Capture the Flag
The Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, inverted flags & neighborhood brawls.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, the Supreme Court has finally run its course. (Incidentally I begin most of my sentences like this. I truly enjoy speaking for everyone.) And those OUTFITS. Hey judges, 1912 called and they want their dickeys back.
I pride myself on knowing all the justices sitting on the Supreme Court. It’s a fun party game unless you can’t name them and then I’m all, how can you forget Elena Kagan, you complete moron! I’m usually not invited back but the smug is worth it.
So let’s rank the conservative wing, from “awful” to “not quite as awful.”
Clarence Thomas/Neil Gorsuch/Samuel Alito: We have a 3-way tie! They’re all equally awful!
Tom Kavanaugh: Awful.
Amy Coney Barrett: Still awful but not quite as awful.
John Roberts: In comparison, not all that awful.
To put it in perspective, even Scalia had some redeeming qualities. Like he sometimes went to the opera.
There seem to be fresh reminders every day of this kangaroo court. (Not so much with Gorsuch given that he’s a cyborg who cannot approximate human behavior.)
This week’s special guest is Justice Alito and his two flags. The first incident involved an inverted flag at his home. The second incident involved a Christian right flag flying at his beach house. Let’s begin with the first blatantly partisan statement.
Oops! Looks like someone missed Boy Scouts that day! It’s upside down! It reminds me of when I was praying the rosary backward (turns out the Our Father comes first) and Sister Mary von Trapp told me I was going to purgatory for 5,000 years. I was 6.
Of course, the rosary debacle was an honest mistake made by an innocent child in the confines of Catholic school and daily confessions. Alito’s upside-down flag, on the other hand, was intentional.
The inverted flag became a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” campaign, which would be fine if he wasn’t serving on the highest court of the land. Are you kidding me? They’re really allowed to do this? Like, well, I’m off the clock! I guess I’ll wind down with a glass of cabernet and 2CELLOS or go storm the Capitol.
“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Justice Alito told the Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
Sure, blame the wife or, as he calls her, “Mrs. Alito.” (Obviously a pet name.) Blame the neighbors. Blame the person who photographed the flag and gave it to the NYT. Throw in Hunter Biden and George Soros and case dismissed.
In January 2021, directly following the January 6 entirely peaceful protest, Martha-Ann Alito was apparently so angry at a fellow neighbor for their anti-Trump yard sign, which contained an unnamed expletive, that she expressed her displeasure with an inverted flag and a garden gnome.
Are we really supposed to believe that Alito didn’t notice the flag that he walked past every day brandishing his “Let’s go, Brandon” travel mug? Does he really think we’re that stupid? Clearly he does because he brazenly did it again.
As recently as last year, Mr. and Mrs. Alito hung a Christian “An Appeal to Heaven” flag, also a January 6 favorite, outside their summer vacation home in Long Island. What’s next? A confederate flag tattoo on his ankle?
Basically the Appeal to Heaven flag endorses a Christianity-based government and the belief that God is the ultimate authority. Which begs the question, what exactly is the Supreme Court for? Why should we listen to them when we only answer to God?
Surrender Alito. And take your expletive flags with you.
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