The Rude Pundit: The Supreme Court Tells the 21st Century to Go Fuck Itself

[babylonsister]

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The Rude Pundit
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7/01/2022
The Supreme Court Tells the 21st Century to Go Fuck Itself


This session, the newly-ripened conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court of the United States decided it was time to lift up their robes and piss on the 21st century and reality. The half-dozen justices, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, looked out at a nation, no, a world that demands progress, that demands care, that demands a government that can act to help people, and said, "Nah. Fuck that." And their reasoning essentially came down to, in every case, "Because we can."

We have a gun crisis in this country. The Supreme Court said that the only thing that mattered was that more people have easier access to guns. We have a policing crisis in this country. The Supreme Court said that it's more important to protect cops from being sued or charged with crimes and that you don't need to worry about being told your Miranda rights anymore. We have an ongoing pandemic that has killed over a million people in this country. The Supreme Court said that public safety takes a back seat to whatever stupid bullshit makes people decide not to get a vaccine. We have an electoral crisis in this country. The Supreme Court said that gerrymandering away fair representation is a-okay.

And then the Court decided, in two cases, that the whole separation of church and state wasn't real because Christians need to have group prayers at school and schools that discriminate against LGBT people need to get our tax dollars. The former one there is where Gorsuch, lying about the facts of the case, told students who feel pressured into praying to suck it up, which would probably get him a cane up his ass from Benjamin Franklin, which would be some actual originalism.

And then the Court decided that a fetus has more rights than the woman it's attached to, and so fuck 50 years of Roe v. Wade. It's time to turn that motherfucking clock back to the 1950s. Alito insisted that Roe was the cause of chaos because anti-choicers were sad about it, and he used as an excuse, among others, that states had anti-abortion laws 150 years ago, which is so fucking dumb that it boggles the goddamn mind. It didn't matter that the Court, in throwing it back to the states, created two different legal statuses for women and girls in the country. It didn't matter that the Court created two different countries, essentially, if not 50 different ones. "We can do this, so we will," they said, "because fuck you, liberals." Which, to be fair, makes more sense than anything in the goddamn decision.

And then the Court decided that, despite a climate emergency that will wreck the earth, the Environmental Protection Agency really can't protect the environment, even though the statue that established it said that it explicitly could. In the case over setting standards for systems to reduce emissions at power plants and elsewhere, Roberts wrote, "Yeah, I don't like that so here's a thing I made up to overturn it and eat shit because these other five crazy pricks will go along with me. Just be grateful we didn't completely outlaw the EPA." So, yeah, enjoy that "air" and "water" while you can.

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Now is not the time for rational, calm responses that consider all sides. Fuck that. This is a five-alarm freakout because the cruelest states are already teeing up laws to prevent women from traveling to another state for an abortion, as well as outlawing abortion-inducing prescription drugs. They're even coming up with ways to make information about getting an abortion elsewhere illegal. And if you think for one fucking second that the Christian Taliban (which, yes, is a good messaging phrase) justices who shitcanned the Establishment Clause will all of a sudden uphold the First Amendment, you need to fucking get out of the political arena.

This Court has put it all on the table, all that it wants to undermine in this country. We're heading into an Independence Day that feels sarcastically named in the no-longer United States. The time for fake moderation is over. The majority of the nation backs all the things the supposed "extreme left" wants (because it's not extreme at all). Now, Democrats need to back it fully, and with full voice, as we head towards the midterms with a desperate hope we can stop the country from being murdered by the right.

[underpants]

1. His headline was spot on

✅👍

[joshdawg]

2. Not just the Supreme Court, but

all republicans are telling the 21st Century to go fuck itself.

republicans are the stuff I scrape off the bottom of my shoe.......and smell worse.

[Docreed2003]

3. Big K&R

This is an excellent piece from RP and captures exactly what we are dealing with and channels our anger wisely.

[3Hotdogs]

4. The think is, we are going to live with this bullshit for 40 or more years. I can't think of any way

out of it.

No guarantee that there will be a Dem president when Clarence gets his warm, wet kiss from Jesus.

I cannot see a 2/3 Dem senate for the next 20 years or so.

I pity my grandkids.

[dchill]

8. I worry about my grandkids, too.

[BComplex]

15. Until the Biden administration has those 5 justices arrested and locked up for lying to congress,

we're going to continue to spiral down the path of losing our country entirely. Alito and Thomas have proven that Roberts is NOT the "chief" justice in this court. They are the two who are leading the pack of lying fascists that MCCONNELL put in there, almost single handedly.

Civil war? We're already IN a civil war! People with guns are going around killing people with black and brown skin, and running over white people with impunity if they protest! I repeat: they are already killing people. With weapons of war. Which part of 'this is already out of control' doesn't anyone understand?

Until liberals and independents start arming themselves and "open carry" like everyone else, we're not going to see gun "control". Make them go ahead and say publicly: "only republicans, right wingers, and white supremacists can open carry, or carry AT ALL". Because that's what they really mean.

[3Hotdogs]

17. Ain't gonna happen.

Their testimony was hedged.

“I can’t comment on a particular issue until I read the arguments.”

[mnhtnbb]

5. The Rude One cuts right through the BS

and lays it all out there.

It's up to the Dems to yell it from the mountain tops and get EVERY VOTE from EVERYONE who hears to the voting booth in November.

[malaise]

6. K & R

For truth

[90-percent]

7. This Court has put it all on the table, all that it wants to undermine in this country

dont be silly. all they want to do is increase shareholder stock dividends. and incinerate the entire planet to please the morbidly wealthy sociopaths that railroaded them on to the S.C.

mitch the turtle is now mitch the traitor.

-90% Jimmy

[Bettie]

12. I think undermine is an understatement

they wish to destroy it. Completely, to put in place a theocracy run by people whose only god is money.

[TurboDem]

9. This line hits it out of the park..

"The former one there is where Gorsuch, lying about the facts of the case, told students who feel pressured into praying to suck it up, which would probably get him a cane up his ass from Benjamin Franklin, which would be some actual originalism."

[niyad]

10. Spot on, RP.

[Alice Kramden]

11. Big K&R n/t

[ShazzieB]

13. "We can do this, so we will, because fuck you, liberals."

Wow, he summed up their attitude perfectly.

After all those years of being told, "Fuck your feelings" by the MAGAts, I kind of got used to hearing it. But being told that by the Supreme Court, as they hand down decisions that have huge, far-reaching impacts on people's lives, is orders of magnitude worse.

[housecat]

14. Instead of "thank you sir may I have another" we could work on three co-equal

branches of government. Checks and balances? What are we waiting for? If Zelenskyy waited, Ukraine would be Russian. If we don't fight we will be Russian as well.

[dalton99a]

16. Fascists don't procrastinate when it comes to seizing power.

They move VERY FAST

They must be stopped.

[yardwork]

18. Every word is accurate. Essential reading.

[MustLoveBeagles]

19. K&R