[CNN] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, the court announced. She was 87.
Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court's liberal wing consistently delivering progressive votes on the most divisive social issues of the day, including abortion rights, same-sex marriage, voting rights, immigration, health care and affirmative action.
Along the way, she developed a rock star type status and was dubbed the "Notorious R.B.G." In speaking events across the country before liberal audiences, she was greeted with standing ovations as she spoke about her view of the law, her famed exercise routine and her often fiery dissents.
"Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," said Chief Justice John Roberts. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her -- a tireless and resolute champion of justice."
Ginsburg died surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., the court said. A private interment service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery.
Ginsburg had suffered from five bouts of cancer, most recently a recurrence in early 2020 when a biopsy revealed lesions on her liver. In a statement she said that chemotherapy was yielding "positive results" and that she was able to maintain an active daily routine.
"I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam," she said in a statement in July 2020. " I remain fully able to do that."
She told an audience in 2019 that she liked to keep busy even when she was fighting cancer. "I found each time that when I'm active, I'm much better than if I'm just lying about and feeling sorry for myself," she said in New York at the Yale Club at an event hosted by Moment Magazine. Ginsburg told another audience that she thought she would serve until she was 90 years old.
Tiny in stature, she could write opinions that roared disapproval when she thought the majority had gone astray.
Before the election of President Donald Trump, Ginsburg told CNN that he "is a faker" and noted that he had "gotten away with not turning over his tax returns." She later said she regretted making the comments and Trump suggested she should recuse herself in cases concerning him. She never did.
In 2011, by contrast, President Barack Obama singled out Ginsburg at a White House ceremony. "She's one of my favorites," he said, "I've got a soft spot for Justice Ginsburg."
The vacancy gives Trump the opportunity to further solidify the conservative majority on the court and fill the seat of a woman who broke through the glass ceiling at a time when few women attended law school with a different justice who could steer the court to the right on social issues.
Ginsburg was well-known for the work she did before taking the bench, when she served as an advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union and became the architect of a legal strategy to bring cases to the courts that would ensure that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection applied to gender.
"I had the good fortune to be alive and a lawyer in the late 1960s when, for the first time in the history of the United States, it became possible to urge before courts, successfully, that society would benefit enormously if women were regarded as persons equal in stature to men,'" she said in a commencement speech in 2002.
No one was more surprised than Ginsburg of the rock star status she gained with young women in her late 70s and early 80s. She was amused by the swag that appeared praising her work, including a "You Can't have the Truth, Without Ruth" T-shirt as well as coffee mugs and bobbleheads. Some young women went as far as getting tattoos bearing her likeness. A Tumblr dubbed her the "Notorious R.B.G." in reference to a rap star known as "Notorious B.I.G." The name stuck. One artist set Ginsburg's dissent in a religious liberty case to music.
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Be nice. Don't be like the progressive pinheads were when Scalia kicked. Concentrate on what's important: her replacement.
A conservative will change it from 4:4+Roberts to 5:3+Roberts, meaning squishy Roberts will no longer be able to be the deciding vote in a 5to4 case.
Just make sure Trump wins. He gets re-elected, he gets probably at least 2 more shots. Breyer and Thomas. And if Alito wants to retire at 75, that will be 3 more. Giving Turmp 4 or 5 appointments in his 2 terms. He can put a solid conservative core in there for a long time with a couple more young solid conservatives.
#4
Had she stepped down when she first became ill during the Soetoro years, this unpleasantness might have been avoided. But no, the taste of continued power and influence was overwhelming.
#5
Doesn't matter. Democrats are going to pack the Supreme Court with six or more new justices for a total of 15. All will be hard left and make RBG look like a kitten. Obama will be one and I wouldn't rule out Michelle either.
Remember, the Democrats hate our guts. They're not interested in fairness, they're interested in crushing us forever and ushering in a new permanent Democrat majority. Look at San Francisco for their vision of the future. The only debate is left vs. far left.
#6
Obama will be one and I wouldn't rule out Michelle either
Not a chance. Neither of these grifters would want to do the work required
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Eyes on the prize. Say nice things about Ginsburg and move on. Ignore the past and focus on one thing only: elect Trump and a slate of Republicans on Nov. 3.
There has never been a more consequential election. The fate of our Republic is in the balance.
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#8
This republic is doomed. It's all playing out right before our very eyes.
#12
We're slip-sliding into another civil war. This time it's fomented by a party of race-hustling violent anarchists and professional grifters.
The only way to destroy them without setting off a hot civil war is to trounce the political wing of this movement in November. Even that may not be sufficient to avert a civil war, but it's necessary.
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Look at San Francisco Wheeler's Portland and Durkan's Seattle for their vision of the future. The only debate is left vs. far left.
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I do enjoy all the RBG death and speculation that has already put Roberts on the Liberal side on future decisions. Just goes to show you that even after all the fighting you never know which way these ‘solid constitutionalists’ will eventually fall.
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The left is going wild with the prospect of Trump submitting a conservative to the Senate for confirmation. Some have threatened to "burn it all down" (thought they were already doing that in many blue cities). These people are totally unhinged.
The left is getting apoplectic about McConnell saying that the Senate will vote on a submittal immediately. The left cites that Obama was denied appointing a justice because he was a lame duck president. The left must be thinking that Trump is a lame duck POTUS.
#19
It's f**king pathetic when you go back and watch videos from these hypocritical Dems about SCOTUS nominations, immigration, rioting (Obama's "thugs" utterance), etc. Even certain procedural matters in Congress.
Yes, they just can't stand it when their own words are thrown right back in their mugs. And what's even more pathetic is that these videos are many years old, and the same people are still around (Biden, Shumer, Pelosi, ad nauseam).
#21
I shall not miss her and will always remember the casual destruction she left in her wake. Meantime I take solace in the gratifying spectacle of a woman 'being forced to perform the same tasks as a man to the same standards as a man', I only hope it hurt.
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#23
The hagiography, of course, says she was utterly composed to the very last moment and spoke in grammatically correct complete sentences.
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#24
I collect last utterances. From "Go Raiders!" (death row guy in Cali) to "As a matter of fact, I haven't had champagne in quite some time..." (Anton Chekhov) it's a rewarding and illuminating look at human nature.
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Yes, #23. Supposedly her last request was for her replacement would be put off till the next president was elected. Media stoked the fires of riots otherwise but of course in the same areas we have seen riots already. I can see her now in her coffin with her middle finger presented as with the BLM white liberal women but finally silenced. Peace at last. Thank God peace at last.
#26
Let's not forget her profound observation that the United States had an over reliance and reverence for the Constitution. In her august opinion we needed to look to other nations for guidance such as Zimbabwe, her words not mine.
Some of you are calling for decency and respect. Considering the above quote and her obvious decline over the course of this year, it sounds like you are asking me to respect spite and bitterness. Further, I don't believe that Democrats understand the meaning of the word decency. If they do, let them show it now instead of throwing mud like they did with Kavanaugh.
Murkowski, Collins and Pierre Delecto better damn well toe the line. Trump and McConnell need to find a way to put some pressure on them. Let the Dems on the Judiciary Committee all have their five minutes and then confirm her replacement before November 3.
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She's a dead eminence now. Will be jammed down our throats.
Going to be interesting watching which corporate sponsors decouple from BLM for RGB.
#33
Some of you are calling for decency and respect. Considering the above quote and her obvious decline over the course of this year, it sounds like you are asking me to respect spite and bitterness. Further, I don't believe that Democrats understand the meaning of the word decency. If they do, let them show it now instead of throwing mud like they did with Kavanaugh.
Agreed.
Trump and the pols have to the observe the forms, but the rest of us are under no obligation to pretend that she was anything but a hack and an enemy to the Republic.
I'm so bored with the "Let's lose politely" bunch.
And before someone replies "But they'll use nasty quotes against us!", let me just say that they'll make up those quotes if they have to.
No amount of walking on eggshells will prevent the left from doing so.
Beyond basic dictates of prudence, we need to stop worrying what they are going to do and start making them worry about we are going to do.
#34
RGB replacement before the election assured Trump can have the Supremes throw out crooked election results much easier. The Dims hate this. The Dims are wailing and bashing their teeth over this.
#37
Regarding the civil war I have a gut feeling we are seeing the death rattle of Marxism. It won’t go peacefully but it has been exposed as a violent failure.
I expect a return of true anarchists or outright fascists to replace them.
#38
^ Right you are, RJ. Stalin said capitalists would become desperate when communism was about to conquer the world. The flip side of that coin is true. Anarchism is about to come to the fore because it's totally free-form and without difficult manifestoes to digest. It's perfect for people who think Kim Kardashian and LeBron James should tell them how to vote.
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Democrats are going to pack the Supreme Court with six or more new justices for a total of 15.
FDR tried to do that in after his landslide reelection in 1936, in the run up to a popular, existential war, when both Democrats and Republicans were progressive — and was firmly resisted. I don’t expect the Democrats will ever again be able to position themselves even as favorably as FDR did.
And given the numbers of previous staunch Democrats who feel driven away from the party, disgusted by the riots, the far left posturing, the unjustifiably snide elitism, and the open racism, I suspect we passed peak Democrat in 2014. Extinction burst, the psychologists call it.
#40
I hope TW is mostly right. However. The far left end of the spectrum now is "the squad," not Roosevelt progressives. The squad types don't play by any rules, and comparing them to historical figures who did is confusion. What the right needs is a squad of its own that sniffs out every little infraction on the left and wounds them by a thousand cuts. It would also be helpful if that same outfit stomped Paul Ryan type RINOs at every opportunity.
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There is going to be blood spilled over this vacancy.
#42
There are DemoncRats involved, ESB4589 - there'll be violence, period. >:-(
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"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed," she dictated to granddaughter Clara Spera days before her death.
Ginsberg tries to reach back from the grave to pick her replacement.
#44
"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed," she dictated to granddaughter Clara Spera days before her death.
January of 2025 is simply far too long to suffer such a critical vacancy.
#46
So, if we get to December or January without a clear election result and a Supreme Court minus one member, the instability could well result in violence. We know that there are those on the left who are already planning it. Just think of it: election results in dispute, pitched battles in the streets and cities on fire, deadlocked Congress full of lame ducks and a deadlocked Supreme Court. Susan Collins needs to think long and hard about that. Even if it costs her seat, she needs to do the right thing for the country.
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I doubt Droopy would think in such grand terms. She could easily signal she will party switch to give the dems a majority in the senate. Her voters might even like that.
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#48
Didn't this old bag say we should use other constitutions instead of our very own?
[MAIL] An FBI agent who found the messages that led to the Hillary Clinton email investigation being reopened days before the 2016 election said the way the bureau handled the case was 'not ethically or morally right'.
John Robertson feared he would be made a 'scapegoat' when he found the new emails less than two months before voting day, in the wake of DailyMail.com's revelation that Anthony Weiner, whose wife Huma Abedin was Clinton's top aide, was sexting an underage girl.
Robertson watched nervously as the bureau did nothing for a month until he went outside the chain of command and spoke with the US Attorney's office overseeing the case.
The only advice from his bosses was to erase his office computer, which meant leaving no record of his investigations, a new book says.
As Robertson put it: 'To this day don't understand what the hell went wrong', the Washington Post reported.
The claims add another layer of intrigue to the investigation of Clinton's emails which has become one of the most divisive episodes of the 2016 election.
#1
He sounds rather like that jackass who became petulant waiting for the Portland PD. That guy got what he probably voted for, this schmo actually worked for the bureau, did he never notice what went on internally?
From 2016...
Vice President Joe Biden slammed Senate Republicans Thursday for citing the "Biden Rule" as reasoning for why they won't hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick.
In a Thursday speech, Biden called Republicans "frankly ridiculous" for relying on comments he made in 1992 about the dangers of holding Supreme Court confirmation hearings in the midst of presidential elections.
Biden said the so-called rule that supposedly prevents Supreme Court nominations in an election year "doesn't exist."
He said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others in the GOP Senate leadership have quoted "selectively" from the remarks he made in 1992 on the floor of the Senate as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Those comments came after what the vice president called the "bruising and polarizing" confirmation process involving Justice Clarence Thomas.
In the part of Biden's 1992 speech that has been oft-cited by McConnell and other Republicans, Biden said then-President George H.W. Bush shouldn't name a nominee if a vacancy arose until after that year's November election.
"Should a justice resign this summer and the president move to name a successor, actions that will occur just days before the Democratic Presidential Convention and weeks before the Republican Convention meets, a process that is already in doubt in the minds of many will become distrusted by all," he said. "Senate consideration of a nominee under these circumstances is not fair to the president, to the nominee, or to the Senate itself."
On Thursday, Biden said that statement, taken out of context, glosses over his main gripe from the time — that Bush nominated Thomas, an "extreme candidate," in 1991 without consulting his committee just four days after Justice Thurgood Marshall retired.
"They completely ignore the fact that, at the time, I was speaking of the dangers of nominating an extreme candidate without proper Senate consultation," he said. "They completely neglected to quote my unequivocal bottom line, so let me set the record straight as they say: I said and I quote 'if the president consults and cooperates with the Senate or moderates his selections, then his nominees may enjoy my support as did Justice Kennedy and Justice Souter,' end of quote."
Biden told the group of law students at Georgetown University in Washington DC that, since there was no vacancy between Thomas' confirmation and the presidential election, he couldn't say what might have happened if a seat did open up. However, he added that his track record as the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee gave a pretty good hint as to what the outcome of a nomination would have been.
"I was responsible for eight justices and nine total nominees on the Supreme Court — more than, I hate to say this, anyone alive," he said. "Some I supported, a few I voted against. But in all that time, every nominee was greeted by committee members, every nominee got a committee hearing, every nominee got out of the committee even if they didn't have sufficient votes to pass within the committee."
He continued: "Every nominee, including Justice Kennedy in an election year, got an up-and-down vote. Not much of the time. Not most of the time, every single solitary time. To now hear all this talk about the Biden rule, it's frankly ridiculous. There is no Biden rule, it doesn't exist."
Biden later said "nobody is suggesting individual senators have to vote yes" on Garland, the chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
"Voting no is always an option," he said.
"Deciding in advance simply to turn your back before the president even names a nominee is not an option the Constitution leaves open," he continued. "It's a plain abdication from the Senate's duty. ... [It's] never occurred before in our history."
McConnell has led the stand against holding a hearing for Garland, insisting the next president should be the one to fill the seat, which was opened after Justice Antonin Scalia's recent death.
"The American people may well elect a president who decides to nominate Judge Garland for Senate consideration," McConnell said last Wednesday. "The next president may also nominate someone very different. Either way, our view is this: Give the people a voice in the filling of this vacancy."
But cracks have already begun to form within McConnell's party. Some GOP senators have agreed to meet with Garland, while others have said they'd push his nomination through during the lame-duck session if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to win the presidency. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois even said his fellow GOP senators should "man up" and hold a vote for Garland.
A number of polls show the majority of Americans are not in favor of the GOP's platform, and an overwhelming majority believes the Senate GOP is making a political play that doesn't have the best interest of the American people in mind.
Biden said that Garland's "reputation for moderation" makes McConnell's stance all the more puzzling.
"I've never seen it like this," Biden said. "Washington right now is dysfunctional. They're undermining the norms of how we conduct ourselves."
"Our politics our broken," he later said. "It's no secret, our Congress is broken."
Several Democratic leaders favored a Senate confirmation vote for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland in 2016.
Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Obama nominated Garland, who had been the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to block a confirmation vote for Garland until after the 2016 presidential election, The Washington Post reported.
"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice," McConnell said, according to Politico. "Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
Several Democrats condemned McConnell in the days and weeks following his decision. (RELATED: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dead At 87)
Sen. Dick Durbin, calls for Senate Judiciary confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, during a news conference in front of the US Supreme Court, September 7, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Sen. Dick Durbin, calls for Senate Judiciary confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, during a news conference in front of the US Supreme Court, September 7, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Although Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden favored putting off a confirmation hearing during an election year in 1992 as a senator, Biden supported Garland’s confirmation in 2016 as vice president, according to ABC News. He said there was no supposed "Biden Rule" concerning Supreme Court nominations in an election year.
"Deciding in advance simply to turn your back before the president even names a nominee is not an option the Constitution leaves open," Biden said, according to Business Insider. "It’s a plain abdication from the Senate’s duty. ... [It’s] never occurred before in our history."
"Elections have consequences," then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said, according to Politico. "The president has a responsibility to nominate a new justice and the Senate has a responsibility to vote."
She called McConnell’s decision "outrageous."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted: "Garland has integrity, a brilliant legal mind & is a perfect fit for [the Supreme Court]. GOP inaction does our country a great disservice."
And then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeted: "Judge Merrick Garland, is a respected jurist who must be given a fair hearing & timely vote."
Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, tweeted, "Judge Garland is a strong nominee with decades of experience on the bench. [Obama] has done his job. It’s time for Republicans to do theirs."
Meanwhile, Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted that Republicans must "ditch their extremism" and schedule a vote for Garland.
Then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate should consider a nominee immediately, according to Politico.
"It would be unprecedented in recent history for the Supreme Court to go a year with a vacant seat," Reid said, Politico reported. "Failing to fill this vacancy would be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate’s most essential Constitutional responsibilities."
#1
While I do not support her SCOTUS voting record in many many cases. An feel the position and rulings should be based ONLY on the US Constitution and NEVER be based on a Political agenda.
One has to admit she was a rabid Liberal.
She was Super Pro-abortion and LGBT?.
Her rulings tended to be little more than political agenda based and generally failed to improve the overall situation and/or unity of the USA.
The rulings I did agreed with her on are few and they included:
* Ruled for Equal Pay for equal work that results in equal results.
* Ruled against strip searches based on verbal hearsay.
While I hate to see anyone die of cancer. I will also say as a Radical SCOTUS Judge, she should be an example of what to avoid in appointing future judges.
It should be noted, how she hung on the her SCOTUS Judge seat YEARS after she should have retired due to the well documented debilitating Cancer and related Medical issues. Stage 2 cancer and chemo does mess with a persons consistent mental stability for several years afterwards.
Either way let us hope her staff/clerks, that has been likely steering her rulings for several years now. Will be dismissed quickly and her office and documents sealed until ALL the contents can be secured and reviewed. Because it will be interesting to see which Politicians and King Whisperers have been in communication with her and for what reasons.
WAIT FOR IT
* Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg the Movie.
Suggestion: We need to push to have a Medical and Mental Test be applied to all SCOTUS judges annually that are over the age of 70 or 75. Because even a fool has to admit age does play a key role and sooner or later the Judges become figureheads and the Staff/Clerks become the actual ones steering and/or writing the rulings.
#5
It probably never crossed the framers' minds that our life expectancy would be what it is today. What will it be in another 50 years, assuming the country makes it that far?
#7
It probably never crossed the framers' minds that our life expectancy would be what it is today. What will it be in another 50 years, assuming the country makes it that far?
Likely less than now, if our Branch Covidian Death Cult succeeds in imposing its herd-must-be-culled vision
#8
None of the talking heads or bottom of the screen announcements on the TV describe RBG as a champion of the Constitution. Very sad considering the basic job description of a Supreme Court Justice.
#9
Lifetime appointments must go, and the fact that appointing one justice does cause so much political fighting between the sides shows how much power they shouldn't have.
I would change it to a 10.5 month term, First Monday after the new year to day before Thanksgiving. The states each appoint one justice to serve that time. Vice-president is the tie breaker.
Good luck packing that court and the loss of one justice doesn't mean the Republic is doomed.
#12
Interesting that in 2018, only 28% of the SCOTUS cases were decided by a 5-4 vote. Eight cases were decided toward conservative, eight toward liberal, and four neutral. Split decisions couldn't have been more balanced if it was required. Also, 39% were decided 9-0. It's the media that reports the political consequences. See page 5
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I blame NN2N1...
Last Days of RGB, or, "Larry, baby, have I got a job for you!"
"Notorious One, you must travel
To safety, before you unravel!"
"Give in to das Recht?"
"Aber Biden kommt nicht!"
Yes, it's Downfall: Descent of the Gavel!
#14
I suspect RBG will send a signal for older politically minded judges to step down while their favorite political party is in power. I've heard a lot about Justice Thomas being replaced in the next term, if so he should have stepped down last year.
#1
No. I think she's right - I seem to remember that someplace in the Constitution there's an article that empowers a mentally deficient Representative to give orders to Senators.
[FOXNEWS] How much of a problem did Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... have in 1987 when news hounds started noticing that some of his speeches sounded a little too familiar?
It reached a point where even late-night host Johnny Carson took a jab at Biden, who at the time was a U.S. senator from Delaware and running his first bid for the White House, seeking the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.
"On the political scene, one of the Democratic candidates, a Senator Joseph Biden — have you seen the problem he’s been having?" Carson asked his audience at the start of the "Tonight Show" one evening.
"He went around and made a speech and apparently he quoted a -- I think it was a British politician, took his speech and kind of paraphrased it as his own.
"And then the press got on him. And then he was charged also with taking part of Bobby Kennedy’s speeches.
"And Biden says, not to worry. He reassured his staff, he said, ’We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’"
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Joke from that era:
Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Teddy Kennedy and Biden are sitting together on the deck of an ocean liner when they hear the announcement that the ship has taken on water and is sinking.
Jimmy says, "As good Christians, we must let the women and children fill the lifeboats first."
#2
Stopped watching late night "comedy" after Leno (Carson's successor). These current chumps can't/won't keep politics (read: Dems good, GOPers bad) out of their routines. Honest to goodness political jokes and satire is long gone.
Banning ballot harvesting is not a partisan issue. It's been used & abused in states like North Carolina and California & is ripe for fraud.
That's why I intro'd HR8285, the Election Fraud Prevention Act w/ @RodneyDavis - to protect the integrity of our elections & our democracy pic.twitter.com/ltZhaenSVB
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The biggest mistake that Trump and Republicans made was to not make necessary to use finger ink into these elections. Election integrity should have been Nº1 cause.
#3
I really didn't know you could airbrush a video. No way is her complexion that good.
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No way is her complexion that good.
Stage makeup.
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Don't get carried away......Today she seems like a sane person; but only because she's a Dem. She's very anti-2A and she's the one who had a sitdown with Assad sucking up to him. She was my rep for a while - better than the average Donk but still a flake.
#6
Tubby Flabbard. They go to a lot of trouble to never show her from the waist down. The surfing pic is very old. She's not quite at Swillary cankles stage yet, but I have slimmer thighs as a dumpy 61 year old white guy.
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And let's not forget that despite her decent sound bites during the Dem debates and appearances on Tucker, she's a Bernie supporter to the bone.
[DAILYCALLER] Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins is down five points to her Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, a poll released Friday shows.
According to a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... -Siena College poll, Collins is behind Gideon 44 percent to 49 percent with less than two months before the November 3 elections. The poll did however show that 50 percent of voters view Collins very favorable or somewhat favorable compared to 47 percent who did not feel the same, The Hill reported.
[DAILYWIRE] President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... will put forth a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away Friday evening from complications of pancreatic cancer, "in the coming days," according to sources that spoke to ABC News.
As the Daily Wire reported Friday evening, the 87-year-old Justice Ginsburg passed away "from complications of metastatic pancreas cancer," according to the Supreme Court.
"Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tired and resolute champion of justice."
Speculation turned immediately to the vacancy left on the court as a result of Ginsburg’s death, as well as to whether the president and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would fulfill their promise to nominate a potential replacement immediately and begin Senate confirmation hearings as soon as possible, despite the looming presidential election.
[CITY-JOURNAL.ORG] President Trump recently issued an executive order prohibiting federal agencies from using "critical race theory" as part of their personnel-training programs. The president acted in response to my reporting exposing the use of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" training courses in federal agencies. These programs, based on a neo-Marxist ideology that originated in law schools a generation ago, purport to expose and correct "unconscious racial bias" and "white privilege" among their employees. Critical race theory treats "whiteness" as a moral blight and maligns all members of that racial group as complicit in oppression. Critical race theory now forms the basis of personnel-training programs around the country, from corporate America and universities to churches and nonprofits.
The racial narrative that underlies these initiatives poses a grave threat to the ideal of colorblind justice under the law enshrined in the American constitutional system. Yet, despite its growing reach and cultural influence, and its role in motivating the Black Lives Matter and Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... -led riots over the last three months, critical race theory has gone largely unchallenged by conservative leaders. Many have been slow to oppose the radical demands of groups such as BLM, either out of fear of being labelled racists or because of ignorance about the ideological agenda of these groups. Instead, conservatives have continued to "fight the last war" against the familiar enemies of cultural relativism or tax-and-spend liberalism, not recognizing that a new, virulent form of radicalism now animates the American Left.
Under the dogma of critical race theory, the neo-Marxist Left now treats members of "oppressor" groups (whites, males, Christians, Jews, conservatives) as inherently guilty by virtue of their group membership; conversely, members of victim groups are considered morally innocent. By this logic, claims of victimization by members of victim groups necessarily must be believed, while members of oppressor groups are already guilty by virtue of their group membership. This formula eliminates any need for due process, since the mere perception of victimization constitutes proof of same.
One can trace a direct line from the critical race theory trainings in government, education, and universities to the recent violence and destruction in the streets of so many American cities. Many committed to the cultural Marxist narrative are now entrenched in vital American institutions. The recent riots have exposed the extent to which leaders in the Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have embraced the ideology of the woke Left. With such widespread penetration of that ideology, the crisis is unlikely to fade away.
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Well conservatives laziness and limited political knowledge keep calling the left "liberals" even after the left changed to totalitarians.
No wonder they got caught.
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On a long term, Thorong, critical race theory is a disaster for "African Americans" - because every action has an equal and opposite reaction (Remember, Jim Crow followed the Reconstruction).
Hell, even in a short-term, we have all seen how critical theory inspired war on police had led to spike in crime in African American neigborhoods.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Fall is almost here in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. So we know the annual script.
A few ostracized voices will again warn in vain of the need to remove millions of dead trees withered from the 2013—14 drought and subsequent infestations, clean up tinderbox hillsides, and beef up the fire services. They will all be ignored as right-wing nuts or worse.
Environmentalists will sneer that the new forestry sees fires as medicinal and natural, and global warming as inevitable because of "climate deniers."
Late-summer fires will then consume our foothills, mountains, and forests. Long-dead trees from the drought will explode and send their pitch bombs to shower the forest with flames.
Lives, livelihoods, homes, and cabins will be lost — the lamentable collateral damage of our green future. Billions of dollars will go up in smoke. The billowing haze and ash will cloud and pollute the state for weeks if not months. Tens of thousands will be evacuated and their lives disrupted — and those are the lucky.
California’s deer-in-the headlight progressive officials will blame "climate change" for the conflagrations. The accompanying power brownouts, tardy responses, and official blame-gaming will follow as a prelude for still more solar-panel farms and still less forest management.
There could be a long answer to explain why California for years abandoned dead drought- and insect-stricken trees — over some 60 million of these withered, towering time bombs in their coastal and Sierra forests — to rot. But the short of it was that the kindling and tinderboxes were seen as perfect green mulch for flora and fauna.
A cynical interpretation of the eco-agenda was that doing nothing to clean up the mess was cheap for a broke state eager to spend billions on high-speed rail and the consequences of open borders. The even more cynical take would be that dead trees served as green napalm during fire season to discourage the unwanted hoi polloi from living in the hill and mountain cabins that in a more perfect world would properly belong, in Sheriff of Nottingham style, to the Sierra Club. And indeed, the unspoken aftermath of this latest round of conflagrations is that insurance rates will soar even higher and make it nearly impossible to live in rural hills and mountains.
Apparently, our ancestral, Neanderthal foresters once upon a time believed in the time-tried lore of removing dead brush, cutting down withered trees for needed lumber, and allowing grazing to clear foothills of dead grasses and low vegetation. But then again, the old-breed thinking has been seen as obsolete by today’s brilliant new progressive consultants, professors, and activists. They were too eager to implement a natural strategy of letting medicinal fires periodically burn forest fuel to remind us that millions of trees are not for living among, or logging or recreating amid, or for anything much human-orientated other than a week or so a year backpacking.
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But the short of it was that the kindling and tinderboxes were seen as perfect green mulch for flora and fauna.
Until they burned down, wildlife and all.
I believe the native Americans practiced controlled burns as well.
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Even if you accept the dubious proposition that climate has anything at all to do with it, why not do what can be done, clear the dead wood and brush, to alleviate the problem?
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Because some people raise a lot of money fighting that.
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[THEFEDERALIST] Two House Republicans introduced legislation Thursday that would bar federal funds from flowing to schools with curriculum featuring the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... ’ anti-American 1619 Project indoctrinating K-12 students with fake history.
The bill, put forward by Colorado Rep. Ken Buck with Georgia Rep. Rick Allen, serves as companion legislation introduced in the Senate by Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton in July.
"The 1619 Project teaches children a historically inaccurate account of our nation’s history," Buck said. "Federal funding should not go towards schools that teach flawed and inaccurate curriculum in classrooms. We should be able to acknowledge the stains on our nation’s history while still continuing to celebrate the good our country has done."
Cotton reiterated his support for the proposal, calling the Times’ curriculum on revisionist history being taught in some 4,500 classrooms nationwide "left-wing garbage."
"Not a single cent of federal funding should go to indoctrinate young Americans," Cotton said.
The progressive project, spearheaded by the Times’ riot-cheering Nikole Hannah-Jones who won a Pulitzer on the opening essay which required a major correction to the piece, has since become a primary manifesto for the left’s critical race theory re-writing American history as the creation of an irredeemably racist empire built for the sole purpose of oppressing black and indigenous people.
"The 1619 Project’s goal is to indoctrinate the idea in our nation’s young people that America is an evil country — which is far from the truth," Rep. Allen said. "Though our history is not perfect, we have overcome our challenges to create a land of opportunity for all. If we want to fight injustice and work toward a more perfect union, we must learn from our past and teach out students to do better — not teach false history.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Candidate for president in 2020. 
...every time you hear the phrase 
