• eksb@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    It was Mitch McConnell and the Republics that blocked Merrick Garland, not the Democrats.

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        4 months ago

        They did in 2020 when they let Trump nominate a justice a month before the election. Obama was denied his appointment because the election was nearly a year away

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      4 months ago

      Shit wasn’t even that long ago and people are already distorting and misremembering it… smh

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      4 months ago

      That is true, but you also have to remember the Democrats BARELY put up a fight against their nonsense because they were SO certain they were going to win in 2016.

      This “Put all our eggs in one basket, the people are too smart to fall for this” crap ALWAYS undoes the Democrats. Every single time.