Hey, first of all - what an amazing article to bring tothe attention of the community - thanks for this!
Secondly, this article is not what it seems like. It's a Lion in the costume of a funny dragon, and I will explain why. But additionally, this is an example of Fake News that is very subtle in its intentions, and is intended to trigger other Fake News articles by others to slowly flesh out the real intention.
A funny dragon attracts a wide audience, because everyone knows its not dangerous but it raises curiousity. But when the funny dragon throws away its costume, what you find inside is a Lion, that can be used to perform the real attack.
Whats the Funny dragon here? The title "Clarence Thomas Is the new Chief Justice". It will rightfully attract the curiosity of a lot of people both from the left and the right, and even from those who dont follow fake news.
We think perhaps something happened to John Roberts (as we all have been hoping and expecting) but is that what this article says?
The answer is NO. This article has nothing to do with John Roberts being replaced as the Chief Justice. Infact, its very clear that Thomas is NOT the Chief Justice.
Then what is it saying? What is the Lion underneath the Dragon costume ?
"That the SCOTUS is becoming too dangerous. If we dont do something to curtail it and get rid of Thomas, not only will it push extreme conservative agenda, it will completely overturn the Roe vs Wade. DO SOMETHING!!"
What is the real argument here? That John Roberts is more and more becoming part of the minority. That conservatives are the majority, but more importantly, Thomas being the longest serving Justice of majority gets to ... oh the horror .... assign himself to write the Majority opinion, "and OMG, he is going to write such brilliant and well thought out opinion that it will be very hard for us to run interferences."
Yeah, the recent high profile case where he to to write the Majority was to do with staying an execution for an inmate who was just yanking the procedures in the last minute in an attempt to stall his execution. The guy who brutally attacked a dad who was just assembling Christmas gifts for his kids, with a sword and a knife and was convicted and his death sentence finalized in 1999. He was given an option to use Nitrous Oxide instead of Lethal injection, and rejected it, but at the last minute started all kinds of appeals to be granted that option (which would have required the State to post pone the execution). The question before the SCOTUS was purely procedural and Thomas eloquantly outlined it.
How did they characterise this:
... allowing virtually all forms of executions, no matter how painful.
So, what exactly is the costume of the funny dragon here? A video of a recent case in which - literally - Thomas asks a couple of questions to the State's counsel. That all. They assert that he "almost never asks a question" and then go on to show him asking the questions, and then write a whole article about how he is the Chief Justice.
What is it that these people are really really afraid of?
THIS:
In the fall, the court will hear a challenge to Mississippi's new abortion law, which would ban almost all abortions after the 15th week of a woman's pregnancy.
This is what they want to rile up everyone against Thomas, because their baby part factory is going to be shutdown.
Almost forgot:
Could this explain the abortion win for Texas recently?
No, the abortion win is because of the conservative majority which seems to be finally coming to the forefront. But the Texas win explains this article.
I felt like I just attended a really great college lecture about how to critically think with respect to persuasive discourse, and I learned a lot from you. Thank you for your post.
Q taught us how to use critical thinking and how to find hidden agendas. I just hope we will never forget all that he taught after the Awakening happens.
Without this article, I would never have learnt so much about the way Thomas works and how much they are scared of him. The best part about the Majority Opinion in that he added this, and explained the original murder. Shows that Thomas, even as a SCOTUS Justice, still focuses on the human element in the case, which is what we want our judicial system to go back.
The dissent omitted any discussion of the murder that warranted petitioner’s sentence of death and the extensive procedural protections afforded to him before his last-minute, dilatory filings.
And to show how much they hate him and are scared of him:
In an appearance at a New York synagogue, I once heard Scalia give a memorable quip when he was asked about the difference between his approach and Thomas's. "I'm an originalist," Scalia said, "but I'm not a nut."
How depraved are these people, spreading fake stories about a Justice they killed and who cannot defend against this, and saying that Scalia called Clarence a nut ?
I am waiting for the day all these people meet their day of reckoning.
Notice the writer's use of "no matter how painful".
This is manipulative disingenuousness at its finest. One would have to have a brain made of latex rubber to stretch it enough to imagine Thomas authorizing, say, flaying, drawing and quartering, death by 1000 cuts, or breaking on the wheel as a means of execution.
Our forebears visited the most unthinkable, inhuman tortures on their fellow humans. Slowly, gradually crushing the head in a screw press until the eyeballs pop out and the skull implodes is not something healthy humans should ever see or want to see—even if it's Brennan's Neanderthal skull being squashed like a pumpkin.
In just a few centuries, moral humans have evolved beyond the capacity to endure, let alone inflict, such over-the-top barbarism on people whom we are executing for THEIR inhumanity to humankind.
We have a lot of executions that need to be performed, starting yesterday. Let's get to it and get it over with!
Disclaimer: pro-death-penalty, anti-torture advocate of mass executions (i.e., millions) for commies, traitors, pedophiles, murderers, etc.
Thomas authorizing, say, flaying, drawing and quartering, death by 1000 cuts, or breaking on the wheel as a means of execution.
I was actually expecting to see Thomas essentially saying this, when I cautiously clicked on this Opinion and read it from top to bottom.
There has to be a new standard of journalistic ethics that overs an opinion article, where the journalist proclaims something they clearly cannot justify from the piece, but more importantly they dont even believe it themselves. The second part is important because this journalist clearly does not believe Thomas is the Chief Justice, and yet, by penning it under "opinion" it becomes impossible to blame them.
There should be a journalistic ethics that encompasses this and all other aspects of journalism that is dishonest by intention.
A lot of people aren't aware that chief justices aren't promoted from within...they're appointed by virtue of who is selected to replace the former chief justice. I discovered this when Roberts was appointed, and concluded that the chief justice role is pretty much ceremonial only and has little or nothing to do with who actually wields the power in the supreme court.
Hey, first of all - what an amazing article to bring tothe attention of the community - thanks for this!
Secondly, this article is not what it seems like. It's a Lion in the costume of a funny dragon, and I will explain why. But additionally, this is an example of Fake News that is very subtle in its intentions, and is intended to trigger other Fake News articles by others to slowly flesh out the real intention.
A funny dragon attracts a wide audience, because everyone knows its not dangerous but it raises curiousity. But when the funny dragon throws away its costume, what you find inside is a Lion, that can be used to perform the real attack.
Whats the Funny dragon here? The title "Clarence Thomas Is the new Chief Justice". It will rightfully attract the curiosity of a lot of people both from the left and the right, and even from those who dont follow fake news.
We think perhaps something happened to John Roberts (as we all have been hoping and expecting) but is that what this article says?
The answer is NO. This article has nothing to do with John Roberts being replaced as the Chief Justice. Infact, its very clear that Thomas is NOT the Chief Justice.
Then what is it saying? What is the Lion underneath the Dragon costume ?
"That the SCOTUS is becoming too dangerous. If we dont do something to curtail it and get rid of Thomas, not only will it push extreme conservative agenda, it will completely overturn the Roe vs Wade. DO SOMETHING!!"
What is the real argument here? That John Roberts is more and more becoming part of the minority. That conservatives are the majority, but more importantly, Thomas being the longest serving Justice of majority gets to ... oh the horror .... assign himself to write the Majority opinion, "and OMG, he is going to write such brilliant and well thought out opinion that it will be very hard for us to run interferences."
Yeah, the recent high profile case where he to to write the Majority was to do with staying an execution for an inmate who was just yanking the procedures in the last minute in an attempt to stall his execution. The guy who brutally attacked a dad who was just assembling Christmas gifts for his kids, with a sword and a knife and was convicted and his death sentence finalized in 1999. He was given an option to use Nitrous Oxide instead of Lethal injection, and rejected it, but at the last minute started all kinds of appeals to be granted that option (which would have required the State to post pone the execution). The question before the SCOTUS was purely procedural and Thomas eloquantly outlined it.
How did they characterise this:
So, what exactly is the costume of the funny dragon here? A video of a recent case in which - literally - Thomas asks a couple of questions to the State's counsel. That all. They assert that he "almost never asks a question" and then go on to show him asking the questions, and then write a whole article about how he is the Chief Justice.
What is it that these people are really really afraid of?
THIS:
This is what they want to rile up everyone against Thomas, because their baby part factory is going to be shutdown.
Almost forgot:
No, the abortion win is because of the conservative majority which seems to be finally coming to the forefront. But the Texas win explains this article.
I felt like I just attended a really great college lecture about how to critically think with respect to persuasive discourse, and I learned a lot from you. Thank you for your post.
Q taught us how to use critical thinking and how to find hidden agendas. I just hope we will never forget all that he taught after the Awakening happens.
Without this article, I would never have learnt so much about the way Thomas works and how much they are scared of him. The best part about the Majority Opinion in that he added this, and explained the original murder. Shows that Thomas, even as a SCOTUS Justice, still focuses on the human element in the case, which is what we want our judicial system to go back.
And to show how much they hate him and are scared of him:
How depraved are these people, spreading fake stories about a Justice they killed and who cannot defend against this, and saying that Scalia called Clarence a nut ?
I am waiting for the day all these people meet their day of reckoning.
Nice breakdown!
Notice the writer's use of "no matter how painful".
This is manipulative disingenuousness at its finest. One would have to have a brain made of latex rubber to stretch it enough to imagine Thomas authorizing, say, flaying, drawing and quartering, death by 1000 cuts, or breaking on the wheel as a means of execution.
Our forebears visited the most unthinkable, inhuman tortures on their fellow humans. Slowly, gradually crushing the head in a screw press until the eyeballs pop out and the skull implodes is not something healthy humans should ever see or want to see—even if it's Brennan's Neanderthal skull being squashed like a pumpkin.
In just a few centuries, moral humans have evolved beyond the capacity to endure, let alone inflict, such over-the-top barbarism on people whom we are executing for THEIR inhumanity to humankind.
We have a lot of executions that need to be performed, starting yesterday. Let's get to it and get it over with!
Disclaimer: pro-death-penalty, anti-torture advocate of mass executions (i.e., millions) for commies, traitors, pedophiles, murderers, etc.
I was actually expecting to see Thomas essentially saying this, when I cautiously clicked on this Opinion and read it from top to bottom.
There has to be a new standard of journalistic ethics that overs an opinion article, where the journalist proclaims something they clearly cannot justify from the piece, but more importantly they dont even believe it themselves. The second part is important because this journalist clearly does not believe Thomas is the Chief Justice, and yet, by penning it under "opinion" it becomes impossible to blame them.
There should be a journalistic ethics that encompasses this and all other aspects of journalism that is dishonest by intention.
I dunno about you but I wouldn't mind watching Brennan's eyes pop out of his crushed skull.
I believe they call that a confirmed kill.
We will, if we fail to raise kids that raise kids that raise kids... and so on, that value truth and kindness over acting nice to fit in.
This should be a stickies post. Thank you and I look forward to your next class
Really nice info, thanks for this!
A lot of people aren't aware that chief justices aren't promoted from within...they're appointed by virtue of who is selected to replace the former chief justice. I discovered this when Roberts was appointed, and concluded that the chief justice role is pretty much ceremonial only and has little or nothing to do with who actually wields the power in the supreme court.
Great dissection and explanation of the article and how fake news so often works.
Biingo. Man I fuckin love this site at times like this. Critical thinking and Logic flow at it's finest right here folks...