Trump/Musk Feud Exposes American Delusion

All anyone can talk about is the Elon/Trump feud.  It's the Rosie O'Donnell/Trump feud of 2025 except this time, our personal data, government jobs & democracy are bound up in it.  Maybe it's the depressive realism talking, but if there's one thing Americans excel at, it's doing fuckall about national crises that would have other nations on the rafters while maintaining a delusional mindset about how fucked we truly are.  There's definitely a place for humor & escapism when it comes to coping with hard times.  The problem is when you "use humor" exclusively instead of DEALING with the problem head-on.  

My mom's the world's worst about this.  Haven't had a mammogram or pap smear in 40 years?  Psssh, blow it off with a joke.  Haven't EVER had a colonoscopy & you're in your 70s?  Something, something, poop pun.  That's great until a totally preventable disease takes you out the game with no fanfare or warning, leaving all your loved ones traumatized permanently. 

This is where America's at with their political wisecracking.  Our social safety nets are in the process of being dismantled by the likes of Mehmet Oz while science and medicine are under a full-on assault by our Dept. of Health Human Services Secretary--a career politician with no medical credentials.  All this as we sit on the brink of an Avian flu outbreak that would make our abhorrent COVID death toll look like a bad Monday at the office.  Rather than make billionaires pay their fair share of taxes--or any federal taxes at all--which would literally solve all our nation's problems & help trim the deficit, the Trump Admin is choosing to dismantle Medicare/Medicaid/SSI & raise the barriers for receiving welfare; fire federal workers from practically every field & add stupid tariffs to the few affordable services and products we could previously afford.  All while Senate Democrats twiddle their dicks.  

Excellent short vid by Chris Hedges proves his point: only 776 views.

And what does the American public do?  Make memes & joke about the "catfight" between one of the most evil billionaires in existence & our reality TV show president.  Bet we look REAL smart to people from actual developed countries.  I think Chris Hedges said it best when he referred to our country's psychotic, fantasy-minded immaturity in the face of imminent crisis.  We want to joke and carry on as if everything's normal or even going well when in reality we're gonna end up like the Soviet Union or perhaps Afghanistan shortly due in part to our own inaction.  And expecting (Democrat) politicians who receive fat paychecks, free healthcare & other perks on our dime to rise up against the tyranny is perhaps the peak of that delusion.  Politicians whose campaigns are financed by wealthy donors, who are plied by lobbyists daily & if that fails, blackmailed by the likes of Epstein/Maxwell into doing the bidding of billionaires &
 corporations.

Meanwhile, these were the most viewed videos on Youtube in 2024.

And again, what do we do?  Continue marching to the polls every 4 years like mindless zombies to uphold this system with our votes while avoiding the hard work of protesting, boycotting, striking & if necessary, burning it all to the ground like they do in France until these cocksuckers do something other than fuck us up the arse sans lube on a daily basis.  How many innocent, hard-working people will have to die due to lack of healthcare coverage... how many jobs careers will people have to lose to federal layoffs, AI & other evil forces... how much gentrification, inflation & enshittification will we have to endure before we WAKE UP?




Should've, Could've, Would've

Us, basically.

Trump should've never been president once, let alone twice.  He literally killed off most of his elderly, white, rural voter base by ignoring/denying COVID & holding maskless rallies, but because the opposing party ran such a shady campaign after 4 years of focusing on shit like "trans rights", pulling out of Afghanistan, letting inflation grow out of control & handing over billions to Israel for their illegal war genocide, enough democrats presumably voted "R" for the felonious bum to win (which is a whole topic unto itself).  That's to say nothing of that whole "insurrection" thing, his multiple felonies & the credible rape accusations.  Fun fact:  the Tariff Act of 1930 basically did exactly what Trump's doing now by taxing imported goods.  It was one of the main factors leading to the GREAT DEPRESSION.  See for yourself:

Headed for another not-so-great depression. 

Better yet, Citizens United should've never passed.  This law allows politicians to accept "dark money" contributions from literally anyone without disclosing it.  Could be the Taliban, could be Russia, Israel (we all know it's AIPAC), Mexican drug cartels, hackers, scammers, sex traffickers or the CCP.  AND WE'D NEVER KNOW.  This is who politicians serve, not you & me.  Get it through your heads before they're bl0wn off by a trigger-happy cop or the military.  (That's rich: Trump supports the Insurrection Act despite leading one himself.  Where WAS the military on January 6th?).

As these horses leave the barn & never look back, American voters and workers do fuckall about it, watching as if in a daze while driving past a trainwreck.  Late night comedians crack jokes & the public takes its cue from them, leading to a flood of memes, puns & self-serving online rants.  "Can't afford to protest or strike!" is the rallying cry.  "Real adults got bills to pay!" they say.  No, baby.  You can't afford NOT to put your daily life on hold & do the ugly work of standing up for your allegedly "inalienable" human rights.  Here are few recent bills to make the Objectively Worst Bills in U.S. History list as our safety, rights & lives are chipped away at in realtime:

Republican policies: so bad even AI hates them.  

Notably absent from this list are the 1994 Crime Bill (signed by Clinton & drafted by Biden) which led to more Black men being in the prison system than there were slaves in 1850, and the Patriot Act, which was built on legislation introduced by Democrats (again, Biden was involved) after the 1995 OKC Bombing.  It was this legislation (fuck, does anyone even click these links or am I wasting my time?) that provided the groundwork for the Patriot Act & allowed Congress to get it passed so quickly when those planes flew into those towers so unpredictably, an event they "never could've foreseen".   🙄  Yet Google AI simply glosses over it by calling it "existing anti-terror legislation".  Don't think people don't notice shit like that.  Is there really a "liberal bias" in the media and online, or is it like a case of outrageous overshadowing:  because Republicans do such egregious shit, the evil Democrats do is downplayed or dismissed? 

Don't ponder too long: we're under attack by both sides & risk losing our freedoms, our comforts & our very lives in the process.   

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