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We have all those stupid MAGA MFers -- couldn't make change at a MacD without a machine telling them what to do. And our fucking media seems to be celebrating them as the face of the "new normal America."

Then everywhere we look beyond MAGA (mostly overseas, tragically) we have important new technologies. Countries are pursuing virtually unlimited energy through fusion (see France), fantastic advances in batteries and EVs (see China and Korea), high-speed ultra-efficient train transportation (see China and part of Europe), and on and on. We have already lost our power position in manufacturing. Trump is driving away the best scientists and killing the best universities, so we are a generation away from being the have-nots in all major technology areas. And while all this is happening, the only things Americans seem to care about are guns, abortions, and football.

How can these two universes coexist? I just had another birthday. Not too many more trips around the sun left for me. But how can we do this to our children and grandchildren?