Democrats — especially progressives — have increasingly expressed more anger at the high court in recent years.

“Alito’s next opinion piece in the WSJ is about to be ‘I am a little king, actually. The Constitution doesn’t explicitly say I’m not,’” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) quipped.

  • queermunist she/her
    17·
    10 months ago

    I already told you; if the vote fails (as it likely would) then it could be used as a rallying cry to motivate voters and spark protests and generate momentum for reform. People don’t care about voting because Democrats always lose. If AOC told her supporters to make McCarthy’s life a living hell and forced him to hold a vote, nonvoters would see Democrats are willing to play hardball and act!

    • keeb420@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      If people aren’t paying attention to how openly corrupt the republican party as a whole is, this vote won’t do much to change that. There’s playing hardball and then there’s giving your opponents an easy W.

      • queermunist she/her
        17·
        10 months ago

        These people aren’t watching the news. What they need is to see Tiktok videos of people screaming at McCarthy and making him cry.

        But you know what? Let’s say you’re right! Have you really thought about what that means? If America is too divided to impeach corrupt Justices and too divided to oust fascists from the government? If the only solution is to have a filibuster proof supermajority?

        That means America is doomed, nothing will ever get better, and we’ll just circle the drain until we all fucking die. Cool!

        • keeb420@kbin.social
          1·
          10 months ago

          You’re just making that realization… we’ve been in this place since Republicans first blocked trumps impeachment solely on political grounds. Hell at least since Obamas last Supreme Court pick was blocked.

          • queermunist she/her
            17·
            10 months ago

            Now you’re contradicting yourself. Is your stance basically “nothing works so we shouldn’t try anything”?

            That just seems like a reason to try everything. No matter how risky, trying is better than not trying because we’re fucked anyway. If America is doomed, then AOC should be using her platform to actually prepare for that instead of wasting time playing House.

            • keeb420@kbin.social
              1·
              10 months ago

              If you can’t already hear thomas boasting “I just beat a Democrat led witchhunt…” I don’t know what to tell you. And the republican base would eat that up. It’s would be a very easy win for Republicans.

              • queermunist she/her
                17·
                10 months ago

                Who fucking cares? America is doomed no matter what, it’s an easy win for Republicans no matter what happens.

                They’re going to kill me. I’m trans. Clock is ticking before they either put me in a conversion therapy camp or just take away my access to hormones, but either way I’m fucking dead. What the fuck are Democrats doing about that? NOTHING!