The biggest bitch in contemporary American politics is the money.  The filthy lucre grows the machine.  Mucus and puss in it’s wake as it slogs toward inevitable conclusions.  Blistered and listing, it creeps with the powerful momentum of a slow swinging, giant iron gate on it’s way to slamming shut.

Inevitability is acrid in the thinking person’s nostrils.  Like brimstone.

Ha!

The 5 to 4 SCOTUS decision today is a fundamental betrayal of the 1st amendment in that it severely compromises an individual’s voice, right and access to free speech.  A seemingly venal verdict that in due course, will prove to be as cloying and stifling to the opinion and intention of everyman as any opinion yet rendered by the highest court in the land.

One impetus for the First Amendment was to protect the individual in the face of a collective.  The majority does not automatically rule.  Back then it was to discourage mobs of idiots.  Pretty much the same thing these days.

Are we not yet enough of a plutocracy?  Avarice and lust for power have not already eclipsed the voice of the individual enough?  What new devilry is this?

We are not men.  We are Devo.

Chief Justice John Roberts…..in his own separate opinion, said that upholding the limits would have restrained “the vibrant public discourse that is at the foundation of our democracy.” -CNN Ed Rollins.

I’m calling bullshit on that and if Roberts is sincere he’s a goddamn fool.  It doesn’t take a genius to understand what unrestricted, unregulated spending and therefore influence by humongous lobbies and corporate conglomerates will have on truthful discourse in this country.  One need look for proof as near to hand as any election within the last few months.  Money walks.  Bullshit talks.

This is exponentially worse.

What we have here is a wedding in hell.  The groom is bullshit and the bride is money.  The offspring are of quid pro quo corruption.

Truth is relegated to cleaning up for the funeral scheduled for the next day.  Then Truth will take a sick day.  Truth will be on holiday.

Care to guess how the vote fell?  Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Kennedy and of course, the ever pompous Scalia, all voted in favor of taking away your last bits of clothing in a shitstorm.

We can impeach a Supreme Court justice can’t we?  Let’s start with the Boy Scouts.

“Government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker’s corporate identity,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the 57-page majority opinion. “No sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations.” -The Christian Science Monitor

Fuck that.  Not based on it’s identity, but on the basis of identities who bring undue influence and advantage to bear on both process and individuals via media saturation because they’re loaded.  It amounts to the brainwashing of the great unwashed.  Trickle down stupidity.

I prefer to scrub the brain.  I most like to spank it.

Chuck Schumer:  “The bottom line is this: The Supreme Court has just pre-determined the winners of next November’s elections,” Schumer said. “It won’t be Republicans, it won’t be Democrats, it will be corporate America.” -the Hill.com

President Obama called it “a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.” -The New York Times.

“Joined by the other three members of the court’s liberal wing, Justice Stevens said the majority had committed a grave error in treating corporate speech the same as that of human beings……….. “The difference between selling a vote and selling access is a matter of degree, not kind,” Justice Stevens wrote. “And selling access is not qualitatively different from giving special preference to those who spent money on one’s behalf.” -The New York Times.

Stevens pretty much nails it there.

Unconscionable.

Drinks for my friends.

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