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According to the Associated Press, “In its historic ruling last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said terminating a pregnancy is not a fundamental constitutional right because abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution and is not ‘deeply rooted in this nation’s history and tradition.’ In a brief filed Monday, the Alabama attorney general’s office argued similarly that gender transition treatments are not ‘deeply rooted in our history or traditions,’ and thus the state has the authority to ban them. Alabama contends such treatments are dangerous and experimental, a view disputed by medical organizations.” In less than a week, Roe is being used to justify LGBTQ discrimination. The gays will be wholly erased from society because being gay is not “deeply rooted in our history or traditions.” And it will not stop there. Your rights are next unless you’re a white straight male with 18th-century notions of freedom and rights. Mark my words, f***tards. Americans have no idea the new America SCOTUS is going to unleash because I live in a truly stupid country where people are just too f***ing stupid to apprehend (anything). I live in stupid hell. Welcome to stupid America! The stupid cannot be undone.

A poll from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics revealed “[that] 28 percent of voters, including 37 percent who have guns in their homes, agree that ‘it may be necessary at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government.’ That view is held by one in three Republicans, including 45 percent of self-identified strong Republicans. Roughly one in three (35 percent) Independent voters and one in five Democrats agreed.” This is consistent with other polling, and it is more affirmation that America is beyond saving. How many times must I repeat myself? How many f***ing times? The only way is through. There is no turning back. There is no “return to normal.” Those are profoundly naive and quaint notions of a yesteryear that no longer exists (and never really did). While 28 percent may not seem like much, it is sufficient. As I posted previously, the minimum amount of dissent to ignite the next civil war is a mere 30 percent. I keep warning you morons! But no one is listening. The end is coming. Oh, well. Welcome to stupid America!

In the new term, which starts October 2022, SCOTUS will hear 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. The question at issue is the following: “Whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the free speech clause of the first amendment.” This is a narrowing of the petitioner’s filing, which also asked the Court to consider “Whether a public-accommodation law that authorizes secular but not religious exemptions is generally applicable under Smith, and if so, whether this Court should overrule Smith.” It is odd that the Court elected only to hear this case as it relates to free speech and not freedom of religion, but I’ll opine on that a bit later. What I do want to turn to first is the second question that the Court will not hear — ostensibly.

In short, SCOTUS demurred hearing a challenge to Smith, which essentially held that “Although a State would be ‘prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]’ in violation of the Clause if it sought to ban the performance of (or abstention from) physical acts solely because of their religious motivation, the Clause does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a law that incidentally forbids (or requires) the performance of an act that his religious belief requires (or forbids) if the law is not specifically directed to religious practice and is otherwise constitutional as applied to those who engage in the specified act for nonreligious reasons.” The petitioners (303 Creative LLC) basically wanted the Court to overrule Smith, thereby rendering states unable to enforce anti-discrimination laws because of religious objections. In other words, they wanted to legalize gay discrimination based on freedom of religion, but SCOTUS decided to answer another question: Discrimination based on freedom of speech. Why choose the less offensive route?

An excellent question to which I don’t have an answer, but I think the “why” is moot. Let’s face it. This is just a means to allow gay discrimination and legalize gay hate based on First Amendment rights. What Clause SCOTUS decides to use as the justification is irrelevant. Not only that, but the Court can really “answer” any question they want. Any idea when they last used the bait-and-switch tactic to deliver an opinion of the Court? You have three guesses, and the first two don’t count. I’ll help: It was the Dobbs case that overturned Roe. The original question the Court accepted when they took the case was the constitutionality of a 15-week ban imposed by Mississippi law — this is the question Roberts answered in his opinion on Dobbs. But once Barrett was placed on the Court, Mississippi asked the Court to change the question from a 15-week ban to overturning Roe. Naturally, SCOTUS obliged — this is the question the other five conservative justices answered in their Dobbs opinion. In short, they changed the rules in the middle of the game, which is their prerogative. I’ve written about this in a previous post. Petitioners before the Court can argue the A B C merits of a case, and the Court can rule on A B C or X Y Z or both. To be sure, the Dobbs decision was actually 5-1-3.

This 303 Creative LLC case is going to be the exact same thing. Freedom of speech is the front door attack on gay rights while freedom of religion will be the backdoor (additional question) attack, even though Smith suggests that a state can prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation if the state has a compelling reason (e.g., public-accommodation law). Guess who wrote the majority opinion for that case? Scalia — not exactly your liberal justice. But fear not. This SCOTUS has no issues with undoing precedent; in fact, they just ignored another Scalia opinion when they ruled against New York in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen case. In the Heller case (2008), Scalia wrote that states have a right to regulate guns and that the Second Amendment was not unlimited. Well, this SCOTUS basically said f*** that! So, do not think this uber-conservative supermajority has any reservations about deciding whatever they want on any matter they want while ignoring every previous ruling of the Court — even by their own conservative predecessors.

As a layman, I don’t need to try applying any sense of legal reasoning to draw my conclusions of what SCOTUS will do because, like they, I start with the end result in mind. They want to legalize gay discrimination in the name of First Amendment protections. That is their goal. Then they merely fill in the blanks with whatever reasoning and arguments they want to “justify” the final decision, which had already been cast before the case was accepted. Of course, there is absolutely no recourse because they are literally the final word on the Constitution. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mark my words, morons. This SCOTUS is hell-bent on making gays second-class citizens, and they will do it because no one cares. I’m telling you, idiots. These conservative justices are going to find a First Amendment right to discriminate against the LGBTQ community. Of course, such a right can only ever be confined to the gays because they’ll never find a right to discriminate against any other group with immutable characteristics, which is generally the test for such cases. Oh, no. The gays will be relegated to second-class citizenship status, right next to women. This is just the beginning. Welcome to stupid America!

I quote from Justice Kagan’s dissent in West Virginia v. EPA, “The subject matter of the regulation here makes the Court’s intervention all the more troubling. Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. And let’s say the obvious: The stakes here are high. Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions. The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decision-maker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening. Respectfully, I dissent.”

Look, morons. There is not much to say about this case except that traitor trump got his climate-denying uber-conservative SCOTUS majority who has no interest in helping the government fight climate change. So, this is what Americans wanted when they voted for traitor trump. What else am I to conclude? People voted, and elections have consequences. This is the result. I feel bad for younger Americans who fear climate change realities and who must live under a SCOTUS that basically says to them: F*** you! Oh, well. I mean, this is the same SCOTUS majority — less Thomas, who is the oldest — they’ll have to live with for the next 20 years if America lasts that long. Welcome to stupid America!

According to Justice Black’s 1965 dissent in Griswold v. Connecticut, “I get nowhere in this case by talk about a constitutional ‘right of privacy’ as an emanation from one or more constitutional provisions. I like my privacy as well as the next one, but I am nevertheless compelled to admit that government has a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision.” How incredible! I always thought conservatives wanted “small” government and despise big brother, yet this justice concedes while he doesn’t like those notions, there is nothing to stop government’s “right to invade.” Fan-f***ing-tastic!

I hope f***tards of America truly understand what’s coming to them with this new SCOTUS because the new uber-conservative majority of 2022 believes what the justice I quoted above believed 70 years ago. Namely, there is no right to privacy in the Constitution. It’s the same thing I warned about in plenty of other posts, for example, They’re Coming for Your Straight Marriage Next, Democrats on Roe: Asleep! At! The! Wheel!, Vindicated!, and Catastrophic!. I told you, people! You, Americans, are going to be very surprised about all the rights you thought you had but will come to realize were never there but for the ruling of an old SCOTUS. This new SCOTUS is going to revisit Griswold. That is a promise. Griswold was decided based on a right to “marital privacy,” which SCOTUS will declare actually does not exist. Mark my words, f***tards. I’ve been more right about the actions of SCOTUS than anything, and they are coming for everyone’s right next! They want to take rights away, not expand them. Oh, well. I live in stupid hell.

Of course, this is all very ironic because the very faction of conservative American politics and citizenry that claims they want small government and government out of their lives (and bedroom) voted for traitor trump, who installed justices that will declare: You have no right to privacy! I told you so. I told you, but Americans fell in love with traitor trump because they love the reflection. Elections have consequences, f***tards. This is what Americans want, and you’re going to get it — in spades. Mark my words. Welcome to stupid America!

According to Quinnipiac, “In the race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock leads 54 – 44 percent over Republican challenger Herschel Walker, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University poll of Georgia registered voters released today. In Quinnipiac’s January 2022 poll, the race was very tight with 49 percent of voters supporting Walker and 48 percent supporting Warnock. … The race for Georgia governor is a tie with 48 percent of voters supporting Republican incumbent Brian Kemp and 48 percent supporting Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams.”

Unquestionably, a very good set of poll results for Democrats in Georgia, and certainly not what I expected, but the only poll that counts is the one on election day because there is one thing polls can never predict, and that’s turnout. Everyone knows Democratic turnout always falls behind RepubliKKKlan turnout during midterm elections.

The Cassidy Hutchinson testimony is the first-person account of the insurrection that confirms traitor trump knew everything and did nothing. In fact, every RepubliKKKlan did nothing to stop it. Traitor trump knew the mob was armed with weapons ranging from brass knuckles to spears to AR-15s. He knew anti-government groups were in the crowd. He knew these people were dangerous — not to him, naturally — but to everyone else, especially to Pence. (“I don’t care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”) He knew to incite the crowd and enrage them at the insurrectionist rally. And he knew what he was doing when he unleashed and commanded them to “march” to (take over) the Capitol. We also learned that he wanted to be the general leading the charge. His claim to walk down with them was not hyperbole after all. It was entirely intended and desired. And, of course, traitor trump was more worried about crowd size to the last.

But fear not, morons! Fear not! Traitor trump is going to be just fine. Nothing is going to happen to traitor trump. He is safe. He is above the law. Why? Because we have f***tard AG Garland heading up the DOJ, who is too weak to hold a former president accountable. Mark my words, f***tards. Garland is already paralyzed into inaction because he’s afraid. Do you recall way back when traitor trump claimed that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it? Recall that moment? I do. Most morons heard that and rolled their eyes, thinking, wow, this guy is full of it and himself. I, on the other hand, knew he was not kidding, and he was right to understand that he’s above the law. And what has history proved? He does get away with everything. No one holds him accountable. There are never any consequences because everyone is afraid of him, especially dumbass Democrats and AG Garland.

So, this is what’s going to happen, morons. Traitor trump is going to accelerate his timetable to declare his candidacy for president because he knows that as a candidate, he has some inherent protection from legal prosecution, for the last thing Garland wants to do is upset the institutional “traditions” and “perception” of impartiality. If there is one thing he fears more than saving democracy, it is appearing to be meddling in the political election that will propel traitor trump into the presidency to finish the job — of destroying democracy. AG Garland is the absolute worst person to be in office for this moment in history on behalf of a Democratic president. I think of all things, picking Garland will be remembered as Biden’s worst decision. Mark my words! Nothing is going to happen to traitor trump, except to win the next election because I live in stupid hell. Welcome to stupid America!

He says in Salon, “Ultimately, if Garland refuses to act, future history books will forever connect him to Trump’s coup attempt. Such hypothetical accounts may observe that after a defeated president and his confederates attempted to overthrow American democracy, the nation’s top law enforcement official declined to hold him accountable — and that led directly to the collapse of democracy and the rise of a fascist regime. … The framers of the U.S. Constitution personally understood the dangers of kings and their tyranny. Trump and his fascist insurgency represent exactly the type of authoritarian force that the framers rejected. What will King Trump do if he (or another younger and more vigorous aspiring monarch) returns to power in 2024 or thereafter? Like the kings of old, the Trump regime will pursue violent retribution against everyone they believe has wronged them. Those who laugh at King Trump now are trying to find safety and comfort in gallows humor. It will not be enough. Such laughter will not save them.”

DeVega is my man! Preach. I basically quote the beginning and ending paragraphs of his article because I think they sum up his points well. First, AG Garland is worthless. Although this is not the article’s primary subject, I appreciate that he and I are on the same page with Garland when everyone else seems to have faith in him and believes him to be working behind the scenes. But let’s face it, shall we? Garland is not going to do anything to hold traitor trump accountable because recall my First Axiom of politics: Traitor trump ain’t going nowhere!

Second, ignoring traitor trump is dangerous, which Garland and many others are doing. In short, there are still believers who think traitor trump is a buffoon who has revealed himself as such during his presidency and since the insurrection. Consequently, his ineptitude precludes him from being able to win in 2024. This, of course, is non-sense. There may be a perception that he is losing control and influence over the GOP, but that is an illusion partly because he’s not the president. To be sure, the minute he declares his candidacy — and denying he will is itself a dangerous illusion that reinforces my prior point — his influence will return in force and unequivocally. He will be a formidable rival for Biden, and given America’s stupidity and fixation on the price of gas, they are more than willing to give the traitor another chance. You may not have democracy, but gas will be slightly cheaper. Ugh! I can’t! Welcome to stupid America!

Look, morons! I’ve been saying it for years now, and it is beginning. But, perhaps, I should take a moment to fine-tune my meaning, for I seem to vacillate among phrases such as “it’s coming,” “it’s here,” “it’s a cold war now,” and “it’s a hot war coming,” among other iterations of similar thoughts. To be sure, we are in a cold civil war right now at this moment. And it is beyond the culture war; SCOTUS made sure of that. Now we’ve entered into issues related to the fundamental right to privacy. I think the cold war will intensify, and I do think eventually, we will slip into a hot war. Now, as I’ve said in prior posts, the next (hot) civil war will not be like the last. There will not be battle lines drawn and generals commanded by a president and traitor president. No! It will be state versus state and neighbor versus neighbor. States will become enemy states to each other. In fact, we are already beginning to see the emergence of feuding states that do not simply involve a war of will, cultural values, or taxes. No. We see states that are going out of their way to hold citizens of other states criminal for legal actions conducted in that person’s home state.

But, again, don’t take my word for it. I am not being hyperbolic. NBC News has a good piece from which I quote, “With some states allowing private lawsuits against out-of-state abortion providers — and other states prohibiting cooperation with abortion investigations — the abortion issue is likely to pit state law enforcement agencies and court systems against one another in dramatic fashion. … Texas law [for example] lets private citizens sue out-of-state abortion providers, and Missouri is considering a similar law. … ‘What we had in the years leading up to the Civil War was a failure of what lawyers call comity, the idea that states will respect other states’ laws’ for reasons of courtesy, consideration and mutual respect, said Ariela J. Gross, a professor of law and history at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. ‘That starts to break down when you have these really stark differences over an issue involving a fundamental right, and that’s what happened in the years leading up to the Civil War.’… ‘It’s one thing to have states fighting with each other about a tax on interstate cargo or mudflaps on trucks,’ said Wendy Parmet, a professor of law and public policy at the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. ‘It’s not the kind of thing that tens of thousands of people take to the streets over. … We certainly have not seen since the Civil War these kinds of conflicts between the states in a context of such heightened controversy and anger.’”

Bingo! Bingo! Bingo! This is the disintegration of America happening right before our eyes — if you’re looking. We have long known that the divide between a blue America and a red America has been widening, but SCOTUS has facilitated and will further facilitate the divide. Soon, crossing from one state to the next becomes akin to crossing international borders, where some citizens are held captive like Griner in Russia. The kindling exists. It is piling up. SCOTUS is more than content to pour the gasoline and strike a match. Mark my words! Welcome to stupid America!

A couple of key passages in a Washington Post article read, “But many abortion rights supporters say Republicans have routinely broken the rules in recent years and benefited enormously from it — for example, by blocking President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick — and that for Democrats to continue observing the niceties amounts to unilateral disarmament. ‘We are dealing with one side that is undermining the very essence of what it means to be a country that roots itself in this philosophy of equal protection under the law. You cannot battle that if folks on the other side are always moderating, modulating and compromising. It’s not the age we’re in,’ said the Rev. William Barber, a North Carolina preacher who is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. … ‘Democrats start with the question of, “Are we allowed to do this or not?” And I think Democratic voters will forgive you if you try and later on it turns out a court strikes it down,’ Bardella said. ‘But at least you tried in the meantime to keep things in place and head toward the next election. What they won’t forgive is if you keep asking them to keep you in power but you don’t do anything with it, or at least try to do something with it.’… ‘It’s very similar to what happened in 2020: “Go back to the voting booths.”… It always comes back to “Now you, the individual, do something,”’ said Paris Hatcher, executive director for Black Feminist Future. ‘But we’ve elected these people who are in office at this very moment to take action on things like this. It becomes a very passive way to pass the buck when we have elected them to make things happen that center on the well-being of the people.’”

I quoted much, but there was much to be said better than I could. I think the voices in the article have it exactly right, and it is nothing different from my complaining about dumbass Democrats for — well — basically as long as I have been voting. Democrats are the weak, stupid, and incompetent party, which occasionally wins elections to slow RepubliKKKlan fascism, but never enough to defeat it. (Sadly, it is the least of the worst choices, so I always vote Democratic.) Nonetheless, it is clear that voters and even some Democratic strategists understand this, but — as the article articulates — leadership is utterly worthless for this moment. Let’s face it. After these significant events, Biden and Pelosi come out to say things, things, and more things. Then it is radio silence. That’s not leadership; those are just empty words and gestures. They are really good at saying “go vote” randomly. Sure — yes, and…? Dumbass Democrats keep hearkening back to a past that no longer exists and will never exist again. How many times have I said dumbass Democrats lack the ruthlessness to defeat RepubliKKKlans? How many f***ing times? Do not expect the Democratic Party to save you from RepubliKKKlan fascism, for their pusillanimousness is becoming part of the problem. It is time to take matters into your own hands. It is time to take to the streets. No justice, no peace! What side of history will you be on when the time comes to declare? Welcome to stupid America!