Just Another Day in the U.S.A.

I know y'all get sick of my bleak lengthy rants about the state of this country so I'll try to keep this one short.  We all knew it was coming, yet everyone managed to keep themselves distracted with the Johnny Depp trial & the latest Real Housewives drama as we waited for the seemingly inevitable retraction of our right to control our own bodies--a right that is seemingly innate rather than government granted but here we are.  

Today, June 24th, 2022, Americans woke up to news that the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, thus leaving the decision to legalize or ban abortion up to the states.  13 states already have "trigger laws" in place, instantly banning abortion should Roe be overturned.  One of those is my state.  They include KY, LA, ID, OK, TN, TX, SD, AR, WY, MS, MI, ND & UT.  More may choose to ban abortion as they decide how to proceed now that the federal right to reproductive autonomy has been overturned.  The Not-So-Supreme Court is already discussing re-examining the legality of contraception access & gay marriage in what feels like a nod to the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.

Keep in mind that, unlike the legalization of gay marriage or other minority rights laws, the abortion decision affects 50% of the human population (some of whom obviously include minorities like Blacks, lesbians, bisexuals, Asians, etc).  It also affects the innocent children who will be born to parents who do not want or cannot care for them in a country that cannot even guarantee consistent production of baby formula & other basic necessities.  A country that just lost over 1 million of its residents to the COVID virus--a virus that continues to mutate & spread unchecked.  Perhaps that's part of the reason for the urgent overturning of this ruling?  Birthrates have been down for years due to the ungodly high cost of living with which wages have not kept pace.  Rather than raise wages, they're just forcing us to have babies against our will.  Never mind that this is likely to result in a dramatic spike in violent crime.  (Legalized abortion is cited as a leading cause of the decline of violent crime by economists & sociologists since the mid-90s nationwide along with the phasing out of leaded gasoline).  Guess that's a price they're willing to pay if it means pumping out obedient workers to run the machines, take care of the elderly, fill the prisons & march rank-and-file in the military.  There's some truth to the Great Replacement theory it seems, just not in the way racists think.  

It should be clear to anyone with two eyes and a frontal cortex that voting is futile at this point.  The so-called "liberal" party already controls all 3 branches of the government & this happened on their watch.  We should be in the streets burning shit to the ground.  Which begs the question:  where is Black Bloc/Antifa?  BLM?  The pussy hat squad?  Redneck Revolt?  All the groups that were so loud and proud during Trump's tenure seem to be giving us crickets since Joe Biden's been in office, which is exactly what true leftists feared.  And conditions on the ground have not improved one iota since 2020; in many ways they've worsened.  The list of broken promises from Sleepy Joe is too long to list here, but a quick temperature check of the economy, public health, national morale & social rights should tell you all you need to know.  

In addition to losing our bodily autonomy, there's a shortage of 112 vital prescription drugs including insulin and chemotherapy medications as well as naloxone.  Gas prices are ghastly--averaging $5 per gallon in some states--while overall inflation is the highest it's been in 40 years, and there's a shortage of numerous goods including baby formula.  On Biden's watch, COVID became the most deadly pandemic in this country's history, claiming over 1 million lives and counting while he refused to enact national masking or vaccine mandates of any kind, only issuing a meager one-time stimulus check which he then blamed for causing inflation.  Oh, and there was that time he financed & green-lighted the bombing of Yemen & imposed sanctions that have resulted in the death of roughly 370,000 Yemenis.  But you won't hear much about that on our news.  

Nationwide drug shortage - WXYZ Detroit

All these shortages can be blamed on the fact that we don't manufacture a damn thing in-house anymore.  Even the individual parts used to make our products come from overseas nations... mostly China.  And those nations have the good sense to lockdown when there's an outbreak of a highly contagious disease like COVID.  So the ships are docked & nothing moves.  That's why it's not such a hot idea to outsource all your manufacturing to other nations where it's cheaper to produce things, be it in sweatshops or factories with suicide nets under them.  The outsourcing of jobs began under Reagan & accelerated under Clinton with NAFTA but the point is, those jobs are never coming back.  We're China's bitch now.  They've got our nuts in a vice.  It could've been avoided if our government would've had the balls to tell corporations 'no' and 'pay your employees a living wage' but they didn't.  So here we are.  

Anyhoo, the fact that those "leftist" protest groups have gone silent makes them appear a lot less credible to me now.  Either they're not grounded in reality or they were just getting their kicks being violent like the right wing protesters were, going around "punching Nazis" and setting stuff on fire and pretending it was for a noble cause.  Reacting to Trump's mean tweets rather than the material conditions on the ground & his actual policies like leaving the Paris Climate Agreement, holding maskless superspreader rallies & telling cops to rough people up at protests & rallies.  Things that actually had an effect on huge masses of the population & would continue doing so after he left office.  The same types of things happening under Joe Biden now.

As for the abortion nightmare, if I'm ever raped (which is the only way I'd ever get pregnant as I'd never willingly have sex with a man) & couldn't obtain a medical abortion, I just hope whoever has to scrape my dead body off the pavement outside my 4th story window is anti-choice.  Not that they'd give a shit about a dead woman, I'd just hate to traumatize someone with empathy & a soul.  

Acirema (Backwards America)