• Thrashy@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I stopped to shiver at the thought of 9 Alitos on the bench, but then the thought occurred to me that the current makeup of the court’s conservative majority is a perfect mirror of the American right-wing coalition:

    • A chauvinistic sex-pest drunkard whose main guiding interest is keeping the party going for his rich frat brothers
    • A brainwashed cult acolyte
    • A corrupt government official on the take (who’s also a sex pest)
    • A faux-intellectual who only ever makes bad-faith arguments that support his existing prejudices
    • The picture you see in the encyclopedia next to the entry about MLK’s “white moderate” letter
    • A schemer who pretends to be right down the middle of the road but is moving levers behind the scenes to enable the machinations of the others