Ruth Bader Ginsburg just finished treatment for tumor on pancreas. Tell me again why I should have

[still_one]

open arms for Susan Sarandon

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I don't know why you see a connection between these two women...

I would certainly not support Susan Sarandon.

[still_one]

5. Because of what she did in 2016 GE

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Thanks! I did actually figure it out..........eventually. n/t

[still_one]

10. I am frustrated with everything going on Peggy, and it looks like nothing will change until 2020

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. It does look that way, doesn't it? It's a bitter pill to swallow. n/t

[riverine]

2. The Supreme Court has been lost for decades.

Gorsuch, Roberts, Alito, and Kavanaugh are all young men.

And Thomas will never retire with a Democratic President.

[Ace Rothstein]

7. Alito is pushing 70 and Roberts is 64.

They probably won't be around for decades.

[Hortensis]

16. No. We have legal options. In a way, the worse it gets the more

that options that have never been used become viable, and likely to be turned to. A court inimical to the interests of the American people, controlled by the corrupt political agents of a few, would create the necessary demand for action by the people, while one that was merely strongly influenced by those agents, as now, might limp along corruptly influenced for some years.

I don't know all options, but one is removal of unfit justices. Kavanaugh of course leaps to mind. Investigation of Thomas (and very likely other conservative justices in this intensely corrupt environment) would almost certainly reveal unethical and perhaps even illegal conduct. Scalia flew to many secret meetings with RW powers, not just the one he died at. The Republicans create fake scandals, but we wouldn't have to. Another legal option is changing the number of justices.

But, we're not there yet. Treatment for our Notorious RBG is described as "definitive" and the announcement is that no further treatment is needed. Let's hope that remains true.

[mcar]

3. How much more can this brave woman take

And, yes, fck Sarandon and every other 3rd party voter. So many of us here on DU warned them and they sniffed and said the courts weren't important.

[BannonsLiver]

9. With any luck, about 15-to-17 more months.

[emmaverybo]

13. Baden does not have the kind of pancreatic cancer that is a veritable death sentence, or she would

have been dead quite awhile by now. She has unusual reserves of strength and resiliency. May she
recover to survive many more years.

I know Carter’s cancer is not the same, but he’s still with us, did have a diagnosis of serious nature.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. NBC reported a few minutes ago that the tumor was not removed in this latest treatment.

but the radiation was done.

[emmaverybo]

20. Probably not in a good spot to operate and perhaps as good a chance of stopping it becoming

metastatic with radiation. I remain hopeful, but admit I only play a doctor in my own delusions.

[MFM008]

4. E MAILS

Are sooooooooo much more important.

[octoberlib]

8. I agree, although R's might have still controlled the Senate. I do remember RBG's first bout of

pancreatic cancer in 2009 when Dems controlled the Senate and there being a lot of pressure on her then to retire. Hopefully, they caught it early and she'll pull through.

[still_one]

11. In sure me respects the Senate May be even more important, but not quite

[octoberlib]

14. I meant as far as getting a Supreme Court Justice confirmed. McConnell probably would have

delayed and delayed.

[Hortensis]

12. For every Sarandon there were at least 100 who didn't vote.

Not excusing Sarandon's contemptible dishonesty and irresponsibility, of course. Unlike most of those who didn't bother to take a stand by voting, though, she may not be capable of better. Deluded whackadoodles unfit for the duties of citizenship aren't only a RW phenomenon.

Yeats nailed it back in the 1890s-1930s when extremism rising both sides got control and threatened to set civilization back to the dark ages, leading to murderous communist and fascist regimes, two world wars, the holocaust. We're there again.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Poetic simplicity of course. The worst are full of passionate intensity, as is their nature, but our best haven't really all lost all conviction.

Best, best wishes for our Notorious RBG. Pancreas is scary.

[Act_of_Reparation]

18. Oh, give it a rest.

How many votes do you think Susan Sarandon cost us, really? How many from key demographics in contested states?

I can't predict the future, but I don't think the historians—when they finally get around to analyzing 2016 in great detail—are going to lay much of the blame on an actress whose peak period of mainstream success was, what, 1988?

[still_one]

19. In everyone of those criticical swing states, the Democratic nominee lost by less that 1%. In those

states, which were the states she targeted, Stein received 1%

It didn't take much, and she did receive a lot of media attention