Jim Ostby

Here's to civil and political devolution! 🍺

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What we need now are Einsteins of politics leading all countries.

But the chances of that happening are 0 to -100 percent. 🥲

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We need intellligent world leaders if we are to survive, but are too many of us like lower animals?

I often think I'm on the level of chimps. (Intelligent ones, however. 😊)

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My goodnes gracious. Millions of years of evolution, and we've come to this!

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Many don't realize how reprehensible Trump is; but more's the pity, I suspect many more simply don't care.

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Having evolved by means of domination, and reached a terrible crisis point, how are we now to turn to survival my means of govenment of the the most intelligent, realistic, and beneficent?
(Here's a hint. We aren't. 😳)

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Climate change, wars, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, etc., and "we" elected Trump! Did "we" have a common death wish for not only for our country, but for humanity in general?

Oooops, not all of us voted for ....

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I feel like the cartoon character Charlie Brown. I think I'll take my football and go home and pout.

(Except I don't have a football, and I am at home. However I can still pout.)

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The national debt. If we survive Trump we will find surviving the national debt leads to horrendous challenges.

First, we eliminate the penny, then the nickel, then the dollar. Then ....

The poor, shallow masses don't "get it," and I don't believe there is much common human wisdom.

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And finally (I can hear all of the "Whew"s. 😉) my books are available worldwide, and if you search my name that may be surprising too.)

Again, I'm old (dammit), and I write as an avocation. Any book money would only mean my wife could drink better whiskey.

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I was just thinking of how refreshing it would be when/if Trump and his thugs disappeared and we returned to normal political nitwittery.

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I have enough in the top story to know that world inhabitants can't survive unless humans of great intelligence, practicality, and empathy govern. (And they'd better be put in charge tomorrow if we are to have any hope!)

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There's the old saying that (clinical) depression is often a genius' affliction.

How about depression as a realist's affliction?

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Not many giggles up here in the farm country of NE Montana. 😕

As with everything he does, Trump and and his goons are destroyers.

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Why wouldn't realistic people be pissed off? Trump is turning our country into a real (not the old mythological) Hell.

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Trump's evil is a moral issue, so what about the unctuous--often religious--do-gooders who support him? I'm elderly, and I'm furious at those who are turning our already harsh country into an inferno of lunacy and sheer malevolence.

Deserve? I sure as hell don't deserve this!!

🤬

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Anyone tired of listening to the Doomsday Clock people, etc., could take a look at the U.S. National Debt site.

(I recommend taking about six shots of whiskey, or seven of gin, first.)

www.usdebtclock.org

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Not many giggles up here in farm country.

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As to governing, we poor humans have endured the strong, the ruthless, the stupid, the brutal, the clever, . . . . How about giving the most very intelligent, decent, and humane a try?

"Impossible!!"

Then we are lost.

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My world view is like that of a cheap, poorly-written, dystopian novel. Except it's real.

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There will come a reckoning, unless Trump croaks first.

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I looked myself up on Bing AI.

"James Ostby’s fiction repeatedly examines the limits of human progress, the psychological costs of isolation, and the collapse of grand narratives about inevitable improvement, as argued explicitly in Rat-Tail Curves and related author material."

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The contemptible Trump supporters in congress should--and probably will--go down in ignominy.

Alas, after this whole Trump madness is over, and our country survives, if it does, nothing will change. The political folly will resume.

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Uff. Wheat tariff. Not much joy up here in (NE Montana, Republican state) wheat country.

One could ask what the hell voters expected from a second Trump term, but I don't go around doing that. Friends, family, etc.

Damn.

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Most of our remediable world problems result from not only lack of intelligence, but ignorance of, denial of, and outright repudiation of, reality.

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Trump is morons' genius.

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As Trump's puppets--his flunkies, congressional Republicans, and those voted for him--forge ahead, unaware of the looming political, economic, and social misery, here we are in flapdoodle paradise.

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Economic pain is the only political consequence of governments that many (most?) people understand.

And oh how much understanding is yet to come.

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Oh dear me! Is our government by the wisdom of the masses failing us?

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Trump's mental decline is so obvious I wonder how much longer he will be in office?

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