"White Life?" (You Break It, You Buy It, One.)

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do. And that's the way every Negro should get. Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don't die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. ~Malcolm X.
 

I saw this the other night, Representative Mary Miller called the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade a "Historic victory for White life." She tried to walk it back later, but she said it and the crowd roared, Trump was standing right next to her and made no move to challenge or correct her. 

What the fuck is "White Life?" Note I ask this as a white man and a former Republican. Has there been some kind of Jim Crow Memorial Society or Segregationist Underground all this time that I didn't know about? I grew up conservative and I was taught this shit was wrong.

And it's funny how, given that the whole Pro-Life movement was, in fact, a proxy for racist bullshit this whole time...just how stunningly fast they've discarded that whole "Pro-Life" thing, now that they don't need it anymore.

Telling, that is.

Shortly after I saw that quote, I saw this. As regards women's health issues, the Department of Defense and the military have basically told the Supreme Court to go fuck itself.

As a veteran who knows how important things like that are in terms of readiness and the health of female Airmen, Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers, I have to support such a decision even though I well understand the negatives.

And what are those? Well, it further frays the apolitical nature of the United States Armed Forces and it further damages civil-military relations issues and undermines civilian control of the military, that is actually bad. But of course the military...and the wider Federal government on general principle...can't just take this crap laying down without adverse effects for itself and the country as a whole.

I rather suspect there's going to be a lot of Federal agencies telling this Court to go fuck itself or simply ignoring its dictates until this situation is rectified one way or another or until the Court stops handing treats out to the far-right, or both.

But like I've already said, I think the far-right knows what's up, knows their days are numbered and is trying to grab what they can, while they can, before the hammer falls. It's not just the 1/6 hearings, it's resistance to their crap across the board. It's that Democratic favorability for the midterms has swung ten points in favor of the Democratic Party in just the past few days.

And also, I think, because they know something's up, and because I think some Red States are going to try to secede, I think they're also trying to establish a basis for their own legal system. I think something like what the Russians are doing in Ukraine is going to end up happening here, and there's going to be a war...or at least a Right-wing insurgency...because that's what the Far-Right is saying it wants, openly, period. When somebody tells you who they are, believe them.

And here's the thing, here's why I think their scheme to break off a piece of America for themselves might actually work:

I see a hell of a lot of people disgusted, and taking down flags, and one hell of a lot of them are veterans.

The Supreme Court has caused a full-on legitimacy crisis and damaged the full faith and credit of our government. Not in some abstract way, not with some other country or other entity, but with Americans, with We The People, with those who traditionally should be at the vanguard of supporting our country and its government. 

This is on top of "Conservatives" spending basically the entire last generation trying to do exactly that in one way or another already, because Ayn Rand Libertarian Horseshit or whatever, or because Newt Gingrich or Tom DeLay or Paul Ryan had some other moral low they needed to plumb...and that was before Trump.

I've been saying for a long time that "Conservatives" hate America. And now they've successfully dinged the whole damn country...not with our allies this time, not with shitty bad actors like Saudi Arabia who laugh at us Infidels while they conspire with even-more Atheistic bad actors in our own government...but with us.

With people like me who've served this country and put our asses on the goddamned line. And no, I absolutely cannot find fault with that when I find out that the entire political philosophy I was raised on and spent 17 years of my adult life actively supporting was nothing but a goddamned lie.

And that's what faithless fucks like "Conservatives" in general and these Supreme Court Justices in particular seem to have forgotten. When you lie to people, when your Word ain't worth SHIT, you ain't either.

Respect is earned, by every action, every day. You can't buy that shit. You can't force people to respect you. It's a thread that runs through our entire system that our government only operates with the consent of the governed. It says so right in our founding documents.

That consent, that moral right, is evaporating in real time and we can all see it.

And here's the thing, who's more likely to fix this situation or to start something new that's actually workable? People who, whatever their disagreements and faults, believe in compromise, cooperation and working together??

Or the people who'd happily shout "Unga Bunga" at golden idols while cannibalizing murdered neighbors, so long as their lust for more hate and rage is sated, and for whom no immorality is too much??

Again, respect is earned by every action, every day. All the time, no mistakes, and it takes but one violation of that trust to lose it forever.

Service Before Self

Integrity Above All.

Excellence In All That We Do.

You break that shit, you bought it, and you can own the fucking consequences.

Someday, conservatives, y'all going to need something from the rest of us or wish America as it was, was still a thing, and none of this...and none of us...will be there for you. 

You break America...and you can own the shitty little banana republic that you'll get out of whatever part of it you take...probably only after a whole bunch of fighting that wasn't worth it for nobody.

And the rest of the goddamn world will move on without your ass, and never take you seriously again.

And what I find endlessly incomprehensible is just how much These Fucking People hate their fellow Americans.

White American "Conservatives" would rather burn America to the ground, and hell, destroy our global civilization and our planet than see LGBT people, People of Color, or women or anybody else get their fair share of America. 

I don't know how the hell people can hate anybody that much...much less everybody.

Civilization keeps you alive, too. You might want to consider that before you keep trying to burn it down. Cultural and social change, and the future, is going to happen no matter what.

But they'd rather end the world in the name of their small, shitty, miserable god than accept that.

Fuck these motherfuckers.

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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan