Sotomayor Offers a Preview of What Trump Could Do as President

Trump, Trump, Trump. "All these things Trump could do..."

How about, Biden could have Trump assassinated as a political rival.
Done and done.

Democrats won’t, they’re too busy “taking the high road”. And by “high road” I mean “bribe big enough to live comfortably in Thailand for the rest of their lives”
Biden could assassinate every billionaire in the country overnight.
- Why not order the NSA to hack their bank accounts and just take the money?
  Everyone is going straight to assassinations, but there’s a whole lot that this immunity could accomplish before killing is needed.
  None of it will happen with a democratic president, because of norms that they apparently haven’t realized mean fuck all to the other side.
Yeah turn their godlike cult figurehead into a martyr. Let's see how that works out in the long run.
- I'm game.
- They already are treating him like a martyr. It would just be follow through at this point
That would instantly start a civil war, and if you're keeping track, we don't have any/as many guns.
- Speak for yourself, and if you don't, you should really look into buying them. We're not heading towards a happy place in this country.
- Who doesn't have guns?
- That's a personal problem. The people paying attention and most at risk have been arming themselves since 2015. LGBTQ, Black, and Hispanic gun ownership are the fastest rising ones. Trailing them is more white people, whos rate of gun ownership is also rising, just slower. Eveyones been buying more guns.
- I don't own guns. I own glass bottles. They are far more effective weapons when wielded correctly. A single glass bottle can do more damage than a thousand bullets.

*will

Well, the E-mail lady did warn us...

Are we really still talking about how Clinton being one of the least popular politicians to run for president took it upon herself to tank a must win election? Really? I need this talking point to find its place in a grave. This is stupid.
Everyone knew Trump was a trainwreck. Clinton was so unpopular that people stayed home. She snubbed key states against campaign advice. She sucks. And she lost democracy for the US. We didn't owe Clinton a vote. Clinton needed people to vote for her. She didn't do enough to earn the votes. I voted for her begrudgingly. But Democrats turned their knives on Bernie harder than they did against Trump. And it turned a lot of people off from voting. At least Biden did some semblance of appeasement for the left populist wing of the Democrats in the first election.
- It was a pretty simple statement, I think. Certainly not worth the two paragraphs of dribble you delivered in response.

If she's so concerned, she should resign. Let Biden nominate her replacement.

By staying on, she's basically signalling she doesn't care about the court going 7-2 after she drops dead during Trump's second term. No lessons learned from the RBG fiasco. What's the point of writing these long eloquent dissents that never end up swaying anything?

As i recall either Manchin or Sinena already came out and said the would not approve a justice in an election year. Having her resign now will be a repeat of the Garland nomination
Edut: it was Manchin https://www.reuters.com/world/us/manchin-would-not-back-supreme-court-confirmation-right-before-2024-election-2022-02-15/
- Unless it's one nominated by a Republican president, of course
- Yes, the best time for her to step down would have been earlier (same issue with Biden dropping out). But the second best time is now.
What’s the point of writing any dissent?
- So they save face
- To look virtuous without contributing anything substantive towards your cause.
  At this point, the one substantive thing Sotomayor can do is resign and make way for an ideologically aligned replacement. And this, she doesn't do.
Bro, Trump's just going to kill her.
She should resign, as one of the few level headed justices on SCOTUS? What kind of logic is that? You know she's not a conservative justice, right? Like... I can't think of any other reason you'd think this is a good idea, and during an election year no less. I see way less trolling on Lemmy than I did on reddit, but I'd like to believe this is trolling and not the actual opinion of a legitimate American voter.
She should keep fighting the good fight while we hope for a couple of justices to die or be impeached soon so we can fix the balance of SCOTUS.
- You haven't put any thought into the situation.
  SC justices are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. Both are currently held by the democrats, the latter narrowly. Both are likely to flip next year. Sotomayor is over 70, diabetic, and travels with a medic.
  If she wanted to do the right thing for the causes she believes in, she should have resigned during the past one or two years. Biden would have been able to replace her with a younger, equally liberal justice. But she didn't and probably won't, so if she dies anytime in the next 4 years (or 8 years if the Rs win the presidential election after that) then the court goes 7-2 and will remain conservative-dominated for decades.