A striking component of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft overturning abortion rights, besides its country-changing thrust, was its tone.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1421140
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1421140
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May I be the first to say that Sam Alito is and has always been a total asshole.
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“Stare decisis? Never heard of her…”
—Samuel “Douchenozzle” Alito
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“Why, for example, does the dissent think it is relevant to recount the mass shootings that have occurred in recent years?”
Seriously?
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It’s clear the founders meant for us, as a nation, to self immolate before using our fucking heads.
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People in other countries think we’re crazy because we have crazy people making and interpreting our laws.
And it’s hard to argue with that.
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When I look up asshole in the dictionary…
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Well he has opinions but, what the hell does that have to do with the law?
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Where I grew up, a cheap little punk with this kind of attitude was in line for a demonstrative ass-kicking. Just like Scalia, he’s always the smartest guy in the room, as long as there’s no one else there.
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I heard Jon Stewart say once rebutting the “people are going to do it anyway,” argument, and I’m paraphrasing, that we have laws against murder and rape. Yet, people still murder and rape. Should we abolish those laws too?
This is a supreme court justice using this egregious logic.
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Well Justice Alito, probably because those mass shootings were perpetrated with… GUNS, that’s why.
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Hence Alito’s desire for a penis projector. See, you just proved his point!
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Funny how that doesn’t work with Abortion, isn’t it?
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historically traditionally sanctimoniously speaking, yes, they did.
See – slavery. All that manipulating of our founding documents to nurture that revered institution turned out just peachy, didn’t it? Exceptionally so. And still reaping benefits today.
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“In 1791, when the Second Amendment was adopted, there were no police departments, and many families lived alone on isolated farms or on the frontiers. If these people were attacked, they were on their own,” he concludes. “It is hard to imagine the furor that would have erupted if the Federal Government and the States had tried to take away the guns that these people needed for protection.
Let’s go to the tapes and see what the Founder’s actually did in 1776:
Resolved That it be recommended to the several Assemblies, Conventions and Committees or Councils of Safety, of the United Colonies, immediately to cause all Persons to be disarmed, within their respective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who have not associated, and shall refuse to associate to defend by Arms these united Colonies, against the hostile Attempts of the British Fleets and Armies, and to apply the Arms taken from such Persons in each respective Colony, in the first place, to the Arming the continental Troops raised in said Colony, in the next, to the arming such Troops as are raised by the Colony for its own defence, and the Residue to be applied to the arming the Associators; that the Arms when taken be appraised by indifferent Persons, and such as are applied to the Arming the Continental Troops, be paid for by the Congress and the Residue by the respective Assemblies, Conventions, or Councils or Committees of Safety.
That’s right, they worked to disarmed every colonist not in support of the Revolution. Maybe someone should provide Alito with a history book not written by the Federalist Society?
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I’m sorry, does being right mean you are a troll?
It appears that the Constitution isa suicide pact after all.
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As an originalist, I know that “arms” means sabers and flintlocks. Or, depending on which 18th Century dictionary I cherrypick with, it might just exclude firearms altogether.
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You are the frist to say it.
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God, this SCOTUS - I fucking hate it. Alito isn’t even particularly smart. He’s just nyah nyah nyah middle school level. Fuck you, W, for putting him on there in revenge for not getting what you wanted.
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