i try not to talk to people from my past like ever (i’m an ex-mormon from mormon country) but i have been doing some HARD WORK on my ex-defunct facebook account commenting on as many profiles and status updates and shit as possible: in civil and kind and generous language i just explain how i think that jesus would…

Agreed, and I wrote as much, below.

my grandmother loves the Bush family probably more the her grandchilden, and though i don’t believe she would vote for Trump because she hates him, she would absolutely never vote Democrat

That is my biggest worry, its all fun and games until he is sworn in and America collectively destroys itself.

i feel like democrats are wholly unprepared for how many will jump ship from the party should hillary be the nominee?

I am not certain and I am TERRIFIED. Take my stepdad for example - he is a staunch Republican who will close his eyes and vote for Donald just because he is Republican. I’m talking about a *fairly* intelligent man voting for this bafoon simply because he has been a Republican his whole life and won’t change now.

“We’d prefer that a executive order wasn’t used.”

So really, what they mean is they’d leave it in the hands of the states of slaveowners, meaning we’d probably still have slavery today. These assholes would have you believe it’d all happen eventually and democratically, but they know and we know that it’d never have…

Eh. I mean, you’re right, that likely would be many voters’ reasoning for why they answered the way they did. And maybe this is me lacking “nuance,” but...

You would think that any reasonable, non-racist person would be able to make an exception for executive orders and/or other federal intervention where the enslavement of human beings is concerned. “States’ rights” my ass.

“Trump voters”... “nuance”

You do realize this has NEVER happened before right? There’s zero precedent here to blame on the Democrats. The closest you can get are instances where single Democrats made hypothetical statements during years where there weren’t even any vacancies in the court. Hell even those statements have been misquoted or have…

LOL.

They’ve entertained the idea, but have never actually gone through with obstructing the nominee in the way that the Republicans are currently planning to do. If they don’t actually do it, then they will be comparable to the Democrats. But they don’t have a good track record on this matter, and are currently one of the…

DEMS 2006: “This particular cucumber is fucking rotten and has weird shit growing on it; we’re not going to eat it. If you have any better produce we’ll consider those.”

Saying you oppose a particular nominee is completely different than saying you will refuse to consider any nominee.

There’s a difference between Filibustering confirmation of an actual nominee you are opposed to and refusing to participate in your duty prior to a nominee being set forth. And stop saying “dear”, it’s fucking creepy.

And what was the result of those processes? Your own citations contradict you, dear. Obama opposed the filibuster, which was designed to get a different nominee, not NO nominee. Biden also proposed a different nominee, not NO nominee.

Biden urged them not to retire just to affect who could nominate their successor.

I’m sure you can cite an actual example of Democrats actually blocking an actual nominee, right?

Bork got a hearing and a vote. That’s the Senate doing its job, especially since it confirmed Reagan’s subsequent choice.