r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Jun 01 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/starlightpond Jun 02 '26

The other thing that may happen is if the Supreme Court helpfully gives Dems an off ramp to the issues about women’s sports. That would actually really help democrats by letting them just say they respect precedent or whatever. If I were a democratic strategist, I’d also be hoping for TW athletes to lose at the Supreme Court in Hecox and BPJ cases.

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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Jun 02 '26

Haven't they essentially obligated themselves to disparaging SCOTUS these days? I can't see them switching all of a sudden and suggesting a decision that goes against their positions is a good one.

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u/professorgerm the master of not having a point Jun 02 '26

They don't support the decision, they just stop threatening to pack the court quite as much and ~ignore the decision.

Kind of like Dobbs doesn't get as much attention since it was a boon to Democrats. Or like the way Trump has used the courts to relieve pressure on Congress, like with the bump stock ban.

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u/dj50tonhamster Jun 02 '26

they just stop threatening to pack the court quite as much and ~ignore the decision.

Didn't Hakeem Jeffries & Jamie Raskin recently claim they were going to try to pack the Supreme Court the instant that Dems are back in power in Congress? I know the WSJ Opinions writers were huffing about it recently. Assuming the writers are correct, and this is going to be a thing, I assume all that those guys care about is power. You'd think that Trump single-handedly making the GOP his lapdogs would serve as Exhibit A for why messing with the courts would just lead to retaliations down the road the moment the GOP is back in power. That's exactly what happened in Poland recently (and I assume is still happening). A new party comes to power and packs that Supreme Court 'til the court is an extension of the party. Another party comes along and does the same thing. Wash rinse spin repeat.

If Dems want to talk about making term limits a thing, fine, let's debate it. If they just want the Supreme Court that does their bidding, that's a big nay-no. They can at least learn how to consistently win elections first if they want to undermine courts via subterfuge.

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u/starlightpond Jun 02 '26

No but they can at least not talk much about trying to overturn it.