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''re in uncharted territory."

Anyone who remembers 2000 knows Supreme Court partisanship is nothing new. Conservatives just think they can be both partisans and fair jurists. Those same Justices would be outraged if the liberal members behaved the same way.

#1 | Posted by danni at 2024-05-26 09:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Unchartered territory? Only if you can't remember 2000! More like typical behavior of conservatives on the Roberts Court. zzthese days I'd be more surprised if they didn't behave like partisan hacks.

#2 | Posted by danni at 2024-05-26 09:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

U.S. Code 455 - Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge

Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. Is to the judge's knowledge likely to be a material witness in the proceeding.

Several Supreme Court justices are clearly in violation of federal law.

We were worried about the wrong person(s) being above the law.

Apparently.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-05-26 12:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's really funny that the left is trying to make a controversy over a judge flying a flag commissioned by George Washington.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 12:25 PM | Reply

Patricide Jeff is cool with having insurrectionist ---------- on the Supreme Court.

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-05-26 12:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He's become an awful troll....

www.usmagazine.com

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-26 12:45 PM | Reply

"It's really funny that the left is trying.."

Alito is the one stoking the fires.

He should have known better.

It's a federal law.

(a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

(b) He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances:
(1) Where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;

...

(4) He knows that he, individually or as a fiduciary, or his spouse or minor child residing in his household, has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding;

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-05-26 01:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If Alito is so concerned with appealing to Heaven, he should follow in the footsteps for the members of the religious group, Heaven's Gate.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-05-26 01:30 PM | Reply

#4 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Look who has spit Trump's dick out of his mouth to suck Alito's.

It's there any piece of shht MAGAt politician you won't go down on?

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-05-26 01:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

jeff's piss poor attempt at gaslighting.

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 01:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oh no's someone was flying an American Heritage Flag asking for God's grace to intervene in a Nation that his lost it's way. Wahhhhhh

#11 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-05-26 01:38 PM | Reply

Oh no's someone was flying an American Heritage Flag asking for God's grace to intervene in a Nation that his lost it's way. Wahhhhhh

#11 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

ANNNNNNDDDD (even assuming that were true-which it isn't) you don't see the problem with a SC justice doing that?

A SC justice should NOT be using religion to intervene in, well, anything related to the public. He should apply the law.

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 01:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Alito's flags communicate a political agenda. An agenda that is at odds with his Oath of Office.

If he were flying an American flag it would communicate at agenda which aligns with his Oath of Office.

Anybody who tries to put it any other way is lying.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-26 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This country was founded on Freedom or religion, he can fly whatever flag he wants to. Why is this starting to feel like DR's left leaning contingent are having some sort of psychological breakdown with the Biden Admin going down in flames.

Seriously these posts wreak of desperation and anger.

#14 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-05-26 02:15 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Of religion*

#15 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-05-26 02:15 PM | Reply

I am sure if KBJ flew a BLM flag you would feel differently.

Of course, Alito KNOWINGLY flew multiple flags that are symbols of -------- insurrection.

You think it is desperation that people draw attention to it.

I AM mad about it though, you got me there.

I wonder why you AREN'T mad.

Nah, just kidding, you are an insurrectionist defender.

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 02:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Truth, if KJB wants to fly the BLM flag I really don't give a ----. If she wants to support an organization that funnels cash for mansion purchases in exclusive white enclaves in Los Angeles for the founders of BLM ... she's more than welcome to (it is her right).

#17 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-05-26 02:29 PM | Reply

So your lack of patriotism is founded in nihilism. Congrats, you officially suck at being a human being.

#18 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 02:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

It's freedom of expression (which is certainly in the First Amendment). Fly that BLM flag with pride (their donation numbers are in the crapper these days since white women moved onto the Trans folk) those mansions don't pay for themselves you know!

#19 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-05-26 02:40 PM | Reply

So your lack of patriotism is founded in nihilism. Congrats, you officially suck at being a human being.

#18 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

BLUEWAFFLES made his peace with all that a long time ago.

#20 | Posted by Zed at 2024-05-26 02:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"This country was founded on Freedom or religion, he can fly whatever flag he wants to."

So braindead.

Not even addressing the issues.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-26 03:56 PM | Reply

Anyone who remembers 2000 knows Supreme Court partisanship is nothing new.
#1 | POSTED BY DANNI

Yes Bush v Gore had a partisan basis but his goes well beyond 2000. This is a Supreme Court Justice overtly expressing his support for an entire political movement.

#22 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-05-26 04:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is a Supreme Court Justice overtly expressing his support for an entire political movement.

#22 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

And not just any political movement but a traitorous insurrectionist one.

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 04:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" Of course, Alito KNOWINGLY flew multiple flags that are symbols of -------- insurrection."

No, they aren't. This is patently stupid.

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 04:15 PM | Reply

" This is a Supreme Court Justice overtly expressing his support for an entire political movement.

#22 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE AT 2024-05-26 04:03 PM | FLAG: "

Flying the US flag upside down long predates MAGA.

The pine tree flag has redacted the official founding of this nation. This guilt by association ring is ridiculous. Several hundred people breached the capitol and maybe a couple hundred were violent.

You all are taking that singular event and are using it to tarnish millions of people as traitorous criminals. It's ridiculous.

#25 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 04:19 PM | Reply

BellRinger hates America and can't wait for Trump to destroy all progress in this nation since the emancipation proclamation.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-05-26 04:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A lot of US flags were flown on J6. By lefty logic that means anyone who flies our flag is now a traitor.

#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 04:26 PM | Reply

"Flying the US flag upside down long predates MAGA."

Supreme Court Justices flying the US flag upside down does not predate MAGA.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-26 04:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It remains the official naval and maritime flag of Massachusetts.

#29 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 04:28 PM | Reply

25

There you go again... demeaning Trump's crowd size.

I guess though, that one might pretend that Alito is stupid enough not to know what flying the US flag upside down a week or so after J6 means, or that the Q-Trumpers have usurped the Pine Flag.

And then blamed his wife, lol.

But trying to convince others of that pretense isn't going to werk.

#30 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-26 04:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

symbols change, its maga now.

example: punishers skull belings to the bugaloo and proud boys now. so much so that marvel has been talking about retiring the punisher character in comics for a couple years now.

#31 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-05-26 04:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

belongs

#32 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-05-26 04:31 PM | Reply

#31. You'd better tell the governor of Massachusetts that.

Also, no movement gets the right to "steal" a symbol as their own. Screw that.

#33 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 04:40 PM | Reply

People steal other people's symbols all the time.

Ask Hitler where he got his.

#34 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-26 04:42 PM | Reply

Ask Hitler where he got his.

Dead horse. Dinger is not taking any calls on this. He's just collecting responses for his 2024 Eberly Award.

#35 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-05-26 04:49 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

The Nazi's were the government. The only people you claim are appropriating these symbols are ordinary citizens.

This is where the comparison falls flat.

This whole thing reeks of desperation.

#36 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 04:56 PM | Reply

Ask Hitler where he got his.
Dead horse. Dinger is not taking any calls on this. He's just collecting responses for his 2024 Eberly Award.

POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2024-05-26 04:49 PM | REPLY

What kind of an award is that?? Is it a flag perhaps hmmmmmmmmm?? LMAO

#37 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-05-26 05:00 PM | Reply

= ordinary citizens

Yeah, sorry Sylvester, but Supreme Court Justices are not merely ordinary citizens; they are one of three branches of our Gov, and are obligated to act ethically, at least in public.

And this particular Justice is a far rwinger who's close associate on the Court's wife is a co-conspirator with several indicted co-conspirators, such as it's Planner John Edwards, in the Fake Elector scheme to overturn the election.

Of course, you may have missed all that.

#38 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-26 05:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What kind of an award is that??

"Most Responded to Poster". Eberly sees him as the Taylor Swift of the DR.

#39 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-05-26 05:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 5

Some Attention Trolls are better than others, it's true!

#40 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-26 05:08 PM | Reply

" Of course, Alito KNOWINGLY flew multiple flags that are symbols of -------- insurrection."
No, they aren't. This is patently stupid.

#24 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

And you wonder why people consider you a lying piece of ----.

You claim something that is obviously not true.

They are symbols of ----ler's insurrection. Ask the ------- insurrections you toad.

You are bringing disingenuousness to the next level.

#41 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 05:12 PM | Reply

You all are taking that singular event and are using it to tarnish millions of people as traitorous criminals. It's ridiculous.

#25 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

See MORE lies.

The insurrection was far more than that single day.

The magat flag symbols were flown elsewhere, both before and after.

You are not a good person jeff.

#42 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 05:14 PM | Reply

You are bringing disingenuousness to the next level.
POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-05-26 05:12 PM | REPLY

That's his specialty.

#43 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-05-26 05:14 PM | Reply

Hey jeff did you know your wife is taking trains from leprous homeless men?

Then you eat her ----- and suck all that ---- down your throat.

And you love it.

#44 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 05:16 PM | Reply

#44 going after my wife is a new low even for you.

#45 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 05:38 PM | Reply

#44 Yikes. Seems like a comment more appropriate for the nooner than the big board. Just sayin'.

#46 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-05-26 05:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" They are symbols of -------- insurrection"

The pine tree flag is still the official naval and maritime flag of Massachusetts.

How do you square that?

You can't so you avoid it altogether.

The upside down US flag has long symbolized a state of distress and you have no contemporaneous proof that it was a MAGA thing in January of 2021. That's because no contemporaneous evidence exists.

#47 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 05:42 PM | Reply

#46. As MMA as the nooner gets I don't recall ever seeing a loved one targeted in such an abusive manner.

Now, I consider the source when it comes to this type of thing.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 05:46 PM | Reply

#44 going after my wife is a new low even for you.

#45 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

An you're a whiny little bitch.

#49 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 05:50 PM | Reply

" They are symbols of -------- insurrection"
The pine tree flag is still the official naval and maritime flag of Massachusetts.
How do you square that?
You can't so you avoid it altogether.
The upside down US flag has long symbolized a state of distress and you have no contemporaneous proof that it was a MAGA thing in January of 2021. That's because no contemporaneous evidence exists.

#47 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

I don't have to avoid it it is a simple ------- fact you furking turd.

the upside down flag is a symbol of -------- insurrection. It is ALSO a symbol for distress. The magats, (like you), think the nation is in distress because a democrat beat your god-king. So YOU think the nation is in distress. So the distress flag is a symbol for your insurrection. It is so ------- obvious only a liar would deny it.

But hey why don't you ask your fellow magats they will confirm it.

The pine tree flag, i.e. the appeal to heaven flag is self-evident to non liars that it is has become a white christian nationalist flag-it is in the ------- name.

Or perhaps you could explain why devout catholic alito is flying a Massachusetts naval flag at his house in Long beach Island NJ. You're a ------- joke you -------.

#50 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 05:55 PM | Reply

- no contemporaneous proof that it was a MAGA thing in January of 2021. That's because no contemporaneous evidence exists.

"How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag
The practice started with sailors signaling distress but evolved into a form of protest, most recently among Trump supporters who believe the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen.

It is now associated with the Stop the Steal' movement, which denies Donald Trump's 2020 defeat.

In 2020, the upside-down flag became more firmly established as an emblem of Trump supporters who denied the legitimacy of Mr. Biden's victory, said Alex Newhouse, a researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

"It's very, very common in MAGA communities and QAnon communities," he said. "It caught on among hard-core MAGA people in the Stop the Steal' ecosystem in 2020."

Matthew Guterl, a professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University, said that flying the flag upside-down "seems to have become a part of our hyperpartisan symbolic surround, especially on the right, where it symbolizes the impending death of the nation and a call to arms."

www.nytimes.com

#51 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-26 05:55 PM | Reply

#46. As MMA as the nooner gets I don't recall ever seeing a loved one targeted in such an abusive manner

Kudzu on line 1, Boaz on line 2

#52 | Posted by mattm at 2024-05-26 05:56 PM | Reply

Now, I consider the source when it comes to this type of thing.

#48 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

And you are nothing more than a disgrace. No one around here respects you. I may be an -------, I own that, but no one thinks I am a lying piece of ---- with zero integrity or morals, like, well, you.

#53 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 05:56 PM | Reply

The upside down US flag has long symbolized a state of distress and you have no contemporaneous proof that it was a MAGA thing in January of 2021. That's because no contemporaneous evidence exists.
#47 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

This counts as contemporaneous evidence in my book, emphasis mine:

Former Minnesota GOP operative: It's time to rid the party of dangerous crackpots
JANUARY 15, 2021

When COVID-19 swept across the country, President Trump encouraged his supporters to fight back against mitigation strategies implemented by federal, state and local officials to slow the spread of the deadly virus.

Minutes after Trump sent a tweet to "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!" to nearly 80 million followers, former Republican congressman and then-U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis responded: "Minnesota is being held hostage."

I immediately tweeted my concern about the "inflammatory and possibly dangerous rhetoric." Later the same day, Lewis attended a protest at Gov. Tim Walz's residence in St. Paul, and I was concerned that he would whip up the crowd and turn it into an angry mob at the gates outside Walz's residence.

Just a day before, a member of a Facebook group organizing the protest asked the group, "Who is going armed tomorrow? I don't mean concealed carry, I mean full kit."

Lewis brought his campaign RV to the protest. He conducted interviews with the media. He talked with voters about his campaign. He took pictures with supporters. Also there: the Proud Boys, the 3 Percenters and no doubt any number of Q Anon devotees " the same types that stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Lewis' campaign would be seen flying an American flag on a campaign vehicle upside down, a symbol of distress that was later used by the domestic terrorists that attacked the U.S. Capitol. minnesotareformer.com

#54 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-05-26 05:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is the problem with America, people deny obvious simple uncontroversial reality.

Then you have to argue with lying pieces of ---- like jeff as to what is simple reality.

To accept jeff's view, one would have to assume that a SC justice just happened, 11 days after a violent insurrection, 3 days after the leader of that insurrection was impeached, when people were actively fearful that that leader would not leave the white house 3 days hence, to fly a US flag upside down, because of a squabble with a neighbor.

You have to purposely attempt to deceive to promote that line.

#55 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 06:00 PM | Reply

#46. As MMA as the nooner gets I don't recall ever seeing a loved one targeted in such an abusive manner.
Now, I consider the source when it comes to this type of thing.
#48 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Hmm, I have seen spouses and partners attacked on the nooner and sometimes in a similar manner, but it's over the top for this part of the board, IMO.

#56 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-05-26 06:01 PM | Reply

" , but no one thinks I am a lying piece of ---- with zero integrity or morals, like, well, you.

#53 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-05-26 05:56 PM | FLAG: "

Didn't you try to doxx someone on this site?

I recall hearing something about that.

#57 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 06:01 PM | Reply

Your obsession with me is creepy.

#58 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 06:03 PM | Reply

Did you or did you not post your email to the DR?

My obsession will end as soon as you see god and repent your evil ways.

#59 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 06:04 PM | Reply

Or are you denying that you are jeffj?

#60 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 06:05 PM | Reply

BellRinger will make any excuse in order to defend republicans.

It's what makes him a deplorable Trumping MAGAt.

#61 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-05-26 06:15 PM | Reply

I am not sharing any personal information with a creepy stalker.

#62 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 06:18 PM | Reply

"Stop The Steal" Trump Supporters Converge on the U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON, DC- JAN 06: A flag waving upside down (an upside down flag signals distress) was seen waving in front of the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. on January 06, 2021. Thousands of pro-Trump protestors converged on the U.S. Capitol grounds today and at one point breached the fence line and the Capitol building itself. Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
www.gettyimages.com

Decoding the flags and banners seen at the Capitol Hill insurrection
PublishedJanuary 7, 2021
Upside down American flag
The US Flag Code stipulates that this can only be used in cases of "dire distress and extreme danger to life or property."
qz.com

#63 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-05-26 06:22 PM | Reply

I am not sharing any personal information with a creepy stalker.

#62 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Look at you not answer the question, too cute

#64 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 06:25 PM | Reply

" you have no contemporaneous proof that it was a MAGA thing in January of 2021."
~Bellringer

"Hold my Google"
~Gal Tuesday

#65 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-05-26 06:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

" Patricide Jeff is cool with having insurrectionist ---------- on the Supreme Court."

Just as cool as with Trump trying to disenfranchise Michigan voters? Or more cool?

#66 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-05-26 06:32 PM | Reply

#64. You're not owed nor entitled to know my century or anything about my personal life.

#67 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 06:35 PM | Reply

" "Hold my Google"
~Gal Tuesday

#65 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-05-26 06:27 PM | FLAG: |

Almost all of the flags flown by protestors and rioters that day were flown right side up.

#68 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 06:37 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#67 century = identity

#69 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 06:37 PM | Reply

are you denying that you are jeffj?

I'm not really sure why this matters.

If they wish to be called BellRinger, so be it.

Regardless of the username, they're still a deplorable Trumping MAGAt.

#70 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-05-26 06:46 PM | Reply

#64. You're not owed nor entitled to know my century or anything about my personal life.

#67 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

The personal information being whether you used to post as Jeffj.

Look at you afraid to answer questions. Too cute

#71 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 06:48 PM | Reply

Almost all of the flags flown by protestors and rioters that day were flown right side up.

#68 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Almost all of the cops didn't end up killing themselves. They don't matter to you either.

#72 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-26 06:48 PM | Reply

Regarding the Appeal to Heaven flag: just because most of us were unaware of just how instrumental Christian nationalists were to the insurrection, doesn't mean they didn't play a pivotal rule:

How Christian nationalism paved the way for Jan. 6
June 13, 2022

The religious rhetoric ramped up with the effort to "Stop the Steal." Thousands of Trump's supporters descended on Washington in mid-November for the "Million MAGA March," where Ed Martin, a conservative politician and an executive at the Eagle Forum, flanked by signs reading "Jesus matters," argued that the United States was "founded on Judeo-Christian values" and should not be led by "CNN ... or fake news." Martin called on God to "bless us in our work" and asked God to "strengthen us in our fight" to defend Trump because the "powers of darkness are descending."

Around the same time, activists began planning a series of "Jericho Marches" across the country, invoking the biblical story of Israelites besieging the city of Jericho. In Pennsylvania, demonstrators marched around the state Capitol waving Trump flags and blowing on Jewish ritual horns called shofars. Verses of the hymn "How Great Is Our God" mixed with chants about electoral fraud.

The largest "Jericho March," on Dec. 12 in Washington, was emceed by Metaxas and included Trump-circle figures such as disgraced former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn and current Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the militant group Oath Keepers, who now faces sedition charges for his alleged role in the Capitol attack, called for the marchers to join him in a "bloody war" if the election results weren't overturned.

Jericho Marchers were among the thousands who descended on Washington in January, some traveling on buses paid for by Mastriano. On Jan. 5, a group processed around the U.S. Capitol, holding signs emblazoned with Trump's face while once again blowing shofars and singing "How Great Is Our God." That night, Tennessee pastor Greg Locke--in addition to lifting up prayers for the Proud Boys--preached to a raucous crowd, describing America as "the last bastion of Christian freedom" and declaring that Trump would stay "for four more years in the White House."

The next day on the National Mall and the Capitol steps, Christian nationalist iconography was unavoidable. Men and women waving flags that read "An Appeal to Heaven" or "Proud American Christian" surged past Capitol police as the officers tried to halt those entering the Capitol building. When people adorned in Oath Keepers attire stormed into the Capitol rotunda, they appealed to the Almighty for "letting us stand up for our country."
www.ncronline.org

#73 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-05-26 06:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#71. You may be dumb but I'm not. No way I share personal information with you. Look at the way you stalk me from thread to thread with almost nothing but personal attacks. It's creepy and deranged. You really should seek counseling for your issues.

#74 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 06:53 PM | Reply

Why Christian Nationalists, including the Thomases and the Altios, are so dangerous:

Doug Mastriano and the State of Christian Nationalism
Who Is Doug Mastriano?

He was the leader of the "Stop the Steal" movement in Pennsylvania after Donald Trump lost the 2020 Election and admitted that he spoke to Trump at least 15 times between the election and the Capitol insurrection.

Mastriano asked his followers to "Appeal to Heaven, as George Washington told us to do in 1775." Appeal to Heaven then became a popular slogan of the NAR, who marched with flags adorned with the phrase. Mastriano hung a sign with "An Appeal to Heaven" on his office door and it could also be seen next to him in his nightly Facebook videos.

The phrase "Appeal to Heaven" is significant because it was used by John Locke during the Revolution when he argued, "in support of the right to violent revolution in the face of tyranny." Mastriano told his followers that laws and government made by man needn't always be respected and referenced Hitler as an example of an elected official gone awry.

Christian Nationalists believe that elections and democratic processes are not what makes a leader legitimate or official. They believe that any party or leader who fails to be the right type of Christian or doesn't succumb to their agenda is not a legitimately elected official.

Unless a leader submits to the will of God and the vision of America's founders held by Christian Nationalists, overturning an election can be justified in their eyes. This radical ideology allows Christian Nationalists to claim patriotism when they're actually undermining our most sacred democratic institutions.

On January 6, 2021, Doug Mastriano used campaign funds to charter six buses full of supporters to head down to Washington, D.C. for Donald Trump's Stop the Steal rally. As the riot began to break out around 1pm, one could witness Bibles, Jesus 2020 signs, An Appeal to Heaven flags, and more shofars. Many rioters were driven by Christian Nationalist ideals to break into the Capitol and storm the Senate floor. soapboxie.com

#75 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-05-26 07:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The upside down US flag has long symbolized a state of distress and you have no contemporaneous proof that it was a MAGA thing in January of 2021. That's because no contemporaneous evidence exists.

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Alito's wife said it was in response to a sign that said mean things about Trumpy.

They were not in distress. No calls for help. And she made no reference to being in "distress".

Only "angry" at a neighbor who had a different opinion of Trumpy than she did. Right after an attempted coup.

That is your "contemporaneous evidence".

Even if you have your head too far up Trump's rump to be able to see it.

#76 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-05-26 07:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

" Alito's wife said it was in response to a sign that said mean things about Trumpy."

The sign was vulgar and it was very close to a school bus stop. That was followed by a verbal altercation where the neighbor called her the c- word and accused her of being responsible for J6.

Lemme guess, she should have offered to let him slap her too, right?

#77 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 07:28 PM | Reply

Oh, so now it was Alito's wife who hung the flag? I was told it was her husband.

#78 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-05-26 07:30 PM | Reply

It was Alito he just blamed his wife. The guy doesnt think women have reproductive rights, you think hed let her choose a flag?

#79 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-05-26 07:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1


The US Flag Code stipulates that this can only be used in cases of "dire distress and extreme danger to life or property."
qz.com
#63 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

So they weren't using it as a symbol for the J6 rally, but to communicate that they believe the country was in distress?

That's all your posts seem to indicate Gal.

Are people now outraged about burning the flag in protest? The symbolism is much more disconcerting IMO.

On Friday, Sigcho-Lopez spoke at a rally where protesters called for canceling the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and criticized President Joe Biden's handling of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Pro-Palestinian groups have repeatedly called on Biden to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
Video from the rally shows a man setting fire to the American flag, and photos show Sigcho-Lopez later speaking with the charred remains of the flag in front of him
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-alderman-criticized-for-attending-rally-where-american-
flag-was-burned/

To be fair, I would imagine if a justices wife burned the flag some people on the right would be outraged, but it is a first amendment right.

Can we now say its associated with "communists"?

Johnson (Texas v Johnson), 63, was more interested in talking about politics and revolution.
He is a committed member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, founded in 1975 by Bob Avakian, the group's 77-year-old chairman and theoretician.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-01/column-meet-the-man-who-made-it-legal-to-burn-the-
american-flag

I just see this as symbol of protest, much like, but different meaning, a burning the flag. Which is also "illegal" but legal when done on protest.
www.law.cornell.edu

How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag
There's a big reach to attach this symbolism to meaning the only use in the future is an "insurrection" meaning.

Lets just say Alito's prefer Trump. Is this bad?

Yeah, sorry Sylvester, but Supreme Court Justices are not merely ordinary citizens; they are one of three branches of our Gov, and are obligated to act ethically, at least in public.

Where was your outrage for RBG? RBG was a publicly loud critic of Trump in 2016. Shouldn't all the branches be obligated to act ethically?

I don't recall anyone complaining this loud about RBG have to recuse herself from Judging cases which the Trump administration presented to the SC, on things like immigration.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, No Fan of Donald Trump, Critiques Latest Term
www.nytimes.com

Seems like this was just a dispute between neighbors, unless someone has actual facts beyond what Alito's wife statement, its sort of a TDS hoax at this point.

Perhaps some newspaper will do some actual research and ask the neighbor, or is just being outraged the thing these days.


Supreme Court Justices flying the US flag upside down does not predate MAGA.
#28 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

And Snoofy enlightens us how to create manufactured outrage

very similar to this great movie scene I saw on how to detecting a witch.
www.youtube.com


Oh, so now it was Alito's wife who hung the flag? I was told it was her husband.
#78 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

This isn't known? Do people here really think Robert's raised it?

It was Alito he just blamed his wife. The guy doesnt think women have reproductive rights, you think hed let her choose a flag?

Its easy enough to prove, it was part of a disagreement with neighbors ... geee who could we ask?

#80 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-05-26 07:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Flying the US flag upside down long predates MAGA.
The pine tree flag has redacted the official founding of this nation.

#25 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

And the swastika long predates Nazi Germany...blah blah blah

Alito already acknowledged they were flying the flags in a disagreement with their insurrection opposing neighbors.

Question for you, how do you feel about Trump openly accepting the endorsement of murderous street gangs? You going to stop carrying water for the maga movement after he's did that?

#81 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-05-26 07:43 PM | Reply

Aileen Cannon's flags.

pbs.twimg.com

#82 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-05-26 07:50 PM | Reply

I still think it's absolutely hilarious you guys are upset about flags but have ZERO issue when Dems burn down cities or send bombs to politicians like you guys did back during the 60's through 80's. It's why it's really difficult to take you seriously on what flag someone is flying. Now go get out your "In this house we believe" yard signs so teenagers can egg your houses.

#83 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-05-26 08:30 PM | Reply

Alito and Thomas celebrated the death of Officer Sicknick.

#84 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-05-26 08:39 PM | Reply

" Almost all of the flags flown by protestors and rioters that day were flown right side up."

And what did the ones flown upside down signify?

#85 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-05-27 03:17 AM | Reply

As far as I'm concerned, Alito's flag fly flying has just told us that he intends to make dure the U.S. Supreme Court gives it stamp of approval on the GOP's attempt to switch from democracy to autocracy and a one-party rule forever.

And new rules, backed up by a new U.S. Constitution, to make sure there is no pathway back.

#86 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-05-27 06:55 AM | Reply

Anybody who votes for Trump, or any GOP nominee, will lose every freedom you've ever known.

And don't even think about a Revolution unless it's military. Revolutionaries will be rounded up, charged with treason and publicly executed without trial. Dictators are like that. They thrive on spreading fear.

#87 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-05-27 07:08 AM | Reply

Alito, by following this course of election denial is undermining the cout system of the United States including the authority of the Supreme Court All of the election fraud issues have been examined by courts and they have not found any evidence to support trump's hysterical whining that the election was stolen so what is Alito trying to accomplish with his flags, especially the U.S. flag flown upside down? Does he not now believe in courts to resolve disagreements? Then what is he advocating for? Revolution? What? Or, and more likely, is he just a" Dick" that wants to be a hero to the MAGA cult? Somehow, I dom't think he knows the answer to that question himself. His actions seem to be a rejectiion of the rule of law and where a Supreme Court Justice would fit into anarchy is unclear but that does seem to be the message he is conveying. The utter stupidity of his actions undermines elections and our entire system of government, which he happens to be a significant part of. However if anarchy wins the Supreme Court Justices become just ordinary people thying to strvive anarchy; without privelege or power or paychecks from the U,S. government. So, tear it all down Samuel, see what that acconplishes,

#88 | Posted by danni at 2024-05-27 10:13 AM | Reply

#77

For the record, the sign her neighbor posted was vulgar? It was a covered 1st Ammendment right.

The stuff about 'School Bus Stop" is total BS. Schools were still not in session due to lingering School Covid Closures.

You routinely repeat already debunked cheap lies as political flak.

#89 | Posted by Wardog at 2024-05-27 10:20 AM | Reply

Nah, just kidding, you are an insurrectionist defender.
#16 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-05-26 02:19 PM | FLAG: Funny how not one of those individual's involved and imprisoned have been charged with insurrection -- prove me wrong : )

Maybe you should change your nom de plume to LACKOFTRUTHHURTS ; )

#90 | Posted by MSgt at 2024-05-27 10:59 AM | Reply

"no contemporaneous proof that it was a MAGA thing in January of 2021."

"I Know Nothing"
--JeffJ

#91 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-27 11:04 AM | Reply

@90

Look at the former military man betray his oath by supporting an effort to overthrow the constitution

Too cute

#92 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-27 12:05 PM | Reply

Oh, so now it was Alito's wife who hung the flag? I was told it was her husband.

#78 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Alito has admitted he raised a flag on his property that proved he was not an impartial judge?

Link please.

Last I heard Alito and the court declined to respond to requests for comment on how the "Appeal to Heaven" flag came to be flying and what it was intended to express.

#93 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-05-27 04:55 PM | Reply

now it was Alito's wife who hung the flag?

Conservatives love blaming their wives.

#94 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-05-27 04:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Funny how not one of those individual's involved and imprisoned have been charged with insurrection -- prove me wrong :"

Nice strawman. Doesn't really prove anything though does it?

The leader of the proud boofs and 4 Oath breakers were charged and convicted of seditious conspiracy. Which is defined as treasonous activities that undermine the state without directly attacking it. Or more precisely the organized encouragement of rebellion or civil disorder. And they did not do it on their own ... they were taking orders from someone else.

Prove me wrong.

#95 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-05-27 05:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Funny how not one of those individual's involved and imprisoned have been charged with insurrection -- prove me wrong : )
#90 | POSTED BY MSGT

Some of the January 6th rioters were charged with (and pleaded guilty to) seditious conspiracy rather than insurrection because seditious conspiracy is a specific federal crime, while insurrection is not an official criminal charge under U.S. law.

Look it up.

Swallow it.

#96 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-05-27 05:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Yeah?

Who cares.

I mean,,,,,,

We can have fascists like Alito or we can have fascists like Alito.

The bitch assed liberals will pick fascism every single time.

#97 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-05-27 08:59 PM | Reply

now it was Alito's wife who hung the flag? I was told it was her husband.

#78 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Ever told a lie about your ------ up wife?

I guarantee you have.

#98 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-05-27 09:00 PM | Reply

Personally I started using the US flag stamp upside down on postage on 1/21/2017. Not that it helped.

#99 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-05-27 11:19 PM | Reply

This country was founded on Freedom or religion,

Then why are cancervatives always trying to insert their idea of chreestian jesus into government?

"Freedom of religion" exists for them only if you follow their religion.

But try to erect one statue of Baphoment next to a nativity creche and every wingnut loses their shizzle.

#100 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-05-28 07:53 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Funny how not one of those individual's involved and imprisoned have been charged with insurrection -- prove me wrong : )
#90 | POSTED BY MSGT

Some of the January 6th rioters were charged with (and pleaded guilty to) seditious conspiracy rather than insurrection because seditious conspiracy is a specific federal crime, while insurrection is not an official criminal charge under U.S. law.

Look it up.

Swallow it.

#96 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-05-27 05:29 PM | Repl

He won't look it up. He won't swallow it. He will continue to regurgitate his lies over and over and over.

#101 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-05-28 07:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The major Abrahamic offshoots - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all have patchy records when it comes to accommodating "alternative facts" about their particular mythologies.

#102 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-05-28 08:06 AM | Reply

#101
These mooks are either too stupid or too lazy to "look it up" or they're just cynical ------ who simply don't care that their lazy "alternative facts" are a pack of pathetic lies. It won't age well but they clearly don't care.

#103 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-05-28 08:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

He will continue to regurgitate his lies over and over and over.

#101 | POSTED BY NIXON

Yup

He regurgitates and then eats his own vomit again and again and then tries to convince us "normies" how tasty it is.

#104 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-05-28 12:04 PM | Reply

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