Except… it’s a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. And with him travels the end of Roe v. Wade. Then women’s bodies will be instruments of the state. And they’ll start performing abortions in alleys with coat hangers and dying of internal injuries. So it all has real ramifications on very immediate parts of our lives.

All of this, all of this is a shit show of the highest order. We are upset in the short term because life will suck. And then we are even more upset in the long term because life is going to end. And it isn’t just a onesy–twoesy sort of death, it’s a terminus for civilization. It’s an extinction level event for H. Sapiens. So while there is technically no point in arguing about any of this because we are all quite well doomed, we do make little noises because, in the short term, it’s going to be us floating in a full latrine for a while before the ocean claims us.

Well… he lied to the Senate last time he came up for a confirmation hearing. He’s lying again. He’s a blackout drunk who abuses women and when confronted with this, he becomes petulant, snotty, and whiny.
He was vetted by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, groomed to do one thing, to champion conservative causes and to explicitly detonate Roe v. Wade.

Five women have all called him an abuser, a rapist, or a liar. His best friend wrote a book about him, saying similar things.
Even his wife flinched.
But the Senate knows that if they do not pass him, that they will all be losing their jobs after November 6th, and then all of this will be ending when the Democrats take power in the Legislature and we return to a fully functional legislative branch of government.

So it’s all scorched earth policy. They have only one hail mary pass to make, do this one thing, their swan song. Get it done. They got taxes done, they packed the courts for 40+ years, it’s the last thing. They know it, so they will do everything they can to force it through.

It isn’t good for the country, it isn’t good for the people, and it isn’t good for women. The overwhelming message here is that Rich White Men hate fucking women and will do everything in their power to subjugate them and turn back the clock. Make women property again, take away their humanity, take away their rights, take away everything they can. Because Rich White Men are afraid, and when they are afraid, like any cornered animal, they will lash out.

So we have confusion and gray areas and people willing to ask “What does it matter?” – Indeed. What does it matter. We’re pretty much just arguing to preserve a little spot of sanity before everything fucking ends. So in the grand case, the world is fuxxored. This is all pretty much just trying to stab-and-scrabble some small little acre of sanity before then.