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You are here: Home / Economics / Free Markets Solve Everything / Repub Stupidity Open Thread: The Fragile Snowflakes of the Federalist Society

Repub Stupidity Open Thread: The Fragile Snowflakes of the Federalist Society

by Anne Laurie|  June 3, 202111:54 pm| 44 Comments

This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality

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A Stanford Law student sent out this objectively hilarious FedSoc parody (“The Originalist Case for Insurrection feat. Josh Hawley”) and the FedSoc chapter filed just about the dumbest, whiniest complaint imaginable, and now the guy’s degree is on hold pending an investigation ?? pic.twitter.com/iiokPL4EgP

— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) June 2, 2021

This week’s #WATB Award goes to the Federalist Society, for attempting to salve its wounded fee-fees by cancelling an irreverent law student, because free speech only applies to the Right kind of speech.

Repub Stupidity Open Thread:  The Fragile Snowflakes of the Federalist Society
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No naughty words, no outrageous claims — just a collection of facts & observations!

??A Stanford spokesperson tells me the school will NOT move forward with the investigation into Nicholas Wallace for making fun of the Federalist Society because he engaged in protected speech. The hold on his diploma has allegedly been lifted. Background: https://t.co/gtrIlUfFOd pic.twitter.com/aG5epczMm2

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 3, 2021

This just hit the Stanford Law listserv ?? pic.twitter.com/43eBFWrJJu

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 2, 2021

Murphy the Trickster God protect Mr. Wallace, but I’m thinking this will be a starred point in his CV for the kind of employer best suited to make use of his talents.

‘Stanford’ is taking the hits on social media — not that it doesn’t deserve what it gets — but let it be noted for the record that the Federalist Society is not only evil, but also risible.

/2 But this incident illustrates how such a bureaucratic approach stifles speech and fails to live up to Stanford’s avowed commitment to protect it, and lets bad-faith actors like the rodents at @SLSFedSoc inflict punishment via process.

— LolWhatInsurrectionHat (@Popehat) June 3, 2021

/4 In summary:
FIRE is badass
Stanford Law was disappointing here@SLSFedSoc ought to be the subject of constant ridicule and contempt until further notice

— LolWhatInsurrectionHat (@Popehat) June 3, 2021

pic.twitter.com/3e2A73n5UI

— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) June 3, 2021

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  1. 1.

    RepubAnon

    June 4, 2021 at 12:00 am

    Fortunately, Stanford backed down once a civil rights organization pointed out that under California law, private universities must grant students the same First Amendment protections as public schools. As this was obviously a parody protected by the First Amendment, Stanford will let the student graduate.

    Funny how a top law school was not aware of controlling law.

  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    June 4, 2021 at 12:03 am

    Are the people in the Federalist Society wankers, WATBs, or both?

    Don’t they teach you in law school the art of not drawing attention to something you want to go away?

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 4, 2021 at 12:08 am

    Aww….the poor baby bitchasses.  Why don’t they go suck Dump’s ass for comfort?

    Or better yet, go whine in the comments on Dump’s bigliest tremendous blog.

  4. 4.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 4, 2021 at 12:09 am

    @RepubAnon: ​ 
    I’ve been following this since it appeared, and what’s so damning about it all is that even the most simple-minded of us recognized protected speech immediately. That’s what so shameful for Stanford.

  5. 5.

    StringOnAStick

    June 4, 2021 at 12:11 am

    All Twitter users should take Popehat’s advice and continue to drag the Federalist Society well into the next century.

  6. 6.

    Kent

    June 4, 2021 at 12:14 am

    This has been an amusing episode.  And the parody he wrote was clever and funny as hell.

    But seriously folks.  Of all the people in this country facing injustice, some young white Stanford law school graduate getting a 12-hour hold put on his diploma can’t be in the top 1-million even

    But yeah, drag the Federalist society and Stanford through the mud.  The both deserve it.

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 4, 2021 at 12:15 am

    Now if only dank memes could launch Federalist Society trash into the Sun…

  8. 8.

    Danielx

    June 4, 2021 at 12:16 am

    Once again, wondering why “fuck those guys” is not a rotating tag line.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 4, 2021 at 12:17 am

    @Jerzy Russian:

    Are the people in the Federalist Society wankers, WATBs, or both? 

    Both, and something more Australian.

  10. 10.

    SFAW

    June 4, 2021 at 12:18 am

    “Dank meme”? Fuck that shit. The last person I saw use that was tovarishch* Jill Stein, back when she was still semi-relevant, but before she gave the election to The Traitor. Why doesn’t Jeong also say “All REET, Daddy-O!!”?

    Sorry, it’s just another of my pet peeves.

    *I don’t know if there’s a feminine conjugation (so to speak) for “tovarishch.”

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 4, 2021 at 12:19 am

    @Danielx:

    Once again, wondering why “fuck those guys” is not a rotating tag line. 

    Too vague with all the shitstains these days?

  12. 12.

    Captain C

    June 4, 2021 at 12:19 am

    @Jerzy Russian: Both.

  13. 13.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 4, 2021 at 12:20 am

    Oh, and if I haven’t said hi yet, hey ladies!

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 4, 2021 at 12:21 am

    @SFAW: Punch-fascist-shit-in-the-fucking-face memes?

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 4, 2021 at 12:25 am

    Speaking of peacocks, moms all across the country have found their teen throb poster boy again.

  16. 16.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 4, 2021 at 12:33 am

    Unless things have changed recently, you don’t need a JD(or be a law school graduate) to sit for the California Bar exam.

  17. 17.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 4, 2021 at 12:38 am

    Considering the Federalist Society are billed as the serious adults and intellectuals of the Right and some collage kid can get up their nose this easily that they lash like someones crazy uncle at a family dinner pretty much shows they are running on empty now.

  18. 18.

    Wapiti

    June 4, 2021 at 12:38 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:  Looks like he was planning on taking it in Michigan, not that I know the rules there.

  19. 19.

    SFAW

    June 4, 2021 at 12:41 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Punch-fascist-shit-in-the-fucking-face memes?

    Sounds good, whether memes are included or not.*

    *NB to SubaruDianne and Steve in the WTFKW**: Yes, I realize including the “or not” following “whether” is not grammatically correct.

    ** I’m not ignoring all the other jackal pedants***, of course

    *** Or pedantic jackals, I guess

  20. 20.

    phdesmond

    June 4, 2021 at 12:43 am

    @HumboldtBlue:

    good memes tonight.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2021 at 12:43 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: You can’t just walk in a take the Bar Exam.  CA has a formalized apprenticeship program.

  22. 22.

    SFAW

    June 4, 2021 at 12:48 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    intellectuals of the Right

    Is that like “jumbo shrimp,” “compassionate narcissists,” and “honorable/patriotic Republicans”?

  23. 23.

    Jay

    June 4, 2021 at 12:59 am

    So, tomorrow and the few next weeks should be “fun”.

    Corporate has started hanging the performative LBGTQ and Trans flags, for Pride Month.

    I am hanging an empty chair with a red shawl up, in support of the missing and murdered women and children,

    with orange painted baby shoes, for the T’kumloops Septememic mass graves at the Kamloops Residential School,

    got all my arguments ready to shut down Corporate, or make it Media.

    Wish me luck. The Swawassen people commute all the way to Burnaby store, to avoid the racism at the White Rock store.

  24. 24.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 4, 2021 at 1:01 am

    @phdesmond:

    At least I’m good for something.

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 4, 2021 at 1:03 am

    @HumboldtBlue: I wouldn’t quite go that far.

  26. 26.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 4, 2021 at 1:05 am

    Jen Psaki needs her own show.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 4, 2021 at 1:05 am

    @SFAW:

    Sounds good, whether memes are included or not.*

    *NB to SubaruDianne and Steve in the WTFKW**: Yes, I realize including the “or not” following “whether” is not grammatically correct.

    The “or not” following “whether” isn’t always redundant. In this case, you’re fine. PASS.

  28. 28.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 4, 2021 at 1:10 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: ​ 
    I gotta have something to hang my mouse on, ya gotta give me that.
    This came up on my Twitter timeline, so there’s that too.

  29. 29.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 4, 2021 at 1:21 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: But in this case, just not being awarded his JD wouldn’t have prevented him from taking the Bar, he had 3 years at an ABA accredited law school.

  30. 30.

    Ruckus

    June 4, 2021 at 1:23 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Well they can’t do that any longer.

    Not that anyone was seemingly doing that in the first place.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 4, 2021 at 1:31 am

    Speaking of lawyers, F. Lee Bailey has died at age 87.

  32. 32.

    Ruckus

    June 4, 2021 at 1:31 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Thing is, they are the serious adults in conservatism.

    Which is saying a lot about conservatism, just not a lot of good.

  33. 33.

    Mary G

    June 4, 2021 at 1:41 am

    This is billed as a pride bikini but it is the Grinch, no? pic.twitter.com/yOfNlY0T49— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) June 4, 2021

  34. 34.

    Cathie from Canada

    June 4, 2021 at 1:52 am

    One thing I thought was weird was that the notice from Stanford withdrawing the disciplinary action against the student wasn’t from the Law School Dean, or from the Stanford Academic Vice-President.  Instead, it was from an assistant director in their Public Relations department.

    Hmmm.

    I worked in university administration for 30 years. This smells like the disciplinary action itself was just an attempt by their corporate public relations people to mollify a big donor or a member of the Board of Governors.  Pretty sleazy.

  35. 35.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 4, 2021 at 2:10 am

    @Mary G:

    What the hell? That’s worth a guffaw.

  36. 36.

    Mary G

    June 4, 2021 at 3:23 am

    Teen came home from work with his diploma! He couldn’t stay for the ceremony, but they let him come and get it this afternoon.

  37. 37.

    Jay

    June 4, 2021 at 3:26 am

    @Mary G:

    congrats to you and the teen,

  38. 38.

    something fabulous

    June 4, 2021 at 4:43 am

    @Mary G: What a surprise!! Congrats to The Teen and to you all!

  39. 39.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    June 4, 2021 at 7:18 am

    @Mary G: Good news! Glad to hear it

  40. 40.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 4, 2021 at 7:19 am

    @HumboldtBlue: “How are you seriously asking that question, you fucking imbecile?  Have you had your head up your ass since January 18th?”

  41. 41.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 4, 2021 at 7:23 am

    @Ruckus:

    Well they can’t do that any longer. 

    I know.  And…

    Sorry.  Cried my tear ducts dry from laughing.

  42. 42.

    SFAW

    June 4, 2021 at 7:56 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    SD, I luvs ya, but I think you’re worng in this case.

    [My “reasoning”: the “memes are included” is the “A” statement, and “or not” is the “not A” statement, thus rendering it redundant vis-a-vis the “whether.” Had it been a “whether A or B” type of statement, where “B” and “not A” are different/unrelated/dissimilar, then I’d agree.]

    [Why, yes, I DO have too much time on my hands; why do you ask?]

  43. 43.

    Edmund Dantes

    June 4, 2021 at 9:06 am

    @RepubAnon: controlling law that they were the first ever case of all the way back in the dark ages of 1994-1995 (which they lost).

  44. 44.

    Edmund Dantes

    June 4, 2021 at 9:09 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Michigan. It’s explained in the articles.

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