Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 days agoCan a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down15
arrow-up1164arrow-down1message-squareCan a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squaresploosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoObama not fighting for his Supreme Court appointment is a lot more than indirectly responsible for all of this. He abdicated his duty to execute the office and fucked us all in doing so.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoCould he have done more than “encourage” RBG?
minus-squarecalliope@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·4 days agoAh, we’re to “blame Obama for this” instead of blaming the senators who outright refused to look at Supreme Court Justices for a year.
minus-squaresploosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoLots of people share blame but Obama did not fight for it at all, which amounts to appeasement. There should have been a Supreme Court case about it.
Obama not fighting for his Supreme Court appointment is a lot more than indirectly responsible for all of this. He abdicated his duty to execute the office and fucked us all in doing so.
Could he have done more than “encourage” RBG?
Ah, we’re to “blame Obama for this” instead of blaming the senators who outright refused to look at Supreme Court Justices for a year.
Lots of people share blame but Obama did not fight for it at all, which amounts to appeasement. There should have been a Supreme Court case about it.