The Finding Out Part Sucks

 The slogan "Fuck Around and Find Out" has been adopted by all kinds of people (including the Proud Boys) as an implied threat.

"What are you gonna do?"

"Fuck around and find out."

But, in the age of the Delta Variant and the Texas GOP + Trump Supreme court, people who have fucked around are, more and more reliably, finding out.

For all the people who assured us that the GOP's picks for the Supreme Court wouldn't overturn Roe vs. Wade, the court's tacit acceptance of a bizarre Texas law that lets you snitch and sue women you think have had abortions stands in start rebuke of all the Jill Stein / Bernie-or-Bust / Don't Vote Blue--no matter Who people.

After all, the people who felt they could NEVER vote for Hillary because they were the True Leftists certainly didn't think putting Trump in power would end in millions  of vulnerable women in Texas losing abortion rights. 

Did they?  Well, maybe they did. Accelerationism ( hastening the fall of the current order so you can build the new) is a terrible idea--but it's appealing if you think it's the only way you can win. 

After Bernie's meltdown in South Carolina, a lot of really smug leftists are now sure that's the only way they can win. Trump's win was "supposed" to get us Bernie in 2020--and when that transaction with the American people didn't pan out they not only got the accelerationist court but those damn Black Voters cost them Bernie they have "logically" concluded that THEY couldn't be to blame for the current problem. No, it must be Pelosi.

On the flip side we saw lots of smug media critics saying that all the COVID 'super-spreader' events (Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, DeSantis opening beaches, etc.) didn't clearly super-spread. Part of that is because outdoors, COVID-Classic just isn't that contagious.  Part of it was that people were, in general, taking some precautions.

DeSantis et. al. felt they could fuck around.

With the Delta Variant, though, all that fucking around leads to the sometimes-lethal finding out part. Far more contagious  if you are not vaccinated, it's unforgiving and is leading to ruin in Texas and Florida--two states who led the fucking around charge.

Opening the economy won't work if people are terrified of getting sick--and if people believe COVID to be a hoax and don't vaccinate (and they are not) the great DeSantis economy comes with the visceral pile of bodies we now have.

The finding out part . . . sucks.