Snapshot

Needless to say I'm upset about today's Supreme Court climate change ruling. I can't see it other than a corporate thing. The corporations want to be able to rape and pillage unfettered, and they pay lobbyists and elected officials to ensure this. As for the environment itself...

But let's get back to Roe v. Wade. I got an e-mail from someone spouting the right wing talking points, that abortion has not been made illegal, it's just been thrown back to the states.

I want you to read this Heather Cox Richardson piece: https://bit.ly/3ugq4Mb

The hoi polloi believes these cases are decided in a vacuum. Or maybe there's an originalist position, let's try and honor the intent of the framers of the Constitution. But a whole hell of a lot more is going on beneath the surface. And if you read the above article you'll get a sense of this. The goal is not to throw it back to the states so much as to get rid of abortion. The states' rights viewpoint is essentially a cover-up.

And that cover-up has been a long time in the making. Not only the perspective, but the appointment of judges who agree with this viewpoint. Also, if you think you can be an independent thinker and get a judgeship, have power in the Republican party, you're wrong. It's a team outfit. It represents a minority of Americans. And this is the party's strategy to win, to stay together, on point, and it's been going on for decades and it's very effective.

So it's not like Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were jurists without a preexisting agenda, nothing could be further from the truth. They brought all their baggage to the Supreme Court, all their beliefs, as for what they said in the confirmation hearings...like they were gonna say that Roe v. Wade needed to be overturned. That would just assure that they wouldn't get the job, which they want for their self-image if nothing else, sports are not the only arena of competition. As for all the questioning in the Senate, that's got nothing to do with the truth, that's just for show, for headlines, it all comes down to the votes, do you have them or not?

And it's not only Supreme Court justices. The Republicans are not approving of bureaucrats either. So major positions in the government remain unfilled, to the detriment of us all.

And when it comes to the Cassidy Hutchinson testimony... What does it take to convince people that Trump did not win the election, never mind acted like a spoiled child tyrant in the process?

So the debate is whether Trump took the wheel in the Beast, i.e. the vehicle. If you watched the testimony, you know that Hutchinson was recounting a story she heard, she said right up front she was not there. But the blowback has been all about unidentified law enforcement officers who say it didn't happen. As for them standing up in court and testifying to that effect? Hasn't happened. If for no other reason than if they did testify, there would be a lot they had to confirm, which is worse.

But it's all optics. How can the story be spun to tell people that Trump is innocent, that it's all a ploy.

As for no Trump supporters on the committee, yes, McCarthy misplayed his hand here, but in truth what would have changed? We'd just be getting right wing Representatives spewing stuff about the climate and inflation, trying to take the heat off the words of Ms. Hutchinson and the rest of those testifying. If you went to school, at least public school...your student council was run better than this. Everybody's entitled to a defense, which is why you read these cockamamie theories in the news, which ultimately have no success. But at least stay on point. As for being rational...

So what we've got here is a cabal that runs unregulated.

All that hogwash about voting if you want change... Looks good on the surface, but is specious when you dig down deep. The voting districts are so gerrymandered that a Democrat can't win, not whatsoever. So, vote all you want but good luck achieving the result you desire. Which is akin to the Electoral College. Forget the will of the people, the vote... It comes down to what happens in each state. I live in California, my national vote never seems to count, because it's a blue state, oftentimes results are posted before the polls even close in my state. I'm not saying not to vote, but all the people who tell you to trust the system, to believe in the system, that the system works, are spewing BS, and probably sucking at the tit of the government or liking the skewed results we now get.

So how can we reach people with the truth.

Let's be clear. There are active people atop each political party, but the average person just does not care that much. And they're swayed by the marketing, the spin instead of the facts. As for facts, they're fungible.

So that's the number one issue in politics right now, how do we educate the public so they can make an informed decision.

As for the government at large, the system, the Supreme Court...

It's hard not to give up, because our leaders are inured to the broken system. They say their hands are tied as democracy disappears. Our status in the world keeps declining. So...

It really comes down to spontaneous generation. That's the only thing that is going to save us. Something will happen that is unexpected, the change won't come from the usual suspects.

Who knows, maybe a right wing person shoots someone.

But probably, someone on the left will be sick and tired and won't be able to stand it anymore and will defy the law.

That's what it's all about folks, defying the law. I'm not telling you to do it, but someone is going to, someone more invested than you, someone willing to do anything and everything to change the course of history.

The problem is most people are apathetic, because in truth they like what they've got and they're unwilling to sacrifice. But those with nothing have got nothing to lose. And we all appreciate those who put it all on the line.

So let's see, we've lost the legal war, the information war, we've been neutered politically, every problem is attributed to Biden, irrelevant of whether he has a hand in it at all, and it keeps looking worse and worse. I mean how can you battle Q, and people still believing that Trump won the election? That defies common sense. But if you talk to the Republicans they truly believe they're saving our country from socialist Democrats who want to take away everything they have, who want to change the American way of life. Ever notice that there are plenty of rich left wingers too? Do you think that's what they all want? No, but most on the left would like to see a leveling of the playing field.

As for witness tampering...

It's like we're living in a bad movie.

You need to pull away from the system, you've got to think outside the box, because the game is rigged against you. And what does a court decision mean if the people defy it anyway? And the judges are just people, they're not gods.

It's evening in America. Beware of darkness.


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