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RIP RBG

Everyone is piping in about this particular political excitement, so I'll add my two cents.

First, she was a great person, and it's sad to wait until her death before everyone says it. She was a champion of the good things - women's rights, equality, dignity and freedom. We will miss her.

Second, Republicans already showed their hand when they illegally stalled the nomination of Merrick Garland for nine months back at the end of the Obama administration. "Wait until the people weigh in," they all said, and the people voted with over a million plurality to put Hillary in there, but Trump won the Electoral College. If you wanted the people's will, you should have just followed the law, done your job, and approved Garland. I think Democrats rightly will never forget that hijacking of the Constitution and of the people's rights. This nomination would not be a problem if it could just be done fairly, but the last one makes this one much more prominent. Now, it's a month before the election. Now, the Republicans are going to lose in a landslide. Now, all there is for it, is for Dems to enlarge the Supreme Court after the election, to eliminate the majority conservative bent. And that they will almost certainly do; who can blame them?

What is surprising is that it seems so likely that Dems will flip the Senate too. People are sick of this crooked, corrupt administration and all its enablers, and rightly so. People it seems to me just want Trump out of there, but they're willing to throw a whole host of his enablers out with him. I hope they all take a bath: Joni Ernst, Cory Gardner, the whole lot of them. They have blood on their hands.

The fact that the hurricanes have run through the entire alphabet, now I hope that doesn't go unnoticed either. The problem is that if the earth goes, we all go. And that may be bigger than covid in the end, bigger than the Supreme Court or any of the fallout from the rapes and the crooked shenanigans. If we don't get a handle on climate control, we're doomed. And the different countries of the earth have to work together to do it; there is no longer any question.

I've always been one to see the earth having its own agency. It can see that if we don't get Trump out of there, it's doomed. It can see this is its last chance. It knows to shake things up, to blow some holes in the Arctic, to run an alphabet of hurricanes up into the Gulf. It's doing what it has to do. We all have to survive on this earth, and we need this earth to survive. That I think is our first priority. Vote the weasel out of there. Get the human race back into balance.

posted by tom @ 7:12 PM