One Sentence Observation About the Escalating Conflict Between India and Pakistan This 2025

Considering both nations have nuclear warheads aimed at each other, and decades of near-insane levels of hostility towards each other that would make the Hatfields and McCoys look like a genteel wine and cheese party, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF------

...India has launched strikes on several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals...

In an assault India dubbed "Operation Sindoor," the Indian military said it struck nine sites in "Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed."

The Indian Defense Ministry said the strikes were in response to a militant attack that killed 26 people in India-administered Kashmir last month.

Tensions have been on the rise between India and Pakistan since April 22, when gunmen killed at least 26 tourists and injured a dozen others in India-administered Kashmir. India accused Pakistan of having a connection to the attack — the worst aimed at Indian civilians in more than a decade...

The U.N. secretary-general's office called for "maximum military restraint" from both India and Pakistan, saying the world cannot afford a war between them.

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Curled Up In a Coherent Rage

Justice Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court.

Try to think of every Far Right fantasy the wingnuts desire:

• An absolute ban on abortion AND birth control, to the point where the criminalization of miscarrying will be allowed
• Shoving Christian Prayer back into schools and making secular law more religious
• Harsher immigration bans
• Curtailing every legal gain that Gays, Lesbians and Transgender people have received in the last 5-10 years. Rights of gays to marry, gone. Rights to serve in the military, gone
• Outright elimination of the Voting Rights Act
• Gutting of the Civil Rights Act
• Bringing back legalized segregation and other Jim Crow laws
• Making gun ownership not only easier to obtain but making gun ownership mandatory (for everyone not an ethnic minority)
• Denying equal pay for women, maybe even curtailing women's rights to work
• Granting more corporate control of our economy and our lives
• Pissing away any anti-trust powers our government has left
• Flushing our environmental protection laws down the toilet

I dread the possibility that I will lose the right to say FUCK FUCK FUCK and FUCK THAT SHIT on my blog.

All of that will be possible under a Supreme Court that will lean six Republican votes to three Democratic ones.

I am starting to think Obama should have gone to the Senate floor and beaten McConnell over the head with a 2-by-4 until the Republicans agreed to vote on Merrick Garland.

To every Progressive, Far Left, Democratic-leaning voter who failed to show up for the 2010 and 2014 midterms, and who failed to show up to vote for Hillary in 2016, go fuck yourselves. The Judiciary Branch of the United States is now going to lean Far Right on every issue for the next 20-30 years. There's gonna be at least two trump appointees on the high bench, ruining our lives for half of the 21st Century. GODDAMN YOU.

And to Mitch McConnell (and your fellow Republican lackeys in the Senate) THE DEEPEST PIT OF HELL IS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU.