Inside The Ritzy Retreats Hosting Right-Wing Judges: During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts, Trump judges huddled over a new strategy to advance “history and tradition” as the law of the land.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judges-luxury-travel-corpus-linguistics_n_65f75ff6e4b0defe9b276601

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conditional_soup@lemm.ee · 60 pts · 2y

Oh my aching banana. We need to be dealing with climate change, car dependency, our fucked up healthcare system, our fucked up education system, microplastics pollution and a whole laundry list of issues. Instead we're going to be spending the next forty years cleaning up after these fucksticks and resisting the tipping into fucking feudalism.

Talaraine@fedia.io · 39 pts · 2y (2 replies)

History and tradition. You mean like precedent? That thing you've been railroading for years?

snooggums@midwest.social · 24 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Not that kind of tradition, just the terrible kind.

FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

White, Christian male supremacy.

karashta@kbin.melroy.org · 34 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The black man on the supreme court might want to rethink the stance on going with "history and tradition".

Or maybe he thinks his vote should only count as 3/5 of a vote?

Oh right. It will be cherry picked bullshit that fits whatever corrupted crap they want to force onto all of us.

conditional_soup@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y

No, no, the leopards promised they wouldn't eat his face.

Pistcow@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's OK, he's "one of the good ones".

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y (3 replies)

History that never happened, tradition that they invented.

HubertManne@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What are you talking about!? Bribery and corruption have had a long and prestigious history throughout all of history. Its our longest tradition!

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This country was founded on tax evasion.

HubertManne@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

If judges are not given free vacations, then all vacations will cost money!!!

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

1939 Nazi: Oh ja? And vat do you sink zis "modern fascist" look like?

Me: shows picture of Clarence Thomas

1939 Nazi: shoots self

Me: that's tough, but fair.

yesman@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts,

I read that as "Dunning Kruger-funded trips" and that was a mistake, but it wasn't wrong.

iheartneopets@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

I like mispronouncing the Koch brother's name as the Cock brothers. It's petty and doesn't mean much, but it makes me feel good. I have no other power against those fucks.

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

So are they setting the precedent here for "policing themselves?"

I guess we can all start policing ourselves to the same degree. Doesn't seem too tough. Hell, just get rid of the police.

wmiller@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Missed a golden opportunity to call the trips 'Koch-fueled'

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That works with both the original German pronunciation of "cock," as well as their made up pronunciation of "coke." Nice little triple entendre there.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y

That's I think that's the first time I've seen a pic of that cretin smiling.

ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Funny how they care about the original meaning of words until it is something like the term "bear arms" in Heller.

prole@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

These people are fucking evil.