#  Honestly? Our Actual Government Is A Barking Mad Supreme Court That Gives Zero Fucks About Democracy

     Details    Abby Zimet   ![logo](https://www.citywatchla.com//templates/ja_teline_v/images/logo.png)         July 28 2022       [SAY WHAT?](https://www.citywatchla.com/say-what)   - [  Previous Article **Say My Name: Breaking Bad Goes Bronze** ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25222:say-my-name-breaking-bad-goes-bronze&catid=376)
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> SAY WHAT? - A mere month after the medieval anti-abortion ruling by a cabal of right-wing "fanatics and vandals" we still call SCOTUS, its [**effects ](https://news.vcu.edu/article/2022/06/exploring-the-impact-of-dobbs-v-jackson)are already cataclysmic. At least seven states have [**passed**](https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-policy-absence-roe) near-total bans and many more are working on them, some with monstrous features like Indiana's [**call ](https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/26/indiana-senators-add-criminal-penalties-to-state-abortion-ban/65380278007/)for abortion-providers to serve up to six years in prison; experts predict a [**devastating impact**](https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-devastating-economic-impacts-of-an-abortion-ban) on women's education, employment and income; a new study says it could [**lead**](https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2021/09/22/study-shows-abortion-ban-may-lead-21-increase-pregnancy-related-deaths) to a 21% increase in pregnancy-related deaths. The ruling is viewed as so extreme that even Chief Justice John Roberts reportedly [**tried to reverse ](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/supreme-court-john-roberts-abortion-dobbs/index.html)at least parts of it; with his failure, [**suggests**](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a40717983/john-roberts-retire-challenge/) Charlie Pierce, he should just resign: "Your work here is done...You've lost control of your majority (and) it's gone barking mad." With the help, one more time, of unconscionable, ever-complicit Susan Collins.

 Having landed in this apocalyptic muck, we welcome Australia's newest Honest Government Ad from the satirical Juice Media, this one[**ripping**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL5LaLT2BJM) "the shitfuckery that is the U.S. Supreme Court." An offshoot of the news site [**Balloon Juice,**](https://balloon-juice.com/category/politics/) the [**Honest Government Ads**](https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ads/) are "an indispensable public service for translating the mountains of bullshit coming from our duly elected governments." Focusing on "the shitfuckery of the Australian government," the ads [**took off ](https://sydneysentinel.com.au/2022/06/political-satire-in-the-era-of-scomo-and-albo)during the tenure of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a bumbling "satirist's dream" who, when Australian students went on a [**climate strike**](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/hundreds-of-thousands-attend-school-climate-strike-rallies-across-australia) in 2019, called for "more learning in schools and less activism." Amidst raging bushfires with "kids in gas masks, dead animals, dead homes, dead reefs, dead tourism industry," the first ad [**unveiled**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BmbvTvFQ3g), amidst the billowing smoke, Australia's new climate policy: "Get fucken used to it!"

To launch its third season, Juice Media kept its promise to expose "the work of other shit governments around the world" with its cheerfully chilling [**ad ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BmbvTvFQ3)about a SCOTUS that, "even at the best of times, gives zero fucks about democracy." Cue a glossy, smiling woman presenting "your actual government - the Supreme Court." "We answer to nobody, we overrule laws made by Congress, our Justices are appointed for life, and you don't even elect us!" she [**chirps**](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKRw8GAAtm27q4R3Q0kst_g), happily adding now we finally have enough "Federalist Society nut jobs" to strip multiple hard-won rights - "and we're just getting started!" The ad, "Authorized by the Department for Thinly Disguised Plans to Usher In A Theocratic Christian Regime," stops short of showing the barbaric, in-the-doctor's-office consequences of their judicial atrocities; we have [**Moms Against Greg Abbott ](https://twitter.com/MomsAGAbbott/status/1551522653705576449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1551522653705576449%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftexas-gop-gov-greg-abbott-abortion-ad_n_62df1e1de4b0aad58d1e1df0)for that. Thanks to the truth-tellers. Bitter balm for the soul.

*(*[***Abby Zimet***](https://www.commondreams.org/author/abby-zimet) *has written CD's* [***Further***](https://www.commondreams.org/further) *column since 2008. A longtime, award-winning journalist, involved in women's, labor, anti-war, social justice and refugee rights issues. Email:* [*azimet18@gmail.com*](mailto:azimet18@gmail.com)*)*

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