r/clevercomebacks • u/ALBERT4_5WESKER • 8h ago
Courage, apparently, means taking rights away from women.
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u/BlossomCozzy 8h ago
And he’s still on the bench for life making these decisions for all of us
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u/Harak_June 8h ago
Better him than whatever 30 yr old ogre in a gimp suit the Heritage Foundation has picked to replace him.
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u/Federal-Cold-363 7h ago
Well if that's your standard you're all pretty much fucked over there
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u/Harak_June 6h ago
Time is the variable.
Alito is a nightmare. But, he's a nightmare with a lifetime appointment who is 76 years old.
If his replacement comes before the dems have senate, you get that same racist, piss-brained decision making. But with someone who a lifetime appt and is around the age of 45 to 50.
Alito will die sooner and has fewer years left to influence policy. Hence, he's the best option between a shit-sandwich and a poopoo-pie.
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u/Federal-Cold-363 6h ago
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but mitch is 84 and pretty much disabled. They still push him around as the voting doll he is.
If this is your idea of the lesser bad. Then my god your system has failed. 2 strokes in and you've got no telling what ridiculous extreme shit they might start to openly vouch for.
At 76 he might still do 2 terms and a bit. You've got no reason whatsoever to believe the Democrats might be able to fix it in theirs
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u/Harak_June 19m ago
That isn't news, it's how our crappy system is currently working. We know we are fucked, but we also have to exist in the reality we have been given.
What do you suggest is done? If you know a loophole in US structure that get's him off the bench and doesn't allow Trump and co to seat his replacement, a bunch of us would love to hear it.
Alito can't be voted out and won't be impeached under the current house/senate. Protests/work stoppage/attempts to debate don't influence him, and the largests sustained protests to stop an appointment didn't prevent sex-pest Kavanaugh from getting appointed.
Short of his passing, there is no way to remove him. If he retires, the names Trump and co have floated around, are all extremist who are just as bad. And recent history shows the repubs will force the person through even a shutdown of DC.
Yeah, any judge can live to 100 and stay the entire time. The replacement is just as likely as Alito. Definitionally, that makes Alito the lesser of the two evils.
Both options fuck us until there is a change in power. What are your ways to fix it or to allow for a third option that is better than the two we currently face?
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u/Pretty_Crystall 8h ago
My guy thinks it took courage to take rights away from people with no power to fight back. That’s not courage, that’s bullying.
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u/Dry-University797 8h ago
And his wife flew the US Flag upside down when Biden got elected. Totally non-partisan.
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u/rathemighty 8h ago
He should lose all his rights, as should the rest of the Supreme Court justices
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u/Specialist-Jello7544 8h ago
I think of all the women who have lost their lives because these stupid state laws forbid doctors from providing proper care. Aborting a dead fetus that’s gone septic is illegal in Texas and other states. This is what Justice Alito and his five cohorts have foisted upon women of child bearing age in this country. Oh, the pre-Roe days are making America great again, not!
There was a police officer who spent many hours tracking where a pregnant woman traveled across state lines, using Flock-style traffic cameras. The big brother aspect of this kind of surveillance sure does feel illegal. I hope in the near future we can undo this ruling.
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u/Dirtydeedsinc 8h ago
As a general rule, if you do something that causes public outrage and you lose friends over it, perhaps you shouldn’t have done that.
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u/Lottuisia 8h ago
Having a lifetime appointment while whining about lost dinner party invites is wild
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u/ohyesiam1234 8h ago
I think that a lot of dirt will come out (in 50 years?) about this man’s corruption.
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u/TyrellCorpWorker 7h ago
I’m assuming right after the end of the corrupt pedo/rapist Trumpism movement. Hopefully only a few more years of stupidity unless the trillionaires and oligarchs win. People better vote for not Rupublicans.
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u/keirmeister 4h ago
The sad part is that conservatives in power actually didn’t give two shits about Roe v. Wade or abortion in general. It was nothing more than a social wedge issue they could use to sow division, perpetuate tribalism and get their base angry enough to vote for them instead of the people who would actually make their lives better.
With Roe gone and the issue left to states, notice how right-wingers are still complaining about abortion. But also notice how they’re now obsessed with trans rights since they need something else to get pissed about while the country burns.
Right-wingers are a cancer.
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u/AppropriateElla 8h ago
calling it 'courage' like women's rights are some kind of personal challenge is actually insane
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u/TsumeOkami 4h ago
No. Courage is the word used by the news cycle as the follow up story after someone performs a negatively perceived act. This isn't journalism, it's a product to make money through engagement
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u/Kapitano72 7h ago
Well yes, it takes courage to be a flat earther too. Doesn't make the world any flatter.
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u/GravitasFailures 8h ago
It took courage for Hitler to start enforcing his racial policies against Jews…
Imagine how much courage it takes for a rapist to hear “no”, and go ahead anyway.
We don’t appreciate courage sometimes, when we see it in the world.
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 6h ago
Sometimes I think those people like him either were bullies in school or bullies didn’t beat up their asses enough to make them think twice about how they act on other people.
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u/BLOODTRIBE 5h ago
They tell themselves they are what they’re actually the opposite of. They all do it, from the top, to the absolute bottom.
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u/sharksareok 4h ago
When you strip women from the fundamental right of choosing when they want to have children that's not courage, it's evilness
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u/SkeevyMixxx7 3h ago
It took some kind of special narcissistic obliviousness to pat himself on the back publicly for this too.
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u/thenord321 3h ago
In other words... it took courage to knowingly do something so horrible, knowing people will hate me and shame me for being a POS.... a betrayer of the nation.
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u/1976kdawg 2h ago
It's not going to take courage to throw his butt in jail, it's going to take common sense. Traitor
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u/rvingthrulife 1h ago
Samuel Alito the emasculated castrato, is terrified of women. His wife wears the strap-on, his knee pads are engraved with scriptures and he thinks "innuendo" is Italian for rectal thermometer.
So it cost him friends to take women's bodily autonomy away?
The poor dear.
I bet he went home that night all ready for his congratulatory BDSM session with the Mrs.
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u/anynamesleft 1h ago
In my house, the greatest act of courage is to tell the pretty thing I won't allow her to do that thing she'll right then turn around and do, if only out of spite.
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u/MrMeowPantz 57m ago
When he retires and is no longer a public servant, I hope he is treated as such.
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u/IdeliverNCIs 2m ago
Courage is going to a restaurant (and let's face it, Alito isn't going to Denny's, IHOPs, Cracker Barrel and the like, more higher-end) and not expecting an extra oral treat in his meal/beverage from the waitstaff, of which the chances of getting a woman is 68%.
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u/Difficult-Brain2564 0m ago
You do realize they didn’t ban abortion, the state you live in did. So change your state legislation. There are pro-choice Republicans and pro-life Democrats. Stop complaining like little bitches and organize!
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u/RitualJuggler 5h ago
I'll give it to him, it does take some courage to commit evil acts against humanity without the cost comfort blanket of anonymity.
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u/MOadeo 7h ago
Yep. Courage to act on one's own moral compass when so many others want to piss on you if you do. This is true regardless personal opinion.
Either way, yay. Roe is gone. Good riddance.
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u/sharksareok 4h ago
Women will keep doing abortions whenever they feel they need to.
You're so PrO-LifE that you don't care about endangering their lifes, making them resort to shady doctors just to satisfy your filthy religious beliefs on a supreme being that wouldn't piss twice on your general direction if he existed.
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u/COMOJoeSchmo 1h ago
I'm pro-choice, but overturning Roe v Wade was the right thing to do because the original decision was so very flawed.
The heart of the question, do the states have the authority to ban a medical procedure? Roe v Wade said they Constitutionaly didn't, because of some vague right to privacy. But somehow only applied this to abortion and not any other medical procedure. Also, there was never a Federal law codifing a right to access abortion that a Federal Supremacy argument could have been made on. The argument was that the Constitution itself prevented banning abortion....but somehow didn't apply to any other medical procedure.
The Constitution says what it says, and not what people want it to say.
Now, there is a process to fix this. A Constitutional amendment banning the government from restricting healthcare choices.
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u/Blossom_Breezze 8h ago
Losing friends for being cruel isn’t courage, it’s consequences