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    kinda interesting to read all this shit about legacy when her actual legacy may end up being her great final and foolish misstep to not retire.

    like, she may have set the judiciary back as much as she brought it forward by not retiring under obama's first term (at which point she had cancer twice and broken three ribs in a fall) when they had a massive liberal majority across the electorate.

    whatever, though. mitch mcconnell is fucking salivating right now. even though the GOP got lampooned in 2018 after the kavanaugh debacle, in the end that dude is on the court and they didn't lose the senate over it.

    so yeah i mean. "grind til you die" and all.

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