U2 – Until the End of the World

Friends, I am kind of freaking out. This Muskolini takeover of the Treasury is going unchecked and has the potential to wreck the economy, far beyond what the tariffs will do. It’s been two weeks. Not even. I don’t have a fat bank account or a bunch of assets to lose, but I also need every dollar I have.

I am thinking about that scene in the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World, when Claire is someplace with sacks of money and it’s all worth nothing. I haven’t seen the movie in a super long time but that’s the way I remember it. And I know being online is NOT helping, but I kept looking to see if someone, anyone, was going to do something about it. Obviously the Democrats in Congress are useless, not that they could actually do much in the minority, but for fuck’s sake they could at least say they have a plan of attack.

How does this end? With the US becoming an authoritarian country with a tin pot dictator? I mean, duh. But really, what happens when the world’s largest economy collapses? If we go down, everyone’s taking a hit. What can the states do, anything? Withhold federal taxes? I wish the blue states could just say fuck off, we’re done. This isn’t what we voted for and you hate us anyway so we’ll just leave and let you sit in your own pile of shit.

I saw someone use the phrase “avalanche of idiocy” today and I think it perfectly describes our situation. Dullard is too much of a simpleton to see what he’s unleashed but we are all going to be buried soon, thanks to the egos of the broligarchy. They don’t even need him now that they’ve got the keys to the vault.

There are people who have it way worse than I do. People whose lives are at risk from this administration. Literally. At the current moment, nothing in my life has actually changed, yet.

I so desperately don’t want to be here. Here, meaning at this juncture, and also here, in this country. Here, the mother of two young adults who have already watched their futures implode multiple times over the past 10 years. I will get up in the morning and go to work and sit in meetings and try to keep it together, all the while thinking about the end of the world.