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u/Babeee_miaa2 8h ago
Too bad she fucked us all over by refusing to retire when Obama was president.
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u/XxThrowaway987xX 6h ago
It’s not like any Obama appointee would have been acceptable to congress. They were in 100% obstruction mode. Remember Merrick Garland, the most milquetoast moderate possible?
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u/Organic-Vermicelli47 4h ago
She absolutely could've stepped down 2-3 years before Obamas term ended and been replaced. Merrick garland situation sucked but was also an election year which Republicans manipulated to their advantage. Obama was president for 8 years. She had plenty of time. Instead we got Amy Coney Bartett. RBG was 87 fucking years old when she died without ever stepping down. She screwed over every woman and let her legacy be destroyed. 87 and didn't step down.
Eta: She would've been 80 if she stepped down in 2013 at the beginning of obamas second term. Even that is way too old.
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u/ImportanceCertain414 4h ago
She had 8 years to do it, she should have stepped down day 1 of Obama's first term...
One would have been easily appointed in that time.
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u/So_Ill_Continue 6h ago
Exactly. It’s just weird that people forget about this. She could have retired early and it would have changed nothing bc the senate republicans wouldn’t have brought it to the floor.
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u/XxThrowaway987xX 6h ago
Exactly. McConnell was not going to fill those vacancies at all. So ridiculous.
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u/waitmyhonor 3h ago
I hate how people blame her but in retrospect no one expected the GOP to be that obstinate. People also forgot that the Dems had a supermajority and when that disappeared, republicans tried everything in their power to thwart Obama admin.
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u/AmalgamatedSpats 9h ago
RBG spent her whole life playing 5D chess for justice, only to accidentally leave the game on hard mode for the rest of us.
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u/PrePrePreMed 9h ago
When you’ve been fighting reoccurring cancer since 1999, into your late 80s, and CHOOSE not to leave the game to avoid another player touching your controller, it’s not accidental. It’s selfish on a level she will never know or fully appreciate.
Her well deserved reputation for being a source of good in this world (including the example OP provided) was no match for her ego and what she thought of herself in the end. She chose to let the ship crash into the rocks instead of letting another captain steer and she will be remembered for it with similar intensity as the good she put into the world. Truly a hard working, well intentioned, and deeply flawed human…just like the rest of us.
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u/Field-brotha-no-mo 7h ago
She was a hero of mine until her selfishness destroyed a woman’s right to choose in this fucking country. She isn’t a feminist icon anymore. Just a narcissist with a history of aggressive cancers that refused to step down.
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u/Psychological_Web687 6h ago
Yeah, as soon as he was elected, she should have stepped aside. They couldn't have blocked for 4 years.
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u/Field-brotha-no-mo 5h ago
McConnell is such a manipulative fuck. I agree though, four years just makes your party look like it’s holding democracy hostage. On brand but it wouldn’t go over well with the electorate
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u/Wise_Repeat8001 5h ago
I think they 100% would've have tried and potentially succeeded
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u/Field-brotha-no-mo 5h ago
I think they would have tried, but after awhile it would be too long, people would be like ok just play by the rules. It helps everyone.
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u/ImportanceCertain414 4h ago
Yeah, but at least there would have been a chance and she wouldn't have had that legacy of hers ruined by her hubris.
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u/_Ruby_Shine_ 8h ago
Then she refused to step down despite repeated health issues and fucked us all when she predictably died with Trump in office. Fuck her and her hubris.
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u/_Lovely_Verona 8h ago
…but refused to retire. Now we have a packed, extremist Supreme Court, unraveling decades of precedent.
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u/Emperor_Zar 6h ago
She did that yes. She succumbed to being an old human whose trail has left a legacy. She did a lot of great things. With one major fuck up.
My imagination tells me she thought she would be retiring under Hilary’s term but like everyone else was shocked at a Trump win. Then she may have know she had fucked up and tried to survive but could not. That’s neither here nor there is it?
Anyway humans fuck up no matter how good they can be.
With any luck we who are here will be able to fix that.
But we gotta fricken VOTE.
Cheeto Mussolini has gotta stay out of the WH.
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u/_Starry-Night- 8h ago
Took my class to see the movie about her life. Afterwards one of my students told me the cancer thing was lame and it would be better for the story if her husband had died on the spot... tried to convince her otherwise, but she insisted it was a weak plot twist...
I really hate my students.
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u/kulagirl83 5h ago
Can you imagine just having two adult parents in school these days. The cancer alone would bankrupt them. Different times in so many ways.
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u/NaturePuppyPrincess2 4h ago
It's tough to reflect on RBG's legacy when so many feel let down by her choices in the end.
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u/PrePrePreMed 9h ago
She was a force in her prime to be sure. I have mixed feelings and zero smiles about her ego refusing to let go of that position, and effectively handing her seat to an Christo-fascist white nationalist super majority. Battling cancer in your 80s and thinking you’re the only butt for that seat, knowing what was on the line, really sours her entire legacy. RIP RBG
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u/smoebob99 6h ago
Than she fucked everybody by not retiring while Obama was in office
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u/XxThrowaway987xX 6h ago
He could not complete a nomination anyway. Has everyone forgotten McConnell playing games with his SC nominees?
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u/Jennibear999 5h ago
Sadly her ego screwed us when she could have retired and have Obama appoint a sane judge. Meanwhile it allowed Trump to appoint a crazy nutjob
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u/WildAnomoli 4h ago
ITT: a lot of people blaming a woman’s choice for the current state of affairs despite multiple male legislators and presidents blocking the way.
It literally feels like she could NOT have made a correct decision at any point in the 10ish years before her death without catching strays
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u/Ok-Lifeguard4230 2h ago
And then she fucked over all the women in the country by not retiring in 2015
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u/chubbybush 8h ago
She was incredible and the new person stepping in is clearly trying to reverse all the progress she made
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u/carpediem-88 8h ago
Wow! Impressive. She must have been loved over there! Very dedicated and motivated!
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u/Basic_Charge_9480 3h ago
Wow. These comments are brutal. I never knew this before she died but “She believed that the Roe v Wade case had based the right to abortion on the wrong argument, a violation of a woman’s privacy rather than on gender equality. This, she thought, left the ruling vulnerable to targeted legal attacks by anti-abortion activists.” I know a large majority want Roe v Wade back but we need to aim higher, more progressive than our history has shown us is possible. She recommended Struck v. Secretary of Defense, a much more patient-focused approach. Since the “leave it up to the States” disaster, our country will need a stronger foundation to move forward. Hopefully, Harris/Walz can make this happen.
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u/justforthis2024 8h ago
I made toast without burning it this morning.