The real political split happening in Germany is between West and East. I’m slightly worried about that growing instead of getting better in the future.
(Sorry for derailing the thread)
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In my opinion they are , and they benefit massively from disgruntled swing voters from both main centrist partys.
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It always amazes me how they managed to get almost zero blame for the unpopular policies of the Schröder government, while it totally sank the SPD. On the other hand, most Green voters aren’t/weren’t affected very much by that, so maybe not that surprising.
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German politics thread?
Apologies.
This Herr Drumpf really is something else, eh? 
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Yeah, though interesting, the discussions have taken a tangent of the thread topic. I will start a new conversation in The Global Politics.
Packing the court would be a mistake, IMO. Would end up being used against them the next time the GOP gains power. The Dems seem to do this a lot - they change the rules to meet their current need, then act indignant when the GOP do it to them.
The Dems had their opportunities to win enough Senate seats to make sure this wasn’t an issue. Leave the SCOTUS as it is and work to change the nature of their party so as to avoid something like this happening again. Thomas isn’t going to be around much longer, they need to make sure they’re the ones in power when his seat comes up.
#resist
claire mccaskill inherited her senate seat from her late husband, essentially, and in 2018 ran flagrantly racist ads in an attempt to court trump supporters & went down in flames as missouri roundly rejected ‘right to work’ on the same ballot
so they put her on MSDNC to scold ocasio-cortez and smear bernie sanders, as if mccaskill herself is some kind of savant at winning elections. here’s a couple of mccaskill’s recent insights
not only was john mccain a racist crook and warmonger who only voted against obamacare repeal to milk another round of slobbering fellatio from the media hacks who created the myth of the ‘maverick’, but, more pertinently, in october 2016 he vowed to block any hillary clinton supreme court appointment
the lesson democrats should take from mccain is that he cultivated a ‘bipartisan’ image, which resulted in him losing to obama because republicans didn’t bother showing up to vote for him. instead, they’ve made him their hero–no question the democratic establishment has more affection for mccain than bernie sanders, which is utterly perverse
anyone with half a brain knows that mcconnell would unhesitatingly trade a senate majority for the chance to replace ginsburg with a a 38 year-old regent university law grad, because he understands power
ginsburg did speaking engagements with a tote bag featuring her own image & a tag line by her feet, and refused obama’s request that she step down because ‘who are you going to get better than me?’, but liberals are outraged at the suggestion that her ego screwed us
same mentality that has them absolve hlllary clinton for her spectacular faceplant against the game show host pervert whose wedding she attended and whose campaign she intentionally elevated, but continue to vilify the 100 million americans who didn’t bother voting as ‘privileged’. (never mind that nonvoters are, on average, poorer and less white than those who do show up to vote.) single mothers working two jobs should’ve known the supreme court was at stake–how dare you expect hillary to appeal to them, or ginsburg to sacrifice her career?
the party elite can’t fail, they can only be failed
sad, sick irony in that all the people under 50 who supported the healthcare guy where derided as being in a cult by the same freaks who treat politics as team sports and lavished embarrassing celebrity worship on a dying 200 year old dwarf with a thoroughly mediocre judicial record
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absolute joke of a party
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the next move from the democrats will be to use the importance of covid relief as a reason not to grind the senate to a lurch in an attempt to obstruct a SCOTUS appointment
@DioufGates Who are you talking to?
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In many ways I feel like he’s talking to each and every one of us. It’s profound.
Like the sayings in fortune cookies I feel that they’re speaking to me but I’ve got no idea what it means. It’s deep.
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I think it is sort of a safe version of a series of primal screams of frustration, which is sort of understandable.
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well we can’t all be smug centrists, most offended by broken starbucks windows and mean chants at the poor policemen
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‘biden needs to denounces the protesters’
maybe we’ll see another fed hit that trump will brag about and the media will basically ignore
It’s like you’re looking straight into my soul.
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Lawyers don’t have souls!
Do they 
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For £600 I’ll answer your question.
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Great point.
The perception of the outsiders is made on the back of the coverage by Western Media, which is often found to be biased and even fake at times, with zero understanding of ground reality or local sentiment.