The Weekly Flail — September 7, 2024

OVERVIEW

We live in a disintegrating world of human collapse. But not everything is collapsing. There is still hope to slow the climate disaster enough to transition to a managed, fully sustainable planetary culture. It is a long shot and hard going, but a managed transition would be better than a ten or twenty-year descent into chaos led by fascists and idiots.

To get the week’s political trainwrecks out of the way, Trump appears to be in severe mental decline, which the corporate media is covering up. Meanwhile, Harris and Walz have so far avoided disaster but clarified that they would change nothing significant as dictated by the corporatist oligarchs.

Nate Silver announced that Harris would win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College. That could be the worst possible outcome as the tipping point for the breakup of the United States.

There are no indications of any ceasefire in Gaza, and Netanyahu is fully committed to genocide and the takeover, by settlement, of all remaining parts of the Palestinian state. Harris is entirely on board with Netanyahh’s plans, with mild complaints for ass-covering. Meanwhile, Iran keeps its cards close and is not launching direct attacks. That is more than can be said for Israel’s Zionists, who are starting their next war with Lebanon and Hezbollah.