The circus for Supreme Court replacement has already started

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There is this minor detail about US veterans fighting and dying for it.
Well as one Is elected president would put it "losers and suckers".

Do you expect those who have committed heart and mind to Trump, the new golden calf, to care?
 
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The question most on my mind is that when it turns out Amy McGrath (McConnell's opponent in Nov) pulled in $25 million in campaign funds this weekend, what does that mean for Mitch?

"ActBlue processed $11,383,676 in donations between 9:22 PM and 11:10 PM. That's $105,404.41 per minute, $1,756.74 per second. There's no sign of slowing down."
 
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Democrats are calling for civil war and to burn it all down right now (2,3) if Trump nominates before the election.

"The Democrats" started the civil war the same way the FBI started the war against the mafia, and for the same reason.

Whether you are on the left or the right, and especially if you are a Christian, do not get caught up in it.

Christians should be "not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts."

The problem is, the spirit is just not there. This is a situation of finding just 8 righteous people in Sodom and getting them out of there before God torches the place, rather than saving Sodom.
 
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How does that answer the question?

Oh, I don't know. Just that soldiers fought and died to protect your freedom, and now that they're dead, you decided that there's a "Commonly-held myth:. America is not a democracy, and never was. Unfortunate for those soldiers who died with that misconception "

I'm pretty sure those soldiers would like their lives back knowing you don't even want it now.
 
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Oh, I don't know. Just that soldiers fought and died to protect your freedom, and now that they're dead, you decided that there's a "Commonly-held myth:. America is not a democracy, and never was. Unfortunate for those soldiers who died with that misconception "

I'm pretty sure those soldiers would like their lives back knowing you don't even want it now.
You are sick to make those false claims against me.
 
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Oh, I don't know. Just that soldiers fought and died to protect your freedom, and now that they're dead, you decided that there's a "Commonly-held myth:. America is not a democracy, and never was. Unfortunate for those soldiers who died with that misconception "

I'm pretty sure those soldiers would like their lives back knowing you don't even want it now.
Have you lived in America before?
 
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Have you lived in America before?
The left in America portray those fighting, as fighting for democracy and freedom. The right portray it as fighting for patriotism, love of country and the constitution.

I suspect most fought for a combination of the above.

And as for Donald, he only respects 'winners'.
 
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Have you lived in America before?
Ultra Conservatives Christians are trying turn it back to the time women had no rights. When it comes to BC and reproductive rights. But , It really dont matter. When states tried to these abortion games. Women just got abortion pills through the internet. Also with ultra Conservatives trying to take birth control sex education away. Abortions will go up. I figure it will be an economic boom in liberal states.
 
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The left in America portray those fighting, as fighting for democracy and freedom. The right portray it as fighting for patriotism, love of country and the constitution.

I suspect most fought for a combination of the above.

And as for Donald, he only respects 'winners'.
Do you agree then that he cannot say I don't want what they died for?
 
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McConnell Statement on the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Republican Leader

Mitch McConnell has already straight up admitted he intends to rush a Supreme Court nominee through the Senate, ahead of the election. Even as he admits he stonewalled the previous nomination ahead of the 2016 election.

If you Google the political procedures for Supreme Court nomination, there are all kinds of circus show, involving "nuclear options", showmanship ahead of Congress's own elections, and such. Looking forward to all the things we are about to hear "the left" is doing.

Goodbye America. Democracy was nice while it lasted.
After the Kavanaugh circus, I dont expect any nominee to be confirmed by congress before the election. So I don't think we need to worry.
 
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Ultra Conservatives Christians are trying turn it back to the time women had no rights.
"Ultra Conservative Christians" are trying to turn it back to the time when the unborn had rights.
 
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Do you agree then that he cannot say I don't want what they died for?
I cannot say what individual soldiers fought for, many being drafted. It is wrong to generalise.

I suspect the founding fathers would gag at the rank hippocracy on display on all sides, but on this issue mcdonnel especially.
 
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"ActBlue processed $11,383,676 in donations between 9:22 PM and 11:10 PM. That's $105,404.41 per minute, $1,756.74 per second. There's no sign of slowing down."
Who were the donations made to? McGrath?
 
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"Ultra Conservative Christians" are trying to turn it back to the time when the unborn had rights.
The unborn never had right. That's why women were getting illegal abortion. Before abortions wore legal. But it's to easy to get the abortion bill. So you will fail. And will cause more abortion.
 
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So I think of Jesus in Roman occupied Palestine. Was he a political zealot wanting to overthrow the unjust Roman oppression? Was he a Jew accommodating to the roman powers that be? What would Jesus do and say now? I think he would speak our against injustice while somehow remaining nonpartisan.
 
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America has always been a representational democracy, as opposed to a "pure democracy", from its inception.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. - Ronald Reagan​

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. - Hunter S. Thompson​

America has never been a democracy.

I prefer to quote the people that actually had a hand in devising the US form of government.

“Democracy never lasts long.It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.’”-John Adams

“… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.” - James Madison

“We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”- Alexander Hamilton

So no one should think they fashioned a democracy when they came up with the Constitution
 
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America has never been a democracy.

I prefer to quote the people that actually had a hand in devising the US form of government.

“Democracy never lasts long.It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.’”-John Adams

“… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.” - James Madison

“We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”- Alexander Hamilton

So no one should think they fashioned a democracy when they came up with the Constitution
The right of property, being to own other people as slaves.
 
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America has never been a democracy.

I prefer to quote the people that actually had a hand in devising the US form of government.

“Democracy never lasts long.It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.’”-John Adams

“… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.” - James Madison

“We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”- Alexander Hamilton

So no one should think they fashioned a democracy when they came up with the Constitution
The democracy of switzerland puts a lie to each of those quotes. You wouldn't find a purer democracy in the whole world, and it's been stable and powerfull during its whole history.

Ironically, they were largely inspired by the USA. If you want to see freedom and the american dream, travel to switzerland.
 
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