LOL Jon Stewart just asked his guest what will happen to JEWS

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if Alito is confirmed.

Joking, of course. I...well, maybe he wasn't.

"Will we be asked to leave?"

[Maat]

1. HeeHee.

I'm on the West Coast, and I usually view in about another hour and a half - after I've put Beloved Daughter (9) to sleep.

Is it a Rethuglican guest or a progressive (not that I'm biased)?

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5. Some kind of Supreme Court analyst guy.

Says Alito will be confirmed, of course.

[Maat]

14. Tragically, I think he will.

It makes this Juris Doctor (law degre) cry; this Court will last for years. When I would take a class, there would be a period in which we read cases from a forty-year-period, for example. And I would realize that our nation had periods during which church-state separation was minimal, for example, and I would feel a profound sense of disappointment. It was so heartbreaking to read the "Dred Scott" decision, for another example.

I guess what I'm saying is that I fondly remember reading cases from the Court when Earl Warren and Thurgood Marshall wrote the opinions. Now, we're in for horrible opinions probably for the rest of my life (I'm 47).

My kid will look back and think of this as a horrible time in the Court's history (the Roberts court, that is).

Sorry, I'm depressed and tired, and wondering why I spent five years learning what Booosh is about to destroy, or has destroyed (my beloved Law).

[SW FL Dem]

20. I agree with you

It's been over 20 years since I studied Con Law. I'm 47 too and I worry what this court will do to affect my son's life. I am really scared for our country.

[Maat]

23. Me too.

I'm thankful I live in California; at least we have some state lawmakers trying to keep California a progressive state.

[SW FL Dem]

26. I am jealous. I used to live in So Cal

I would love to go back there, but hubby's job is here. At least I can take some comfort in knowing that Jeb is termed out. I do keep my bar status active there, just in case.

[Maat]

28. Good deal!

Hey, who knows? Your hubby might get a great job out here. You guys can come back. Then we'll form a welcoming committee to throw a party on your first day back! And ... we'll have at least two more progressives out here - because I want turn California pure BLUE!!!! (It can be blue-green; that would be fine - NO red).

[BlueIris]

2. Holy shit. DID he?

I quit watching TDS after the election when the humor became, in my eyes, irrelevant, and the "jokes" went into the realm of really bad taste. But if John's no longer pulling punches with the fascists, I might start watching again.

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4. He sure as hell didn't pull that one.

That was dead-on and strong.

[madrchsod]

9. i felt the same way

but john and colbert are a one-two punch that is the best political comment ever seen on tv....i`ll stand by that cause i`ve been watching tv since 1950

[BlueIris]

12. I might consider watching again.

But I...don't think I can do it. Jokes about fascism just aren't funny to me.

[FreedomAngel82]

21. My take is

if you aren't laughing you're just crying.

[GrumpyGreg]

3. Why on earth did he ask that?

[txindy]

7. Because Scalito is so far to the right

Anyone who isn't a white, wealthy, Christian male doesn't matter to him.

[applegrove]

8. Because the court will be about American Church values - not about

separation of church & state. If that is how Alito votes.

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10. And they'll find a way to say that lynching dissenters is perfectly

legal.

[kath]

11. uh, because with Scalito on the court, our Christo-fascist theocracy

looms ever closer.

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13. Or, arrives, more likely. nt

[Maat]

16. Are you guys trying to cheer me up or something?

:cry:

[Guaranteed]

17. That's payback for your prediction.

:)

[Maat]

19. Okay, I guess I deserved that.

I wish those Senators would stand up for the Spirit of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But I doubt they will.

Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer will, and some of our other favorites, but the rest probably see those documents as "G*dd*mned pieces of paper," like Booosh.

This will probably just be a big show.

I guess I'm not feeling too optimistic.

Anyone else have a better attitude?

[kath]

18. Right, BGL - I guess I was just trying to break it gently to the poster

who asked the question.

[madrchsod]

6. no he wasn`t

well maybe but i wouldn`t want to be a jew in the new america. these guys are the same group who treated the jews as second class citizens

[C_U_L8R]

15. The thing that really chilled me about Scallito

is that he seemed to lack empathy and compassion...
any sense of humanity and understanding.
he was cold and technical... overly technical.
So were the Nazis. Now I'm not saying that this
man's a Nazi.. but there are some terrifying similarities

not one glimmer human understanding.. yikes

[FreedomAngel82]

22. He's still like the rest of them

and a fascists.

[Oilwellian]

24. You're exactly right

He is part of a cold, deadly machine.

[Oilwellian]

25. And....

Bravo for Stewart. It was a brilliant, subtle reminder to the American people, and could not have come at a better time. :thumbsup:

[AspenRose]

27. Gosh

Maybe they'll reinstate slavery for all the black people too....:sarcasm:

*heavy sigh* Our country is going to hell.

No, wait...we're already there. :-(