(November 9, 2025 at 2:30 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(November 9, 2025 at 11:57 am)Angrboda Wrote: Republicans don't care. It has never been about serving the public to them.
With every passing day, qu'ils mangent de la brioche echoes louder and louder through the corridors of power.
I've always had a belief in politics as the art of the possible, but lately I've come to sidle closer to the Everclear approach:
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die
That's what is worst about this for me -- as my country marches into disaster, I feel like I am becoming politically more and more nihilistic. For much of my life I've found purpose in either serving the nation or at least caring about it. Nowadays, I don't know ...
Completely random, but that song has been indelibly burned into my brain since the pandemic.
