Some of you with my RED HOT WAY THE FUCK OUT THERE TAKE on Ginsburg are confusing a few things about my core assumptions. Allow me to clarify.
My assumptions are as follows:
Ginsburg was smart.
Ginsburg was not someone into symbology, symbolism, etc.
Ginsburg was a cranky bitch.
Preserving the judicial legacy and precedent she left behind took priority.
Nobody controlled the Notorious RBG.
I have studied Ginsburg A LOT. I like to think I have a very good read on her. Her writing had a very grounded tone and a heavh gravitas to it that mad it clear she was smarter than me. The Wonder Twins’ writing doesn’t have that effect. Nor do RBG’s recent clerks (Fucking hacks)
My read is that she had 2 requirements for who would nominate her replacement. 1) Be a Democrat, and 2) Not be a socialist moron.
Ginsburg WAS NOT a socialist by the modern Democrat standards. I think she hated Obama’s fuckery. I think she’s have refused to retire had Bernie won
I don’t think Hillary being a woman has anything to do with the decision to not retire under Obama, nor her being the wife of the guy who nominated her to SCOTUS. Hillary was a neolib, not a socialist, and I think THATS what mattered.
Commentators kept talking about how she ‘gambled’ on a Hillary win.
Why?
Why would she gamble when she had cancer, was ancient, and was under Obama and a Dem supermajority?
What explanation requires the least amount of assumptions?
Based on what I know of her, she hated Obama
She hated Trump too of course. No shit statement of the century.
But remember, the events of Friday, there’s only ONE QUESTION i give a fuck about:
Why THAT as her dying wish?
She could have been holding for Biden. Who the fuck knows. By if the dying wish is real, why do it?
She’s smart enough to know the ins and outs of the legal processes, IT WAS HER FUCKING JOB. She knew her ‘dying wish’ would have all the legal weight of a plastic bag, and the Dems couldn’t do fuck all about it.
So why? Why why why?
Because.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Ginsburg was happy going to her eternal sleep confident in the knowledge that she MADE the world burn, and the dumbfucks who ran HER cause and ideology into the fucking dirt were burning right along with it.
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