Cause, Effect, Inevitability, and Denial
Sunny and bordering on hot today. We were told the high would be 90˙F. So, far we've only seen 87˚F, and the temperature has begun to drop. But we still may see 90˚F tomorrow.
Last night, I slept an utterly astounding 10+ hours, possibly almost eleven. It has been, fuck, I don't even know. Many, many years since I have slept so much at a stretch, likely not since way back when my Gabapentin does was so absurdly high all I wanted to do is sleep. That was over a decade ago. Anyway, all that sleep left me feeling hungover and disoriented. Clearly, my exhaustion caught up with me.
And yet, I got up and worked. I got up and wrote. Right now, the plan is to pull together Sirenia Digest 196 tomorrow, which will be the last SD to go out to subscribers until sometime in June. Then, on Friday, I'm going to switch gears and get back to work on "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale." If I can manage to write at least 1,000 words per day most days, then I can easily be done with the novella by the end of May. Fingers crossed.
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Now I'm going to say something that will make some people hate me, but what the fuck. A lot of people already do, and the older I get, the less I care. What is happening with the Supreme Count and Roe v. Wade, well...this is exactly what I predicted in 2016 (my predictions are out there if anyone wants to read them). What we are seeing is what would not have happened if Hillary Clinton had become president. We know this, for a fact. During her term, she'd have appointed three moderate to liberal-moderate justices who would not have been gunning for Roe v. Wade. Instead, America got Trump's three appointees. And we knew exactly what they would do. No mystery. Just a foregone conclusion. So, here's the truth of the matter: If you did not vote for Clinton for any of a number of reasons - you didn't trust her, you hated her pants suits, you think the Democrats and the Republicans are the same and didn't bother voting, you voted for Bernie Sanders thinking we were at the dawn of the Great People's Socialist Revolution Blah Blah Blah - whey ever, whatever, doesn't matter. And yes, this obviously includes people who voted for Trump. If you are one of the people who refused to vote for Clinton - and as an American, that was your right - then if this SCOTUS reverses Roe v. Wade, you own their decision. You had a hand in it,, and it is the height of self-delusion (or utter ignorance of the American judicial system) to believe otherwise. This calamity, it was 100% preventable - from 2016. From 2022, well, now were back to the world before 1973. In some states, nothing will really change. In someone states things will be monstrous. And it cannot be changed at the Federal level for, well, decades. Many decades, because SCOTUS appointees are for life. Reproductive rights activists will now be faced with battles, mostly futile, at the state level. Women will die. Children will die. We'll see more poverty and suffering and crime. Once again, these are facts. You don't need a crystal ball.
But yeah, behind this is irony and paradox: a lot of people who want legal abortion gambled away legal abortion, for generations to come, because...well, no use pulling punches. It was just fucking stupid. Yes, the GOP wins, and the Bible thumpers win, and the misogynists have won, in large part because on November 2016 their adversaries handed them the win they'd been searching for during the last forty-nine years (forty-four years in 2016). And it's a long, long road back to where we are. And sure, there will be more of this slipping backwards: environmental protection, voters rights, LGBTQ rights, the rights of PoC, labor rights, and on and on and on.
Yes, as an American, you are free to vote for the candidate of your choice. But you are not free of the consequences. And if the SCOTUS reverses Roe vs. Wade, that's a consequence. Is it "fair"? Are you a grownup?
Later,
Aunt Beast (yes, I'm angry)
2:34 p.m.
Last night, I slept an utterly astounding 10+ hours, possibly almost eleven. It has been, fuck, I don't even know. Many, many years since I have slept so much at a stretch, likely not since way back when my Gabapentin does was so absurdly high all I wanted to do is sleep. That was over a decade ago. Anyway, all that sleep left me feeling hungover and disoriented. Clearly, my exhaustion caught up with me.
And yet, I got up and worked. I got up and wrote. Right now, the plan is to pull together Sirenia Digest 196 tomorrow, which will be the last SD to go out to subscribers until sometime in June. Then, on Friday, I'm going to switch gears and get back to work on "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale." If I can manage to write at least 1,000 words per day most days, then I can easily be done with the novella by the end of May. Fingers crossed.
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Now I'm going to say something that will make some people hate me, but what the fuck. A lot of people already do, and the older I get, the less I care. What is happening with the Supreme Count and Roe v. Wade, well...this is exactly what I predicted in 2016 (my predictions are out there if anyone wants to read them). What we are seeing is what would not have happened if Hillary Clinton had become president. We know this, for a fact. During her term, she'd have appointed three moderate to liberal-moderate justices who would not have been gunning for Roe v. Wade. Instead, America got Trump's three appointees. And we knew exactly what they would do. No mystery. Just a foregone conclusion. So, here's the truth of the matter: If you did not vote for Clinton for any of a number of reasons - you didn't trust her, you hated her pants suits, you think the Democrats and the Republicans are the same and didn't bother voting, you voted for Bernie Sanders thinking we were at the dawn of the Great People's Socialist Revolution Blah Blah Blah - whey ever, whatever, doesn't matter. And yes, this obviously includes people who voted for Trump. If you are one of the people who refused to vote for Clinton - and as an American, that was your right - then if this SCOTUS reverses Roe v. Wade, you own their decision. You had a hand in it,, and it is the height of self-delusion (or utter ignorance of the American judicial system) to believe otherwise. This calamity, it was 100% preventable - from 2016. From 2022, well, now were back to the world before 1973. In some states, nothing will really change. In someone states things will be monstrous. And it cannot be changed at the Federal level for, well, decades. Many decades, because SCOTUS appointees are for life. Reproductive rights activists will now be faced with battles, mostly futile, at the state level. Women will die. Children will die. We'll see more poverty and suffering and crime. Once again, these are facts. You don't need a crystal ball.
But yeah, behind this is irony and paradox: a lot of people who want legal abortion gambled away legal abortion, for generations to come, because...well, no use pulling punches. It was just fucking stupid. Yes, the GOP wins, and the Bible thumpers win, and the misogynists have won, in large part because on November 2016 their adversaries handed them the win they'd been searching for during the last forty-nine years (forty-four years in 2016). And it's a long, long road back to where we are. And sure, there will be more of this slipping backwards: environmental protection, voters rights, LGBTQ rights, the rights of PoC, labor rights, and on and on and on.
Yes, as an American, you are free to vote for the candidate of your choice. But you are not free of the consequences. And if the SCOTUS reverses Roe vs. Wade, that's a consequence. Is it "fair"? Are you a grownup?
Later,
Aunt Beast (yes, I'm angry)
2:34 p.m.