Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
Doctor Couth says:
The speed with which numerous state legislatures introduced Voter ID laws, limited early voting, or otherwise screwed with the franchise as soon as the ink was dry on Shelby County suggests that John Roberts was acting with malice instead of misguided optimism.
geoff says:
@DC (the other one!), yup. Charlie Pierce refers (sarcastically, natch) to the Court's decision as "The Day Of Jubilee".
It's kind of telling that the first post-Shelby presidential election (and only the second post-Citizens United) produced the Giant Evil Baby.
Nice article Ed. I kinda miss the swearing though ; )
Lit3Bolt says:
Thankfully neoliberal Goldman Sachs puppet-Queen and ruler of the 667th Layer of the Infinite Abyss (called the Clinton Foundation), Demon-Goddess Hillary Clinton, cannot put any of her warmongering, Imperialist judges in place in the Supreme Court.
Instead we will have the reign of blessed Gorsuch and his ilk, because while Republicans are Obviously Evil ™, at least they're honest about it.
This message brought to you by the Self-Neutering Leftist-Socialist Alliance of America.
Major Kong says:
@Lit3Bolt
Well played sir. Well played.
c u n d gulag says:
SCOTUS CJ John Roberts is the secret love-child of former SCOTUS CJ William Rehnquist.
(For you young snappers of whips, if you don't know what I'm talking about, GOOGLE him and read about his record before, during, and even after, the Civil and Voting Rights battles in the early-mid 60's).
Noskilz says:
Nice article.
democommie says:
Ed:
I'm not sure how to say this, but…
The majority opinion of the SCotUS gang of reactionaries, well, they were LYING. It's what they do best. Sad.
democommie says:
"SCOTUS CJ John Roberts is the secret love-child of former SCOTUS CJ William Rehnquist."
I didn't know that Billy Reh was into anal.
Tim H. says:
Before I read the essay, I'll say that the civil rights movement did not fix things, just removed some of the more grotesque abuses, a good thing, but insufficient to render racism a historical curiosity.
Tim H. says:
Great essay, I would add that prosperity makes it easier to paper over unpleasant things, generations of low economic stress might see a reduction of passing on hatred to young people. I'd say there's an argument to be made that the economic policies of the .001% are an important part of the current unpleasantness.