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Gorsuch's Revenge

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Ta, Dok. I have major questions.

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“Hey you pricks, do we not breathe?”

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Add four more justices as soon as President Harris is sworn in.

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We'd have to call the 13th justice #14 or the triskaidekaphobes would have a cow, man.

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Isn't it cute when the highest court in the land, the court of last appeal, plays peek-a-boo with basic rights and our very survival as a species? Maybe all that talk about forcibly reforming them has them feeling a little insecure, so they are pulling in their horns for a while so as not to fuck up His High Mightyness' bid for a return to power.

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Don’t get your hopes up, all SCROTUS did was reject an emergency stay. They’ll get their chance to ratfuck this after it works its way through the lower courts

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Meanwhile, as I may have mentioned before, Ontario has ONE fossil fuel power plant. It's a natural-gas-fueled peaker plant, meaning it only starts up when the hydro and wind and solar and nuclear generators can't keep up. Which doesn't happen very often.

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The Sleazy SIx are just putting this off until they see how the election goes. If their worst nightmare comes to pass, and Kamala Harris becomes president, they know that she will be very motivated to change shit around with SCOTUS. In that case, we'll see a "kinder" court because they'll be afraid of what could happen.

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WHEN their worst nightmare comes to pass, not if.

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Sort of OT but this reminded me of Nixon creating the EPA, which in turn reminded me of something I only learned yesterday -- that Jimmy Carter established FEMA.

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I wonder if they have made a ruling as to whether to stay the execution of the man in Texas who is set to die at six this evening for the murder of his child, based on the junk science regarding shaken baby syndrome?

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"why the bylines hate Doktor Zoom so much"

C'mon substack, I know it's hard to fix if you can't reproduce the problem, but making Dok help you fix your shit? He should get paid.

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I think it's kind of funny that Roberts thinks the Court will have any relevance once the Republicans take over and will be able to do whatever they want.

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He doesn't care.

Roberts only answers to his master Leonard Leo and he doesn't give a fuck about anything else except pleasing his owner.

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Speaking of SCOTUS, how come no one is asking them whether attacking the enemies within is part of the President's duties? (another obviously rhetorical question).

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Yeah this is hinky as crap and smells like politics. The Republican Supreme Court will return to fucking the ability of the federal government to regulate their benefactors' wealth-generation processes forthwith.

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They hate it when everyone is watching. They will wait until the election is over and the post-election chaos is in full swing and THEN kill the EPA.

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"Biden’s EPA called the industry’s bluff: You’ve been saying carbon capture will take care of emissions, so that’s cool, get to it."

Love it.

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I love it. Next time King Donnie asks for a favor from a court, make it a condition that he be strapped into a chair in front of a screen where this spot is showed on an endless loop for 24 hours first. And if he has to use the toilet, make sure that there is a speaker in there up out of his reach, so at least he has to hear it.

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I'm thinking if someone decides to make any "Stainless Steel Rat" movies, Dave Bautista would make a great James Bolivar DiGriz.....

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"Paid for by guys who can still see their own dicks"

A new classic.

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THIS is the consummate adversarial knee to the nutz!

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