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SCOTUS Finally Speaks: F*** Women and Their Rights!

I quote (at length) the Great Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Sotomayor, who makes the point why five conservative justices determined the fate of half the population with barely a concern: “The Court’s order is stunning. Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand. Last night, the Court silently acquiesced in a State’s enactment of a law that flouts nearly 50 years of federal precedents. Today, the Court belatedly explains that it declined to grant relief because of procedural complexities of the State’s own invention. Ante, at 1. Because the Court’s failure to act rewards tactics designed to avoid judicial review and inflicts significant harm on the applicants and on women seeking abortions in Texas, I dissent. … In effect, the Texas Legislature has deputized the State’s citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors’ medical procedures. … Taken together, the Act is a breathtaking act of defiance—of the Constitution, of this Court’s precedents, and of the rights of women seeking abortions throughout Texas. … It cannot be the case that a State can evade federal judicial scrutiny by outsourcing the enforcement of unconstitutional laws to its citizenry. … The Court should not be so content to ignore its constitutional obligations to protect not only the rights of women, but also the sanctity of its precedents and of the rule of law.”

I add one final — and the most important — point made by the Great Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Kagan, “And it [Court of Appeals opinion] barely bothers to explain its conclusion — that a challenge to an obviously unconstitutional abortion regulation backed by a wholly unprecedented enforcement scheme is unlikely to prevail.” Bingo! Bingo! And bingo! The conservative SCOTUS justices agreed with that “reasoning.” And there it is in a nutshell. Sotomayor argues that the sole intention of the Texas law is to outlaw abortions, and Kagan pithily calls out the moral turpitude of the conservative justices’ decision not to enjoin the law because somehow they think the legal case against a clearly unconstitutional law is not likely to succeed. Case closed. Roe is dead! Never mind, most people across the country and within the states don’t want Roe overturned. But whatever! I give up! The minority is ruling us, and people don’t care.

So, what comes next for the political left? Uproar? Marching? Mobilization? Organization? Rage? Revolution? Kill the filibuster? Vote? (God forbid!) Uh, none of the above. This has been years in the making. A slow-moving freight train has been rolling down the track toward a washed-out bridge. We knew this was coming at least three presidential election cycles ago, and still, dumbass Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives demonstrated complete insouciance to the notion that elections matter when it comes to SCOTUS. Apparently, elections only matter when it’s too late — traitor trump. Oh, well. This is the bed dumbass Democrats made for their lack of political urgency and ruthlessness. So, in short, we get what we deserve, and I don’t see SCOTUS’s latest actions being enough to shake Democrats (especially politicians) from their complacency. And that pusillanimous statement from Biden was so m*****f***ing G.D. infuriating. He will do everything to protect women’s rights and advocate for legislation. Really? Thanks for reiterating the obvious and espousing tactics that have been entirely worthless. In the end, he’ll do nothing. It’s all talk with Democrats and little meaningful action. At the very least, Biden must call Justice Breyer and tell him it’s time to retire. I don’t give one G.D. f*** if it’s inappropriate. It’s time to play f***ing hardball for once, but Democrats are incapable. I give up! The Democratic Party is completely pathetic and outmatched for today’s political environment. Get ready for a RepubliKKKlan Christian theocracy. We deserve the government we get because most people don’t care! Welcome to stupid America.

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International Indigestion

Closing in on WW III

From The Washington Post, “Russia this week sent a formal diplomatic note to the United States warning that U.S. and NATO shipments of the “most sensitive” weapons systems to Ukraine were ‘adding fuel’ to the conflict there and could bring ‘unpredictable consequences.’ The diplomatic démarche, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post, came as President Biden approved a dramatic expansion in the scope of weapons being provided to Ukraine, an $800 million package including 155 mm howitzers — a serious upgrade in long-range artillery to match Russian systems — coastal defense drones and armored vehicles, as well as additional portable antiaircraft and antitank weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition. ‘What the Russians are telling us privately is precisely what we’ve been telling the world publicly — that the massive amount of assistance that we’ve been providing our Ukrainian partners is proving extraordinarily effective,’ said a senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive diplomatic document.”

It is becoming increasingly clear that the only way to end Russia’s war on Ukraine is through, not around, nor back. The only way forward is through, and I think the world needs to brace itself for what will happen in Europe and elsewhere. As I have said before, this is Putin’s last act, and he will escalate to maximum threat since the Russian people will not rid themselves (and the world) of Putin. People love their dictators! MAGA morons love traitor trump, and Russians love Putin. I think the chances of this conflict turning into nuclear war — or, more precisely, Russia using nuclear weapons — is about 99 percent. What then? All bets are off!

This moment is shaping up to be a mix of the Cuban Missile Crisis and World War I. It resembles the Cuban Missile Crisis in that the war in Ukraine is a de facto standoff between America (the West) and Russia where nuclear conflict is more likely than not. And it resembles World War I in that European powers are inching toward inexorable escalation. Slowly, Europe is mobilizing.

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‘You Sank My Battleship!’

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Brace for the Political Earthquake After Roe Is Overturned — Not!

I watched Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC last night, and he made an excellent point I had not considered previously. In essence, he stated that if Roe were to be reversed, then not much would change in the country. States where choice is protected would continue to allow abortions. Those populations would not be impacted. As for states with trigger laws or where abortions are already difficult to obtain, an already limited right will merely disappear. For instance, in Mississippi, which only has one abortion clinic in the entire state, what would be the material impact of that one clinic closing? They perform about 300 procedures per month, so the impact is not much in that state. In many states with highly restrictive laws, those citizens have already adapted to an abortion-limited environment, so there is not much difference in the next step to an abortion-free circumstance, especially if a nearby state provides legalized abortions. Considering the very small fraction of women who chose abortions compared to the rest of the female population, it is conceivable that the vast majority of women will wake up the day after Roe is abolished feeling that nothing has changed. (Unless, of course, you consider women waking up feeling like second-class citizens a change.) Then that begs the question: What would be the political fallout if SCOTUS scuttles Roe? Allow me to answer.

In short, nothing! I predicted the day RBG died that abortion would finally be overturned. At the time, I welcomed it because dumbass Democrats have been asleep at the wheel for decades when it comes to prioritizing the judiciary — and basically everything else that entails wielding political power. I believed that overturning Roe just might be the last straw to wake Democrats the f*** up. I wanted Roe to be the new rally cry — the spark of the next revolution for Democrats to get their f***ing act together and to start winning again. But who the f*** am I kidding? O’Donnell’s comment made me realize that if Roe is abolished, then the net effect on the ground would be nothing; there would be no blowback. There will be no enduring excitement or political will for Democrats to do something — anything. It hit me that dumbass Democrats are simply too f***ing G.D. weak to mobilize on this issue and every other issue, except maybe for the ACA. I mean, killing women’s abortion right has been a RepubliKKKlan freight train rolling inexorably down the tracks in slow motion for decades, and idiot Democrats still managed to get run over. So, why the f*** would I think that now is the moment for things to change? My own hope diluted me — the one feeling I deride for its worthlessness, yet I dared anyway. Shame on me! O’Donnell woke me up!

What will happen once Roe is gone? Oh, for sure, there will be the perfunctory outrage among women who have seen autonomy over their own bodies reversed. They will be rightly outraged that five men have taken away a half-century-old right to women’s liberty and medical privacy. Sure, there will be marches, consternation, and rage, but there will be no comeuppance for RepubliKKKlans. Why would there be? RepubliKKKlans and evil evangelicals have been advocating restricting women’s rights for decades. This has been a long time coming for women, and Democrats have done absolutely nothing to avoid what is about to come to pass. The traitor trump administration and the years leading up to it have created the perfect storm. I’ve written about this before, but allow me to repeat myself. Traitor trump was the capstone on judicial court-packing at the highest levels, which will take a generation before there is even a hope of starting to reverse the destruction. Add voter suppression and redistricting, wherein blue states lost and red states gained seats in the last census. The inevitable consequence? RepubliKKKlans will become more entrenched at the local, state, and federal levels. Again, RepubliKKKlans have been working at this for decades, whereas dumbass Democrats have been doing — well, I don’t know what they’ve been doing, except mostly losing. Hoping to win the presidency every four years is not a successful strategy to advance Democrats’ agenda.

Oh, and did I mention court-packing? (I did.) The political tactics that RepubliKKKlans have been employing to achieve permanent power will get the rubber stamp from a hard-right SCOTUS. I’m old enough to remember way back in 2013 when the conservative justices rolled back significant portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From that point, red states put their voter suppression efforts into overdrive, to great success. In short, the impenetrable circle of power is locked and completed in RepubliKKKlans’ favor. It won’t matter how many angry women show up to the ballot box, for RepubliKKKlans have all but certainly rigged the voting system in the right places to benefit themselves overwhelmingly and singularly. Whatever. There is nothing new here. We’re f***ed! Thanks, Democrats, for nothing. Truly! Welcome to stupid America, where one political party wants to rule by tyranny and the other likes to watch!

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Purely Moronic

High Douchebag Billionaire Says What?

Musk was offered a joint by a podcast host during filming in California, where marijuana is legal, BBC

From CNN, “Elon Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter (TWTR) and take it private, saying he believes it needs to be ‘transformed.’ According to an SEC filing, Musk has offered to acquire all the shares in Twitter he does not own for $54.20 per share, valuing the company at $43.4 billion. … ‘I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,’ he said in a letter he sent to Twitter. ‘However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company. … Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.’”

There is so much to unpack here. Musk is a f***ing douchebag — pure and simple. Should a jejune billionaire pothead really have so much power? Probably not. Let’s be clear about something: Free speech does not mean unregulated and unfettered. Nor does it mean speech made with impunity. And make no mistake, Musk believes free speech means people should be able to say anything, to anyone, and without consequence. Does that really sound like serving a “societal imperative?” I believe free speech should be 99 percent free and come with consequences. That is the societal imperative! One cannot falsely scream fire in a crowded movie theater (maybe). That is not free speech, and doing so comes with criminal consequences. Musk wants to “transform” Twitter into the public square “theater” where everyone can scream fire! Anything goes! He wants lies and misinformation to corrupt an already f***tarded and gullible population unabated, all in the name of “free speech.” I have no doubt that his first act as the private owner of Twitter is to re-instate traitor trump’s account to facilitate the demise of trump stupid America. I’m sure Truth Social can’t wait for that!

Of course, there is an equally possible reason for Musk’s actions. It is yet one more ploy to mess with a stock’s price. I would not be surprised if this all turns out to be a pump-and-dump scheme. He’s known for playing childish (pot-induced) antics. The “420” in the offer price already smacks of inside humor, and it’s not the first time he makes weed references in “serious” business dealings. Un-f***ing-believable! The child — sorry — man child — sorry, again — “man” — actually, no — man child wants to take over one of the world’s largest free speech platforms, which under his guidance could become a severe threat to America’s democracy, and he does it with a bit of tongue-in-cheek. It is incomprehensible to me that people — the business world — ever take this man seriously. Of course, he keeps pulling off these shenanigans because he never gets punished by the SEC or stockholders — he keeps getting richer. At worst, the SEC imposes a minor fine, and at best, it just drops any investigation because America truly is a consequence-free nation where billionaires get away with everything! Musk is a danger to America, and Americans love him for it, just like they love traitor trump. Musk wants to “unlock” Twitter’s potential. Indeed, he does! He wants to unleash more chaos on the world. He’s not a disruptor; he’s just a plain ole f***ing a**hole! I! Can’t! Wait!

America is the playground for corrupt billionaires who have nothing better to do than f*** with democracy. And Americans let them because America loves its a**holes — traitor trump, Musk, Abbott, DeSantis, McConnell, MTG, Boebert, Cawthorn, Jordon, Paul, Gosar, et al. Fan-f***ing-tastic. Welcome to stupid America!

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Russian Incompetence x2

The Russian missile cruiser Moskva patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Syria, in December 2015. Photo: Max Delany/AFP via Getty Images

Axios reports, “Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed Wednesday that its Moskva missile cruiser was badly damaged in a fire — hours after Ukrainian forces claimed they’d struck the vessel in the Black Sea. … Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a brief statement that ‘ammunition detonated as a result of a fire on the Moskva missile cruiser.’”

I don’t know why I keep overestimating Russia’s military capabilities, perhaps out of an abundance of caution. But this recent story suggests Russia likes to present itself with the hard choice of claiming incompetence or incompetence. Either they’re incompetent to defend the flagship against Ukraine’s military or they’re incompetent to operate the flagship. Apparently, they would rather assert that not only is their army filled with and run by a bunch of stooges, but their navy is just as inept. I’m not sure how sailors set fire to their own ship, but I guess if there is a way, then Russia will find it and do it. Christ! This is the country with the military the West fears? Now is the time to crush Putin’s military while they are still learning to tie their (velcro) shoes. You couldn’t make this sh*t up if you were writing a fictional (comedic) novel.

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Purely Moronic

Daddy Issues

Ryan J. Reilly’s Twitter account reports, “‘If the president is giving you almost an order to do something, I felt obligated to do that,’ testified Jan. 6 rioter Dustin Thompson, who told jurors he didn’t really have ‘any strong male figures’ in his life and wanted to gain Trump’s ‘respect’ and ‘approval.’ … Dustin Thompson, a 38-year-old married college graduate, told jurors that he felt ‘good’ when Donald Trump told him on Jan. 6 that he was ‘stronger,’ ‘smarter,’ and had ‘more going than anybody.’”

Oh, my f***ing God! I can’t with the f***ing stupid anymore. Seriously! I just hate these morons with the heat of a thousand white-hot suns. It is inconceivable that a 38-year-old is having daddy issues and looking to traitor trump to fulfill his longing for bro love and self-esteem. What a f***ing G.D. loser of the highest f***ing order. Both of them! But this is precisely the type of f***tard traitor trump attracts — stupid, pathetic losers. Thompson has no “strong male figures” in his life! First, boo-hoo. Cry me a river! Second, really? At 38 years old, he’s supposed to be the strong male figure — for his kids, I presume — not the loser pining for a senior citizen to show him the way. F***! If this guy hasn’t figured out life by now, then he’s hopeless. F*** me, again! And these are the people allowed to vote. God! America is so f***ed! Thompson is Exhibit A! Welcome to stupid America — the land where grown men still have daddy issues! Un-f***ing-believable.

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Of Course, He Is!

Attempted Mass Murdered Frank R. James

Basically, from Rolling Stone reporting on this guy’s social media posts, “The videos are jaw-dropping. The language – antisemitic, homophobic, misogynistic, and extraordinarily racist – filled with rage and hate.” Did I expect anything less? No doubt, this guy legally bought a gun because why not? Oh, and one more thing. I’m sick of people falling back on “mental health” as an excuse for every miscreant. That includes people claiming mental health as their own excuse.

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Dead End?

Slava Ukraini

According to The New York Times, “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Tuesday that peace talks with Ukraine had reached a ‘dead end’ and he falsely called the evidence of Russian atrocities in a Kyiv suburb ‘fake,’ using his first extended remarks about the war in nearly a month to insist that Russia would persist in its invasion.”

You’re kidding me with this, right? What part of my post from the beginning of the war did people not understand? Allow myself to quote myself, “It [peace talks] is a ruse. It is all propaganda.” How could there be a “dead end” when no one was on the road to negotiations in the first place. Putin does not want peace. He wants annihilation and nothing less. I wish people would understand this! It seems that diplomats on the MSM, in particular, are still holding out hope for a compromise. I guess the old saying is true: A carpenter sees every problem as a nail. Of course, this type of narrow thinking constrains and misguides diplomats’ and politicians’ understanding of how to bring Russia’s unjust war against Ukraine to an end. The way to bring peace with Putin is not to negotiate or compromise! The only way is to offer terms of unconditional surrender. Unless and until the world understands that the only way to “work” with Putin is through utter defeat, then the free world will be in danger everywhere. Do not negotiate; offer Russia peace terms!

And if I have to hear one more idiot pundit, reporter, diplomat, politician, journalist, or general “expert” talk about giving Putin an “off-ramp” to this war, then I’m going to blow my f***ing gourd. How many ways can I say the same thing? There is only one outcome of this war: Putin is utterly defeated. He’s not looking for a f***ing G.D. “off-ramp,” and Ukraine should not be offering one to him unless it includes Russia’s total and unconditional capitulation! This is Putin’s last act. People have yet to grasp this notion.

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Purely Moronic RepubliKKKlans

An Excuse to Legalize Everything on Guns

According to NPR: “Guns: when and how to regulate them. It’s one of the biggest issues across the country. But the Supreme Court has rarely weighed in on the issue. In modern times, it has ruled decisively just twice. And now, it’s on the brink of doing so again.” Now that SCOTUS is firmly conservative, get ready for a flood of test cases that the high court will take up to expand ridiculous gun rights. Get prepared for conservative justices to start ruling that any law that restricts any gun possession and its use at any moment and in any situation is unconstitutional. Mark my words, morons! This country is about to go full-on wild, wild West because America is just too f***ing G.D. stupid to do otherwise. Poll after poll evinces that the vast majority of people want gun control, but instead, we get more RepubliKKKlans elected to office that do nothing — in fact, they do the opposite of gun control — and America just takes it! Get used to it, idiots! It’s all stupid all the time. Welcome to trump stupid America!