Time To Make The Election A Referendum On Abortion AND Alito's Treason
They're one and the same so why not beat Republicans to death with it?
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Welp! So much for just moving on from Alito openly endorsing insurrection and treason. I can hear the grinding teeth in newsrooms across the nation. This ain’t Hillary’s emails and, for fuck’s sake!, we can’t possibly both sides this! Kind of leaves the press in a tough spot. They HAVE to report on this or people are going to ask really uncomfortable questions.
But at the same time, reporting on it exposes just how corrupt the entire Republican project is and that’s something the press has been avoiding for decades. Not for nothing, the media tap danced around Trump’s “Unified Reich” ad, with the Times and Washington Post barely mentioning it, the AP trying to whitewash it as kind of maybe WWI instead of Nazi stuff, and Axios seriously calling it a “blunder” instead of the deliberate mainstreaming of Nazi hate speech.
But the Alito flag problem? One was a “gaffe.” One he could blame on his wife. One the press could smile like a moron and pretend everything was OK. Nothing to see here. Tempers were high. People were upset. Didn’t mean anything. Honest!
Two flags, though? At two locations at different times? One is an “isolated incident.” Two is a pattern.
If you somehow missed this, I’m talking about Alito flying a Christian Nationalist flag at his summer house in NJ:
A new report that a second flag carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was flown outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s vacation home sparked fresh condemnation from Senate Democrats — and calls for them to do more to hold the court accountable while the party holds the majority.
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag was spotted flying last summer outside Alito’s vacation house on Long Beach Island, N.J., the New York Times reported late Wednesday afternoon, citing three photographs, people who saw the flag and a Google street view image.
Last summer would be two full years after the bloody insurrection stemming from Trump’s failed attempt to overturn his 2020 loss. Alito’s previous excuse for flying the flag of insurrection was that things were ”heated” and people were upset. Just a little lapse of judgment when his wife flew the American flag upside down.1 Can’t use that excuse this time. The Alitos had to go out and buy this particular flag and then choose to fly it for weeks (if not longer) as a symbol of their far-right politics. And make no mistake, that’s its only meaning now.
It’s true that the Appeal to Heaven pine flag has been around since the Revolutionary War. George Washington and his men flew it. Funny thing, though. Like the Gadsden flag, it only got popular on the right when it was co-opted into an anti-government symbol by rabid extremists.
I’ve been following the far right for years and I didn’t even know this was a thing. I bring this up because when Alito tries to tell us that he only flies the flag of Christian Nationalism for its historical value, he’s full of fucking shit. He knows exactly what it stands for now and he’s flying it explicitly to pledge his fealty to white Christian Nationalism.
It’s really important that we understand how compromised Alito is. We already knew he was a political hack, ruling on the basis of what was best for the Republican Party instead of anything to be found in the Constitution or a single law book. But to know for a fact that he is a true Christian Nationalist should freeze the marrow in your bones.
Christian Nationalists believe that the Bible is the only law that matters. That all of society should bend the knee to a small ruling class of high priests who dictate the word of God. These crazy fucks have targeted seven parts of America they call “The Seven Mountains” that they are determined to take over and control: Family, religion, education, media, arts & entertainment, business, and government.
That would be literally every part of society. There is no freedom but obedience to the Church and the Church is whatever people like Alito say it is. Think Iran or the Taliban but with a massive dose of ethnonationalism on top.
The press is going to drop this as quickly as humanly possible. With less than six months to the election and the GOP already struggling, the very last thing the press wants is to add a new anchor to drag them down.
But fuck the press. They’re not here to help us so we’ll just have to do it ourselves.
Burn Alito To The Ground
From now until election day, “Justice” Samuel Alito should be raked over the coals at every opportunity. We are not just voting to protest the overturning of Roe, something else the press would like us to stop talking about, we are voting to protest Alito’s continued presence on the Supreme Court.
As long as he is permitted to corrupt the high court with his un-American hatred of democracy and the Constitution, Republicans should pay a steep price. Alito has such contempt for the rule of law that he’s rubbing it in our faces. He gleefully stripped women of their reproductive rights and enables evil at every turn. He is an active and willing participant in the ongoing coup against our government. Never forget that and never let Republicans forget it.
In 2016, we did not take the threat of a Republican SCOTUS controlled by trash like Alito seriously. We have learned that lesson and now it’s time to make the GOP afraid. Alito’s time is almost up and we will replace him with a Justice who will shred his life’s work of turning America into a theocracy. We will leave him with no legacy but a footnote in the history books as a mistake corrected, erased, and never repeated.
There are 165 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it.
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Remember when Republicans used to threaten murder if someone disrespected the flag in any way? Pepperidge Farm remembers…
I'm so fucking sick and tired of rethuglicans flaunting their narrow christofascist vision of the world. Bigoted, misogynist, homophobic, racist small minded white men (I'm not even going to say "not all men" because what's the fucking point...)
whose only goal is power and money.
I'm tired, bored, angry, frustrated, irritated, frightened, physically nauseated and sick, confused, outraged, and add about 50 other emotions I don't want to think about right now.
Hell is empty.... the devils are all here.
The Dem leadership really needs to be screaming this from the rooftops. Why aren't they?