Wanda Sykes Mocks Middle America After SCOTUS Overturns Roe: "Those States In The Middle. That Red Stuff". Then She Gets Ripped.

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Comedian Wanda Sykes, famed for, among other things, chanting like a defiant
four-year-old, "Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay,
gay, gay" at the Oscars, weighed in with her typically erudite take on the
Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking conservatives in
the middle of the country.

The Supreme Court issued its ruling on Friday; Sykes made her comments on
Late Night with Stephen Colbert Monday night.

"The problem is that middle stuff. It is those states in the middle, that red
stuff," Sykes pronounced.

Sykes was prompted by Clobert, who asked solicitously, "How ya' doin? How ya'
doin?"

"I'm a black gay woman and I have a daughter so I'm not doing so well right
now. I'm a little salty," Sykes declared.

"You're a little salty?" Colbert repeated.

"I'm a little salty right now," Sykes reiterated.

"Sprinkle a little salt, let's put some flavor on here," Colbert pressed.

"It just sucks, man. It really does," Sykes said articulately. "The country,
it's no longer a democracy, right? It's no longer majority rule."

Expert constitutionalist Colbert agreed: "No. Certainly not in the Senate;
certainly not in the Supreme Court."

"It's no longer majority rule," Sykes repeated. "I mean, it's like, these
judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings, right?"

"Especially Kavanaugh," Colbert suggested.

"So how can you be a Supreme Court Justice and you're just lyin'? They had
their fingers crossed or somethin' or what? It's just a bunch of horse****.
It really is," Sykes ranted.

Then she mounted her attack on conservatives in middle America: "To me it's
like, the problem is that middle stuff. It is those states in the middle,
that red stuff. Why do they get to tell us what to do, when the majority of
us live out, New York, California, and we are paying for all this crap,
really? We're footing the bill."

Colbert, again ignoring the constitutional function of the Supreme Court:
"That's the union. It's supposed to be a representative democracy but it
turns out to be minority rule right now."

"Right, right," Skykes agreed, then added, "But if we footing the bill, and
like, California, if it were a country, it'd be like the fifth largest,
fourth, fifth largest economy. So if I'm footing the bill, know your
position. Know what I'm saying? Look, if I say let's go out to dinner you
don't get to pick the restaurant. Just shut up and eat."

Comedian Wanda Sykes @iamwandasykes: "The problem is that middle
stuff. It is those states in the middle, that red stuff. Why do they
tell get to tell us what to do, where the majority of us live out,
New York, California, and we are paying for all this crap, really?"
pic.twitter.com/vocoqUQPL3
-- Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 28, 2022

She really is just a stupid person. This decision is the opposite of
red states telling blue states what to do. It's red states being
unable to tell blue states what to do and vice versa.
https://t.co/67tLaQYunG
-- Noam Blum (@neontaster) June 28, 2022

These people are the perfect combination of elitist and ignorant.
The decision puts the power back to the states, so she can live with
her genderless, woke, narcissistic friends in CA and NY. Though
they'll get hungry real quick when they realize where food comes
from... https://t.co/SHvaEBoqxO
-- Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) June 28, 2022

At the Oscars earlier this year, Sykes decided she would alienate plenty of
people in Florida by attacking them over the state's Parental Rights in
Education legislation, sniping, "Well, we're going to have a great night
tonight. And for you people in Florida, we're going to have a gay night."

Then she joined two other supposed comediennes Regina Hall and Amy Schumer to
chant like defiant four-year-olds, "Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay,
gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay."

They're laughing at you, Florida, not with you.#DontSayGay#Oscars
pic.twitter.com/GGoQEISU30

-- Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) March 28, 2022

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Let's go Brandon!

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"It just sucks, man. It really does," Sykes said articulately. "The country,
it's no longer a democracy, right? It's no longer majority rule."
Expert constitutionalist Colbert agreed: "No. Certainly not in the Senate;
certainly not in the Supreme Court."

It literally is majority rule in the Supreme Court. You just don't like
the majority.

We're so far through the looking glass now that unless leftists have the
majority, they believe there is no majority rule, that majority rule is
only possible if it's a left-leaning majority.

Post by Ubiquitous
"It's no longer majority rule," Sykes repeated. "I mean, it's like, these
judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings, right?"

Or they were persuaded by oral arguments. If they're not allowed to
change their minds, why even have oral arguments and submit briefs in
the first place?

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Post by Ubiquitous
"It just sucks, man. It really does," Sykes said articulately. "The country,
it's no longer a democracy, right? It's no longer majority rule."
Expert constitutionalist Colbert agreed: "No. Certainly not in the Senate;
certainly not in the Supreme Court."

It literally is majority rule in the Supreme Court. You just don't like
the majority.
We're so far through the looking glass now that unless leftists have the
majority, they believe there is no majority rule, that majority rule is
only possible if it's a left-leaning majority.

Post by Ubiquitous
"It's no longer majority rule," Sykes repeated. "I mean, it's like, these
judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings, right?"

Or they were persuaded by oral arguments. If they're not allowed to
change their minds, why even have oral arguments and submit briefs in
the first place?

Shall we start with the fact that both Sykes and Colbert are apparently so
fucking ignorant they think America used to be a democracy?

Years ago she was hosting some awards show and she was out in the audience
asking celebrities questions and she stuck her microphone in Bill Cosby’s
face and in her stupid slurred pigeon speech that sounded like moms Mabley
asked him why his generation of comics was so much better than the current
generation and a clearly annoyed Cosby replied “we spoke English“

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Post by Ubiquitous
"It just sucks, man. It really does," Sykes said articulately. "The country,
it's no longer a democracy, right? It's no longer majority rule."
Expert constitutionalist Colbert agreed: "No. Certainly not in the Senate;
certainly not in the Supreme Court."

It literally is majority rule in the Supreme Court. You just don't like
the majority.
We're so far through the looking glass now that unless leftists have the
majority, they believe there is no majority rule, that majority rule is
only possible if it's a left-leaning majority.

Post by Ubiquitous
"It's no longer majority rule," Sykes repeated. "I mean, it's like, these
judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings, right?"

Or they were persuaded by oral arguments. If they're not allowed to
change their minds, why even have oral arguments and submit briefs in
the first place?

Shall we start with the fact that both Sykes and Colbert are apparently so
fucking ignorant they think America used to be a democracy?
Years ago she was hosting some awards show and she was out in the audience
asking celebrities questions and she stuck her microphone in Bill Cosby's
face and in her stupid slurred pigeon speech that sounded like moms Mabley
asked him why his generation of comics was so much better than the current
generation and a clearly annoyed Cosby replied "we spoke English"

Ouch!

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Post by Ubiquitous
"It just sucks, man. It really does," Sykes said articulately. "The country,
it's no longer a democracy, right? It's no longer majority rule."
Expert constitutionalist Colbert agreed: "No. Certainly not in the Senate;
certainly not in the Supreme Court."

It literally is majority rule in the Supreme Court. You just don't like
the majority.
We're so far through the looking glass now that unless leftists have the
majority, they believe there is no majority rule, that majority rule is
only possible if it's a left-leaning majority.

Post by Ubiquitous
"It's no longer majority rule," Sykes repeated. "I mean, it's like, these
judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings, right?"

Or they were persuaded by oral arguments. If they're not allowed to
change their minds, why even have oral arguments and submit briefs in
the first place?

Shall we start with the fact that both Sykes and Colbert are apparently so
fucking ignorant they think America used to be a democracy?
Years ago she was hosting some awards show and she was out in the audience
asking celebrities questions and she stuck her microphone in Bill Cosby's
face and in her stupid slurred pigeon speech that sounded like moms Mabley
asked him why his generation of comics was so much better than the current
generation and a clearly annoyed Cosby replied "we spoke English"

Ouch!

This is cool because it looks like the resident gay boy had a chance to
be racist and misogynist in the same post.

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Post by Ubiquitous
"It just sucks, man. It really does," Sykes said articulately. "The country,
it's no longer a democracy, right? It's no longer majority rule."
Expert constitutionalist Colbert agreed: "No. Certainly not in the Senate;
certainly not in the Supreme Court."
"It's no longer majority rule," Sykes repeated. "I mean, it's like, these
judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings, right?"

Or they were persuaded by oral arguments. If they're not allowed to
change their minds, why even have oral arguments and submit briefs in
the first place?

Shall we start with the fact that both Sykes and Colbert are apparently so
fucking ignorant they think America used to be a democracy?
Years ago she was hosting some awards show and she was out in the audience
asking celebrities questions and she stuck her microphone in Bill Cosby's
face and in her stupid slurred pigeon speech that sounded like moms Mabley
asked him why his generation of comics was so much better than the current
generation and a clearly annoyed Cosby replied “we spoke English“

BWAH!

Someone call the burn unit!

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Post by Ubiquitous
"It just sucks, man. It really does," Sykes said articulately. "The
country, it's no longer a democracy, right? It's no longer majority rule."
Expert constitutionalist Colbert agreed: "No. Certainly not in the Senate;
certainly not in the Supreme Court."

It literally is majority rule in the Supreme Court. You just don't like
the majority.
We're so far through the looking glass now that unless leftists have the
majority, they believe there is no majority rule, that majority rule is
only possible if it's a left-leaning majority.

Post by Ubiquitous
"It's no longer majority rule," Sykes repeated. "I mean, it's like, these
judges, they basically lied during their confirmation hearings, right?"

Or they were persuaded by oral arguments. If they're not allowed to
change their minds, why even have oral arguments and submit briefs in
the first place?

Or Sykes is repeating a leftist lie like a good myrmidon.


Within hours of the publication of the leaked first-draft opinion in Dobbs v.
Jackson Women’s Health Organization suggesting that the Supreme Court will overrule
Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer
(D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issued a joint statement accusing
“Republican-appointed Justices” of having “lied to the U.S. Senate.” Two days later,
Schumer identified the “lie” as “misrepresenting their views” during their
confirmation hearings “on respecting precedent when it came to decisions like Roe.”

There is definitely some serious misrepresentation going on about what was said in
those hearings about Roe and Casey, but it’s not coming from the Justices.

Some members of Congress went even further than Schumer. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-NY), for example, claimed that “several Supreme Court justices, including Justice
Alito … stated during their confirmation hearings that they would not overturn Roe
v. Wade. Every single one of them said … under oath, that they would actually
preserve Roe.”

No Supreme Court nominee has ever come close to saying any such thing about any
precedent. In fact, for decades, nominees of both parties have studiously avoided
giving even what Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg described in her 1993 hearing as “hints
… forecasts … [or] previews.” Transcripts of those hearings, which are available
here [1], here [2], and here [3], show exactly what the Justices said and expose how
accusations of “lying” are pure fiction.


During the September 2005 hearing on John Roberts’ nomination to be chief justice,
then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) compared such gatherings to a “kabuki dance.” Senators
try to determine how nominees will vote or write regarding certain issues, while
nominees resist pressure to show their judicial hand. Nominees, for example, decline
to say whether particular precedents either were correctly decided or should be
overruled and often refer to precedents as “settled.” Schumer now claims this word
is a promise to oppose overruling a precedent.

Every Supreme Court nominee who has referred to a precedent as “settled” has not
only meant the same thing but has even defined it during their hearings. A precedent
is settled because it is a precedent—that’s it, nothing more. Calling a precedent
“settled” means only that it exists and says absolutely nothing about whether it
could, or should, be unsettled. In Justice Samuel Alito’s January 2006 hearing, Sen.
Richard Durbin (D-IL) asked if Roe v. Wade “is the settled law of the land.” Alito
responded that “settled” did not mean “it can’t be re-examined.” Instead, “settled”
means that Roe is “a precedent that is entitled to respect as stare decisis.”

In her July 2009 hearing, Justice Sonia Sotomayor explained that “[a]ll precedents
of the Supreme Court I consider settled law subject to the deference [which the]
doctrine of stare decisis would counsel.” She gave the identical response about
whether several individual precedents were settled: “That is the precedent of the
Court, so it is settled law.” Asked about Casey in particular, Sotomayor repeated
that it “is the precedent of the Court and settled in terms of the holding of the
Court.”

Justice Elena Kagan followed the same script during her July 2010 hearing. District
of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, holding that gun bans violated the
Second Amendment, are, Kagan said, “settled law” and are “entitled to all the
respect of binding precedent.” She put in the same “settled” category precedents
such as Citizens United v. FEC, holding that restrictions on election-related
expression violated the First Amendment; Gonzalez v. Carhart, finding the federal
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act constitutional; and United States v. Lopez and United
States v. Morrison, which held that two federal statutes exceeded Congress’
authority to regulate interstate commerce. Kagan explained to Sen. Jeff Sessions
(R-Ala.) that she did not distinguish between “precedent” and “settled law.” She was
crystal clear: “What I mean to say when I use those phrases is, these are decisions
of the court.”

The fact that Schumer enthusiastically supported Sotomayor and Kagan proves that he
knew exactly what they meant. After all, he has said that “overturning Citizens
United is probably more important than any other single thing we could do to
preserve this great and grand democracy.” He would never have supported a Supreme
Court nominee who pledged never to consider overruling Citizens United or the other
precedents Kagan called “settled.”

Republican nominees have carefully duplicated the Sotomayor/Kagan strategy. During
Gorsuch’s March 2017 hearing, for example, he told Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) that
Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that the Constitution protects a right to same-sex
marriage, is “absolutely settled law.” Similarly, Gorsuch told Sen. Richard
Blumenthal (D-CT) that Griswold v. Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird, which
created and extended a constitutional right to use contraception, “are precedents of
the U.S. Supreme Court” that “have been settled.” He told Sen. Chris Coons (D-CT)
that Casey, Lawrence v. Texas, which created a right to same-sex sodomy, and
Obergefell are all “settled law in the sense that [they are] decision[s] of the U.S.
Supreme Court, entitled to the weight of precedent.”

Kavanaugh’s September 2018 hearing followed the same pattern, with Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA) asking “what do you mean by ‘settled law’?” Kavanaugh could have
been reading from the Sotomayor hearing transcript: “Senator, I said that it is
settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court.” Blumenthal asked if Kavanaugh would
“[c]ommit, sitting here today, that you would never overturn Roe v. Wade.” Kavanaugh
gave the expected response: “Senator, each of the eight Justices currently on the
Supreme Court, when they were in this seat, declined to answer that question.”

Similarly, in her October 2020 hearing, Justice Amy Coney Barrett told Feinstein
that Obergefell “is a precedent of the Supreme Court entitled to respect under the
doctrine of stare decisis.” Barrett said the same thing to Durbin about decisions
upholding the Affordable Care Act and to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) about United
States v. Virginia, which struck down single-sex education at the Virginia Military
Institute, and Bostock v. Clayton County, construing Title VII of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act as barring employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
or gender identity.

Republicans did not flinch at Republican nominees calling these precedents “settled”
any more than Schumer did when Kagan put Citizens United in that category. Each
nominee chose to use that label precisely because, at least in the Supreme Court
confirmation context, it provides a way to respond while not compromising
impartiality. Asked by Durbin what she meant by “settled,” Barrett also echoed
Sotomayor: “Any precedent entitled to respect under the doctrine of stare decisis
could be characterized as settled.” In other words, every precedent is settled.

Notice that, when referring to precedents as “settled,” nominees also add phrases
such as “respect as stare decisis” (Alito), “entitled to all the weight that
precedent usually gets” (Kagan), “entitled to the weight of precedent” (Gorsuch),
“entitled [to] respect under principles of stare decisis” (Kavanaugh), and “respect
under the doctrine of stare decisis.” Just as “settled” means a precedent exists,
these phrases refer to the process of determining whether a precedent should be
overruled. The factors used in this process are well known and have resulted in the
Supreme Court overruling its own precedents hundreds of times.

While Sotomayor said that “all precedents of the Supreme Court I consider settled,”
she has voted several times to overrule them. So has Kagan, who said that “settled”
means nothing more than “precedent.” If, as Schumer claims today, “settled” means
“immune from overruling,” then Sotomayor and Kagan must also have lied to the U.S.
Senate.

This confirmation hearing strategy is well established and has been followed
consistently by nominees of both parties. The public record is clear. No one,
especially members of Congress, who even casually follows the Supreme Court
confirmation process would fail to grasp something so clear. The obvious conclusion
is that Schumer and others who claim that Justices lied or misrepresented their
views about overruling Roe or Casey are, well, lying or misrepresenting those
Justices’ actual views.

[1] https://www.senate.gov/reference/Supreme_Court_Nomination_Hearings.htm
[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115shrg32765/pdf/CHRG-115shrg32765.pdf
[3] https://ucsd.libguides.com/SCOTUS_Barrett