SCOTUS
I'm just so fucking angry right now.
At SCOTUS. At Alito and Thomas and Roberts and Barrett and Kavenaugh and Gorusch (not sure that's the correct spelling and do not care) for thinking they have more authority than I do about what I do with MY body. For having the audacity to rule that the states can't be trusted with making gun laws but sure let's throw out a 50 year federally protected law and give that back to the states because fuck forbid we treat women equally as well as we treat guns.
I'm furious at Mitch McConnell. At Susan Collins. At Joe Manchin. At the Koch brothers. At Rupert Murdoch. At John Roberts (again) for Citizens United.
I'm mad at every single person who voted 3rd party in 2016. At every single government official who did not do their damn job and work to codify abortion and reproductive rights as federal law. At MSM for their "but both sides" bullshit which contributed to this mess. At white women who would rather subjugate themselves back to the 1800s than let black and brown women have their equal place at the table.
I'm just ready to burn it all down and start over. And I can't even say we've had a good run, because we're still a country founded on genocide, colonialism, slavery, and forcibly going into other countries to topple their governments and then leaving them to fend for themselves and deal with the aftermath. We have never been for the people or by the people, unless the people are white men.
Six people arbitrarily decided that 160 million people (or thereabouts) are no longer equal under the eye of the law. Six. Six people we had no say in electing, that we have no way to hold accountable, that cannot be forced from their positions. (And Roberts wonders why we have no faith in the Supreme Court. I dunno, John, it's a fucking mystery.)
And the scariest thing is, they won't stop with Roe. Not unless we stop them first. Which I'm not sure people are ready for how long and slow and painful this will be. But I hope it's a wake-up call.
This fight is so far from over.