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“Bbbbut trump!!”

yes Trump made Biden not fix this by packing the courts

Before you wag some liberalism at me about congress or whatever, packing the courts is explicitly something Biden has said he will not do, so, lol

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packing the courts is explicitly something Biden has said he will not do, so, lol

Yeah, he’s definitely not playing smart there, although he has said that the next president will likely be able to appoint two new members to the supreme court, which sounds like a hint that he wants to swing the balance. I know he’s again expanding the court, which would be the easy short term fix, and that sort of makes sense as it makes it easier for the next guy to do it too, or at least reduces the resistance to it.

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If you pack the court, the point is to then ram through laws that strengthen your position so that it’s harder for the other side to feasibly challenge it, to pack the court in the other direction. You can’t change things without exerting power, and the court is a tool of authority. You gotta use and abuse that.

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That’s fair, but ‘harder for the other side to feasibly challenge it’ doesn’t mean impossible, and so it’ll inevitably get pushed back the other way at some point, and then you’re the other side in that equation. Yes, the Democrats should be much more willing to exert power when they have it, and much more willing to entrench that power when they can. It seems to be a weakness in most mainstream left wing (left compared to the parties they stand against, not necessarily actual left), they always seem to squabble amongst themselves and refuse the easy wins in front of them.

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It’s not that he’s “not playing smart,” JUST FUCKING THINK! IF he has an option, and he CHOOSES to not use that option, he MUST SUPPORT the current state of things!

FUCKING

THINK

PAST

THE

PROPAGANDA

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It depends on which version of ‘pack the courts’ you mean. Increasing the numbers just leads to an arms race that achieves little beyond a brief window where the presidents side has more justices, before the next president just increases the number again to swing it their way. Alternatively, telling all the ageing justices of your persuasion to get out while you can replace them with younger people makes more sense, and he and all previous Dem presidents absolutely should have done so, and not doing so is not smart. I’m not sure it’s so much them supporting the current state as thinking their opponents will play fair, which is even more colossally stupid.

I hope that at no point have I suggested the Democrats or Biden are a good choice, just that they’re a less immediately terrible choice than the Republicans and trump. The Felon has made it clear that he will enthusiastically support and extend all the worst positions the Dems have taken and also want to be a dictator. Neither is a good choice, but one is worse.

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What are you going to do if the next republican just packs the court anyway?They can just do that you know.

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They can, and will certainly try. The best way to stop that is to ensure the Republicans don’t get that power.

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