This post will lack structure and flow. I don’t care. This nation has a few intelligent people who saw our collapse coming 40 years ago. But as George Carlin often said, garbage in, garbage out. This nation had a tipping point in which the garbage going in became unmanageable long ago.

Kamala Harris put up an impressive hail mary pass. On the night of her one and only debate against Donald Trump, she looked like a clear winner. Had the election been on September 11, she probably would have won. But millions of Americans didn’t even know she had replaced Joe Biden on the Democratic ballot. They just didn’t. In the final two months, she just fizzled out. Trump’s victory, which was assured in June, became assured again. The result was not changed. We didn’t successfully delay GOP autocracy for another 4 years. The autocracy is now coming.

Everyone is about to get crushed. Not just Americans but the whole world.

What a brilliant idea it was to put Donald Trump’s fate in the hands of American men. What a brilliant plan. Nothing could have gone wrong. Men are intelligent, rational adults. They would have simply ended Trump’s career.

Jeesuz Fucking Christ.

Never, ever let the voters decide a damn thing. They are so fucking uneducated and ignorant.

And now, the 32% of eligible voters who cast their vote for Donald Trump deserve every terrible thing that is going to happen to them. Every flood. Every hurricane. Every tornado. Every cancer. Every gunshot. Every accident and mishap. Every disease. Every death. Die soon. All of you.

As I blogged 4 years ago, Joe Biden just felt like a pause in our destruction. In December 2020, I wrote:

The Biden administration is doomed. It hasn’t begun, but it is set for failure.

In November 2020, in a separate post, I wrote:

It would take an effort of colossal proportions to prevent the republic from dying.

But the Biden administration was not a true pause of our GOP minority rule. The Overton window shifted again. The Biden admiration slowly warmed up to the concept of forcibly reducing border crossings. The administration never considered reversing Trump’s toughened stance on Cuba. And most devastatingly, the Biden administration was the first in US history to clearly and explicitly endorse the extermination of Palestinians on occupied lands.

The Democratic party needs to be destroyed, But does fresh progressive talent want to enter politics these days? Nope. We're truly doomed. And you know what, these dark days are going to crush the very people who voted for Trump. The repeal of the ACA, a national abortion ban, and a violent deportation effort is going to crush this nation, its people and its economy. And that's all before a new wave of natural disasters directly related to global heating.

The Democrats have failed us. This nation has drifted left since 2004. Was anyone standing up for trans kids and same sex couples 20 years ago? The Democrats insisted that they drift to the right and market themselves as centrist "adults." That disconnect, and the highly desirable drug of Trump's revenge, sold to millions of men, has put our nation in peril.

It really was that simple. That's all it was. Trump represents a naked attack on the Rule of Law. There was not a single good reason to vote for Donald Trump. He shouldn't be allowed anywhere near political power. He's an old wanna be mob boss from Queens who should be retired, playing golf. But he had to run to prevent going into two Federal trials. To vote for Donald Trump is to support the idea that our republic and society should be burned down.

I am furious, yes. But none of this is surprising. The best analyses of Trump’s triumphant return all draw one inescapable conclusion: neolibralism is indeed dead. Neolibralism had no playbook on how to mitigate the damage caused by a global recession in 2008, or a mildly deadly pandemic in 2020, or the full transformation of the GOP into a autocratic, apocalyptic party in 2021.

Neoliberalism was always a lie, sold to us by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in 1980. A free market regulated by contemporary central bank tools, combined with round after round of tax cuts for the investor class didn’t yield a perfect capitalist world with quality of life gains for all. Worker productivity increased tremendously, but society didn’t become so wealthy that we’d be able to comfortably lower the retirement age, as the most optimistic neoliberals and technology evangelicals claimed in the 1990s. The return of Trump is its final, whimpering death rattle. Now the US empire can end. Now we can become a rotting nation dominated by a single party at the Federal level, like Hungary.

Jack Crosbie over at Discourse Blog summed it up best yesterday. The Democrats offer voters neoliberalism and a vague promise of normalcy. Trump, a household name, offers voters chaos, entertainment, bloodshed and goodies he can’t deliver. They went with the TV guy.

The United States is destabilized. I can’t fully understand an electorate that chose Obama over John McCain just 16 years ago, and then shifted to Trump in 2016 and 2020. What great, shiny object made those same voters switch sides so quickly, with some of them cognizant of what those jarring shifts do to our Federal government and our massive problem of wealth inequality? People don’t know. People don’t care. And now a lot of ignorant people need to die.

Nothing mattered. The weird, violent attempt to stop Biden’s inauguration didn’t matter. Trump’s crimes in and outside of the office of the President didn’t matter. The fascism didn’t matter. Harris’ record-breaking $1 Billion campaign didn’t matter. The changing demographics in the US didn’t matter. And now the United States is dead. It’s finished.

Now that it is over, I can formally begin my second half century of life and pay less attention to this society and failing nation, which is now clearly dying. The United States is sick. It is very ill. There is no curing it in my lifetime. I suspect by the time I die, sometime past the halfway point of this century, the US will be a failed state. I don’t care about the empire. Empires die. I care about my planet, but no one in power wants to save it.

Whatever happens going forward, it’s going to happen to us. Trump is going to make things happen to my family and my city. It’s all happening and there’s almost nothing that can slow or stop it.

I’m giving myself a list of dos and don’ts.

Do:

Disobey. You are going to destroy my nation. I will not assist.

Resist. I will resist the GOP wherever I can. And no, I am not part of the #resistance.

Organize. I re-joined the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for just $2 per month.

Travel. I am going to travel my ass off until my passport is taken away. I’m not sure when I can reach Svalbard, Greenland, Portugal, Japan or Chile. But Egypt and Spain are on my horizon. I’m going out there to see and do on my travels.

Drink. This pandemic made me and my partner better home cocktail makers. I’m going to continue to develop these skills. I am not going to learn 6-string guitar, as I thought I might. Which leads me to -

Rock out. I am going to listen to even more music. I have two Hi-Fi systems at home. I use them hard. I will continue to discover new music and listen the hell out of music.

Walk. I must walk to stay alive. My partner and I are walking every street and alley in Manhattan. That’s over 700 miles. I could take the whole Trump term to mark every meter of pavement. And aside from this colossal project, I intend to just keep walking and avoid becoming bed ridden. But speaking of bed -

Sleep. Soon, I will make my bedroom darker and upgrade my mattress.. I am going to sleep much better no matter how much the world burns. Burn, world. I am getting my 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night.

Blog. I am renewing this blog as long as I’m alive and able to write. This blog turns 20 later this decade. I wish I had a partner author, but people be busy.

Don’t:

Despair. I actually suffered despair during the Biden years. I just knew, for years, that Trump would return. But now that the apocalypse is here, I will not despair. I will fight and live.

Follow socials. I quit commenting platforms. I reluctantly quit Masdoton. The Fediverse is a good place. But posting there is just speaking into a small void. There aren’t many people there. They all went to BlueSky. And if I went there to share my stupid opinions, it would just be yelling into a larger useless room.

Be a jerk. As a New Yorker, this is tough to drop. I yell at cars that run red lights. But now some of those cars (trucks) might be from out of state and full of guns once the Supreme Court has its way with us.