85 Year Old Justice Ginsburg Falls!

Wally

BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
I would never wish death on anyone, but RETIRE already! Most of the time you see her, she's napping.
Don't you have grandchildren (or in her case, great great grandchildren) you'd like to enjoy?
It is just so sad you'd rather waste your later years rotting on the bench in Washington.

Trump, Biden, Warren too. You're all old and rich. Time to call it a career.
The power is like a drug.
 

Non sequitur

Well-Known Member
Trust us we will take care of all your needs. God or state? Can't wait for the driverless cars, government job, planned communities. Hell why wait for the nursing home maybe the state can create a job to wipe the working class asses.
 

oldngray

nowhere special
Who told you about my last year in Corporate?
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Old Man Jingles

Rat out of a cage
Why do you hate democracy?
Because it is rule by "Tyranny of the Majority" ... that's what I like most about the USA Government.

American founding father Alexander Hamilton, writing to Thomas Jefferson from the Constitutional Convention, argued the same fears regarding the use of pure direct democracy by the majority to elect a demagogue who, rather than work for the benefit of all citizens, set out to either harm those in the minority or work only for those of the upper echelon or population centers. As articulated by Hamilton, one reason the Electoral College was created was so "that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications".

In his belief, was the inherent belief that no one like Trump would ever be elected by the Electoral College!
WTF happened?
 

It will be fine

Well-Known Member
Because it is rule by "Tyranny of the Majority" ... that's what I like most about the USA Government.

American founding father Alexander Hamilton, writing to Thomas Jefferson from the Constitutional Convention, argued the same fears regarding the use of pure direct democracy by the majority to elect a demagogue who, rather than work for the benefit of all citizens, set out to either harm those in the minority or work only for those of the upper echelon or population centers. As articulated by Hamilton, one reason the Electoral College was created was so "that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications".

In his belief, was the inherent belief that no one like Trump would ever be elected by the Electoral College!
WTF happened?
I think they envisioned states voting for delegates that would then choose the president. These days the delegates vote according to each state’s popular vote. Might as well go the whole way and use the national popular vote.
 

Old Man Jingles

Rat out of a cage
I think they envisioned states voting for delegates that would then choose the president. These days the delegates vote according to each state’s popular vote. Might as well go the whole way and use the national popular vote.
No way ... that's the "Tyranny of the Majority".
Our Founding Fathers were a whole lot smarter than you or me!!!
 
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