This is the most important thing that happened recently that you haven't heard about.

Ready?

The Supreme Court heard a case about a chewy dog toy called "Bad Spaniels" that makes a poop joke at the expense of whiskey-maker Jack Daniels.

While there have been other important battles won and lost in the culture war against the godless Marxism infecting our nation, what's at stake in VIP Products LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc is comedy and the right to make fun of any and everything we want.

And as the Latin phrase castigat ridendo mores reminds us: one corrects customs by laughing at them.

Here's the short version of the case:

Jack Daniels isn't happy that VIP products parodied its whiskey into a poop joke. The company claims that VIP is violating its trademark.

However, the law and precedents galore protect satire, parody, even editorial use at the expense of trademarks, likeness, copyright, etc. That's why there's a picture of both products in the feature image of this article, and we don't get sued.

This sort of fair use is a point our founding fathers enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution to ensure that no one got too big for their britches.

We can talk about them. Poke fun of them. Call them names. Use memes of celebrities laughing to emphasize our point. Etc. Etc.

In fact the 9th District Court ruled exactly that.

It's the very premise that allows The Babylon Bee, The Onion, and even Saturday Night Live to exist.

Unlike Novak v. City of Parma--the one our friends at The Babylon Bee filed an amicus brief for--which was more of a qualified immunity case than a right to be funny case, The Supreme Court agreed to hear Jack Daniel's appeal.

If somehow the Supreme Court rules in Jack Daniel's favor, the repercussions for our nation could be devastating. Jokes mocking companies, organizations, cities, states, the federal government could all be in danger of lawsuits under trademark infringement.

And you can assume that would include memes.

It's no secret that the raging Left hates comedy, especially memes. Remember that EU report about how dangerous memes are to their agenda?

And we can add to that the recent conviction of Douglas Mackey for posting this meme during the 2016 election:

Is it any wonder that the normally anti-corporation Biden administration has jumped in on Jack Daniel's side in this case, using the significant resources of the Justice Department to try and squash the joke?

Will it work?

I hope not, but at least one of the justices signaled her willingness to side with the liquor company.

Justice Elena Kagan didn't get the joke.

"This is a standard commercial product." Justice Kagan said. "This is not a political T-shirt. It's not a film. It's not an artistic photograph. It's nothing of those things."

What's more, she said, "I don't see the parody, but, you know, whatever."

In their usual fashion, the rest of the Court played it pretty close to the vest on what they thought of the case.

Hopefully, they'll uphold the 9th Court's ruling, for all our sakes.