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  • While ignoring that for most people, their purchasing power also went up.

    They want to pay pre-pandemic prices for food while making post-pandemic paychecks, and there's no way that's going to happen without guillotines. So instead they voted in the wealthy assholes who directly caused COVID and indirectly caused inflation/greedflation because surely those people won't do that again, right?

  • You know that this term isn't over yet? Congress can still pass laws- well, for the like one or two more weeks they work this year before taking off for Thanksgiving and like three weeks for Christmas, anyway.

  • What other countries have it?

    Countries influenced by English common law, so nearly every country in North and South America, Australia, and Europe.

    You can't possibly see the downside of people being born in your country but not having the same rights as citizens? What makes you think slavery wouldn't return if it were ended?

  • So's Paul. Don't forget that he made a solo trip to Russia in August 2017 to hand deliver a letter from Trump to Putin.

    Yes, a sitting US Senator was doing a job that the State Department ought to have been doing.

  • That's not the problem; the problem is there's no guarantee that you'd get the Senate to approve a replacement in time.

    Now that Manchin and Sinema are on the way out, what incentive is there for them to approve a Biden appointee to SCOTUS, especially with a particularly vengeful GOP administration coming in?

  • Different circumstances, same result.

    Previously McConnell prevented the Senate from voting on Obama's nomination for months before the election.

    In this case, Biden could nominate someone, and Schumer would undoubtedly call a vote ASAP, but then you'd risk the vote failing because of Manchin and Sinema. They've already publicly betrayed the Democratic party and they're both on their way out; there's nothing for them to gain by playing ball with a SCOTUS nominee.

    The result would be exactly as before: Trump would come into office and get a SCOTUS pick right away, the only thing that might be different is whether McConnell or Scott gets to submit the pick. Hell, he might get to do it anyway if Alito and/or Thomas retire, so why give up another seat?