Saturday, June 25, 2022

Bang Bang Crazy: Supreme Court Conclusion

 


On Thursday, June 23, 2022, six of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States wrote the conclusion to my little thread about the butchery that took place inside an elementary school in Texas almost exactly a month earlier.

And that conclusion was: we're wingnuts and we love guns, so fuck you.

It's really just that simple.

The modern "conservative" movement loves them some guns. Big guns, little guns, old guns, new guns...guns are what gives them wood. There is no firearm that the current SCOTUS majority considers too risky, too dangerous, too lethal, for some mouth-breathing peckerhead to carry around the public square.

Why? Because there's a good reason for mouth-breathing peckerheads to stroll about armed like a Nung mercenary?

Fuck, no.

It's because ammosexuals - people who get their rocks off having badass weaponry - are a crucial voting element of the Republican criminal conspiracy.

Without the gun-humpers, the racists, the incels, the bible-bangers, no Republican would ever get elected. Ever. Again.

So this is them throwing brains to their zombie horde.

There is no other reason.

They give fuck-all about the people who are going to die, who are going to live miserable lives with the damage the bullet will do to their arms or legs or guts (have you ever seen a gunshot wound? Unless it's from a peashooter .22 it's not a nice neat little hole. High-velocity ammunition shreds human meat and splinters bone. It commonly leaves you crippled and in pain for the rest of your life) or the grief of loss and rage at the insult to minds, lives, and bodies those firearms and the mouth-breathing peckerheads who will soon be humping them everywhere will do.

And don't even get me started on how the already-twitchy trigger fingers of the cowardly cops will get an order of magnitude twitchier.

Adam Serwer has a terrific article up in The Atlantic that explains that this isn't some sort of "conservative" bug. It's a feature:

"The conservative majority’s main vehicle for this imposition is a presentist historical analysis that takes whatever stances define right-wing cultural and political identity at a given moment and asserts them as essential aspects of American law since the Founding, and therefore obligatory. Conservatives have long attacked the left for supporting a “living constitutionalism,” which they say renders the law arbitrary and meaningless. But the current majority’s approach is itself a kind of undead constitutionalism—one in which the dictates of the Constitution retrospectively shift with whatever Fox News happens to be furious about. Legal outcomes preferred by today’s American right conveniently turn out to be what the Founding Fathers wanted all along."

 Which, of course, leads us to the past week's Dobbs v Jackson decision that overturned Roe v Wade.

Wingnut assurances to the contrary, people have been purging their spawn since there were people. The difference that Roe made was that the person outside the spawn was likely to survive. 

But, like the Bruen decision was not intended to make civil society safer, saner, more reasonable and more attractive for everyone but to give the Republican gun-humping faction a chubby, Dobbs isn't actually intended to make things more sane and sensible for actual human beings but to make the fundamentalist freaks that are one of the other important parts of the GOP base cum their brains out.

That's it.

That's all.

That's the entire reason these black-robed fuckers are tearing out everything built since 1929 they can lay their grabby little dickbeaters on.

Look up "nondelegation" if you really want to get a shiver of existential terror.

That's where these fucksticks are going. 1929? Just a pit stop on the way to 1879.

As I said back in May; these people are coming for us.

Any of us who aren't like them.

They're coming with force and fear.

Serwer sums it up neatly:

"The core conservative belief about the culture war is that there is a Real America that is conservative, and a usurper America that is liberal. This, not historical research, not legal analysis, is the prime means of constitutional interpretation for its current majority. (T)he right-wing justices’ vow that other constitutional rights are safe for precisely what it is worth—which is to say, absolutely nothing."

This is what they want for you:

It's from The Onion, but don't kid yourself.

It's only as funny as long as they haven't actually done it.

All these nice people? The church lady, the gruff-but-loveable old cuss down at the VFW, the nice missionary who handed you the tract the other day, the respectable attorney who's the chairman of the local Kiwanis?

They're your deadly fucking enemies and want you powerless and crushed.

So.

It's really simple:

Fight them.

Fight them or be destroyed.



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Inevitable outcome onf 2016. RBG may have been all that, but whatever grudge she had with Obama needed getting over. I assume she was one of the crowd who thought Hillary was “cheated” in 2008.

It’s time for the next generation to stand up and fight, they’ve been coasting on courts doing the heavy lifting for too long. Hopefully this is a godsend for the midterms.

FDChief said...

What's so frustrating is that the refs - the institutions like the Senate and the Electoral College - are playing for the Red Team. It would take a massive blue wave to change that, and that's not going to happen; too many of these C.H.U.D.s are just lost to civil society. They'rer QANuts in all but name (and many of them just flat out ARE QANuts...).

I honestly don't see a "good end" to this. The wingnuts are going to keep pushing. The hard Left is too tiny and too reviled by the Big News corporations to be effective pushing back. The mushy middle will happily throw everyone the wingnuts hate under the bus to keep being fat, dumb, and happy.

I wish I thought that physically fighting back would make a difference. But how? Demonstrations? The cops are in the bag for the wingnuts - hell, they mostly ARE wingnuts. Voting? When Wyoming has as many Senators as California?

The REAL "fighting back" is, frankly, actual fighting. And the disaster that will produce would make the First Civil War look like a silent movie pie fight. The best we can hope for, those of us not utterly brain-dead from sucking Trump's ass-gas, is to fort up in places like California and the valley in Oregon and keep our boots on the red necks of the local rednecks.

I think the real crux of the biscuit will come when the national Redneck Nation comes for those blue enclaves.

THEN we'll have to decide to die on our feet or live on our knees.

duncan campbell said...

Every now and then I read this blog only to assure myself that there still are some sane men in the US.

Dhu