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[RandySF]

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[Mr.Bill]

1. And......

......nothing will happen.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Why do I know more about the law and ethics than a Supreme Court Justice?

And I am just a bumpkin from Ohio.

[gab13by13]

3. Last year I got a late 1099 for $2,000.00

and I had to redo my taxes. Laws only apply to the unwashed.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Ouch. Right we are the suckers and losers who follow the law. :(

Which is what the elite think of us.

[housecat]

20. It's the other way around -- they are the losers. Take away everything from rich and poor, and

what remains is who we are. T

[Irish_Dem]

22. Yes, those with a moral core, integrity, pride are the real winners.

[housecat]

25. No question about it. You are a winner.

[Irish_Dem]

27. Thanks but you paid your winner dues via your $2000 IRS fees. :(

You should hear this story about what happened once to me and the IRS.
One year they owed me money and sent me a refund with a couple of extra zeros in the check.
I thought I would die it was so much money.

I sent it back right away since I didn't want to go to prison.

They sent it back to me again, insisting it was correct.

I sent it back again and damn they sent it back a third time.

My friends all said I should cash it and head to Mexico but I didn't fancy
going to federal prison.

I finally called my US senator and talked to an attorney and got it sorted out.

At first it was funny, then I lost some sleep over it.

[housecat]

29. Damn, but if you saved the letters, no problem. Also you do not want to flee to Mexico.

[Farmer-Rick]

18. I take some exercise classes with about six widows

They offer old folks free exercise clases at the senior citizen center. I take the classes as rehab from a hip injury.

Everyone one of those middle class over 65 widows had to pay a fine when they made mistakes on their taxes after their husbands died. Everyone of them.

So the poor widow gets to pay IRS fines due to being in the fog of grief. But Clearance gets all sorts of free bees and gets away with the most blatant corruption.

Yeah, that's how the US rolls.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Yes young women, widows, school children are fair game.

Only the elite is protected.

[soldierant]

44. That injury is real

and should not have happened to those wodiws. But I also wonder under what administrations the incidents happened I know the Biden administration is aware of inequitoes and is working with Congress to change the policy. Certainly funding is a factor, but so are priorities, and I'm pretty sure both are being addressed.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Supreme Court Justices get to use "alternative ethics".

It's in the "alternative Constitution".

I'd suggest you look it up, but only special people get to use it.

[Irish_Dem]

8. I'm not smart or special enough to understand the nuances and special legal circumstances

of the wealthy and powerful.

[housecat]

23. Of course you understand because you ARE smart and special.

[Irish_Dem]

28. I was born on a rare total solar eclipse.

Which means I am supposed to be special or famous in my lifetime.

But darn it I am really running out of time.
Have not hit special as of yet.

[housecat]

30. Maybe you have hit it and didn't realize

[Irish_Dem]

33. I post on reddit sometimes and get 1000 likes a day when I post.

And get the top 1% karma award every month.

My daughter says that's it mom, you finally hit special.

It doesn't feel special to me. I just think reddit must be crazy and the
members don't have much to do with their time.

But that may be as good as I am going to get.

[housecat]

36. I'm pretty sure people don't recognize special in themselves.

[Irish_Dem]

39. You are right, being special doesn't mean acting like Elton John.

I think low key, humble, but very courageous is special.

Like a lot of people here.

I am on a number of forums and get good feedback.

But here on DU I get some support, but typically ignored or get the crap beat out of me.

But I love it here the most, because so many here are very smart, sophisticated, knowledgable and
just plain nice. And I get called out and taken to task. It takes courage to post, but that is good.
Make me go outside my comfort zone.

You seem pretty special yourself.

[housecat]

46. Thanks. I like everything about DU. It's the first and only "social media" I ever used

[Irish_Dem]

50. Yes I agree.

DU is a great place.

[MontanaMama]

9. Thomas knows the law

he just doesn't care and he doesn't have to because he is wealthy and well connected. Different sets of rules for those folks.

[Irish_Dem]

15. They make the law, they don't have to follow it.

[housecat]

26. (response to # 2) Ohio was once Blue. I'm forth generation Ohio, and I am proud of the Blue part.

[Irish_Dem]

31. I know everyone in Ohio is not a bumpkin.

Well some of us aren't.

I confess that I have been known to use hyperbole for effect.

Proud Buckeye here, OSU grads in my family, including myself.

Yes I remember when Ohio was blue and proud of it.
Columbus is still quite liberal.

[housecat]

32. Hyperbole? You? Far from any city is Bumpkinville no doubt

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[Irish_Dem]

37. Ok I confess I am the queen of hyperbole and sarcasm.

I've lived in C-Bus and the cornfields and actually I like both.

[housecat]

38. We had a cornfield and a river in Mexico early '70s and I loved it

[Irish_Dem]

40. People who come to Ohio are shocked by all the cornfields everywhere.

My cousins from Boston used to travel by car to Ohio.

They would arrive and get out of the car and say how the hell can you guys eat all this corn.

We would laugh and say we don't eat all of it, most of it is feed corn for livestock.
Or goes to corn syrup.

I love the smell of the cornfields at night. The smell is intoxicating.
And the fields are beautiful in the daytime.

[housecat]

47. Yes, corn is such a friendly plant. I regret that we grow it to feed livestock. If it was

up to me I would get livestock out of slaughter houses and into fields eating grass. So we don't eat anything with four legs or fur, and definitely not corn syrup.

[Irish_Dem]

49. Right.

I wish we didn't eat animals either.
They are really the best thing on this planet.

[housecat]

51. Amen

[Irish_Dem]

52. Sometimes I look at the beautiful pictures of animals and think we don't deserve to share

this planet with them.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Time for a Whitewater/Benghazi-style senate inquisition!

C’mon Chuck! Appoint the investigators to a select committee on judicial ethics!

My picks:
Warren
Padilla
Merkley
Hirono
Booker
Ossoff or Warnock
…and I suppose the GOP will get to pick some of their members too…subject to Schumer’s approval.

[Cha]

7. So Thomas Swamp Fuckwad is a Lying POS..

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TY!

[MontanaMama]

10. Thomas Swamp Fuckwad!!

Wish I could rec that a million times.

Seriously, where the hell is John Roberts?????

[leftieNanner]

11. Unfortunately

There's nothing Roberts can do.

[Cartoonist]

12. He can speak about it

He can even advise Thomas to resign.

[leftieNanner]

13. You are right

He could.

Does he have the courage?

[MontanaMama]

41. No he does not.

He might also be guilty of terrible corruption and maybe Coke Can Clarence knows about it. Anything is possible with this crowd.

[leftieNanner]

42. His wife's activities are a bit suspect as well

But this won't just blow over.

[MontanaMama]

45. Both Roberts and Coke Can's wives

have shady dealings. I don’t think this’ll blow over either…at least I hope not.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Thomas only takes advice about committing crimes.

[Cha]

19. Yeah the Chief John Roberts has a lot

of Shit on his Plate.. if he cares all about
the Rule of Law he should be horrified.

you can't make this Shit UP!

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Now I know you're serious. You're addressing him by his full name.

[Cha]

21. lol Yes, Serious.

[onetexan]

17. Oh yea it's just a transaction between long time friends so i took it under advisement not to

Disclose it...imagine if any of usade that claim.

[republianmushroom]

34. I had to report and pay capital gains tax on property I sold.

[peppertree]

35. There it is again in the signature!

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A stupid, lecherous fiend - but who considers himself untouchable, and enjoys the idea of others being outraged at his lawlessness.

On his own, he can't do or think of anything. He thinks his family were loudmouthed idiots.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

53. Unlike Scalia's butt plug, Satanists have morals.

Really.

The Satanists have explicit rules supporting bodily autonomy, and that prohibit rape, harming children, and cruelty to animals.

https://www.churchofsatan.com/eleven-rules-of-earth/

https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets

Most of those rules are more moral than anything out of the Abrahamic religions.

[peppertree]

54. True

I meant "dark" - the kind of fiend who'd gladly slit a chicken's throat (or possibly even a child's) because he think it'll give him "good luck." I shall edit accordingly.

But these things, as you know, do happen. And when the powerful or well-connected do it, who's to know?

If anything, I suspect, the opposite is true: it might bring them bad luck - on account of all that very negative energy they're releasing when they harm someone or something (Thomas, I consider capable of almost anything - if he thinks it'll promote him).

Personally, I think the Christian icon - that of Christ basically being tortured - is a poor choice (nothing against Christians; am agnostic myself).

They're basically telling themselves, over and over, "I want my life to feel as though I was nailed to the wall."

I'm sure Osteen and the other holy rollers laugh all the way to the bank - after slitting a chicken's throat or something, of course.

[Autumn]

43. Nothing is going to come of this. Just more pulling back the veil.

He and his wife have lifetime tenure.

[spanone]

48. they're all criminals