Hang on RBG, hang on!!!!

Five individuals who died at a time we couldn’t afford to lose them.

Hang on RBG, hang on!!!!

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To whom it may concern: (Including but not limited to, God, Yahweh, Buddha, Allah, Jesus, Baby Jesus, Mother Mary, Dhanvantari; the Hindu God of Health, Huitzilopchtli,; Aztec God of War, St. Peregrine, and Beelzebub, you know, just in case)

Please keep Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s cancer in remission for another 187 days, better known as January 20th, 2021 so Joe Biden, or literally anybody else can appoint her successor on the court.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

A Concerned Nation.

Right now if you’re a self-described Liberal, or Progressive, or Democrat, or really anybody who believes in justice and all things good, then there’s one person on this planet that you don’t want to see die for another 187 days, and that’s Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The idea that Donald Trump, a man who oozes…ooze. A man who has been impeached and should have been removed, who has overseen a completely failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a man who has pardoned convicted criminals simply because they were nice personally or politically to him, a man who has stood by and done nothing while his puppet master Vladimir Putin pays the Taliban to kill our soldiers, a man who has basically made it so easy to pollute in this country that even the oil companies are blushing, a man who has been accused by over 20 women of behavior ranging from inappropriate to actual rape, a man who has actively and purposely sought to profit personally from the office of the presidency, and a man who has appointed more officials who had to be removed due to corruption and/or criminal behavior than any president in our history, the idea that a man such as this would get to fill the seat still occupied by a brilliant trailblazing woman like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is too terrible to contemplate.

Even worse, if Justice Ginsburg does (HEAVEN FORBID) pass away in the next 187 days, the smirk on the chinless turtlesque face of “Moscow” Mitch McConnell as he speeds another angry predatory white male through a sham of a senate hearing might just be enough to bring righteous anger to the streets making the Black Lives Matter movement that we witnessed last month look like a Disney World parade. There isn’t anybody on either side of the political aisle who doubts for one second that “Moscow” Mitch wouldn’t shoehorn in Ginsburg’s replacement faster than another Trump business could file for bankruptcy.

Thata girl RBG, now stare down that stupid cancer the way you’ve stared down injustice your whole life. (Getty Images)

The Supreme Court, like everything else in this nation has become politicized, and despite a handful of interestingly surprising decisions steered by the cautious Chief Justice John Roberts, the court has held a rightward tilt now for several decades. Yes, occasionally the court has tilted left thanks to either the vote of now retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, or the aforementioned Roberts. But, a retirement or death amongst one of the so-called liberal justices such as RBG, and the court would most likely lean hard right for the next 10 years, and perhaps longer. For Progressives, the idea that Trump and McConnell would be the ones to bring this possibility to a reality is too reprehensible to contemplate.

While Conservatives might embrace McConnell’s actions back in 2016 when President Obama appointed Judge Merrick Garland, a moderate by anybody’s definition of the word, to the Supreme Court, but “Moscow” Mitch’s actions did irrepetible damage to the sanctity of the world’s most deliberative body, the United States’ Senate. McConnell’s refusal to even allow an “up or down” vote on Garland not only swung the court towards the right with the appointment and approval of Judge Neil Gorsuch, but he broke one of the few remaining non-partisan practices left in the Senate, the idea that the president gets to appoint whomever he wants to the high court, and the Senate gives him a vote. It was also McConnell who by his utter refusal to even consider working with Obama during his presidency despite the fact that the nation was reeling from the effects of the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and desperately needed to have the political parties work together, broke the Senate, and turned it into a hyper-partisan cesspool. Democrats now have been forced to do the same. They won’t work with a Republican president, and they won’t approve any presidential appointments. Nice work “Moscow” Mitch.

I know I’m not a doctor, but I can’t help but suspect that there’s a direct correlation between how low a person’s neck/chin hangs down to how low their ball-sack hangs down. If anybody knows the answer to this, please contact me. Only certified experts need reply. (Getty Images)

If Justice Ginsburg were to pass sometime between now and January 20th, 2021, the court would lose more than political balance, it would lose a person of great decency and grace. Remember, this is a person who despite her fierce political difference with her colleagues is one of the best liked members of the court. Her great rival on the right, the late Justice Antonin Scalia adored RBG and the two of them forged a wonderful friendship during their time on the court. (https://blog.timesunion.com/hoffmanfiles/rbg-and-antonin-scalia-the-odd-couple-of-jurisprudence-2/4542/) It was also Justice Ginsburg who went out of her way to welcome disgraced Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was finally admitted to the court after his harrowing senate confirmation hearing. A person such as this is not easily replaced, and absolutely should not be replaced by the most deficient human being to ever occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sadly, this is the way it often goes. It seems if we were to look at history, we’d see several instances of people passing just at the time when we as a society needed them most. The passing of these individuals was not only a blow to the public at large or the organization they represented who needed them, but often their loss was magnified by the deficiencies of those who ended up replacing them. Take a look at some of these individuals who were tragically lost at the most critical of junctures and proved almost impossible to replace:

1. Mohandas Gandhi — The great Indian independence and civil rights leader who preached as well as practiced peaceful civil disobedience was assassinated by a Hindu extremist in 1948, just at the cusp of Indian independence, and a vicious civil war between the newly formed nations of India and Pakistan was being waged. Gandhi had worked to achieve a ceasefire in the war, but would die soon after. Neither Pakistani President, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, or Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, towering men though they were in their own right were able to command the moral rectitude that the Mahatma possessed. India and Pakistan have fought four times over the past 70 years.
2. Martin Luther King jr. — King’s loss was catastrophic for this nation. He was truly the only African-American leader who could speak on equal footing to both white and black America and have his words carry weight. King’s death further served those who were far more extreme than MLK who believed that peaceful protest against the white establishment was fruitless and that King was too accommodating. In many ways it could be argued that the civil rights movement in the United States came to an abrupt halt that day in April 1968 in Memphis.
3. Robert Kennedy — With King gone, it was left to Robert Kennedy to heal the civil, racial, and generational wounds that existed in the United States in 1968. Again thanks to an assassin’s bullet, Kennedy was dead, and the last leader who could speak to white and black America was now gone. Kennedy’s death threw the Democratic Party into chaos, and provided the opening that Richard Nixon needed to win the White House against a cowering Hubert Humphrey, a good man with misplaced loyalties. Humphrey’s hesitance to oppose Lyndon Johnson on the Vietnam War until it was too late cost him the election, and Nixon would preside over the most corrupt and morally bankrupt presidential administration in U.S. history…until now of course.
4. Abraham Lincoln — While Lincoln certainly would have had his challenges in his second term dealing with the freed slaves, repatriating the South, and soothing the ire of angry “Radical” Republicans, he had earned the begrudged respect of a nation, and had the scars to prove it. There’s little doubt he would have done a better job than Andrew Johnson, an absolute disaster in every conceivable way. The country never needed Lincoln more, but somebody’s wife just had to go to the theater.
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt — FDR’s death didn’t prevent the U.S. and her allies from finishing the job that he started, and perhaps the Cold War was simply unavoidable given that Stalin could be a rather stubborn fellow, even as mass murderers go, but FDR like Lincoln had earned the respect of the world due to his masterful management of the war, and the impending victory. FDR had even managed to gain at least some trust from Stalin, and may have been able to work with the Soviet dictator had he been healthier during the last few months of the war, and survived to see its culmination. However, while most historians do give FDR’s replacement, Harry S. Truman, high marks for the decisions he made during his eight years in the White House, he hadn’t earned his stripes like Roosevelt had, and Stalin as well as many Americans remained skeptical of Truman’s leadership at the time. People wept in the streets when Roosevelt died. If Trump were to pass away, about the closest you would get to that kind of display would be the American people all taking a “leak” in the street.

There’s really never a good time to lose a Martin Luther King, ever. However, there’s never a bad time to lose a Louis Farrakhan, and yet here we are, stuck with Farrakhan and still missing MLK. (Getty Images)

For now, Justice Ginsburg says she’s doing well, her cancer is in remission, and that she sees no reason that she can’t continue her work on the court. Listen, Former Justice William O. Douglas continued to serve after he suffered a debilitating stroke, and former Chief Justice William Rehnquist stayed right up until his death, so don’t rush the poor lady. Hopefully RBG pulls thought one more time, and somebody, anybody else is president come January, and somebody else is running the Senate, and stability can be returned to the situation. Hang in there Mrs. G., good-hearted people everywhere are rooting for you.

“You talkin’ to me? You must be talkin’ to me, I don’t see anybody else here. At least not anybody who can do what I can do.” (Getty Images)