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    “even with Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) joining Republicans to vote against his nomination.”

    That’s a really weird way of writing “Republican Joe Manchin joined his fellow Republicans to vote against Democrats as he always does.”

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      Yeah, it was a single judge, and multiple Dems are gone too, Kamala is apparently in Hawaii, so a tie would have lost.

      Every single fucking person with a D by their name needs to be in DC madly scrambling around the clock to do any and everything possible to mitigate imminent damage right now.

      Like, I won’t lie. A single judge is more than I expected, and I’m happy we got it.

      But fuck it, we have the Senate, a single vacancy when Biden hands over the keys is too much.

      https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies

      45 vacancies, 15 pending…

      And one got voted today when they have the numbers?

      I don’t say it enough, but Chuck Schumer is a fucking problem and shouldn’t be in a party leadership position. Compare him to the Republican counterpart Mitch McTurtle. That dude spent decades saying courts was the number 1 priority, literally all thru Chuck Schumer’s political career.

      It’s been wildly effective but also done in an unethical manner

      And yet when Trump is about to move in with a Senate majority, and we have an ethical manner to fill every vacancy…

      Why aren’t we?

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        Yes! Louder 👏🏾 for 👏🏾 the 👏🏾 people 👏🏾 in 👏🏾 the 👏🏾 back 👏🏾

        They were too quick to try and fundraise off of the loss but they’re too busy to take action? Fuck these clowns.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@sh.itjust.works
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        Either:

        1: Democratic leadership isn’t really getting touched by the military. They’re probably acquaintances with various generals.

        Or

        2: They realized they’re fucked and want to enjoy the last bit of America before shit hits the fan.

        Idk which scenario is true. Who knows? 🤷‍♂️

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          The first, if they were really fucked they’d use the last of Joe Biden’s presidential powers to have Navy Seals show up at Mar-A-Lago one night

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    That’s an interesting tactic I hadn’t considered; that what few sane republicans remain after January will simply skip the vote in order to try to keep Dime-Store Musollini in check.

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      Unfortunately that hasn’t mattered for four years, they’ve still done everything he’s asked. (Repubs I mean)