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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he's retiring effective July 31. Kennedy stepping down would mark a second high-court pick for President Trump.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/27/supreme-court-justice-anthony-kennedy-to-retire.html

Thank you for your service sir.

They are interrupting my soap with this crap.

But but it is important Eve, Trump gets to pick another Judge!

Court will move farther to the right.

I can understand this. Definitely should at least be optional. I mean not on local channels.

The 6 o'clock news is fine for a Supreme Court justice announcing their retirement.

It is big news. But not earth shattering.

Leave soapus-interuptus for local weather warnings, imminent local danger and royal weddings. (and royal baptisms)

Kennedy was already a Conservative but you ain't even begun to see Conservative till this next pick. Alt-Right and 19 years old.
Gonna be here a loooong time.

Hey comes Jeanine Pirro.

After the BS they pulled on Garland...

Who?

Democrats could do the same exact thing now

I just hope Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't die. She looks like a corpse in most photos/clips. 6-3 with a couple alt-righters would be the end of any resemblance of a court representing the population. Being conservative is already not representative of the majority of Americans.

2+ years? Will it take 60 votes?

From what I understand, it takes a simple majority in the Senate, 50 votes.

It can be filibustered though and then require 60 votes.

Unfortunately, Garland was nullified under the Biden Rule.

McConnell referenced the Biden Rule, an idea that dates to 1992. Back then, Biden warned against hypothetical Supreme Court confirmation hearings during a contentious presidential election, saying it would be "not fair to the president, to the nominee or to the Senate itself."

We thank him for his service.

Someone's begging for a Diam math lesson.

He is correct, they used the nuke option to get Gorsuch though. It now only takes the 50 votes.

Diam, we got another!

well I guess technically it would be 51 votes for the majority, howver with the VP as the tie breaker, it would only take 50

Looks like 40 is by himself for lessons today

No, I just knew I would lose you if I provided too many details.

The guy who struggles with the English language is too into the wonkish weeds of detail for the commoner to understand.

This from the guy who fails to understand the difference between a misdemeanor and a Federal misdemeanor in another thread.

Criminal and civil distinctions aren't altered by whether or not charges are state or federal.

Also, you might want to stay away from "other threads", considering this morning you had to yet again run away from another one with your tail between your legs.

Here is the federal law, 40:



Is this a civil federal misdemeanor, or a criminal federal misdemeanor?

Take your time, and read carefully. Let me know if you have any trouble with the bigger words.

See, you still don't understand the difference.

You talked and talked your way around it over there but we see you.

Then you ran away from the thread.

I did not run away from a thread, I simply got tired of talking to you.

40: ALL RACISM IS WRONG! DO YOU HEAR ME? ALL RACISM IS WRONG!

PDR: Then why do you post YouTube tribute videos to a guy who has been fined repeatedly for refusing to rent apartments to blacks, or let them deal him blackjack cards?

40: I'm done with this conversation.

And here we are once again, rinse and repeat. Bye.

The 40 cycle:

1) say something that draws the ire and mockery of everyone (ex. - "anti-white racists are trying to keep white people out")

2) get all heated, using lots of emojis and bold yellow ALL CAPS writing to scream a phrase over and over(ex. - "ALL RACISM IS WRONG!!!"

3) "I'm done with this conversation"

It's a pretty simple question, 40. And, it's the darndest thing...you always get tired of a conversation *right* when it comes up -

If you oppose racism in all of it's forms, then why do support a guy who has multiple fines for blatantly racist activities, alongside a long dark history of racist remarks and actions?

Honestly, dude, just grow a pair and admit that the guy's reactionary racism appeals to you. You're not fooling anyone, and it would lead to so much less embarrassment for you.

You know of course I was spoofing you as I made the mistake of saying 50 was a majority. Willit gave excellent cover though.

40 definitely has a reputation as a subtle ironist who delivers witty barbs through Swiftian-impression, and NOT as a gullible and easily duped person who struggles with basic education skills and speaks before thinking.

What was the spoof and what was the mistake? You only made one post. I see Diam is going to get his work in tonight.

Corker, Flake, Collins, and McCain can b-slap trump here... hmmm.

It could get interesting.

The mistake was saying 50 was a majority and the spoof was saying I didn't want to bury you with details.
Geez, I gotta draw a picture or what?

The point is that your reputation precedes you, which limits the ability to stretch irony (which you weren't really doing, anyway).

A good example was the day everyone was making fun of Stephen Miller, which made you mad, so you said "In high school I liked to pull girls hair until they screamed". It fell incredibly flat, and you got made fun of even more, and then you tried to counter with "No, no, it was ironic, I was doing irony".

But when you're a guy with a long history of saying very bizarre things that express admiration for rapists, pedophiles an all-around creeps, trying to do an ironic emulation comes across as sincere, not ironic.

In the same respect, you're kind of widely known as a laughingstock on the boards. I mean, is this guy trolling by inventing an incredibly gullible and simple character, or is he really like that?

So when you try to pull, "oh, I was being ironic, to mimic", it's either going to fall flat, or seem like you're trying to hastily cover a small error.

A good example for me is if I tried to pull off an ironic joke or statement about being incredibly drunk or high, it probably wouldn't work, and would lead to concern, because my reputation preceded me and prevented any sort of ironic statement in that regard.

I didn't see your post. But please draw me a picture. I will hang it up on my fridge if you do.

40 gets irony. the other day he posted a DFW quote.

DFW dedicated his short and angry life to loathing irony with every fiber of his being.

A stance I wonder if he would hedge on if he were around today.

#NotAllIrony he was much kinder to dramatic irony. DFW just read Wittgenstein one too many times. Claremont college also sucks.

The last 3 years of his life were an active push against irony because he thought it was ruining people by making them overly callous and accepting of dogged fates.

President Gentle in "Infinite Jest" is probably the closest approximation to Trump before Trump, though.