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The point you miss, perhaps because you’re preoccupied with cartoons, is that this scandal will provide easy cover to dump the work of the Court decades from now. Smart conservatives get that. MAGA does not.

I don’t dispute this. That’s why the Thomas thing is so offensive to me. His conduct has imperiled the standing of that institution. I’m sure John Roberts—a good man and a good jurist—is at the end of his rope with all of the nonsense of the last couple of years.

Hoax.

Sigh. Nobody is suggesting dumping Thomas without impeaching and convicting. The point is that he’s under a cloud, and that any precedent made now with his vote will be easier to disrupt later. I’ll put it in terms MAGA might be able to comprehend (imagine this coming in a caveman voice): stare decisis not strong if judge corrupt. HCQ man is gaslighting again. Still says he’s dead right about HCQ being an effective treatment for COVID. This is what happens when someone falls for a Trump hoax.

I completely agree with this. The institution is under duress. If there were a republican administration, then I suspect there would be calls for him to go. Everything this Court does with a majority vote from Thomas is subject to criticism. And, if I was looking to dump precedent decades from now (generally a very bad approach, to be clear), I’d cite pay to play as a reason to change the law.

That’s not the issue. This began as an exchange with respect to your peddling of dangerous misinformation with respect to the viability of HCQ as a treatment for COVID. Your complaint with respect to the handling of the COVID-19 issue by a certain political administration has nothing to do with your campaign of misinformation and your repeated deflection of responsibility for your actions. I believe MAGA calls your approach gaslighting. Whatever the proper nomenclature, the point remains that you were an unabashed peddler of dangerous information with respect to the viability of HCQ as an effective treatment for COVID-19. Wouldn’t you want the evidence to precede the impeachment? I realize that MAGA has some strangle ethics and many warped beliefs, but your process is a little odd even for the red hat crew. Unless, of course, this is some sort of Trojan horse for a MAGA plan to later impeach a certain official (say, President Biden), and then to manufacture evidence sufficient to support a conviction. MAGA is many things. One of them is illustrative of the importance of a sound civics education, and of the danger in people who never paid attention in school suddenly believing themselves to be experts in such things as the federal constitution and procedural law.

You’ve sacrificed the moral high ground by resorting to personal insults. But it’s no surprise you’ve turned to an ad hominem attack given the indefensibility of your position. You believed HCQ was an effective treatment for COVID and, without scientific support, you promoted the idea. You misled, or at least attempted to mislead people, into believing that if they contracted COVID, then a reasonable treatment (HCQ) was available. In point of fact, that was false. Contrary to your misguided logic, false hope for an immediate effective treatment is much worse than no hope for such immediate treatment. On this point, you were very wrong. And, quite possibly, dead wrong.

Those who peddle false hope must take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Responsibility and caution were available in the early stages of COVID-19. The misinformation with respect to the benefits of HCQ assuredly encouraged some to avoid that caution, to expose themselves and others to illness, to unnecessarily clog medical facilities, and, in some instances, to die. So you can play your games about Wuhan this and zinc that. But the reality is that you were an ardent purveyor of false hope and snake oil cures. And you were dead wrong.

I would have a wittier response, but I’m preoccupied this morning with thinking about all of those poor fools who had COVID and to whom you recommended taking a mouthful of HCQ with a pinch of zinc. I hope they’re still alive. But if they’re not I hope they’re having a nice chat with Jesus about the importance of guns and rationalizing their love for the Prince of Peace with their support for casual possession of military-grade weaponry by the populous. Maybe one of those kids who had their face blown off in Texas can chime in up there, too. The combination of weed and baked goods lends itself to the question whether two wrongs make a right. I don’t use baked goods, and I have never used weed. I don’t intend to take up either habit in the future. So I’m not the one to comment. But I bet your MAGA pals would respond to the issue by saying something along the lines of “a Democrat one time at band camp ate a hash brownie, so it’s OK if Clarence Thomas takes a luxury vacation financed entirely by a person who may or may not have pending litigation before him!” MAGA logic. Gotta love it.

They probably will think you need a dictionary, too. That much is inevitable. If you’re taking about the bake sale issue, I generally don’t get in the weeds on such matters. I’d rather defer to the opinion of a glutton. They typically have the keenest sense for baked goods.

Your definition of similar, to the extent such a definition was provided, is unique. Maybe it’s even idiosyncratic. I think before we go any further in this conversation, we should get a few people together so that perhaps we can have a bake sale to raise funds so that you might someday be able to buy a dictionary. You seem like you desperately need it. Hmmm. HCQ man is calling someone else a liar. Interesting.

So, no definition of similar, hearsay is now best evidence, and whatever Cruz said is true, irrespective of the degree of familiarity with the content that he and you may or may not have.

Hoax. Hoax. If I recall correctly, the confrontation you referred to is hearsay from Ted Cruz (hardly a reliable source even before he became an election denier) and perhaps Tucker Carlson.

Define similar. And, what two people who aren't there now may or may not have done is not the issue. The question is the justice who is presently engulfed by a host of self-inflicted ethics issues.

More trips or trips of greater value? I'm sure Ted Cruz and you would have told me if RBG went on a half-million dollar excursion to Indonesia with George Soros or Ron Burkle. The bottom line is what Clarence Thomas has done is wrong. Incredibly wrong. It's bad for the institution. The truth is that, were the Bush Republicans in charge and were this a Republican administration, the obvious solution would be for him to resign. But, in a MAGA world and with a Democratic president, MAGA will defend this guy and deflect by trying to find something wrong with someone else.

The justices aren’t electeds. Everyone at that institution who has been on the take is wrong. Plain and simple. Thomas seems to have been far and away the most egregious offender.

Please. It’s not perfect. But it’s not letting Russia run amok. And for a MAGA to complain about corruption … spare me.

He’s made some poor choices. His nonsense imperils the credibility of a fine institution. It’s too bad he couldn’t resist temptation, although that seems to be a theme in his life.

He will be fine. Based on the current designs, there’s no need for eminent domain to take his property. And any change in the design to support eminent domain better be undoubtedly necessary (and probably based upon new information) if someone wants to pursue a taking. Besides, at this point, Hammer could gum it up enough and delay the process so that any taking wouldn’t be worthwhile given the delay it would cause in construction. They’ll have to buy him out if they want him gone.

F him. One of the truly sad pieces of Trumpism is that there are some d-bags in this country who support that d-bag. Putin can rot.

Republicans won’t do anything because they don’t know what to do. Their social agenda is horrible. A majority of Americans dislike it. If they go with the “traditional” Republican message with respect to economics, they’re toast because the “middle” has been pushed away by a combination of the ridiculous, hypocritical social agenda (the party of personal freedom opposes marriage equality and bodily autonomy, go figure) and the relationship Trumpism. So the only option is to double down on Trumpism and juice turnout (hence picking on people like Mexicans and trans) to try to cobble enough together to win elections. The reality for Republicans is that, to save the GOP brand, they’re going to have to break with Trumpism and take a couple of bad election cycles. The problem is that there’s no appetite to do that. So Trump will emerge from the primaries, again be the standard bearer, and that will be that.

Hoax. You’re the worst poster here.

That makes more sense. The kids field is fairly close to the Sheldon plot, and significantly upgradient from the creek. I suspect the native burial ground probably is somewhere between the Sheldon space and what now is that field. No, but there is a cemetery on site (maybe 50 yards from gate 7). Check it out on Google Maps. It’s the Sheldon Family cemetery. (There’s also a Sheldon Road about not far from the stadium and where the Sheldon family homestead used to be.)

You would know better than me, but that would surprise me a bit. The situs of the stadium is (and was, to my understanding) the high point of that area. The Sheldons buried within yards of what became one of the gates. I'd be surprised if the Native American burial area is that much closer to the creek. The story has been that the burial ground was disturbed by the stadium. It's been said/urban legend/rumor/whatever for decades.

I can’t convince you of anything, so I’m not going to try. For years I’ve been telling you that HCQ is not an effective treatment for COVID. And for years you’ve ignored me on that issue. Then you got into the Ivermectin hoax. Yummy as it may be, it doesn’t work with respect to COVID. And there you still are with your zinc, and Lysol, and HCQ, insisting that if you just take those things on the third harvest moon of the month and eat them with green play doh while watching Newsmax you can effectively treat COVID. So, no, I’m not going to try to convince you of anything. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.