Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.

[The Brain]

Would anti-abortion laws prevent another late seasons GoT?

[Eddie Teach]

I think he's a Trumpist now.

I thought he had gone full Portland.

[Barrister]

I think he's a Trumpist now.

I thought he had gone full Portland.

Yeah - I thought he had gone full Bernie Bro...

(though I haven't seen him on FB for a long time)

[HVC]

I think he's a Trumpist now.

Oh no

Got to hand it to the guy, when he plays he always goes all in. 

[DGuller]

Maybe that's the right way to play when you're not playing with a full deck.

[derspiess]

I think he's a Trumpist now.

Oh no

Got to hand it to the guy, when he plays he always goes all in. 

Are we sure he's a Trumpist?  I just don't see that being possible.

[grumbler]

But she's not a "normal" catholic. In general, at least in canada and europe, they seem to be less pushy about their beliefs (when compared to the various protestant' variations). But she's not normal, she's in a weird catholic cult. i would very much question her beliefs and her judicial integrity (plus her over all decision making skills).

also, what the hell America, even your Catholics are weird. What's in the water down there.

Her little cult isn't Catholic.  It's a cult open to Christian nutjobs of every persuasion.

I'd focus, if I were the Democrats, on Mitch's deceits and her own shallow legal background.  She hasn't been a judge even three years yet, and she has made statements about judicial decisions (like RvW) that indicate that she does not understand legal thinking and only agrees with decisions based on her personal beliefs.

I think that there are enough decent jurists in the US that we don't need to scape as low in the barrel as Notre Dame Law grads.

[grumbler]

Her group literally has "handmaids"? Sounds like a step towards my aunt's book. 😄

Her group inspired your aunt's novel.  No shit.

Members of People of Praise are assigned to personal advisers of the same sex—called a "head" for men and "handmaid" for women, until the rise in popularity of Atwood's novel and the television series based on it forced a change in the latter.

Atwood herself has indicated that the group's existence motivated her to write The Handmaid's Tale, set in the fictional Gilead, where women's bodies are governed and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime.

"I delayed writing it for about three years after I got the idea because I felt it was too crazy," Atwood told The New York Times Book Review in 1986.

'Then two things happened. I started noticing that a lot of the things I thought I was more or less making up were now happening, and indeed more of them have happened since the publication of the book."

She added: "There is a sect now, a Catholic charismatic spinoff sect, which calls the women handmaids. They don't go in for polygamy of this kind but they do threaten the handmaids according to the biblical verse I use in the book—sit down and shut up."

https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-group-inspired-handmaids-tale-1533293

[Eddie Teach]

But she's not a "normal" catholic. In general, at least in canada and europe, they seem to be less pushy about their beliefs (when compared to the various protestant' variations). But she's not normal, she's in a weird catholic cult. i would very much question her beliefs and her judicial integrity (plus her over all decision making skills).

also, what the hell America, even your Catholics are weird. What's in the water down there.

Her little cult isn't Catholic.  It's a cult open to Christian nutjobs of every persuasion.

I'd focus, if I were the Democrats, on Mitch's deceits and her own shallow legal background.  She hasn't been a judge even three years yet, and she has made statements about judicial decisions (like RvW) that indicate that she does not understand legal thinking and only agrees with decisions based on her personal beliefs.

I think that there are enough decent jurists in the US that we don't need to scape as low in the barrel as Notre Dame Law grads.

D4H4USSC!

[Habbaku]

I think he's a Trumpist now.

Oh no

Got to hand it to the guy, when he plays he always goes all in. 

Are we sure he's a Trumpist?  I just don't see that being possible.

Not at all sure. I'm speculating based on limited information. My understanding was that he was definitely full-on Bernie Bro, but may have gone to the Dark Side based on Bernie's loss.

[11B4V]

Hmmm,

They will not get a justice through. The moderate GOP will screw Trump. McConnell will not have the votes.

The election will be a squeaker for either side and contested.

The USSC will split 4-4

21 Jan Pelosi will be the interim Pres.

Sean Hannity and the rest of state tv will melt down.

[Malthus]

Her group literally has "handmaids"? Sounds like a step towards my aunt's book. 😄

Her group inspired your aunt's novel.  No shit.

Members of People of Praise are assigned to personal advisers of the same sex—called a "head" for men and "handmaid" for women, until the rise in popularity of Atwood's novel and the television series based on it forced a change in the latter.

Atwood herself has indicated that the group's existence motivated her to write The Handmaid's Tale, set in the fictional Gilead, where women's bodies are governed and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime.

"I delayed writing it for about three years after I got the idea because I felt it was too crazy," Atwood told The New York Times Book Review in 1986.

'Then two things happened. I started noticing that a lot of the things I thought I was more or less making up were now happening, and indeed more of them have happened since the publication of the book."

She added: "There is a sect now, a Catholic charismatic spinoff sect, which calls the women handmaids. They don't go in for polygamy of this kind but they do threaten the handmaids according to the biblical verse I use in the book—sit down and shut up."

https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-group-inspired-handmaids-tale-1533293

Holy crap! 


And I mean that somewhat literally.

[merithyn]

I think he's a Trumpist now.

He's not. He's a big Bernie Bro.

[Valmy]

I think he's a Trumpist now.

He's not. He's a big Bernie Bro.

Yeah I thought he and Ank were the co-presidents of the Languish Bernie appreciation society.

[merithyn]

Her group literally has "handmaids"? Sounds like a step towards my aunt's book. 😄

Her group inspired your aunt's novel.  No shit.

Members of People of Praise are assigned to personal advisers of the same sex—called a "head" for men and "handmaid" for women, until the rise in popularity of Atwood's novel and the television series based on it forced a change in the latter.

Atwood herself has indicated that the group's existence motivated her to write The Handmaid's Tale, set in the fictional Gilead, where women's bodies are governed and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime.

"I delayed writing it for about three years after I got the idea because I felt it was too crazy," Atwood told The New York Times Book Review in 1986.

'Then two things happened. I started noticing that a lot of the things I thought I was more or less making up were now happening, and indeed more of them have happened since the publication of the book."

She added: "There is a sect now, a Catholic charismatic spinoff sect, which calls the women handmaids. They don't go in for polygamy of this kind but they do threaten the handmaids according to the biblical verse I use in the book—sit down and shut up."

https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-group-inspired-handmaids-tale-1533293

Yeah, that's the kind of crazy we need on the USSC.

Hod, I despise McConnell.