I guess this is what’s meant by “spare ribs”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg took a spill:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, fractured three ribs in a fall in her office Wednesday night, according to a statement from the Supreme Court’s public information office.
“Tests showed that she fractured three ribs on the left side,” the statement said. She was taken to George Washington University Hospital…
People, especially younger people, were offering the octogenarian affectionately known as RBG their own ribs on social media Thursday morning. They even started the hashtag #RibsForRuth on Twitter.
The #RibsForRuth campaign is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. But it highlights the left’s desperation to keep her alive and functioning as a SCOTUS justice until a Democrat is elected president or until Democrats take over the Senate. I would guess that Ginsburg herself must feel the same way.
Falls in the elderly and fragile bones are not unusual, particularly in very petite women such as Ginsburg.
Recovery, reflection, retirement.
She will never retire, V.I. Lenin effect.
Do actual supreme court justices have to be alive or can they still rule through a penumbra or emanation?
After all we have a “living, breathing constitution,” do we really need living, breathing, judges?
There was a video shot of her seated in the front row of one of Kavanaugh’s swearing-in ceremonies, and she was completely slumped over and listing to one side. Eventually she straightened up, but it didn’t look good. I hope for her sake, she doesn’t push herself to the bitter end while on the bench.
Ask your favourite gerontologist…the aged (& she is that) don’t usually survive all that long after a serious fall.
I give her 12 months tops…even though she promised President Lincoln she would never go peacefully…She’s done. She’ll never sit another session of the court. Let’s get some names ready for the next sitting of the Senate.
a) She should have retired in 2015 if she wanted a lefty replacement.
b) After the bitter gauntlet Kavanaugh passed through, my first reaction (which I kept to myself because it is a little unseemly) was “cheers to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health /s.”
c) Due to the venal power lust of the left, I now think “good, the sooner Trump can name another judge, the better. I hope he picks someone so conservative that they don’t think paper money is constitutional.”
d) The real problem with our present political predicament is that the government is far too pervasive. A much smaller government would mean the stakes in election results would be much less significant. Do we really need bureaucrats in Washington deciding how many gallons of water our washing machines use?
I watched a video which claimed she was in mild dementia. I thought her mind and speech were sharp. However, her slumped posture indicates at least severe osteoporosis to my non-medical eye. She has had a fall before, and a cardiac stent, in addition to being a cancer survivor.
Saw a video of her at a recent conference, and she was so bent over that it looked like the default position of her face was looking toward the ground.
I also note that she has fallen asleep in public, and some of her responses to questions at that same recent conference were fairly delayed, were very brief, and, it seemed to me, lacked some coherency.
She appears to be just grimly holding on with her finger nails, so that she can deny Trump the chance to name a much more conservative replacement.
I agree that falls (especially fractured hips, often followed by death dealing pneumonia) are the beginning of the end for a lot of oldsters but, she is probably receiving the best, most competent care possible, so she might re-emerge from the hospital to re-take her seat on the Court.
Or, it could be that, as in the case of some past Presidents and members of Congress, Ginsberg might retake her seat but, in actuality, might not really be healthy enough or competent to serve again, but the Court could perhaps pretend that she is, and cover for her for some period of time.
Ann Althouse commented on the extreme narcissism manifested RBG and her kind–there have been a few others in SC history–who apparently believe that their individual services are so essential to the Republic and to the jurisprudence they support that they stay on beyond the point where they can function, and even (as may well be the case with RBG) to the ultimate detriment of their preferred jurisprudence. She could, and should, have resigned in 2014, when Obama was president and there was still enough comity in the Senate for a moderate to liberal nominee to have been confirmed.
y81 on November 8, 2018 at 8:49 pm at 8:49 pm said:
…She could, and should, have resigned in 2014, when Obama was president and there was still enough comity in the Senate for a moderate to liberal nominee to have been confirmed.
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Another case of Dems overplaying their hand?
Narcissism seems to be either an occupational hazard or a qualification for advancement, or both.