The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.
These days, multiple people who’ve spoken to him over the last year say, Biden often punctuates conversations with: “You think we can actually come back from this?”
The 83-year-old Biden continues to feel out a post-presidency that may prove to be one of the shortest in history and is already one of the most complicated.
There are days when Biden is heartbroken, indignant or in disbelief about what is happening as President Donald Trump — the man he defeated in 2020 — returned and moved not just to tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.
Okay, but what if we like fuckin Mussolini’d him?
I’ll bring the bats and blindfolds!
That will never happen and you know it. Your nation is uneducated and completely captured by billionaire propaganda. The future is bleak for the average US citizen but since the malls are still open then nobody gives a shit.
(If it were to happen, it would be a start.)
What keeps striking my mind loud and clear, with regards to the billionaire issue, is that even the billionaires themselves would be far better off, once we proliferate the emancipatory technologies, and eliminate the manufactured scarcity used to maintain power-leverage that reduces our potential. Then we move to what potential we have, leaving how much power over others we have. No more need to keep others down.
Do you have spaceships yet? And the reassurance no one else is trying to take your spaceships, because they have their own spaceships?
Always fun to consider the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla, passing by the likes of the Sonora Aero Club and Charles Dellschau’s 1850s drawings of those fledgling starts of zero-inertia propulsion technology… and seeing man-made “foo fighters” in WW2, revealing by the 1930s, we could have had spaceships for everybody. … At conference (I forget which, sometime 2000-2005ish) patent office whistle blower Tom Valone revealed to the effect of “by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents secreted”. It’s not just that we have so much headroom without the crooks & billionaires… it’s that even they do too. They’ve hobbled themselves from the higher potentials, by keeping everybody else down for their pathetic petty relative gains, just to have more than others, ignorant to how much vastly more we each and all could have. … Plenty space in space, expanding faster than we could fill it. No cull necessary.
Imagine what happens when billionaires snap out of their sunk-costs fallacy perpetuating that pathetic paradigm, and instead see the greater riches they have, by availing abundance to each and all…
No shit sometimes you just need to let it out in catharsis. At this point going to the camps has been looking more like when not if for a while now.
I’m kinda surprised I can still legally present feminine.
For sure, we are in a lot of trouble.
But not so much that defeatist self-fulfilling prophecies are warranted or wise. ;)
… “What if all art is a tool of manifestation?”