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We’ve covered this before, but Clarence Thomas is corrupt. He’s also inconsistent.

He says it’s OK if a billionaire pays for his vacations and lavishes him with gifts as long as that billionaire doesn’t have cases before the court. But his wife is involved with cases that came before the court yet Clarence didn’t recuse himself from those.

Now, we find out that Harlan Crow, the Nazi-memorabilia-collecting billionaire that’s taken Clarence and Ginni on exotic yachty vacays paid for his nephew’s private school tuition which cost $6,000 a month.

Harlan’s paid spokesgoons issued a statement explaining, “Harlan Crow has long been passionate about the importance of quality education and giving back to those less fortunate, especially at-risk youth. It’s disappointing that those with partisan political interests would try to turn helping at-risk youth with tuition assistance into something nefarious or political.”

“At-risk youth,” eh? Funny. Clarence Thomas claims he raised his nephew as his son, yet the son of a Supreme Court justice is “at-risk?” At risk of what? Being bribed? Move along as there’s nothing nefarious to gawk at here, folks. Move along.

Crow paid for Clarence’s nephew’s education at two different schools. If he paid for all four years of private education for the nephew, it could total over $200,000. Funny thing though, someone else also contributed to the nephew’s education, which Clarence reported. Another funny thing, Clarence never reported Crow’s payments for the education.

You might think that Clarence didn’t have to report the gift since it’s his nephew. If someone pays for my nephew’s education, I wouldn’t have to report it. Of course, I haven’t adopted any nephews. Clarence adopted his nephew when the kid was 6 years old. Clarence may be in more trouble than for just not reporting gifts. He may be in trouble for tax evasion.

We also learned that Clarence’s wife, Ginni, was paid tens of thousands of dollars by the far-right Judicial Education Project for polling, and the firm worked to hide the payments. That’s weird. It seems to me that if everything is on the up and up, then you wouldn’t have to hide the payments…right? Guess who worked for Judicial Education Project when this was going on? Ms. Alternative Facts herself, Kellyanne Conway. And it appears $25,000 that was given to Ginni is mysterious, as in why? It was “another” payment on top of what was due. Maybe it was a gift.

And then, we found out that Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, made over $10 million recruiting lawyers for law firms. And at least one of those had a case before the Supreme Court.

Of course, Republicans say that calling for ethics reform in the Supreme Court is an attempt to destroy the court. Maybe ethics would destroy the Republican Party because if Republicans had ethics, then they wouldn’t be Republicans.

Creative note: I’m in Washington, D.C. and I drew this at my usual spot to draw cartoons when in town, Soho Coffee on the corner of P and 22nd. Check it out. Now that I’ve finished the blog, I’m gonna get a sandwich.

Music note: I listened to I listened to whatever the coffee shop was playing which was a lot of autotune stuff and I think I heard some K-pop, though I don’t know what that sounds like.

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Alito’s Leaker

Before the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a leak of the majority opinion, written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito, was published by Politico. This leak greatly upset the court, especially the conservatives.

The case was over the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks. Instead of ruling about the constitutionality of a state banning abortions after 15 weeks, the court took the opportunity to use its brand new shiny 6-3 fucknut majority to overturn not just one previous Supreme Court ruling, but two…and ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion.

The irony in this is that the Supreme Court was upset over their privacy being violated while they were stripping away all women’s rights to privacy.

After investigating the leak for months, Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley said the court could not determine with certainty “the identity of any individual who may have disclosed the document or how the draft opinion ended up with Politico.” Boo-hoo. But Alito thinks he knows who leaked it.

In an interview with a conservative editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal (aren’t they all conservative?), Alito said, “I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible.” Fortunately, he acknowledged that a “pretty good idea” is “different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody.”

I respect that and it’s why I haven’t outed the “anonymous cartoonist.” Yeah, I know who he is but since there’s no official proof, I feel it’d be unethical to out him without it. I need to be as ethical and certain as possible to out someone for being unethical. There’s at least a one percent chance that there’s another cowardly spineless cartoonist out there who stole Jeff MacNelly’s style, is a lying gaslighting conspiratorial idiot, and can’t comprehend the issues he’s talking about.

But Alito really wants to leak the leaker and says the leak “was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft … from becoming the decision of the court. And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.” Once again, conservatives portray themselves as the victims while victimizing people.

But one could argue the leak was done to allow yee-haw states time to prepare to ban abortion as soon as the ruling was issued. Many states had so-called trigger laws, which meant abortion would be banned immediately when a SCOTUS ruling was issued that overturned Roe.

Alito said the theory that the draft was leaked by someone on the right to lock in the five votes necessary to overturn Roe “is infuriating to me.”

He said, “Look, this made us targets of assassination. Would I do that to myself? Would the five of us have done that to ourselves? It’s quite implausible.” He also said, “It was rational for people to believe that they might be able to stop the decision in Dobbs by killing one of us.” With that statement, Alito isn’t accusing a clerk, janitor, security guard, or other support staff to the court. He’s implying one of the three liberals on the bench is responsible for the leak.

And then, Alito whined about the court being criticized for its lack of ethics. Without mentioning Clarence Thomas, or the gifts lavished on him by his billionaire buddy, Alito said he believes reports about ethical violations by justices are attempts to damage the court’s credibility now that conservatives are firmly in control. He said, “We are being hammered daily, and I think quite unfairly in a lot of instances. And nobody, practically nobody, is defending us.” Again, boo-hoo. The court’s credibility hasn’t been damaged by its critics but by its conservative justices, the Republican senators who stole seats from Presidents Obama and Biden, and the Russian puppet president (sic) who nominated three of the justices.

Alito defended overturning legal precedent with Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, and said those SCOTUS rulings “are so egregiously wrong, so clearly wrong, that that’s a very strong factor in support of overruling them.” But during his confirmation hearing nearly 30 years ago, he said didn’t use the phrase “egregiously wrong” and instead, said, “Roe v. Wade is an important precedent of the Supreme Court. It was decided in 1973, so it has been on the books for a long time. “It is a precedent that has now been on the books for several decades. It has been challenged. It has been reaffirmed.”

What’s been reaffirmed is that Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is a lying whiny crybaby. He’s whining that people don’t like him for restricting women’s rights.

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Unethical Puppets

President Barack Obama was wrong about one thing. Shortly after Trump won the Electoral College (sic) with the help of Russian meddling, Obama said we shouldn’t have to worry that much because there were checks and balances in place. First off, he was wrong because those checks and balances didn’t stop an orange racist puppet of Vladimir Putin from occupying the Oval Office for four years. But all the other checks and balances never did anything about Donald Trump’s grifting from the White House (sic).

There is a law that is supposed to prevent the president from making money off the presidency. It’s the Emoluments Clause and despite the fact it’s in the United States Constitution, nobody used it to stop the orange grifter from grifting while he was president (sic). Donald Trump didn’t sell off his businesses or put anything into a so-called blind trust before he entered the White House (sic). He literally leased government property in Washington, D.C. and put a hotel on it which attracted business from everyone who wanted to cater to Donald Trump. This included politicians, campaign supporters, MAGA goons, white nationalists, and foreign governments.

Trump also bilked the government for his golf trips which have been estimated to have cost taxpayers over $44 million. Go add that to your debt-ceiling negotiations, Kevin McCarthy.

Trump also tried to host an international summit at one of his bedbug-infested golf clubs that’s been bleeding money and he opposed the FBI moving from its current digs because doing so could open up that property to a hotel that would compete directly with the Washington Trump Bedbug Hotel.

Donald Trump even charged the Secret Service to protect him by jacking up the rent on his properties and charging them to rent golf carts so they could follow him around while he cheated at golf.

Republicans didn’t stop Trump from grifting. If anything, they helped him. And, they’re helping the Supreme Court remain unethical.

There are ethic laws and regulations over every single government entity except for the Supreme Court. The court says they police their own ethics but even that’s not true. There is no body, board, or individual who can come down on Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, or any other members for taking gifts from billionaire assholes who have interests in cases before the court. Even Chief Justice John Roberts can’t stop the associate justices from being bought off.

Last week, Roberts was invited to testify before a Senate committee studying a bill that would place ethics reforms on the courts…and Roberts declined. We can’t even get these people to show up and have a conversation about ethics. And when they do talk about ethics, they show they have little to no respect for them.

Clarence Thomas said it’s OK to take gifts from his billionaire buddy and Nazi memorabilia collector Harlan Crow because the gift giver doesn’t have cases before the court, which is total bullshit. Harlan Crow has given over $15 million to politicians and right-wing causes for decades. Just because his name isn’t on a case before the court doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an interest in it. And, Clarence…since you admit you shouldn’t be in bed with someone who has cases before the court, then why didn’t you recuse yourself when Trump’s election fraud claims, which your wife was/is a huge part of, landed in front of you?

Neil Gorsuch literally sold property to a person who has had multiple cases before the court. No law or policy stopped this.

Harlan Crow has also contributed to Republicans from Mitt Romney to Mike Lee to Ted Cruz, plus Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn, and Marsha Blackburn who are all on the committee that’s holding hearings about ethic reform for the courts.

And when asked about Crow’s collection of Nazi stuff, Ted Cruz said he doesn’t know if it actually exists because he did Na-Zi it. Ted, I have never seen Cancun but I know it exists because your spineless ass ran off to it when the going got tough in Texas. But since we’re going with your logic, I don’t believe you have a spine since I didn’t see it when you were kissing Donald Trump’s ass, the guy who called your wife ugly.

Harlan Crow said he only reports the gifts that are required by law which means he’s hiding as much as he possibly and legally can. That means Crow has zero ethics, but what would you expect from Nazi boy?

Don’t expect ethic reform to land in the Supreme Court anytime soon if ever since the people who would pass a law to stop Harlan Crow from buying Clarence Thomas have also been bought off by Harlan Crow.

Goose-stepping Harlan Crow has his hands up more than one Republican ass.

Music note: I listened to the Ting Tings and Paula Cole.

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Clarence Sells A House

Harlan Crow grew up as a trust-fund boarding school baby. Today, he’s a real-estate tycoon who’s Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ sugar daddy.

It was revealed a few weeks ago that Harlan has been funding Clarence and Ginni Thomas’ extravagant lifestyle. He’s flown them on his private jets, taken them island hopping on his superyacht, hosted them at his private properties and clubs, paid for other lavish vacations, and has bought them gifts such as a portrait of the two that costs over $100,000 and a bible that once belonged to Federick Douglas at a price of $19,000.

What’s the deal with accepting luxurious vacations from a friend for over two decades? Who does that? I can see taking family members on a vacation, but friends? And for two decades? Clarence is a big boy with a big boy salary. His wife has a salary too. The couple can afford their own vacations. Maybe they can’t afford to superyacht around Indonesia for three weeks (yes, I used “superyacht” as a verb), but they can surely afford a Carnival cruise. Since Clarence said he’s more of a Walmart-parking lot kinda guy than into luxury, and Carnival cruises are really popular with rednecks, he should love it. I hear they have shrimp buffets (I’ve never been on a cruise and I don’t have a billionaire benefactor, but I hear things).

Harlan has been Clarence’s benefactor for over two decades, but rules that took effect this year state that SCOTUS justices must disclose many forms of gifts unless they’re personal, which is a huge ridiculous loophole. Basically, it’s OK if your friend bribes you because then it’s personal. Who defines what a friend is?

Crow argues he’s never tried to influence Thomas and has never discussed issues before the court with him. If you believe that, I’ll sell you a house, or maybe Clarence Thomas will. More on that in a minute. Clarence says that it’s OK to have Harlan as his sugar daddy because Harlan has never had issues before the court. All that is bullshit.

There have been plenty of cases before the Supreme Court that applies to the real estate industry, but also to Harlan’s political interests, not just his financial stakes. Harlan Crow has given over $5 million to GOP candidates, many of whom went on to vote for or against Clarence’s colleagues on the court.

As for it being OK to take bribes from friends, bullshit. Harlan never had any interest in being Clarence Thomas’ friend before 1991, when Clarence became a Supreme Court justice. But whether Harlan is a true friend or not, Clarence Thomas has broken the law by not disclosing gifts from Harlan.

Clarence Thomas co-owned his mother’s house and three nearby empty properties in Savannah, Georgia. On a 2009 financial disclosure firm, he listed the combined values of his stake in the properties at $15,000. In 2014, Crow bought the properties for $133, 363. Crow says he plans to turn all three into a museum celebrating Clarence Thomas’ life. Of course, before he can do that, Clarence’s mom has to move out. Oh, yeah. She still lives there.

I’ve never been a homeowner and I’ve never sold a house (I’m poor and bad with money), but again, I do hear things. What I have heard is that once you sell a house, you move out. Only in “Two and a Half Men” does a house get sold and the former tenants remain (After killing off Charlie Sheen’s character, Ashton Kutcher’s character buys the house, but Jon Cryer and Angus Jones’ characters remain in the house). That’s what I want to do. Buy a house and live with the strangers that come with it…no.

Once Crow bought the properties, he spent $36,000 worth of improvements to Williams’ home, including a carport, a roof repair, a new fence, and gates. Quite frankly, these don’t sound like improvements to turn the place into a museum, but more like gifts to Clarence’s mom, thus, more gifts to Clarence.

Clarence did not disclose this sale. Federal law says that justices and other public officials must disclose real estate sales over $1,000. In case you’re a Republican, $133,363 is more than $1,000. Now Republicans might argue the law doesn’t apply…if you’re a Republican.

Since Clarence’s mom still lives in the house, the $133,363 question is, does she pay rent to Harlan Crow? If so, then how much? I do not expect a clear answer to come from Clarence.

What Clarence needs to do to clear all this up and make it right is to tell us if she’s paying rent, how much, if are there any other gifts from Harlan Crow we’ve yet to hear about…and resign. Resign your seat, Clarence, and before 2024.

Clarence Thomas is corrupt and needs to resign. He’s dishonest, has spent the past two decades sucking at Harlan’s teats, and deliberately failed to disclose the teat sucking.

Now, in the future when you hear a Republican screaming about George Soros donating (legally) to Democratic campaigns and liberal causes, tell them to go eat Crow.

Creative note: I wrote this idea over a week ago but I figured that Clarence’s corruption is still relevant. Also, the Lady Justice statue isn’t really in front of the Supreme Court building, but I bet you didn’t know that. There are two statues in front of the building. The Contemplation of Justice (female) is on the left and the Guardian of the Authority of Law (male) is on the right. This blog is educational, yo.

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Report The Booty

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is corrupt.

Doing some excellent journalism, ProPublica published a report that Clarence Thomas has been receiving gifts and luxury vacations from a billionaire pal of his without reporting them.

One example is the trip Clarence and his wife, Insurrectionist Ginni, took to Indonesia. The couple flew on GOP megadonor Harlan Crow’s private jet and then spent nine days island hopping on his 162-foot super yacht. If Clarence had paid for the trip himself, it would have cost him at least $500,000.

Clarence has been sucking on Harlan’s teat for over two decades. Clarence is a public servant and a government employee who makes $285,000 a year (SCOTUS judges also make outside income from speaking engagements and book deals). Clarence is not hurting financially. Clarence has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the world, flown on his luxury private jet to exotic locations, spends time at his all-male private resort (what kind of asshole has a sausage party resort?), at his ranch in Texas, and spends a week every year at another resort he owns in the Adirondacks.

And Clarence never reported any of them.

The billionaire buddy released a statement basically saying it’s OK to spend millions over the past two decades spoiling Clarence because Clarence never asked for it and he wines and dines “other dear friends” as well. How does someone become a billionaire without understanding context? Oh, that’s right. Harlan inherited.

Harlan also said he’s never discussed a pending or lower court case with Thomas. saying, “We have never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue.” First off, if you’ve been buddies for two decades and you spend weeks together isolated on a boat, I’m sure legal and political issues come up. And even if it doesn’t, do you have to bring up where you stand on issues when you’re spending millions to entertain him?

Clarence released a statement saying he never violated any laws or rules because his billionaire buddy has never had business before the court. But that doesn’t matter because, “When a justice’s lifestyle is being subsidized by the rich and famous, it absolutely corrodes public trust,” said Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer. Legal or not, it’s unethical, but Clarence doesn’t care about ethics.

When cases came before the court over Trump’s attempt to overturn and steal the election, Clarence didn’t recuse himself even though his wife was involved in those theft attempts.

Crow is a real estate magnate and while his firm may not have had any cases before the Supreme Court while Clarence has been on the bench, they have overseen cases that involved the real estate industry.

Members of Congress are prohibited from accepting gifts worth over $50 and need pro-approval from an ethics committee to take the sort of trips Clarence took. So why doesn’t this apply to SCOTUS justices?

Clarence has said he prefers the United States over traveling abroad, saying, “I prefer the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that. There’s something normal to me about it. I come from regular stock, and I prefer that. I prefer being around that.” I’m sure he misses those Walmart parking lots while island hopping on the superyacht.

It should also be noted that while on these luxury excursions, other billionaire assholes, right-wing political activists, and Republican think-tank goons have access to Clarence too.

Crow has given over $10 million in political donations and has also donated to right-wing groups that don’t disclose the contributions they receive. He also gives to the Federalist Society, a group that works to put conservative judges on the courts. Donald Trump basically allowed the Federalist Society to make the selections for the justices he put on the Supreme Court. Crow has bragged that he doesn’t disclose anything he doesn’t to.

Thomas claims he didn’t violate any laws, but he may have violated disclosure laws that were created after Watergate.

Thomas is the kind of asshole who believes he’s the one who can decide if what he’s doing is legal or not. He’s a liar. His wife is a liar. Everyone he hangs out with is a Republican and we know that all Republicans are liars. We also know that all Republicans lack ethics and are corrupt.

The practice of the Supreme Court policing itself needs to end. The members of the court should be made to abide by the same laws as other government employees. They’re one of the three branches of our government and we have a right to know who’s buying them.

And what kind of mooch allows a friend to pay for their vacations and travel for 20 years? Clarence Thomas, that kind of mooch.

Maybe the rest of the Supreme Court should expel Thomas. I hear that’s popular now.

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Respect For ALL Marriages

President Biden signed a bill into law last Tuesday codifying same-sex and interracial marriages. It was a bipartisan bill as it picked up a dozen votes from Republican senators (out of 50) and 39 votes from House Republicans (out of 208).

The nation has evolved on marriage. Only 42 percent of Americans were in favor of same-sex marriage in 2004. Today, that number is 68 percent.

In 1958, only four percent of Americans were in favor of interracial marriage. Today, it’s around 94 percent.

Even President Biden has evolved on same-sex marriage. He voted for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996,  which defined marriage as between a man and a woman and blocked federal recognition of same-sex marriages. Now, his signing of the Respect for Marriage Act repeals DOMA.

The Defense of Marriage Act is an attempt to cut bigoted governors and the Supreme Court off at the pass. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has made hate and bigotry a focal point of his administration and has signed several hate bills into law in that state, and several other GOP states are following his lead. The number of Republicans in favor of same-sex marriage has risen over the years to 43 percent, but the majority of them still oppose it. If Democrats had waited until the next session to vote on this bill codifying interracial and same-sex marriage, it may not have passed in the House where Republicans will now be the majority.

One of those Republicans who appears to still oppose same-sex marriage is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is in an interracial marriage.

After the Supreme Court ruled that yee-haw states can ban abortion, non-fundamentalist-wackadoodle rational people who live in this century expressed concern over what might SCOTUS ban next. Thomas has given us more than an inkling.

In his concurring opinion on the decision to overrule Roe v Wade, Thomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”

Griswold v Connecticut established a married couple’s right to use contraception without government interference in 1965. The court ruled in the 2003 case of Lawrence v Texas that states could not criminalize sodomy. In 2015, Obergefell v Hodges established the right for same-sex couples to marry.

This is some scary stuff. What Thomas did with his concurring opinion was signal fucknut states to send them cases on contraception, sodomy, and gay marriage so that the fundamentalist fucknut court can ban them. Don’t forget that the case the court used to overturn Roe v Wade wasn’t even about banning abortions.

Thomas was on the court for two of those cases and now wants the court to vote on them again since he side now has the majority. This would be like the Buffalo Bills wanting to go back and replay the 1993 Super Bowl because they’re much better than Dallas now.

Also, don’t forget that Republicans are the biggest howlers about government overreach, yet here they are trying to ban birth control, marriages that offend them, and what consenting people do in the privacy of their bedrooms, despite none of that having any actual impact on their lives.

Clarence Thomas is in a mixed marriage, so he’s at least open-minded to that unless he thinks he’s a white guy (that’s not totally out of the question). He’s also signaling that he and Ginni have never done it in the butt which is something none of us should ever think about. If that’s in your brain now, my bad.

I know Republicans who are in interracial marriages who get rightly offended when they encounter racism toward their marriages…but they don’t respect other marriages.

I saw one post on Facebook that he didn’t need Democrats or Joe Biden to defend his interracial marriage, ignoring that it was the federal government that legalized his interracial marriage and has now codified it.

My message to Clarence Thomas, the rest of the majority on the Supreme Court, and all Republicans is that they need to respect ALL marriages… not just their own.

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Made Possible By The GOP

Part of the Supreme Court majority’s argument in overturning Roe v. Wade was that this nation needs more children available for adoption. Justice Samuel Alito cited a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on why so many “suitable homes” are available: “the domestic supply of infants … relinquished at birth or within the first month of life available to be adopted [has] become virtually nonexistent.”

Alito pushed aside the argument of the constitutionality of abortion and “adopted” the reasoning that we should ban abortion to stock up baby mills. A high demand for rich people to adopt is not justification for women to lose the constitutional right to make decisions regarding their own bodies.

Let me sidetrack for just one paragraph to counter COVID deniers who’ve created a false equivalence that choosing to wear a face mask is the same as choosing whether or not to have an abortion. They like to throw “my body, my choice” at liberals. This is so basically simple I can’t believe I have to explain it, but I don’t have a lot of choice in you giving me COVID. You wear a face mask to protect others. A woman you don’t know having an abortion doesn’t affect you, but you can catch COVID from ignorant obnoxious assholes who are stupid and selfish enough to politicize a pandemic.

Speaking of politicizing an issue, that’s exactly what Alito and the rest of the majority goons did with abortion. That’s exactly what you do when you leave out crucial facts to your sidebar that when revealed, turn it into total gobblygook bullshit. Research shows that 90 percent of women who choose not to have an abortion end up keeping the child, not giving it up for adoption.

Republicans always argue they want “constitutionalists” to be judges. Yeah, me too. These right-wing goons on the highest court in the land rely more on fucknut talking points than the United States Constitution.

Adoption is for the rich and powerful, which means the product has to come from the poor. Basically, the Supreme Court wants poor women to be baby mills for the rich. The average cost of adopting a child in the United States is around $70,000. SCOTUS is less concerned with the Constitution and more concerned with capitalism.

Adoption is a great thing. I’m not dissing it and I’m not trying to put people down for being wealthy enough to adopt. I want every child in need of a home to find one. I love that there have been two adoptions in my own family (neither were babies). But, we shouldn’t purposely create children for adoption. Republicans are making the decision for women to use their bodies to be baby factories so the elite will have more options to adopt.

But it’s not just with forcing women to give birth where Republicans are great at creating parentless children.

Aiden McCarthy is two years old and he doesn’t have parents because they were both murdered during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park this week. Kevin and Irina, Aiden’s parents, were murdered with the type of assault rifle Republicans and the NRA fight to make available to every person in the United States. They continue to resist, not just bans to these killing machines that nobody needs, but they even resist regulations for them.

The killer in Highland Park bought his assault rifle legally, even after at least two encounters with police. One encounter was over a suicide threat and the other was when a family member reported him saying he was going to “kill everyone.” Highland Park police confiscated 16 knives, a dagger, and a sword without arresting him.

Later, the then-19-year-old future murderer applied for a firearm owner’s identification card, which his father sponsored despite the kid’s past threats. The future killer passed four background checks. FOUR FUCKING BACKGROUND CHECKS. There were reports on this guy with the Highland Park Police and the Illinois State Police.

Now, because of our wishy-washy laws and regulations regarding assault weapons in this nation, Aiden McCarthy’s parents along with five others are dead. In addition to overturning Roe, the Supreme Court also weakened gun laws two weeks ago.

So, yeah. The Pro-Death Party is good at creating orphans for adoption.

Music note: I listened to Puddle of Mudd. Yeah, I know, but I like about five of their songs.

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Independence Day 2022

Is it ironic or coincidental that Independence Day arrives this year just as the Supreme Court destroyed independence for women to make decisions regarding their own bodies?

I don’t like holiday cartoons but I usually do one for Independence Day because it’s a great tool to make a point about freedom and hypocrisy in this country. Since I did a cartoon on Juneteenth, I feel I should do one for July 4th.

There’s a lot of hypocrisy that comes with celebrating Independence Day. For example, right-wing cartoonists who supported Donald Trump’s insurrection will publish red, white, and blue rah-rah flag-waving cheerleading bullshit on July 4th. These goons are the same goons who defend Ashli Babbitt and cry for her. This is like celebrating the Fourth of July while worshipping Benedict Arnold.

Come to think of it, if you’re a Trump supporter, you shouldn’t be celebrating the Fourth of July. You supported an insurrection against this nation. You supported the Big Lie that democracy doesn’t work and Trump had the election stolen from him. You supported motherfuckers who carried the Confederate flag through the halls of Congress. You support new election laws that take away voting rights from millions of Americans or at least make exercising their right much more difficult. You’re supporting new laws that give legislatures the right to decide who wins elections in their state, ignoring the vote tallies from local electoral boards. And today, you’re supporting destroying more rights for women. You’re advocating taking freedom away from citizens of the United States based on your religious mumbo-jumbo.

Trying to install the losing candidate as a fascist dictator isn’t done by people who love America. It’s done by goons who hate democracy. it’s unAmerican.

So on Monday, Magats, grill your hotdogs, drink your Skunky Lite, blow up fireworks, and scream “murica” despite the fact you’re a hypocritical traitor to this nation. I don’t want to see you two-face bastards displaying how much you love the country you’re trying to destroy.

A lot of people who’ve had their rights taken away are refusing to celebrate the Fourth this year. They feel this nation has betrayed them and they’re right. I think the MAGAts shouldn’t celebrate the Fourth. They should celebrate January 6, not because it’s Independence Day for MAGAts, but because it’s Treason Day.

I love the United States but it’s complicated. Despite all its flaws and times throughout history where she let me down as she’s doing today, I will still fight to save her from Donald Trump, Republicans, and MAGAts.

MAGA is unAmerican.

Creative note: I used Google images of steeples as my reference today but I don’t know why I didn’t just look out my window and use the two across the street.

Music note: I listened to The Cars while drawing today.

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Evil SCOTUS

There’s a particular trait that’s common among conservatives and that is for them to explain their positions, they have to lie. Have you ever heard anyone defend Donald Trump without lying? Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is a liar. But then again, the six extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalist justices that are the majority on the highest court in the land are proven liars.

In the ruling that came down today allowing a Washington state football coach to pray at a public school event, Gorsuch, who wrote for the majority, lied. It’s as if he didn’t pay any actual attention to the case and decided it’d suit his needs better if he just made some shit up. Naturally, this is one of Donald Trump’s appointees.

Gorsuch repeatedly claims in his writing for the majority that Joseph Kennedy, a former public school football coach at Bremerton High School in Washington state who prayed at the 50-yard line following football games, who was often joined by his players, members of the opposing team, and members of the general public, “offered his prayers quietly while his students were otherwise occupied.” That is a lie. The layman’s term for this is “bullshit.”

And once again, this court has thrown out precedent. This court has overruled Lemon v. Kurtzman, the 1971 decision that previously governed cases involving the Constitution’s language prohibiting an establishment of religion. This establishes, as usual, Christianity on government property in a government function. Do these fucks even know what “secular” means?

The coach did not pray silently. Anyone can pray at school or any other government facility. Prayer is not banned. Establishing a religion is banned which rules out public prayer. Kennedy held very public prayers on the 50-yeard line while players from both teams kneeled around him while he held up helmets from both teams as if he were the Moses of football.

One student’s father complained since his son felt compelled to join in despite being an atheist. There’s peer pressure and the fear the coach will sit you on the bench if you don’t worship Jesus with him. So, the school district told Kennedy to knock it off. Kennedy did not knock it off. Instead, the coach went on a media tour and even made an appearance on Good Morning, America. At the next game, there was what’s been described as a stampede to pray with the coach on the 50-yard line to help him with his “commitment to God.” It was so bad that even members of the high school band got trampled. You don’t see that shit at band camp.

But, I’m sure it was a very private stampede.

The 1971 case held that the government’s actions “must have a secular legislative purpose,” that their “principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion,” and that the government may not “foster ‘an excessive government entanglement with religion.’” A stampede for Jesus on a public school’s football field at the 50-yard line is NOT secular.

You don’t need God to play football anymore than you need the national anthem for sports.

Justice Gorsuch did not base his opinion on the Constitution. It’s why he lied. He even dismissed the photographic evidence of the prayer huddles. Since Gorsuch lied, it leaves me to speculate that he would have had a different ruling if the coach wasn’t Christian.

What if the coach was Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, or even worse…a Satanist?

The Church of Satan doesn’t literally worship the devil because Satanists are atheists. Satanists don’t believe in God or the Devil. They chose Satan as their symbol which makes sense as this country is supposed to guarantee the right to freedom of religion. That right also protects your freedom to be an atheist, so Satan is being used here as a symbol for atheists…and it freaks people the fuck out.

And that’s what I want. To freak people the fuck out…specifically, religious zealots who believe their religion takes priority and has greater rights than other religions. I want a liberal football coach somewhere in this nation (there has to be at least one) to conduct a Satanic ceremony after a public school’s football game on the 50-yard line. Neil Gorsuch rules that a coach can do that so I’m sure the school district won’t fire a coach for leading a Satanic prayer at a football game. And, even if that prayer summons a demon, Justice Gorsuch says that demon is allowed at a public school setting. Maybe a demon would enjoy a high school football game. Do demons like hotdogs? And, it wouldn’t be the first time someone summoned a demon to help with their football game. Ask Tom Brady.

And quite frankly, this public school demon needs to be raised and Neil Gorsuch and the rest of his troglodyte fundamentalist majority of hypocrites should be forced to live with it. The only problem is that it wouldn’t be fair to the demon.

Creative note: I read my lettering out loud just to hear how it sounds. For some reason, every time I said “Beezelbub,” my Amazon Echo device, Alexa, would light up. So, if you don’t get a new cartoon from me tomorrow or see any activity from me, it might mean I inadvertently summoned a demon. I should probably clean my bathroom.

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SCOTUS Erode Us

The far-right troglodyte court of religious zealots had a very busy week.

First, they ruled that religious private schools can receive taxpayer money. Naturally, this violates the separation of church and state which is in the Constitution.

Claiming they can actually comprehend the Constitution, SCOTUS’ next move was to allow people to carry concealed guns in New York City. I’ve been looking but I can’t find “concealed-carry” in the Constitution but I did find “well-regulated.”

Finally, SCOTUS did exactly what we expected them to do and that was to overturn Roe v. Wade based, not on the Constitution, but on their religious zealotry. If you’re a right-wing gun-humping religious zealot who wants to control women and tell them what they can and can’t do with their bodies, then you had a good week.

SCOTUS is overriding their function. They are legislating. Take the abortion case for example. They were hearing a case about banning abortions after a set number of weeks. Instead of just issuing a decision on that case, they created new laws. This is literally legislating from the bench.

The case they were hearing didn’t ask the court whether abortion is or isn’t constitutional, probably because most of the justices on the court have said that abortion is precedent and settled law.

The scary thing is, this is establishing a new precedent (irony abounds) for the court to strike down laws they’re not even hearing arguments about.

What will the Supreme Court strike down next that nobody’s asking them about?

Music note: I listened to a bunch of girl rock while drawing this (which took a while). I jammed to Paula Cole, Alanis Morrisette, the Cranberries, Melissa Etheridge, and Soul Asylum. Siri thinks Soul Asylum are girls.

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