No one likes him

[mrbigstuff]

I bet this is the root of his dysfunctional ego

https://youtube.com/shorts/WXdLnsngq6U?s...wmbpqPpUZU

[$tevie]

I am not even sure that Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh are all that enamored of him at this point. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but they both seemed polite to a fault but after he passed their expressions look disapproving.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/joint-sessio...ss/5155822

[pdq]

$tevie wrote:
I am not even sure that Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh are all that enamored of him at this point. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but they both seemed polite to a fault but after he passed their expressions look disapproving.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/joint-sessio...ss/5155822

The leopards are coming for their faces now:

MAGA Rages at ‘DEI Pick’ Amy Coney Barrett for Defying Trump

… That decision caused a MAGA meltdown, with Coney Barrett taking the brunt of the ire. Right-wing influencer Paul A. Szypula labeled her “disgraceful” and added that she is “a bad SCOTUS nominee.”

“Looking that way,” conservative activist Charlie Kirk chimed in. In a similar tone, journalist Eric Daugherty called Barrett “a big problem.”

Hans Mahncke, a Substack personality with a Trumpian following, suggested that MAGA now has a “fight” on its hands.

:RollingEyesSmiley5:

[Acer]

My unsolicited analysis: The litmus test that the right has been using was abortion. That issue was the Right's Trojan horse to get the last conservative in place on the Court, by bringing religious white women voters on board with the party. It worked pretty well.

But the problem is that a genuine, rather than politically expedient concern for the unborn is founded on empathy. Starving kids in Africa to save a few bucks is counter to that empathy. It bit MAGA in the butt this one time. And maybe more, if the culture war continues on its non-empathic path.

But it only goes so far. If empathy is not directly involved, say when declaring the President sovereign over rather than an employee of the State, she can still be relied on to follow Alito's odors. Er, orders.

[Ombligo]

More than one justice has changed their expected views after being on the bench for a while. Perhaps the greatest example being Justice Harry Blackmun. Appointed by Nixon to be a conservative voice, Blackmun became one of the most liberal judges of the last fifty years.

Once a justice gets past their honeymoon, they realize they can vote their conscience and that can change some of them in ways unpredicted.

[PeterB]

ACB can always be replaced, if she doesn't fall in line with the Dumpster.

[GGD]

PeterB wrote:
ACB can always be replaced, if she doesn't fall in line with the Dumpster.

And the replacement is standing by.

[PeterB]

GGD wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
ACB can always be replaced, if she doesn't fall in line with the Dumpster.

And the replacement is standing by.


Yep, I thought about that too. Something untoward could "happen" to ACB, then he can replace her with whomever he wants.

[Lux Interior]

PeterB wrote:
Yep, I thought about that too. Something untoward could "happen" to ACB, then he can replace her with whomever he wants.

Nothing nefarious.

Her husband just has to tell her to resign.

As a Catholic, she must obey.

[PeterB]

Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
Yep, I thought about that too. Something untoward could "happen" to ACB, then he can replace her with whomever he wants.

Nothing nefarious.

Her husband just has to tell her to resign.

As a Catholic, she must obey.
Or she could just happen to fall out a window. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration ... after all, it's the Russian way!