• OutlierBlue
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    16 days ago

    Yeah so why bother at all, right?

    Your opponent doesn’t have to do anything if you don’t even try.

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      16 days ago

      as critical as i usually am of the democrat’s strategy of doing nothing, i think it was the right call here. if the appointment of a new justice did get blocked (which it very likely would have), then that would translate to yet another justice being appointed by trump. and that’s simply too big a risk to take