Our Fearless Leader has covered the Sam-The-Sham flag controversies quite well here at First Draft. Once again I find myself struck by Alito's supreme arrogance and his being miffed because people aren't respecting his authority.
You may remember that back when the Dobbs decision first leaked its (then still presumptive) author Samuel Alito had a temper tantrum because people were making fun of the ridiculous legal (and even as a non-attorney I use that word loosely) basis he provided:
"Someone also crosses an important line when they say that the court is acting in a way that is illegitimate. I don't think anybody in a position of authority should make that claim lightly," Alito said. "That's not just ordinary criticism. That's something very different."
It shouldn't be a surprise that after being challenged on his allegiance to the Constitution and the rule of law he is still angry on a personal level that people are still daring to challenge him.
In the years since the Dobbs decision came down, it's been clear that there is an organized GOP campaign to grind people down ahead of the November 2024 elections. We saw it at work in 2020, too, as the sheer awfulness of TFG's administration built up and weighed us down.
I was struck by the same things many of you were about Alito's response to the questioning around what the hell is actually going on at his houses, namely his open trolling of women by emphasizing how his wife had equal (property) rights with him, and thus he wasn't able to infringe upon her rights, while he feels comfortable trampling on all of ours.
It's insulting and blatant. It's also childish and embarrassing.
And all of it is bullshit. We all know this. Even the sob story about someone hurting his wife's feelings as the catalyst for the traitor flag's appearance has fallen apart. The letter and its lies are just another layer to buttress the misery the GOP wants us to feel about post-TFG life and to create an ersatz nostalgia for those Good Olde Bleach-Injecting Days.
But Alito is also just an old man yelling for us to get off his lawn. His beloved white world of privilege and deference and gleefully hurting vulnerable people is crumbling. He can see it. And yes, some things really suck right now. But we can fix them. We have no choice.
I can't argue with Kelly, so she can sing us out:
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