Ikr? Crazy part is, I'm willing to bet if there was no USPS, his satire of the possibility is EXACTLY what would happen. Funny how powerful perspective is when applied appropriately. The post office really does do a lot for very little price. I know our taxes fund them too, not just stamps and postal fees, but when you think about all the things our taxes go towards... well, the postal service is something the directly makes our lives more convenient. I have nothing bad to say about it.
@@MichaelLasotaMusic Are you implying that you could get FedEx to deliver an envelope anywhere in the country, even giving them as much time as they want, for $0.73? 🙄
I'm sorry they're urging her to retire NOW??? Did they learn literally nothing from 2016? If this was going to be a problem, they should have been having this discussion in like 2022!
The difference between then and now is that the turtle isn't running the show in the senate. No more "no confirmation hearings during an election year" (only to have that exact thing happen as soon as it's convenient) this time.
@@EpyonRules, thank you for getting it! It was 100% McConnell. If McConnell had followed his own made up rule, the SC would be 5-4 GOP right now (with Roberts as a swing vote), not 6-3.
SCOTUS shoukd all resign, especially roberts and Thomas. Thomas should be in prison. Apparently if you are a SCOTUS you can commit crimes at will and not even be investigated
@@RCJH2022What did Biden do that was illegal? Nothing he is accused of doing happened while he was in office. Getting the prosecutor fired was within his job as VP, as he asked Ukraine’s Parliament to fire Shokin.
They can be removed via the Impeachment process the same as a President and it wouldn't be the 1st time it was attempted. Pull up Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. He didn't sign the Constitution, he DID sign the Declaration of Independence.
Kathleen Madigan has a brilliant comedic bit about the price of stamps. "I can not believe, to this day, that I can walk into a building, with a piece of paper in my hand, and look at a full grown adult and say 'Here's 49 cents. Will you take this to Alaska?'" But.. the cost of postage has risen exponentially under DeJoy. He has always had a financial conflict of interest between the USPS and other private carrier companies that he owns stock in.
K M imagine if you can when B franklin started the PO way back when, that you could send a letter ACROSS the USA of A for a full $000.03 from New York to San Francisco..West of Mississippi.. utiling then then NEW Pony Express~!?~ Gen ZZZ these youth of America JUST rode lickity split from AZ or other Local stop to S F O stopping on the Wells Fargo routes for drink & foods stuff..Their job was their pay you dang fools !
In the old days, sending the mail across the country was _free._ On the other hand, _receiving_ a letter from the post office is what would cost ya'. That's right: Pre-paid postage was 'Plan B'.
If trump wins then there is a chance it will be the last election for a while anyway. Trump would have it like North Korea if possible & keep power in the family.
Key word is Democrats. Democrats are asking Sotomayor to retire in order to maintain Democratic power in the courts. It's not an American issue, but a Democratic issue. Therefore Democrats can't demand Alito or Thomas to retire as they are Republicans. I mean they can demand but Republicans would have no reason to listen because that would weaken Republican power in the courts.
Because Sotomayor is a liberal. If she cares about liberal causes, she should quit. Its not personal. The court matters and its a reality that people die.
SCOTUS is supposed to be made up of people qualified to interpret the Constitution of the USA. Eff partisanship and the Heritage Foundation who has determined maybe 6 nominees/justices. And pay 2 of the spouses (Roberts and Thomas). Get rid of Heritage Foundation and their influence. Change makeup of Senate to change SCOTUS
@@jmhorange Indeed; this is akin to Democrats calling for Stephen Breyer to retire during the first half of Biden's first term, while the Democrats held the Senate, since it was "more likely than not" that Republicans would recapture the chamber in the 2022 midterms. Fortunately, Breyer did so and allowed Biden to replace him with Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Obama's experience with Merrick Garland and the Scalia seat open shows that Senate Republicans, if in the majority, cannot be trusted to do the right/normal thing anymore. (There was even talk of denying Hillary Clinton the opportunity to replace Scalia, if she had won and Republicans had kept the Senate in '16.) And this is another reason for any wavering progressives to vote for Biden in 2024 -- if Trump wins, he may be able to replace Sotomayor to create a 7-2 conservative majority, and Thomas and/or Alito may retire to keep those seats in conservative hands for decades to come.
The postal service issue hurts mostly when compared to prepandemic prices. I got a roll of stamps for 50 cents each early 2020. To see it spike over 40% in 4 years goes to show how inflation and Trump's postmaster general Dejoy really hurt.
The latter more than the former. And the USPS was entirely solvent and self-funded before REPUBLICANS mandated they had to completely fund projected retirement for 75 YEARS.
@@andrewgreen5574 My Etsy shop wouldn't have gotten off the ground without $4.95 Priority Mail 2-day flat rate shipping (up to VCR tape size) in 2011. Now, it costs that much for a 3-ounce item via First Class 4-5 day mail. Priority Mail starts at $9.95, twice as much.
We live in a dumb country because we should have 13 judicial judges because we have 13 judicial districts. At the moment there are three judges that have to sit in two districts it is not effective. They act like what if you add more then you'll just keep adding more, no you need 13 because that's how many districts we have
@@starbuckstark4745 I’m not American but I thought America was a democracy, not a gerontocracy. The United States of America, NOT the Retirement Home of America
Circuits, not districts. But yes. An expansion from 9 to 13 doesn't have to be a power grab. It can be expanded one seat every four years, to allow public influence to be reflected in the court.
RBG not retiring is one of the worst decisions in recent times, that we are, and will and continue to feel for a time. There needs to be an amendment to limit the supreme court appointments.
She will forever be that woman that helped women progress and regress. I hate her for her selfishness not to retire, and I hope history judges her harshly!!
I'm giving him the best vote for the Daily. Just amazing. And I love that they're bringing out the discussion on SCOTUS SoniaM! I love everyone and everything on this show this might be my favorite. Keep hitting it home.
It depends on her health, I have no idea, but if she is facing health issues then, yes, I'd be pushing her to retire too. RBG had numerous cancer issues prior to the Trump administration, she should have retired too, it's still be only 5/4 if that were the case. Having said that, if Moscow Mitch hadn't held for nearly 12 months at the end of Obama's term it'd have been 5/4 liberal, not the other way around.
I have a better idea. how about expanding the court like they were supposedly going to do four years ago and whatever happened about getting rid of the postmaster that was appointed by Trump.
1. They need the house, they don't have it 2. Even when they did, they needed to overturn the filibuster in the senate, which Sinema and Manchin didn't support. 3. Even if the filibuster was gone, Sinema, Manchin, Rep Golden, among many other congressional Democrats wouldn't have supported it 4. Even if they did, I don't think Biden would support it because it would be the worst optics of anything he could ever do and spell almost certain failure to recapture the White House. It was never gonna happen and it was unrealistic to expect it to. Its not unrealistic to expect a 70 year old to retire. Especially when that 70 year old being healthy is incredibly important to the liberties that millions of people either have or don't.
KANSAS’ AG Kris Kobach leads a coalition opposing replacing lead pipes. If you want your tax dollars to go toward clean drinking water - let’s vote him out! 🚰💙🌊
@@SuperPol1981 Do you live in the US? 9.2 MILLION lead service lines (LSLs) serve water to properties in communities across the United States. YOU probably drink water that traveled through lead pipes to reach your faucet if you're hooked into a US water system. Feel free to fact check me, stat came from the EPA who oversees water quality for the country.
@@purplefireweed no, I live in the cilized world. We’ve exchanged our freedoms for safe piping, 230 volt, asbestos free buildings, gun regulations, affordable education and significant cuts in CO2 emissions decades ago.
How is DeJoy still in charge at USPS? In 2020 he tried to help Trump by slowing the mails. HE WILL DO IT AGAIN. DOJ can easily remove and have him in jail: delaying the mails is a federal offense, 18 USC 1703.
@@EpyonRules The only solution for that is to have enough votes in congress to level the court by adding more seats. The Court has been unable to judge some critical cases regarding voting rights, going as far as not preventing unconstitutional maps from being used in this election because they are just stalling out opinions to help the GOP. Perfect reason to get them some "extra help".
As someone who uses a lot of stamps for small business stuff, 5 cents is a lot to me. I remember when the increases would only be 1 cent at a time so 5 cents is like 5 years worth of increases at one time. Yes it's a small amount of money, but when you go through thousands of stamps per year it adds up.
I was waiting on a disability letter mailed by my case manager on 2/23/24, I didn't receive it until 3/20/24 this is ridiculous. If USPS is going to charge more then their bulk mail centers need to process mail more efficiently.
@@jonnyblaze2692 I talked to our actual post office and they said the bulk mail centers are under staffed and they have stacks of mail. Not sure how true it is
The idea of the lifetime appointments was so that they had some immunity from the political pressures of party politics. Seems to have backfired, but it's not the worst idea. In some countries, the Supreme Court just changes completely with each president.
Like most things, the founding fathers thought only moral and decent people would be able to hold office without being kicked out. They set up impeachment for a reason, but they didn't seem to anticipate an entire half of the government would be immoral and indecent.
Dude, she's almost 70. Time to wrap it up. She's one bad fall away from getting replaced, and you don't want that to happen if General Cheeto Dust becomes POTUS.
She replaced David Souter, who retired at age 69. RBG should have retired looooooong before she did. It’s not like it’s any great mystery which way a liberal or conservative justice is going to vote anymore…pretty much any liberal justice will do. Get a justice in there that’s 30 years younger. Take a lesson from the GOP playbook. Democrats need to learn some strategy. Replace Kagan while we’re at it. She’s in her mid 60s, and been there almost as long as Sotomayor.
I also REALLY HATE how it has become a race to appoint the Youngest possible justice, when before it used to be about judicial record, decisions made and if they'd make a worthy appointment to the bench.
soon it'll be "whoever has the most colors in their hair" get the spot. Later, once DEI standards really crank up it will be "whoever has the least amount of experience" because how can we only employ the smartest and best equipped people? That isn't giving the morons any representation and that is ableist.
Abosolutly LOVE Costa and Iwata is a light in a tunnel of darkness- aka the endless late night comedy shows that are so out of touch- Thank you for hiring him! ❤
"Why do we poison everything?" Because that's what capitlism does. If you make a system where infinite wealth for the lazy rich is the core principal, what did you think would happen?
Why don't they prosecute the corrupt and illegitimate SCOTUS instead of one of the few voices of reason? OR just EXPAND the Court to include all 13 Districts (preferably 1 for each State, IMO).
RBG had cancer, Sotamayor is very healthy! This is so ridiculous, I can’t even! We NEED her voice, her opinions, her writing! Get rid of Thomas, for godsake!!!
I just remember that the average life span during the time of the founding fathers would have been around 62. Suddenly the lifetime appointments kind of make more sense.
"Average" is misleading because that included high infant mortality. If you could make it to adulthood, lots of people (like Ben Franklin) got pretty old. Anyone of the Founding Fathers' and Justices social classes avoided a lot of poverty-related causes of death or disability in adulthood. (That wouldn't help everyone in the upper classes, as this was pre-germ-theory let alone antibiotics, but they weren't going to starve in a slum or die in a farm/industrial accident.)
I have eaten a lunchable everyday for the past 6 years and was eating one while you said that. So that’s cool. It’s the only thing that is in the vending machines at work and school and it’s the cheapest option. Now I know why.
courtney-ray,RBG was battling pancreatic cancer that returned after a long remission, and she died while she was still on the bench. She should have retired, but she was a fighter!!
Kosta is smart, insightful and funny. I love him as a host and a correspondent. And let's be honest he is much more charming and handsome than other guys on the show.
@@Hawther They could at least pretend to be non partisan. Being appointed by a political party to appease a certain agenda is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. When did interpreting the law need to have political affiliations.
I get what you meant, just no matter what people will have a personal agenda - the nominating committees, the voters, the judge themself. There's just no such thing as an apolitical process
People are warning of a RBG repeat but Sonya is quite fine, RBG was nearly 90 and battled cancer multiple times, This situation is nowhere near similar.
If only RBG listened to Obama and retired. Instead she was stubborn, and gave the nomination to Trump on a platter. She was 87 and tried to do her job from the hospital - admirable but truly daft!
@Dingdong-vo3vl it was actually Hillary who's at fault. She told Obama and the dems to not fight for the nomination that was his constitutional right because she wanted to be the one to appoint a justice for her "legacy." Hillary's hubris, ego, and unelectability did this.
Now they are graphite. But they used to have lead in them. That's kind of a generational joke for those old enough to know pencils used to have lead in them.
Pencils never were made with lead. No one remembers a time when they were, but about 4 or 5 hundred years ago some people thought the graphite might have lead in it, which it never actually did.
Absolutely not. The whole point of justices NOT being elected is to (in theory) keep them from making their judgments with an eye on re-election. There should be an enforcement mechanism for ethical behavior, and I’m definitely in favor of term limits. I also think no President should be able to appoint more than one justice per term in office. If the number of Justices fluctuates so be it.
Because unlike the monarchy, the Supreme Court has no real power. They require the cooperation of both the executive and legislative branches for their decisions to mean anything-and there's several instances of both ignoring SCOTUS decisions and nothing happening to rebuke them-except perhaps the votes of the populace. Additionally, while I think the justices should be more willing to retire sooner than they have been, it's worth mentioning that the judiciary is intended to be insulated from public opinion at large-the only 1 of 3 branches that are intended to. Additionally, the Supreme Court requires approval from both of the other two branches to even be appointed-so your lazy comparison here is pretty far off center.
Because the constitution has for centuries been interpreted to prescribe life tenure. Almost impossible anyone would ever change that. So it would take 3/4 of states to amend and the states don’t agree on anything. Everyone always just sees their short-term political gain instead of long-term benefits. Remember, they couldn’t even pass the amendment enshrining equal rights for women.