Deliriously Rational: We won the last election and it's all still unfixed. I'm promise I'm not just trying to be contrarian here, but I don't get why, if it's not being done today, why would it be in January?

The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

WE CAN FIX COURT IF WE WIN THE ELECTION. LET’S DO THAT.

We won the last election and it's all still unfixed. I'm promise I'm not just trying to be contrarian here, but I don't get why, if it's not being done today, why would it be in January?

Because 2 of the most rightwing SCOTUS justices are really fucking old, to start with.

Nothing about this is comforting. What's to stop then from living decades longer? Is this all we have left? Praying for aneurisms?

I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to respond to that. “Human mortality” is the short answer.

Ok, so we're screwed.

If you don’t make the (false) assumption that bad people never die, you won’t draw the conclusion that we’re hopelessly screwed.

I'm assuming they won't die in the next few months and after that it won't matter

Biden is about to die but Thomas and Scalia are going to be with us for "generations" more

Scalia has been dead for years and I'm still mixing him up with Alito which, honestly, I think this is fair

I hate to say it, but Alito's worse. Scalia, for all of his evil, had a basic respect for the rule of law.

In the same way that Himmler was worse than Hitler, Alito is worse than Scalia. By any objective measure, all four deserve to face the wall.

Pretty good analogy there, although I'm not one for promoting "facing the wall." I'm much more fond of oubliettes.

Scalia was a big supporter of Chevron deference

That's my major grounds for saying Alito is worse, tbh.

no they're not, but maybe the quotes mean you're not serious- if you are and you think anything that anyone does is pointless then I'm not sure why you're here except to inflict your hopeless misery on everyone else.

He’s being sarcastic, he’s on our team.

okay, sorry about that

It’s ok, it can definitely be hard to tell. But he’s cool.

The oldest justice is 6 years younger than Biden

There is no question that Alito and Thomas have health problems. And if dems get a trifecta, court expansion remains a possibility.

Starting to think it wasn't "we" who won!

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