225 Comments

They define the bottom of a bottomless barrel.

Expand full comment

The plumage don't enter into it.

Expand full comment

I've never really even understood the phrase, even back in my RWNJ days. Would they prefer inactive judges?

Expand full comment

LARPing the Founders. My new favorite hobby!

Expand full comment

it's not supposed to make sense, just sound scary

Expand full comment

How about "equitable judges"?How about "fair and impartial judges"?That oughtta burn some right wing toast.

Expand full comment

Secret Squirrel libelz!

Expand full comment

Jesus loves the little children... as long as they know their place.

Expand full comment

2nd question: are you white AF?

Expand full comment

So basically throwing MT, ID, and AZ in usefully dilutes CA, WA, OR, amirite?

Expand full comment

Family Values, yo.

Expand full comment

It's racist turtles all the way down.

Expand full comment

Um... this is David Vitter's wife.

Expand full comment

As a moderate conservative, I have talked about this subject occasionally with friends, many of whom go further right than I do. It's my observation that it's gotten hard to think about segregation in any real context. The most visible aspects and effects of these policies, in schools and other public facilities, were in hindsight simply state-mandated waste. It would seem "obvious" that private businesses to left to their own devices would have quickly abandoned such practices simply as a matter of efficiency, and that it was therefore an unnecessary overreach to pass laws requiring desegregation. But this is all retrospective judgment by people who never had to live in a setting where such practices could seem acceptable.

Expand full comment

Hey, come to WV! No one here even pretends that bigotry - & not just against blacks; you have your gays, you have your white-ish people with foreign last names, check out mine! - is anything but bigotry. In WV, my (2nd! I have perspective!) adopted state, "mandated waste" is just about everyone. DON BLANKENSHIP is running for U.S. senator, & polling well! If you don't look at him & see dead people, then your theory of mandated waste means nothing.

Expand full comment