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" So fucking cold hearted, jesus "

they’re some of the most selfish people on the fucking planet

dude is rolling his eyes at a 67 year old diabetic preferring to have her co-workers mask up to keep from catching a virus that is killing hundreds of thousands of people who are older with comorbidities

1/19/2022 12:46:14 AM

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" Should people with comorbidities just be reclusive hermits?"

Other than the loss of loved ones, wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of societies weak people?

Asking for a Nazi

1/19/2022 2:16:30 AM

I was thinking it would be nice to get rid of a sizable portion of the anti-vax thought process, but unfortunately the majority of deaths are old people. Not to say there aren't plenty of anti-vax oldsters.

1/19/2022 7:36:33 AM

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"Why in the fuck would you be referring to an endgame when omicron is still peaking??"

Because the lack of any cognizable endgame feeds into the COVIDiot narrative that this shit goes on forever. If ever there were an endgame scenario where you can show what life can be like when it's "normal" again, it's where every motherfucker in the room is vaccinated. Yet this person is clutching her pearls at the most tepid variant yet in what everyone should recognize is the one of lowest risk scenarios possible.
Omicron is peaking, but it's quite mild compared to what came before it. If deaths were happening at the same rate as last January, we'd be looking at 8-10k per day. We're not even at 2k. Which is still a lot, but it's 95% unvaccinated fools. Meaning, the actual death rate in a 100% vax scenario is <100/day. That's comparable with a "bad" flu season, which nobody seemed to freak out over.
So, yeah, Gorsuch could be a little bit more courteous, sure. But she needs to chill out. If you're *that* damn scared, stay the fuck home.

1/19/2022 11:14:28 AM

I mean, why wear a seatbelt and obey speed limits when your car has airbags?!

[Edited on January 19, 2022 at 11:48 AM. Reason : Also, you have osteogenesis imperfecta.]

1/19/2022 11:46:56 AM

Pretty nice non-sequitur. Unless you're suggesting that masks are going to normal for the rest of our lives.

1/19/2022 11:53:01 AM

It's a perfectly valid comparison.

No, not masks forever, but masks during peak transmission of a variant known to still be infectious to the fully vaccinated. You're being ridiculous. This would be both common courtesy to your fellow man as well as practical protection of personal health. The guy's being an asshole because he can. It's not a good commentary on the current state of SCOTUS and the historical expectations for collegial behavior.

1/19/2022 12:07:18 PM

Except that seatbelts should basically always be worn, while even you admit masks should eventually cut out. So, non-sequitur.

I don't disagree that he's being a douche. He is. But she is being ridiculous, too. Not sure what's so hard to understand about that

1/19/2022 12:12:28 PM

The comparison is about using an optional safety device during a time of high risk instead of relying on only one line of protection. If you insist on continuing the metaphor that was already obvious, the apt comparison to a future scenario when masks (seatbelts) are no longer needed is tooling around on the farm rather than driving the Interstate at highway speed. Both involve operating a vehicle, but only one scenario involves elevated risk of not using an optional safety device. Stop being dense.

1/19/2022 12:38:17 PM

Unless you know for sure that Omicron is just as mild in all patients with diabetes you can't make the statement that a person with diabetes shouldn't be more worried than the rest of us. What's your basis for that assumption exactly?

1/19/2022 1:23:08 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/supreme-court-trump-white-house-docs/index.html

Credibility +1

Hope there's something good in there.

1/19/2022 7:11:57 PM

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"If ever there were an endgame scenario where you can show what life can be like when it's "normal" again, it's where every motherfucker in the room is vaccinated."

I call bullshit on this, specifically. "Where every motherfucker in the room is vaccinated" is not a realistic endgame when a whole lot of motherfuckers outside the room are still not vaccinated, making a breakthrough case entering the room far from an impossibility.

1/19/2022 8:20:11 PM

@edsbs:

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"Love Supreme Court decisions because they’ll do one 8-1 with a title like “Humanity vs. Soul-Reaver, Harvester of Flesh” and it always ends with CLARENCE THOMAS DISSENTS"

1/20/2022 1:44:19 PM

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"The comparison is about using an optional safety device during a time of high risk instead of relying on only one line of protection. If you insist on continuing the metaphor that was already obvious, the apt comparison to a future scenario when masks (seatbelts) are no longer needed is tooling around on the farm rather than driving the Interstate at highway speed. Both involve operating a vehicle, but only one scenario involves elevated risk of not using an optional safety device. Stop being dense."

Except tooling around on the farm by yourself is not the normal operation of a vehicle for most people, while walking around in public or going to work is. That's about as polar opposite a comparison as you could come up with.

^^ The issue is with who is transmitting to whom. It's not some theoretical sick person somewhere in the world. Its vax-to-vax transfer, which all existing studies show is the lowest risk form of transmission. And it's absolutely the endgame, where people have some form of immunity and we reach the endemic stage. If Sonia can't handle endemic, then she needs to GTFO

1/21/2022 7:52:40 PM

You are incorrect.

1/21/2022 8:21:31 PM

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"It's not some theoretical sick person somewhere in the world."

I agree, there are currently thousands of people in the US sick with COVID right now; it's not theoretical at all, it's quite real.

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"And it's absolutely the endgame, where people have some form of immunity and we reach the endemic stage."

No, it's not. The endgame needs at least two criteria: 1) Lots of people (hopefully most) have some form of immunity, and 2) Cases are actually winding down.

With omicron continuing to peak, we certainly don't have 2) (without even addressing whether or not we currently have 1)).

1/21/2022 8:33:40 PM

How is "every motherfucker in the room is vaccinated" demonstrably different from "lots of people are immune?" From my statement, it's clear I'm talking about that room, not the whole country. If you're reading that as saying the whole country I'd in endgame, then hand your Degree back, cause you failed ENG101

[Edited on January 21, 2022 at 10:22 PM. Reason : ]

1/21/2022 10:21:54 PM

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"How is "every motherfucker in the room is vaccinated" demonstrably different from "lots of people are immune?""

Simple: It's the difference between "the room" and "the entire fucking world".

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"From my statement, it's clear I'm talking about that room, not the whole country."

...and that's a big part of why you're wrong. What goes in on the whole country/world is relevant to what's going on in the room.

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"If you're reading that as saying the whole country I'd in endgame, then hand your Degree back, cause you failed ENG101"

I'm saying that "What goes in on the whole country/world is relevant to what's going on in the room", which means that the endgame can't possibly be based on the demographics of a room with nine people in it. The criteria for "The endgame" are necessarily much broader than that.

Dumbass

1/21/2022 10:48:32 PM

And I'm saying that's absurd. At that very moment, Sonia ain't gonna get the rona from some kid in fucking Georgia. She's going to get it from someone in that room. Maybe that asshole got it from someone who got it from someone who got it from some kid in Georgia, but that has jack shit to do with the transmission mechanics at that time in that room. Literally the only people who matter in that room... are in that fucking room. This isn't rocket science.

1/22/2022 12:46:31 AM

LOL.....For those of you still having trouble with the logic:

The fact that COVID is still widespread in the world makes it more likely that someone in that room has caught COVID and may transmit it to someone in that fucking room.

Dumbass



[Edited on January 22, 2022 at 12:52 AM. Reason : ]

1/22/2022 12:51:01 AM

And yet, it still has nothing to do with the likelihood of vax-to-vax transfer. Which is the core point here. That the risk of transmission should someone have COVID are at the endgame state. I'm already starting at a scenario where someone in the room has it. That the current situation makes it more likely that someone in the room might have it is nonsensical in that respect, because I'm starting at 100% probability.

Put more like your insulting ways: transmission requires someone to already have it. Otherwise, there's no one to fucking transmit it. Dumbass

[Edited on January 22, 2022 at 9:05 PM. Reason : ]

1/22/2022 8:56:37 PM

If there's a greater chance that someone in the room has COVID, more preventive measures (such as masks) are required.

If it's 100% that someone in the room has COVID, then they shouldn't even be meeting in that room to begin with.

And I didn't start the insults....you did.

I'd be happy to discuss this without insulting each other, but that requires you to refrain from insulting me....Dumbass

1/22/2022 9:24:31 PM

Breyer chooses not to be RBG.

Time to enjoy that sweet, sweet ice cream fortune.

1/26/2022 12:19:10 PM

I wonder who the new Manchin/Sinema-approved justice will be.

1/26/2022 12:30:00 PM

Finally. Let's hope manchin and Sinema don't act like shit

1/26/2022 12:30:02 PM

Still can't believe Trump got 3. What a mother fucker.

1/26/2022 12:51:40 PM

I'd nominate Judge Judy, no cap

1/26/2022 2:26:00 PM

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"From our archives: a look at the career of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is considered a favorite to potentially replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. https://t.co/peV3PRomJF"

1/26/2022 8:27:13 PM

They should ask her to demonstrate how much she likes beer during confirmation

1/27/2022 12:23:33 AM

I'm excited for the potential mocking of and mispronunciation of ethnic names.

1/27/2022 7:00:12 AM

I'm excited to see how much Dem's botch this and don't get it through. Probably conservative media referencing how Biden said he wanted to govern together, yet is appointing to the highest court in the land without bipartisan support.

1/27/2022 10:17:37 AM

I'm excited to see which Dem Senator dies and has a replacement appointed by a Republican governor.

1/27/2022 2:31:41 PM

You never know, two Republican senators could die and be replaced by Democratic governor appointments.

They gotta guard us too, pal!

1/27/2022 4:47:16 PM

The universe is never that kind. Sinema is going to resign in a pique of quirkiness.

1/27/2022 7:11:35 PM

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/01/democratic-senate-reels-after-lujan-stroke-00004432

2/2/2022 6:13:54 PM

^

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vpey/gop-senator-thinks-bidens-scotus-nominee-wont-know-a-law-book-from-a-j-crew-catalog

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"President Joe Biden hasn’t announced his nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, but this week Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana suggested that whichever Black woman Biden chooses won’t “know a law book from a J. Crew catalog.” ... “No. 1, I want a nominee who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog,” Kennedy told Politico. “No. 2, I want a nominee who’s not going to try to rewrite the Constitution every other Thursday to try to advance a ‘woke agenda.’”"

2/3/2022 12:42:36 PM

THAT'S QUITE A NEW COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING APPROACH THEY'RE TAKING

2/3/2022 1:36:16 PM

John Kennedy is such a goofball. Vote for Dope Smoker!

2/3/2022 6:50:07 PM

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/clarence-thomas-ron-desantis-communication-new-emails-1295354/

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" New Emails Suggest Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Was Communicating With Ron DeSantis — For Some Strange Reason ……. Friday’s report is sure to raise questions about whether DeSantis communicated with Clarence Thomas about, say, vaccine mandate cases that came before the court last month. The Biden administration’s mandate for health care workers was upheld in a 5-4 ruling, with Thomas dissenting, while the mandate for large businesses was overturned 6-3, with Thomas in the majority. DeSantis opposed both mandates. "

What a pathetic joke. Not only is Ginni Thomas running around soliciting money from organizations with interests in Supreme Court cases, but Clarence is shooting the shit with potential litigants. The fact that the other right-wing extremists on the court are willing to look the other way and keep trying to sell us the court is still “nonpartisan” tells you everything you need to know about their integrity and temperament.

2/5/2022 8:00:04 AM

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" The fact that the other right-wing extremists on the court"

This is where you lose many people. It is a hyperbole dog whistle

2/6/2022 1:50:36 AM

I’m losing “many” people? I doubt it.

If you can’t see how the court majority are off-the-deep end rabid ideologues, then give yourself the next two SCOTUS terms and it should be laid pretty bare. I refuse to continue suspending my disbelief.



If I’m Biden or a Senator questioning a potential SCOTUS candidate, I think my top question would be “are you willing to suspend the decorum rules of the court to call out blatant corruption of your fellow judges?” I think that’s the way out of this right wing SCOTUS nightmare, more so than packing the court or other strategies I’ve heard floated. Get someone on the court that is willing to call out their colleagues conflicts of interest and who will wonder aloud about federalist society planning sessions, massive credit card debts being erased, and judges communicating with potential litigants, etc (it’s a long list). Essentially have someone delegitimize the court from the inside until public opinion for packing the court or enforcing term limits is huge, then come up with reforms.

2/6/2022 9:30:07 AM

Two of the republican nominees should have never even made it bc of serious sexual misconduct allegations (and one the nominating presidents, of course)

2/6/2022 12:35:26 PM

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" Essentially have someone delegitimize the court from the inside until public opinion for packing the court is huge, then come up with reforms."

I mean wtf dude

[Edited on February 7, 2022 at 1:38 AM. Reason : -]

2/7/2022 1:34:38 AM

Any criticism from outside the court is waved away as partisan attacks on a non-partisan entity. It’s an easy victimhood narrative to sell to the low-information masses. The justices then hide behind the decorum rules of the court which allow the individual judges to determine for themselves what is a conflict of interest and don’t allow for personal criticisms between judges.

We need someone on the court to start lobbing corruption and partisanship allegations because otherwise the justices just skate away with a “how dare you question my sage nonpartisan wisdom.”

2/7/2022 6:33:20 AM

Wtf dude why suggest something crazy?? Next thing you'll suggest refusing to consider a nominee from a president 9 months before an election, then ram through a nominee 2 weeks before an election. Or suggest accepting a nominee with credible sexual assault allegations and serious corruption worries. Wtf dude.

2/7/2022 7:34:08 AM

base on StTexan's last two comments, he hasn't been paying attention

2/7/2022 2:59:01 PM

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnydw/supreme-court-justices-arent-even-pretending-anymore

2/7/2022 5:21:10 PM

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/07/1078292766/supreme-court-lets-alabama-use-gop-backed-map-of-the-states-congressional-distri

2/7/2022 5:53:57 PM

Clarence Thomas in the hospital, thoughts and prayers

3/21/2022 7:39:29 AM

Ah, but what outcome are you praying for?

3/21/2022 9:31:37 AM