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Join Jim and Greg as they reflect on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as well as President Trump’s reaction to the news. They also wade into the battle over whether Trump and Senate Republicans ought to press forward with a confirmation process before Election Day and counter Democrats’ insistence that doing so would somehow be unconstitutional. And they respond to the absurd overreactions of people like Barack Obama and Reza Aslan to the prospect of a new justice this year.
Actions have consequences. Sometimes the consequences are immediate, the direct result of a primary cause. Those are the easiest consequences to anticipate. Sometimes the consequences occur much later, part of a rippling wave of alternating effects and causes that grows ever more tenuous as it recedes from the initiating event. Occasionally it works the other way around: a seemingly minor action initiates a chain of events that grows inexorably toward a dramatic conclusion, a product of positive feedback. These are relatively rare, almost always unanticipated, and occasionally catastrophic.