Can we talk about what the hell happened today with oral arguments on Biden’s vaccine mandates before the Supremes? If ever there was any respect for the office simply because of their career accomplishments and seriousness of the position, it’s all gone up in smoke now.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was in a conversation with an attorney about how OSHA regulations protect workers from machines spewing sparks in the workplace by requiring protection, like welding helmets. And Sotomayor, a sitting Supreme Court Justice, asked, referring to the likewise necessity of vaccine mandates, “Why is the human being not like a machine if it’s spewing a virus, blood-borne viruses?”
Why is a person not like a machine, Judge? Where do I begin? We are alive. We are sentient beings. We have rights, freedom, and free will. We vote in elections, the victor of one of which gifted you with this job, for which you are sorely unqualified for.
What an incredibly dehumanizing statement in the midst of two dehumanizing years.
Aside from the fact that none of us are spewing this virus from our mouths, even if we spew other viruses people aren’t so concerned about, we’d have to be spewing blood to spew blood-borne viruses. Has she really made it this far in life without any basic acquired knowledge about these things?
There are people saying they know people who know Sotomayor and she is the dumbest justice to be confirmed to the Supreme Court in decades. Other people are saying she isn’t dumb, she’s a communist activist, and she knows that everything she said today was a lie.
I don’t know which truth would be worse. Probably the second.
She said that the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is as deadly as delta. But Delta peaked with a 7-day average of 2,100 COVID-attributed deaths per day in the US in late-September, but the US’ 7-day average yesterday was 1,382. This is easily accessible information. Delta burned through the whole month of September and almost the entirety of October without dropping to 1,382. The two are not comparable.
Not to mention the fact it’s winter. There is always elevated death in winter, and no one is reporting the percentage of people dying “with COVID” when it was unrelated to the reason why they died. Is it half? Is it two-thirds?
She said, “More people are dying than ever before.” This is just… a lie? A misunderstanding? What is it?
She said she doesn’t see the distinction between Federal and State police powers. I’m sorry, what? There are no such things as “Federal police powers.” Police powers are the powers the states have to regulate behaviors relating to health, safety, morals, and general welfare within their own state lines.
She thinks OSHA has its own police powers just because it exists. Words have meaning. These words are already defined. She throws this language around like an 8th grader in a hurry to turn in a book report on a subject they didn’t understand.
How the hell did this woman get appointed to the highest court in the land? How is it possible that she has not publicly addressed her bastardization of the 10th Amendment yet?
She flat-out said that there are 100,000 children hospitalized from COVID right now, in serious condition, many of them on ventilators. I just— I mean— I can’t even. I don’t know what to say.
HHS reports, as of today, there are just 3,342 pediatric patients hospitalized across the country with positive tests, and again, one-half to two-thirds are probably incidental positives, unrelated to the reasons why the children are in the hospital.
How could she say such thing? I haven’t even read that number misprinted anywhere. Did she make it up? Did it come to her all garbled through the telephone game? Why didn’t she have any hesitation stating something so baseless with the whole entire world watching? Why was she so… emotional?
Is she a lightweight? Is she in over her head with this job? Does she get all of her medical information from tabloid media, Peter Hotez, and Eric Feigl-Ding? She wasn’t even prepared to have this conversation today—the most important American conversation of the last several decades—and yet she managed to dominate it.
She’s triple vaccinated and wouldn’t come out of her chambers today. She has type 1 diabetes; at 67 she’s likely at the end of her lifespan and she knows it. So we have a terrified medically fragile senior citizen making binding decisions for the rest of us, great.
Justice Breyer was no better. He said that by delaying the court’s decision for even a day will cause thousands of people get COVID every minute. He thinks that the OSHA workplace mandate for large companies will save every life in the US? With these useless vaccines from six variants ago? How could he reasonably think that?
He said there were 750 million new infections in the US yesterday. That’s more than twice our entire population. Was he nervous? Was he angry? How did he make that mistake? This is embarrassing. It embarrassed us in front of the entire planet.
Breyer thought the OSHA mandate should be allowed because he believes it’s in the “public’s interest.” I’m sorry, your honor, but that’s not the reason we’re here today. We’re here because it’s unconstitutional. That’s your only job.
They weren’t the only ones, I could go on and on with the unpreparedness, stupid questions, and stupid omissions and admissions on both sides of the argument and both sides of the aisle, but I will say that the DOJ’s Solicitor General is a freaking beast and I would pay $1,000 to see her and Jen Psaki go at it on any subject they disagreed about but they are probably carbon copies of one another and agree about everything.
To paraphrase a common quotation: "Think about your average Judge. Then realize half of them are dumber than that."
Un freaking believable. Our last hope and it seems hopeless :(. The fear mongering has deeply penetrated SCOTUS. Let’s pray they are able to focus on their primary duty of protecting the constitution. If you haven’t read the David E. Martin dossier on fauci, I highly recommend it. Several pertinent case law precedents about the enforceability of a vaccine (hint - it has to work and stop disease and spread).