oooh! ooh ooh ooh!!! we can mcturtle all of donnie's nominees using *their* logic because

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the 2020 campaign has already begun *because donnie already filed as a candidate*!!!!

so, because the 2020 campaign has already begun, using mcturtle's very own logic, we have to wait for the american people to have a voice in the next election!

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1. That'll last as long as it takes to declare the nuclear option.

There is no reason for Trump and Senate Republicans not to go nuclear. Senate Democrats have already made clear their intention to stonewall his nominee, before even knowing whom he plans to nominate on Tuesday night. “If the nominee is not bipartisan and mainstream, we absolutely will keep the seat open,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) recently declared.

No, you won’t. Senate Democrats don’t have the power to “keep the seat open.”

That’s because, in 2013, Democrats broke a nearly four-decade-long precedent and changed Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for executive branch nominations and appointments to the federal circuit or district courts — allowing them to be confirmed by simple majority. Eliminating the filibuster for political appointments that die with a president’s term was one thing. But Democrats eliminated the filibuster for lifetime appointments to the federal bench as well.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-should-go-nuclear-on-his-supreme-court-nominee/2017/01/30/b3364f4c-e700-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.b60dfb1f5b80

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2. well of course. we obviously don't have much real power. but we can win rhetorical battles

to set the stage for the next elections.

if there are any legitimate ones, anyway.

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4. Ah gotcha! Every little bit does help. nt

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3. Turtle controls schedule

Unlike Garland this guy will get a floor vote.. and turtle can stall other senate business.