Bin Laden inaugurated the new millennium by breaking some bottles airplanes on the prow of a ship world trade whatever whatever, with the goal of destroying the america. How did that work? Like a charm. We flushed ourselves down the toilet after that, always looking for a bigger and better daddy to tuck us in nighty-night and make us feel safe from our craven cowardly baby shivers. His terrorism terrorized us into giving up on the idea of freedom.
About this much has been said, but one thing I don’t often hear expressed is that he really did win. He died, but if he was a true believer about martyrdom leading to a sexy paradise, then Obama helped him achieve that part as well. More importantly, the big aim has come to pass. The republic is over, and while the empire will look shiny for a few seconds, that’s just the beginning of the end.
Who’s gonna be our Caligula? Our Nero? Our Caesar is a fucking humiliation, so I’m sure the succession ain’t gonna be much better. Maybe Barron will be the one holding the fiddle when Canada finally nukes DC. Wait, DC will be underwater from global warming, so maybe they’ll nuke Nuevo Mar-a-Lago, Greenlandsylvania by then.
This is not to be a doomer. I think plenty of us will have passable lives under that tyranny. This country is too big to successfully be run like North Korea. It’s just not feasible. But whatever greatness this country possessed has jumped the shark. It’s all downhill from here. Hats off to the man behind 9-11. And if it turns out sasquatch is real and that man is Dubya, hats off to him.
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It doesn’t help all those decent folk who happen to be living in a red state, but I’m really hoping CA, maybe with WA and OR, find a way to peel off from the rest of the dying superpower, and maintain some sort of standard of living for their residents. If nothing else, CA has the economic horsepower to secede. I think the big problem will be finding a way to cut all the tax revenue from CA>DC, and keep that in CA, but as much as these nazis hate taxes and federal government, maybe they’ll do that favor for us.
I dunno about Newsome… at one point, I remember having a positive view of him, and thought he was decent, and then he threw trans folk and unhoused people under the bus, and started palling around with fascists…
but he (or more likely, one of his staffers) is doing a pretty great job of trolling trump, so…
i hope to fuck cali primaries his ass. that’s the state with san francisco in it. she doesn’t deserve a transphobic governor.