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Having the pleasure of watching you share openly with the IDW and glimpsing reason patterns of very intelligent people. This is not a very Eric Weinstein take from the small amount of takes I’ve been privy to hear. This one defiantly doesn’t fit

I agree as you can see. Can’t think through this one. Too many different lines happening at once.

Eric i completely agree with you the Republicans opened Pandora's Box by denying Garland a hearing. Even if all the allegations are true or false it is not important anymore because the rules of the game have now been changed forever.

Two very different scenarios. The GOP never tarnished Garland, they simply refused to confirm him. Because they held the majority it was their responsibility to make the sitting President select a candidate acceptable to their constituents. Obama had that choice and didn't budge.

No, when they decided to deny Garland a hearing they dismantled the idea that the supreme court is supposed to be non partisan and went against the constitution + years of precedence that allowed the siting president to elect justices not the future one.

The precedent is that the President elects the Supreme Court Justices upon the confirmation of the Senate. Everything in our government requires balance and the sitting President has to elect someone that the majority will accept. It's that simple.

When did they destroy Merrick Garland's reputation internationally???

That's not the point. The point is, both sides are using whatever underhanded, despicable tactics they can to impede the other for the sake of impeding the other side. Neither pubs nor dems actually care if Kavenaugh is innocent or not. Only that they get their guy in at all cost

Have you been paying attention at all to what's happening? Not holding a vote for a nomination is something that has been used plenty. There is nothing underhanded about it. Meanwhile the dems have tried to completely destroy this man and his reputation because they don't want

Exactly, not holding a vote was a normal excepted practices and the nuclear option was introduced by the Democrats. So even in the Garland case, if anything it was the arrogance of the Dems that doomed that nomination.

It's also normal accepted practice for the FBI to investigate appointees for wrongdoing when accusations come about. But now normal accepted practices are inconvenient politically sooo let's just not do it. I agree the dems are WORSE, doesn't justify the pubs actions.

Do you see how that led directly from Harry Reid’s filibuster reform? Also, evil seems a strong word

To be clear, I’m not saying anyone is a paragon of moral virtue, but it seems wrong to excoriate those who leverage the rules that you create against you