The "apocalypse" that Barack Obama told his staffers (as well as David Remnick) wasn't coming with the ascendancy of Donald Trump has certainly come to America in 2020, if it didn't already arrive at the beginning of Trump's reign. Trump is a fascist death machine.
Oh, the horror, the horror of the apocalypse now.
And as far as Street is concerned, Joe Biden is an Obama travesty too -- a Lesser Evil that Street reminds us doesn't even know what room he's in half the time. Nuff said. And it just can't be a good omen that Larry Summers is on the Biden campaign team. Why isn't the Press worrying about that? There's another Wall Street bubble ahead, we're being told, but, damn, Trump has already bailed them out with the Covid emergency funds -- trillions. Pre-TARP. Americans went along with it because Congress chucked in a measly $1200 bucks for each of them. For tose living their cars, this is a bonanza check. (Double cheeseburger tonight! With freedom fries. Mmm) .First they bust our balloons; now they want to bust our bubbles. Soon we'll be nothing but bust.
Well, it's like ol' Lawn Chair Larry said all those years ago, before he up and committed suicide, "A man can't just sit around," feeling all uplifted by Democracy and Freedom. Sometimes you have to get up off your ar*e and be the ballast to your own dream, before it lifts away from your clutches and fades forever into the deepest blues, with you waving goodbye.
Or, as dear Abbie, the money-throwin', Pentagon-liftin' Yippie, once said: "Democracy is not something you believe in; it's something you do. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles."
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