This is another grab your chair before you’re knocked on your butt moment. Clarence Thomas, joined by Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito, penned a dissenting opinion in which he falsely stated that COVID vaccines are made from the cells of aborted children, which is pure QAnon. At least he didn’t start talking about adrenochrome, we should count our blessings.

Adrenochrome, for the uninitiated, is the name of a mystical psychedelic favored by the global elites for drug-crazed satanic rites. They get it from torturing children to harvest their oxidized hormonal fear—a kind of real-life staging of the Pixar movie Monsters, Inc., according to the Daily Beast. “QAnon also likes to say that Monsters, Inc. is Hollywood telling on itself,” says QAnon researcher Mike Rains, “because the plot of scaring kids to get energy is what they really do.”

Back to Clarence Thomas, who went on record, suggesting that COVID vaccine was developed using the cells of “aborted children,” in a dissenting opinion. Pure right-wing nuttiness, vintage QAnon. From a Supreme Court justice. Politico:

The conservative justice’s statement came in a dissenting opinion on a case in which the Supreme Court declined to hear a religious liberty challenge to New York’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate from 16 health care workers. The state requires that all health care workers show proof of vaccination.

“They object on religious grounds to all available COVID–19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children,” Thomas said of the petitioners.

None of the Covid-19 vaccines in the United States contain the cells of aborted fetuses. Cells obtained from elective abortions decades ago were used in testing during the Covid vaccine development process, a practice that is common in vaccine testing — including for the rubella and chickenpox vaccinations.

A group of doctors, nurses and other health care workers brought the case, suing the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York in an objection to the state’s vaccine mandate on religious grounds. The district court issued a preliminary injunction, but the Court of Appeals reversed it and the Supreme Court ultimately declined to hear the challenge on Thursday.

The Supreme Court, in the last ten days of its session, has changed America. Huffington Post:

Just consider what the court has done since last Tuesday:

― It has invalidated gun restrictions in states that hold about one-fourth of the population and created a new constitutional standard for firearm restrictions that will make defending other limits (including parts of a new law that President Joe Biden signed last week) even more difficult.

― It has forced publicly funded school voucher programs to include religious establishments and required districts to allow coach-led, post-game prayers on the field, and in the process dispensed with a decades-old legal test designed to prevent official government endorsements of faith.

― It has ended the right to an abortion, effectively allowing the procedure to be illegal or nearly illegal across a broad swath of the country, while also rejecting the constitutional foundation of privacy rights that protect same-sex marriage and use of contraception.

To put things a bit differently, the court has gutted limits on gun possession, severely weakened the wall between church and state, and taken away a right that has existed for nearly 50 years ― reinterpreting the First, Second, Fifth, Ninth and 14th Amendments in the process.

And that was all before Thursday, when it finished the term by preemptively striking down new carbon emissions standards, thereby limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slow climate change, on the basis of a principle that could dramatically reduce the government’s power to regulate everything from product safety to health care.

About the only major issue on which the court hasn’t written new doctrine this year is race. And that will likely happen next year, when the justices take up cases that could end affirmative action and eviscerate what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.

Color me horrified. We have a group of unelected officials who are changing laws rather than remanding such things to the legislature, as the judicial branch is supposed to do. We now will live in a land of judge-made law as opposed to judge-interpreted law. I am gobsmacked, but this is what’s happening before our very eyes. I have heard that the Supreme Court is coming for Social Security next. May God help the younger generations in this country. They are going to be living in a very different country than the one the yous and mes grew up in.

In my life I have seen the erosion of advantages that older generations took for granted. Higher education used to be much more affordable than it is. College has become a high priced racket. We never used to have parents paying people to take SATs for their kids or the insanely high cost of tuition.

Add to that the pressures that young people now face with respect to these other draconian changes that the Supreme Court has put in motion this week, Roe v. Wade being the least of them, quite frankly.

I am reminded of the 2013 film Elysium, wherein the elites lived on a luxurious artificial satellite world while the rest of us lived in a hellscape of a ravaged earth. Maybe that’s what the SCOTUS judges are trying to create. Or, maybe they figure that that’s what their escape will be, so screw the rest of us. I have no idea. Because if we wreck this planet, we don’t have another to go to. So maybe the Bezos and Musks and all them will build in fact build a satellite, or a colony with a heavy wall around it, in whatever habitable zone exists on this planet when the rest of it is destroyed by climate change.

All I know is that I’ve enjoyed dystopian sci fi as a genre all my life. I never thought I’d be living in it.

 

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  1. It’s always amazed me that the anal-retentive conservaturds will fight tooth and nail to force a woman to give birth, but they have no qualms whatsoever about not leaving that child a inhabitable planet to live on.

    *shakes head*

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    • Not sure why you’re so amazed. That side has NEVER been about “life”; it’s ALWAYS been about forced-birth. They’ve never given the slightest bit of concern over the quality of life for a post-vaginal child; all they’ve ever cared about is making sure that a woman with a parasitical fetus is forced to carry it for 9 months and then push it out her vagina–after that, it’s not their business.

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  2. They do use cell cultures in developing drugs of all kinds, and they are started with cells from aborted fetuses…but the mothers consented to the use, and they’re all decades-old cell cultures.

  3. As much as I despise Trump, I despise McConnell even more. He’s the one who denied Obama a judge because it was an election year, only to shove Barrett through weeks before an election. He says Dems will pack the court but he already did that. We now have The Supremely Biased Court. McConnell and his cronies in the Federalist Society a pure EVIL.

  4. How on earth can anyone be surprised that the black man who replaced the great Justice Marshall believes a nonsensical conspiracy theory? The man is not bright F.F.S. This oozes from the few opinions he has written and it spews from him during his speeches. He is sub-par and does not belong on any court let alone the s.c. The same is true for the vagina that replaced the Notorious R.B.G. and beer bong. In fact, I would be hard-pressed to label any of the six extremists as anything BUT sub-par legal minds.

    Point of fact: conservatives have lower I.Q.’s than progressives so the six extremists are for all practical purposes the developmentally disabled of the legal world.

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  5. SO awesome 😎👍
    SO much nonsensical whining
    God bless Justice Thomas
    God bless America 🇺🇸
    Riddle me this, politizoomers;
    If a country has 133,000,000 registered voters, how can the “official” tally (B – 81,000,000 + T – 74,000,000) of a secure and accurate election total 155,000,000?

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    • Well, there’s a factual hole in your hypothesis. There are over 213,000,000 registered votes in the United States. A LOT more than the figure you cited. Here’s a state by state breakdown. If memory serves in 2020 voter participation (registered voters who cast ballots was a bit over 69% which is the highest so far in this century and far greater (both for Democrats and Republicans) than in 2016. From where I sit it’s sad that less than seventy percent of registered voters cast ballots. Of course, ONE Party (and it ain’t the Democrats has engaged in systematic and increasingly multi-faceted and sophisticated voter surpression so probably without that we’d have at least cracked the 70% mark. But that’s another issue for another time.

      You know what I find interesting? Unless they’ve recently changed there IS one state (just the one) that doesn’t require registration to vote in either federal or state elections. North Dakota. A freaking deep RED state! Of course, it’s sparsely populated and in most places everyone knows everyone else. It’s also white as hell. But again the main point is that your contention that there were only 133,000,000 registered voters in 2020 is in a word bullshit.

    • Don’t you just hate it when you interject yourself into a conversation amongst people who are much more intelligent and informed than you and get beat down with facts so that you look like a complete, full of shit idiot??? Of course you don’t!!!

      Since you morons seem to be in a race to see who can completely dumbass the other, you should put in with the other morons that you “wons the internets” today.

      You dumbass.

      *smirk*

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  6. The gqp has bought themselves a court to do the dirty work they cannot do themselves. Instead of trying to win elections, and win legally without gerrymandering and other bullsh!t, they decided to use the court to change the law of the land. And they know there isn’t anything we can do about it. Yes, voting rights will be taken away at some point. Then their diabolical plot will be complete. They have waited years for this. As soon as Justice Ginsburg died, they knew they were all set up to destroy democracy and the country.

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    • I don’t know that there isn’t anything we can do about it. “The refusal of the United States Senate to consider any nominee put forth by President Obama is a clear violation of the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.” (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2)
      The President . . . shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law. . .

      The Senate Must Consider Supreme Court Nominations in Due Course

      As one commenter states: “The remedy that is available for the actions of the Senate is for the general public to call and email their Senators and demand that they perform their constitutional duty.”

      Too late for that now. But I think it means Biden is justified in expanding the court by two. And for gross and repeated violations of ethics if not law (and possibly law), Thomas needs to be impeached.

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