oblong Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 Saw on the twitter... Alito can't control his wife but he wants to control yours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 13 hours ago, pfife said: I wonder if Alito is gonna vote to give trump presidential immunity As long as Alito can figure out a way to frame it as Trump and only Trump, and anyone else Trump appoints to succeed him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 (edited) They throw their spouses under the bus to keep the gravy train running edit. Link to story https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/mrs-alito-isnt-the-problem?r=45wcm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Edited May 30 by CMRivdogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 This is an unacceptable answer If we can't trust these people to tell the truth or behave with the bare minimum ethical requirements imposed on junior US Government employees and contractors, why are they in this lifetime appointment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ronz Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 It is mind blowing to me that punishment for violating the Hatch Act and/or stealing Secret documents is no longer a thing. Absolutely mind blowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 this is a PROBLEM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 James Madison is rolling in his grave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger337 Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 21 minutes ago, romad1 said: this is a PROBLEM Mike Johnson is clearly the latest to take on the role of Trump's little bitch. How many days does it take for Trump to totally humiliate him and then throw him under the bus when he's no longer useful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 8 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: Mike Johnson is clearly the latest to take on the role of Trump's little bitch. How many days does it take for Trump to totally humiliate him and then throw him under the bus when he's no longer useful? Sometime between the election and Day One if he is elected Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 3 hours ago, romad1 said: this is a PROBLEM It’s basically a “they did it to us, now we’ll do it to them 10x over” mentality, and a basic admission that they will use the machinery of the government, paid for with our taxes, to pursue their political agendas strictly for their own gain and to no one else’s benefit. If that’s not the textbook definition of corruption, then there’s no such thing as corruption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Yet he still won't resign until after the election 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatkoVarda Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 when the loan on his "humble" $300,000 RV was paid off, he did not report that as income, so that's tax evasion if anyone cares, and i guess no one does 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 1 hour ago, RatkoVarda said: when the loan on his "humble" $300,000 RV was paid off, he did not report that as income, so that's tax evasion if anyone cares, and i guess no one does "LOCK HIM UP!!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 18 hours ago, RatkoVarda said: when the loan on his "humble" $300,000 RV was paid off, he did not report that as income, so that's tax evasion if anyone cares, and i guess no one does So preposterous. Google tells me Scotus annual salary is 181k (which is way too much for most of them) so that's approximately 1.66 times his annual salary he didn't pay any taxes on. as the great philosopher mel brooks taught us: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 (edited) 10 hours ago, pfife said: approximately 1.66 times his annual salary he didn't pay any taxes on. Does the IRS still pay a 20% bounty if you turn in a tax evader? Sure it's been all over the media, but do you suppose anyone has formally dropped the dime on Ol' Clarence? Hmmm.... Edited June 8 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edman85 Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 On 6/8/2024 at 7:49 AM, pfife said: So preposterous. Google tells me Scotus annual salary is 181k (which is way too much for most of them) so that's approximately 1.66 times his annual salary he didn't pay any taxes on. as the great philosopher mel brooks taught us: The amount of people that got this Halloween costume I spent double digit hours on putting together a couple years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hongbit Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 11 minutes ago, Edman85 said: The amount of people that got this Halloween costume I spent double digit hours on putting together a couple years ago... Shame you spent all that time and still looked like the piss boy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edman85 Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 9 hours ago, Hongbit said: Shame you spent all that time and still looked like the piss boy. Shame you made that comment looking like a bucket of **** 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 fun stuff thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 7 hours ago, romad1 said: fun stuff thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 Courtesy of the Department of Full Disclosure, seems that Lauren Windsor, an acknowledged liberal documentarian, posed to question to Alito at a function while basically pretending to be a conservative Christian, that is, in a bid to fool Alito into showing his hand, and I don’t like the dishonesty of that, even though it doesn’t mitigate the awfulness of what he said. OTOH, Windsor took the same tack with John Robert’s but he refused to take the bait and claim that the US is a conservative Christian nation, replying that it’s not up to the lawyers to enforce morality, so good on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 (edited) you know what the complete comedy in all this cultural warfare is? It's upper class liberals that live the most morally 'conservative' lifestyle of any segment of American society. They have the most marriages, the fewest children out of wedlock, the highest proportion of stable two parent households. The right in American has their head so far up their asses they don't understand the difference between being free to do something and forcing other people to do something. Liberals are completely happy with conventional lifestyles, we don't denigrate them at all, all we want to do is make room for people to be free to do it differently if that is their choice. The right just can't figure out this simple equation. Wanting to allow people to be free is just that, and nothing more than that. But of course, "that" is a lot. The Christian Right's problem (as well as the RCC ) is that they want the state to mandate people to do what they can't persuade people to do because their doctrine is just too unappealing. They call themselves "Evangelist" after the Greek for "Good Tidings" but their "news" just isn't so good and when people see it and don't like it, they want to be entitled to police power to enforce it. Edited June 11 by gehringer_2 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 53 minutes ago, chasfh said: Notable that Roberts gave all the 'correct' answers. It's not that hard not be an idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 Honestly, I see pitchbot in light of the NYT's cranky behavior toward Biden as less funny anymore. NYT may be the newspaper of the NYC literate class but its also a mouthpiece for the oligarchy that desperately wants to get those Trump era tax breaks and benefits for landlords reasserted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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