Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," end of the Supreme Court calendar edition. I am one very pissed off Anne Johnson today.
In this circle of Hell called the USA, we have a court that is a final arbiter, containing three judges chosen by a president who did not win the popular vote. This is not how a democracy should work.
To make matters worse, we have a single individual on this court who rose from abject poverty to the priciest yacht travel in the world, who doesn't want anyone to think he did so because of affirmative action, because somehow the taint of affirmative action besmirches his clear superiority over all common folk.
This man parties like a king, and his wife behaves like a conniving queen. They sit in their luxury and make decisions that affect ordinary Americans without ever feeling the pain of the people whose lives they are impacting. Workers, women, debt-ridden college kids? Pish, tosh. Peons all. Pass the caviar.
When I was a teenager I couldn't get enough books about Tudor England. It always amazed me that Henry VIII could order his citizens to change churches on pain of death just because he wanted to divorce his old wife and marry a new, young one. Like, dude. You're ending peoples' lives because you're horny? You've got issues.
But Henry VIII was a king. America isn't supposed to have kings.
Turns out you can act like a royal without having the title. We have, on our Supreme Court, a sitting justice who enacts his own self-loathing as a fiat with bitter repercussions for rank-and-file citizens. His finances are opaque, his friend group is elite, and he only concerns himself with pleasing those few. Why? Because the man isn't comfortable in his own skin. He's a ruler with issues.
Of course this fucked-up operator has partners in crime, all with issues, all beholden to the moneyed interests. Multiple 50-year-old precedents overturned in one year. This is a disgrace more befitting an absolute monarchy than a democracy.
Aux armes, citoyens!
6 comments:
Dark days indeed for the USA.
It's absolutely sickening.
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Being a Senator, Congress person or member of the Supreme Court is as close as you can get to royalty in this country. That is why they fight so hard to keep their jobs.
I could understand a stupid decision because you are horny, but there is no justification, other than Religious influence in government, to to explain the decisions made by this Court.
the Ol'Buzzard
Well said. And we are devolving as a Nation instead of evolving as a Healthy one should. One Blogger put it well, what doesn't Evolve, Dies.
America is becoming a scary descent into an attempt to make it a Fascist Theocracy. It made me feel less than Patriotic this 4th of July, due to how much we've devolved and so quickly.
there has to be...just has to be a way out of this fucking mess.
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