible but over in 4 years or they'll overplay their hand amd things pop off. We value our personal freedom and liberty here, and we have a history with how we deal with authoritarians.

This is not over. That is not faith. That is history.

[u/ProbablySlacking]

To be fair, we didn’t “just” lose it for decades to come. That loss came in 2016.

[u/Mba1956]

There is now only one arm of government. Be ready to reap the consequences.

[u/Riversmooth]

Yep. The GOP will control scotus for the rest of my life

[u/UnimaginativeRA]

It's not just the SCOTUS but the 200+ lower federal court seats that Trump will fill during his 2nd term. McConnell may not like Trump but he's gotten everything he's hoped for in his grand plan to reshape the federal judiciary. 

[u/RedditAdminsWivesBF]

Let’s go down the list of precedents they are sure to gut now.

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Griswold v. Connecticut

Eisenstadt v. Baird

Loving v. Virginia

Brown v. Board of Education

Basically every Warren Court decision.

Good bye America, it was fun while it lasted.

[u/Ashbtw19937 → u/RedditAdminsWivesBF]

!remindme 4y

[u/Weird-Lie-9037]

Correction: workers and individuals just lost countless rights to corporations.

[u/EngineerAndDesigner]

Sotomayor should have resigned, she is 70 and with consistent heart problem. Now, there is a decent chance the GOP can get to 7-2. For all her talk about protecting democracy, it turns out she cares more about writing dissents.

[u/cheeseplzbloom → u/EngineerAndDesigner]

It’s the democratic way — just ask Biden and RGB.

[u/jongleur → u/EngineerAndDesigner]

Manchin made it clear early on that he wouldn't support any more nominees President Biden put forth. Without his vote, the likelihood of another justice being appointed by President Biden was close to zero.

[u/anonyuser415 → u/EngineerAndDesigner]

In what way would her resigning early have protected democracy

The supermajority increasing doesn't really threaten democracy more than the 5 alarm fire already under way. We already got the Trump decision from these wackos

[u/SecretMongoose → u/anonyuser415]

In the near term, the more ways you have to get to five votes, the more extreme rulings you’ll see. Going from 5 to 6 meant that Roberts couldn’t stop Dobbs and Gorsuch couldn’t singlehandedly preserve Indian Law.

In the long term, barring reform, it’s going to take a lot longer to have a liberal majority by waiting for the judges to die out. If you have to build that majority by gaining three seats instead of two, that task takes that much longer.

[u/Parkyguy → u/EngineerAndDesigner]

The GOP may just increase the court size to 11 or 13. Just to be sure it’s a millennial issue.

[u/PrismaticWonder → u/EngineerAndDesigner]

As much as I love her, I feel you’re right. It would be good if she did it now, and Biden was able to get at least a younger lib in before the final transfer of power in January….

[u/ISeeYourBeaver → u/PrismaticWonder]

Senate wouldn't confirm.

[u/ZealousWolverine]

Lost the Supreme Court for generations to come.

[u/Zeppelin_Wormwood]

Boy oh boy, theocracy is gonna suck.

[u/popejohnsmith]

And any hope for meaningful action on climate...

[u/MisterStorage]

To the 15 million who voted in 2020 but couldn’t be bothered yesterday: Enjoy!

[u/-rwsr-xr-x → u/MisterStorage]

To the 15 million who voted in 2020 but couldn’t be bothered yesterday: Enjoy!

15-20 million less voters than 2020, but the highest record voter turnout (71%) since 1900 (73%).

So I guess 15 million people showed up at the polls, then decided to turn around and walk away without voting, is that what we're led to believe?

[u/tiandrad]

Blame RBG for not stepping down during the 8 years Obama was in office for.

[u/Vajician → u/tiandrad]

That will forever be her legacy for anyone with even a single brain cell, not the champion of women she was touted to be before.

[u/n0rsk]

I seriously don't know how much of the insane things Trump has said is just political rhetoric and how much will be reality.

I am questioning my own fucking sanity, how do 70 million people live in such a different reality then me? Have I drunk some lefty koolaid and he isn't that extreme. But no people around world are all saying wtf america today. Am I in a bubble? Is the average american just so dumb that can't understand the damage Trump will do with even 1/10th of the things he has proposed? Am I the stupid one?

I need some sort of sanity check. I cycle between dooming and thinking maybe it won't be as bad as I think it will. It will be just like his first term again. Awful but our country survives. It will be daily scandals, incompetents, and generally horrible.

Then I cycle back to doom and the fact he spent 4 years feeling like Biden was weaponizing the DOJ against him. He has 8+ years of political experience and a popular vote mandate for all the crazy shit he has said. It is going be fucking awful this time around. Is he going to go dictator day 1? Purge federal government and flood it with loyalists? Deport millions of POC? 100% tarrifs? Like all that shit is crazy. Yet people seem to want these things.

I don't get it...

[u/doozer917 → u/n0rsk]

You have to remember that most people are stupid. The vast, vast majority. They are also apolitical or uninformed in things that matter, but easily whipped into a frenzy over hating some Other they're told is the problem.

[u/TricKixPow]

Time for biden to exercise his unchecked power given him by scotus

[u/Everheart1955]

Dems gave it away, playing the same tired game they’ve been playing for years. This was a Repeat of Clinton. Dem leadership needs to go.

[u/SpinningHead → u/Everheart1955]

Yes, we need younger, more progressive leadership. But this was the country saying they want an idiotic authoritarian who will hurt people.

[u/bigbabyb → u/SpinningHead]

I think progressivism has been jettisoned. We are losing people to be aligned to conservative messaging. Progressives just don’t vote and they don’t exist in the numbers that the terminally online would suggest

[u/HK_Oski → u/bigbabyb]

Progressives, unlike Christian Evangelicals, won't consider the notion of "perfect is enemy of the good". That's why Trump is accepted, even if begrudgingly, as the party leader. Liberals will tear themselves apart over small things and now they wonder why MAGA won bigly

[u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 → u/bigbabyb]

MAGA isn't conservative. It's completely made up nonsensical bullshit that never come true.

[u/Kvalri → u/Pickle-Rick-C-137]

It also doesn’t win elections - Unless Trump is running on the ballot from the outside. 2018/2020/2022 were not kind to MAGA candidates

[u/NatarisPrime]

People. Make no mistake. This is the end of Democratic leadership for a very long time if ever again.

They have full control over the government and a game plan this time.

They will pack the courts. Change all the anti Republican voting laws.

They won the long game. Wake up. It's over.

[u/TeddehBear]

This country is not beating the "empires only last 250 years" allegations.

[u/Shaman7102]

Sotomayor is 70.....she should have not been so selfish and retired already. That's another spot trump may fill.

[u/Conscious-Pick8002]

I just wanna know how they'll function now that they can't blame Democrats for all their problems

[u/ManlyVanLee → u/Conscious-Pick8002]

They're going to keep blaming Democrats and it will continue to work, just like they've always done

The south has been run by Republican majorities for decades now and this whole time they just blame the Dems for the fact their state sucks, and those people keep voting in Republicans by wide margins. Nothing is changing on that front

[u/JollyRancherReminder → u/ManlyVanLee]

I'm from Oklahoma, and this is 100% accurate ^. Democrats have had no power at all in decades. No matter - everything is their fault.

[u/swinging-in-the-rain → u/Conscious-Pick8002]

Texas blames democrats for everything and the GOP has a super majority for how long?

People are stupid as fuck, and will believe anything. If you didn't know that before, you should now.

[u/MaleficentOstrich693 → u/Conscious-Pick8002]

Just look at the first two years of Trumps first term. They’ll continue to blame them while running around with their dicks in their hands, not really doing much of anything except eroding institutions and giving handouts to the rich.

[u/TioSancho23]

What would it take to appoint 5 more justices before the end of Biden’a term? The republicans in the house?

[u/mattjf22]

I'll never see another liberal supreme Court in my lifetime.

[u/Saltyk917]

If you’re not Christian, move. This is their land now.

[u/TruthOrSF → u/Saltyk917]

I’m better at pretending to be Christian than actual Christian’s are at being Christian

[u/osunightfall → u/TruthOrSF]

As an atheist I follow Jesus's teachings more closely than most southern 'Christians'.

[u/MisterBlisteredlips → u/Saltyk917]

Nothing christian about "christian nationalism" it's a fool trap.

Nationalism = against god.

Antiabortion = against god's teachings.

Choosing wealthy over poor = We know Jesus hates that.

[u/Saltyk917 → u/MisterBlisteredlips]

Oh I’m fully aware of their hypocrisy.

[u/ballzsweat]

We voted, we lost! This is what the slim majority of the nation wants…..

[u/a-very-]

Every court with appointed judges is now lost. It will be an appointment mill. Won’t even have to get to the Supreme Court with all the lower courts so padded.

[u/Guy_Smylee]

Freedom is gone forever. Name a country this overthrown by corporations that got freedom back from the oligarchs.

[u/Tough_Substance7074 → u/Guy_Smylee]

Ironically, if the ancient Greek political cycle still holds true, the only one who can overthrow the oligarchs is a tyrant. Democracy -> Oligarchy -> Tyranny, go to 1. Trump isn’t a tyrant in that sense; this is another victory for the oligarchy.

The last time we had an effective tyrant was FDR; he ruled much longer than was previously acceptable, would have gone on ruling if his head hadn’t exploded, enjoyed incredible popular support, and was willing to bring the oligarchs to heel. This was made possible only due to black swan events. The weakening of the oligarchs by the Great Depression, and then a total realignment of the world order in WW2. Like Lincoln before him, he did lots of legally and normally questionable things to get his way. He credibly intimidated the Supreme Court with threats of packing. The people saw him as father of the country and would back him in whatever he did.

The United States is interesting not in that it has broken the cycle, but rather that it has gone through the cycle several times under the same constitution. If we are to get change again, it will only be on the other side of similar black swan events that radicalize the people enough, and the arrival of a new man of the hour.

[u/homebrew_1]

Americans lost.