Congratulations, you bucked the overwhelming norm. People who make it to Congress, with the exception of spoilers, have proven to their respective parties through state elections that they love money, don’t get bored of getting moar money, and know how to get it. That’s how you get promoted in the parties. It’s all they care about.

Because our values are so far beyond fucked it’s almost funny in an absurdist humor kind of way.

Are you American?

I only ask because Americans are trained from birth to know (through for profit media and oligarch captured public education) that money is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end, and the very meaning of existence and life itself as its own end.

It’s why we’re a bunch of rugged individuals competing against one another for oligarch scraps and not a society. It’s the wedge that informs all others to keep their exploited capital batteries at war with each other instead of looking up at the greedy bastards running up their ego scores by burning us.

I don’t know why anyone likes neoliberals.

She’s a model one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/nancy-pelosi-federal-lawmakers-should-be-able-to-trade-stock.html

I vote blue with my nose held as always for harm reduction, but neoliberals like Pelosi are why so many actual leftwing people that want a society walked away, they have no party that isnt enthusiastically part of the root problem of maintaining crony market capitalism at society’s catastrophic expense.

The DNC is fine with Republicans being in power. Neoliberals and Fascists agree on the most important thing: Economic growth for the owners comes first, then they bicker about how to or if to address the social issue symptoms of that crony market capitalist economy for 4 years.

Neither party would be so civil if a democratic socialist administration or better was about to take power. That would be a bipartisan emergency both sides would use every second to undermine before the fact.

Don’t worry though, neither of our two power sharing parties that matter would ever let that get close to occurring. The DNC/RNC would have too much to lose. They need eachother to point at when the owners need to turn the screws on their exploitation livestock while convincing many of them that their party tried to stop it.

Good. Release it.

Fuck whatever this necrotic oligarch owned cesspool doesn’t want the peasants to see.

The owners and the bigots blew up civility and process. No reason to heed either at this point.

If it’s true that you can’t fix stupid, there really is no hope in our lifetimes.

Oh look, a broken clock.

How many times do we need to keep this nation “united” at gunpoint before we acknowledge that the science and reason people are incompatible with the supply side Jesus and racial hatred people? We can’t stand one another, and time only deepens that division until bloodshed, over and over.

You can’t educate those cultures that refuse to be educated or have their children educated. That kind of change, born of desperation and constant struggle inflicted from your own culture’s values needs to come from within. The Red States need their Martin Luther “maybe we shouldn’t punch ourselves in the face every day” reformation moment, and it isn’t rational for those that see beyond their ignorance and superstition be dragged down with them for generations until they get there. Blue states propping them up only prolong comfort in their ignorance.

You can’t force cultural evolution or save the willfully ignorant from their own willlfull ignorance from outside on Alabama any more than you can on Afghanistan, all you do is create a common enemy for them, as we continue to experience.

How do you construct a worker’s party in a country where corporate bribery has been made legal and there is a class of billionaires ready and eager to squash any legitimate improvement to worker’s living conditions with their nearly unlimited power/capital? They literally own the means of state and media propaganda, and the means of state violence to protect our beloved economy from the society that exists in subservient subsistence to it.

I vote blue out of harm reduction, but there’s no escape in the US without necessary complete governmental and economic collapse. It is too well corrupted into protecting capital over people. I think in the desire for perpetual stability for the sake of commerce/profit, something vital was simply discarded in the modern nation state model:

The renewal that can only come from the collapse of the past.

Then you have to ask yourself, does that happening, and a couple million Americans being killed by the American Military to get the other couple hundred of million in line, is that a nation that worth continuing? Basically being held at gunpoint to keep laboring for the owners as the point and pretend everything is fine?

Things may somehow end up even worse upon collapse initially, but given our people’s apparent hatred for one another across identity lines and clear geographical lines, I have to believe maybe collapse, divorce, and reformation into several nations would be for the best long term.

They say the history bends towards justice, but maybe that requires something that the modern nation states, made in the pursuit of perpetual stability, left out an essential component that may also be absolutely vital in nature: the renewal that comes from collapse.

It sucks, it will hurt if it happens, but I try to take a larger view than that, generational suffering.

Maybe this stranglehold by the owners is inevitable when things become too intransigent. Maybe the information age accelerates the decay of an empire. I don’t know.

But I’m hesitant about maintaining this union at perpetual gunpoint again. It’s a fucked situation, maybe indicitive of a reality we just aren’t open to hearing, that the science and progress people need to be separated from the god and racial resentment people.

That said, ecological collapse is decades away however we rearrange this deck chairs because people still want their fucking POP figures, smoke em if you got em, TB.

I’m not the way I am to be sad, BTW, it’s just how I get to peace instead of horror, disdain, depression, and anger. I zoom out enough until the soap opera of my fellow self-sabotaging monkeys floating around the nearby star becomes academic. It’s a viable coping mechanism that isn’t born out of willful ignorance (which I despise above all) but intential detachment, for what it’s worth.

Why would you include both caps lock AND shift but omit A and Z?!

Do it. You’ve earned a drink my friend.

We’ll cling to life like cockroaches despite being so fragile.

Our wealth class has littered and is littering this Earth with climate controlled luxury bunkers to escape the consequences of their own fine work, which will buy some sad bastards the honor of sipping expensive whiskeys in concrete tombs below the scorched surface for a few decades before we finally, mercifully end.

It might be the family of the perpetrators we know like the Bezoses and Musks, but I can only dream it will be their service/security staff that will have murdered them the moment the security doors closed and took their shit.

Imagine explaining this headline to the very last somebody reading it in an old internet archive in a bunker in 2090!

But just think of the PROFIT to be made selling the AI before the world burns from it!

I abandoned hope years ago after fighting the good fight for a couple decades. Partly because hope and its close sibling fear are by far the easiest vectors bypass a person’s reason and manipulate them, and partly because holding on to hope with increasingly dire data points and increasingly disappearing paths for a societal reformation just led to never ending anxiety and depression for me.

There is peace in understanding and acceptance, at least that’s been my experience. I still vote out of harm reduction, but not out of hope. That’s about who I am for me, you know, “to that starfish it mattered,” not about hoping it will be effective, because in 24 years of voting, it’s yet to do anything but perhaps slightly slow down our nation’s and our species’ march to avarice motivated self-destruction, and by slow down I mean we keep driving towards the capitalist made climate apocalypse cliff at 87 under someone like Obama instead of 90 like Bush or 110 like Trump.

If a candidate being taken seriously started talking about reducing manufacturing solely to medical, ecological housing materials, and food production and basically ending pointless consumerism and winding down to more reasonable, agricultural way of life for the sake of the habitability of Earth for humans, maybe I’d reconsider my stance on hope. Better chance of being struck by lighting 10 times in an hour though.

I’m sure Putin is paying him well to wreak havoc and set fires, which again is the point. Not some Fourth Reich, just “I’m for sale. Make ego score line go up.”

I still just consider that death by the free capitalist market. If we were a society that had a prosocial incentivized economy and not an economy that completely controls society for individual greed and preaches greed as virtue, Trump wouldn’t have even been a successful game show host, let alone POTUS twice, let alone have mass tolerance of gross emoluments violations with the consent of basically his entire party.

Trump using what he has, the Presidency in his case, to screw some people, us, over to get MOOOAAAAAR, is more American than apple pie ever was, and is at least as American as school shootings.

Maybe the next country that sits on this land might think of putting people first and rewarding honest labor before considering rewarding speculative, often insider rigged by design gambling as the highest, most rewarded of pursuits.

They’ll never outwardly blame Trump for that. Hence the strained smiles. When they crow about accountability and personal responsibility, that’s just projection, they know at some level having none is what makes them modern Republicans.

Republicans can do and have unleashed knowing pain on themselves solely because their enemies would suffer too as the point. They believe that’s all government is for, a way to hurt people, a weapon.

A Republican has no problem walking around in discomfort with shit in their pants, so long as the innumerable people they hate have to smell it. The cruelty is the point. The play pretend that their guy didn’t cause the same pain to them as they revel in your pain for the exact same problem is just fanning their shitty ass towards you.

I voted for Harris out of harm reduction, but let’s not pretend both parties taking the corporate bribe money from wall street, and only fighting about how to address, if at all, the symptoms of our crony market capitalist economy leaves any room for good faith.

Anyone governing a people in good faith would protect the relatively powerless people from the whims and greed of the powerful capitalists and corporations. Both modern parties do the opposite and take the bribes.

This is America, we haven’t dabbled in such things since FDR.

Not going to lie, it’s going to be funny to see trump voter’s forced smiles when a gallon of milk is $20. At least everyone else can be congruent with their disdain and suffering.

They’re so tribal that they have to eat their chosen strongman’s shit with a smile.

Maybe the silver lining in all this will be an aggressive mass rejection of crony market capitalism, but probably not.

After all… look over there! That hungry person on the street corner begging for food that has a different skin complexion than you, they’re the one that made your milk so expensive, git em!

He’s a troll. He did it precisely because it was the worst pick that would wreak havoc. Same for all his appointments.

Trump is an ignoramus, but it doesn’t take any intellect to realize in life that if you have no sense of morality holding you back, setting a bunch of fires/causing chaos is a highly effective way to keep others distracted as you empty the cash drawer and walk away.

It’s easier to rob a nation that is on fire. And despite all his Nazi talk to his even dumber rubes, all Trump cares about is his net worth, aka what it is to all capitalists that chase millions and billions as it’s own end: his fragile ego score.

This is honestly a very gallows poetic way for the American experiment to end, our worship of capital and deification rather than condemnation of the greedy taken to its ridiculous extreme, putting a cartoonishly greedy, proudly ignorant, crony market capitalism worshipping nepo-rich idiot in charge to burn it down and sell the charred remains off for his bigly exclusive private profit.

Ronald Reagan and Jack Welch would be so proud.