“I don’t think you should be flying a flag showing his political position when you’ve got a job like he does, where you need to be impartial,” she said. “He’s entitled to his opinion, but I don’t think it should be so obvious when you’re a Supreme Court justice.”
Another local, who grew up in the area but now lives in the Pacific Northwest, was having lunch at Kubel’s, a casual spot nearby Alito’s house that was namechecked on TV by the late Anthony Bourdain. Sitting beside a clutch of family members, who still reside in town, “Marsha” said the flag “showed [Alito’s] bias.” These days, she went on, “People feel like they’re entitled to do anything they want. And the only opinion that matters is their own.”
“How far do we go before we normalize a lot of abnormal behavior?” asked “Stan,” a longtime South Jersey resident. “I’d say there are no words, but there are words.”
Alito’s flag-flying struck him as “about as dishonest as it gets.”
“Confidence in the judiciary has been shaken down to its bedrock,” the man said. “What [the right-wing] is really good at, is being really bad.”
An upcoming demonstration against the “summering” justice is scheduled to take place Aug. 2 at Alito’s house.
Maybe they’re actually going to give Trump immunity. Less than he wants, but much more than we think. It makes sense. They wouldn’t have heard the case if they weren’t.
Tom Cotton’s greatest hits also include his letter to the ayatollahs of Iran during the Obama administration while it was negotiating the nuclear disarmament treaty, telling them not to trust the American (Democrat) government.
Indeed. It’s one of the preferred weapons for the Zombie Apocalypse when there are no more bullets for your AR-15.
My wife and I have had arguments about this. I like machetes, she says the best anti-zombie tool is a length of iron rebar. She watches a lot of zombie movies, so I’ll have to defer to her expertise in this.
Is there a hidden white supremacist flavor here? I mean beyond the “I’ve lost the plot” aspects don’t the Chinese have lots of their own athletes they could use to breed “biologically enhanced soldiers” from?
I think we forget that in addition to the “Positive Self Image” aspects of those participation trophies part of the reason for them was to prevent the parents from killing one another on the sidelines.
