Supreme Court

[Nodack]

You make the bed you lie in. Not sure what’s so hard about that either. I’m disabled and I dont go out there making my problems everyone else’s. My wife is our main supporting income and has a masters in education and we are doing fine. Are we flourishing? No. But it is what it is and grateful for everything the lords done for me. My boys have been straight a students since kindergarten…. You know why? Because we put in the work and laid the foundation. My oldest is doing his first internship making $21/hour. You know why? Wasn’t Biden, wasn’t Trump….its his hard work and dedication.

Exactly. There are those that blame everybody but themselves and then there are those of us that take responsibility for our situations. As In2 is so fond of saying, it's not that hard to understand.

Every job I had previously before I was disabled I busted my butt and got promoted. Also, Arizona has been in the bottom 45-50th for educators pay for about the last 20 years but you know what? We made it work and again are doing just fine.

I think the better question is…. What is it exactly in2 thinks Trump going to do for him?

He will make America great again. It’s only great when he’s president of course. He’s going to make all the promises he made the first time come true. Mexico will pay for the wall. He will overturn Obamacare and replace it with something terrific. He will zero out the national debt. He will end violence in inner cities. He will bring back all those coal jobs. He will end EV’s. And most of all he will get revenge on all the vermin.

[Superbone]

Clarence Thomas officially disclosed his luxury trips. The Supreme Court justice finally acknowledged what ProPublica reported last year: He secretly accepted several vacations to Bali in 2019 paid for by Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. Thomas made the admission by amending a previous financial disclosure statement that omitted the trips. The annual disclosures are required by law and are one of the only ways the public can learn about Supreme Court justices’ private lives. The report of Thomas’s getaways set off a firestorm of criticism of the court’s ethics, forcing it to adopt its first formal code in November.

[Nodack]

All perfectly legal though. Doesn’t even need to report it. He did now for whatever reason to look better I guess. The a Supreme Court judge can take as many bribes as they want. Who’s gonna do anything about it?

[In2ition]

You make the bed you lie in. Not sure what’s so hard about that either. I’m disabled and I dont go out there making my problems everyone else’s. My wife is our main supporting income and has a masters in education and we are doing fine. Are we flourishing? No. But it is what it is and grateful for everything the lords done for me. My boys have been straight a students since kindergarten…. You know why? Because we put in the work and laid the foundation. My oldest is doing his first internship making $21/hour. You know why? Wasn’t Biden, wasn’t Trump….its his hard work and dedication.

Exactly. There are those that blame everybody but themselves and then there are those of us that take responsibility for our situations. As In2 is so fond of saying, it's not that hard to understand.

Every job I had previously before I was disabled I busted my butt and got promoted. Also, Arizona has been in the bottom 45-50th for educators pay for about the last 20 years but you know what? We made it work and again are doing just fine.

I think the better question is…. What is it exactly in2 thinks Trump going to do for him?

It's not about me. I'm fine. I'm not rich by any means, and I'm a single income home as my wife has always been a stay at home mom. It was just the situation that worked best for us. I try to think I'm not boastful about my situation or kids, so I rarely speak about them, but my 2 youngest are at prestigious colleges and won't have any debt coming out of them when they graduate. And I haven’t had to pay a penny either.

So like I said, it's not about me. I'm not going to claim arrogantly that anyone who's struggling should just do what I did either. I've been very blessed in my life.

I'd like to take a moment to brag on my childhood best friend, his family and my childhood crush, who he married. They are a beautiful couple and family and have 3 wonderful daughters. They live in a city that wasn't exactly known for their softball prowess in their state, but he got voted as President of the board for their city long ago and since his daughters have been in high school for the last 12 yrs consecutively, they've gone to state. His youngest just graduated and she won the last 2 state titles and 3 overall with 4 straight trips to the state championship game. She was named every state POY award for softball and is going to a local college there with a scholarship in academics as a 4 0 student all 4 yrs along with a volleyball & softball scholarship. I couldn't be happier for them, unless his daughter married my youngest son, then I would be even happier, haha.

[Kryptonic]

So what’s Trump going to do for them? You didn’t answer the question.

[In2ition]

For who?

[Kryptonic]

Just asked about what you think trumps going to do for you. Like what exactly are the policiestt that are important to you.

Kudos to your kiddos and your friends. Very cool.

[In2ition]

I'm sorry, I must have miscommunicated something, since I didn't think I said anything about my kids that I needed to worry about.

Overall, I think he's going to get the economy turned around, including inflation, home loans and interest rates. If he's allowed without constant interference from Dems, he may even address health insurance issues, and keep us all out of wars, so my kids aren't worried about being drafted and sent off to fight. Maybe that would be helpful?

[Kryptonic]

I'm sorry, I must have miscommunicated something, since I didn't think I said anything about my kids that I needed to worry about.

Overall, I think he's going to get the economy turned around, including inflation, home loans and interest rates. If he's allowed without constant interference from Dems, he may even address health insurance issues, and keep us all out of wars, so my kids aren't worried about being drafted and sent off to fight. Maybe that would be helpful?

All of your things I’m in total support of and think our differences get muddled in political narratives. Is it so much to ask for both political parties to try to work with each other instead of against?

[Nodack]

Aside from inflation all the economic indicators say the economy is kicking ass. Inflation is high because of the pandemic and the supply problems it created. They raised rates on purpose to slow down inflation. like the Fed always does to control inflation. Are you saying we should be lowering interest rates to lower inflation or are you saying both of those will just happen because Trump is President?

[Kryptonic]

The feds doing a great job of preventing recession and it’s a super tricky situation. You lower rates, you risk driving housing prices up even more. I just get this feeling they’re going to have to create a 60 year fixed rate mortgage in order to allow new borrowers to get a monthly payment low enough to make it affordable. I just don’t see any other way around it personally.

[Nodack]

The Feds have been here done that. Things always change. We aren't young. How many recessions have we been through? Inflation isn't this new phenomenon we've never seen before. Housing prices have skyrocketed only to crash more than once in our lifetimes.

[Kryptonic]

I agree, it’s going to crack at some point but don’t think it’s going to be on housing…. Only because they still can’t make them fast enough now, and if they reduce interest rates, people who have been locked in lower interest rates will finally be able to move and demand will be even higher.

[Mori Chu]

An independent reporter seems to have captured a surreptitious recording of SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito talking about polarization in the US. Among other things he seems to agree that "one side is going to win" and that they can't really compromise with each other. Some folks are hyping up this interview as being really damning for the Justice. I don't know if I agree. I sort of assumed he thought these things already. What's the smoking gun here? Maybe I should listen to it again.

[Mori Chu]

Wow, she got audio of Alito's wife too.

[In2ition]

Wow, she got audio of Alito's wife too.

Is this a "if you're not actively advocating for Pride month and forcibly transitioning your kids, you should be arrested for wrong think" type complaints about what flag she wants?

Why do you care? Do you actively hate other people's religion? She doesn't like it forced upon her, so her HUGE stance against it is to fly a different flag? People need to grow up. Who cares?

[Mori Chu]

Trump and GOP goons scream bloody murder if they can find the slightest evidence that any family member of an important judge might have any political views whatsoever. But here a SCOTUS justice and his wife openly dislike the people from the other party, other religions, LGBTQ folks, etc. And explicitly want to "get even" with them. The hypocrisy is thick.

[In2ition]

There is a difference between disliking someone and disliking what they push on you. You can dislike the MAGA movement and people displaying it with red hats or flags, but actually like individuals that are MAGA. A lot of them are overt about it either. But, if you met someone that is overt about it sometimes when you aren't around, you may not even know it.

There is no hypocrisy here, you are talking about apples and oranges.

I like you, and everyone here. I don't like your politics though. I don't hate anyone.

[Mori Chu]

What is "get even", though, if not a pledge to take revenge on one's perceived political enemies? You can quietly dislike somebody without openly trashing them and promising to exact revenge on them. If you're in a direct position of power to decide laws on those same people, and you've made clear you think those people need to be punished, that seems problematic to me. Justices should try to take in evidence and decide each case on its own merits, not on personal grudges.

[In2ition]

I don't agree with "revenge", as it means you unjustly getting back at someone for a slight or wrong that's done on you, when it could be without merit. Holding those accountable for their crimes, is not revenge.

I don't think that the justices are "punishing" "those people", and I agree that each case should be judges on their own merits and not on personal grudges.