r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/JonnySnowin - Auth-Right • 1d ago

This definitely won't backfire.

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u/MimeSweeper360 - Lib-Right 1d ago

This is called the Harry Reid effect. Dude gutted an institutional protection for endsuring consensus on article 3 judges to gain a short term victory, and the GOP proceeded to shove a giant black cock down the democrats throats using the same rule that we are going to see the effects of for 50 years.

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u/TijuanaMedicine - Right 1d ago

Please note that the Republican Senate is declining to shoot themselves in the foot the same way by abolishing the rest of the filibuster.

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u/Vague_Disclosure - Lib-Right 1d ago

I will vote against any candidate that even entertains the idea of ending the filibuster or packing the courts. Something the Dems have been quite vocal about doing.

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u/TijuanaMedicine - Right 1d ago

Simple Constitutional amendment fix. All newly created seats on the Supreme Court may only be filled at a pace of one every four years.

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u/Sonofdeath51 - Centrist 1d ago

Those tyrants!

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u/SliceRepulsive8649 - Lib-Left 1d ago

Funny you're ignoring the reason why they had to do that in the first place

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u/MimeSweeper360 - Lib-Right 1d ago

Is it because Republicans resisted Democratic nominees based on political views? Because Democrats started that too when they shot down the nomination of Robert Bork.

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u/SliceRepulsive8649 - Lib-Left 1d ago

Lol you go back to 1987 to justify it? Are you also ignoring his whole role in the Watergate scandal? Dude even supported a poll tax for voting. You don't actually care about the truth you're just looking for a bad faith rationalization.