We need to stop with the lionization of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she was selfish and foolish not to retire during Obama’s 2nd term

No. Wrong. Fuck off, Boris.

LOL I just made a thread "lionizing" her and was called "Boris", I'm almost thinking it's Boris calling us "Boris".

R1 = mindguard

She, like so many others, thought Clinton would win. So she played that card.

Fuck off, OP.

How did she know who would be the nominees in either party in 2012 through 2014 r4?

She gambled, like ALL Supreme Court justices gambled. She was certain Hillary would win, and Hillary didn't. She hasn't lost yet, as shes still breathing. Scalia lost his gamble by dying under Obama, but McConnell decided otherwise. I don't fault her. Kennedy retired because he wanted a Republican to name his successor. They're all strategic, folks.

Even by the time Hillary or Trump had secured his and her nomination, it would have been too late for RBG to retire without Republicans holding the seat hostage. She should have retired in 2013 but her fucking generation just won’t let anything go.

Sure, OP. McConnell told Obama to his face that he'd never let him appoint a justice to the Supreme Court.

And you think that RBG retiring would have been a GOOD thing?

Fuck off, Boris.

R9 is Boris

She was hoping Trump would grab her by the pussy before she retired. At her age, you gotta get it wherever you can.

Brilliant comeback, R10.

*rolls eyes*

Not true. Justices typically take that for life position to heart. What good would have done for her to retire? Republicans refused to vote on Merrick Garland, Obama's pick for nearly a year. Ever wonder why? Seems like they knew Trump would win. IF RGB stepped down they just would have held it up for two picks instead of one.

They wouldn’t be able to hold the seat hostage if she retired at the start of 2013.

Ruth better not die - then we are truly fucked. But she will die and evil will prevail.

Who the hell has been lionizing her since 2013? Not me.

I thought all of Bill Clinton's SC judges should have retired after Obama began his second term in 2013 (see R14).

I wanna slap 80 year old Breyer in the face as well as her. He could die too but everyone is only focused on old Ruthie.

Dumbass dems never can get anything right on any issue.

Hindsight is 20/20 and all that OP

In 2012 the Supreme Court was nowhere near as politicized as it is today.

The whole Merrick Garland thing was pretty unprecedented.

There is no Boris. But there is a Pedro. And a 竟然.

Like the Jewess was going to let the son of an Indonesian Muslim name her successor..... She like Chucky Schumer owes ultimate alliegance to Tel Aviv

Everyone in the thread is Borris.

R20 is Boris

I not Borris, I Natasha!!!

I just want her to hang on for a couple more years, hoping and praying for a Democrat in the WH an a Democrat-controlled Senate.

A couple more years??? Trump is going to get a second term... you read it here first

Plugging your ears and screaming, "I can't hear you!" to people merely pointing out harsh reality is what brought us Dump.

It is not concern trolling or Russian propaganda to point out the facts.

Seriously, on one side we have the deliberately obtuse and/or criminally stupid Cinnamon Stalin supporters and on the other we have the magical thinking Democratic kiddies, who think that they can just wish away facts that disturb them.

We are facing a fight for our very survival and we need to confront reality head on if we are to win.

Yes, yes keep blaming women OP.

R19 is a Boris. Don't worry DL. RBG will pull a Woodrow Wilson if she gets ill.

I can’t believe I have to live the rest of my life with a Nazi Supreme Court. Even if the Dems take back both houses and the Presidency, these turds will destroy America .

It is time to come to the realization that the majority of people in the US are just not good people. They are racist, homophobic haters and we are what Nazi Germany hoped to be. We are just not obvious in our internment camps (yet) or gassing other races. We don't have to. We have drugs to kill the black people, Walls to keep out the Mexicans and the supreme court to deny rights to homosexuals. Soon we will outlaw abortions so that poor whites will give birth to even more followers. Heil Trump.

I told you 25% of them were deplorables. You said I was mean!

r7,

That the senate could block Garland like that should not be allowed. And it wouldn't be right if the Dems did it. The two-party system sucks.

Bitch, please, like those cunts McConnell and Ryan would not have found a stall tactic to kill any Obama nomination.

Pointless thread. Just pray that she makes it to 2021.

We do need age limits. The notion some 90 year old, of any stripe, should be the last stop for the law of the land... I'm just not good with that, no matter how energetic the T Rowe Price commercials make them seem.

Don't be silly OP. We see through you.

R34, or we win both the house and senate, and force a moderate like Garland to be nominated.

Term Limits! No one should get a job for life, especially such an important one.

RBG has done just fine. She's working out several times a week, unlike her dipshit male counterparts. She has said she will stay as long as she is able to do the job. OP, fuck off.

You're an idiot Op. Maybe you forgot about Merrick Garland? She's a motherfucking hero for not allowing Repubs to steal two Justice seats from Obama.

As others have noted, she was convinced that Trump had zero chance to win and I think she really wanted to be replaced by a female by the first female president.

Right, OP. Because the McConnell led Senate would have been happy to work with Obama and confirm a replacement? No. If Bader GInsberg were to retire she should have done it when the Democrats controlled Congress as they did in 2009 & 2010. Then, in 2010, we sat on our fat asses and did not vote in the midterms and gave away the Congress. Eight fucking years ago. In fact, as soon as he took office he should have packed the courts. Of course the economy was in meltdown, and we had to focus, and there was healthcare, etc. so it's all about how many chits you have to give up, how much political capital you have to spend.

AND HOW WOULD SHE HAVE KNOWN TRUMP WOULD BE THE NOMINEE IN 2013 R41?

R41 = idiot

Shouldn't it be "lionessization"?

Her preferred pronoun is Pantherius.

I think we have a resident RBG troll.

And so it begins. Here's the strategy: get the young hateful against the old boomer generation (no matter how much good they've done) and slowly undermine their 'entitlements' of SS (that they paid for) so they can start a class action suit against the gov't to reclaim their SS contributions. They're pretty transparent these days.

R47 BINGO!

The scary thing is I think trump will win a second term

Really, Volodya? At which point should Notorioius RBG have had the psychic power to determine that: (a) the Republicans would take over the Senate, (b) the Republicans would invent a new rule to block confirmation of a President’s appointment of a Supreme Court Justice in his final year?

Seriously. Perhaps, in Rossiya, where you settle things with thallium and polonium poisoning it’s a simple matter to remove judges whenever you want. At least for now, we take it somewhat seriously.

The Republican Senate would not have allowed a liberal appointment from Obama.

They're not the conciliators they were in the 20th century. They're extremists now.

True

That’s why we can’t afford to not win elections

Now this selfish woman has done gone and fell.

R54, Who pushed her?

Had she retired even in the first year of Obama's term, the Repug Senate would have screamed it's inappropriate for a President to appoint a new Justice in his last term, or some other conniving bullshit they are always pulling.

I don’t think she was being selfish; I do think she may have had it in mind to retire, but realized she was stuck once Dems lost the senate.

This is why lifetime appointments suck. I think all 3 branches need term limits and mandatory retirement ages.

Having said that, I really wish RBG well and hope she does hang on at the SC!

We had better pray she recovers from the fall and broken ribs that was reported this morning.

She was so sure Hillary, who was responsible for her appointment, was going to be President in 2016. She would have happily retired to let Hil chose the next Justice, confident her legacy was secure. Not like the corrupt piece of shit Kennedy who didn't give two shits for his legacy,, which will soon be overturned, and ran like a broke dick dog to keep his son's filth under wraps with the Trump family. And WTF did it get Kennedy? It's all going to come out soon enough.

The real Boris is pre-occupied; lost in some # thread about the Amazing Life of Luke Evans.

Wait. I have an amazing life?

Go know.

I will never stop lionizing Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Never. I love her. She is my ICON. She is all that stands against total world catastrophe. So fuck off to all those who attempt to sully her.

Wrong: The senate was already in GOP hands. She would have had to retire in the first two years of Obama which is ridiculous.

Bump

No one cares more about the health of Ruth Bader Ginsburg than us.