So if NY or VA chose to just gerrymander to DEM, would the Supreme's change their mind about TX? Because bot allowing other states to do the opposite would, I think, nullify the TX case.
So now that they can accept gifts without even a vague concern, a SC seat must be pretty lucrative. I wonder what the going rate for a decision is these days. Do they have a gift register like folk having a baby or getting married? It'd sure make it easier on the givers. Thomas would be easy to buy for, it's all cigars, whiskey, and travel. Kavanaugh just wants beer, so he's even easier. Buy him a brew-pub and he'll be your friend for life. Alito, though, he'd be a difficult one. How do you buy a reinstatement of the Spanish Inquisition?
frankly I don't think the likes of me and you and the rest of us Wonketteers (with the possibly exception of Fukui) could even afford to *see* the SCOTUS gift registry.
What we need, is impeach the 6 RW asshole justices as soon as Dems have the power (and if they protest, who gives a fuck), annul all their decisions retroactively, including presideantial immunity, replace them with 6 normal judges and then arrest Trump, his acolytes and all those criminals who got pardons and fueled this nonsense with dark money.
We need a new NEW DEAL, and no more billionaires. Period. Otherwise, they will never stop compromising democracy to serve their own interests.
If these people are not punished next time there is a chance to do so, they will return and finish us all. In fact, maybe it is already too late, but we shall see.
They can be impeached because they lied through their teeth during confirmation hearings. But I don't think Democrats have the stomach for impeaching 6 justices and booting them out unceremoniously. Unfortunately.
As said literally both last night and they day before - it's really feeling like Groundhog Day with this conversation -- same thing over and over and over again
Problem -- as it always is -- was and remains that White Democrats didn't want to do anything (with the power they did in fact have to implement it) other than read it
It's so nice out here in the Left Coast! So warm I can go outside in a T-shirt! Here's everything you poor shivering souls east of the Rockies need to know about polar vortexes.
Yeah, it's a goddamn mess and it won't get any better, at least in my lifetime. For better or worse, there's nothing at all unlawful about political gerrymandering. However, per all that "one person, one vote" case law, it is unlawful to gerrymander in a way that purposely dilutes the voting strength of racial groups. Thus, you get total horseshit like we're seeing in Texas, where the goddamn Justice Department insists that TX MUST redistrict because the state legislature - owned lock, stock, and barrel by the GOP - purposely discriminated against white folk in drawing the prior districts. Christ.
And you get SCOTUS shadow docket bullshit that effectively decides a case on the merits by going behind the fact-finding of a three-judge trial court after a three-month trial. I've been a SCOTUS dork my entire adult life. It's tough to describe how sickening the current state of the institution is.
Netflix bid considerably more than Warner Bros. is worth. Paramount's bid is even worse. I kind of hope that Paramount wins it, and then goes belly-up due to all the debt they are taking on.
The hardest thing - even compared to packing the Court with liberals - is going to be overturning all these garbage decisions. We'll have to come up with some legal justification *and process* for doing so. I note that it took amendments to the Constitution to get rid of the Dred Scott decision, and decades before Plessy vs Ferguson was overruled. And neither of them went away easily,
It’s almost touching watching the Supreme Court try to cosplay impartiality while showing up in full partisan clown paint. Alito reading a 160-page factual record over a holiday weekend is about as believable as Tom Cotton understanding maritime law.
Texas admitted it was racial gerrymandering. The district court proved it. SCOTUS shrugged and said “partisan, therefore legal.” That isn’t jurisprudence. It’s fan fiction for authoritarians.
Blessings on the ones still naming the corruption out loud. Someone has to keep the receipts while the Court builds sandcastles out of civil rights.
So if NY or VA chose to just gerrymander to DEM, would the Supreme's change their mind about TX? Because bot allowing other states to do the opposite would, I think, nullify the TX case.
So now that they can accept gifts without even a vague concern, a SC seat must be pretty lucrative. I wonder what the going rate for a decision is these days. Do they have a gift register like folk having a baby or getting married? It'd sure make it easier on the givers. Thomas would be easy to buy for, it's all cigars, whiskey, and travel. Kavanaugh just wants beer, so he's even easier. Buy him a brew-pub and he'll be your friend for life. Alito, though, he'd be a difficult one. How do you buy a reinstatement of the Spanish Inquisition?
Ask former Justice Anthony Kennedy.
frankly I don't think the likes of me and you and the rest of us Wonketteers (with the possibly exception of Fukui) could even afford to *see* the SCOTUS gift registry.
Just look at all the loot and prizes Slappy T gets. It's on the order of winning a Price Is Right's Showcase every week!
With tea, biscuits, and a comfy chair?
Don't forget Recreational Vehicles!
Oh please, not the Comfy Chair!!
A fanatical devotion to relaxation.
...and/or proletarian taxation.
Soft cushions libelz
We don't need to pack the SC.
What we need, is impeach the 6 RW asshole justices as soon as Dems have the power (and if they protest, who gives a fuck), annul all their decisions retroactively, including presideantial immunity, replace them with 6 normal judges and then arrest Trump, his acolytes and all those criminals who got pardons and fueled this nonsense with dark money.
We need a new NEW DEAL, and no more billionaires. Period. Otherwise, they will never stop compromising democracy to serve their own interests.
If these people are not punished next time there is a chance to do so, they will return and finish us all. In fact, maybe it is already too late, but we shall see.
Sorry but it takes 2/3 of the House and the Senate to remove a SC justice.
That why they're so brazen.
They can be impeached because they lied through their teeth during confirmation hearings. But I don't think Democrats have the stomach for impeaching 6 justices and booting them out unceremoniously. Unfortunately.
As said literally both last night and they day before - it's really feeling like Groundhog Day with this conversation -- same thing over and over and over again
https://www.wonkette.com/p/those-cakes-we-like-are-ready-to/comment/185305891
We've had a full court expansion plan since 2020
Problem -- as it always is -- was and remains that White Democrats didn't want to do anything (with the power they did in fact have to implement it) other than read it
https://www.wonkette.com/p/those-cakes-we-like-are-ready-to/comment/185305891
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👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
OT: Just a reminder -
https://bsky.app/profile/debbie156.bsky.social/post/3m7gls227n22l
I'm still holding out for the Russian Pee prostitutes tape.
ROLL THE TAPE!!
NOW.
😳
Victims ... plural. This is a part of what Epstein provided to Vlad to own Donnie Dipshit. It's all connected.
"sold to Vlad"
Makes sense.😳 No wonder Epstein was murdered.
It's so nice out here in the Left Coast! So warm I can go outside in a T-shirt! Here's everything you poor shivering souls east of the Rockies need to know about polar vortexes.
https://balancedweather.substack.com/p/a-short-primer-on-the-polar-vortex?triedRedirect=true
I think I'll go out and buy some suntan oil!
You must be down south because it's 47 here in the bay area.
LOL, when it hits 32 here next spring, all the VTers will be out in shorts and snow boots. We're odd, but we're practical.
Got to break out the shorts...Los Angeles heading for 80 degrees today thru Wednesday!
More on the US trying to infiltrate and dictate EU policy: 𝗙𝗧: 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 “𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺”
Ford CEO Jim Farley believes that Europe will condemn itself to industry irrelevance if it does not revise decarbonisation legislation.
https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/ft-ford-ceo-warns-of-europe-becoming-manufacturing-museum/
All of our formerly close allies are moving on without the good ol' USA. But US oligarchs say its really the EU that's getting left behind.
Sure, Jan.
Jim can bite me.
Pffffffft. Norway just hit 90% electric vehicle sales this year, and they're not going back.
The one bug is that Tesla is annoyingly popular there.
Cars? 19th century invention. They are only holding us back now.
Someone’s scared. 🤔
Yo Jim, America Viche is all-in pro carbon, so why you giving Europe good advice ?
A wee cheese eating surrender monkey envy perhaps ? . . .
Tell it to Norway and their almost 100% EV sales rate for this year.
Steam cars! They're the future!
Clean, clean coal cars!!
You laugh but a Coalsmobile was a real thing 40 or so years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CAN5nO1ag0
Mr. Edsel says...WHAT??????
Go suck a tailpipe, Guy.
Yeah, it's a goddamn mess and it won't get any better, at least in my lifetime. For better or worse, there's nothing at all unlawful about political gerrymandering. However, per all that "one person, one vote" case law, it is unlawful to gerrymander in a way that purposely dilutes the voting strength of racial groups. Thus, you get total horseshit like we're seeing in Texas, where the goddamn Justice Department insists that TX MUST redistrict because the state legislature - owned lock, stock, and barrel by the GOP - purposely discriminated against white folk in drawing the prior districts. Christ.
And you get SCOTUS shadow docket bullshit that effectively decides a case on the merits by going behind the fact-finding of a three-judge trial court after a three-month trial. I've been a SCOTUS dork my entire adult life. It's tough to describe how sickening the current state of the institution is.
Times like this when I really miss my buddy Bartcop who pulled no punches with the contempt he held what he called The Whore Court...
I remember Bartcop! One of my favorites...he knew Chuck Schumer was worthless long before it became fashionable!
The Scurvy Six have less than a year to seal minority rule in the US. Tempus fugit!
OT:
𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦’𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘭. 𝘉𝘰𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘰.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-180827356
You said it, they stink on ice!
I'll say. Margie, Boebert, Virginia Foxx, Joni Ernst...I could go on but they are all off-putting.
What? Oh. Not that kind of revolting.
My fear is if Speaker Jesusbot gets the boot what Nazi will replace him?
Jeffries may if there are more resignations...
I imagine they always have been.
"𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘨𝘺𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴.
𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮, 𝙈𝙞𝙠𝙚. 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 — 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 — 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙪𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙩."
OT: https://bsky.app/profile/karaswisher.bsky.social/post/3m7ifftve7k2t
Nepo Mogul brings in Saudis, Jared Kushner and his ultra rich daddy who is pals with Trump to prove how “unfair” Netflix is. Hollywood could not write this nonsense: Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/business/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-netflix.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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snert ... nepo-mogul!
Netflix is unfair, but having only Skydance and Disney owning virtually all media wouldn't be. OK, then.
Netflix bid considerably more than Warner Bros. is worth. Paramount's bid is even worse. I kind of hope that Paramount wins it, and then goes belly-up due to all the debt they are taking on.
Snowflakes are falling...
Fuck Paramount. I only still have them b/c I want to finish watching The Good Wife and when that's done, I'm canceling them.
The hardest thing - even compared to packing the Court with liberals - is going to be overturning all these garbage decisions. We'll have to come up with some legal justification *and process* for doing so. I note that it took amendments to the Constitution to get rid of the Dred Scott decision, and decades before Plessy vs Ferguson was overruled. And neither of them went away easily,
We can use The Shadow Docket too...
Didn't have to be like this
https://www.wonkette.com/p/supreme-court-not-even-trying-anymore/comment/185583892
We force it on them during the Truth and Consequences process on the back end of this.
Shame that's what it's likely to take
https://www.wonkette.com/p/supreme-court-not-even-trying-anymore/comment/185583892
They may not be done with throwing the Constitution in the wood chipper yet:
https://theconversation.com/supreme-courts-decision-on-birthright-citizenship-will-depend-on-its-interpretation-of-one-key-phrase-271064
Yeah
https://www.wonkette.com/p/supreme-court-not-even-trying-anymore/comment/185583892
"long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship" Oh, just bullshit. The KKK wanted this ... no one else cared.
^^^
It’s almost touching watching the Supreme Court try to cosplay impartiality while showing up in full partisan clown paint. Alito reading a 160-page factual record over a holiday weekend is about as believable as Tom Cotton understanding maritime law.
Texas admitted it was racial gerrymandering. The district court proved it. SCOTUS shrugged and said “partisan, therefore legal.” That isn’t jurisprudence. It’s fan fiction for authoritarians.
Blessings on the ones still naming the corruption out loud. Someone has to keep the receipts while the Court builds sandcastles out of civil rights.
It's not "touching"
And Alito shouldn't be allowed to read anything
https://www.wonkette.com/p/supreme-court-not-even-trying-anymore/comment/185583892
Can we appeal this to the Extreme Court?
I'm not liking this season of 'What We Do In The Shadow Docket'
Oooh, someone needs to take that picture of the Supremes and photoshop some faces for a meme.