ICYMI today it was reported that the shooter in Philadelphia was a black man who was a tranny and a BLM activist which pretty much assured that it would be buried and disappear. Today when Fox News came on the Clay and Buck show they didn’t mention any of the above characteristics and I wanted to wait and see if it was covered on the Five. It wasn’t even mentioned! Fox is just part of the leftist msm now unfortunately.

First I forgot to discuss the website designer case yesterday and of course it was correctly decided. But the one thing that has always bothered me about these cases be they about bakers or florists or website designers they are all artificially manufactured cases. They are bogus suits against the low hanging fruit — Christian entrepreneurs. None of these cases is about a gay couple going to a Muslim bakery demanding that a cake be made honoring homosexuality. Or a cake depicting Allah or Mohammad as idiots. How much you want to bet Colorado doesn’t have the balls to fine them, assuming the people wanting the cake got out alive.

Suppose a baker who has an ignorant but deeply held religious belief that blacks are an inferior species and refused to bake a cake celebrating black equality? I would love to see how the Supremes would deal with that. It would probably be an exercise in obfuscation.

Next a group has filed a lawsuit claiming that legacy admissions are racist so now it could be legitimately before the Supremes somewhere down the road.

And lastly once again AOC demonstrates just how lonely her single brain cell must be and how she has no idea about the constitution. She thinks that the Congress can call in Supreme Court justices and grill them about opinions. Apparently she has never heard about the separation of powers. And even more importantly, she obviously doesn’t understand where she is in the House. Her party is in the minority and so they can’t do anything without republicans approval and that ain’t never going to happen. She’s just a dumb media whore.

I’m not going to rehash the decisions because you can read all you want about it everywhere. I’m going to focus on what they mean as a whole and the stupidity on the left. First I had to actually go back and read the immigration decision because I paid little attention because nothing on the border will change until Magoo goes. However I wanted to make sure that there wasn’t anything that would go against my observations. And of course there wasn’t. There was exactly zero substance to the decision. The case was thrown out for lack of standing which is just SOP for the court and again makes me question why they didn’t throw out the NC gerrymandering case as moot.

First all of the substantive decisions were slam dunks just following the constitution. What I really enjoy is the left freaking out about what they know is correct. For example Pelosi Galore said Magoo didn’t have the authority to cancel student loan debt and Magoo agreed and now that the Supremes agree, even quoting Pelosi in the decision, they are freaking out because they know the scam was exposed. Magoo knew he couldn’t do it but promised it before the midterm to get younger voters out and it worked. Now he’s announcing another unconstitutional ploy to try to get the same idiots who fell for it the first time to fall for it again. Hopefully they’re not that stupid. But he’s counting on the fact that it won’t make it to the Supremes until after the 2024 election so he can once again campaign on what he knows is bullshit.

Then we get to the affirmative action decision and while there is no doubt that it is demanded by the constitution, the left is freaking out apparently because they are all affirmative action benefactors.

AOC was apoplectic making ridiculous statements and it makes you wonder how she got into BU and graduated. She clearly doesn’t have the mental acuity to do so. Maybe her belief that everyone wants to fuck her had something to do with it. Anyway her remarks like most others were basically we have to discriminate in favor of blacks because they’re too dumb to do it on their own. But AOC went even further in exposing her ignorance. She said that the decision was invalid because it didn’t address legacy admissions and 70% of those are white. Guess what mental midget, 71% of Americans are white. But more importantly she just doesn’t understand judicial procedure. Courts don’t have the authority to adjudicate issues not before them. Legacy admissions were not on the plate and therefore the court couldn’t just bring it up from nowhere and decide.

KBJ indicated that not only was she an affirmative action appointment but she may have been part of Harvard’s unconstitutional program. At any rate her dissents were embarrassing and just plain stupid. It was not a thoughtful discussion of the applicable law, it was wants and wishes and hopes. It was drivel. She and her fellow leftist justices should resign. I think it was Kagan, who continuously demonstrates her stupidity, who said six unelected justices did such and when exactly were her and her fellow travelers elected.

The thing that really upsets me is all the idiots who claim that if blacks can’t cheat their way into “elite “ schools then there will be no black lawyers or doctors etc. Nothing could be further from the truth. Thurgood Marshal who argued Brown v Board of Education before the Supreme Court and then became the first black Supreme Court justice went to Howard law school as have hundreds of highly respected lawyers. Howard is a HBCU and there are many more. The point being that the supposedly elite schools aren’t and everyone will be fine if they go to schools that actually teach law and not bs. I would posit that people going to run of the mill law schools are actually better prepared to practice than the eggheads from Harvard.

Now I want to end on what I see as the major takeaway from these decisions. The Court is continuing its journey to reel in the administrative state. They won’t take the secretary of education’s word for bs. They won’t rubber stamp college administrators bs and they won’t let leftists idiots say we have to discriminate to end discrimination.

The last paragraph of the last rant was just my thoughts given my ability to connect the dots. I don’t believe that you will find it anywhere else. I haven’t. So enjoy my insights that you won’t find elsewhere.

That is the Supreme Court case involving congressional redistricting maps here in NC. And unbefitting my legendary laziness, I read the opinion because the left was as always acting like they destroyed the right and some commenters were suggesting that it wasn’t a big deal.

Rest assured that it’s not a big deal and while I agree with the majority ultimate conclusion, there are two reasons that they should not have ruled on the case. The first is that if ever there was a case that was moot, this is it. Let me explain.

The history of the case is complicated and confusing. In the original case the NC SC held that the legislatures plan violated the state constitution. The case was appealed to the Supremes and they accepted. However before the case was heard an election flipped the NC SC from Dem to republican and that court agreed to a rehearing and in fact held that the maps did not violate the state constitution. So at that point the Republican legislators, who were the plaintiffs, got the relief they desired and wanted the case dismissed as moot, but contrary to their normal predeliction the Supremes said it wasn’t and so heard the case.

The actual decision was very narrow and precise and involved what is known as the Independent Legislator Theory (ILT) basically that since the US Constitution says the rules for voting in federal elections are exclusively the province of the state legislature that they are therefore not subject to any judicial review. The court disagreed and said that judicial review by state courts was allowed. But the grounds are very limited, namely that the legislature violated the state constitution. In this case it was said that partisan gerrymandering was forbidden by the state constitution.

Now as I will explain below, that was wrong. However it is a very limited decision! State courts can’t decide that they will extend the date for receiving and counting ballots. Nor can they change voter identification requirements or signature verification requirements. Their power is limited to provisions that violate the state constitution or potentially federal laws.

The reason I think that the decision was wrong, as pointed out by Justice Thomas, the provision in the state constitution relied on only applied to redistricting in state legislature voting not federal elections.

Now here’s why I think they did it because they wanted to put the ILT to rest before 2024 elections and proscribed just what judges could and couldn’t do in the future. Consider this their way to stop the nonsense that happened in 2020 ahead of time so they don’t get caught in another conundrum after the election and certainly the wimp Chief Justice would want that.

Just in case you missed it. Late last week the Dems took a victory lap for reopening I-95 in less than two weeks when it was supposed to take at least three months. They said that’s why you should vote Dem because we along with our union partners get things done. Now you may wonder why you haven’t heard anything about it since that day.

The reason is because their scam got exposed. They didn’t do shit. There were two lanes on one side of the bridge that weren’t harmed and all they did was clean up the mess and turn a six lane road to a two lane road. That’s called a work around. They now have to actually begin to reconstruct the bridge.

Contrast this with RDS in Florida where they actually rebuilt a bridge in two or three weeks.

Today Fox announced that ten days before I complete three quarters of a century, they are rearranging their prime time lineup. Now it will start at seven with Ingraham followed by Jesse replacing Tucker. Then Hannity will stay in his same spot and Gutfeld will move up to the 10 pm spot.

Now I would have kept Jesse where he is because he is simply not Tucker material. He’s a usually funny midwit. I would have put Laura in Tucker’s spot because she a serious intellect who clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, and can actually deliver an insightful and informative monologue. I know one of you doesn’t like her because she cuts off guests who start spouting nonsense. That’s one thing I like. Remember that in the beginning Tucker used to have on lefties and he would laugh like a fool but let them talk and then he realized how stupid that was and stopped doing it.

And lastly moving Gutfeld up is a good move because it makes it more likely that I will see it live and not having to watch it back the next day. My one concern is whether he can continue with the risqué nature of his show at the earlier hour.

Apparently she’s been getting a lot of criticism for appearing stupid on the Five, so she started out yesterday by saying she’s paid to be Debbie Downer and basically saying she’s just mouthing leftist nonsense because she’s apparently for sale!

I’m not sure that was any better.

The reason for this rant is that it occurred to me a couple days ago under basically Marketing 101 you have to know your audience and not offend it.

In the bud lite case their audience is not flat chested trans women floating around like a prepubescent wood nymph. And thus they took a big hit.

Truvada is an aids prevention drug. Their commercial is full of gay couples kissing and acting just like straight couples and even features a bit at the end where what I believe is known as a bear — a husky guy with a very hairy chest — being kissed on the lips by a younger thinner man. Now that may not be your cup of tea or mine, but they were playing to their audience. Most people reading this are probably not in the Truvada demographic but that’s okay. We weren’t going to buy it before or after the commercial. They potentially connected with their base and certainly didn’t offend them.

RIP! The purpose of this rant is to once again punch my curmudgeon ticket.

First I’m sorry for the people who died. No I take that back. I feel sorry for their survivors who unfortunately had kin that were narcissistic idiots who risked their lives for a completely useless joy ride This was nothing more than the ultimate, make that penultimate, example of conspicuous consumption. If you don’t know what that is, look it up it’s a staple in economics.

Remember these idiots paid $250K per seat to go on basically a sightseeing trip that they could have seen much better on the internet. No they went so they could say I’m richer than you and can do stupid things you can’t afford.

Btw the ultimate is people who pay I think it’s $1 million to ride Space X.

And I’m sick of people, particularly Clay and Buck, pretending that these idiots were explorers or people pushing scientific discoveries. They even compared them to Lewis and Clarke. This is total bullshit. They were going on a sightseeing trip to a place that has already been videotaped ad nauseam.

And here’s what I really object to. They all signed a waiver which on the first page said three times that death was a possibility. What I want added is that if something goes wrong, not one dollar of US taxpayer money will be spent to bail you out. How many millions did will we have to pay because idiots took a risk for no legitimate reason other than narcissistic vanity?

That should keep me in the curmudgeon society.