@lovendures, about your card reading. You are good at this in that you saw those cards as dark and negative, but I think the cards are talking about her feelings, not whether she will get confirmed.
I feel she will be confirmed.
I feel the GOP will be able to pull it off. They've got $250 million of donors' money resting on this. This confirmation is the most important thing the GOP can do for it's wealthy sponsors before the election.
I threw cards on her last week and the cards also were negative, and I felt they showed she was feeling miserable. Her religious fundamentalist sect, People of Praise, that is the biggest part of her existence, is being maligned all over the country now. She thinks they've been wrongly maligned and she's right that linking them to the Handmaid's Tale is incorrect. It is likely causing religious persecution against People of Praise and other extreme sects as well. But all the GOP money can't seem to change people's minds about linking it to Atwood's dystopian story. The association also affects her family and the sect itself. They are probably feeling persecuted, like the Puritans. It could get worse for her and them over time.
But I feel she is going to get confirmed.
She also feels the intense pressure to make her sponsors happy. Yesterday I threw the Thoth 4 cups, luxury, and saw that she felt a firehose of pressure being spewed on her head.
Well, she has made a Devil's bargain because although she's happy to change the world according to her religious beliefs, her sponsors own her. Jesus turned away from the Devil's bargain, and I'm sure she knows that story. I don't think a judge can truly free yourself from that even if you are appointed for life.
As for how we feel about her getting confirmed! The GOP's rogue behavior has given the dems permission to do whatever it takes to drown out the voices of these conservative judges who have been appointed against the intent and long-time practice of our Constitution. The dems will expand the Supreme Court and Amy Coney Barrett will be rendered impotent.
@jeanne-mayell So this is the fascinating part of throwing cards to me. The multiple interpretations. But it also is confusing. It reminds me of a game that I play with my kids. We have seven die with pictures of key story elements, like a house, light bulb, lightning, etc. The player rolls the die and has to tell an original story using the images each only once. For an experienced stage performer and improviser like me, it is easy to steer the story anyway that I want. So there are so many ways that it can go which is the fun of it. But I control the path. How does one not control the path of the tarot reading? (I probably should post this in another thread more related to this topic as well.) Your two very different readings made me wonder about this.
Thanks Jeanne. What you have written makes a great deal of sense. It could be what she is feeling with the process and how it has negatively spotlighted her religion, not what happens to the court.
What a mess.
@jovesta. I love your question. I will move your question and my response to another section on Tarot but tomorrow.
When Elana Kagan greets the next justice is it ACB or is it the face of a black woman? I will look at this tomorrow and see what rises.
Bill McKibben, the nation's leading climate activist, wrote this about Amy Coney Barrett: First that Charles Koch, the nation's leading greenhouse gas polluter who financed the climate denial movement for the last forty years, has spent $35 million to back Ms. Barett to the bench.
Second, that the Pope himself is a climate activist, so, Amy, how does that fit with your Catholism?
I look forward to the day when they expand the size of the court and she and Kavanaugh become impotent minority voices on the bench that no one cares about.
Excerpted From The New Yorker "The Republican-controlled Senate, by any measure, is acting dishonorably as it moves to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the high court: having previously declared that Presidents in their last year in office should not be able to nominate a new Justice, it reversed this “McConnell rule” when it served them to do so.
The Trump years have been so ugly that this hypocrisy doesn’t stand out as sharply as it should, but it is an ignoble thing to have done and, in Barrett’s case, to have gone along with.
Still, it’s not the most remarkable thing about the moment.
For me, anyway, that came when Senator John Kennedy, of Louisiana, asked Barrett if she had an opinion on climate change.
“I’ve read things about climate change,” she said. “I would not say I have firm views on it.”
It’s hard to imagine that an intelligent and highly educated person, such as Barrett, would not have reached a conclusion on the key questions facing the future of life on earth:
Is global warming dangerous, and is it caused by humans?
Neither of these positions is controversial among the scientific community, nor, for that matter, in the Catholic community where Barrett makes her spiritual home.
https://link.newyorker.com/click/21856475.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&source=gmail-imap&ust=1603926118000000&usg=AOvVaw2tGNZIKgxpGlRoZuabPiv l" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pope Francis’s lengthiest and most important encyclical, “https://link.newyorker.com/click/21856475.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&source=gmail-imap&ust=1603926118000000&usg=AOvVaw29u934aH8Z-8xNUtbY7gm z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laudato Si,” takes on the climate crisis with a philosophical and sociological depth that few others have even attempted. The Pope’s newest https://link.newyorker.com/click/21856475.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&source=gmail-imap&ust=1603926118000000&usg=AOvVaw38JqbkIPKKv36HXJmcAYR 8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,” released this month, covers much the same ground, and he has helpfully https://link.newyorker.com/click/21856475.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&source=gmail-imap&ust=1603926118000000&usg=AOvVaw2RADZ1rXm0qxjT1yS8WiD p" target="_blank" rel="noopener">produced a ted talk that makes the point in much sharper terms. “We must act now,” he said, which is what every scientist studying the crisis has said, too. -- Bill McKibben
Question regarding Lindsey Graham breaking procedural rules. In general litigation I thought this would be grounds for appeal. Any chance his actions pave the way for recall?
There's no provision in the Constitution for a recall, only impeachment/removal, and impeachment would by definition require that the nominee/justice have committed a "high crimes [or] misdemeanors", so I don't think so. However, I'm not a Constitutional specialist, just a very interested person, so I can't say definitively. However, if it could be proven that she lied under oath during the process, that would qualify, I think.
Have your feelings about the likelihood of Amy Coney Barrett being confirmed to the SCOTUS changed since our original predictions that she won't be confirmed?
I want to hold onto hope that something will scuttle the vote.
Lisa Murkowski plans to vote to confirm, so short of the vote being delayed I don't see how she doesn't get confirmed. That said, I do think there will be short and long term consequences to ramming through her nomination and confirmation. And, while there may not be the votes to impeach any particular justice, that doesn't mean they can't feel pressured to resign. If enough negative stuff comes out about them, especially Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorusch, who knows how that will play out.
Once Americans start losing rights they've had for generations, you will see more of an uproar, and with that more pressure on the democrats to do something. They've been way too complacent. This may end up being the wake up call the center left and left has needed. After all, the right wing didn't just get control of the sup ct overnight. It took decades of sustained pressure. Dems need to do the same and this may be serve as the motivation.