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Cowbell…I Mean Gavel
May 21, 2024
The Supreme Court has
been a cancer on our democracy, and it’s metastasizing rapidly at this point. With
no sign of treatment on the horizon. On the heels of the latest travesty of
justice perpetrated by Fascist/Trump Party Supreme Court justices behaving
badly, the Court has finally decided to set some hard and fast ethics guidelines.
The most recent
depredation entails the disclosure of photographic evidence along with
interviews with neighbors of a symbol of solidarity with Trump’s attempted coup
displayed on the front lawn of the home of (In)justice Samuel Alito who remains
under fire and suspicion of quid pro quo with a billionaire. And of course no
one should forget about Clarence Thomas who is in the pocket of his own
billionaire, and whose wife was instrumental (along with receipts) in plotting
the overthrow of the duly elected president of the United States.
Don’t Tread On Me
Either, Assholes
Right-wing assholes do
not own the Stars and/or Stripes, the Constitution or America, though they do
unfortunately own the diseased Supreme Court. An upside-down flag – the
distress flag, flown as a sign of dire circumstances – was seen flying outside
the Alito home just days after Ginni Thomas aided and abetted Donald Trump’s
attempted coup on January 6, 2021. At that particular point in time, the distress
flag was popular among Donald Trump’s violent seditionists and their allies. Probably
not something that should be employed by a Supreme Court justice. We should thank
Alito for being transparent for a change, though he has at other times been
open about his horrific, anti-democratic views. Alito blamed his wife for the
incident, claiming she was upset at her liberal neighbors.
Then there’s this: CNN’s
Holmes Lybrand, a former fact-checker for The Weekly Standard, reports “I spoke
with some of Justice Alito’s neighbors who said they remember the American flag
being flown upside-down at his home but didn’t recall any neighborhood drama
surrounding it. Each neighbor I spoke with reiterated multiple times how kind
and well-liked the Alitos are.”
It turns out that
the neighbor’s transgression consisted of them having a “Fuck Trump” sign on
their lawn (if we can even believe that). Oh dear, what’s next a Biden 2024
sign? How will the Alitos ever survive such a hostile environment. Maybe the
Alitos should consider relocating to Mor-on Lago.
I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!
The upside-down flag
has long been used as a sign of distress. It was used in the 1970s by anti-Vietnam
War protesters. It became a symbol of Trump’s “Stop The Steal” movement in
response to Trump badly losing the 2020 presidential election and his petulant
refusal to accept the result. We at Paying Attention™ have long used this
symbol of concern, but we are not in favor of turning America into a fascist
kleptocracy playground. Nor are we charged with deciding issues of presidential
immunity as are members of the highest court in the land, who are supposed to
be above politics – or at least pretend to be. The Alitos had their distress
flag flying while the court was deciding whether to hear a 2020 election case,
which Alito favored but the court decided against. Meanwhile, Trump is the one
endlessly whining about corrupt judges – well, he ought to know, he appointed
most of them.
So for the record,
Sam Alito is overflowing of shit. And he and his white nationalist/fascist
buddies are not the ones who should be flying the distress flag.
Samuel Alito – injustice incarnate; at least he remembered
to wear his black robe (sans hood) for a change
The Court’s new
ethics suggestions allow for only one billionaire benefactor with business
before the Court to lavish millions of dollars of lucre per justice. According
to Chief Justice Roberts, “I am very proud to present our new Supreme Court
Code of Unethical Behavior. We are not requiring the justices to suckle at the
teats of billionaires, but if they so choose, they are limited to one single
billionaire…at a time. Certain billionaires, like George Soros who hates
America, and is after all an unrepentant Jew, will not be permitted to take
part in this program.”
John Roberts sans makeup
There is also now a
limit on how many spouses per justice’s household are permitted to engage or
show solidarity with plots to overturn elections and democracy. Again, Roberts
weighed in, “We are very proud of our new guidelines…well, suggestions – let’s
not get carried away here. By limiting each justice to one treasonous spouse we
are showing how serious we are about appearing above board. Whether or not the
justice in question has knowledge of or is in direct participation with said
insurrectionist spouse however, is none of your fucking business.”
For those of you
keeping score, we now have two fucking Supreme Court justices blatantly
aligning themselves with insurrection, sedition and the violent overthrow of
the government of the United States. They should both recuse themselves from
any case having anything to do with Donald Trump or the January 6 insurrection.
And then they both should resign in disgrace never to be heard from again.
And we didn’t even
touch on the three jurists imprudent appointed by the most corrupt, most
impeached, most insurrection-plotting president in our nation’s history.
This has been a Paying Attention™ Special Broken News report.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled
gnashing of teeth.
