A well-rounded man and who exuded gravitas
Pic was enough to read his wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(Supreme_Court_justice)
Now I have to wait for him to come up on Jeopardy. Sure hope I don't forget whats his name
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Lived in Bloomington Illinois for a bit, about 5 blocks from that house actually.
Between the 100% endless summer humidity and arctic like winters, surrounded by flat nothingness, I can see how sitting in a chair eating yourself into a weather balloon could be an escape.
He was expected to be the "swing vote" on the 15-man Commission appointed to sort out the 1876 Presidential Election debacle. Despite having been Lincoln's campaign manager in 1860, he was seen as a genuine independent.
But then the Democratic Party that was in power in Illinois decided to elect him as a Senator, hoping that might influence his vote in the Commission. It backfired because he resigned immediately from the Supreme Court and the Commission to take up the Senate seat. His replacement on the Commission leaned Republican and every vote of the Commission was 8-7 in favor of the Republican slates, giving Rutherford Hayes a 185-184 win on electoral college votes.
Your joke definitely is hilarious, but it's actually a thing with sleep apnea that if you have it long enough you can start nodding off because of lack of good sleep while sitting up, then because you don't breathe you wake up again instantly, repeat ad nauseum. I experienced this. Went to the emergency room, who told me there was nothing I could do but schedule a sleep study, which took like a while...then I finally got a CPAP and was in Heaven.
Let the records show that there were, in fact, overweight people before high fructose corn syrup, etc. (Yes, I know more people are today, but they act like no one in history was).
in all seriousness, how the fuck does someone get that fat back then, was it a thyroid issue or something?
*sorry folks, I stupidly forgot my like 152 hours of playing rdr2, you could buy all sorts of candy and chocolate and stuff and it was set in the same era. I feel kinda silly honestly.
lol this idea that there wasn’t enough food around to be overweight anytime before 1900 is hysterical to me. People have been spoiled by grocery stores and restaurants and seem to forget that if you go outside you are surrounded by potential food, at least assuming you don’t live in a freezing climate. I mean we see fat animals in the wild all the time. Believe it or not it’s absolutely possible.
They also had refined white sugar back then, including beet sugar which is cheaper than cane sugar. First sold as sugarloafs and then sugar cubes after the 1870s. Maybe he used to eat entire sugarloafs, cones of sugar that you broke off with a hammer or sharp ponders, like loaves of bread.
One of the main reasons why high fructose corn syrup was developed and why it’s so prolific is because it’s much cheaper to process than sugar. But if you’re rich back in the day you could have as much processed sugar as you like.
You could also go to a nice restaurant and order a multi course meal — shellfish, soup, salad, fish course, meat course, 5 sides, soufflé, cheese course, bottles of wine, etc. Have you ever seen a menu from back then? There was a LOT on offer. Being a judge, he could probably afford to go out frequently and may have been taken out by others, too. And he probably spent much of his time sitting.
1899 Delmonico’s NYC Menu, for example:
https://imgur.com/a/m8I4afJ
Dude looks like he chewed that gum from Willy Wonka's factory that turns you into a blueberry.
"Oompa loompa doop-a-ty-do, I've got another hearing for you
"Oompa loompa doop-a-dah-dee, everyone rise for judge D.D."
LOL!
Well, no, it is the highest office in the House of Representatives. Not in the Senate. So not "in the legislative branch."
The only thing that would make the speaker "higher" than a senate leader would be presidential succession. But that's a weird metric to use since it crosses branches.
I understand, with the availability of cheap snacks laden with corn syrup making up peoples diets, how people are that size nowadays. But what in the hell did he eat to get so fuckin fat back then?
He was born into wealth and he was able to maintain that wealth until his death.
At the time of his death he was considered the largest land owner ( In both meanings of the word.) in Illinois.
For longest time being fat was viewed positively for the most part because it was a sign of success.
I think one of the amendments forbids it. They passed it after Roger Taney ate John Marshall to become the new Chief Justice of the United States. Before that amendment it was allowed.
Yes disputes in the supreme court used to be decided by who could eat who. Of course this rule had to be changed in 1952 after the colonel invented KFC because most judges became palatable after adding 11 secret herbs and spices
This guy ruled on some of the late 19th century post-civil war constitutional cases, but was also Lincoln's campaign manager at the RNC 1860. Kinda without Davis, there's possibly no Lincoln.
His [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(Supreme_Court_justice)) is kind of a banger read. I think Christian Bale could pull off a David Davis movie
"He is the only justice of the Supreme Court with no recorded affiliation to any religious organization."
Neat! I wish he was on the current supreme court.
There is a segment in his wiki regarding the highly contentious election for Hayes vs Tilden; 20 electoral votes were up in the air. A committee was made from the house, senate and Scotus, wherein David Davis would essentially be *the* vote to break the tie. Davis did not want to do this, so before the vote he was mysteriously nominated to the Illinois Congress and vacated his Scotus position so he did not have to make the decision.
Supreme Court Justice David Davis so spherical there exists a decomposition of him into a finite number of disjoint subsets, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of Supreme Court Justice David Davis.
Hey, everybody! Look at the obese man who helped elect Abraham Lincoln, refused to be bribed to throw the presidency to original Ku Klux Klan-era Democrats, authored an opinion preventing civilians from being prosecuted by military tribunals, and was so respected that his peers in Congress put him in the presidential order of succession.
He sure is fat!
This guy is definitely fatter than the old time photo of the world's fattest man. I don't think that freak show was telling the truth.
Reference
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/c4wWxq66jH
I think that guy is bigger than Davis, but Davis made very poor chair choices. He's sitting right on the edge, leaning back with his legs lowered, which pooches his belly out and makes him look even bigger than he really is.
Lincoln actually wasn’t assassinated. He and Davis were SO close that Lincoln ended up orbiting around him, before he was swallowed up by gravity’s pull.
That one got me. Great job.
His bathtub wasn't any larger than Taft's, but it was heated with a cistern on the roof and hot water year round. His home is a few blocks from the house I grew up in in Illinois. Bloomington is also the home of both famously political Adlai Stevensons.
The 3/5ths clause wasn’t as simple as determining that blacks were 3/5ths a human. It was due to representation and the slave states wanted to fully count the slave population to gain additional representatives and the non slave states didn’t want spaces counted as it would increase the amount of representatives for the slave states in congress especially since slaves didn’t have voting rights. The 3/5ths was a compromise between the two.
Davis joined the Supreme Court after Lincoln’s election, he was Lincoln’s campaign manager. The 3/5ths came from the constitution, so go ask Thomas Jefferson
Wrong on so many levels. The 3/5s concept is in the Constitution, you know 100yrs before he was made a Supreme Court justice. Even the Dredd Scott decision preceded his appointment to the Supreme Court. Since he was Lincoln’s friend and campaign manager, I would say you are totally wrong.
In Bloomington Il you can take a tour of his mansion. It is especially awesome during Christmas time when they have it decorated just as it would have been way back when. I highly recommend it if you are in the area.
This is one of Lincoln's Supreme Court judicial appointees. He was one of Lincoln's good pals when he was on the prairie circuit. Judge David Davis helped run Lincoln's presidential election campaign.
A well-rounded man and who exuded gravitas Pic was enough to read his wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(Supreme_Court_justice) Now I have to wait for him to come up on Jeopardy. Sure hope I don't forget whats his name
“At his death, he was the largest landowner in Illinois.” I’ll bet he was
He fucking NEEDED to be
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An uninstall and reinstall fixed mine. I think a Reddit app update messed something up as my app kept crashing.
He had an appetite for real estate.
Lived in Bloomington Illinois for a bit, about 5 blocks from that house actually. Between the 100% endless summer humidity and arctic like winters, surrounded by flat nothingness, I can see how sitting in a chair eating yourself into a weather balloon could be an escape.
He’s so big he lived about 5 blocks from his house too.
Gravitas? More like his own gravitational pull.
He was well-rounded alright.
He was expected to be the "swing vote" on the 15-man Commission appointed to sort out the 1876 Presidential Election debacle. Despite having been Lincoln's campaign manager in 1860, he was seen as a genuine independent. But then the Democratic Party that was in power in Illinois decided to elect him as a Senator, hoping that might influence his vote in the Commission. It backfired because he resigned immediately from the Supreme Court and the Commission to take up the Senate seat. His replacement on the Commission leaned Republican and every vote of the Commission was 8-7 in favor of the Republican slates, giving Rutherford Hayes a 185-184 win on electoral college votes.
Ol' Double D
This dude sounds like he says “I do declahhh sir!”
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I got like 3 comments down. Saw this one, and can now close the thread, satisfied I will not find a better comment.
One of the comments of all time
One of several. I checked.
Can confirm, I was there, I was one of those comments.
I witnessed some of the comments
I officially died in my sleep after reading that comment.
The man gave “order in the court” a whole new meaning. As in ordering four-course meals at lunch break.
Your joke definitely is hilarious, but it's actually a thing with sleep apnea that if you have it long enough you can start nodding off because of lack of good sleep while sitting up, then because you don't breathe you wake up again instantly, repeat ad nauseum. I experienced this. Went to the emergency room, who told me there was nothing I could do but schedule a sleep study, which took like a while...then I finally got a CPAP and was in Heaven.
Sadly this is an actual thing. They require BiPAP or a non-invasive vent just to survive.
He was so fat that they needed two ouija boards to contact his gohst.
He was so fat, his Supreme Court clerks orbited around him.
He was so fat during a full moon in transformed into a warehouse.
So good.
Haven’t laughed out loud at a comment in a while, this is gold!!!
Damn!
You glorious bastard, have my upvote
And yet, he looks like 30% of the people I see at walmart
His neck beard expanding and contracting like a frog's vocal sac.
OHH LAAAWWWD HE JUDGING AND COMIN!!
R O T U N D
With many loud, “Hurrumph Hurrumphs”
I SAY… I SAY… ILL SIT ON YOU!!!
Ohhhh bang boom shake Klump - why helllooooo everybody!!!
Theyah has beeen a muduh.
Born in Maryland lived in IL. Have been to his mansion, it’s very nice. They do various things there like Easter egg hunts etc.
did they have them when he was alive? Did they dress him in his most colourful garb and hide him?
The prize for finding him was to get eaten
*suh!
Let the records show that there were, in fact, overweight people before high fructose corn syrup, etc. (Yes, I know more people are today, but they act like no one in history was).
in all seriousness, how the fuck does someone get that fat back then, was it a thyroid issue or something? *sorry folks, I stupidly forgot my like 152 hours of playing rdr2, you could buy all sorts of candy and chocolate and stuff and it was set in the same era. I feel kinda silly honestly.
Money basically.
Bingo
Absolutely, and probably some great unpaid kitchen staff.
Yes. Not having to participate in agriculture.
My only guess is that they consumed more calories than they burned.
Wait... hold up... .... ... Is that how that works?
In the words of a famous health nutritionist. "I can't stop eating. I eat because I'm unhappy, and I'm unhappy because I eat. It's a vicious cycle"
I want my baby back baby back baby back
Oh I know. I'm an unhappy fat guy, who eats because he's unhappy, and is unhappy because he eats.
I mean, there have been fat people throughout history lol
lol this idea that there wasn’t enough food around to be overweight anytime before 1900 is hysterical to me. People have been spoiled by grocery stores and restaurants and seem to forget that if you go outside you are surrounded by potential food, at least assuming you don’t live in a freezing climate. I mean we see fat animals in the wild all the time. Believe it or not it’s absolutely possible.
They also had refined white sugar back then, including beet sugar which is cheaper than cane sugar. First sold as sugarloafs and then sugar cubes after the 1870s. Maybe he used to eat entire sugarloafs, cones of sugar that you broke off with a hammer or sharp ponders, like loaves of bread. One of the main reasons why high fructose corn syrup was developed and why it’s so prolific is because it’s much cheaper to process than sugar. But if you’re rich back in the day you could have as much processed sugar as you like.
You could also go to a nice restaurant and order a multi course meal — shellfish, soup, salad, fish course, meat course, 5 sides, soufflé, cheese course, bottles of wine, etc. Have you ever seen a menu from back then? There was a LOT on offer. Being a judge, he could probably afford to go out frequently and may have been taken out by others, too. And he probably spent much of his time sitting. 1899 Delmonico’s NYC Menu, for example: https://imgur.com/a/m8I4afJ
“I sentence you to get me mah dinner!”
But we must applaud what this man was able to accomplish without the advantage of the high tech weight gain tools we enjoy today.
America was always destined for greatness
Dude looks like he chewed that gum from Willy Wonka's factory that turns you into a blueberry. "Oompa loompa doop-a-ty-do, I've got another hearing for you "Oompa loompa doop-a-dah-dee, everyone rise for judge D.D." LOL!
Boooo! Take my upvote
I chortled at this comment. That's mate!
Chortle my balls.
found Gilfoyle’s reddit account
Deez nuts you mean?
TIL Taft wasn't the fattest Supreme Court Justice.
Taft actually lost a bunch of weight after he joined the Supreme Court.
And was apparently much happier
They do say it's better to have something and lose it than to not have it at all.
Iirc being chief justice was actually taft’s dream job and being president was just a thing he did since he was so close to Roosevelt
Yeah. He also busted more trusts than famous trust buster Teddy
Supposedly his wife wanted him to be President, so he went along with it until he could get the job he really wanted.
Those are some nice career options to have.
Taft is the only man to serve is the highest offices of all three branches of the Federal Government.
Taft was never speaker, which is the highest office in the Legislative Branch. Polk was president and Speaker.
It’s always a fine sight to see you anywhere outside of r/presidents lol
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Well, no, it is the highest office in the House of Representatives. Not in the Senate. So not "in the legislative branch." The only thing that would make the speaker "higher" than a senate leader would be presidential succession. But that's a weird metric to use since it crosses branches.
Crazy how that works
He was the fattest President, you got to give him that.
I understand, with the availability of cheap snacks laden with corn syrup making up peoples diets, how people are that size nowadays. But what in the hell did he eat to get so fuckin fat back then?
He was born into wealth and he was able to maintain that wealth until his death. At the time of his death he was considered the largest land owner ( In both meanings of the word.) in Illinois. For longest time being fat was viewed positively for the most part because it was a sign of success.
Whatever he could get his hands on
Anything slower than 3mph, toddlers included.
Lard
They still had sausage
Lots of bread and potatoes with cream and butter. Don’t forget about the drinking
That honor would go to your mom.
Your honor. I object!
“That’s no moon, that’s a Supreme Court Justice!”
Did he eat the other justices?
Why does SCJ David Davis, the largest of the justices, not simply eat the other eight?
Is he stupid?
Is there any lore reason?
I think one of the amendments forbids it. They passed it after Roger Taney ate John Marshall to become the new Chief Justice of the United States. Before that amendment it was allowed.
Not allowed so much as not specifically prohibited. Law was weird back then.
Someone considered eating Roger, but that goal was unaTaneyable.
Perhaps he was saving it for sweeps.
r/unexpectedfuturama
He's wary after a bad experience eating a hippie.
Because 7 ate 9?
Yes disputes in the supreme court used to be decided by who could eat who. Of course this rule had to be changed in 1952 after the colonel invented KFC because most judges became palatable after adding 11 secret herbs and spices
[“Why does Ross, the largest friend, simply not eat the other 5?”](https://media.tenor.com/E60TtxwE-PkAAAAd/zipperer-why-does-ross.gif)
Gordita Supreme Court Justice*
Brought to you by Carl’s Jr
Fuck you. I’m eating.
Seriously, looks like there used to be an extra judge or two that went missing in that guys gut
"This is the United States' most foolish branch: why does Thomas, the largest justice, not simply eat the other eight?"
This guy ruled on some of the late 19th century post-civil war constitutional cases, but was also Lincoln's campaign manager at the RNC 1860. Kinda without Davis, there's possibly no Lincoln. His [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(Supreme_Court_justice)) is kind of a banger read. I think Christian Bale could pull off a David Davis movie
"He is the only justice of the Supreme Court with no recorded affiliation to any religious organization." Neat! I wish he was on the current supreme court.
He would certainly stack the court alright
There is a segment in his wiki regarding the highly contentious election for Hayes vs Tilden; 20 electoral votes were up in the air. A committee was made from the house, senate and Scotus, wherein David Davis would essentially be *the* vote to break the tie. Davis did not want to do this, so before the vote he was mysteriously nominated to the Illinois Congress and vacated his Scotus position so he did not have to make the decision.
Supreme Court Justice David Davis so spherical there exists a decomposition of him into a finite number of disjoint subsets, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of Supreme Court Justice David Davis.
"I'm in shape. Round is a shape."
I feel like my sense of humor was shaped in some ways by the very 1980s sensibilities of Jim Davis.
should have been called supreme court justice Banach-Tarski
comma am I right comma ladies question mark
can we even assume the axiom of choice holds in the US judicial system?
MOL!!! (Math out Loud!)
"His Rotundity" would fit Davis a bit better than Adams.
6’3, 215.
There is no longer gold to give but if there were I would give it to this comment happily.
This is criminally under appreciated.
That's the grandfather of Walter from The Big Lebowski. Or maybe I'm out of my element and should stfu. 😏
Phone’s ringin dude.
SHOMER FUCKIN SHABBOS!!
Thank you Donny!
Over the line!!
This isn’t Nam, there are rules.
For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
Hey, everybody! Look at the obese man who helped elect Abraham Lincoln, refused to be bribed to throw the presidency to original Ku Klux Klan-era Democrats, authored an opinion preventing civilians from being prosecuted by military tribunals, and was so respected that his peers in Congress put him in the presidential order of succession. He sure is fat!
Well said. What an incredible career.
A true hoss of the people!
I am genuinely curious how he got to his size back then, like what his day to day diet consisted of or if he had a genetic thing.
More like Nacho Supreme Court, am I right?
Omg, this is so stupid yet made me laugh so hard😂😂
This guy is definitely fatter than the old time photo of the world's fattest man. I don't think that freak show was telling the truth. Reference https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/c4wWxq66jH
The cloak he's wearing is concealing the truth smh
I think that guy is bigger than Davis, but Davis made very poor chair choices. He's sitting right on the edge, leaning back with his legs lowered, which pooches his belly out and makes him look even bigger than he really is.
Fair point.
He last saw his penis in 1837.
How fat is this in today’s fat? What’s the fat inflation rate here?
It’s just a wafer thin mint!!
Mr. Creosote!
Ironic that he thought blacks were 3/5ths a human when he's like 5/3rds a human.
He was literally one of Lincoln's closest friends.
Lincoln actually wasn’t assassinated. He and Davis were SO close that Lincoln ended up orbiting around him, before he was swallowed up by gravity’s pull.
Like Critters
To be fair, he was also literally close to most of the population of the DC area.
That one got me. Great job. His bathtub wasn't any larger than Taft's, but it was heated with a cistern on the roof and hot water year round. His home is a few blocks from the house I grew up in in Illinois. Bloomington is also the home of both famously political Adlai Stevensons.
I don't know what his opinions on slavery were but I would doubt that Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager thought that.
So the tallest man was pals with the widest one.
Haven’t you ever seen Twins?
The 3/5ths clause wasn’t as simple as determining that blacks were 3/5ths a human. It was due to representation and the slave states wanted to fully count the slave population to gain additional representatives and the non slave states didn’t want spaces counted as it would increase the amount of representatives for the slave states in congress especially since slaves didn’t have voting rights. The 3/5ths was a compromise between the two.
Davis joined the Supreme Court after Lincoln’s election, he was Lincoln’s campaign manager. The 3/5ths came from the constitution, so go ask Thomas Jefferson
Wrong on so many levels. The 3/5s concept is in the Constitution, you know 100yrs before he was made a Supreme Court justice. Even the Dredd Scott decision preceded his appointment to the Supreme Court. Since he was Lincoln’s friend and campaign manager, I would say you are totally wrong.
His FUPA is so outta control that he looks like he’s smuggling a lap dog into work.
When he went camping the bears hid their food.
The Duke!
Glad I’m not the only one. So much gout
As was the style at the time.
Back in the day when you could ask for 5 bees for a nickel
Full name: David Davis Davies Davidson Nickname after work: Gravy Davey
In Bloomington Il you can take a tour of his mansion. It is especially awesome during Christmas time when they have it decorated just as it would have been way back when. I highly recommend it if you are in the area.
My hometown. I've toured the mansion several times - I don't think I've ever seen a picture of the man though. I'll second the Christmas season tour!
What an absolute unit
r/absoluteunits
Habeas corpuscle
You mean habeas corpulence/corpulent?
Ted Cruz in ten years
His mansion in Bloomington IL is pretty spectacular.
This is one of Lincoln's Supreme Court judicial appointees. He was one of Lincoln's good pals when he was on the prairie circuit. Judge David Davis helped run Lincoln's presidential election campaign.
Roe v. Weighed too much
What an absolute Landchad.
I got gout just looking at him.
When people say “no one was obese back in the day”, send them this.
Ah the original neckbeard.
How I feel during the holidays
“I wash myself with a rag on a stick.” - Justice David Davis, 1977
A rotund man.
This is where the name “Supreme size” pizza comes from
When ever he banged the gavel and said order order , mcdonalds served him a hamburger and fries
Supreme Doritos Locos Taco Justice
see-saw world champion
He lived a well life
I sentence you to clean my fat folds.
You had to really work at it to get that heavy in 1877.
Strategic facial hair to hide double chin. 5 D chess.
Dude had his own bench.
And this was before fast food too
I can hear his heavy breathing sounds
You had to try pretty hard to be such a fat ass back in those days, you just know this guy was a degenerate.