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Today is a bad day for theocrat and fascist Samuel Alito, a tumor on the Supreme Court. Yesterday, journalist Lauren Windsor pulled a reverse “Project Veritas” and posted the undercover audio she took posing as a Christian conservative to record unguarded conversations with very bad people. The difference, of course, is that, unlike the now-defunct Project Veritas, Windsor doesn’t edit her audio to fabricate a narrative. She doesn’t have to. Republicans, like all venal and corrupt villains, love to justify their evil whenever they think they have a sympathetic ear. Because, in their warped minds, they’re the good guys!
I’m going to rant, loudly, about this on tomorrow’s podcast and there are a ton of excellent articles to read the details in so I’m not going to get into all of it. The short summary is that Alito basically confessed that he is a Christian Nationalist and intends to turn America into a theocracy. His wife is a loon with a massive victim complex, exactly what one would expect from a MAGA nut job.
Instead of getting into the entirety of this Supreme Shit Show, I’m going to focus on one specific part of Alito’as completely voluntary confession:
“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito said. “There can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.”
Well…would you look at that? I actually agree with something Alito said. I guess a broken clock is right twice a day after all.
One side or the other is going to win because we cannot compromise with these fucking monsters. Not just because the right no longer understands the concept of compromise, but because they’ve become so extreme, there’s no middle ground left.
The right doesn’t just want to ban all abortion. They want to ban it, place women under state supervision, and murder anyone involved in the procedure, including the women. What, exactly, is the middle ground there?
They want to ban all contraception with no exceptions. They will, inevitably, declare every form of contraception an “abortifacient.” They’re already lying about IUDs causing abortions. And the morning-after pill. Soon it will be all birth control pills. And then all birth control. Will they have any facts at all to back this up? No. But so what? Alito’s side wants to win and that’s all that matters. What’s the middle ground there?
The right wants unfettered access to guns, including fully automatic machine guns. And full access for children. Middle ground? No middle ground.
LGBTQ rights? Gone. They do not believe the LGBTQ community should even be allowed to exist. How does one split the difference?
And on and on and on it goes. The right’s extremism is off the charts.
This leads us to the other part of this that is just astonishing to watch. The press is reporting on it but where are the one thousand and one op-eds and headlines decrying Alito’s intransigence?
Remember, the press is consumed with the need for balance. Centrism and bothsiderism are the lifeblood of the mainstream media. All they do day in and day out is demand Democrats compromise.
But where are the demands for this Christian Nationalist piece of shit to meet US in the middle? Why does he get to be all or nothing? Why isn’t he shredded by the press as an unreasonable extremist?
If Joe Biden said this, the press would find every fainting couch from here to Mississippi to collapse on in total outrage. It’s actually 100 times worse for a Supreme Court Justice to be this openly partisan and hostile to compromise. Presidents are accountable to the voters. Justices are not and Alito has made it very clear he thinks he is an unaccountable king, not just above the law, but personally in charge of determining it for the little people.
The press will, of course, just let it go and chastise Democrats who make it a campaign issue. I promise you, by November, the “liberal” press will be wringing its hands that Democrats are, I’m dead serious that this is coming, “undermining America’s faith in the institution of the Supreme Court.” Because only Democrats are ever responsible for anything that happens in this country. Republicans have zero agency. Their corruption is just baked into the cake and we just have to accept it.
But do we? Nah. Fuck Alito and fuck the press that enables him. This is why his life should be a living hell. Everywhere he goes, he should be publicly shunned as a leper and an enemy of democracy. Democrats should turn his life inside out and investigate every dirty deal and corrupt bribe he’s taken for the last 20 years. He should live his life under a microscope, his every step scrutinized. He should be afraid every person he talks to is another undercover reporter.
Alito wants to turn America into a fascist theocracy? He should have to do it out in the open, exposed for everyone to see. I don’t think he can take the pressure. Make him squirm like the worm he is.
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Sam the Sham has been saying a lot of quiet parts out loud lately. Any pretense of applying the law equitably has walked too close to open windows. If Dems can retake Congress and keep the Presidency, all the precedence that has been stripped must be codified into law.
There was never any middle ground with these assholes. It's always been my way or we'll burn you at the stake. They taught us to fear "witches" not the people who burned them alive.