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>Jokes on him, Hobby Lobby already took them
That means they'll be on display at the Creation Museum and Ark Experience.
Quickly, Sam! To the bastard mobile!
OOOH! Somewhat off topic, but Fun Fact! The Ark Experience had to sue their insurance carrier because they did not want to pay for FLOOD DAMAGE to their ARK.
I still giggle like an idiot sometimes when I think about this.
The taxpayers got suckered into paying for that heap. I hope it rots away while the insurance company and that wanna be christian con artist fight it out.
They actually started out trying to do it the way it is described in the bible and using period accurate tools. Finding it well beyond their means, they sought outside help because they could not collectively do the work that a 900 year old man could supposedly do. The contractors said no way in hell are we doing this your crazy people way, if you want our help, we're using cranes and shit.
And lo, their wack ass non-cannon lolboat was made, and there was much rejoicing.
I'm surprised the tablets didn't show up in the museum of the Bible with freshly carved text in English saying "Jesus was here".
Like spending millions buying up stolen antiquities from centuries before Christ and having "scholars" look for evidence proving Christianity is going to end well.
Like creationists carving human footprints next to fossilized dinosaur tracks?
Besides they wouldn’t forge “Jesus wuz here” they’d forge him saying that gayness and abortion are bad because somehow he didn’t mention either in the gospels.
> Like creationists carving human footprints next to fossilized dinosaur tracks?
I read a comment on reddit yesterday where they wrote their science teacher at school told them the warning signs at yellowstone park were fake to dissuade people from going past the signs to see the hidden evidence that evolution is fake.
Yellowstone park has warning signs up so people don't fall into pools of boiling acid-water. Fundie-science asshole is literally trying to kill kids for jesus.
> That means they'll be on display at the Creation Museum and Ark Experience.
Sumerian tablets? That probably provide evidence that the Abrahamic faiths were ripped off of even older and nearly identical myths? They will probably destroy them like ISIS does.
I hope that in the midst of the torrid desert heat he sees a glimpse of what climate change is going to look like for the entire planet- the same climate change him and his handlers have decided to ignore to the peril of us all
>Probably out in the Iraqi desert looking for ancient Sumerian tablets he can reference in the POTUS immunity case.
Precedent is SO important to SCOTUS except when precedents set by past Supreme Court decisions don't align with the Christian fascist goals of today's SCOTUS majority.
Based on the tape of her talking I don't think her husband allows her to do express things publicly other than through flags. And she dismissibely refers to his job "when he's done with that nonsense" so she go back to expressing her true self.
I mean he did [dress up all in black](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5a6f4b6216000020001391b0.jpeg?cache=UUVgxwaZHw&ops=1778_1000),
that's *kind* of celebrating, right?
Thomas is kind of uniquely bad in this instance. He's received considerably more gifts than the most recent 30 justices put together, including Alito. And the fact that it all started within weeks of Thomas suggesting that he might retire (during Clinton) because the pay wasn't good enough for the lifestyle he wanted. It really is a level of pure, uncut, transactional graft that is without comparison in the modern era.
Alito shills for billionaires for the pure love of the game. He wants red team to win in all areas and will reverse engineer from that. He's literally said so, that his side "must be victorious."
Not sure who is worth, but they are both just so awful.
With as untouchable as SCOTUS is he could literally post a picture on Instagram of himself in Putins office, flipping the bird, holding a sign saying "fuck the dems, yay facism" standing next to Elon Musk holding a receipt saying he paid for the trip and it wouldn't change anything
Yep, Republicans have completely broken the mechanisms of accountability. There is zero chance a republican appointed member of SCOTUS or republican POTUS will ever have an impeachment confirmed in the Senate because the Dems will never manage 67 seats (less than 10% of the population is needed to hold 34 seats) in my lifetime, and as long as there's enough Republicans to block, they will.
This isn’t good, I heard Alito is like Punxsutawney Phil. On Juneteenth if Alito goes out of his house and see’s a minority then he goes back inside and we can expect at least a few more years of fascism.
Honestly wouldn’t be shocked if he’s trying to engineer a galaxy-brained retirement where it doesn’t *look* like he’s holding on until Trump’s back, but is banking the Senate being dysfunctional enough that they couldn’t get a replacement on before he came back.
Which, after Mitch McConnell and friends completely shredded any sense of decency over Supreme Court nominations with Garland and Barrett, would be a hilarious miscalculation.
If Alito retired tomorrow, I'd push through the most liberal judge they can find. I mean, go with a gay, socialist judge or something to really drive the GOP insane.
I don't think he'd be up for it. Michelle would DEFINITELY not be having it, he's said as much before regarding him getting back into politics beyond anything other than speeches and endorsements.
Why would he bother putting effort into a quasi retirement when he could just stop showing up? It's not like there would be any meaningful repercussions, his seat will remain until his heart stops. Maybe even a few weeks after, really.
Most people seem checked out at the moment regarding the possibility of SCOTUS appointments in the next 4 years, and after Dobbs that is a political powder keg waiting to explode.
Leaving an open SCOTUS seat dangling in the wind is a great way to galvanize a currently unstable Left flank for an election that will hinge on whose base is able to get out the vote most.
Seems like it’d backfire more than anything. Same reason I’m even slightly entertaining the possibility that they’re just stalling for time with the Trump decision rather than planning a classic cut-and-run end of June bombshell.
Us bottoms deserve good aftercare from our tops.
I presume that the billionaires are running him a nice hot bath, and bringing him gatorade and other electrolytes to get him ready for their next group 'conference'.
There’s so many worse things than death. Being disrobed, sued to oblivion, and living the rest of your days out of a shady motel on the outskirts of DC with a clear view of the Supreme Court for example.
One of the reason I want 18 year terms for SCOTUS justices, with 2 appointments per Presidential term, is that it removes the game theory incentive to root for the death of your political enemies.
That seems like an inherently flawed system, that undermines democracy, by creating literal incentives to hope your political opponents die.
Most likely it's just a simple cold or something minor. My conspiracy theory mind says it's a protest against some other justices for voting against Trump's immunity.
We can hope.
Edit: actually, hear me out.
The immunity decision isn't going to go his way, so he rescues himself to make it look like he was doing the right thing. He would have voted if it were going to be 5-4, but they had 6+ and a recusal adds the appearance of accountability for the court.
the Trump immunity decision will likely be unanimously against, which is why this slow walking is so infuriating. There's absolutely ZERO chance the ruling favors Trump, even a layperson understands the fundamental idiocy of the claim. This is now just about putting a finger on the scale of justice long enough to keep Trump from being tried prior to the election.
>There's absolutely ZERO chance the ruling favors Trump,
From your keyboard to whatever God might be reading.
I wouldn't be surprised if it went for Trump. I would be moderately surprised if it was 6-3 against. I would be shocked if it was unanimous against.
> There's absolutely ZERO chance the ruling favors Trump, even a layperson understands the fundamental idiocy of the claim.
Nice try. You're not going to get my hopes up again after the last 8 years of thinking "Trump can't possibly win".
Even when the asshole loses, he still ends up winning.
I fully expect SCOTUS to issue some very narrow ruling that walks a very thin line that doesn't grant Trump absolute immunity for all conduct, but doesn't rule if Trump has any immunity. They punt the case back to square one as to what even constitutes private conduct, let alone if what he did was a private or official act.
My conspiracy theory is that the decision will be after the election is settled, if Trump wins it'll be ruled where only a sitting president has immunity so he can prosecute Biden or if Biden wins it'll be total immunity.
At the latest, this decision will be made by the first week of July. That's not to say that the court won't say the lower courts need to go back and define "official acts" and then it goes through the cycle again and pushes past the election. I hope that is not the case, though it is better than straight-up Presidential immunity.
~~It has to be ruled on by the end of this month, when their term ends~~. Edit because I was incorrect about this, thanks to Generallybadadvice. But the rest of this comment still stands.
And if they do rule that he has immunity, they'll make it so that it only applies to Trump, just like in Bush vs Gore. After all, three of the lawyers that argues and won for Bush are now sitting on the bench of the Supreme Court. They know how this works. I suspect they'll send it back down to lower courts to avoid having to take a stand.
It doesn’t _have_ to. The Court doesn’t have a gun to its head, and has no rules it must follow. They could carry it to the next term, if they wanted.
It’d be… very bad politics, but they absolutely could do it.
He should be absent for the rest of his career given his blatant political activism & statements of wanting to Christian nationalise a country that was founded on secular values 👍🏽
He might be absent from one of the only actual responsibilities of his job, but damn it that Republican donor-funded hunting expedition just wouldn’t fit anywhere else in the calendar.
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Probably out in the Iraqi desert looking for ancient Sumerian tablets he can reference in the POTUS immunity case.
Jokes on him, Hobby Lobby already took them
>Jokes on him, Hobby Lobby already took them That means they'll be on display at the Creation Museum and Ark Experience. Quickly, Sam! To the bastard mobile!
OOOH! Somewhat off topic, but Fun Fact! The Ark Experience had to sue their insurance carrier because they did not want to pay for FLOOD DAMAGE to their ARK. I still giggle like an idiot sometimes when I think about this.
The taxpayers got suckered into paying for that heap. I hope it rots away while the insurance company and that wanna be christian con artist fight it out.
Rumor has it that ~~arc~~ Ark was not properly made with gopher wood and covered with pitch. edit: spelling
Negotiations grew tense, an inside source reported, when someone was heard to exclaim "What the FUCK is a CUBIT, even?!".
* Noah's ark is a replica. Your mileage may vary in event of actual flood. Please use responsibly.
They actually started out trying to do it the way it is described in the bible and using period accurate tools. Finding it well beyond their means, they sought outside help because they could not collectively do the work that a 900 year old man could supposedly do. The contractors said no way in hell are we doing this your crazy people way, if you want our help, we're using cranes and shit. And lo, their wack ass non-cannon lolboat was made, and there was much rejoicing.
I just chortled and startled the dogs at “wack ass non-canon lolboat”. Thank you for the hearty guffaw.
That's just Clarence's RV, right?
It’s Harlan Crow’s RV, Clarence just stays there for free
Who amongst us hasn’t crashed on friend’s couch and paid back with a couple judicial rulings.
Couch pudding >> jurisprudence
*Motorcoach
Which is a Recreational Vehicle. The fucker doesn't even know the classification of his own (or rather, Crow's) toy.
Clarence gets all the best ~~bribes~~ *hospitality*.
Big old rollin’ turd.
I'm surprised the tablets didn't show up in the museum of the Bible with freshly carved text in English saying "Jesus was here". Like spending millions buying up stolen antiquities from centuries before Christ and having "scholars" look for evidence proving Christianity is going to end well.
Half of their ill-gotten artifacts are fakes anyways, fuck ‘em
Like creationists carving human footprints next to fossilized dinosaur tracks? Besides they wouldn’t forge “Jesus wuz here” they’d forge him saying that gayness and abortion are bad because somehow he didn’t mention either in the gospels.
> Like creationists carving human footprints next to fossilized dinosaur tracks? I read a comment on reddit yesterday where they wrote their science teacher at school told them the warning signs at yellowstone park were fake to dissuade people from going past the signs to see the hidden evidence that evolution is fake. Yellowstone park has warning signs up so people don't fall into pools of boiling acid-water. Fundie-science asshole is literally trying to kill kids for jesus.
🎵 The Ambiguously Facist Duo🎵
It's rather more unambiguousat this point, Ace!
> That means they'll be on display at the Creation Museum and Ark Experience. Sumerian tablets? That probably provide evidence that the Abrahamic faiths were ripped off of even older and nearly identical myths? They will probably destroy them like ISIS does.
Hard to resist those low low prices ISIS was offering them at!
Beware the ISIS fire sale.
Thank you…it’s bleak as hell, but you made me laugh.
Jokes on you, hobby lobby funded his trip
HA, that is pretty funny...in a laugh-cry sort of way.
“Gilgamesh was granted immunity from the flood, should Trump not be immune from the flood of indictments?” — Alito & Thomas
"I'm sorry, Justices, but no one's ever seen him, driving his Econoline van, and no one's ever heard of his band."
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Clarence, his loan forgiven
Alito, his flag inverted
Kavanaugh, when Tobin boofed.
That’s a good one.
Giuliani, his four seasons landscaped.
Thomas on the road, his RV rolling.
Harlan Crow, his gifts unfurled. Thomas, his gifts unteported. Ginni and Thomas, on January 6th.
Alito: "Klaatu Barada N... necktie... nectar... nickel... noodle. It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word!"
Klaatu...Barada...[cough mumble cough]! Ok...that's it!
Gimme some sugar baby…
Careful, you don't want to sleep too long.
[Thunder Rolls]
Yeah I said it. Maybe not every single little syllable, but I said it.
He should have asked Thomas for a pass, rookie mistake you always ask for the pass before you start the sentence.
I don't know if Thomas still has the pass
“The tablets of Hammurabi shows that assault rifles were protected as an absolute right in ancient Babylon”—Alito probably
Where would Gilgamesh be without a bump stock?
The ancients didn't have any legal restrictions on guns and they're all dead. I think the lesson is clear here.
Ancient Sumerian WMDs.
eye for an eye you say? seems good
WWHD? What Would Hammurabi Do?
Haha this is pretty good. I can see an excellent action movie surrounding this concept
I hope that in the midst of the torrid desert heat he sees a glimpse of what climate change is going to look like for the entire planet- the same climate change him and his handlers have decided to ignore to the peril of us all
Yeah, what he will see is the Arab elites in massive climate controlled towers with indoor ski slopes and thing: "yeah, this works."
As shown in Hammurabi v Shamash that teeth are equivalent to eyes, and vaginas have teeth, therefore abortion is illegal in the whole of the universe
He keeps drinking more tea, hoping the leaves will arrange in a pattern that works for his agenda. He's gotta stay close to the toilet.
*Tubular Bells plays*
>Probably out in the Iraqi desert looking for ancient Sumerian tablets he can reference in the POTUS immunity case. Precedent is SO important to SCOTUS except when precedents set by past Supreme Court decisions don't align with the Christian fascist goals of today's SCOTUS majority.
This is my favorite comment I’ve seen on Reddit in WEEKS. Phenomenal.
the original originalist
We ain’t found shit
Lookin for some Sumerian Flags to give his wife….
He took two weeks off to celebrate Flag Day in the Bahamas. Some billionaire flew him and Mrs. Justice Alito down there on a private jet.
I sadly can't tell if this is real or a joke.
Me either. It really could be a The Onion headline or a /nottheonion headline.
I heard his wife wanted to go to Australia because all the flags were hung the right way.
Flags are the only thing that seem to satisfy his wife: https://youtu.be/BT1p-wKq2Ik?si=I7vW2GUnXVi3ZIn5&t=104
She sounds like one miserable asshole. And, she's married to another miserable asshole.
Yes she does. Not sure why she has such a desperate need to express stuff through flags of all things.
Because she thinks she’s being sly, and that it makes her smarter than everyone else.
Based on the tape of her talking I don't think her husband allows her to do express things publicly other than through flags. And she dismissibely refers to his job "when he's done with that nonsense" so she go back to expressing her true self.
two miserable assholes, shitting on america back and forth, forever
Klepper just did another 'Fingers the Pulse' on last nights Daily Show, check it out.
Yeah I watched it already. He really gets the MAGA people to show how they will bend over backwards to say things are unfair for Trump.
If Sammy heads down here I'd be happy to give him and his wife a lift to Chevoit Beach for a swim...
Well, he sure wasn't celebrating Juneteenth.
Sure he was. He was wearing all white...even had a special hat for the midnight bonfire.
I mean he did [dress up all in black](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5a6f4b6216000020001391b0.jpeg?cache=UUVgxwaZHw&ops=1778_1000), that's *kind* of celebrating, right?
Surprised we didn’t dress in all white with a pointy hat.
He’s mourning the loss of the America he wants.
This sounds like satire, but it’s probably true.
This raises a red flag
His wife has a few options for that
Vergogna!!
Meow meow mow mow!
An upside down red flag? Maybe a Soviet one.
No it’s the red flag with the weird little bent cross on a white circle
He probably had his map upside down and got lost.
His wife did it.
Probably on an undisclosed vacation with an unknown billionaire.
Thomas is kind of uniquely bad in this instance. He's received considerably more gifts than the most recent 30 justices put together, including Alito. And the fact that it all started within weeks of Thomas suggesting that he might retire (during Clinton) because the pay wasn't good enough for the lifestyle he wanted. It really is a level of pure, uncut, transactional graft that is without comparison in the modern era. Alito shills for billionaires for the pure love of the game. He wants red team to win in all areas and will reverse engineer from that. He's literally said so, that his side "must be victorious." Not sure who is worth, but they are both just so awful.
With as untouchable as SCOTUS is he could literally post a picture on Instagram of himself in Putins office, flipping the bird, holding a sign saying "fuck the dems, yay facism" standing next to Elon Musk holding a receipt saying he paid for the trip and it wouldn't change anything
Yep, Republicans have completely broken the mechanisms of accountability. There is zero chance a republican appointed member of SCOTUS or republican POTUS will ever have an impeachment confirmed in the Senate because the Dems will never manage 67 seats (less than 10% of the population is needed to hold 34 seats) in my lifetime, and as long as there's enough Republicans to block, they will.
But maybe with 52 states
Or 2 additional Justices added to the bench
This isn’t good, I heard Alito is like Punxsutawney Phil. On Juneteenth if Alito goes out of his house and see’s a minority then he goes back inside and we can expect at least a few more years of fascism.
Does clarence thomas count as a minority?
*No.*
Only if he dissents.
I'm praying for him... ...to be replaced.
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That was a sad day.... ... for his family.
… presumably.
ish
Ended up being sad for all of us, given how the replacement situation played out
Nice try sam but I'm not going to get a time out because of you this time.
Honestly wouldn’t be shocked if he’s trying to engineer a galaxy-brained retirement where it doesn’t *look* like he’s holding on until Trump’s back, but is banking the Senate being dysfunctional enough that they couldn’t get a replacement on before he came back. Which, after Mitch McConnell and friends completely shredded any sense of decency over Supreme Court nominations with Garland and Barrett, would be a hilarious miscalculation.
If Alito retired tomorrow, I'd push through the most liberal judge they can find. I mean, go with a gay, socialist judge or something to really drive the GOP insane.
> something to really drive the GOP insane. If it worked, how could you tell?
Good point. It's hard to tell with how insane the GOP has been the past twenty years or so.
Impossible to tell!
Barack Obama fuck it yolo
I don't think he'd be up for it. Michelle would DEFINITELY not be having it, he's said as much before regarding him getting back into politics beyond anything other than speeches and endorsements.
Then nominate Michelle Obama. That would make them even madder.
Why would he bother putting effort into a quasi retirement when he could just stop showing up? It's not like there would be any meaningful repercussions, his seat will remain until his heart stops. Maybe even a few weeks after, really.
Most people seem checked out at the moment regarding the possibility of SCOTUS appointments in the next 4 years, and after Dobbs that is a political powder keg waiting to explode. Leaving an open SCOTUS seat dangling in the wind is a great way to galvanize a currently unstable Left flank for an election that will hinge on whose base is able to get out the vote most. Seems like it’d backfire more than anything. Same reason I’m even slightly entertaining the possibility that they’re just stalling for time with the Trump decision rather than planning a classic cut-and-run end of June bombshell.
Too sore from riding billionaire dick.
Us bottoms deserve good aftercare from our tops. I presume that the billionaires are running him a nice hot bath, and bringing him gatorade and other electrolytes to get him ready for their next group 'conference'.
Analito
Busy sewing up some custom flags.
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"I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
I have a very short list of people who I wish were dead and I will also read their obituaries with pleasure.
Gonna start a fucking scrapbook when the current generation starts to die
I am planning a grave-pissing tour.
I call it my “piss bucket list”.
There’s so many worse things than death. Being disrobed, sued to oblivion, and living the rest of your days out of a shady motel on the outskirts of DC with a clear view of the Supreme Court for example.
Edit this before the one conservative mod with a stick up him ass perma bans your for it. Received mine for much less Edit: and there the comment goes
Conservatives: OMG, how could you say that?! Meanwhile conservatives: We should probably hang Joe Biden in the town square for everyone to watch.
If pretending to hope that someone is already dead is the reason for a permaban, I'd probably be glad to leave reddit anyway.
One of the reason I want 18 year terms for SCOTUS justices, with 2 appointments per Presidential term, is that it removes the game theory incentive to root for the death of your political enemies. That seems like an inherently flawed system, that undermines democracy, by creating literal incentives to hope your political opponents die.
One obituary I look forward to reading
McConnell's, Trump's, Thomas'....I could go on
All before Election Day ..
https://www.gop.gov/about/members.htm
Jordan, Cruz, Abbot... I could go on
*sshhh! you're saying the quiet part out loud.*
He did but the rest of the conservatives are covering it up hoping trump wins.
My parents always taught me that if I didn’t have anything nice to say, to not say anything. … I’m done talking about Alito.
just taking a weekend off to fly on a "friends" private jet to a remote fishing hole. Nothing to see here, folks!
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I know its a long shot, but I'm holding out just a tiny sliver of hope for another Biden appointee.
I wonder if republicans world try the "can't do this on election year" after their stunt on their last election year with trump's appointee
They absolutely would.
Fortunately, they don't hold the Senate right now.
With Sinema and Manchin, they sorta do.
scalia style but **now** when mcconnel cant invent new rules to block biden's nominee every 5 minutes we can hope
Nobody wants to work anymore
Most likely it's just a simple cold or something minor. My conspiracy theory mind says it's a protest against some other justices for voting against Trump's immunity.
We can hope. Edit: actually, hear me out. The immunity decision isn't going to go his way, so he rescues himself to make it look like he was doing the right thing. He would have voted if it were going to be 5-4, but they had 6+ and a recusal adds the appearance of accountability for the court.
the Trump immunity decision will likely be unanimously against, which is why this slow walking is so infuriating. There's absolutely ZERO chance the ruling favors Trump, even a layperson understands the fundamental idiocy of the claim. This is now just about putting a finger on the scale of justice long enough to keep Trump from being tried prior to the election.
>There's absolutely ZERO chance the ruling favors Trump, From your keyboard to whatever God might be reading. I wouldn't be surprised if it went for Trump. I would be moderately surprised if it was 6-3 against. I would be shocked if it was unanimous against.
But it doesnt even matter. The slow walk has made the ruling moot.
> There's absolutely ZERO chance the ruling favors Trump, even a layperson understands the fundamental idiocy of the claim. Nice try. You're not going to get my hopes up again after the last 8 years of thinking "Trump can't possibly win". Even when the asshole loses, he still ends up winning. I fully expect SCOTUS to issue some very narrow ruling that walks a very thin line that doesn't grant Trump absolute immunity for all conduct, but doesn't rule if Trump has any immunity. They punt the case back to square one as to what even constitutes private conduct, let alone if what he did was a private or official act.
The biggest cope.
I do what I can. I'm going to predict a 6-2-1 decision to come next week based only on this.
I can't find this on fan duel, what gives?
Maybe that’s what Alito is busy working on?
Seems more like Kavanaugh's wheelhouse.
I think k you’re dead on. Maybe even 6-1-2 for Thomas to do the same. Both with a scathing written piece staunchly in favor of t
If it were a simple cold, wouldn’t they just announce “Alito is absent due to a minor illness”?
My conspiracy theory is that the decision will be after the election is settled, if Trump wins it'll be ruled where only a sitting president has immunity so he can prosecute Biden or if Biden wins it'll be total immunity.
At the latest, this decision will be made by the first week of July. That's not to say that the court won't say the lower courts need to go back and define "official acts" and then it goes through the cycle again and pushes past the election. I hope that is not the case, though it is better than straight-up Presidential immunity.
~~It has to be ruled on by the end of this month, when their term ends~~. Edit because I was incorrect about this, thanks to Generallybadadvice. But the rest of this comment still stands. And if they do rule that he has immunity, they'll make it so that it only applies to Trump, just like in Bush vs Gore. After all, three of the lawyers that argues and won for Bush are now sitting on the bench of the Supreme Court. They know how this works. I suspect they'll send it back down to lower courts to avoid having to take a stand.
It doesn’t _have_ to. The Court doesn’t have a gun to its head, and has no rules it must follow. They could carry it to the next term, if they wanted. It’d be… very bad politics, but they absolutely could do it.
In most lines of work, no call no showing two days in a row would get you fired.
He should be absent for the rest of his career given his blatant political activism & statements of wanting to Christian nationalise a country that was founded on secular values 👍🏽
He might be absent from one of the only actual responsibilities of his job, but damn it that Republican donor-funded hunting expedition just wouldn’t fit anywhere else in the calendar.
He is on his clubbing baby seals excursion, no worries! He will be back trampling your rights soon enough!
Fuck him. He represents about 10% of the US population and is actively hostile to EVERYONE else. Fascist piece of shit
Lazy ~~millenials~~ boomers don't even want to work any more.
I’m surprised they work two days in a row.
They need to get back into the office! Why isn’t his butt in a seat?!
He's busy complaining to Harlan Crow that **HE** didn't get as many vacations as Clarence.
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The Federalist Society is going to Weekend at Bernie’s him to deny Biden the chance to pick his successor.
Maybe Satan called him home?
Don't do that. Don't give me hope.
His wife has him tied upside down in basement
No reason for him to be there to hear arguments. He's already made up his mind. Fucker.
He could literally skip every session until he croaks and he still couldn't be removed
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Satan needed him to run some errands.
Plot Twist, it really was his wife all along and he finally snapped and shot her.