@GottaLaff: That is a scary list but unfortunately accurate at the moment.
As disturbing and shocking as these decisions are, we need to remember that historically SCOTUS has been conservative, or even reactionary for much of our history. @Teri_Kanefield covers some of that in this informative post.
It's well worth reading to put SCOTUS's decisions into perspective.
The other thing we cannot forget, hard as it is sometimes, is that the courts cannot solve our political problems. Only we the voters can do that. If enough people want democracy to work, it will survive. That means we all have to keep doing our part to defend it with more democracy. Not less.
You're certainly doing yours. The rest of us have to step up and do ours as well.
** gets off of soap box because it gets crushed under the weight of the moment **
@goodreedAJ@GottaLaff@Teri_Kanefield The VOTERS can fix it? Doing our part? DEMOCRACY? Dude, we're not IN a democracy. There is no representation for the left, only for conservatives and moderates. How, exactly, does voting within our current system actually change anything?
(Obviously, do vote for Biden, though, to at least slow the decline of America into fascism for four more years)
@GottaLaff In my opinion, Biden must immediately pardon and reinstate Specialist Charles Graner and PFC Lynndie England, the Abu Ghraib torturers since the military chain of command is outside the law.
@GottaLaff so we've lost the supreme court and established the king's court instead. We gonna be smart this time and plan the revolt against the kingdom early? SCOTUS represents nothing but lawlessness for the privilege and containment of the public. They are setting the stage for us to fight with our hands tied behind our backs. we are mules
In a cloud of supreme irony, christofascist/evangelical MAGA politicians & the über-corrupt SCOTUS have made it impossible for a truly moral American citizen to support this government.
~ Criminalizing homelessness
~ Reducing women to second-class citizens
~ Legalizing bribery of officials
~ Favoring billionaires’ tax cuts over critical social programs
~ Threatening personal health & reproductive choices & equal marriage rights
~ Essentially legalizing presidential criminal activity
~ Actively ruling against enviro regs to save the planet
~ Elevating arcane language in 2A over people’s lives
~ Decimating voting rights
Is there any coming back from this? #Trump can stay in office ( for as many terms as he wants and say the decision is official duty and legal in the best interest of #America , assassinate any opposition (just like his BFF Putin.)
This is absolutely a reason #Biden should step down: he has had FOUR YEARS to protect #USA from a despot and #ToxicRepublicanParty and hasn't.
@GottaLaff sending seal team 6 after Tump, 3+ Supreme Court justices, and Republican leadership in Congress could bring back the days of the early Reconstruction, when there were no conservatives to stand in the way of progress
@GottaLaff I think that the previous generations had time so solve these problems without blood, but thry didnt do enough and now radical action must be taken to put us back on track. We are on a ticking clock from climate change, people will die, the only question is how many.