By David Glenn Cox
This is how these things get started and wind up out of control. Supreme Court fudge, Samuel Alito is in trouble. Let me explain my dear Watson. Alito’s compound flew an upside-down American flag after January 6th. The first assumption, an upside-down American flag means a sign of distress. The second assumption, one has something to do with the other.
My Uncle famously flew an American flag out in front of his house every day of his adult life. If you saw his flag flying upside down, it meant distress alright, probably due to my uncle being an alcoholic. Either way, up or down it was best not to rile him during his buzz. Better to let him discover his error himself and say nothing about it.
See? So, don’t just assume Sam Alito is some wild and crazy ideolog. Consider the other possibilities, maybe he’s just a drunk. My uncle would notoriously put up his flag with barely one eye open sometimes. Or maybe, Alito was just stupid. An undercover partisan judge waving a flag of tacit support for a Coup de’ tat is a damn fool indeed. Or as Bob Dylan would say, “Don’t speak too soon for the wheel is still in spin.”
Was Alito trying to signal his support for the coup plotters? Why? “What’s gained by this?” A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. Now everyone get out your decoder rings! Trying to signal to who? The neighbors? “Let’s drive by Sam’s house and see if there are any messages for us on the flagpole.”
A tempest in a Coup plot, Hitler’s parking tickets. Wearing a black suit with brown shoes. Now, let’s take the Way back machine and set the dial to January 6th. See the bedlam, absorb the violence and the pandemonium. Nowhere at any time in this catastrophe did any of the Coup plotters ever doubt or question if the Supreme Court would see things their way. They questioned Mike Pence’s loyalty to the cause, and they questioned each other. But they never for a second doubted Sam Alito or any one of the other monkeys on the Party line.
The Supreme Court’s loyalty or disloyalty to the Coup was never questioned because It never even entered their minds to question it. A beautiful baby contest with Mama as the judge. Is the Supreme Court criminally corrupt? The Coup plotting Republicans sure thought so! In fact, they were cock sure of it.
That it wasn’t even a question among them. “If the election goes to the Supreme Court, How do you think Sam Alito will vote? How about Clarence Thomas?” The whole fake electors plot in a nutshell was predicated on throwing the election into the “Honest and above board” Supreme Court. Deciding every issue based only upon ancient granite foundations of American legal principle. Right?
Along with taking care of Mama’s house and sailing around the world, sipping champagne with billionaires. Without the Supreme Court in their back pocket the whole Republican phony electors’ plot would have been a pointless exercise. So, define an unindicted conspirator. Exposed by the silence of their coconspirators. Nobody ever wondered out loud who was going to drive the getaway car. It was always just taken for granted.
Just because the Coup didn’t get that far doesn’t mean they are innocent. Throwing a bunch of Billy Bobs and rednecks into prison while the conspirators in black robes smile back at us in banality. “Oh, you can trust us!” Would we lie to you? Would you buy a used car from one of these people?
The US Flag Code is very clear. Check your Boy Scout manuals if you don’t believe me. The flag is only to be flown upside-down in times of distress. No allowances for substance abuse are made. Sam Alito being an honorable Justice does the honorable thing when controversy comes to his house and immediately blames his wife! Oh Sam, that will not go down well at home! He could have just told the press it was an error and let that be that. Instead, he clarifies, “It’s all my wife’s fault, she did it!”
Mrs. Alito was responding to what she saw as obscene and nasty signs in the neighborhood directed their way. And so, she responded with an upside-down flag. There! Take That! (Sticks out tongue) Shows you! See my flag? Nah, nah, nah, ne, nah, nah!
In this episode of Cops, Karen squabbles with the neighbors over yard signs with hidden messages! It’s not me! It’s my crazy wife! Mrs. Alito had a beef with a neighbor over their anti-trump yard sign. You must be at least this tall to be a Supreme Court Justice’s wife. There was a time when the Justices stayed nonpolitical, let alone heckled their neighbors.
See? It wasn’t a sign of insurrection after all! It was a cry for help! Now this question is only for married men. Why would Sam throw his wife under the bus like that? “Everybody,” because he’s had it up to here with this behavior. Tired of Mrs. Drysdale endlessly fighting with the hillbilly’s next door.
You can’t blame us; we didn’t do anything! We never for a moment encouraged the Coup plotters. We’re just honest justices on an honest court. Making honest rulings based strictly upon the letter of the law. We’re just honest Justices making honest rulings. Crooked? No, that’s my wife!
Occam’s Razor says, “that when presented with competing hypothesis about the same prediction and both theories have equal explanatory power one should prefer the hypothesis that requires the fewest assumptions.“
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