Justice Kennedy retiring

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Your memory is the same as mine; and I think it was much the same in the country beyond this website as well. Things have changed now though. People see how much he irritates their political opponents, so cozy up into his scrotum as much as possible in some sort of anti-social virtue signal. You can see the evidence in the above political cartoon with the justices wearing MAGA hats. The way it's presented makes it feel like the artist thinks that those four conservative judges have Trump to thank for their conservativism or something, as if they were simply supreme court justice place holders until he came along.

I'll confess that while there are things I agree with and things I disagree with, I love that he completely bypassed the media and went straight to the people with Twitter. (and I don't use twitter). Knowledge and truth may be essential to democracy, but I'd prefer a completely discounted and disregarded media to a completely biased one.
To your bolded point, he has illustrated hypocrisy like none other, and the meltdowns are truly something to behold. Schadenfreude may be a stinky cologne, but it is nice to see these guys get a bit of their own medicine.

Anyway, I didn't see the cartoon quite as you did so much as the hats simply being an indicator of "side."
Perhaps the SCOTUS should be so political. Perhaps this retirement wouldn't be so polarizing if it weren't.
But here we are, and the left never gives and inch. It is nice to be on the offensive for once instead of the defensive.

[Irving]

I understand, and agree, that the artist picked the most simple way to illustrate "side" with the hats, but we're talking about a New York liberal that ran where he thought he could win. I feel like people really forget that and I just don't understand.

[Great-Kazoo]

I understand, and agree, that the artist picked the most simple way to illustrate "side" with the hats, but we're talking about a New York liberal that ran where he thought he could win. I feel like people really forget that and I just don't understand.

Forget? Some actually believe he's a conservative .

Trump's a moron. BUT...................................




He's not hillary and i picked him specifically for his 1 pick for a scotus appointment. Now it may well end up 3 total before 2020.


Question for you and everyone else. Do you actually believe there would be this much hand wringing if HRC was in office and she had another SCOTUS to nominate ? Fuck no, they'd be falling over them self shouting from the top of the mount how sensible her choice[s] for SCOTUS were

[Irving]

For the record, I'm not questioning why people voted for Trump.

[roberth]

Forget? Some actually believe he's a conservative .

Trump's a moron. BUT...................................




He's not hillary and i picked him specifically for his 1 pick for a scotus appointment. Now it may well end up 3 total before 2020.


Question for you and everyone else. Do you actually believe there would be this much hand wringing if HRC was in office and she had another SCOTUS to nominate ? Fuck no, they'd be falling over them self shouting from the top of the mount how sensible her choice[s] for SCOTUS were

If HRC had won we'd have whole lot more to worry about than the Supreme Court.

[Skip]

In reality we shouldn't have Libs or Conservatives on the court. We should have strict Constitutionalists. Men and women who read the law, interpret it's letter, and create consistent precedents independent of political ideology.

Those are now known as Conservatives because Libs swayed the court from a principled body of jurists to policy makers, moving America to the left when the Legislative Branch wouldn't. And the policy precedents are decided by their Lib values (greater good, ends justify means, etc...). Many recent decisions written by Libs on the court don't even address the law (Janus dissenting is a great example).

To win at this game, we have to re-take the institutions or we lose. Big.

Trump moved the needle in the right direction.

That major USSC decision I'm whining about may now be decided by more Constitutionalists on the court who read the words of 2A and understand them.

[Justin]

RBGTFO

[Zundfolge]

Since when did voting for a guy, being glad he won, reveling in his victories on our behalf (and thus fulfilling some of the promises he made that got us to vote for him in the first place) and enjoying him pissing off the left become "riding his dick"? Sheesh.

[Irving]

Since Trump won and people treat him like some hero and refuse to acknowledge the constant stream of stupid things that he does.

Name another time in history where people wore clothes related to the president outside of a political rally. It was pretty common during the Obama presidency, and it was always done by dick riders that couldn't objectively view their guy and just wanted to virtue signal.

[Irving]

Taken from another thread. I don't particularly agree with this statement, but if you do, then this is what it looks/feels like and it should be embraced.

Of course they would. The difference is in the evidence we see every day. You don't see people from the right doing and saying the same kinds of things that come from the left. On the (far less often) occasion it does, it's quickly condemned by the right. The complete and irrational hatred of Trump is unlike anything I've ever seen. And the comparisons made by the left of Trump to Hitler or Nazi Germany? Seriously? Have these people ever read a book? It's just insane. And it's coming from educated people, many in the leftist media.

I'm with AS. Every time I think the left has reached the maximum heights of hypocrisy and hatred, someone adds another rung on the ladder. I'm almost speechless with the some of the things we're seeing today. Foremost among them is the complete and total erosion of an objective and unbiased media. The bias has been bad and clearly evident since the Reagan presidency. But they at least made some attempts at hiding it. All that changed after Bush II won, it seems. The left and the leftist media are completely unhinged from reality.

To be fair, I've heard a pretty fair number of democrats speak out against some of the recent goings on from the likes of Auntie Maxine and a few others. But I don't think the "outcry" (I know...that's a stretch) is genuine. I believe any democrat speaking out against the leftist loons is simply trying to CYA ahead of the midterms. After that, you won't hear a peep until the next election cycle.

I'm just astounded by what passes for normal leftist belief and behavior these days. They're completely off the rails. There is no far left fringe in the democrat party any longer. The fringe is now the center.