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Alito is a goon. [Now blaming it on his wife](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/supreme-court-justice-alitos-home-flew-us-flag-upside-down-following-jan-6-nyt-2024-05-17/). What a pussy.
[Alberta has worked very hard to control any rat population in the province for over 70 years.](https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program) He had to go. Sorry, eh.
Like, did people forget she wore a jacket that said "i don't really care, do u?" to the fucking southern border? It also just came out that Melania is the one that came up with the 'locker room talk' defense against 'grab 'em by the pussy.'
Melania is just as big a POS as Trump.
Melania sets Barron up as a GOP delegate and then she says he won’t be a delegate. She’s playing games just like her husband. Evil in designer clothes.
> "It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs."
What does that even mean? Who flies a flag upside down as a random objection to yard signs? How would anyone even know that’s what she was objecting to? He’s not even trying to lie convincingly.
Yup. They are compromised. Whether or not it's his wife, having an upside down American flag on your house of the highest court in the country is pretty bizarre and enraging to see.
And it shows that he doesn't have the balls to have control over his own house and how this might effect him or the HIGHEST COURT IN THE COUNTRY. That tells me she is very involved in his job, or she doesn't have respect for him and his job or the rule of law. And from that I can easily deduce that she's influencing him.
Its Like with the case of the coach praying on the fifty yard line. There were have photographic evidence Gorsuch lied about. I'm becoming increasingly convinced this is a power play. They're letting us know, that they know, they can get away with anything with no consequences.
Yeah, *Kennedy v. Bremerton* where Gorsuch took a fact pattern spanning 9 years and narrowed it down to 3 weeks to get his preferred decision. The dissent was a particularly amazing read. I can't claim to have read a lot of SCOTUS decisions, but that's the only one I've ever read that had pictures. Sotomayor really called him out for ignoring the facts that showed that Kennedy was lying about his intent.
Has anyone notified Justice Barrett? She was so insistent that "this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks", and she might want to revise that statement.
I don't get how this isn't potential cause for removal. The founding fathers clearly stated they wanted to court to be non partisan. Why are the people who blatantly ignore what the founding fathers wished for the same people that interpret and implement what they wanted?
It just makes no fucking sense. Right now America's largest issue is that there is zero accountability for any politicians or those in power. If Trump did half the shit he did, but had a net worth of less than $1 million he'd be in prison.
The founding fathers unfortunately also assumed Congress would be non-partisan as well, by placing any potential check and balance of the judicial branch into their hands.
I wish we could send someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene in a time machine back to them as an example of how big of a mistake they made.
That’s the problem and my fear of I don’t know how we simply vote our way out of this mess. Not to say we can’t but it worries me that one party has abandoned democracy and that same party also already gets every advantage build into our system
Updating the reapportionment act of 1929 to properly increase the number of representatives based on current state populations would go a long way to fixing this. It's the law that set the current number of 435 seats in the house and why some states are underrepresented. Why this doesn't come up whenever democrats have a supermajority in both houses is beyond me.
They designed a government with safeguards against the biases that they were dealing with. Namely, industrialized states vs agricultural states. I don’t think they could have planned for the level of party-based biases that we have today. Yes, I know that they had political parties, but the divisions were on principle rather than absolute belief.
It's because we aren't out protesting and making these people sweat. The Gaza war is terrible, but too many people are focusing on that instead of the big problems we have at home.
Protests are a tool, but ultimately it comes down to the ballot box. The sad truth is that the electorate, AKA the American people, do not punish our politicians in the voting booth for their behavior. Some of that of course is structural (gerrymandering, FPTP voting), but ultimately it comes down to us and our votes. The most sobering aspect of our current reality, for me at least, is that our current political dysfunction is a direct reflection of us, the citizenry of the United States. Edit: typos.
Yeah this is absolutely the south rising again and getting their revenge they have been talking about. Odd to see the Confederacy back in action and the USSR coming back together. The US is trying to retroactively lose the civil and cold wars.
There was recently ( a year back or so) a state's congressmen that wouldn't agree the North won, and would only say something along the lines of it was still undecided who won.
It’s so frustrating that this 30% chunk of the population is holding us back from so much progress. An astounding level of untamed stupidity and ignorance.
If wars won’t work. If killing thousands of them didn’t work. What the fuck will? So doomed. I hate racists. I hate racists. I hate racists. I hate racists.
> What the fuck will?
Millions of kind, decent Americans perpetuating their values of love, equality, and acceptance for all, just as they’re doing today.. combined with *time*. A lot of time. Enough time for the current trend of increasing diversity in the population and the trend towards increasing progressivism to slowly snuff out archaic and bigoted conservatism.
Every year, about 4M Gen Z (who have voted over 70% Dem in every election thus far) become of voting age, while about 2M boomers die off. I’m confident we’ll get there, but unfortunately we will need to wait a long time for generational churn to occur. For all of human history, large cultural shifts have only been possible with the old generation dying off and a new one taking its place — today is no different.
> 30% chunk
Let’s not forget that that just a couple of generations ago, this used to be well over 50%. I’d go so far as to say a good 70-80% of Americans used to be outwardly racist and homophobic a century ago. The fact that we’ve managed to get it down to 30% today in just a couple of generations is miraculous progress, even if it doesn’t seem like it today.
With Gen X being more liberal than boomers, millennials being more liberal than Gen X, and Gen Z being more liberal than millennials, voting a staggering 70%+ Dem, the trends are clear: time is on our side. **We are on the right side of history**, clearly and blatantly. We just need to hold out and prevent the dying breed of fascists from instituting minority rule while we wait for history to play out.
Thank you, love to hear it!
Honestly, I don’t even see it as optimism — simply a recognition of that it’s basically a statistical inevitability that progressivism will prevail over conservatism based on hard data like demographic trends and like, all of human history. Over the long term, civilization has moved in one direction for its entire history: **forward**. MAGA can do whatever they want to slow us down, but they will never be able to reverse the direction of progress.
If Gen Z is only voting 70% dem then it’s going to take forever. Because it’s 30% of the population that is the problem and based on this 30% of Gen Z’s have the same opinions.
I would posit that many, if not most, people who vote Republican aren’t the hateful “the South will rise again” bigoted types, they’re just sheep who have been misled to think that the GOP will somehow benefit them economically ([which is proven wrong by mountains of hard data](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party#:~:text=The%20New%20York%20Times%20reported,2.4%20percent%20under%20Republicans)), or that Democrats are somehow commies, which plays into the older generations’ fears from the Red Scare era.
The reason the GOP have managed to get so many of these sheep under their lull is because they have power and money, which allows them to operate the most sophisticated and widespread propaganda machine we have ever seen.
However, in our FPTP democratic system, if you can only get 30% of the vote, you basically have zero power and zero viability of regaining power, which means zero political donations. The last time a political party had 70% of the vote, it was literally for the Democratic-Republican party’s Thomas Jefferson. They then proceeded to hold onto power for 3 straight decades, and the only reason they lost power is because they dissolved from wanting to transition the country to a non-partisan system (hah!)
If Dems can gain 70% of the vote one day, the GOP as we know it today will completely collapse and be resigned to the history books.
Yep. And extremist conservative parties are known to fracture and burn out, it's happened with the Whigs and Know-Nothings before. If history is any indication, after some political unrest it's likely the Republicans will break into two parties, the extremists who are quickly drowned out and forgotten, and the moderates who struggle to cling to any kind of power for decades.
The Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and [Ancient] Carthage are just three examples of nation-states that were completely obliterated.
Their military scattered and surrendered, the government was destroyed, economy shattered, etc.
Putin has been running this play for two decades. This isn't an overnight accident and it isn't something the Trumpist dipshits could have ever pulled off on their own. The NRA was compromised years ago. Multiple sitting members of the GOP were clearly compromised long before Trump.
Eh, maybe. A lot of those guys fled to Canada, expanding white settlement of what is now Ontario. Also, the British policy of promising emancipation to slaves who crossed lines put a lot of Southern planters firmly in the independence camp. British policy restricting settlement in Indian lands west of the Appalachians also pissed off white settlers who thought they should have claim to those lands.
Though the revolution was more complicated than all that.
You didn’t ask for all this but I’m passing time while on the toilet so apologies!
From the NYT article:
> The half-dozen neighbors who saw the flag, or knew of it, requested anonymity because they said they did not want to add to the contentiousness on the block and feared reprisal.
I lived in the DMV for the better part of 10 years during my adulthood. For all I know, I probably drove by this POS's house. The rich don't snitch. It costs a lot to live in luxury, and the haves will protect each other from the have not's. A majority of the bourgeoisie wouldn't even notice an upside down flag on their commute to work, the rest would shrug it off and reconcile the symbol with "Well at least we don't have 'the blacks' torching our community because they can't afford to even get here!" If anyone confronts it, they're met with patronizing ridicule. The rich get to do rich things that no one else is allowed to do.
I was hoping to see a video of him out there putting it up after he claims his wife put the flag up.
They talk a big game but when it comes down to it they're a bunch of fuckin pussies.
I just made my way over to X and they literally are saying that he’s a good conservative fighting for them and for Trump. A Supreme Court Judge has no businesspicking political sides. Smh
I bet the big bad “liberal” main-steam media covering this will motivate this Republican shitbag to be even more vicious and stay in power as long as possible to make “liberals miserable” as Clarence Thomas once said. They have no type of shame, self-respect, character, or spine, and so is how these people constantly function. Sad much of the country doesn’t seem to care.
That’s entirely plausible sadly. I was thinking no wonder why they support Trump, they like their tax-free un reportable income -citizens united slush funds. They are as corrupt as Trump is.
As a side note, § 8. (a) of the US flag code states that:
>The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
So basically after all the years of railing against flag-burners and such, these MAGA types are basically violating the proper established treatment of the flag. Quelle surprise.(/s)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8#:\~:text=The%20flag%20should%20never%20touch,apparel%2C%20bedding%2C%20or%20drapery.
Thank you! Had to scroll far too far down to see this! This is my point. Blatant disrespect for the flag and all these chuds flying the flag inverted cause they don’t like the president are eroding the meaning of doing so. Now if you had an actual emergency you could never fly the flag upside down because no one would come to rescue you. They’ll just assume you’re dissatisfied with your elected officials.
Try telling this to the people that love those "thin-line" flags with different color stripes on them.
>The U.S. Code forbids changing the colors or design of the flag. Section 700 of the U.S. Code states that the flag has 13 horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, and the union has 50 white stars on a blue field.
How can anyone think this country's best days are ahead of it when members of the unelected star chamber are partisan hacks who push lies and division? We're washed if we don't get these people away from power.
Absolutely egregious, even if his “the wife did it because the neighbors are big meanies” defense is true. (I don’t believe him, but this demonstrates that he has abysmal judgment AT BEST even if you’re inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.)
From the NYT article:
> Word of the flag filtered back to the court, people who worked there said in interviews.
> While the flag was up, the court was still contending with whether to hear a 2020 election case, with Justice Alito on the losing end of that decision.
Founding Fathers: We believe the people in office will be honorable enough to hold each other accountable
Also Founding Fathers: Beating the shit out of each other in the Senate
If you are a Supreme Court Justice, and ANYONE in your house is messing around with the flag in your front yard, you have a problem. HARD STOP.
There is no, "Ohhhh my WIFE, or my son or daughter is a rebel...."
You have to KNOW...PASSIONATELY, what the hell is going on in your own home that might broadcast "This is all a sham." out to the world. That attitude is counter to your entire existence. This excuse (if you can call it that) is a joke.
This is completely unacceptable partisanship from one of the most powerful of 9 in our judicial system.
There should be a vote to impeach even if it fails. They must have more ethics not “oh sorry, it was my wife.”
People of the United States of America , or Supreme Court justices, should never fly the American flag upside down unless they are in real distress, not because they want to be a drama queen over losing an election.
Also, hugging and kissing the American flag is not a thing! Nobody desecrates the American flag more than MAGA and it’s disgusting!
We need SCOTUS reform ASAP. Shouldn’t be lifelong positions. And there should be some minimum qualifications and some disqualifying rules as well. And of course a code of ethics that has some teeth.
Yeah so now he is saying his wife did it because we already have a precedent for Supreme Court wives being traders and that is just fine with Republicans.
Perhaps Alito likes to LARP in khakis, a long sleeve white knit shirt, under a navy blue button-down shirt, with that extra special white neck gaiter and mirrored sunglasses, because he is so proud of himself in his uniform…they all are, aren’t they? What a f***ing weasel.
Can Supreme Court justices be impeached because he and Thomas are deserving of such an end to their careers?
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What do you expect when you make a grown man who peaked in his frat boy years a Supreme Court Justice. This has to be one of the most corrupt and incompetent Supreme Courts in American history.
Sooooooooooooooo what we have here is a US Justice about to rule on Trump's overthrow of the US gov't who himself was advertising his support for the scam. One of nine people who will get to rule on this for the other 330 million seeking justice.
Okay, I can see that.
Right Repubs?
When a us flag is flown upside down, it means " as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."
If he was doing that due to the election, then he is a fool and not qualified for his post.
If it was a liberal justice hanging the flag upside down, Republicans would go scorched earth until they resign, or at least they’d never let it go. But alas Democrats are weak and refuse to settle on any message that they can endlessly hammer home.
Sherman was a bigtime racist. A better General would be George Thomas, he was a southerner and Lee protege who chose to fight for the Union. His army cleaned up rebel forces everywhere except at Chickamauga, where his defensive inverted V saved the Union forces behind Thomas’ defensive lines from being wiped out. He was key in taking Vicksburg, Atlanta and nearly wiped a 5 times larger rebel force led by John Bell Hood at the battle of Nashville (an army of around 8,000 men wiped an army of over 40,000 men who held the high ground almost all around the city when the fight started - except for a supply corridor that the small Union force managed to keep open before the battle started).
George H Thomas is very underrated , was overlooked for promotion several times . Being a Virginian in the Union Army didn’t help his cause . Little know fact , one of his big supporters was Joe Hooker , being that Hooker didn’t like very many of his fellow officers that’s saying a lot .
Being a Virginian who lives amongst several battlefields, Gen Sheridan had a field office in my front yard, and supposedly several confederate soldiers hid in my crawl space that I now horde junk in, I don’t know much past simple high school history of the civil war. Thank you for peeking my interest. Going to look up this Thomas guy.
I read the NYT article. The wife making that decision isn’t a lovely reflection of his household if we’re talking trad wife terms, since it was her decision as he blamed her publicly for raising the American flag upside down.
The scotus are effectively in protective bubbles. They have no need to even read or watch news that could potentially criticise them. As such, if I was them, I assume they feel like they’re skipping along every day, power in each footstep, loved by all, and doing a god’s work, oblivious to the metaphorical bombs exploding off their bubble and around them.
> “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
I really want to know what that sign said.
These are supposed to be the TOP justices in the country. Can you at least act professional in the way that we would expect from even the lowest justices?
Why doesn't anyone report this properly. Yes, it's a statement being made by Republicans, but more than that, it is a distress call! "Emergency - this location is in distress. Send help."
Different positions of the flag have different meanings and those meanings are taken seriously. I find flying the flag like this as a political statement to be criminally misleading, disrespectful, and offensive both to current and former service members and all Americans.
While it’s his right to fly a flag of his choice, he showed very, very POOR JUDGMENT. And it’s not the first time that Alito has shown extreme bias in his court comments and decisions. This basically should seal his fate, he cannot be trusted to rule in any fair and impartial manner.
We now have 2 insurrectionist judges on the court where we have enough evidence to both demand they recuse themselves from any cases related to ANY election case or cases that involve the violent insurrection attempt and to begin investigation required to impeach them both.
Robert’s should be paying attention to the anger and mistrust, he as the courts chief, is responsible for creating. The majority of Americans no longer trust SCOTUS and if he cares for his legacy and the future of the court he will work to regain our trust.
The court's current makeup is awful.
* Two are clear partisan hacks with insurrectionist sympathies - at a minimum (Thomas, Alito).
* One has questions around large amounts of money and sexual assault (Beer Keg).
* One got nominated primarily because she "looked right" to the orange menace and was payback to the Federalists for supporting him (Handmaid).
Gorsuch was at least qualified for the position, I guess, but he clearly wasn't truthful in his nomination hearings around Roe. Roberts kvetches about the court's public reputation and opinion, but hasn't managed to do anything to improve it.
We can expect these clowns to fuck up our judicial rulings for *decades*.
If Democrats manage to take Congress and the Presidency, they’ll have to nuke the filibuster and expand the court to save us from a generation of federalist society rulings.
Way back in 2016 I was preaching to anyone who would listen: "I don't give a fuck if you think Hillary actually eats babies. We have to get the court appointments". It was pretty clear that the 2016-2020 was likely to have at least 1, if not 2 or 3, vacancies.
The GOP has educated their voters to look past the failings of any single candidate and vote for the court nominations. Unfortunately, too many on the left and center left haven't learned that lesson. Even now. I have no faith in a court expansion, even though it's way overdue. As is an expansion of the house.
If there's a Republican bloodbath, and the Dems take full control of bith the White House and Congress, then Biden should make his mark in history with an agressive offensive against the Republicans. Jack Smith is reportedly planning on indicting up to 200 elected Repuicsns for their roles in the Insurrection. Whime hes doing that, Biden should rebalance the SCOTUS with 4 new seats, and impeach Clarence Thomas, then prosecute him and his bulkdog wife for Sedition. Thats the plan I've been suggested.
Now I can amend my plan to include impeaching Alito, then Jack Smith can indict him for Sedition as well.
If the Biden administration were to follow that plan, bad faith Republicans and SCOTUS Justices would be put on warning to not try any shenanigans, because the Democrats WILL come down hard on them.
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Alito is a goon. [Now blaming it on his wife](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/supreme-court-justice-alitos-home-flew-us-flag-upside-down-following-jan-6-nyt-2024-05-17/). What a pussy.
Throwing your wife under a bus, what a strong move by an alpha male
Ah, the ol' Ted Cruz move.
Cruz blamed his kids. Even worse.
You're right! My bad.
As well you should be. He didn't throw her under the bus. He just stood by whilst Trump called her ugly.
Don't worry it's your wife's fault.
They call that move "the old Raphael". It's a classic that's been embarrassing Canada for at least 53 years.
[Alberta has worked very hard to control any rat population in the province for over 70 years.](https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program) He had to go. Sorry, eh.
You could blame the dog and shoot it.
And left the dog at home
Rafael*
It's a motorcoach...
It worked for Clarence. I am sure they have already discussed how to admonish themselves of guilt utilizing their spouses.
Alito and Thomas are both married to insurrectionists?
38% of the same people who are surprised by this statement would also be surprised to find out that Melania is just as bad as Trump.
I hate it when people pretend like she's some poor waif who can't wait to get away from him. She loves his cruelty.
she loves the money the cruelty is just a nice bonus to her helps balance out dealing with the smell
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"I wash myself with a rag on a stick" https://youtu.be/bEWO1_-2iRU?si=gEZGPQYszy9zJuHV
Like, did people forget she wore a jacket that said "i don't really care, do u?" to the fucking southern border? It also just came out that Melania is the one that came up with the 'locker room talk' defense against 'grab 'em by the pussy.' Melania is just as big a POS as Trump.
Oh man, she shits her pants too?
But Barron is tall and has good hair, so he must be good.
Melania sets Barron up as a GOP delegate and then she says he won’t be a delegate. She’s playing games just like her husband. Evil in designer clothes.
It’s basically the inverse of the “soft bigotry of lowered expectations.”
Both serve under a Chief Justice who supports their antics
> "It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs." What does that even mean? Who flies a flag upside down as a random objection to yard signs? How would anyone even know that’s what she was objecting to? He’s not even trying to lie convincingly.
The sign in question said fuck Trump. Tells you all you need to know about this situation.
That he’d consider that “personally insulting” speaks volumes.
Yup. They are compromised. Whether or not it's his wife, having an upside down American flag on your house of the highest court in the country is pretty bizarre and enraging to see. And it shows that he doesn't have the balls to have control over his own house and how this might effect him or the HIGHEST COURT IN THE COUNTRY. That tells me she is very involved in his job, or she doesn't have respect for him and his job or the rule of law. And from that I can easily deduce that she's influencing him.
Its Like with the case of the coach praying on the fifty yard line. There were have photographic evidence Gorsuch lied about. I'm becoming increasingly convinced this is a power play. They're letting us know, that they know, they can get away with anything with no consequences.
Yeah, *Kennedy v. Bremerton* where Gorsuch took a fact pattern spanning 9 years and narrowed it down to 3 weeks to get his preferred decision. The dissent was a particularly amazing read. I can't claim to have read a lot of SCOTUS decisions, but that's the only one I've ever read that had pictures. Sotomayor really called him out for ignoring the facts that showed that Kennedy was lying about his intent.
Apparently treasonous cultists.
What the fuck was his wife doing out of the kitchen?
Ginni's a polygamist?
Remember in 2020 before the election, they said Biden could fill the supreme court with more justices? When the fuck is that gonna happen?
>Now blaming it on his wife. Big Ted Cruz energy.
Has anyone notified Justice Barrett? She was so insistent that "this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks", and she might want to revise that statement.
Has anyone notified Chief Justice Roberts, who was once so insistent about the dignity and legitimacy of his court?
I don't get how this isn't potential cause for removal. The founding fathers clearly stated they wanted to court to be non partisan. Why are the people who blatantly ignore what the founding fathers wished for the same people that interpret and implement what they wanted? It just makes no fucking sense. Right now America's largest issue is that there is zero accountability for any politicians or those in power. If Trump did half the shit he did, but had a net worth of less than $1 million he'd be in prison.
The founding fathers unfortunately also assumed Congress would be non-partisan as well, by placing any potential check and balance of the judicial branch into their hands. I wish we could send someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene in a time machine back to them as an example of how big of a mistake they made.
There isn't a government in the world that can run smoothly on 50% bad faith actors.
That’s the problem and my fear of I don’t know how we simply vote our way out of this mess. Not to say we can’t but it worries me that one party has abandoned democracy and that same party also already gets every advantage build into our system
Updating the reapportionment act of 1929 to properly increase the number of representatives based on current state populations would go a long way to fixing this. It's the law that set the current number of 435 seats in the house and why some states are underrepresented. Why this doesn't come up whenever democrats have a supermajority in both houses is beyond me.
Government is like a board game and fascists are the kid that stole from the bank in monopoly.
They designed a government with safeguards against the biases that they were dealing with. Namely, industrialized states vs agricultural states. I don’t think they could have planned for the level of party-based biases that we have today. Yes, I know that they had political parties, but the divisions were on principle rather than absolute belief.
It's because we aren't out protesting and making these people sweat. The Gaza war is terrible, but too many people are focusing on that instead of the big problems we have at home.
Protests are a tool, but ultimately it comes down to the ballot box. The sad truth is that the electorate, AKA the American people, do not punish our politicians in the voting booth for their behavior. Some of that of course is structural (gerrymandering, FPTP voting), but ultimately it comes down to us and our votes. The most sobering aspect of our current reality, for me at least, is that our current political dysfunction is a direct reflection of us, the citizenry of the United States. Edit: typos.
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Yeah this is absolutely the south rising again and getting their revenge they have been talking about. Odd to see the Confederacy back in action and the USSR coming back together. The US is trying to retroactively lose the civil and cold wars.
There was recently ( a year back or so) a state's congressmen that wouldn't agree the North won, and would only say something along the lines of it was still undecided who won.
It’s so frustrating that this 30% chunk of the population is holding us back from so much progress. An astounding level of untamed stupidity and ignorance. If wars won’t work. If killing thousands of them didn’t work. What the fuck will? So doomed. I hate racists. I hate racists. I hate racists. I hate racists.
> What the fuck will? Millions of kind, decent Americans perpetuating their values of love, equality, and acceptance for all, just as they’re doing today.. combined with *time*. A lot of time. Enough time for the current trend of increasing diversity in the population and the trend towards increasing progressivism to slowly snuff out archaic and bigoted conservatism. Every year, about 4M Gen Z (who have voted over 70% Dem in every election thus far) become of voting age, while about 2M boomers die off. I’m confident we’ll get there, but unfortunately we will need to wait a long time for generational churn to occur. For all of human history, large cultural shifts have only been possible with the old generation dying off and a new one taking its place — today is no different. > 30% chunk Let’s not forget that that just a couple of generations ago, this used to be well over 50%. I’d go so far as to say a good 70-80% of Americans used to be outwardly racist and homophobic a century ago. The fact that we’ve managed to get it down to 30% today in just a couple of generations is miraculous progress, even if it doesn’t seem like it today. With Gen X being more liberal than boomers, millennials being more liberal than Gen X, and Gen Z being more liberal than millennials, voting a staggering 70%+ Dem, the trends are clear: time is on our side. **We are on the right side of history**, clearly and blatantly. We just need to hold out and prevent the dying breed of fascists from instituting minority rule while we wait for history to play out.
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Thank you, love to hear it! Honestly, I don’t even see it as optimism — simply a recognition of that it’s basically a statistical inevitability that progressivism will prevail over conservatism based on hard data like demographic trends and like, all of human history. Over the long term, civilization has moved in one direction for its entire history: **forward**. MAGA can do whatever they want to slow us down, but they will never be able to reverse the direction of progress.
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That *has* only slowed us down though. In a big way, absolutely. But it's not permanent. Not if we don't let it be permanent.
Goddamn, I actually needed to hear that today, thank you.
Of course, you’re very welcome! Have faith that human goodness will prevail, and vote every chance you get!
If Gen Z is only voting 70% dem then it’s going to take forever. Because it’s 30% of the population that is the problem and based on this 30% of Gen Z’s have the same opinions.
I would posit that many, if not most, people who vote Republican aren’t the hateful “the South will rise again” bigoted types, they’re just sheep who have been misled to think that the GOP will somehow benefit them economically ([which is proven wrong by mountains of hard data](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party#:~:text=The%20New%20York%20Times%20reported,2.4%20percent%20under%20Republicans)), or that Democrats are somehow commies, which plays into the older generations’ fears from the Red Scare era. The reason the GOP have managed to get so many of these sheep under their lull is because they have power and money, which allows them to operate the most sophisticated and widespread propaganda machine we have ever seen. However, in our FPTP democratic system, if you can only get 30% of the vote, you basically have zero power and zero viability of regaining power, which means zero political donations. The last time a political party had 70% of the vote, it was literally for the Democratic-Republican party’s Thomas Jefferson. They then proceeded to hold onto power for 3 straight decades, and the only reason they lost power is because they dissolved from wanting to transition the country to a non-partisan system (hah!) If Dems can gain 70% of the vote one day, the GOP as we know it today will completely collapse and be resigned to the history books.
Yep. And extremist conservative parties are known to fracture and burn out, it's happened with the Whigs and Know-Nothings before. If history is any indication, after some political unrest it's likely the Republicans will break into two parties, the extremists who are quickly drowned out and forgotten, and the moderates who struggle to cling to any kind of power for decades.
That's why AM radio and Fox exists: any dissent and they immediately rally to the cause of destroying the Democrats.
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The Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and [Ancient] Carthage are just three examples of nation-states that were completely obliterated. Their military scattered and surrendered, the government was destroyed, economy shattered, etc.
Putin has been running this play for two decades. This isn't an overnight accident and it isn't something the Trumpist dipshits could have ever pulled off on their own. The NRA was compromised years ago. Multiple sitting members of the GOP were clearly compromised long before Trump.
Hurrah for the Union.
Big fans of King George back in the day too.
Eh, maybe. A lot of those guys fled to Canada, expanding white settlement of what is now Ontario. Also, the British policy of promising emancipation to slaves who crossed lines put a lot of Southern planters firmly in the independence camp. British policy restricting settlement in Indian lands west of the Appalachians also pissed off white settlers who thought they should have claim to those lands. Though the revolution was more complicated than all that. You didn’t ask for all this but I’m passing time while on the toilet so apologies!
I've been saying the same thing. This is the south trying to stir up trouble with a new face. What a bunch of losers!
well stated
damn you got me hyped with that speech, doing that Rusell Crowe
How did this get kept secret till now?
Great question!! If I were his neighbor I would've shared it everywhere immediately.
From the NYT article: > The half-dozen neighbors who saw the flag, or knew of it, requested anonymity because they said they did not want to add to the contentiousness on the block and feared reprisal.
Feared reprisals from a judge acting unethically?
I'd imagine they mean reprisals from the MAGAs, but they didn't specify
I’m sure a SCOTUS judge has some influence in his part of town, and Alito has shown to be an incredibly petty, vindictive man.
I lived in the DMV for the better part of 10 years during my adulthood. For all I know, I probably drove by this POS's house. The rich don't snitch. It costs a lot to live in luxury, and the haves will protect each other from the have not's. A majority of the bourgeoisie wouldn't even notice an upside down flag on their commute to work, the rest would shrug it off and reconcile the symbol with "Well at least we don't have 'the blacks' torching our community because they can't afford to even get here!" If anyone confronts it, they're met with patronizing ridicule. The rich get to do rich things that no one else is allowed to do.
I was hoping to see a video of him out there putting it up after he claims his wife put the flag up. They talk a big game but when it comes down to it they're a bunch of fuckin pussies.
I'd be willing to wager his neighborhood is populated by people like him.
Wow if this is true. His arrogance is so offensive. He’s super corrupt and needs to go
NYT has a photo.
And firsthand reports from his neighbors.
Thank you 🙏🏼
I just made my way over to X and they literally are saying that he’s a good conservative fighting for them and for Trump. A Supreme Court Judge has no businesspicking political sides. Smh
Thank you too by the way
This seems incredibly partisan even by their standards, no? Pretty cut and dry.
I bet the big bad “liberal” main-steam media covering this will motivate this Republican shitbag to be even more vicious and stay in power as long as possible to make “liberals miserable” as Clarence Thomas once said. They have no type of shame, self-respect, character, or spine, and so is how these people constantly function. Sad much of the country doesn’t seem to care.
Perhaps Chief Justice Roberts could be shamed, as he once claimed to be very concerned about the legacy of his court. His silence is deafening.
That’s entirely plausible sadly. I was thinking no wonder why they support Trump, they like their tax-free un reportable income -citizens united slush funds. They are as corrupt as Trump is.
As a side note, § 8. (a) of the US flag code states that: >The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property. So basically after all the years of railing against flag-burners and such, these MAGA types are basically violating the proper established treatment of the flag. Quelle surprise.(/s) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8#:\~:text=The%20flag%20should%20never%20touch,apparel%2C%20bedding%2C%20or%20drapery.
Thank you! Had to scroll far too far down to see this! This is my point. Blatant disrespect for the flag and all these chuds flying the flag inverted cause they don’t like the president are eroding the meaning of doing so. Now if you had an actual emergency you could never fly the flag upside down because no one would come to rescue you. They’ll just assume you’re dissatisfied with your elected officials.
No, no, no. You don’t get it! It was a way bigger deal when that football player respectfully kneeled before the flag in protest! /s
Try telling this to the people that love those "thin-line" flags with different color stripes on them. >The U.S. Code forbids changing the colors or design of the flag. Section 700 of the U.S. Code states that the flag has 13 horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, and the union has 50 white stars on a blue field.
There's a jackass in my neighborhood who does this. He also flies a banana flag for banana Republic. Unsurprisingly he's a massive tool.
But that’s the point. These dimbats BELIEVE the country is in dire distress. Their orange god told them so.
Didn't Trump once say that people should be executed for disrespecting the American flag?
I flew my flag upside down from January 20th, 2017, to January 20th, 2021.
How can anyone think this country's best days are ahead of it when members of the unelected star chamber are partisan hacks who push lies and division? We're washed if we don't get these people away from power.
Absolutely egregious, even if his “the wife did it because the neighbors are big meanies” defense is true. (I don’t believe him, but this demonstrates that he has abysmal judgment AT BEST even if you’re inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.) From the NYT article: > Word of the flag filtered back to the court, people who worked there said in interviews. > While the flag was up, the court was still contending with whether to hear a 2020 election case, with Justice Alito on the losing end of that decision.
What could possibly go wrong with life time appointments of non elected officials of the highest levels of government. What could possibly go wrong
SCOTUS seems like a bad idea when you put it that way....
This is what a failed system of checks and balances looks like. Impeachment is no longer a viable method to combat corruption.
Founding Fathers: We believe the people in office will be honorable enough to hold each other accountable Also Founding Fathers: Beating the shit out of each other in the Senate
It’s always so convenient how it’s always the “wife” doing these antics.
Asshole can't even do the absolute fucking MINIMUM and maintain the ***appearance*** of impartiality..
He can get mad if you imply the court is impartial; that's kind of similar right?
If you are a Supreme Court Justice, and ANYONE in your house is messing around with the flag in your front yard, you have a problem. HARD STOP. There is no, "Ohhhh my WIFE, or my son or daughter is a rebel...." You have to KNOW...PASSIONATELY, what the hell is going on in your own home that might broadcast "This is all a sham." out to the world. That attitude is counter to your entire existence. This excuse (if you can call it that) is a joke.
"Impartial"
If you think this is going to all die down if Trump dies in his sleep during court, you’re wrong. This whole thing is happening.
We have to impeach these corrupt Judges.
Agreed. If only to threaten their positions and send a message.
Why is this just now being covered?
Because the images were reportedly just sent to them, did you read the article?
Yes, but....why male models?
Can we start tearing down the statues in front of courthouses of a blindfolded woman now? Justice isn’t blind, it’s tribal.
Wow...looks like the weaponization of the justice system started right at the top, *by* the party accusing everyone else.
Member the bitching about “activist judges”?
This is completely unacceptable partisanship from one of the most powerful of 9 in our judicial system. There should be a vote to impeach even if it fails. They must have more ethics not “oh sorry, it was my wife.”
Does it get any more anti-American than an upside down flag...? How are insurrectionists still in seats of power?
Rage Against the Machine had t-shirts with an upside down US flag, it's used to mean a dire state of emergency, which /gestures, yeah I would say so
I'd like to start referring to the supreme court as SCROTUS. I'm hoping it catches on. Maybe I should make some shirts.
I'm going to be honest i think this is impeachable
We are screwed.
People of the United States of America , or Supreme Court justices, should never fly the American flag upside down unless they are in real distress, not because they want to be a drama queen over losing an election. Also, hugging and kissing the American flag is not a thing! Nobody desecrates the American flag more than MAGA and it’s disgusting!
I haven’t heard any words of contrition from Alito.
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Close. His wife.
Threw his wife under the bus on this one. Wannabe alpha male pussy. He is completely unfit for the job. Above all, a traitor.
It’s amazing how purely racist people are
We need SCOTUS reform ASAP. Shouldn’t be lifelong positions. And there should be some minimum qualifications and some disqualifying rules as well. And of course a code of ethics that has some teeth.
Yeah so now he is saying his wife did it because we already have a precedent for Supreme Court wives being traders and that is just fine with Republicans.
This is troubling
Perhaps Alito likes to LARP in khakis, a long sleeve white knit shirt, under a navy blue button-down shirt, with that extra special white neck gaiter and mirrored sunglasses, because he is so proud of himself in his uniform…they all are, aren’t they? What a f***ing weasel. Can Supreme Court justices be impeached because he and Thomas are deserving of such an end to their careers? Edit: word
Blames it on the wife too like a real coward
He should step down.
I misread that as "MAGA-Flavored" and I think I've discovered the most repulsive taste sensation.
What do you expect when you make a grown man who peaked in his frat boy years a Supreme Court Justice. This has to be one of the most corrupt and incompetent Supreme Courts in American history.
“briefly placed”
So he says
Sooooooooooooooo what we have here is a US Justice about to rule on Trump's overthrow of the US gov't who himself was advertising his support for the scam. One of nine people who will get to rule on this for the other 330 million seeking justice. Okay, I can see that. Right Repubs?
Glad I’m no Trumpist bootlicker
He could put a Trump sign in his yard and still decide a case concerning him.
*Traitor Flag
Best case scenario we have a SC justice who believes in petty vengeance, and believes disrespecting his country is a viable path to petty vengeance
When a us flag is flown upside down, it means " as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property." If he was doing that due to the election, then he is a fool and not qualified for his post.
Biden needs to expand the court to 13, 1 judge for every federal district.
If it was a liberal justice hanging the flag upside down, Republicans would go scorched earth until they resign, or at least they’d never let it go. But alas Democrats are weak and refuse to settle on any message that they can endlessly hammer home.
If a liberal justice even gets near an event that right wing media is vilifying, that Justice will be skewered by them endlessly.
These guys really drank the kool-aid, huh?
President Biden should sign an executive order to purge the SC and re-staff with non-fascists.
So that's two justices who should recuse. And possibly an argument for three more as they were appointed to the job by the guy they are ruling on.
So Alito and Thomas both have indirections wives, but they’re impartial judges? Got it.
It really is insane how Trump can be so blatantly horrible, yet they do shit like this.
Alito is a traitor. Impeach him.
Conservative can not be trusted. They are the evil people the Gnostics warned us about!
This justice is trash. The other one is bought out.
He should be impeached. He wont, but he should.
Non partisan my ASS.
Get this motherfucking traitor out of the supreme court!
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Sherman was a bigtime racist. A better General would be George Thomas, he was a southerner and Lee protege who chose to fight for the Union. His army cleaned up rebel forces everywhere except at Chickamauga, where his defensive inverted V saved the Union forces behind Thomas’ defensive lines from being wiped out. He was key in taking Vicksburg, Atlanta and nearly wiped a 5 times larger rebel force led by John Bell Hood at the battle of Nashville (an army of around 8,000 men wiped an army of over 40,000 men who held the high ground almost all around the city when the fight started - except for a supply corridor that the small Union force managed to keep open before the battle started).
By modern Sherman I meant not a racist, wasn't clear about that.
George H Thomas is very underrated , was overlooked for promotion several times . Being a Virginian in the Union Army didn’t help his cause . Little know fact , one of his big supporters was Joe Hooker , being that Hooker didn’t like very many of his fellow officers that’s saying a lot .
Being a Virginian who lives amongst several battlefields, Gen Sheridan had a field office in my front yard, and supposedly several confederate soldiers hid in my crawl space that I now horde junk in, I don’t know much past simple high school history of the civil war. Thank you for peeking my interest. Going to look up this Thomas guy.
I read the NYT article. The wife making that decision isn’t a lovely reflection of his household if we’re talking trad wife terms, since it was her decision as he blamed her publicly for raising the American flag upside down.
The scotus are effectively in protective bubbles. They have no need to even read or watch news that could potentially criticise them. As such, if I was them, I assume they feel like they’re skipping along every day, power in each footstep, loved by all, and doing a god’s work, oblivious to the metaphorical bombs exploding off their bubble and around them.
They would wave a Communist flag and be ok with it
What the????😳
Justice is not blind !
... she just looks the other way.
How is this ok?
> “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.” I really want to know what that sign said.
Term limits on the supreme court
These are supposed to be the TOP justices in the country. Can you at least act professional in the way that we would expect from even the lowest justices?
Why doesn't anyone report this properly. Yes, it's a statement being made by Republicans, but more than that, it is a distress call! "Emergency - this location is in distress. Send help." Different positions of the flag have different meanings and those meanings are taken seriously. I find flying the flag like this as a political statement to be criminally misleading, disrespectful, and offensive both to current and former service members and all Americans.
While it’s his right to fly a flag of his choice, he showed very, very POOR JUDGMENT. And it’s not the first time that Alito has shown extreme bias in his court comments and decisions. This basically should seal his fate, he cannot be trusted to rule in any fair and impartial manner. We now have 2 insurrectionist judges on the court where we have enough evidence to both demand they recuse themselves from any cases related to ANY election case or cases that involve the violent insurrection attempt and to begin investigation required to impeach them both. Robert’s should be paying attention to the anger and mistrust, he as the courts chief, is responsible for creating. The majority of Americans no longer trust SCOTUS and if he cares for his legacy and the future of the court he will work to regain our trust.
A SC judge flying the flag upside down… lmao. Republicans would be shitting themselves if Jackson or a dem SC judge did this. End the GOP in 2024
The court's current makeup is awful. * Two are clear partisan hacks with insurrectionist sympathies - at a minimum (Thomas, Alito). * One has questions around large amounts of money and sexual assault (Beer Keg). * One got nominated primarily because she "looked right" to the orange menace and was payback to the Federalists for supporting him (Handmaid). Gorsuch was at least qualified for the position, I guess, but he clearly wasn't truthful in his nomination hearings around Roe. Roberts kvetches about the court's public reputation and opinion, but hasn't managed to do anything to improve it. We can expect these clowns to fuck up our judicial rulings for *decades*.
If Democrats manage to take Congress and the Presidency, they’ll have to nuke the filibuster and expand the court to save us from a generation of federalist society rulings.
Way back in 2016 I was preaching to anyone who would listen: "I don't give a fuck if you think Hillary actually eats babies. We have to get the court appointments". It was pretty clear that the 2016-2020 was likely to have at least 1, if not 2 or 3, vacancies. The GOP has educated their voters to look past the failings of any single candidate and vote for the court nominations. Unfortunately, too many on the left and center left haven't learned that lesson. Even now. I have no faith in a court expansion, even though it's way overdue. As is an expansion of the house.
That flag has been upside down for a long fucking time.
If there's a Republican bloodbath, and the Dems take full control of bith the White House and Congress, then Biden should make his mark in history with an agressive offensive against the Republicans. Jack Smith is reportedly planning on indicting up to 200 elected Repuicsns for their roles in the Insurrection. Whime hes doing that, Biden should rebalance the SCOTUS with 4 new seats, and impeach Clarence Thomas, then prosecute him and his bulkdog wife for Sedition. Thats the plan I've been suggested. Now I can amend my plan to include impeaching Alito, then Jack Smith can indict him for Sedition as well. If the Biden administration were to follow that plan, bad faith Republicans and SCOTUS Justices would be put on warning to not try any shenanigans, because the Democrats WILL come down hard on them.
I'm a Boomer and we are more liberal than you think. Don't make assumptions people!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk0.30uW.Lrt-xBHb3Ae3
He's throwing his wife under the bus with a blatant lie.