

It needs to be delayed till January of next year, when the next Congress comes in session. If Thomas has any sense he’d resign if this looks like it’s going somewhere so Trump can sneak an appointment in. My best guess for what the Democrats would do, if they were able to block a Supreme Court pick, is come up with some sort of compromise. Maybe appoint somebody who’s a moderate, not a Trump acolyte. I doubt they’d want the optics of not confirming a justice for 2 years.


Not really a new thing for fascists. Hitler screwed the German army so hard with dumb projects that had no chance of going anywhere, poor decision making, poor management of the government, etc. For example, the V-2 program is widely seen as a net loss for Germany - it cost too much, consumed too many resources, and never proved to do meaningful damage. Then there’s Germany’s obsession with giant tanks that were never going to be practical, even if they somehow made them reliable.