No one collapsed on stage. Damn.
In this case, Trump kept his mouth shut except when spewing his usual lies, but Biden had a bad day. When you are old, you have bad days.
Is this the end of the world? Yes, but this election and anything related is an anticlimax to the larger disaster that is still being ignored.
Despite the panic in the Democratic Party ranks, Trump is still a fascist asshole who is bug fuck crazy. No one is talking about Trump because old people have bad days and demented people have good days.
Trump is not an answer but only a threat. As was said about the debate: Biden has a bad day but Trump is a bad person.
What more is there to say? Trump is a loaded gun with one empty cylinder. That is very bad odds for a game of Russian roulette. He is a con artist and lowgrade performer. People get tricked when he is hitting on all cylinders but that is an decreasing condition.
The question is, will enough of those people put the gun to our collective heads in November and pull the trigger? That is not a pleasant thought.
It is never good to put an obviously bad person in positions of great power. With Biden we have an American Empire traditionalist who is also a militarist and now an Zionist supporting genocide. This is not unusual. In fact it is the common, garden variety American national politician
Biden is not a good man. But he is, as we have all been dealing with for years, not on the same scale as Trump. He is and will remain a lesser evil and that is all that we have left.
The talk of replacing Biden is just talk. The oligarchy doesn’t really care but there is at least the appearance of representative government that will remain under Biden.
Will it make a difference? No, because we are rapidly approaching the tipping point when the whole thing becomes too unstable to pretend it will survive. The far bigger problems of heat, fire, storm, food, and mass refugees will take all of our bandwidth.
If enough people decide to play that game, it will get ugly quickly, but the government in Washington, DC, is doomed along with the rest of the Modern World. Our options are continuation of the collapse with some mediation or a full, fascist idiocracy until it all collapses.
Soon local government, and not state except in very small states, is all that will matter.
We need to prepare for this. The only preparation I see is to avoid surprise as the collapse accelerates. Depending on where you are and the breaks of the climate game, you may be forced from your home or simply driven out by the failure of the distribution systems and increasing famine.
We will see. The best solution is to do what you like with family and friends and deal with it when it comes. Yes, we are entering a period of mass death, but not everyone will die. It's going to become very interesting.
There will a new world on the other side of the climate disaster but that is too far away to worry about. We need to prepare for it but but the wreckage will need to be cleared away as our world collapses.
We need to keep as much sanity as possible in this transitional era and that will add to the hope for the future. We will have a future.
Everything you say in this article is our new reality. It is a succent summation of the new terribles we face. Live with empathy and kindness until the days of accelerating collapse overwhelm us.
At least you ended on an up note.
That's a pretty gloomy outlook you pose - although the truth. And the truth can hurt.
Climate concerns should be top of the list of problems to address, yet here we are playing "Congress in Washington" (read: Republicans) (featuring the pathetic SCOTUS), against Everyone Else!
Along for the ride.