Well, kids, the eight or nine of you who might read any post I’d be liable to write, going forward, about this or that aspect of the 24/7 MAGA shit show we’re all about to be watching for at least the next four years – and oh what a shit show it bids fair to be – already know what I’d say. You already know what I feel, and what I’m going to feel. You already know what I think. You already understand the arguments. There’s nothing new to say.
So, my present inclination is not to say it.
It does no good, and anyway I’m tired.
So, for now anyway, that’s it from me. I’ll try to muster up some postings about other things, like Songs of the Day, and Great Movie Scenes, some science and nature stuff maybe, I don’t know, but it’s useless to rant any more against the ongoing crusade to destroy the Western liberal democratic order. It’s coming here, and it’s going to be the same story. I’ll cast my one lousy vote, at least I can do that much, but then of course I’ll lose, and sit here watching everything burn, I guess.
Maybe I’ll feel better later. You think? Here’s what I think: who cares?
the needlefish 
I hear you. It’s disheartening. The-lead up to an election is not the right time to criticize your preferred party. Now that the election is over, however, “the Western liberal democratic order” will hopefully be thinking really hard about what went wrong. Maybe they will finally accept the hard lessons voters have been delivering to them since 2016. Trump himself is a phenomenon of the left’s attempt to politically engineer a victory rather than earn it. The Clinton campaign instructed the DNC to tell the media to take Trump seriously before the 2016 election. She wanted to run against him, he was her preferred candidate. This is not conspiracy theory. It’s part of the Wikileaks pre-election file dump. Like Van Papen in Germany, who thought Hitler would be “pushed into a corner so far that he’ll squeal,” leaders on the left have consistently thought they understood and could control Trump and the right. It happened again during this election cycle. Biden’s team thought they could hide the president’s cognitive decline and still win another election. What the hell were they thinking? Of course 10 million Democratic voters didn’t go to the polls last week. The Democrats lost them permanently after the first debate. An intelligent friend of mine told me in 2023 that Biden shouldn’t run again because he was cognitively impaired. This was well-known in Washington, in other words. And don’t get me started on how much money the left has shoveled into far-right candidates via shadowy PACs in order to create insane wedge candidates who win their party’s primary but are obviously going to lose the general election. The American right is, to a large degree, a monstrous creation of the left either intentionally (but mistakenly) or via laziness and neglect. All this to say, there is a great need for bright thinkers on the left to explain why this keeps happening and how the left could do better.
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Hmmm, needlefish. I think that the next four years, maybe more, might be exactly when those of us who read your words will need them most of all, if only as reassurance that we are not completely off our rockers.
We may be off our rockers, of course, but everyone needs a voice or two that can assure them, definitively, that they’re not. The needlefish is that voice for me.
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I so appreciate your thoughts and words. Thank you so much for holding the torch for us all. You have earned your rest!
In the words of Gunga Dan, “courage”. We’ll all need it.
No more Gohmerts? No more insightful prose on our plight? No more laughing out loud while the other people on the bus back away quietly? You have been a ray of hope for all of us, assuring us that we are not alone.
I, for one, will miss that.
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I am going to be watching a lot of Hallmark Christmas Movies for the next four years.
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