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SEEMS FAIR: “They’re now saying, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, they said, ‘Biden should release his list.'” Plus: “Oh? I’d forgotten that he’d pledged to choose a black woman. Isn’t that inconsistent with his 3 reasons for not giving us a list? There can’t be that many potential choices if he’s got the type of person narrowed down like that. Who are the under-60 black female federal judges appointed by Democratic Presidents? Won’t they all be influenced in their decisions — reason #1, above — even though their names are not on a list? Aren’t they all just as vulnerable to ‘unrelenting political attacks’ as the individuals on Trump’s list (reason #2)? And are you not violating reason #3 by making this pledge?”

There’s not enough Aricept in the world to get a coherent answer out of Biden to those questions.

Plus: “No presidential candidate, other than Donald Trump, has ever done such a thing…. Yes, Trump innovated, but it was Trump, so, of course Orange Man Bad. But it was a good innovation for him, because he wanted to build confidence that he would indeed choose a principled conservative. Now, that the innovation has been done, other candidates will decide whether it suits them. It will suit some, but not others. And, clearly, it would not suit Biden. Biden can’t possibly present a list of names. “

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DON’T SHED A SINGLE TEAR FOR THE SUFFERING OF ‘SORORITY MARXISTS’ — THEY’VE EARNED: “But a funny thing happens on the way to neo-Marxist utopia. Once these unlikely guerrilla warriors are apprehended, they start demanding all of the protections provided by the very legal system they say is corrupt beyond repair. Patterson’s father was outraged that his daughter was being held on $1 million bail, and he claims she has been denied access to the family attorney. Whoa, whoa, whoa — family attorney? Shouldn’t these allies of the downtrodden be relying on public defenders like the people they claim to be defending?”

COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU: Kavanaugh II, Electric Bugaloo. 

Back up, Don Corleone! Democrats are threatening to “go to the mattress” if “Don” Mitch McConnell follows through on confirming “Don” POTUS’ replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election.

Only slightly more genteel than the mafia, “the mattress” in this instance includes abolishing the filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court, naturally with ideological semblables.

Never mind that RBG herself was against court “packing,” calling it “partisan” in an interview with Nina Totenberg, adding “9 seems to be a good number… I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried… I am not at all in favor of that…”

Or that if the Democrats pack the court with three or four new justices voting their way, and then the Republicans come back and do the same, pretty soon the Supreme Court will be as large and useless as the UN.

To be fair, I’d be happy to see the Supreme Court rendered useless — it would avoid these nuclear-level scrums each time a Supreme Court justice is replaced.

PUTTING THE DERANGEMENT IN “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME:”

ANALYSIS: TRUE: