• Blackbeard@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Dems will need to run the table on Senate races, in addition to keeping the White House, for that to happen. If not, Alito and Thomas get to pick their hard right replacements and all but the youngest of us will wither and die with a conservative SCOTUS supermajority.

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        Yes, to increase the number of justices we’ll need a congressional and executive branch to push the appointments through.

        It won’t matter who Alito or Thomas pick as their replacements if there’s 5 new left leaning justices on the bench.

        It’s sad to see the Supreme Court as such an overt political structure now. It’s always been political but this is egregious.

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    Boys and girls, I hope you are ready to either fight or flight from the US. It’s coming and people are apathetic to what is happening.

    “Why would the Germans allow Nazis to take over?” Well here it is. History will repeat itself thanks to the Nazis allowed to move to the US and the racists.

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      Regarding flight: where to? Of similar “democracies” Europe and Canada have similarly troubling trends. Scandinavia? Australia? SE Asia? Are they any better, really?

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        Fight it is. Would still recommend flight for the young and old that can’t fight. I know my only option and my wife knows the plans in place. As a vet, I know what I need to protect and that’s no man/woman in the white house, but the constitution that has given so much to my family.

        Never thought growing up that I would need to do such a thing.

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          Fellow vet, hoped to be done fighting, but this country is devolving into madness, and I’m prepared to fight for the constitution. I took an oath, as all that served did, to defend this country from all enemies, foreign or domestic, and I took that oath to heart. Hope for the best, prepared for the worst.

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            It feels awful to know this might actually happen again. I can only hope that America actually puts down the rebellion for good this time. We left the schism intact with a failed reconstruction, and look where that got us.