In the U.S. "Justice That Arrives Like a Thunderbolt"

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"Justice That Arrives Like a Thunderbolt"
Says the uppity Kenyan usurper in response to the latest big news from the Extreme Court. Speaking today, President Barack Obama, fresh from a Great Victory on health care, approved the expansion of liberty in "the land of the free," and congratulated the brave men and women who fought this fight.
Meanwhile, over on the False News Network and throughout the wingnutosphere, heads are exploding and insurrection is being promised. Also, too, the one true god who had no problem with slavery, slaughter, crucifixion, and unbridled sexual excess in ancient Rome is allegedly angry enough to cause the seas to rise and floods, and droughts, and "earthquakes in divers places," esp. those where fracking is going on so humans, now in defiance of God's will as expressed infallibly ex cathedra by God's Mouthpiece on Earth, are plundering the last of the remaining fossil fuel reserves.
Every time these hatemonger soi-disant "Christians" promise swift retribution for something they don't approve, they predecit vengeance from their god of love. In the U.S., that seems to mean tornadoes destroying Kansas– perhaps because of all the gay-married baby killers (aka abortion doctors) in that smug religious heartland. And anyway, it's easier to scourge "Tornado Alley" than gay neighborhoods outside New Orleans (where, you may recall, Hurricane Katrina was punishment for a gay pride parade that, on top of all the others in that city, was apparently the last straw and the end of divine patience.
Anyway, most of the massive GOP (Grand Old Plutocrats aka Republicnts)) field of idiotic presidential candidates have vowed to defy the awful Extremes under what is known as the doctrine of "nullification," the idea that states can do whatever they want, no matter what the national government says. That idea was last tested in the 1860s with a bloody civil war, and the legal theory in question was soundly defeated, drowned in the blood of thousands, many of them marching under a battle flag most recently famous for inspiring the death of nine black churchgoers, at a prayer session, by a 21-yr-old racist who got a gun given to him as a present for his most recent (and potentially final) birthday.
(INTEREJECTION: Have you seen photos of this kid? They look like they were taken by Diane Arbus, photographer of pain. I esp. love the one with him sitting with a pistol on one hand and a Confederate "stars and bars" flag in the other, looking like a very little boy suffering from a world of unhappiness, partly because ""You take all our women," which I take to mean he has never managed to get laid is still still a virgin.)
In the great state of TXass, former governor Rick Perry is again running to be alleged leader of the free world again after disqualifying himself last time around by being frequently drugged to the gills in public and, famously, saing "Oops" in a hilarious and unforgettable moment that will be remembered-- thank Clio!-- by History that you could have fun looking up. During a state drought a couple of years ago, he got everyone together to pray for rain, because that is what politicians do instead of govern or solve problems). Naturally, this year, the god too stupid to figure out what farmers need and people drink finally answered the man's prayer, perhaps because abortion has effectively been banned in the state so that the one true god is appeased).
In fact, the prayer was answered with massive flooding and some loss of life, because that pathetic divinity is also too stupid to know when to stop. Christianists have taken credit for the rain, not for the drownings. Go figure.
So ex-Gov. Oops is among those vowing defiance, but his successor, Greg Abbott, is taking care of business. Yes, the state IS issueing gay marriage licenses today, but the Republicnt has greater concerns.
Having lost the right to ban black voters yesterday and finding health care the law of the land (TXass refuses to be part of Obamacare because who cares about the uninsured (more in his state than any other), "that's not how we keep score", today Abbot today claims, "Five Justices on the Supreme Court have imposed on the entire country their personal views on an issue that the Constitution and the Court’s previous decisions reserve to the people of the States."
Then why did the GOPigs bring this case to the court to begin with? And now that they have made that bed and are stuck in it, even trying to defund the court, as they are attempting in nearly bankrupt Kansas under viviously anti-tax Gov. Brownstreak, will be too little, too late.
Abbott also said, "No Texan is required by the Supreme Court’s decision to act contrary to his or her religious beliefs regarding marriage." With the usual tunnel vision of regressives everywhere, he seems to think religious liberty only applies to his christianist base, not to those who want to marry a partner of the same sex.
This whole spectacle of frothing candidates campaigning for the right to defy the law like any common or garden variety "sovereign citizen" (if you don't look that one up for yourselves, you'd never believe it) is already starting to be vastly entertaining. Those in less civilized countries who lack the freedom (and gun violence) in the US of A are welcome to enjoy jet another spectacle of the political party that has lost its mind to corrupt prions resulting from endemic mad pig disease (related to bovine spongiform encephalitis, but peculiar to the greatest and bestest country ever ever (see YouTube video of our new national anthem, "America! Fuck Yeah!") because Exceptionalism.
Pass the popcorn.