Apart from all else, the thing that bothers me most about Alito.

[quiet.american]

-- And that is, with "a very even demeanor," he sits there and sees absolutely nothing twisted and wrong about authorizing the strip search of a 10-year-old. And he himself has a daughter! You know, maybe there's something I don't get, but that is just sick.

[Warpy]

1. Right, he has absolutely no empathy

and that is frightening in anyone, but especially horrifying in anyone with potential control over millions of lives.

Plus he's too young, too smarmy, too wedded to extremist ideology, too mendacious, and will be 100% beholden to an illegally installed administration. He is unfit for the job

The most important thing that has happened in politics in my lifetime will be this appointment. It desperately needs to be filibustered.

[quiet.american]

3. The thing is, it's so obvious. His record speaks for itself.

And yet... only those who are already out of office, retired, what-have-you seem willing to speak in strong and direct terms about how this guy is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG for the SCOTUS. Where does the country go from here when we have a pResident who flouts the law and remains untouched, unchecked, unaccountable, and a sick man like Alito as the "swing vote" on the highest court in the land?

[woodsprite]

14. The age thing doesn't bother me if we knew someone would make

good, fair decisions and rule justly. BUT there is absolutely no indication, either thru previous case history or divulged thru the hearings, that would lead someone to believe that about Alito.

[RC]

2. Alito is another sociopath. People are just objects.

Things to manipulate for fun and profit.

[quiet.american]

6. -- And I have to ask myself, what is it with Repubs and pre-tweenie girls?

Remember (indicted) Libby's novel -- his fevered imagination produced a scene where a girl trapped in a cage is forced to couple with a bear. :yoiks: :scared:

[RC]

13. They are taught that normal sex is wrong. Basically anything other than

a mostly covered up, missionary position once a month for procreation purposes by a married male to his female wife .
Our bodies are dirty and desiring as an adult what you were punished as a child for doing is a perversion.
Once past that line, one perversion is the same as another. "You're gonna fry in hell anyway man, ya might as well make it good."
Add in their being sociopaths with a limited to non-existent empathy for anyone 'not like them' and you have the doorway open to justification for all kinds of weird perversions and sex crimes.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Typical of his class and position, he has never known

anyone personally who has been abused in any way shape or form. To him it is all an abstraction, words on paper. The people he sees in the courtroom are not real to him, they are puppets in the "system" of which he is the master.

Normal concerns are beyond masters like him.

[quiet.american]

8. That's why it was all the more nauseating when his wife "cried."

Maudlin, given that he doesn't look capable of shedding a tear for anyone -- there she is boo-hooing away for her beloved monster.

[roguevalley]

5. he swaggers and shows contempt for others plain on his ugly face

[quiet.american]

10. Yes -- like they all do, because they know the fix is in. n/t

[Mind_your_head]

7. You're right - that is just SICK, SICK, SICK

I can't even begin to imagine how humiliating and traumatizing that would be for ANYONE, let alone a young girl of 10. As you say, how would Alito feel if HIS DAUGHTER was strip searched (and she's high school age)? Would he be outraged? Would Mrs. Alito shed tears for her own daughter being strip searched? Did she shed tears over it happening to some other little girl? If not, why not? Why would it be different if it were THEIR daughter vs. someone else's daughter?

Sam Alito has no empathy and is totally heartless.

[quiet.american]

9. You have read my mind with every word you've said.n/t

[baldguy]

11. But - you understand it was a *black* child.

They don't think & feel the the same as you & me.
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[quiet.american]

12. Alas, alas. n/t