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Must-read from @JeffreyToobin. We should all get this entire piece tattooed on the inside of our eyelids. Things would been much, much worse if we hadn't gone nuclear. Now, the conversation should be about going forward with more rules reform, not back. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
This is the critical point. We are rightfully appalled at how many judges Trump and McConnell are confirming. But if Dems hadn't gone nuclear in 2013, we would have confirmed fewer Obama judges and left Trump and McConnell with even more vacancies to fill. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
"Thanks to Reid, then, Obama has a robust judicial legacy. The Senate confirmed 324 of his nominees to the federal courts, including Sotomayor and Kagan... Obama’s confirmed nominees set records for diversity; 42% were female and 36% non-white." newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
I feel like it goes without saying, but of course McConnell would have gone nuclear immediately and lowered the threshold for himself if Dems hadn't. And remember that you can use any type of nominee to go nuclear on all nominees. This is important re: the SCOTUS debate...
The first time Dems filibustered *any* Trump nominee early in 2017- say, Sessions - McConnell would've gone nuclear for all nominees including judicial, & lowered the SCOTUS threshold before Gorsuch was nominated. So Trump would get all his nominees & have more vacancies to fill.
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Guys: they *always* find something. Ffs they rallied behind a made-up process foul to ignore the fact that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Ford. We can’t live in fear of the counterargument they’ll make, because they’ll always find some bullshit and make reporters believe they care.
They invented the fucking “Biden rule” to block Garland & reporters bought that. They pretended they cared about amendments and open process & reporters bought that. They pretended that Obama not golfing with them was why they wouldn’t work with him & reporters bought that.
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Louis CK is a good reminder that when people with power ask for respect it’s called “civility” and is sacred, but when people without power ask for respect it’s called “political correctness” and is the butt of jokes.
My favorite part of this is when people like Kurt pretend that criticism and accountability of people like Louis CK are attempts to silence them.
No, fascism is when people who have power gin up fear among other people who also have power against people who don’t have as much power.
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This. It also shows why we need to abolish the 60-vote threshold on day one if/when we take back the Senate. We won’t have anywhere close to 60 votes soon (or ever), McConnell will obstruct & workarounds like reconciliation leave legislation super vulnerable to legal challenges.
The 60-vote threshold is not an original feature of the Senate. The Founders created the Senate as a majority-rule body. They'd hate what it is now. The modern 60-vote threshold is a mutation of a rule passed in 1917. And it can be undone with a majority.
Legit reservation but not likely in practice. Passing laws is hard, even if the threshold is just a majority! Reversals like what you describe would probably only happen if unified control of all branches switched back and forth from election to election.
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Once upon a time, I was a worship leader at a local church, after having been in music ministry since I was 15. I had helped transform their music ministry with my gifts and time

Then they kicked me out. And that was how I became #Exvangelical. It wasn't originally voluntary.
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"It’s easier to macro-BS than micro-BS.”
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