fozmeadows:

elodieunderglass:

unclewhiskysrevenge:

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anexperimentallife:

So if the Democrats take the Senate, Bernie Sanders becomes head of the Senate Budget Committee? Which would make him the fourth most powerful individual in the United States.

Imagine how much we could get done with a Sanders-led Senate Budget Committee under a Democratic president who has already been forced to adopt most of his domestic policy in exchange for his endorsement.

If you really want to see the change we got behind Bernie for, get Clinton into the White House, and get Democrats into the House and Senate.

(Also keep in mind that this next president gets to decide what’s constitutional and unconstitutional for the next 30-50 years, as they will most likely get to appoint at least four Supreme Court Justices.)

Start telling people this. People have to know the practicality of their votes.

HOLY CANNOLI I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT

Women’s right to abortion? Do you know which president created that? NO YOU DO NOT. Because it wasn’t a FUCKING president, it was Roe vs Wade. That is a Supreme Court Decision and has nothing to do with the standing president. Do you know what president was in charge during that term? 

People of color’s right to equal educational access? Which president decided that should happen? DING DING DING, that wasn’t a president, it was Brown Vs Board of Education. That’s a Supreme Court Decision that changed the nation, in part because it overruled the previous Supreme Court Decision that denied black people equal access to rights. Do you know what president was in charge in that term? Does it even matter?

Same-sex marriage? Supreme Court.

Interracial marriage? Supreme Court.

Miranda rights? The thing that police officers have to say to you, and which protects some of the rights of the arrested person? That’s a Supreme Court ruling.

The decision that Bush won the 2000 election? That was the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore.

The Supreme Court is literally a time bomb that is ready to explode and change the country, and people are pissing around whining about whether Hillary is too bitchy and how maybe Uncle Bernie will descend on a fairy cloud and give them pancakes.

IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU HAVE TO SPEND THE NEXT FOUR YEARS OF YOUR TINY PISSANT LIFE UNDER THE MOST BASIC BITCH IN BITCHDOWN. THE NEXT FOUR YEARS OF YOUR PISSANT LIFE ARE HISTORICALLY MEANINGLESS.

HISTORY DOESN’T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU THROW YOUR TOYS OUT OF THE PRAM BECAUSE YOU’RE 24 AND ANGSTY. THAT CHANGES NOTHING BECAUSE CLEARLY YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE SUPREME COURT IS, AND ARE THUS  NOT RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO MAKE POLITICAL DECISIONS, LET ALONE HOST A WELL-ATTENDED REVOLUTION.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG IS DROPPING IN HER FUCKING TRACES TO SAVE YOUR UNGRATEFUL FUCKING SKINS AND NOT ONE OF YOU UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN KNOWS HER FACE.

Want more reproductive rights? BERNIE CAN’T HELP YOU AND HE NEVER COULD. A REVOLUTION WON’T SAVE YOU. THAT’S A SUPREME COURT PROBLEM.

Want more of literally anything relating to social justice? PRESIDENTS CAN’T DO SHIT FOR YOU. GO AHEAD, TRY TO NAME THE MECHANISM BY WHICH THEY CAN DO SHIT FOR YOU. ARE THEY GOING TO ~*~WRITE A BILL~*~ ABOUT BEING NICE TO PEOPLE? NO, THAT’S THE SUPREME COURT.

Want different regulations on immigration? SUPREME COURT. IF THE SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT OUR CURRENT SYSTEM OF IMMIGRATION IS “UNCONSTITUTIONAL,” IT WILL CHANGE. OTHERWISE, HEAVEN AND EARTH WON’T MOVE IT.

Want - SUPREME COURT. IT’S THE SUPREME COURT. THAT’S WHERE THESE DECISIONS GET MADE.

The President of the United States of American has no actual power to give everyone fairy pancakes and legal marijuana because they are the leader of a democracy, and the built-in nature of democracy says that on any given issue, half the people in the democracy are working against POTUS. We deliberately set POTUS up to be hamstrung by the Congress and the Senate, and they must ALWAYS abide by the Constitution as defined by the Supreme Court. We didn’t want a nation of 320 million people to be led to slaughter by the whims of a random monarch, so we did this on purpose.

Now, if you look at your shiny POTUS trading card, you can see that despite having no Attack or Movement points, they still have two very interesting powers: 

1. they can press the Big Red Button (i.e. as Commander in Chief, they can dispatch military troops by themselves, without waiting for Congressional approval to declare war)
   
2. They appoint the Justices of the Supreme Court.

Everyone who lives in America abides by the Supreme Court’s decisions, and the great groundshaking social changes of America were decisions made by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is a panel of the most brilliant lawmakers in the land, appointed by the President alone, and answerable only to themselves. IT IS A POSITION FOR LIFE, YOU FOOLS, YOU RUBES. The United States is a nation ruled by a Constitution and that Constitution lives, breathes and governs the lives of Americans through the interpretation of the Supreme Court.

If you want to change the nation - well, three of the Supreme Court Justices are over the age of 77. It’s a position for life, and they’re all hanging on, but how many 77-year-olds do you know who are in perfect health and sharpness? Two of them are Clinton appointees, and one is a Reagan appointee. Ginsburg, the eldest, is 83 (appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993). In her 24 years on the SCOTUS, she’s shaped everything from LGBT+ rights, to environmental policy, to the role of women. She’s interpreted, enforced and defended the Constitution. And for years, all of the parties represented in the SCOTUS have been licking their lips over her, because they assume she’ll die in the next 4 years, allowing the next President to plant a political successor that will shape the nation for generations. She could bloody well last (and she intends to - does anyone else remember how she POWERED THROUGH COLON CANCER in 99? jesus FUCK) but instead of pinning your hopes for the future directions of the nation on an elderly woman fighting your corner out of sheer cussedness, YOU COULD ALSO VOTE FOR A PRESIDENT WHO COULD FIND HER A GOOD SUCCESSOR. 

The careful balance of political parties embodied in the current SCOTUS can just about absorb one replacement without tipping the country into chaos… and there is a high likelihood of three replacements in the next 4-8 years. Three Trump-nominated SCOTUS Justices, to replace the sheer fighting ferocity of Ginsburg, who has kept this country reasonably on the left for the past 24 years? Three Justices who - if Trump picks reasonably perky 30-year-olds - will interpret the Constitution and inform the next 50 years of Supreme policy? That SCOTUS could overturn Roe vs Wade without a single peep of argument. dear god. let’s just get back into the sea.

It doesn’t matter if you dislike your Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher if the Wizengamot is composed entirely out of Death Eaters, YOU FOOLS.

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* I mean, if I had to pick anyone to fight for my rights, I would pick a tiny angry brilliant 83-year-old Jewish grandmother over pretty much anyone else, but I don’t know if it’s fair to make her do EVERYTHING for me, you know?

WHAT ELODIE SAID JESUS CHRIST