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Pls start posting to most recent post, thank you.

I just watched Kamala's concession speech. She was smiling, beaming from ear to ear; as tho *she* had won the election. She said some stuff about the greatness of America, its future, etc. E.g.: "the light of America's promise will always burn bright." Wha? You hafta be brain damaged to believe something like that; or at the very least, a clueless moron. Here's what an intelligent Kamala might have said: "My friends, America is finished, and it's just as well. Historically speaking, the country has been little more than a giant scam. And it is appropriate that our new president is symbolic of that, being the greatest scam artist America has ever produced. And all of us, or most of you, have lived your life as hustlers, to one degree or another--something you know deep down, am I right? In any case, for those of you who have half a brain, and aspire to things like truth, beauty, and a meaningful existence, do yourselves a favor and get out while you can. (And I mean *now*)

Wafers: in the wake of the election, this blog has been deluged by a flood of new subscriptions. I want to express my gratitude; yr all v. kind, really. Like Kamala, I want to continue the fight: but not for remaking America etc., wh/is a fool's errand. No; the fight of this blog, wh/has been operating since April 2006, is but one thing: Reality. My commitment to you guys is and has always been the same: to the best of our ability, to deliver Reality. Personally, I'm not interested in anything else. Here is my Reality Message for today: Kamala Harris is a deluded turkey! (You guys might wanna put this on your latest post-it for the fridge.)

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Jack-

The Dems are an excellent example of what I have called hi-IQ morons. They are completely incapable of reading the American public, and so are out of sync w/it. Schmamala kept talking abt "turning the page," but what page? She was nothing more than the 4th term of Obama, who did 0 for 8 yrs. Then came term #3 of Obama, Schmiden: a genocidal war criminal playing the same old tune. (Plus, a senile doofus and a colossal asshole) So imo, this call to turn the pg rang hollow. Most of the country understood that it was same old same old, and she even affirmed this in an interview when she said that as for diffs w/Schmiden, "nothing comes to mind." Smart! And then Schmiden, unconsciously but deliberately, did a Hillary, and called the Trumpites "garbage." But that "garbage" understood that Schmamala represented the chic people, the groovy celebs, the wealthy, the Power Elite--the people who looked down on them, who really did regard them as garbage--and therefore that 0 wd really chg. Plus, she was never able to answer a direct question (constantly pivoting), and cumulatively speaking, this didn't look v. gd. In any case, there is no waking these people up. No amt of slapping, no amt of urine, will do it. The ultimate diff between the 2 candidates is that while Trumpalumpi offers a relatively fast death for America, Schmamala was offering the same, just a bit more slowly. As for the American public, they remain clueless, as usual. To quote Gore Vidal, "Stupidity excites me."

Look, folks: I am not so dumb as to think that the hegemons that will replace us in the tectonic shift now underway will necessarily be kind or enlightened or better than the West (altho the settler colonialism of the West has been pretty horrific; "mission civilisatrice" my ass). That wd be nice, but if you consider India, Russia, China, and the Islamic nations from the pt of view of human rights, it's not exactly a pretty picture. As Hegel told us 200 yrs ago, History is impartial; he called it a "slaughter bench." It couldn't care less what you or I think, or want. One just has to suffer it, even if it's a Holocaust. And then, somehow, you go on.

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