Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Tick tock motherfuckers!

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Come on, man.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

In my day, never was longer.

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Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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Remember, before you read this, it is 2015:

Speaking at Georgetown University Law School Monday, Scalia said the Constitution guaranteed only religious and political protections, The New York Times reported, and that it was not up to judges to determine which other minority groups deserved legal protections.

“What minorities deserve protection?” he said rhetorically. “What? It’s up to me to identify deserving minorities?”

“What about pederasts?” he asked. “What about child abusers?”

“This is a deserving minority,” he went on, jokingly. “Nobody loves them.”

The number one reason I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a Democrat in 2016.

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  2. 2.

    Schlemazel

    @Corner Stone:
    Just the Italian Catholic ones.

    I grew up in a predominantly Catholic city at a time when there was still lingering anti-Catholic feelings in much of the country. This was pre-1960 pre-JFK. It stuns me that someone old enough to remember those days could be such an inflamed asshole.

  8. 8.

    SP

    Hey, he’s just a strict constructionist and only religion, not race or color, is explicitly mentioned in the text of… Wait, what? “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

  9. 9.

    Baud

    The number one reason I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a Democrat in 2016.

    And thanks to new voter ID laws, you just might have to.

  14. 14.

    jl

    OK, IANAL, but, what does giving everyone equal rights to enter civil contracts when there is no social harm in letting them do so have to do with “What minorities deserve protection” ?

    Help me out here. Throw me a legal bone on this one. I’m in over my head with his legal brilliance.

  18. 18.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    I can’t help but see this as yet another example of conservative laziness — it’s hard work to look at the facts and draw conclusions, and Tony just doesn’t want to have to think anymore when there are penned birds he could be shooting by the dozen.

  19. 19.

    Schlemazel

    @JPL:
    Of course he does. He also thinks Brown v. Board of Education got it wrong. He would gladly write the majority opinion for Dredd Scott however.

  22. 22.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: Word. I will very happily cast my vote for The Hillz in order to keep fuckers like this from the levers of power. It’s all academic, until it isn’t.

  23. 23.

    gwangung

    @efgoldman:

    For kropadope and srv and all the other folks who won’t vote for HRC because she made a wrong vote twelve years ago plus made up reasons. If we elect a Republican, we get more justices and judges just like this guy, Alito etc.

    I think these guys are just tired of picking the lesser evil.

    However, it’s objectively true IT’S LESS EVIL.

    I’ll take less evil over more evil. And I’ll work to get even less evil.

  24. 24.

    Betty Cracker

    Did y’all see that clip of PBO calling out GOP presidential candidates and state governors for being a bunch of incontinent cowards on the Syrian refugee issue? Man, it was a thing of beauty!

    He openly mocked them for bragging about being able to stare down Putin and bring down foreign enemies with “rhetoric” and then turning around an whining that debate questions were too tough and being afraid of “widows and orphans.” Awe. Some.

  25. 25.

    Benw

    @Baud: unfortunately the remaining locations available for crawling over broken glass are only open 10-4 on weekdays and there’s no more early crawling over broken glass. Get ready to wait in line!

  28. 28.

    max

    @SP: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

    Amendment 14
    (Ratified July 9, 1868)
    Section I. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    max
    [‘So, you know, whatever.’]

  32. 32.

    redshirt

    @Betty Cracker: I hope BHO goes badass – within reason – on the Republican party for the rest of his term.
    Run interference.
    Spray flack.
    Provide alternate and ineffective targets.

    BHO can, with just a few words, completely consume the right wing focus, at least for a few days. Strategic use of it will do the Dem nominee a world of good.

  33. 33.

    M. Bouffant

    Gee, one would think a bead-rattling mackerel-snapper like that son-of-a-bitch would be a little more careful about referring to the Catholic clergy in such terms.

  37. 37.

    EricNNY

    You know, I love RBG. How she can be friends with him….well needless to say, she’s a much, much better person than I can ever hope to be.

  40. 40.

    redshirt

    @Omnes Omnibus: It’s a good topic.

    Do you think it would be effective if the President outright named the Republican Party as cowards and fear-mongers? As borderline traitors to this country, since they actively seek to harm it?

  42. 42.

    Suzanne

    Some miscellaneous governmental arglebargle:

    So tonight, I was at a meeting of the Scottsdale City Council, because the building and site plan I’ve designed had to go before the Council for approval. We got it. Okay.

    So I do not actually live in Scottsdale, for many reasons, first and foremost because it is full of the kind of people I hate. So I get to the meeting early, and meet up with my client and project team. A rando comes up to us and starts bitching about a proposed anti-LGBT-discrimination ordinance being discussed that night. As I am there in my professional capacity, and I am not a resident/voter, I would not engage this asshole. All of my clients were annoyed by the douche, and he kept hassling them, even though it was clear that they didn’t agree with him, and we were not there to speak on that issue. He kept saying that “being gay isn’t measurable!”.

    Then they started the meeting with a prayer. Yaaaaay.

    Then a bunch of people, including the wonderful UU minister of a congregation I sometimes attend, spoke in favor of the ordinance. Then a bigot pastor warned against how good Christians would be forced to violate their freedoms by taking pictures of gay weddings.

    Then I had to listen to more complaining about my project from this resident jackass who is scared to people with mental illness, even though he bought a house a block away from a psychiatric hospital that has been there for 35 years.

    I NEED A MARTINI.

  43. 43.

    magurakurin

    @efgoldman: srv won’t vote for Clinton because he is a Republican. But otherwise, I agree totally. Gotta pull the big D lever, no other choice. And Hillary Clinton will be fine. I have no reservations about voting for her at all. Sanders as well, but he isn’t going to get the nomination.

  48. 48.

    JPL

    @Suzanne: Sounds like you need two. Recently, I was campaigning for a candidate running for city council. Fortunately, he can’t rule on gay marriage. Local politics make for strange bedfellows.

  49. 49.

    Suzanne

    @Anoniminous: No, at this point, it doesn’t really make a difference.

    I wanted to tell that tool off so badly, but I was not there as a private citizen, oh well.

  51. 51.

    Anne Laurie

    @Suzanne:

    He kept saying that “being gay isn’t measurable!”.

    Oh, if only there were a blood quantum, so “we” could institute a new one-drop rule, like Repub Jeebus intended!

  52. 52.

    Drunkenhausfrau

    As we head into thanksgiving, I just want to thank this community for keeping me sane and preventing death. By stupid overload. That is all. Qh, yeah, and fat tony is an ass.

  55. 55.

    Anoniminous

    @Suzanne:

    Ah, stress! That feeling one gets when repressing the overwhelming need to strangle the ever-lovin’ bejesus out of a well deserving person.

    My prescription is Debussy. Take as needed with a glass or two of a mellow wine of choice.

  56. 56.

    Nate Dawg

    I know it’s tacky, but I will be happy when he kicks it.*

    *assuming we have a democratic president.

  58. 58.

    Anoniminous

    @redshirt:

    I lived in Iowa during the 80s and most of the 90s and worked on many a campaign.

    Been in this game a long time. Obama didn’t excite me because I listened to his speeches and deduced to my own satisfaction he was (1) better than Clinton but (2) still not what we needed.

  61. 61.

    David Koch

    Scalia and Kennedy both turn 81 in 2017.

    If somehow Baud! doesn’t get the nomination, Clinton will likely appoint him to replace one of the two.

  62. 62.

    redshirt

    @Mike J: I’m really enjoying the Muppets as well, but then, I don’t trust my TV judgement anymore since it’s all so strange and weird and I even like the commercials as long as it’s not the same one over and over.

  64. 64.

    BR

    Are other folks not seeing the latest posts on the front page? I’m still having to use the right arrows on each page to get to the latest posts.

  67. 67.

    gwangung

    @Anoniminous: Waiting for the next Harmonic Convervence, I take it.

    @Mike J: I think the concept of incremental improvement is a useless concept for some people. Therefore, I find them useless; they’re not willing to put in the work to get where we need to be.

  69. 69.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    I enjoyed reading Red State’s whining about PBO calling out the Governors being scared of widows and orphans.

  70. 70.

    EricNNY

    @BR: on my Samsung / Android I have to refresh no matter what. It always brings up where I was last time I was on the page.

  72. 72.

    BR

    @EricNNY:

    I mean not on an individual post page but the front page. Even if I reload the front page, I still get stale day-old posts to click on. It seems to update only once per day or so, and I can’t get it to show the latest posts by hitting reload.

  78. 78.

    Redshift

    @Old Dan and Little Anne: Sounds pretty awesome. While it’s great to cite our long tradition of providing refuge, and how many Americans are descended from refugees, I suspect those arguments fall into the usual liberal category of “if we just explain clearly enough, surely they’ll understand.” Even more so with the argument that turning this into a war against Muslims is counterproductive and exactly what Daesh wants.

    For actually fighting back, I think a better argument is:

    “You’re a bunch of bedwetting cowards who have been terrorized into doing exactly what the terrorist want. Congratulations, you must be so proud!”

    Which is pretty much what Obama said, in slightly more polite terms.

  79. 79.

    redshirt

    @Redshift:

    “You’re a bunch of bedwetting cowards who have been terrorized into doing exactly what the terrorist want. Congratulations, you must be so proud!”

    Yes. Calling out Republicans as cowards is exactly the strategy the Democratic Party should use.

    Now, imagine them doing so. LOL.

  83. 83.

    Steeplejack

    @BR:

    Yes, it’s a known problem.

    Also, it is always helpful when reporting problems to note your platform (device, OS, browser).

  86. 86.

    burnspbesq

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    it’s hard work to look at the facts

    Appellate judges, as a general rule, aren’t supposed to weigh evidence and determine facts. They can look at the trial court’s findings of fact in light of the record, but the standard of review, “clearly erroneous,” is pretty deferential.

  88. 88.

    EricNNY

    @BR: sometimes I have to shut browser down, re-open, and then refresh on front page. BUT that normally does the trick. It’s hell to miss the latest kitten updates from Marc.

  89. 89.

    burnspbesq

    @efgoldman:

    The “not a dime’s worth of difference” people, and the “not the candidate I wanted” people, and the “s/he’s not exactly what I want, and may have done something I didn’t like” people, are ignorant, don’t live in the real world, and deserve what happens to them.

    Have you figured out a way for “them” to get what “they” have coming without us being collateral damage?

  90. 90.

    danielx

    If there was ever a photo where that most excellent German word backpfeifengesicht leaps to the forefront of my mind, this is it. I like the translation “a face that cries out for a fist” best in this context.

  91. 91.

    Nate Dawg

    Number of comments is wrong on front page. Page will not load entirely. Edit function is broken on mobile. And now, WE DONT GET OPEN THREADS.

  92. 92.

    Bonnie

    My dad molested my sister. He attempted to molest me. He was not gay. In my lifetime, I estimate that about 40 percent of the women I have been acquainted with have the same story to tell. I believe that all of those heterosexual men have proven themselves to be pedophiles. And, I personally suspect Scalia to have bothered a few very young women himself. He is holier than thou just like my dad.

  93. 93.

    TriassicSands

    The number one reason I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a Democrat in 2016.

    And while you’re crawling over broken glass to vote, millions of Democrats will be just too busy to bother.

    I don’t know whether it’s easier to hate Republicans or to be disgusted with those Democrats.

  94. 94.

    goblue72

    I swear, having followed Scalia’s public statements for quite some time, that as he has gotten older, he has gotten more reactionary and much more of an outspoken wingnut.

    Thomas, OTOH, was always a turnip. And Alito came out of his mother’s womb wishing he’d been born in 1450 instead of 1950.

  95. 95.

    Sherparick

    @JPL: I think he does. I think he thinks that whole line if jurisprudence is wrong. He is far more comfortable with Dredd Scott then he is with the Loving decision.

  96. 96.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Schlemazel: Oh, it’s okay. He started off with saying he can be protected by creed.

    And in that other case, he presumed to judge which creeds were valid and which were not. (Hobby Lobby, I think.)

  98. 98.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Uncle Jeffy: Those children led them on! They had it coming! You think children can’t be wicked–they can! And all the tortures of the damned await them!

    Consent? What’s that?

  101. 101.

    SFAW

    @David Koch:

    If somehow Baud! doesn’t get the nomination, Clinton will likely appoint him to replace one of the two.

    Why not both of them (, Katie)? Baud! has enough is easily more rational than any three of the RWNJ Justices put together.

  102. 102.

    SFAW

    @redshirt:

    If the Obama campaign in late 2007 and early 2008 didn’t excite you, then you probably have no soul. Or are a hardcore Naderite.

    Is being a Naderite a bad thing? I think his long-term “plan” has benefited unmeasurably.

    You know which plan I Mean, of course: the one where “things will get so bad under a Bush Administration, that a new generation of liberalism will result.” (Can I use quotation marks around a paraphrased statement?) I think it’s worked out surprisingly well, don’t you?

  104. 104.

    Brandon

    Self-proclaimed “Constitutional Originalist” doesn’t seem to have bothered to read the Federalist Papers. If he had, he would understand that the system of Separation of Powers that was designed by our Founders and enshrined in the Constitution was precisely for the purpose of protecting our democracy from the “tyranny of the majority”. In particular, I would refer him to Federalist No. 10.

    The fact that this is the type of stuff that a high school student would be expected to learn in AP Government, but that this justice of the US Supreme Court seems not to know or understand is truly frightening.

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