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From NBC News, “For the first time in more than 150 years, the Marine Corps is operating without a Senate-confirmed commandant. The position was vacated Monday when Gen. David H. Berger, who assumed the top role in July 2019, stepped down from the post, which is limited to four years. The Senate’s attempt to vote on a nominee to succeed him was blocked Monday by GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, whose monthslong opposition to the Defense Department’s abortion travel policy has held up dozens of military nominations.”

I honestly don’t know who is worse: Tuberville or Schumer. Tuberville is a RepubliKKKlan, so by definition, he is already a vile human being, but it could be a close second with Schumer, who I’ve said from day one is a f***ing complete disaster as majority leader of the Senate. He’s f***ing weak, weak, weak. And he has no f***ing clue how to play hardball. Tuberville has been holding up military promotions for months over a MAGA position on abortion, and in so doing, he is wrecking America’s military readiness. (So much for the party of a strong national defense.) This one Senator has been holding up promotions for months. And then we have Schumer, who is equally complicit because, I guess, he’s too f***ing lazy to do his job; instead of passing these promotions by the usual unanimous consent method, Schumer would rather do nothing by forcing these promotions to the Senate floor because it will take too long. It could take months. Oh, you mean the months that Tuberville has been holding up the ~250 promotions while Democrats (and other RepubliKKKlans) complain that nothing is happening. This is a classic example of why I hate Democrats more than RepubliKKKlans at times because I can’t stand their f***ing weakness anymore. What Schumer should have done (months ago) is lock the Senators in the chamber and say: “Ok, folks! We’re doing this now, and no one leaves until everyone is promoted. And you can thank Tuberville for this.” I bet Senators will quite easily vote to change the rules to avoid all the procedural delays. But no! Schumer is a weak and stupid fool who is still playing by the old rules, hurting our military in the process. I expected nothing less. Whatever! No one cares! Welcome to stupid America!

According to CNN, “All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t. They were ‘furious’ that the laws meant they never got to kiss or cuddle their daughter, Willow Rose, or tell her goodbye, Heather said. … The family’s ordeal started in April, when Heather was nearly five months pregnant and they found out their daughter was missing a major part of the brain, a condition called anencephaly. They say their doctors told them she would either be stillborn or die very quickly after birth. The Maberrys wanted to terminate the pregnancy, but a near-complete abortion ban in their state doesn’t have exceptions for birth defects – even severe ones like anencephaly. The Maberrys went out of state to end the pregnancy, but their insurance, Kentucky Medicaid, wouldn’t pay for it.”

Oh, where to begin?!?! First, I see the MSM still (no pun intended) feels it necessary to run these stories that pull at readers’ heartstrings. Needless to say, I am unpersuaded. Second, these Medicaid recipients (read: poor White trash) from Kentucky (read: poor White trash RepubliKKKlans) are upset that abortion laws in their state made a non-viable pregnancy difficult to receive proper healthcare. To which I say: Good! Cry me a f***ing river. This is, no doubt, what they voted for, and if they failed to vote, then this is what their political indifference wrought. Of course, these red-state residents had to travel to a blue-state city (Chicago) to get the necessary medical abortion — for free, I might add. I am absolutely against this for reasons I’ve articulated in many other posts, but in short, I think people should live according to how they voted (or failed to vote, in which their indifference helped create their circumstances). Am I certain that this couple didn’t vote for Democrats? No, but I’m pretty sure they voted for RepubliKKKlans — always and often. One of the failings of all these types of stories is that reporters never seem to ask for whom these people voted. Writers should make it a point to understand the political views of their subjects and put it at the beginning of the article so I know just how little I should care about these people. Because as much as this is a “human interest” story, it is also a story that was directly impacted by politics, so there is no such thing as just the “humanity” side in the retelling of events, for these circumstances would have been much different if abortion was still a constitutionally protected right. But whatever!

Last, and probably the most important point, modern-day American society has become a victim of its own medical success. People have come to expect every pregnancy to be a success, and consequently, parents-to-be put an excessive amount of emotion into the viability of their unborn baby. Idiots should be reminded — in a more dispassionate way — that conception and fetal development is a biological process, and like everything in biology, things go wrong — often! There is no such thing as a flawless biological process or biological certainty. And people should not be mourning a natural process that goes wrong anymore or less than a biological process that goes right. It’s f***ing nature, f***tards! Sometimes it works, and sometimes it does not. How or why people get attached to a thing that is not fully alive (i.e., not viable) is beyond me, but then again, people are morons, so, in a way, I expected nothing less. Welcome to stupid America!

From The Hill, “An order limiting the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies could make it harder to curb disinformation as the 2024 election nears. A federal judge on Tuesday curtailed communication between certain Biden administration agencies and social media companies after a GOP-led challenge to efforts to combat disinformation, arguing attempts to do so violated protected speech. … ‘This (ruling) is part of a political ploy to change the meaning of disinformation from information that’s incorrect and harmful to a sort of political slur – the idea that labeling something disinformation is tantamount to censorship,’ Marwick said. ‘What this ruling does is it really continues that narrative. … It’s not likely the ruling will have an immediate impact on online disinformation, Marwick said. But over time, social media platforms might choose to limit their moderation efforts out of fear of legal and political ramifications. … Administration officials were not barred in all cases from communicating with social media platforms. The order indicates that Biden administration officials can confer with platforms about criminal activity, national security threats, threats to public safety and posts’ intending to mislead voters about voting requirements and procedures.’ But even with those exemptions, the order’s sweeping directive leaves room for interpretation.”

Let me see if I understand this correctly. A traitor trump-appointed judge thinks the best way to preserve the freedom of speech is to put a gag order on the government. But really, the point of the ruling is not freedom of speech concerns; it’s about freedom of disinformation. With a supremely stupid, stupid society, what could possibly go wrong? That’s always been the point of the RepubliKKKlan Party. They have been working for decades to foster a society of really, truly f***ing G.D. stupid people (i.e., voters), and it appears they have finally reached critical mass, as evinced by the election of traitor trump. Now that RepubliKKKlans have sufficiently dumbed down society through a long, constant war on education, they need to keep Americans ignorant by barring the government from enlightening them (or at least from getting dumber). They are at the point where the party has commenced spoon-feeding (via social media) misinformation, disinformation, and “un-information” to the great hoards of idiots, and they don’t want a Democratic-led government getting in the way of keeping Americans stupid. Hence, they get their judge to intervene to prevent people from not being exposed to lies and conspiracy theories. One may rightly argue that people have a right to lies and such conspiracy theory nonsense. Normally, I would agree — if society was actually smart enough to discern fact from fiction. But, sadly, Americans are not smart. They are idiots who have no clue. This is a country where 30-40 percent think CVOID and climate change are hoaxes. That vaccines give people COVID. That there is a deep-state cabal that wants to turn children into sex slaves. And Lord knows what else. But whatever! I expected nothing less! Welcome to stupid America! This is how America ends.

According to Salon, “Legal scholars pushed back on former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal’s claim that the Supreme Court may be compelled to reexamine a recent case after evidence surfaced that the claim at the heart of the case may have been fabricated. … Katyal suggested that the Supreme Court should revisit the ruling given the evidence. ‘The Supreme Court has a procedure to seek a rehearing, so to say, “Hey Supreme Court, there’s a new fact that emerged and we need you to revisit your ruling,’ so that’s possible. The Supreme Court can also on its own ask for a briefing on this new question on whether this case is made up,’ Katyal told MSNBC. … But legal scholars pushed back on Katyal’s argument. ‘I think this is a nonstarter,’ former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor, told Salon. ‘The Court glossed over standing in this case because a plaintiff is permitted to make a facial challenge to a law on the ground that yet violates the First Amendment.'” Ya think?!?!? Just to be absolutely crystal clear: No one can force SCOTUS to do anything. They select the cases they want when they want and rule in the manner and on the questions they want. Full! F***ing! Stop!

Because I watch liberal news almost exclusively, I am subjected, at times, to the idiocy of the left as MSM “experts” placate their audience with ridiculous claims such as SCOTUS may be “forced” to reconsider the merits of the 303 Creative case. Katyal is one of the worst when it comes to treating the viewership like a bunch of f***ing morons — and he’d be right most of the time. But for the rest of us, he comes off as another head-in-the-clouds liberal with no grip on reality. He still doesn’t get it. He still doesn’t understand that the ends it what SCOTUS cares about; they have no interest in revisiting cases or issues once they have declared their edicts in the image of White Christian nationalism. I don’t f***ing care what law school he graduated from or how many times he’s argued cases before SCOTUS; if Katyal can’t read the room or understand the zeitgeist of the moment, then in my mind, he’s a f***tard — book smart but not street smart. Last I checked, most people live in the streets, so to speak. (This is why traitor trump is so popular.) These progressives and their constant wishing for the impossible is aggravating. No wonder dumbass Democrats are always behind the eight ball; they spend all their time hoping and less time actually acting, or worse still, ignoring the true threat of the RepubliKKKlan Party. But whatever! They never learn. Welcome to stupid America!

So, it begins! Gays are now officially second-class citizens, for SCOTUS has enshrined discrimination against this once-protected class into law, not just in statutory law but Constitutional law! In other words, no law Congress passes can undo what SCOTUS just did. I don’t think this has really sunk in with all the MSM analysts I’ve heard. Just to be absolutely clear: This SCOTUS has just said it is constitutionally permissible to discriminate against the gays, and being a constitutionally protected right, there is no law Congress can enact to protect the LGBTQ community. As Justice Sotomayor put it so well in her dissent, “By issuing this new license to discriminate in a case brought by a company that seeks to deny same-sex couples the full and equal enjoyment of its services, the immediate, symbolic effect of the decision is to mark gays and lesbians for second-class status. In this way, the decision itself inflicts a kind of stigmatic harm, on top of any harm caused by denials of service. The opinion of the Court is, quite literally, a notice that reads: ‘Some services may be denied to same-sex couples.’” Indeed!

I did not read Gorsuch’s majority opinion because my ire is ragging so much that I can’t see or think straight (no pun intended). But I read Sotomahyor’s dissent, which has informed me well enough. This case is a perfect example of a conservative activist Court hell-bent on reversing the social progress of the 21st century. People have been warning about the ultimate goal of the White Christian fascists sitting on the High Court; they want America to revert back to the 1950s (and the 1850s, if they can). Yet the entreaties of those forewarning have fallen on deaf ears of idiot Americans. But, guess what? The fascists are getting exactly what they wanted! And this Court will stop at nothing to help Christian nationalists achieve their goal: A White Christian nation dominated by cis straight men who subjugate all others, especially minorities. It’s happening, f***tards! In real-time and right before your lying eyes.

One needs only start with the legal concept of standing to understand that this uber-conservative supermajority Court will stop at nothing to get the matters they want to decide on before them. The legal standing in the 303 Creative case, by the usual benchmark, is lacking. I can go way, way back to an argument of standing that Thomas made in the Moore v Harper case, just three days before 303 Creative was issued, as an example of their hypocrisy. He states, “This Court sits ‘to resolve not questions and issues but “Cases” or “Controversies.”’… As a corollary of that basic constitutional principle, the Court ‘is without power to decide moot questions or to give advisory opinions which cannot affect the rights of the litigants in the case before it.’… To do so would be to violate ‘the oldest and most consistent thread in the federal law of justiciability.’… As such, the question is indisputably moot, and today’s majority opinion is plainly advisory.” The 303 Creative case is not really a case at all because the plaintiff has incurred no actual harm. It is common knowledge that the plaintiff has not even established a web design business yet — if ever — and the “client” requesting a “gay website” is actually fraudulent. Just ask the straight guy (also a web designer) that the plaintiff alleged had asked for a same-sex wedding-themed website. The “controversy” is the plaintiff’s theoretical harm of possibly having to do something she doesn’t like. Apparently, this is now enough for the Court to act, which also begs the question: What other possible issues will this SCOTUS undertake if the threshold to grant certiorari is basically a “feeling” that something may happen? The short answer: Whatever the f***ing Court wants, for actual cases are no longer required for standing. Without actual cases or controversies, this Court does what Thomas argued they shouldn’t be doing: Giving advisory opinions. Funny how Thomas did not bring up the issue of standing in the 303 Creative case. (One may argue that Thomas was specifically talking about mootness in the Moore opinion, but isn’t the greatest example of mootness a harm that has never occurred?) This only proves the activist nature of this Court; they will attack all minority groups at any cost using any excuse.

Clearly, this plaintiff lacked standing by all reasonable legal standards. But, as I have repeatedly said in previous posts, the law is whatever SCOTUS wants it to be in the moment, so if they want the 303 Creative case to have standing, then all they have to do is say so and do some backward-working magic to contrive the desired means and ends. The same tortured logic applies to the outcome of this case. The desire is to limit LGBTQ rights. The 303 Creative case is the invented “controversy,” and the First Amendment is the legal vehicle to get to the outcome they want. I had originally thought the Court would use freedom of religion in the First Amendment to roll back gay rights, considering this was the primary argument of the plaintiff, but their ruling is actually much broader and much worse than I thought, for the Court latched onto the freedom of speech, which, in this case, subsumes freedom of religion. Consequently, one need not have a sincerely held “religious” belief to discriminate against the gays; now all you need is just good old-fashioned bigotry, and you’ll be protected from having to act (provide a service) using freedom of speech as an excuse.

And do not believe any of the conservative Justices’ excuses that this is only limited to creative expression. That is B.S. They are lying! Thanks to this Court, the door is open, and the slippery slope is in place. Mark my words when I say that anti-LGBTQ groups are already manufacturing legal challenges to test the boundaries of the 303 Creative ruling. The freedom to discriminate will not stop at creative expression. The next line of attack will be freedom of association in the First Amendment. If this Court can absurdly identify — apparently for the first time in the nation’s history — a freedom of speech right to discriminate in the Constitution, then I have no doubt freedom of association will also be used to further discriminate against the gays. Soon a waiter or the person renting an apartment to a gay person or couple may refuse to do so because the person does not want to associate (i.e., wait on or engage) with said minority group. Honestly, the examples and consequences are endless because, as Sotomayor noted, this is the first time SCOTUS has found a constitutional right to discriminate against a minority group. This is just the beginning, f***tards. Mark my words! Welcome to stupid America! The end is coming.

Justice Sotomayor writes in her dissent in the 303 Creative case with whom Justice Kegan and Justice Jackson joined, “Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. Specifically, the Court holds that the First Amendment exempts a website-design company from a state law that prohibits the company from denying wedding websites to same-sex couples if the company chooses to sell those websites to the public. The Court also holds that the company has a right to post a notice that says, ‘“no [wedding websites] will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages.”’ … Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people. The Supreme Court of the United States declares that a particular kind of business, though open to the public, has a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. The Court does so for the first time in its history. By issuing this new license to discriminate in a case brought by a company that seeks to deny same-sex couples the full and equal enjoyment of its services, the immediate, symbolic effect of the decision is to mark gays and lesbians for second-class status. In this way, the decision itself inflicts a kind of stigmatic harm, on top of any harm caused by denials of service. The opinion of the Court is, quite literally, a notice that reads: ‘“Some services may be denied to same-sex couples’ [emphasis added].”

The disaster I have long foretold is becoming clearer and clearer with each passing SCOTUS term, and dumbass Democrats only have themselves to blame for their unyielding stupidity and confidence in the “intelligence” of the typical American, who they constantly insist — that Biden just said during an interview on MSNBC in which he proclaimed a “great faith in the instincts of the American people” — knows better. Do they, though? Did Americans know better when they elected traitor trump? Biden’s optimism really can be insufferable at times because it evinces such a level of naivety that one wonders how he can detect domestic threats. (FYI: This SCOTUS is a domestic threat.) The damage has already been done, f***tards, and the consequences of electing traitor trump to appoint one-third of SCOTUS will be decades in the making and take generations to correct — if the damage can be reversed and America even lasts that long. Democrats’ singular focus in the 2016 presidential election should have been SCOTUS. And voters, more generally, should have been aware of the risks of electing traitor trump while McConnell (illegally) held open a seat on the Court.

If for no other reason, voters should have elected Hillary to preserve the already tenuous balance of SCOTUS. But no! Americans are morons, especially Democrats, who like to think that the president is the most important and consequential position in government. He is not! The most powerful people in the government are the six unelected uber-conservative justices who will re-shape America for generations to come or at least until liberal conservatives can regain the majority, which I will not hold my breath for because dumbass Democrats are too weak and timid to mess with the Court in the way demanded to take back control — witness Biden, who said that he would rather not “mess” with the Court’s composition. So, Democrats helped create the mess we’re in because they are idiots and still haven’t figured out to play politics with the political ruthlessness necessary to save America. RepubliKKKlans understand this, and they know how to play politics to win the long game. Welcome to stupid America. The end is well underway!

I will say it upfront: I had no faith that SCOTUS would help defend democracy from batsh*t-crazy right-wing extremists despite recent rulings that seem to be signaling a less radical SCOTUS. (The term is not over yet!) As with everything relating to this uber-conservative supermajority, I have to wonder what’s the catch and, perhaps more importantly, what kind of horse-trading took place to ensure the results of Moore v. Harper. I read the majority opinion in this case and tried reading the dissenting opinion but gave up when Thomas started talking about “Harper III,” which is an attempt to patronize critics and create a level of absurdity in treating the matter; Thomas likes to do that, especially when he’s on the losing side of an argument. Harper III is a reference to the several times the same case made its way through the North Carolina Supreme Court as well as SCOTUS. A redress of a redress of a redress. Thomas, in his typical jejune attitude and “eloquence,” likes to believe if the majority argument wins out, then it is because the other justices’ reasoning is so ridiculous that he has to treat the entire case flippantly. It’s his way of having a temper tantrum. I expected nothing less from a legal “scholar” at the highest level of the judiciary who has been called out repeatedly for his corruption. But I digress.

Now, to the meat of the matter. The question was, Does the state legislature have power beyond the reach of judicial review when it comes to federal elections — the “Times, Places, and Manner” thereof? This all-powerful, beyond-reproach view is known as the independent state legislature theory. In short, Roberts concludes, “We are asked to decide whether the Elections Clause carves out an exception to this basic principle [judicial review]. We hold that it does not. The Elections Clause does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review.” In other words, if a state legislature decides to change anything relating to federal elections that may run afoul of the state constitution, then the state courts have a constitutional right (obligation) to adjudicate such controversies. So, it would seem that SCOTUS has saved the country’s democracy from red states that would install their own elected officials regardless of election results and be unreviewable by the courts.

So, what’s the catch? There is no such thing as a free lunch, and, as absurd as it may seem, these justices do horse trade when it comes to the law, which begs the question, How can “sound” legal reasoning be so malleable that one’s opinion can be swayed by the deals made to ensure outcomes of another, unrelated cases? It is a curious thing, indeed. Thus, I do not doubt that what this SCOTUS gave to us by saving our democracy, it will easily take away by enshrining discrimination against minorities in the following, yet to be decided cases, especially 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. I have little doubt that SCOTUS will sanction and legalize discrimination against the LGBTQ community in the name of religious freedom and, in so doing, will open the floodgates of discrimination as the Court will be unwilling to second-guess the validity and sincerity of one’s religious assertions. Before you know it, people will deny service of any sort because of “religious freedom.” One can almost guarantee the outcome of 303 Creative LLC merely by how late in the term this opinion will be released. For an institution that claims to be so solemn, stately, and measured, it sure does like to engage in flare and spectacle by saving the most significant cases for the final days of the term as if they wait until the last minute to strip people’s rights away in some grand gesture of preserving those soon-to-lost privileges until the last second. Gee, thanks! The Court has surprised us in recent weeks with decisions leaning toward the liberal side, and now they will (not so much) surprise us with decisions going in the other direction. I’m sure the majority will attempt to narrow the scope of discrimination by stating that in the 303 Creative LLC case, one may legally discriminate because the freedom of creative expression is protected under the First Amendment, which they will try to differentiate from providing a service, but the distinction will be without a difference as they try to split that baby. Soon everyone will claim everything they do is a form of creative expression in order to discriminate against the gays! What good is democracy if you’re not free anyway? Brace yourselves, morns! Welcome to stupid America!

From CNN, “The investigation into the criminal case involving Yevgeny Prigozhin and his alleged involvement in organizing an armed mutiny is still active, Russian state news agency TASS said Monday, citing a source close to the Prosecutor General’s Office. ‘The criminal case against Prigozhin did not stop. The investigation continues,’ the source said about the Wagner founder, according to TASS. … However, neither Prigozhin nor his press service have confirmed a deal. Prigozhin has not been seen in public since his departure from Rostov-on-Don Saturday night.” Well, of course! You do realize Prigozhin is the black sheep of the Russian oligarchs, right?

I am not sure I believe anything about this deal is actually true; the “deal” is just as likely to have been an excuse for Prigozhin to turn tail and disappear. Whatever the truth, it’s all irrelevant because the guy is a dead man walking. Short and sweet. I’m pretty sure Putin would have agreed to anything to stop the march on Moscow, knowing whatever he “agreed” to would be null and void the second the former chef retreated. Putin understood this, and Prigozhin understood this too. There is a reason why the hot dog stand owner turned general has disappeared. He could already be dead, but it is more likely, at this point at least, that he is on the run, having abandoned his Wagner mercenaries and leaving them high and dry. I guess he doesn’t care for his soldiers after all, despite everything he claimed about them: They are his family, his brothers in arms, they are the best of the best, blah, blah, blah. So much for his loyalty! It’s all meaningless. Russians will return to their natural state of indifference, bringing them the “peace” of ignorance and apathy. They haven’t cared about their state of living for over 20+ years under Putin. Why would they start caring now? Answer: They won’t.

According to The Atlantic, “The response is hard to understand without reckoning with the power of apathy, a much undervalued political tool. Democratic politicians spend a lot of time thinking about how to engage people and persuade them to vote. But a certain kind of autocrat, of whom [he] is the outstanding example, seeks to convince people of the opposite: not to participate, not to care, and not to follow politics at all. The propaganda used […] has been designed in part for this purpose. The constant provision of absurd, conflicting explanations and ridiculous lies—the famous ‘firehose of falsehoods’— encourages many people to believe that there is no truth at all. The result is widespread cynicism. If you don’t know what’s true, after all, then there isn’t anything you can do about it. Protest is pointless. Engagement is useless. But the side effect of apathy was on display yesterday as well. For if no one cares about anything, that means they don’t care about their supreme leader, his ideology, or his war.”

Holy sh*t! I thought Anne Applebaum was writing about America. But replace the contents of the brackets with “Putin” and “in Putin’s Russia,” respectively, and you restore the quote to its original. What a f***ing joke America has become. In short, with regard to the electorate, it is difficult to distinguish between the two countries. Eh, whatever! This is what dying countries look like. America is following the path of Russia, but faster. Welcome to stupid America!