28 minutes ago, FrenchBug82 said:

Sorry but I dissent on this (see what I did there?).

Since when do Supreme Court Justices ever feel the need to respond to any news report at all? They don't do press conferences and don't interact with journalists.
They didn't need to fake a health care to avoid this. They can just do what they all have done... stay silent and wait until it fades away from the news cycle.
SCOTUS Justices do not ever have to answer to anything; hence the impunity with which Thomas behaves. Noone can force them to recuse etc and while they technically can be impeached, the nuclear reaction of Republicans would make this toxic but the most obvious clear-cut proven accusation (he raped a child or something)

I have no question this is a real health scare. The rest of my commentary on it will stay in my head out of human decency, even for someone who doesn't deserve it.

I'm not talking about press conferences. When RBG was hospitalized and was still working from her hospital bed (the first time, not when she was much sicker the second time), she frequently checked in, possibly in an effort to dissuade gossip.

In any case, they claim he's home now, so that's already more disclosure than previously offered.

Clarence had a history of not saying a word on the court and pretty much hiding behind Scalia so his personality type is that of one who lets others do the work for him. He's smart enough to have kept his hands clean and let his wife do all the dirty work because she is an activist (more like an operative) who is expected to be dirty.

2 hours ago, FrenchBug82 said:

In 2010, Ginni Thomas CALLED Anita Hill at home to demand she apologize and explain who put her up to "what she did".

She isn't slipping. She has already been at the very bottom of the sanity and decency pond for a long while.

This is very true and makes the current information that much scarier. What has this crazy heffa been doing all these years?

2 hours ago, Vee said:

I absolutely believe his health scare is real. I also know he would rather die than step down with a Democrat in office. He will never do so. So it's either death or we're stuck with him for now.

Yep. There's no benefit in pretending to be sick. The GQP responds best to open brazen defiance. They like their heroes to pretend to be dick-swinging heroes and macho men instead of what they really are: incels and bullies. If Thomas was in remotely decent shape we'd have gotten proof of life by now.

1 hour ago, marceline said:

This is very true and makes the current information that much scarier. What has this crazy heffa been doing all these years?

For one she ran a non-profit that backed the Tea Party and then shuttered once that movement became irrelevant. She has a history of utilizing dark money for activism and has been criticized before for being to active as the spouse of a court justice.

They're both scammers, imo. Neither have clean hands. Or clean hearts.

Remember when Clarence Thomas lied on his sister for Republican's approval, claiming she was a welfare queen when she had, in fact, worked to put him through school?https://t.co/lGUtRpkg8U

— Kaitlyn Greenidge (@surlybassey) March 25, 2022

Thomas and Virginia, that is.

With the racially charged, ugly campaign against Judge Jackson, and all the SCOTUS drama of late, it's been interesting timing to find some of these videos recently uploaded to Youtube.

 

MTG saying what her party feels with all its heart, and as always no one else in the party will say a word in rebuttal. At least she's honest, I guess. 

Republicans hate you and they hate me and they want us to die. It's just that simple. Brain dead hags like this circus freak are a gift because they make it clear and mean we have more time to try to find some way out, unlikely as that may be. 

I wonder how long it will be before she's a guest on Chapo Trap House or another socialist podcast. They love this [!@#$%^&*]. 

Edited March 26, 20223 yr by DRW50

A potentially hot take: Biden's "Putin can't remain in power" gaffe today will help him in polling, which remains predictably confused and muddled due to a public which is unclear of what our involvement in Ukraine can safely involve. That confusion has largely been because of a media still resentful of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal (and the public's lack of interest in their anger), and eager to score points against him and look non-liberal, by criticizing the Ukraine relief efforts and urging him to 'do more' while failing to acknowledge that that could lead to open war.

As Obama and Clinton knew and Trump manipulated as well, a lot of public sentiment is based on gut feeling vs. logic and facts about inflation or war or 'doing more'. What Biden said today 'feels' right even if it was, by the textbook, a potentially perilous messaging blunder.

20 minutes ago, Vee said:

A potentially hot take: Biden's "Putin can't remain in power" gaffe today will help him in polling, which remains predictably confused and muddled due to a public which is unclear of what our involvement in Ukraine can safely involve. That confusion has largely been because of a media still resentful of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal (and the public's lack of interest in their anger), and eager to score points against him and look non-liberal, by criticizing the Ukraine relief efforts and urging him to 'do more' while failing to acknowledge that that could lead to open war.

As Obama and Clinton knew and Trump manipulated as well, a lot of public sentiment is based on gut feeling vs. logic and facts about inflation or war or 'doing more'. What Biden said today 'feels' right even if it was, by the textbook, a potentially perilous messaging blunder.

I'll double down on this: I think it was Biden's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" moment.

51 minutes ago, Vee said:

A potentially hot take: Biden's "Putin can't remain in power" gaffe today will help him in polling, which remains predictably confused and muddled due to a public which is unclear of what our involvement in Ukraine can safely involve. That confusion has largely been because of a media still resentful of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal (and the public's lack of interest in their anger), and eager to score points against him and look non-liberal, by criticizing the Ukraine relief efforts and urging him to 'do more' while failing to acknowledge that that could lead to open war.

As Obama and Clinton knew and Trump manipulated as well, a lot of public sentiment is based on gut feeling vs. logic and facts about inflation or war or 'doing more'. What Biden said today 'feels' right even if it was, by the textbook, a potentially perilous messaging blunder.

Possibly. I found it incredibly annoying, but I still approve of Biden overall. There is really nothing that he is capable of doing to change that.  I think statements like the one he made today simply highlight the fact that our (western) hands are tied.  Same with his comment that chemical weapons are a red line. Really? We've heard that before and we all know how that ended.  The risk of engagement are far higher this time around.

Sadly, I expect Putin (not Russia) to come out ahead. Just like Kim Jong Un, I don't think he cares one bit how many Russians starve or how many he has to send to prison camps.

1 hour ago, Franko said:

I'll double down on this: I think it was Biden's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" moment.

The main difference is the media loved Reagan. They do not like Biden. They circled in on that, and the walkback, immediately. 

I hope Biden's polling will improve, but I'm not really sure that is possible in this country. 

I have learned over the past four (or so) years not to believe one damn thing the polls say.

5 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

The main difference is the media loved Reagan. They do not like Biden. 

Sad but true. I'll concede that my thoughts are naive, but I have to believe that there are (enough? a growing amount of?) people out there who don't buy the bull. Again, naive as hell, but it's what I've got. *makes rueful promise to draw up the map when I find this Xanadu*

1 hour ago, Khan said:

I have learned over the past four (or so) years not to believe one damn thing the polls say.

I'm with you. The nature of the economy worries me. The economy is doing well for the wealthy and upper middle class. People trying to buy their first house are struggling. Plus food, gas and rent are all up as we all know. It's not Biden's fault, but I fear Democrats are going to take the hit. 

We'd be in a better position if he could have gotten his economic plan through. Now he's announced a tax on billionaires, which I could not support more, but he doesn't have Manchin on board yet. I hate to see another failure, but we'll see.

Edited March 27, 20223 yr by Juliajms

17 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

I'm with you. The nature of the economy worries me. The economy is doing well for the wealthy and upper middle class. People trying to buy their first house are struggling. Plus food, gas and rent are all up as we all know. It's not Biden's fault, but I fear Democrats are going to take the hit. 

We'd be in a better position if he could have gotten his economic plan through. Now he's announced a tax on billionaires, which I could support more, but he doesn't have Manchin on board yet. I hate to see another failure, but we'll see.

The sad truth is even with a strong economy, the media would make sure Democrats lost. Only Republicans are allowed to have strong economies.