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Gaugamela

(3,294 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 10:32 PM Friday

Do you think John Roberts is looking out at this country from his

perch on the Supreme Court and feeling a deep glow of satisfaction and thinking to himself, “Yes, this is exactly as I expected it to be. I served my country well. My name will be a shining light in the many history books yet to be written”?

Do you think he gets together with his fellow conservatives on the court after work and they toast each other with high priced whiskey and liqueurs and congratulate each other on a job damn well done and chuckle a little self-consciously because it comes a little too close to self-praise to feel so exceptionally right?

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Do you think John Roberts is looking out at this country from his (Original Post) Gaugamela Friday OP
He was a weak SCJ....why? Check his closets. That;s how he got promoted. OAITW r.2.0 Friday #1
He promised to just calls balls and strikes, but when Trump's at bat it's all balls. With Dems, it's all strikes surfered Friday #2
I think a better analogy is that hes trying to umpire a game but one team is trying to set the field on fire. Volaris Friday #9
The post you're replying to references what Roberts said intheflow Saturday #30
Absolutely. Smug self-satisfaction is derigueur among that level of the conservative elite. We can only hope...... FadedMullet Friday #3
LOL Gaugamela Friday #4
Correct Cosmocat Saturday #24
Is he Opus Dei? nt DURHAM D Friday #5
Probably. Gaugamela Friday #6
sick DURHAM D Friday #7
Yes. Him, Alito, Kavs?, and maybe Sotomayor? Volaris Friday #10
Gorsuch, Kagan, Sotomayor and Brown-Jackson no rpannier Saturday #16
Not Sotomayor BlueKentuckyGirl Saturday #21
Nobody wants Thomas. rubbersole Saturday #23
Not Gorsuch BlueKentuckyGirl Saturday #22
I think The Bopper Friday #8
My best guess creon Friday #11
Agreed JonAndKatePlusABird Saturday #29
He does not creon Saturday #31
I'm Torn DET Friday #12
History will not be kind to Roberts and rightly so vapor2 Saturday #13
Robert is a Nazi, period. NotHardly Saturday #14
He's a tool. BurnDoubt Saturday #15
Ha! Not! Supposedly, he's concerned about his legacy. Joinfortmill Saturday #17
And he's probably thinking how great it is to be someone so powerful milestogo Saturday #18
Absolutely. Kablooie Saturday #19
Judge Robertski ForeGoneLegsBirne Saturday #20
Welcome to DU ! KS Toronado Saturday #32
A fabulous band I listened to last night had the perfect lyrics. summer_in_TX Saturday #25
More like looking at his bank accounts and chuckling to himself how easy it all is Blues Heron Saturday #26
John Roberts cared about his legacy before Trump... agingdem Saturday #27
I think the only thing he's been worried about is that not losing his power Tribetime Saturday #28

surfered

(11,866 posts)
2. He promised to just calls balls and strikes, but when Trump's at bat it's all balls. With Dems, it's all strikes
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 10:39 PM
Friday

Volaris

(11,427 posts)
9. I think a better analogy is that hes trying to umpire a game but one team is trying to set the field on fire.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 11:23 PM
Friday

intheflow

(30,033 posts)
30. The post you're replying to references what Roberts said
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 08:53 AM
Saturday

at his confirmation hearing, he said he’d be fair, like an umpire calling balls and strikes. But his record, even before Trump, was all about throwing the games to conservatives. He’s delighting in the field being on fire. He gave Trump the matches.

FadedMullet

(735 posts)
3. Absolutely. Smug self-satisfaction is derigueur among that level of the conservative elite. We can only hope......
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 10:41 PM
Friday

........that he occasionally puts a pubic hair on Clarence's coke can to keep that boy in his place.

Cosmocat

(15,361 posts)
24. Correct
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:21 AM
Saturday

These people are 100% delusional and think they know something no one else does, and live in an alternative reality were the omnipotent evil liberal boogyman MUST be defeated at all costs.

Volaris

(11,427 posts)
10. Yes. Him, Alito, Kavs?, and maybe Sotomayor?
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 11:24 PM
Friday

It's like, half the damn court for sure...

rubbersole

(11,022 posts)
23. Nobody wants Thomas.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:20 AM
Saturday

Even his mamma. Even after that nice man, Mr Harlan, paid off her house.

BlueKentuckyGirl

(528 posts)
22. Not Gorsuch
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:13 AM
Saturday

Gorsuch is as bad as Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh. Oh and I forgot Roberts, of course.

29. Agreed
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 08:29 AM
Saturday

From his standpoint, what incentive does he have to care?

Guaranteed good paycheck for the rest of his life, staff does all the actual work, my guess is he’s spent more emotional toil on vacations and other niceties than Chief Justicing.

Same echelon as a fortune 100 exec, completely different parallel plane of existence as the rest of us.

IMO it’s naïve to think he actually gives a shit or second thought about ICE in Minneapolis or anything really.

“How does he sleep at night?” Probably pretty well, on a mattress that costs more than your car.

DET

(2,384 posts)
12. I'm Torn
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 11:43 PM
Friday

He has to know that he and ‘his’ court will leave a disgraceful legacy, and he can’t feel good about that. But - like a lot of conservatives - he’s so self righteous that he has probably convinced himself that ‘it’s for the greater good’. Plus he likes the bribes. I still think he has more of a conscience than Thomas or Alito, but that’s not saying much.

Joinfortmill

(20,222 posts)
17. Ha! Not! Supposedly, he's concerned about his legacy.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:00 AM
Saturday

What legacy? He's headed for the trash bin of history.

milestogo

(22,693 posts)
18. And he's probably thinking how great it is to be someone so powerful
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:01 AM
Saturday

that his name is automatically scrubbed from the Epstein documents.

Kablooie

(19,060 posts)
19. Absolutely.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:09 AM
Saturday

Th country is falling into a deep conservative, authoritarian hole and may never get out.
That’s exactly the dream they’ve had their whole life.
The only big missing piece is that the country still tolerates religions other than Christian extremism.
That will be remedied in the coming years.

summer_in_TX

(4,054 posts)
25. A fabulous band I listened to last night had the perfect lyrics.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:34 AM
Saturday

"It feels good to do good.
It feels wrong to do wrong.
That’s how we know what to do."

~Warren Hood band

Fabulous concert. Fiddle, violin (yes, same instrument played differently), mandolin and two guitars. But I could have sworn I heard Ravi Shankar and George Harrison off and on throughout that song.

It's true for most of us. Not the sociopaths, I guess.

agingdem

(8,775 posts)
27. John Roberts cared about his legacy before Trump...
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:56 AM
Saturday

Last edited Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:35 AM - Edit history (1)

Alito and Thomas were in the process of capturing the court when Gorsuch was appointed to the bench...but once Mitch McConnell shoved Federalist Society approved Kavanaugh and Barrett's nominations through the Senate, Roberts ceded control of the court and his legacy to the majority..

Tribetime

(7,081 posts)
28. I think the only thing he's been worried about is that not losing his power
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:39 AM
Saturday

If the democrats control everything in twenty twenty eight that they will expand the court.

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