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BumRushDaShow

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9. It was Turtle's revenge

Reply to Martin Eden (Reply #7)

Tue Sep 9, 2025, 09:18 AM

Sep 9

for his foolish, very vocal "promise" to make Obama "a 1-term President"... and then that wishcasting failed.

So his next best thing was to sit on Obama's nomination for a SCOTUS Justice for almost a year after Scalia bought the farm, and that allowed 45 to fill that and the 2 additional slots that came after the 2016 election.

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