Of Course Samuel Alito Is Bragging About It

[geardaddy]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/samuel-alito-tells-some-jokes/

POLITICS
JULY 29, 2022
Of Course Samuel Alito Is Bragging About It
He’s always been an asshole. Cruel jokes about overturning Roe are the latest evidence.

High off the fumes of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the constitutional right to an abortion, a beaming Samuel Alito has emerged to try his hand at comedy. It did not go well. More critically, it further exposed an overtly political Supreme Court justice teeming with condescension for his critics.

“I had the honor this term of writing, I think, the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders—who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,” Alito said during a speech on religious freedom in Rome last week. The remarks, which emerged in video clips Thursday, prompted laughter from the crowd.

Alito went on to take specific aim at Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron for condemning the decision to overturn Roe. As for Boris Johnson, who had also criticized the Roe reversal as a “backward step,” Alito joked that the British prime minister has “paid the price,” alluding to Johnson’s recent resignation. He went on to sarcastically claim that of all the critics, it was Prince Harry who had “really wounded me.”

As astounding as it may be to watch a Supreme Court justice give such an overtly political speech, in many ways, this is perfectly fitting for Alito. As my colleague Stephanie Mencimer wrote after the Dobbs decision was handed down, Alito has long telegraphed a deep condescension for lesser morals.

This prick is thinks he's God's gift to the US. He's a complete asshole and misogynist prick.

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. He is such a little wierdo. nt

[geardaddy]

2. I wonder if he's on the spectrum.

He just seems so awkward.

[Demovictory9]

5. I recall reading that he lives in the house he grew up in..not sure if he ever left home

Exposure to women, poor and non whites may be limited

[geardaddy]

6. That seems to ring true.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

10. Might be thinking of someone else

He grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Virginia.

[Demovictory9]

23. I will look it up..thx

[unblock]

3. What would you expect from someone who believes in pregnancy slavery?

It's one thing to think abortion is immoral and therefore to decide you would never get one,

It's a whole nother thing entirely to think the government should use its awesome power to eminent domain someone else's internal organs to force unwilling pregnant women to carry to term, even if raped, even if underage, even if it might kill the woman.

He and all the pregnancy slavers have been on this evil mission for their whole careers or lives even. Of course they're going to gloat. It's what evil jerk do.

[geardaddy]

4. You hit the nail on the head. n/t

[calimary]

15. Oooooh, "pregnancy slavery"! OUTSTANDING one, unblock!!

That is a FANTASTIC meme!

Adding the negative/off-putting term “slavery” is a great idea! It connotes not having a choice in the matter.

[unblock]

20. it's not just a meme, it *is* a form of slavery

or at least involuntary servitude. even if the original roe v. wade decision hadn't been made based on privacy, they still could have found a right to abortion based on the 13th amendment. forcing a woman to bear a child she doesn't want to is enslaving her to in service of the fetus, or in service of the state's supposed interest in the fetus.

there is no other situation under law, outside of prison, where anyone can be compelled to service and there's literally no way out of it. a pregnant woman can't even pay someone else to take it over for them. whereas, any job, any responsibility, the 13th amendment gives me the right to quit.


moreover, much of america's anti-abortion movement has its roots in slavery, particularly the period in the first half of the 1800s. after they banned "importation" of slaves and before the 13th amendment. after that point, the only way to get more slaves was to "increase the domestic supply" (a phrase from that era that the right wing justices used in their decision) by forcing enslaved women to bear more children. if those women had abortions, they would be "destroying property of the slaveowner", hence abortion was deemed to be a grave offense. not because they cared about their *property*, not out of any genuine concern about anyone's life.

in this context, the "no exceptions even for rape" makes perfect sense, because that's exactly what slaveowners did sometimes to produce more slaves.

[calimary]

24. Very insightful. I think you ripped their disguise off, my friend.

Feels like it, anyway. It’s perfectly reasonable subliminal messaging. The unsuspecting internalize it without even thinking, and the over-arching feeling is of woman as less-than. Woman as property. Woman as something to be restricted and “managed” and CONTROLLED.

[OMGWTF]

18. DEAD people have more rights over their bodies than a living woman.

You have to give written consent before anyone can use your dead body parts.

[unblock]

21. yup. and i have the right to shoot anyone who i think might physically harm me.

if i reasonably think someone might cause me physical harm, i can defend myself.

if i reasonably think i'm in mortal danger, i can use lethal force.

in some states, i don't even have a duty to flee to safety, i can stand my ground and shoot to kill.


and of course i'm under no duty to try to determine their "intent". it doesn't matter if the other person is hypnotized or on drugs or temporarily insane or being coerced or was brainwashed. or maybe they're unaware that they're doing something that might be dangerous to me.

*their* innocence doesn't matter.

i still have the right to protect myself.


but a pregnant woman in certain states now would be committing a crime by protecting herself, even if her life is in danger.


oh and by the way, there's no such thing as a perfectly safe pregnancy. great medical care can certainly help, but there's always a risk in any pregnancy.

it is beyond ridiculous to require a woman to suffer for 40 weeks against her will, including risk of death, when i can shoot someone who sneezes while holding a snickers bar in the dark because "ah wuz skerred".

[Irish_Dem]

7. Another toxic narcissist.

[geardaddy]

8. Yes, this!

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. He's an incel? nt

[barbtries]

11. lesser morals

or lesser mortals?

i'll put my morals up against his any day the fascist misogynistic self appointed leader of the infallible patriarchy.


aargh

[Harker]

19. That looked like a misprint to me initially.

Then it occurred to me that he probably feels himself superior to everyone in all ways.

[OneBro]

12. "telegraphed a deep condescension for lesser morals."

What did Mencimer mean when writing that Alito "telegraphed a deep condescension for lesser morals?" What the hell are "lesser morals?" Alito is definitely not of high moral character no matter how highly he thinks of himself, but is Mencimer's phrase suggesting that choice/body autonomy connotes lower morals?

[Doremus]

16. I took it to mean that he thinks his morals are superior

"Lesser morals" = everybody who disagrees with him

[MurrayDelph]

22. I misread it

I thought it said he had a "deep condescension for lesser mortals"

[geardaddy]

29. That's what I thought

when I first read it.

[ShazzieB]

13. This bit jumped out at me.

That intellectual arrogance is coupled with a breathtaking lack of empathy that shines through his decisions, including Friday’s abortion opinion. His jurisprudence has exuded a hostility to women that is extreme even for many conservative judges. The justice famous for rolling his eyes at his female colleagues during oral arguments has been an ardent abortion foe since at least the early 1980s, when he argued cases before the Supreme Court while working for the Reagan Solicitor General’s office. He touted his experience fighting abortion rights in court in a 1985 letter expressing his interest in a political appointment at the Justice Department.

He's even worse than I thought. Not by much, because I knew he was horrible, but "rolling his eyes at his female colleagues during oral arguments"? Holy guacamole, what a sh!tweasel!

[geardaddy]

30. Yes, that totally stuck out for me too

I can just see his smug eyeroll at RBG, Kagan, or Sotomayor. What an utter creep!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. These assholes know that they are partisan assholes

These assholes used to worry about being called partisan assholes. Now these assholes have embraced their status as partisan assholes

[Pepsidog]

17. Remember him shaking his head at Obama during The State The Union speech over Citizen's United?

He is a pompous prick.

[UTUSN]

26. In addition to *saying*, "You LIE."

[inthewind21]

32. It wasn't

Alito who yelled "you lie" it was South Carolina R Rep Joe Wilson.

[UTUSN]

34. "Not true" - so we're both correct - google says he mouthed "not true"

So literally it was t'other ahole who said the L-word, but the meaning and aholery is the same, eh?

[Pepsidog]

33. Yes, you're correct he did say that.Hopefully they have gone too far and the Republicans will pay

at the voting box and the Dems have the fortitude to make the changes to rebalance the court. If Dems should win the mid-terms they should ask “What would Mitch do” and then do it. Pass such legislation that will bury the republicans forever.

[UTUSN]

25. K&R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. Mockalito is unfit for the bench, as are all of the Subversive 6 unfit.

[roamer65]

28. Hopefully he has a massive cerebral hemorrhage soon.

Id love to see President Biden get to fill his seat after his death of natural cause.

[ck4829]

31. Samuel Alito