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A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

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Friday Evening Open Thread: Maybe ‘Justice’ Alito Was Just Jealous of His Benchmate?

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“White man can’t even get the credit he deserves for undermining democracy in service to America’s real heroes, its billionaire oligarchs! Maybe if I blame it on the old ball’n’chain, I could get some attention here?!?… “

Friday Evening Open Thread:

Six-million-dollar Fox News anchor bravely steps up to defend the Alitos…

Sometimes, there is no place else to go except deep into the wisdom of Martin J. Dooley, saloonkeeper, landlord, ward captain, and entrepreneur of th’ Archey Road in Chicago. Of all the pearls that Mr. Dooley hurled before us swine, this is one of the most famous. “No matter whether th’ constitution follows th’ flag or not, th’ supreme coort follows th’ iliction returns.”…

Right now, the Court is deliberating the concept of sweeping presidential immunity, a legal absurdity concocted by the former president* and his lawyers in an attempt to sabotage once and for all special counsel Jack Smith’s case against him concerning his actions on January 6, 2021. The entire Republican party is engaged in a massive act of historical vandalism concerning the events of that day, and the guy in the special counsel’s crosshairs is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. And the angriest, most arrogant member of the carefully cultivated conservative majority had the ultimate symbol of wing-nut vengeance flying above his house. That is not the flag that the Constitution follows.

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  3. 3.

    Baud

    Testing bold on bold.

    ETA: Can’t turn off bold, but can add italics.

    ETA: Looks like it’s been fixed

  5. 5.

    Suzanne

    Can we bring milkshaking to Sam Alito’s (and Mrs. Sam Alito’s) neighborhood?

  6. 6.

    Anne Laurie

    @Baud: My comments are bold for some reason.

    Reason: I accidentally dropped a single lousy caret, and FYWP is very fussy about that!  (Fixt, thanks!)

  9. 9.

    trnc

    Just so I understand, if I take Alito’s word for it, his wife felt that a sign she found offensive warranted a national distress call. This can only mean that, besides having rude words, the sign had already moved toward their property and was probably carrying several weapons of mass destruction.

  10. 10.

    Another Scott

    Pitchbot is busy.

    New York Times Pitchbot
    @DougJBalloon
    32m

    Biden pledged to be a president for all Americans. But by flying the American flag right-side up, he thumbs his nose at those who believe he stole the election via large-scale voter fraud in majority Black cities.

    by Ginni Thomas and Martha-Ann Alito

    May 17, 2024 · 11:13 PM UTC

    While I’m here, I’d like to revise and extend my first remarks on this upside-down flag thing:

    I was wrong. There’s no potentially innocent explanation for their flag being upside down, given all the digging Sam has done since the story came out.

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  11. 11.

    Scout211

    The zeddy tweet above:

    The originalist interpretation of an upside down flag is to signal that your fort is under attack so Biden should have sent Marines to crash through his windows as reinforcements.

    And he’d have total immunity!

  12. 12.

    JML

    I wonder, is Alito more bitter and enraged that he’s not Chief Justice (and will never be) or that he’s not worshipped and praised publicly by adoring crowds? Regardless, he’s the epitome of the asshole right-winger who has vastly more than most, and spends his days enraged that not only does he not have more but that others he considers lesser get to have anything.

    Bishop Alito (a title he’s “earned” through his endless quest to turn the US into a right-wing theocracy) is the worst. A historically bad Justice, distinguished only by the staggeringly bad company he keeps…and leads.

  13. 13.

    Jackie

    Senator Blumenthal was on Nicolle Wallace’s show and he said Alito should resign – or much less recuse himself from all things J6. HA!!! HA!!! again!!!

  14. 14.

    smith

    Also need to add that the local schools were doing remote learning in Jan 2021, so unless private schools were sending out buses, no buses and no schoolchildren were on the corner being assaulted by that sign.

  15. 15.

    Suzanne

    @JML:

    I wonder, is Alito more bitter and enraged that he’s not Chief Justice (and will never be) or that he’s not worshipped and praised publicly by adoring crowds? 

    I think it’s the latter. One of the manifestations of patriarchy that has really caught my notice in recent years is the rage that white men seem to feel when they don’t receive what they think they are owed.

  18. 18.

    JML

    @Suzanne: I think you’re probably right. He expects to walk into a DC restaurant and be applauded and treated with deference for his greatness and he can’t comprehend how the plebes don’t give him his due.

    I find everything about Alito to be vile.

  21. 21.

    wjca

    @JML: is Alito more bitter and enraged that he’s not Chief Justice (and will never be) or that he’s not worshipped and praised publicly by adoring crowds?

    In short, a Trump wannabe.  Wonder if he has become more bitter, now that he’s had years of seeing the crowds who turn out for TIFG.

  23. 23.

    smith

    @JML: He expects to walk into a DC restaurant and be applauded and treated with deference for his greatness

    Note that that is exactly what happens when the Defendant walks into the dining room at Mar-a-Lago. It is literally the treatment that these big-headed jackasses think they deserve.

  24. 24.

    Hoppie

    The polite version of course is “Truck Fump”.  I got a lot of curious questions years ago with a “Cisco Ducks” placard.  I would explain that it was a club.

  25. 25.

    Jackie

    @Another Scott: Former R David Jolly and presidential historian Michael Beschloss are tearing into Alito on Katie Fang. Their anger and disgust are viscous.

    Is this getting any traction on RWNJ media?

  26. 26.

    Suzanne

    @Baud: It’s the whole basis for the Trump movement.

    Absolutely.
    Funny how those who argued in favor of meritocracy come to hate the concept when others don’t find them meritorious.

  27. 27.

    Suzanne

    @smith: Yes.
    A related manifestation is the whinging about being criticized, as if it’s a violation of one’s free speech rights to be told that one sucks, or that one is being censored when one is disinvited, deplatformed, or just plain ignored.

    You hear MAGAts talk about how they don’t feel “respected”. What the fuck do they want?!

  28. 28.

    bbleh

    … so Biden should have sent Marines to crash through his windows as reinforcements.

    And if there had been some, ah, collateral casualties, well, terrible things happen in a War Situation, amirite?

  29. 29.

    Jackie

    @Suzanne: I don’t think Alito ever got over being a distant and reluctant second choice after Dubya gave up on first choice Harriet Miers.

    He’s such a bitter man and always looks like he’s sucking on lemons. Always.

  30. 30.

    bbleh

    @Jackie: He and Thomas, except I think Thomas is even more bitter.

    Remember about Alito and CAP.  From all appearances, the guy has been bitter and frustrated for over 50 years.

    What IS it with Republicans?  Like, do any of them have a sense of humor?  Beyond the sadistic, I mean.

    @Baud: this indeed!  Entitlement, emotional underdevelopment, and adolescent (at best) rage, with racist and sexist tropes as easy targets.  A whole damn generation of the frustrated, emotionally stunted, and (as usual for the Right) paranoid and gullible.

    Great.  Just great.  How are housing prices in New Zealand these days?  Asking for a friend.

  31. 31.

    Mousebumples

    @Another Scott: While I’m here, I’d like to revise and extend my first remarks on this upside-down flag thing:

    I was wrong. There’s no potentially innocent explanation for their flag being upside down, given all the digging Sam has done since the story came out.

    In a vacuum, I’d believe a WHOOPS explanation? From Alito? Lol, nope.

    There was a thread on bsky this morning about accidental upside down flags. Canada, UK, among others.

  32. 32.

    Jackie

    OT This is a fun read! The (Republican) Commissioner of Presidential Debates is whining that President Biden is being a meanie for dissing the debate committee.😩  In-depth article explains how. Well worth the click!🤭

    Frank Fahrenkopf — the chair of the Republican National Committee in the Reagan era and co-founder of the Commission of Presidential Debates — told Politico he thought the Biden campaign rolled the Trump campaign by seeming to get everything it wanted in the debate over the terms of the debates.

    Said Fahrenkopf: “It was a pretty spectacular job by the Biden people.”

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    OT.

    Went to cancel the special six month Black Friday subscription to Hulu, which would otherwise revert to their standard billing at the end of May.

    Multiple attempts to log in at their website failed. Resorted to contacting customer service directly by phone. The person who answered could not have been more helpful and took care of it professionally and relatively quickly

    In case anyone should wish to write it down for future reference, the phone number is area code 310 571 4700. Fingers crossed it is okay to provide that.

  35. 35.

    prostratedragon

    @Suzanne:  Jolly had convinced me that he’s no longer a Republican, but today he was downright shrill. Of course, rightly so.

  36. 36.

    schrodingers_cat

    I remember during his confirmation hearings Alito’s wife was crying from all mean questions the Dems on the Judiciary Committee were asking. It sent all the MSMers to their fainting couches.

    JGC blogged about it too.

    Commenter Casey L’s prophetic comment

    The Alito hearings are farcical for what they reveal about the GOP.

    Alito’s been thoroughly coached to avoid saying outright what everyone knows: he’ll overturn Roe the first chance he gets, and he’ll uphold any power-grab Bush takes.

    Why are Alito and the GOP being so damned disingenuous about an agenda everyone knows they’ve got? They’ve been yelling for Roe to be overturned since forever, and they’ve been pushing for absolute power for Bush since he took office.

    It’s not as if being out, loud and proud, about it will cost them any votes – in the Senate, or in the country at large. At this point, GOP supporters will put up with anything and still vote GOP, since no matter what Bush et al. get up to, they can reassure themselves “Democrats would be worse.”

    So why not just be honest, and get it over with?

     

  37. 37.

    John Revolta

    We happened to be at a DC embassy reception S Alito also attended, not long after ‘Dobbs’. Alito kept looking around as if waiting for people to come up and praise him. Appeared to seethe when people ignored him or gave him the fish eye.

    This makes me insanely happy

  38. 38.

    Martin

    UAW has voted to strike on UC campuses. This affects academic and research workers – grad students, postdocs, research scientists, etc.

    UC has called the strike illegal as a violation of their contract, UAW has asserted that UC actions against student demonstrations violated their labor and speech rights.

    Strike is only targeting UC Santa Cruz right now.

  41. 41.

    Ihop

    So, lemme get this straight in my noggin, if the supreme court rules that marmalade Jesus can’t  be held  to task for anything it/he did ever, ever…. then Joe Biden could just turn anyone who disagreed with him, however mildly, into a small bit of salt and fiddly bits.

    I saw it on star trek. My body my choice?

  43. 43.

    Ishiyama

    Good old Charlie Pierce, recalling Mr. Dooley’s wisdom. If Trump doesn’t win in November, the Court will take note and rule post hoc that he loses. (The context of the quote was the dilatory action of the Court in the Insular cases.)

  44. 44.

    HumboldtBlue

    Tampa Bay Rays pitcher just gave up a hit in the 8th to ruin the no-hitter perfect game he had going.

  45. 45.

    lowtechcyclist

    @bbleh:

    What IS it with Republicans? Like, do any of them have a sense of humor? Beyond the sadistic, I mean.

    I think a requirement for a non-sadistic sense of humor is being able to laugh at yourself.  I can’t imagine any of today’s leading Republicans having that quality.

  47. 47.

    Chris T.

    @bbleh:

    How are housing prices in New Zealand these days?

    Still not cheap, but currently US$1 = NZ$1.6 give or take so a “million dollar” NZ home is “only” $625k (and smaller places are available for under NZ$1M!).

    The big problem is getting enough points to stay more than six months….

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