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In article <v4tfeh$1ons5$1@dont-email.me>,
 moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 6/18/2024 9:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <v4t1dt$1ig6v$1@dont-email.me>,
> >   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 6/18/2024 5:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>> In article <v4s1q2$1c3jr$7@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Maybe if we all chipped in a few bucks, Clarenzabell and Sammy Flagflyer
> >>>> would change their votes.
> >>>
> >>> Weird how Alito's flag also has flown over San Francisco's city hall for
> >>> more than half a century. Hardly a bastion of conservatism, San
> >>> Francisco. Yet when SF prog pols fly it, it's no big deal.
> >>>
> >>> https://ibb.co/S6wFxDy
> >>>
> >>> It was also used prominently by BLM during their 'mostly peaceful'
> >>> Summer of Love.
> >>>
> >>> https://ibb.co/Z8kvvMc
> >>>
> >>> So to recap: a flag when flown by leftist pols and far-left violent
> >>> communist protest groups is totes cool, but the moment a conservative
> >>> raises it on his private property, he should be impeached and removed
> >>> from office.
> >>
> >> Yes, we hold a Supreme Court Justice to a stricter standard of
> >> impartiality than we do an organization like BLM.  Life's unfair...
> > 
> > Government officials are government officials. If it's not a problem for
> > the ones in San Francisco to fly it, it's not a problem for any official
> > to fly it.
> 
> When I say "we hold a Supreme Court Justice to a stricter standard", I 
> am, of course, speaking of a time when such fantasy seemed within reach.

Now it's "we hold Supreme Court justices to a double standard".

Just look at the faux-rage over Clarence Thomas's "perks"-- which I 
acknowledge are unseemly-- but there's no similar outrage from the 
pearl-clutchers on the Left over Kagan's and Sotomayor's indulgences.