Goddamn It and Goddamn Them

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jaime-o-neill/102134/goddamn-it-and-goddamn-them

Goddamn It and Goddamn Them
by Jaime O’Neill | June 25, 2022 - 7:15am


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Their persistence paid off hugely this week. Six really perfidious and rotten people imposed their will on a majority of Americans who didn't want them to do what they did. Insanely, in the aftermath of the most recent uproar about children in schools being killed by men with guns, the Supremes demonstrated their supreme indifference by giving their 6-3 blessing to the right of any citizen to carry a concealed weapon, invalidating state laws that prohibit such casually irresponsible "freedoms." Haven't the fascists always told us that state's rights were sacred?

And then, supreme in their arrogance and indifference to the Constitution and precedent, they sent down the edict that fetal cell rights will reign supreme over the rights of living women.

It's an abomination, though I suspect the evangelicals, the Mormons, and Catholics will be rejoicing their asses off this weekend, and the choruses of "hallelujah" will be loud in the tax-free mega churches.

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My vocabulary of vile names for these people is inadequate to the task of condemning them for their imperious wickedness, for the callous indifference to the harm they do to people they don't know.

But one word does come to mind. They are monsters. Sanctimonious monsters who do their monstrous work dressed in black robes, reassuring themselves they are serving God's will. They rationalize such hubris, telling themselves that what they do is only what God urges them to do. They tell themselves that their machinations are patriotic, consistent with the values of the Founding Fathers, many of whom were land owners who commonly and without shame also bought and sold their fellow human beings. They do their monstrous work sanctioned in their wisdom by degrees conferred upon them by the highest temples of learning we have. They are applauded by many of their equally privileged fellow alumni who, I think, know better. Or surely should know, given their vaunted educations.

So, I'm mad as hell, and as in the movie that featured that famous line, I don't want to take it anymore. But unlike that movie, we all know that we'll continue taking it so long as our government is dominated by a wholly-owned cabal of privileged ex-preppies and heirs to privilege. And those who will take the worst of the shit we shouldn't have to take are those who will pay the biggest price for what has been done by truly despicable human beings far removed from the consequences.

Clarence Thomas had the audacity to say that he had been subjected to a "high-tech lynching" when he faced accusations of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings. Lynching was an egregiously inappropriate analogy for what Thomas had experienced.

It is, however, possible to see what has been done to America's women is akin to mass rape, a violation, an obscenity.

I hope I can take my own advice to grieve this affront without being distracted by the next outrage to issue our Washington. I don't want to lose this anger. And my advice to anyone who feels as I do is to get mad, stay mad, and turn that anger into action, perhaps beginning with demands for the impeachment of "Justice" Clarence Thomas whose corruption is perhaps the most overt and obvious.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Sometimes I wish there were a god so they'd get what's coming to them.

Then I wake back up after that thought.

[GoCubsGo]

3. I think some of their own actions are going to come back and bite them the ass.

Especially the ones involving guns. I've long contended that the Right, in general, going to wind up regretting their encouragement and facilitation of "Guns, guns, and more guns." Eventually, it's going to be used against them. At some point, one of their decisions is going to piss off someone enough to resort to those "Second Amendment remedies" they so frequently boast about. It will probably wind up being some heavily-armed rube, who supports them now, but finally figures out who really has screwing them. It might not happen right away. Karma plays the long game. But, what goes around comes around.

[Jerry2144]

2. The "christian" right can take

Their goddamned perversion of jesus and shove it up their asses. It looks like either our democracy is doomed to slip into a christian caliphate or emerge from the other side as a stronger social democracy where the MAGAty "christians" are shoved back under a rock and no longer in power. Their over reach on basic human rights and striking down and blocking common-sense gun safety laws might just be enough to sweep them out. 2022 will be an indication of which way we're going and 2024 will either be the end of democracy or represent a rebirth. It's the apathetic and squishy/non-political middle that need to be motivated and enlightened to see the evil of the right