So, Roberts, despite my fearless prediction, went all Fat Tony with his “evil judicial lawmakers” rant, apparently deciding his reputation as a Republican needed the buffing more than his judicial legacy did. Not that it will do him much good now he has perpetually branded himself as Obama’s healthcare enabler to generations of bitter wingnunts. The best bit – thanks to Obama and John Roberts, the life expectancy of bitter wingnuts in many states has skyrocketed. That’s a lot more sweet, sweet tears to savor.
I was going to mine the Supreme dissents (pdf) for yucks, like how Scalia thinks hippy jokes are cutting edge comedy and California has broken off the West Coast and is rapidly sailing east on a magic cloud of potsmoke and buttsex, but thankfully the Wonkettes got there before me and saved me the trouble. Scalia’s dissent is worth a read if you want to see angry, ranty hypocrisy at its funniest, but is perhaps best left for gleeful contemplation at another time.
For tonight is a night to celebrate a fine and happy day – a day to marry, to be married or hunt down sweaty monkey sex with the one you’re going to marry – so I am just going to leave you with this, because Biden:
Joe is running through the halls with a rainbow flagged tied on like a cape high fiving everyone. #MarriageEquaility #LoveWins #SCOTUS
— Jill Biden (@JillBidenVeep) June 26, 2015
[ETA: Yes, I know it’s probably a fake twitter feed, but I’d lay money that this is actually what Joe Biden is doing right now…]
And this, because it’s sweet and simple and it made me cry. It’s celebration time, kiddies. Kiss your husbands, kiss your wives, kiss whoever will let you. Straight people, enjoy your marriages while they’re still legal.
Cheers, and mine’s a margarita.
Baud
To hell with ally the happy gay people, I’m celebrating the fact that today’s decision brought you back, SP&T.
srv
I just threw up a little.
Elizabelle
Happy, happy, happy. Glad to see you here, Miss Sarah.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I was so happy about SP&T’s return I got a tattoo and piercing in her honor, match that Baud!
MomSense
Yay SP&T is here!
Eric Nny
Marry me Sarah!
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Yeah, well I circumcised myself because I was so excited. Balls back in your court, Bill.
Yatsuno
Oh hello my dear Sister Sarah! And on his most frabjous of days no less!
I am quite pleased with how the court has gone this past week. I am afeared of disappoint later on since there are still a couple rulings left.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Can’t beat that, I had that procedure as a baby. Nothing left to cut, you win my friend.
jl
Hellloooooo Spat! So nice to see you again.
If you are not already drunk, what did you think if Kennedy’s opinion? I heard and read of law type pundits complaining it was too vague on various (to me) opaque and mystical legal points concerning due process versus equal protection and what tests should apply to what. But seems like you say that his opinon says distinctions will flunk all tests, so maybe that is your answer already.
And how far away are multi-man multi-women orgy marriages, which I think we are supposed to be scared off, though more I think about it, why?
If you answer me, dear SPaT, as many Pisco Punches as you want next time in Northern California. Which is not high class enough for you, probably. But, hey, I will even come to Reno and buy them for you if you think that is better venue.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yes!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yatsuno: I share your trepidation, especially about the AZ redistricting case.
scav
Party wouldn’t be entirely complete without, and this one has the raw materials to be justifiably epic. Ha!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: My ear is really sore though, but I’ve wanted to get an industrial for years.
Randy P
@Sarah: Consensus on the Biden tweet is that it’s a parody account.
But it says something about the guy that most Biden fans (myself included) had no problem whatsoever believing it.
So, speaking of the Supreme Court, I just discovered something on YouTube. Through a series of YouTube free association clicks which I no longer remember, I found myself watching John Oliver talking about how they could turn Supreme Court oral arguments from incredibly boring into must-watch TV with “real animals, fake paws”.
And then apparently… he actually did it. So here you go, BJ Supreme Court fans. Your Supreme Court oral arguments
lamh36
Guys, I don’t know if it’s showing everywhere, but my local PBS station just happens to be showing the White House In Performance series, American Gospel segment.
Miss Re-Re herself, is “taking everybody to church: at the White House.
Just heard a song by Lyle Lovett that I never heard before. It was beautiful. All the music was.
I haven’t been to a church service in DECADES, but I still remember all the songs sung in my grandmother’s church and damn if I don’t feel that spirit right now.
It’s being rebroadcast at 1030 EST I believe
Yatsuno
@BillinGlendaleCA: That and the EPA case I’m afraid is deader than Breitbart.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Did you really get pierced?
the Conster
@lamh36:
I saw all of it. It started at 9 here in Boston. It was amazing, he’s amazing, amazing amazing.
Elizabelle
@Randy P: I believed the Biden tweet when I saw it. Someone had to talk me down. Happy to think of Joe celebrating in a cape.
mobile amir khalid
Marvellous to see you back. Will you be sticking around for at least a few more posts?
debbie
Bathing the White House in the rainbow flag has got to be the coup de gras.
Mike J
Scotusblog’s twitter feed was hilarious again today:
SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog 2h2 hours ago
Mike J
@Randy P:
Yes, but if it HAD happened, it might look a little like this.
Jeffro
Just posted this in the other thread but thought I’d post here too: while (obviously) the GOP will try to use these decisions and rally the troops in 2016 (perhaps even 2020? Beyond?)…what exactly are they going to run on with hope of winning in the future, with ObamaCare obviously working, gay marriage settled by SCOTUS (and a no-big-deal to most regardless), changing demographics both in terms of hue and age in the electorate, and climate change an ever-increasing concern on people’s minds?
I am just not seeing it (knock on wood). It’s like there is this party that represents most of the country, and an increasingly incomprehensible & shrinking party off in the corner mumbling to itself. Which is fine, of course – they can stay in the corner for eternity, and should. But if there is a sane GOP strategist left, what’s she thinking will ever turn the tide for them, much less put an R in the White House?
jl
@Mike J: I wonder how many wingnuts who think SCOTUSblog is not private blog but official SCOTUS are going into Orson Welles War of the Worlds panic today.
eyelessgame
THIS MENTAL IMAGE
IN MY BRAIN HE IS IN A SPEEDO
jl
@Mike J: Oh well, it’s ‘out there’ now. Too late. It did happen and I just done downloaded that sucker for history.
TaMara (BHF)
@lamh36: Thanks for the heads up, tuning in now.
And good to see you SPAT!
jl
@Jeffro: I think there it will be a battle between…
Trying to recognize that these issues, for a comfortable majority of voters, are off the table and they have to pay some attention to an agenda to beat HRC, since Obama is NOT running for another term.
Or obsess over this in front of their base for GOP primary electioneering purposes, the drama (queen?) thrills and chills, posturing heroism, and that sweet grifter cash.
I wonder which they will choose and will it even be close. I hope it is the latter.
Elizabelle
@Mike J: That not a cape. That a parachute.
Speaking of capes, I thoroughly enjoyed Christopher Lee day on TCM on Monday. DVRd them, and will catch the flicks again. Loved the Dracula flicks, and Horror Express was a lot of fun.
Little Boots
@Baud:
plus me, right?
lamh36
My gifs of the night.
First, this is me whenever my family comes over to the house without calling first!
http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/closedoor.gif
Second gif, from my LGBFF (Latino Gay BFF)…
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qfbzMIVF1r1yxw8.gif
TaMara (BHF)
@lamh36: Oh, and hosted by the awesome Robin Roberts. Hey, now I can gay marry her…if I wasn’t still straight and she didn’t have a girlfriend. She’s still my girl crush, though.
ruemara
@lamh36: I didn’t go to church, but I got blessed during the eulogy.
Splitting Image
As one of the nattering nabobs of negativism who thought that Roberts would burnish his credentials as a reasonable centrist by voting with the majority on the marriage case and knock down the ACA subsidies a day later, let me say that I’m glad to be proven wrong on this.
In hindsight, Kennedy voting with the other three idiots on the first ACA case really rattled me. I wasn’t sure that he would vote differently this time, and that left the whole thing in the hands of George W. Bush’s hand-picked chief justice. Jesus Christ, I can’t tell you how glad I am that the wait is over.
Now all we need is for Obama and the EU to hammer out that nuclear agreement with Iran before the end of the month. Keeping my fingers crossed on that one.
I’m tempted to tweet Jill Biden and say “pix or it didn’t happen”. But I understand that this requires some occult tools such as a twitter account.
Little Boots
at the risk of being yelled at, by the omnes, erasure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjdt6pSVMKg
Mike J
@lamh36: It’s on TVOne (NBC’s black net) here.
Matt McIrvin
@Jeffro: My friend who thinks Jeb Bush’s ascension to the presidency is preordained and inevitable thinks all they really need is “Hillary Clinton is a GIRL”.
I guess we’ll see.
MomSense
@Mike J:
I love SCOTUSblog so much.
Aleta
@Little Boots: ah, that’s beautiful, and perfect
Little Boots
@Matt McIrvin:
jeb. say it loud, say it proud, jeb.
no, it never works.
NotMax
Some enterprising web writer ought to track down and interview Harriet Miers.
Donut
@Jeffro:
They still have plenty of stupid shit to spew about the Blahs and the Vagina Havers. They’ll likely be campaigning directly against the Vagina Haver who wants to be POTUS, and of course against the guy they reflexively hate for being POTUS while Blah, even though he isn’t running for shit. It won’t matter to them, it’s all they’ve got, so they’ll keep fucking both of those chickens.
The end.
Helen
@Little Boots:
Oh my. That is 19??? 85? Looks a lot like early Culture Club. You know. The good kind.
NotMax
re: the Jill Biden thingy – it’s a parody account.
Still and all, as the theme of The Flinstones put it, “We’ll have a gay old time!”
Elizabelle
CNN’s got the Obama eulogy for Senator Pinckney on. Glad to see it getting so much play.
Our local Sinclair TV station put together a nice late news package about Obama saying nice things, personally, about Mr. Pinckney, and that he sang and — crickets about any of his substantive comments. Have to get those somewhere else.
Little Boots
@Helen:
exactly, who does not love culture club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw
Elizabelle
@Jeffro: Thinking about 2016 harshes my mellow, because I like having a president I trust and who does not actively scare me.
Just the idea that a Republican could possibly be elected, since Obama did all the heavy lifting for 8 years and it’s safe to go with insanity and inanity again …. scares me.
the Conster
@Donut:
LOL. You’re exactly right – they have exactly two chickens to fuck – women and blacks/browns/other. What do they do if the chickens won’t be fucked anymore?
Helen
@Little Boots:
MY FAVORITE SONG EVA. I love you.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: I am crying with laughter. Brilliant.
Mike J
@Little Boots:
I worked at a top 40 station at the time. I never heard more than the first or last 15 seconds of any song on the charts because I’d turn down the monitors Even if I might have started out liking a song, it was beaten out of me quickly.
Little Boots
@Mike J:
oh come on, do you really want to hurt me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9MdW8RISCI
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: This should answer your question.
jl
@Elizabelle: I am hoping the GOP is just too crazed right now to do anything. Bush Derangement Syndrome is the sniffles compared to Obama Derangement Syndrome, which seems to eat brains entire and leave the victims permanently damaged.
Valdivia
@Little Boots: You have now put Erasure in my head. I might have to hunt you down ;)
Also, I need to crash because I am guiding a museum tour tomorrow, work on a saturday which kinda sucks
SPaT being here is the coolest thing though.
Mike J
@the Conster:
It’s all the same to them.
Elizabelle
And now Cole shows up! Yet another thread.
Where is Dengre?
Gotta count. Isn’t this the most threads ever in a day, for like months?
Elizabelle
@Valdivia: I wish the White House swathed in colors would stay up all weekend. Want to see it.
p.a.
@efgoldman: this has been a very nice week, but I can’t help thinking the other shoe will drop on challenges to vote suppression legislation. It has already started with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. It’s all they have left, so the Federalist seeded judiciary will treat suppression like a firewall.
NotMax
@the Conster
Move briskly along to the sheep.
;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I have told you before that I am just fine with Erasure. I prefer Yaz/Yazoo, but, on this day, Vince’s other band is the right one to play.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@jl:
Kennedy’s opinion seems to me to be a bit short on actual legal reasoning. It’s a bit “marriage = fundamental right, so we’re done”. The concern seems to be that it doesn’t clearly analyse the relevant legal tests and provide a detailed basis for future decisions on same sex adoption, job discrimination etc.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/26/same-sex-marriage-court-cases-lgbt-rights
Omnes Omnibus
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: The reasoning on other fundamental rights should then apply. Restrictions should receive strict scrutiny.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Omnes Omnibus:
I confess, I haven’t really read it. Too busy drinking.
Valdivia
@Omnes Omnibus: You mean this?
@Elizabelle: me too!
ok goodnight BJ people, already past my bedtime.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I think you made the better choice. Whatever the issues that the professionals will find with the opinion, the result is worth a major celebration.
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: Well past.
Tree With Water
Reading Scalia’s dissent is like being drenched with his spittle.
jl
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Thank you. Let me know when you are in my area, so you can collect your pisco punches.
Aleta
@Little Boots: And when he was good, he was very, very good. This made me cry-like.
I love when he plays the harmonica through the window like a butterfly.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: No. Not remotely.
Aleta
This is about love, too.
Juke Box Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tzi8wkYgI
fuckwit
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Yeah,seems like he’s not a great writer or reasoner. Which is probably why there are 4 separate dissents. But, if you want the thing to pass, he’s the swing vote, so he is swinging the big schlong, and thus he gets to write the opinion.
I wonder when there might be a gay Supreme Court Justice? It could happen. Statistically, it should happen, at least one.
Also, too, at least an additional two women. It’s still way too much of a boy’s club.
shell
Well, there goes MY dirty mind. In the video when I saw the two guys go into the restaurant, at first I thought it said ‘Grab Pot.’