Too many brilliancies to re-post here, but I cannot let this go:
'Chief Justice John Roberts, whom he portrayed as “in timeout.” '
And when the guy who fried health care blames people who report that he's gonna fry health care for his alleged woes, instead of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, it's the frying, and not the reporting thereof, that might motivate anyone, well, there you go: kill the reporting and job done. So back to first bloody principles: No free press, no problem.
Also, Bohemian Grove. Our favorite weirdo speculatory hangout in NoCal, wherein my brother briefly rubbed elbows with the demi-gods. Money was sufficient (indeed, the only) lubricant to keep his elbows silky-milky smooooothe...
Hmmm... so if leaking a draft opinion is functionally the same as threatening the lives of Supreme Court justices, would getting an armed mob amped up and then sending them to the Capitol be functionally the same as threatening the lives of members of Congress and the Vice President?
Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso
Seems like one of the most important jobs in the world would be harder to get.
Same with the president or head of the Federal Reserve. We evidently need to come out and say " No assclowns allowed" on the application.That alone would take care of Beer Barrel, the lady from "Handmaids Tale" and Clayton Bixby. Trump too.
Maybe it's being an ever older fart, maybe it's oncoming election with its pretty good odds of being a historic disaster but I'm finding my tolerance for obsessing over individuals over the shit the party has been pulling something of an exacerbation of the anxiety.
So in the case of failed Scalia Alito here, maybe the problem is less Sammy personally -- and if one wants to pick the most vile POS on SCOTUS, I'd go with Thomas -- than that the GOP majority there is pretty much just a junta dictating. See, Dobbs, the recent EPA and OSHA decisions, Shelby County, dicta in Masterpiece Cakes, the recent right to pray to Jesus where the fuck one wants decision and so on and so forth. All, appellate jurisprudence-wise POS decisions. To say the least. And no one with the power to do anything about is seems terribly motivated (*koffkaffkaff!*) to do shit about. My retiring congress-person has a piece in the Nation, otherwise overwhelmingly crickets.
None which is to say that today's piece failed to amuse.
Not the first to observe this, but Jesus. For people getting their way in everything, these are some whiny motherfuckers. As someone pointed out, the only people actually assassinated over abortion are the ones who work in clinics.
Liberal Washington Lefty Loons coming to kill us fiction vs. Deluded Right Wing Flying Monkeys with actual guns terrorizing dems in the Capitol reality. Someone adjust his meds please.
Alito's Whine Tour has embarrassed every two year old who ever complained that a 15 minute time-out was unfair for putting ketchup on his baby sister. Of course you're not legitimate after lying to Senator Ted Kennedy about never reversing Roe. Why would anyone believe anything you've said since then? When you add in the Republican conniving to stack the Court, "legitimacy" has as much connection to the Supremes as "healthy" does to a Double Whopper.
Meanwhile, the lawyer who tried the case that overturned Florida's motorcycle helmet law has died in a motorcycle accident while not wearing a helmet. Alito will never meet karma quite so poetically, since he won't need an abortion, a same-sex spouse (allegedly!) or the need to vote outside of chambers, but there's still the chance his life could someday depend on whether a fetal stem cell-derived medical treatment is available to halt the cancer eating away his organs.
with a nod to John prime, we read it in roy edroso's newsletter. if you didn't notice the dates on the headers, you might miss where reality left off and the imagined future kicked in.
Well, christ, Judge Sam, a "vast majority of Americans" also felt that Roe was a valid law and that guns should be regulated, but we see how SCOTUS felt about those beliefs, eh?
And, Roy, you forgot the 2023 Hernandez v. Fritters, AL, where the First Amendment was overturned but only in the case of "Federal elected and unelected officials", on the grounds the Sacred Founders valued decency and civility over "radical and boisterous conduct", as Thomas put it in the majority opinion.
Justice Alito seems not to have considered the option of avoiding public outrage by not issuing transparently shitty opinions depriving half the population of entrenched rights.
"captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways,”"
Gotta admit - he has a knack for plain spoken wisdom.
Ripped from tomorrow's headlines!
Too many brilliancies to re-post here, but I cannot let this go:
'Chief Justice John Roberts, whom he portrayed as “in timeout.” '
And when the guy who fried health care blames people who report that he's gonna fry health care for his alleged woes, instead of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, it's the frying, and not the reporting thereof, that might motivate anyone, well, there you go: kill the reporting and job done. So back to first bloody principles: No free press, no problem.
Also, Bohemian Grove. Our favorite weirdo speculatory hangout in NoCal, wherein my brother briefly rubbed elbows with the demi-gods. Money was sufficient (indeed, the only) lubricant to keep his elbows silky-milky smooooothe...
Hmmm... so if leaking a draft opinion is functionally the same as threatening the lives of Supreme Court justices, would getting an armed mob amped up and then sending them to the Capitol be functionally the same as threatening the lives of members of Congress and the Vice President?
Seems like one of the most important jobs in the world would be harder to get.
Same with the president or head of the Federal Reserve. We evidently need to come out and say " No assclowns allowed" on the application.That alone would take care of Beer Barrel, the lady from "Handmaids Tale" and Clayton Bixby. Trump too.
No Assclowns.
It should be in the Constitution.
*sigh*, just *sigh*
Maybe it's being an ever older fart, maybe it's oncoming election with its pretty good odds of being a historic disaster but I'm finding my tolerance for obsessing over individuals over the shit the party has been pulling something of an exacerbation of the anxiety.
So in the case of failed Scalia Alito here, maybe the problem is less Sammy personally -- and if one wants to pick the most vile POS on SCOTUS, I'd go with Thomas -- than that the GOP majority there is pretty much just a junta dictating. See, Dobbs, the recent EPA and OSHA decisions, Shelby County, dicta in Masterpiece Cakes, the recent right to pray to Jesus where the fuck one wants decision and so on and so forth. All, appellate jurisprudence-wise POS decisions. To say the least. And no one with the power to do anything about is seems terribly motivated (*koffkaffkaff!*) to do shit about. My retiring congress-person has a piece in the Nation, otherwise overwhelmingly crickets.
None which is to say that today's piece failed to amuse.
Well done, but dark: thinking of it as "Scenes they'd like to see"''
Alito's comments on Wednesday just need a disclaimer added: "No Supreme Court Justices were actually harmed in the making of this paranoid fantasy."
Not the first to observe this, but Jesus. For people getting their way in everything, these are some whiny motherfuckers. As someone pointed out, the only people actually assassinated over abortion are the ones who work in clinics.
Liberal Washington Lefty Loons coming to kill us fiction vs. Deluded Right Wing Flying Monkeys with actual guns terrorizing dems in the Capitol reality. Someone adjust his meds please.
Alito's Whine Tour has embarrassed every two year old who ever complained that a 15 minute time-out was unfair for putting ketchup on his baby sister. Of course you're not legitimate after lying to Senator Ted Kennedy about never reversing Roe. Why would anyone believe anything you've said since then? When you add in the Republican conniving to stack the Court, "legitimacy" has as much connection to the Supremes as "healthy" does to a Double Whopper.
Meanwhile, the lawyer who tried the case that overturned Florida's motorcycle helmet law has died in a motorcycle accident while not wearing a helmet. Alito will never meet karma quite so poetically, since he won't need an abortion, a same-sex spouse (allegedly!) or the need to vote outside of chambers, but there's still the chance his life could someday depend on whether a fetal stem cell-derived medical treatment is available to halt the cancer eating away his organs.
"we are living in the future'
I'll tell you how I know.
I read it in the papers
15 years ago"
with a nod to John prime, we read it in roy edroso's newsletter. if you didn't notice the dates on the headers, you might miss where reality left off and the imagined future kicked in.
On a happier (but just as funny) note, Lucianne Goldberg has shuffled off her mortal coil.
Well, christ, Judge Sam, a "vast majority of Americans" also felt that Roe was a valid law and that guns should be regulated, but we see how SCOTUS felt about those beliefs, eh?
And, Roy, you forgot the 2023 Hernandez v. Fritters, AL, where the First Amendment was overturned but only in the case of "Federal elected and unelected officials", on the grounds the Sacred Founders valued decency and civility over "radical and boisterous conduct", as Thomas put it in the majority opinion.
And thus begins the "Chronicles of Opus Dei in Perpetua..."
Justice Alito seems not to have considered the option of avoiding public outrage by not issuing transparently shitty opinions depriving half the population of entrenched rights.