Last summer, two years after an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs.
This time, it was the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.
Alito is telling us that he is a election denier, a Trumpanzee, and a Christian Fascist. He's further from being a non-partisan judger of facts and law than Clarence Thomas. He is signaling that for all to see. Is there any wonder that the level of public trust in the Supreme Court approaches that of time-share salesmen?
Meanwhile, a GOPer running for office, who has been lambasting government spending, has been suckling at the government teat for a very long time:
In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty.
But the lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have been possible without it.
Over the past decade, Robinson’s household has relied on income from Balanced Nutrition Inc., a nonprofit founded by his wife, Yolanda Hill, that administered a free lunch program for North Carolina children. The organization, funded entirely by taxpayers, has collected roughly $7 million in government funding since 2017, while paying out at least $830,000 in salaries to Hill, Robinson and other members of their family, tax filings and state documents show.
He's no different from Thomas: Benefiting from government programs and then seeking to pull up the drawbridge.
We have all of those voters who thought W would be good to have a beer with to thank for fucking Alito.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine