SCOTUS appointments are the longest lasting consequences of a president being elected, and should be one of the highest considerations. But I guess the price of Doritos and a fucking squirrel won out this year.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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Yup. Congrats 15 million Democrats and progressives that didn't vote, you just gave us the greenlight for Democrats to never run a imperfect Democratic candidate.
Congrats! You did it!
I’m really getting tired of this narrative. It completely invalidates that +73M people voted for Trump. More than 73 million people thought he was the right choice. It’s less important that Harris got 15 million less votes than Biden and more important that more than 73 million brain dead morons exist in this country and there’s an extremely high chance that at least 25% will procreate and continue our Idiocracy long beyond our lifetimes.
And it will have repercussions for decades and decades. Many, even many younger people, will now not see any changes in the overall makeup of SCOTUS in their lifetime.
It's crazy. He was already tied for sixth most SC justices appointed (with seven other presidents). If Alito and Thomas retire and he replaces them, he'll only be behind Washington, FDR, and Taft. His numbers for other judicial appointments were already very high as well.
People really do not appreciate how long we'll be feeling the consequences of this if we survive this term and move on to someone sane.
It's not 15 million, it's a few tens of thousands in a handful of swing states. Millions more Harris voters in New England, New York, and California would have had the same result.
Yes it is. Don't misconstrue the results.
Trump is currently winning the popular vote (73m to 69m). A vast majority of total votes are counted so it won't go up more than another million or so from there.
Trump lost the popular vote in 2020, 81 million to 74 million.
Trump's margin in swing states is currently well over 100,000.
Trump's total vote count basically didn't change at all, but there are currently 12 MILLION people who just didn't show up to vote for democrats. Sure the electoral college was "decided" by a few hundred thousand, but this was a collosal collapse of democrat voter turnout nationwide.
...I think the people who voted for Trump probably played the bigger part though.
not true. trump's 2020 numbers were largely the same as his 2024 numbers.
harris got 14,000,000 less votes than biden did in 2020.
Look at swing state votes. Harris actually did better in some swing states than Trump did in 2020. And Trump beat all of Biden's 2020 swing state totals.
The rest of the votes are from states that don't matter thanks to the electoral college. You can have all the pop vote you like, doesn't matter if you don't win the EC.
So yes true, the Trump voters have everything to do with, you know, electing Trump.
She didn't do better in swing states tho, if that were true Trump wouldn't have won in those swing states.
In the swing states, Harris did just about as well or better than Biden. Trump just got more, even more than Biden in 2020.
Wisconsin
Biden 2020: 1.63 million
Harris 2024: 1.667 million
Trump 2024: 1.697 million
Michigan
Biden 2020: 2.804 million
Harris 2024: 2.72 million
Trump 2024: 2.802 million
Georgia
Biden 2020: 2.473 million
Harris 2024: 2.543 million
Trump 2024: 2.66 million
Pennsylvania
Biden 2020: 3.459 million
Harris 2024: 3.352 million
Trump 2024: 3.491 million
Nevada and Arizona are taking their sweet time finishing counts but the story looks similar. 2024 Trump beats even 2020 Biden. So it's not so much that they didn't turn out for Harris, it's that more turned out for Trump.
SCOTUS already green-lit Trump's ability to simply remove the undesirable justices, why wait for them to retire?
They don’t even have to use unconventional routes to remove judges from the SCOTUS, all they have to do is impeach. ‘But, they don’t have the numbers in the Senate!’, once a few congressmen fall out windows, everyone else will rubber stamp whatever else the GOP wants, to include impeaching leftist judges and expelling leftist congressmen who don’t fall in line.
Yep. I’ll be genuinely shocked if Congress doesn’t start to look a whole fucking lot like the Duma.
They look pretty duma to me already.
In before "[liberal judge X] should have retired so Biden could have nominated their replacement". You all know damn well it would have gotten held up in the Senate because "election year". Yes, Schumer wouldn't have blocked it like McConnell and VP Harris could have broken the tie since a simple majority is all that's needed to confirm, but there was absolutely no guarantee Manchin and/or Sinema would have played ball.
Yeah so why bother at all, right?
Your opponent doesn't have to do anything if you don't even try.
Yayyyy…… can’t wait for even more rights to be dismantled…… (not)
Thanks Democratic party for being such an out of touch dog shit party. You caused this.