Fuck you really nailed it here. This is what has been frustrating me about bill for the last year. He keeps playing by 2012 rules when Trump has eaten the board. I don’t have a solution other than let them go hog wild and hope the chaos causes a backlash with the public.
The problem with such a strategy is that like you I think the proble…
Fuck you really nailed it here. This is what has been frustrating me about bill for the last year. He keeps playing by 2012 rules when Trump has eaten the board. I don’t have a solution other than let them go hog wild and hope the chaos causes a backlash with the public.
The problem with such a strategy is that like you I think the problem is us so I don’t believe it has a high likelihood of succeeding.
I deeply appreciate your recognition of the labyrinthine challenges we now face. I too am grappling with the stark reality that our figures, our so-called thought leaders, stumble and fumble as they cling to outdated playbooks, engaging with Trump as if the shattered rules of yesterday can somehow still frame today’s chaos. This isn’t a four-year storm to ride out. This is a seismic shift, a fracturing of reality itself, with half the nation untethered from the truth, adrift in a sea of conspiracy and grievance.
There is no deus ex machina, no neatly tied resolution waiting in the wings. This moment is not like those that came before; it is the culmination of decades of rot, a gaping wound that won’t heal without concerted, painful, and relentless effort. To pretend otherwise—to assume this resolves itself—is to lull ourselves into apathy, an unforgivable betrayal of the future we claim to fight for.
Question for you (I have been struggling with this question for a while but given you seem to think like I do I thought I would get your thoughts): let’s say Trump goes hog wild. What is worse:
(1) Americans likes it
(2) Americans dont like it but dont care when it comes to voting.
I feel like most people would say the first. I think it’s the second.
I also think it’s the second, and I’ve come to believe it’s the more dangerous of the two. The 2024 election was a moment of profound clarity for me, revealing just how deeply apathy has sunk into the national consciousness. It’s not just that people don’t care about the harm being done—it’s that they’ve become comfortable with it, disengaged to the point where they no longer see the connection between their choices and the reality around them.
That realization changed everything for me. It’s why I’ve decided to pull my business, my assets, and my family out of this country. America has shifted from a place of opportunity to a liability—not just for those within its borders but for the planet as a whole. I can no longer justify letting this nation benefit from my efforts when its trajectory feels so inevitably destructive.
Forget “ask not what your country can do for you.” I’m asking myself what I can do for the planet to shield it from an America increasingly indifferent to whether it even deserves to exist. Apathy is the ultimate enabler, and if it goes unchecked, the downfall won’t just be inevitable—it’ll be global.
Fuck you really nailed it here. This is what has been frustrating me about bill for the last year. He keeps playing by 2012 rules when Trump has eaten the board. I don’t have a solution other than let them go hog wild and hope the chaos causes a backlash with the public.
The problem with such a strategy is that like you I think the problem is us so I don’t believe it has a high likelihood of succeeding.
I deeply appreciate your recognition of the labyrinthine challenges we now face. I too am grappling with the stark reality that our figures, our so-called thought leaders, stumble and fumble as they cling to outdated playbooks, engaging with Trump as if the shattered rules of yesterday can somehow still frame today’s chaos. This isn’t a four-year storm to ride out. This is a seismic shift, a fracturing of reality itself, with half the nation untethered from the truth, adrift in a sea of conspiracy and grievance.
There is no deus ex machina, no neatly tied resolution waiting in the wings. This moment is not like those that came before; it is the culmination of decades of rot, a gaping wound that won’t heal without concerted, painful, and relentless effort. To pretend otherwise—to assume this resolves itself—is to lull ourselves into apathy, an unforgivable betrayal of the future we claim to fight for.
Question for you (I have been struggling with this question for a while but given you seem to think like I do I thought I would get your thoughts): let’s say Trump goes hog wild. What is worse:
(1) Americans likes it
(2) Americans dont like it but dont care when it comes to voting.
I feel like most people would say the first. I think it’s the second.
I also think it’s the second, and I’ve come to believe it’s the more dangerous of the two. The 2024 election was a moment of profound clarity for me, revealing just how deeply apathy has sunk into the national consciousness. It’s not just that people don’t care about the harm being done—it’s that they’ve become comfortable with it, disengaged to the point where they no longer see the connection between their choices and the reality around them.
That realization changed everything for me. It’s why I’ve decided to pull my business, my assets, and my family out of this country. America has shifted from a place of opportunity to a liability—not just for those within its borders but for the planet as a whole. I can no longer justify letting this nation benefit from my efforts when its trajectory feels so inevitably destructive.
Forget “ask not what your country can do for you.” I’m asking myself what I can do for the planet to shield it from an America increasingly indifferent to whether it even deserves to exist. Apathy is the ultimate enabler, and if it goes unchecked, the downfall won’t just be inevitable—it’ll be global.