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Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social |
On further reflection, I guess there’s more than one way to look at the stories about Martha-Ann Alito.
One way is she’s the spouse of, and very possibly influential over, a Supreme Court justice, using their home to convey political messages, and that’s news. /1
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...
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Joe Aconite🎃📽️🎙️🐺
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Agreed. So the narrative will blame her for the flag(s) and somehow her husband was none the wiser. Right. Just how Thomas wife just really liked bus trips on January 6.
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Coriolus Nimrod
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On one hand, yes, she comes off as a relatively garden-variety neighborhood crank. On the other hand, Caesar's wife must be above reproach. You don't get to be the wacky local fascist when your spouse's job is Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Caren with a C
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They lied about the flag being a response to neighbors: it was raised upside a couple of weeks prior to the neighbor dust up. It's #1, not #2. Both Alitos know better than to give the APPEARANCE of bias.
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺
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Another way to look at it is that she shares his views.
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Joshua Sharp
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Yeah, but Uncle Wayne works at the pool supply store.
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Popehat
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/2 The other way is that she’s a banal neighborhood dingbat. Every neighborhood (and family) has one. Is it news when Uncle Wayne goes on a Thanksgiving rant? Is it news when Great Aunt Claudia yells at the neighbors for celebrating Lunar New Year?
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artisanrox
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I don't have a problem with high profile people using their house to convey political messages because it's naive and bonkers to think any public offical is pol-neutral. I have a problem flying a flag saying they want to kill us.
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Cristian Farias
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Ken, but what if leaking Dobbs was AN INTERNATIONAL SIGNAL OF DISTRESS. Keep your eye on the ball.
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Matthew
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The Alito house is flying the “appeal to heaven” flag today.
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Tim
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It looks a lot worse than just an angry Karen from my reading.
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KC Momkin
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I don't know that I believe the excuse or Alito's use of it. Pretending that this doesn't raise questions about a sitting Justice's professional duty to maintain fairness buys into a sense that Alito is entitled to be an activist Justice with no accompanying responsibilities to the public.
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@wichitawstraw.bsky.social
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I just think maybe we should expect more from people with life time appointments that are given to them so that their power isn't politicized, and if this was a one off maybe but it isn't even close to the first incident.
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somedonuts
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Imagine the shit they post on Next Door.
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NOLA Lady
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If my wife did something that could make my ability to work/keep a great job, I’d ask her to stop and hope she cared enough about me to listen.
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