Samuel Alito’s wife claimed upside-down flag was ‘international sign of distress’

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1. He married someone just like himself.

2. Oh, did she see a person of color or maybe a gay person?

3. Yes, thank you for the textbook definition of what flying a flag upside-down means. Now, explain why it was flown on the property of a **Supreme Court Justice**.

4. Says the lady with free everything…but seriously, these people are publicly bragging about being in a cult and half the country is either cool with it, not aware of it, or both.

5. Yes, we understand the meaning, and that’s why we all have a problem with it.

6. Which begs the question, What would flying Trump upside down from a flagpole be an international sigh of?

7. Would anyone be surprised if Samuel Alito beat the shit out of her on a regular basis?

8. What is distressing? I think it’s inappropriate and offensive used in that way.

9. If it was happening the way she’s trying to shape it, then why didn’t every supreme court judge do it as a sign of group cohesiveness?

10. Next u ask her what the distress was, sounds like she is playing the “do u know who I am” card

11. how can you say America is the greatest nation ever and at the same time say it is a 3rd world country in distress…with a straight face?

12. It is.

    And you were shouting for international rescue because… ?

13. Yes, the distress of a corrupt US Supreme Court is international.

14. WTF is *wrong* with these people?

15. I’d be distressed too if I was married to him

16. Great. In the history of them living there have they ever had another neighborhood spat that caused them to fly their front yard flag upside down? Obviously this is something they have done before, no?

17. Distress for an insult? Talk about entitled.

18. yeah because her husband is a fucking supreme court justice

19. God what a clown. Traitor.

20. I learned The Rule of Holes from Molly Ivins: When you find yourself in one, stop digging.

21. We were taught in the military that flying the Stars and Stripes upside down is a symbol that you are well and truly fucked and need help.

    They believe this is their current condition despite their lives remaining wholly unaffected by ANYTHING the Biden admin has done.

22. What a complete piece of shit.

23. Finish the thought please… Just like when people say the Civil War was about state’s rights, and conveniently omit the fact the rest of the sentence goes “state’s rights to own slaves.”

24. Send a comet for these dinosaurs

25. News flash, Alito… nobody in the jnternational community gives a rat’s ass about your “distress”. Grow the fuck up.

26. I’m so sick of these people and their stupid ass flags.

27. The reporter was there the day it happened.

    Why are we only hearing about it now so many years later?

28. The bigger question is how is guy this dumb a Supreme Court judge ?!

29. Someone should explain to Mrs. Alito that to most Americans, her raising an upside-down flag implies that she is aligning herself with the right-wing domestic terrorists who violently attacked our country on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to overthrow our government. It tends to make us wonder where her allegiance lies.

30. Sammy’s wife looks like a good KKK Karen klan mom. As a Daughter of the Revolution, she should fly the Confederate and KKK flags proudly.

31. In response to a moderate Democrat winning against a far-right populist.

32. >The Washington Post report said on Saturday, quoting the outlet’s own spokesperson, that “the Post decided not to report on the episode at the time because the flag-raising appeared to be the work of Martha-Ann Alito, rather than the justice, and connected to a dispute with her neighbors … It was not clear then that the argument was rooted in politics.”

    Who the hell made THAT “editorial” decision? And you’re telling me thereporter didn’t ask one follow up question that would’ve uncovered what the dispute was about? The media is complicit.

33. How is that any better?

34. Your husband is ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL JUDGES ON THE FREAKING PLANET, you are not in distress, Karen.

35. Ironic… the party that coined the term “snowflakes” think that losing an election equates to being a nation in distress.

36. the entitlement and abject contempt republicans have for regular americans is sickening. You lost an election because your guy sucked and was a dick no one liked. There was no distress, things just didn’t go your way once in your supremely privledged fucking life.

37. Export these traitors to Russia.

38. I never cared to look up what she looks like, and I hate judging people based solely on that, but she looks exactly like a person who would be upset enough by a failed insurrection to do that dumb shit. Probably loves giving dry handies too

39. Yes, you are literally in distress if you fall for the bullshit your husband spews and for the party of victimhood/privilege. These two people are in need of major deprogramming and neither should hold any positions of power.

40. Ginni Thomas got competition from Martha-Ann Alito for who is “The Craziest Spouse of The Supreme Court”!!

41. So it just came out that the Washington Post had the story for three years and sat on it.

    Their excuse was that they weren’t sure if it had to do with politics, while going on to describe that it was just used as a political symbol supporting Stop the Steal.

    [Washington Post tried to allow this story to “Die in Darkness”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/25/alito-flag-martha-ann-washington-post/)

    They ran cover for this guy. They knew what the flag was, they knew they had been flying it and they kept the story under wraps for three years until another outlet reported on it.

    Meanwhile Alito is hearing the Colorado Ballot removal case, Immunity cases for Trump’s insurrection, and the Washington Post knew all along that he and his wife supported Donald Trump’s lies about the election.

    This is nuts. Honestly, it’s not that far behind Alito’s flying the flag in the outrage department.

42. The nation IS in distress. Someone’s lying about the last election, ignoring all evidence, and tearing the country apart.

    But his offense was propagating the lie.

43. >Two leading Democratic senators are requesting a meeting with the supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, in the wake of these reports. This comes on top of calls demanding that Justice Alito recuse himself from election-related cases before the court and face investigation by the US Senate, the congressional chamber that confirms federal and supreme court judges.

    Recusing himself? How about fucking resigning altogether? You will never convince me this judge is impartial and puts the law above everything, when his very spouse is this extreme.

44. There are insurrectionists sitting on the Supreme Court. Amazing. This is truly a pathetic country.