and reporter Jodi Kantor, there isn’t any real evidence for that headline — only a helpful heaping of BlueAnon fever-swamp paranoia.
She continues: “One of the homes flying an inverted flag during that time was the residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in Alexandria, Virginia.”— is that an upside-down flag is not exclusively associated with the most extreme elements of the January 6 riot. It simply is “a symbol of emergency and distress, first used as a military SOS.
So, in their telling, this flag was supposed to accomplish… what? To overthrow the election? Who was it supposed to activate? Nobody but his well-to-do neighbors even knew about it for over three years. Entertaining the most basic questions scrutinizing this narrative would have quashed the story at theJodi Kantor, from left, Zoe Kazan, Megan Twohey and Carey Mulligan attend the premiere of “She Said” during the 60th New York Film Festival on Oct. 13, 2022, in New York.
Kantor’s interviews with the Alitos’ neighbors corroborate this statement: “the justice’s wife, Martha-Ann Alito, had been in a dispute with another family on the block” who “displayed an anti-Trump sign with an expletive.”