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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

I don't believe it – another one just as I'm about to have dinner. Still it's good news, though I don't see why the decision should take 148 pages – that's half a tree. I'm not American but it does seem obvious even to me and I could do it in about half a page or less.

Matri's avatar

“This could have been an email” vibe right there.

wreck's avatar

How many pages does it take to say "Fuck off, moron"?

jason's avatar

Judges have to write lengthy judgments to close any loopholes that could be discovered during an appeal.

Vicki Sorensen's avatar

A win. For the Constitution and for the sane people of Oklahoma.

Maltnothops's avatar

What’s for dinner?

Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Cheese and mushroom omlets, zucchini fritters, tomato salad with a dressing made of chopped olives, capers, parsley, oil, lemon juice. Without the capers because we don't have any.

Joan the Dork's avatar

I propose that this day, the First of April- April Fools' Day- be henceforth dedicated to the rank stupidity and gullibility of MAGAts. I can think of no better use for this holiday. All of its entertainment value is lost- so let it be a monument to the Fools. Let it stand forever as a reminder that yes, humans 𝘤𝘢𝘯 be this stupid; yes, we 𝘤𝘢𝘯 be this self-destructive; yes, we 𝘤𝘢𝘯 be this evil. This is a holiday for the fools. Let them have it. Let them 𝘳𝘰𝘵 in it.

XJC's avatar
Apr 1Edited

Then today you must rent Dictator for a Day: A MAGA Musical for the Masses. Laugh your ass off at the expense of The Orange One, the chosen leader of the party in power. Because...the price of eggs!

Available on YouTube, Apple TV, Google TV, and YouTube TV.

Cortney's avatar

Sixth tenet day.

Crowscage's avatar

The man's name is Raper with a T added. Every word he's spoken further demonstrates that he's an immoral piece of anti American shit.

Maltnothops's avatar

Maybe the T is “silent”.

Like Colbert.

Troublesh00ter's avatar

I've got to say it again: Just WHAT PART of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." doesn't Arkansas get? It's pretty clear to me that the state in general and Jason Rapert in particular needed to have their noses rubbed in it for the message to sink in. Judge Kristine Baker's opinion was clear and concise and boiled down to that one phrase:

... 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝐴𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒.

Got that, Rapert? No, you do NOT get to violate the Constitution without consequences and no, you do NOT get to have your pet statue on public property!

Somehow, I doubt this will be the end of this debacle. I just hope it's the beginning of the end.

Paul Prothero's avatar

I live in Arkansas, and those cross-humping assholes don’t give a shit if anything they do violates the constitution. Northwest Arkansas is a place of astonishing beauty, but except for my blue dot of Fayetteville, the racist jeebus people in surrounding communities are as ugly as can be.

Joe King's avatar

Rapert gets the smackdown he needed. It's about time, and it is good to see the courts at least trying to hold back the Christian Nazionalists. BTW, is Hemant able to get enough sleep? He's been busy lately.

foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

I try to understand how I might feel, if I had a strong enough belief that the presence and actions of the ultimate power could benefit all life on Earth.

But these fools want to use religion to gain power and to cause harm, so fruck them ALL!

avis piscivorus's avatar

It took 10 years for this court to decide the illegal monument has to go. Add another 10 years for appeal courts to agree with this decision. This may be long enough for the supreme court to view it as a historical monument.

ericc's avatar

I predict upheld on appeal and SCOTUS doesn't grant cert. 148-page ruling with quotes from the legislature showing it's favoritism? They won't want to touch this one.

But you're right, it'll be years more before the monument gets taken down.

Kukaan Ei Missään's avatar

I see Putin's poodle is now talking about pulling out of NATO. 'Cos he has been told to, or because its members are being nasty to him and not doing what he tells them - https://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-live/live/2026/apr/01/iran-live-updates-trump-claims-war-will-end-rubio-nato-relationship?page=with%3Ablock-69ccdef78f083005d0650bd0#block-69ccdef78f083005d0650bd0

Before anybody else posts a meme, "Why not both"?

Troublesh00ter's avatar

That stupid fuck wants to squander over 70 years of cooperation and trust-building, most likely because Putin told him to do just that. I loathe that putrid piece of shit like no other human being on this planet.

Boreal's avatar

He says NATO has never helped the US except that they did in Afghanistan. He is abysmally stupid.

John Smith's avatar

And in Iraq during the Gulf War, and in Korea. As well, as peacekeeping missions!

Len Koz's avatar

Neither he nor his cult remember history older than yesterday and often not even that far back.

ericc's avatar

By "never" Trump means "in response to my latest demand" and by "the US" Trump means "me."

NOGODZ20's avatar

Post-911 Security 2001-2002.

Libya 2011.

The fight against ISIS 2014 to TODAY.

Hurricane Katrina 2005.

Fought piracy in the Gulf of Aden 2008-2016.

Maltnothops's avatar

He can’t die or have a debilitating stroke soon enough.

RegularJoe's avatar

As I read this in the wee hours of April 1st, I have to remember that it was published on March 31.

😉

Boreal's avatar

Christian erectile dysfunction

Kukaan Ei Missään's avatar

I wonder how "Holistic United" is going to spin this?

Troublesh00ter's avatar

That twit can suck a root for all of me. Judge Baker's decision could not have been clearer. Would be fun to see if he would have the cojones to walk into her courtroom and tell her that "discernment matters."

I smell a Contempt of Court ruling, as it comes to that!

Kukaan Ei Missään's avatar

He doesn't look to have posted after I left. A constant repetition of the same verbal diarrhoea, and no understanding of anything that others were saying.

I enjoyed "Siegfried", even at a running time of five and a quarter hours.

Time in the intervals for wine and smoked salmon sandwiches.

Sallyfemina's avatar

That is a very civilized outing indeed.

oraxx's avatar

It's completely lost on the Christians who keep pushing the Ten Comments that eight of them would be unconstitutional should anyone try writing them into law. They do love playing the poor persecuted victims of the Godless left.

ericc's avatar

It's not lost on them; its their aspiration for future constitutional change.

Runfastandwin's avatar

Good I guess, but staying the order pending appeal is barely different than no order at all.

Bob Zannelli's avatar

The reason these cases keep coming up is that they have some hope that the lunatics at the Supreme Court will rewrite the constitution again to make Christianity the state religion

Matilda's avatar

It's good news. I've commented here before that, as a teacher of small kids who were struggling to hack the skill of reading in their first year or two of schooling, I learned that the reading age of the UK was 9yo - and the KJV was 11yo. All brits take a manadatory GCSE exam in English Literature at 16yo and it includes study of one Shakespeare play, but I'm sure teachers have to simplify and explain the text to a much greater extent than they did and I observe it's trendy now to put Shakespeare plays into modern english for the stage. And in 50yrs of fundyism, can't recall anyone giving their testimony - and I heard lots - saying they came-to-jesus by reading one of those tablets in KJV english.