This Voting Harder thing hasn’t been working out for those who’ve been doing it. Maybe it’s time to stop doing it?
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If voting mattered, you would not be in the position you now find yourself in.
As Mark Twain once said, if voting mattered, it wouldn’t be allowed.
Blogger ‘b’ explains what happens after yankee occupiers spend twenty-plus years screwing you over —
‘Iraq has no air defenses. It is not yet capable to defend its own borders. Most importantly though is its lack of control over its own financial resources:
‘Through Iraq’s U.S.-based bank account for oil payments, Washington controls the physical shipment of dollars Iraq earns and has shown itself willing to use that power after temporarily halting the flow this year.
‘Iraq needs a plan to solve those issues. Companies pumping or buying oil in Iraq should be forced to pay directly to Baghdad. If they are unwilling of so, because of U.S. pressure, Chinese companies should be invited to take their place.
‘Iraq will have to further rebuild its military before it can become a regular state.’
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/09/iraq-is-not-yet-sovereign.html
‘b’ should understand Iraq’s plight, living in occupied Germany (eighty freaking years).
China builds in foreign countries; the US occupies, dominates and destroys, leaving failed, destabilized pseudo-states behind.
Something is profoundly wrong with the yankee mindset. The puritanism of three hundred years ago, overlaid with belligerent 21st century zionist fanaticism, is a deeply toxic brew.
Now the sun is setting on Teddy Roosevelt Americlowns who tried to rule the world, screwed up everything they touched, and today are getting evicted by all the Untermenschen they so casually shat upon, with that Lee Greenwood song blaring through the speakers on their rampaging Humvees. An older, better song:
If you ain’t got the do re mi, boys
If you ain’t got the do re mi
Why, you better go back to your beautiful Texas
Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee
— Woody Guthrie, Do Re Mi
Y’all remember how we were mocking the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, with its tiers of empty seats, three weeks ago?
Well, real people got hurt! Ask Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton:
‘Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, told a group of conservative donors and lobbyists last week that President Trump’s midterm convention in Dallas had hurt Mr. Paxton politically, according to an audio recording obtained by The New York Times.
‘The recording, which is muffled at times, captures Mr. Paxton being asked, “Do you feel like he’s a little bit of a drag?” It is not clear from the audio whom the questioner is referring to.
‘Mr. Paxton responds: “So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.”’ — NYT
https://tinyurl.com/mdcfcpje
So bad, so sad. The Orange Douchebag came to town … and thousands of Chudleys dropped out of the MAGA movement, unable to afford gas to return home.
Morning, Jim!
Meanwhile, the McGop shills – Beck and Hannity and Clay & Buck – are claiming or trying to suggest the polls showing a blue douching approaching are lies, all lies! I suppose it’s possible. But I smell the same whiff of losing I smelled – for the other side (so to speak) – in 2024. I think lots of us who are not of the Left are just going to stay home while lots of the Left are going to vote. Some will castigate me and say this is why I ought to vote – for the Republicans. Sigh. They just don’t get it. It is voting for Republicans that brought us to this.
We’re almost to box # 3…
1. Soap box
2. Ballot box
3. Cartridge box…
Some folks are already there…
Gonna get spicy real soon…
Good luck & tribe up, y’all!!
YMMV….
Jury box is still in there. Mortally wounded and diminished, but it’s still one of the options.
I don’t see how the deranged criminal Paxton gets any Independent votes in the upcoming TX (s)election. Cornyn was a Conservative Inc turd but could be rationalized by some to be still better than the Dem. I don’t see anyone who is not a hardcore MAGAtard going for Paxton.
What concerns me with the prospect of Democrats regaining power in the House and/or Senate isn’t so much their wet dream of impeaching Trump a THIRD time; it’s the prospect that after the way they acted during COVID and early on in the Biden regime, they may seek to go after “Anti-vaxxers”, people who refuse to wear face diapers everywhere, and people who refuse to be guinea pigs for the drug cartel known as Big Pharma under guise of “Protecting Public Health”, particularly if there’s another “pandemic”. It was Democrats and Democrat politicians who were the biggest pushers of face diaper and vaxx mandates, not to mention vaccine passports and severe punishment for those who refused to comply with BS COVID diktats. When then President Joe Biden answered “Yes” to a question at a CNN Town Hall whether municipal workers should lose their jobs if they refused to comply with city vaxx mandates, the audience CHEERED.
And considering they’re also ALL IN with Cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change lunacy like NET ZERO, I wouldn’t put it past them to also go after people who refuse to give up a gas vehicle for an EV should they regain power at any level in DC and/ or refuse to give up MEAT for frankenfood under guise of “Stopping Cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate Change”.
I hear you, John. The Dems will have nothing left to lose, and everything to gain by going full-on Communistic on those they hate. Which is everyone who does not bend over and kiss their back sides. Those supporters will simply be eaten last. Having grown up in this crap, it is astonishing and saddening to see the U.S. deciding to try what never worked in the past (Communism), and will not work now. Granted, what is governing now is no better, but talk about going from the frying pan to the fire! Did you see where Moderna now has its first, spike protein, flu shot? Called “mFLUSIVA”. It was released just in time for this years flu season. Eventually, ever vaccine will be Messenger RNA. Fun times we have to look forward to if the Demon-Rats get into power. I have to give them credit: At least the Demon Rats do not even pretend they like the rest of us. They have far more spine and balls than any spineless RINO Republican (all of them)! And really, why bother voting for a Republican? Maybe one here or there might be pro-gun, but in the end, I may as well vote my dog in for Office. He could do a much better job than any of the clowns we have now. And how ironic, in how clowns were always creepy in the past….
Morning, Shadow –
I believe this was “the plan” – Trump’s plan – all along. Destroy the populist movement by discrediting it. Usher in the blue tide, which – as you say – will do what they say (unlike the GOP). All just in time for 2030, too.
It has a cast of inevitability, doesn’t it? We can’t do much if anything to stop it. Certainly, Voting Harder for Republicans isn’t going to do anything. What we can do is heed Solzhenitsyn’s advice, when the time comes.
Hi Shadow,
Have you noticed how many Democrat politicians, along with corporate media, have been trying to frighten people over MEASLES, and trying to claim that there are “Measles outbreaks” & “Measles deaths” BECAUSE of ANTI-VAXXERS and the UNVACCINATED? But if one looks deeper into the stories being run, people who allegedly died from Measles actually died from something else, and a good percentage of “Measles outbreaks” are among people who’ve been vaxxed.
Oh, I saw that, John. What an eye rolling moment that was. I survived measles and chicken pox growing up, and now have natural immunity no needle will ever offer. Somehow, I managed to avoid the mumps and German measles, though. Oh yes, I had many co-workers who could not wait to jump in line for the jab when it became available. They were openly critical of the “anti-vaxers”. No one asked me my opinion about it, so I did not offer it. I sweated through those years, wondering if I would still have a job, as I refused to get it, and signed a “religious exemption”. For which I have no regrets. I have, however, lost several friends to the jab. What was, and is more ironic, is now these hard-core vaccine shills turn around and blame us un-vaxed because they got sick from the jab. “….you should have warned us”!, they shill. You just cannot win. Borrowing a Foghorn Leghorn line (when he was trying to teach the chicken hawk how to hunt), “…some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed”.
Dear Glen Beck,
So, those who voted harder for the Republicans in ’24 because they didn’t want more idiotic wars are now supposed to vote harder so that we can have….more war, because who cares if “we” kill tens of thousands of innocent people, just as long as it will result in lower prices and “more energy”- which is what we had until the head honcho of your party, Donnie Dimwit, attacked a sovereign nation so Israel can get their nefarious way. OOoooo-Kay….
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you fight the Democrats, so that YOUR party can do the exact same things that the Democrats do…but it’s O-K, as long as your party is doing it…..
Sounds like a plan! (At least in the eyes of those whose intellects have been stunted by a steady diet of pre-school, public school, and Marxist ‘social justice’ liberal colleges.)
Government school, another one of our greatest misfortunes.
Elon Musk TERRIFIED Of New TELL ALL Documentary!! | The Kyle Kulinski Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpbt39XbWA
OSHA nowhere to be found about safety
how many tesla drives were burned alive and unable to escape
ChatGPT said:
If you mean Tesla occupants who died after being trapped in a burning vehicle because the doors could not be opened, the best documented figure I found is at least 15 deaths.
A Bloomberg investigation, reported by multiple outlets, identified at least 15 people who died in 12 incidents over roughly the past decade where a Tesla had crashed and caught fire and occupants or rescuers were unable to open the doors.
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you couldn’t pay me to get in one of those death traps
Eric – “no oil stick”
Yukon – “no door handle”
If the death jab doesn’t kill ‘ya, maybe the Tesla car will
“In the meantime my hope of drawing social security is pretty much gone. My retirement funds won’t get me far. My health care has become unaffordable. Gas, groceries, and day-to-day life is becoming unaffordable.
All so a bunch of kikes can claim a godforsaken desert bc gawd promised it to them.”
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And get this, all the crime ministers of Israel are Polish born, the current insane POS leader of Israhell is Polish, he is not Jewish, although claims to be. Netanyahu’s parents are Polish, real last name Mileikowski.
https://www.teamblind.com/post/every-israeli-pm-has-changed-their-family-name-1b8c4fvr
Every Israeli PM has changed their family name
Every Israeli PM (or their parents) adopted new family names to sound less European. To name a few prominent ones
Netanyahu – his father, Benzion Netanyahu, was born Benzion Mileikowsky in Poland. The family Hebraized their surname to Netanyahu after immigrating to Palestine in the 1920s.
David Ben-Gurion (born David Grün) – Changed his surname to Ben-Gurion, inspired by a Jewish historical figure.
Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitch) – Later took the surname Myerson after marriage, then changed it to Meir when she moved to Israel.
Levi Eshkol (born Levi Shkolnik) – Shortened his last name to Eshkol.
Yitzhak Shamir (born Yitzhak Yezernitsky) – Changed his surname to Shamir, inspired by a plant mentioned in the Bible.
Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski) – Hebraized his surname to Peres.
Worth mentioning, every Israeli PM has been an Ashkenazi jew (from Europe).
And not only are all these fake ass Jews out of Europe not racial Hebrews but religious converts, the faith they adopted is complete total bullshit. The Torah is pure fiction, so say the archeologists and scholars.
Wrap your mind around what is happening in Palestine, crazy religious freaks out of Eastern Europe descended on another nation and are killing all the inhabitants (who would have that ancient Hebrew DNA because they never left, aka Semites) because of what they believe – which is pure utter bullshit.
And these European born fake ass Jews, who do not have Semitic DNA are killing the real Semites and will call you an “anti-semite” if you criticize their bloodlust and war crimes.
If that wasn’t bad enough, this huge voting block of stupid retarded Evangelical Christians in the United States, who also believe the Bible bullshit, are lending moral, spiritual, and monetary support to these raging low IQ fake ass Zionist hellions.
What people do not know it the Old Testament is fiction, Abraham, Solomon, Saul, and all the rest to King David are fictional characters. The story of Genesis is stolen Sumerian mythology and a children’s story. The Israelites never even existed. Huh? It was the Rabbinic Torah writers who wrote creative fiction, from borrowed neighboring myths to create a story, like Harry Potter.
“It should be of no surprise that Abraham never existed, Abraham is a blatant ripoff of an earlier religion out of India, Brahma marries his sister Saraswati, that myth is written as Abraham marrying his sister Sara. Sara(h)s maidservant Hagar is the Ghaggar River in India. King David is a metaphor for the Dravidian speaking peoples of South India. Isaac is also a ripoff, Ishaak, the great friend of Shiva. Yet modern people believe those OT stories literally. They are not, they are rewritten mythologies, fake the first time and double fake in the second rehashing. This implies the entire OT is fake, not literal, not historical. Thus there are no descendents of Abraham because he did not exist. Plus, no god chose no tribe, that is just tribal propaganda meant to establish dominance of that tribe over the goy.”
Ashke-Nazi Jews are of Eastern European, not Mediterannean, origin.
Their native language is Yiddish, which is a Germanic, not a Semitic language.
They are in fact fake “Semites.”
Meme of the day:
Glenn Beck is a piece of Zionist shit
https://i.imgur.com/zVEhsSG.jpeg
Amen, Jack –
I’d like to see a remake of Deliverance – with Beck playing the part Ned Beatty played.
Eric – I have the same reaction you do when you listen to Glenn Beck. Several times a week I am tooling up I-5 and I tune into the local conservative talk radio, KMED, out of Medford, Oregon. After about 5 minutes I change the channel, and usually tune in the local classical music station, so long as the Libtard host is not talking.
In Amerika you have a choice between two groups of idiots and pathological liars – either liberal woke idiots or paid shills of Israel and the Trumpenstein regime. Both groups are totally destructive to our republic.
KMED schedule: 9 AM to Noon Markley, VanCamp & Robbins
3 – 6 PM The Sean Hannity Show
The local cocksucking conservative radio hosts talk nonsense, not reality. They spin a cauldron of shit caused by Zionist whored Trump regime and his evil war for Israel. Not once will you hear them criticize how Trump is working for Israel, that is a big no, no. Mind you, these sold out pigs paint themselves as patriots.
Amerika is a pathetic joke swirling round and round down the shitter because the people refuse to talk like adults about reality. How much lower do we have to go before the big loud mouths on the radio start talking about how the god damned Jews and Israel have taken over our government?
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What is a “Zionist shill”? Someone who consistently advocates for Israel and Zionist positions, gets paid or hired to do so by Jews, Israelis, or the Jewish owners of the radio station.
Glenn Beck (like Alex Jones) are paid for whores, entertainers, who protect the status quo and Israeli domination over the United States. IOW borderline treason. Then we have outright Mossad agents like Jew Mark Levin and Jew Ben Shapiro who are blatant operatives trying to force Trump to war for Israel.
What ChatGPT says about Beck:
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) gave Beck its Dr. Miriam & Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award in 2011.
Beck also appeared at Christians United for Israel (CUFI) events and has explicitly framed Israel’s security as an important religious and geopolitical issue.
I say certain traitors need to be put to death. If you are actively working for Israel you deserve to hang. Every Congress scumbag who takes money from AIPAC deserves the death penalty.
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/the-real-woke-reich-is-mark-levin-and-ben-shapiro/#comment-7790657
“The entire US government is under control of the little shitty state of Israhell because very stupid people believe Bible myths. It is time these Torah retards are confronted with guns, the religious beliefs of Jews have no basis in our political lives, we do not want to be governed by evil malicious bastards who have willfully made prejudicial Bronze Age beliefs their reality. Keep that shit to yourselves morons, we are tired of this Bible bullshit. We have had enough of you and your bloodlettings. Supporting a genocidal state is aiding and abetting. It is time for Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro to be declared religiously insane then put to death for supporting Israel.”
You have a much stronger stomach than me even tuning into this shit in the first place. Ever since Event COVID I find it next to impossible to listen to any kind of radio, and I am thankful I am able to listen to an endless stream of music from my own collection on a thumb drive.
Those modern touch screen audio systems are good for something!
Always, the Uniparty throws out tasty doggie treats to deflect voters’ attention from the Elephant in the Room — the gratuitous War of Aggression they started for little Shitrahell:
‘Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is seeking to throw a political lifeline to embattled Republican incumbent Sens. Jon Husted (Ohio), Pete Ricketts (Neb.) and Dan Sullivan (Alaska) by scheduling votes Wednesday on two bills that would address the growth of AI-driven data centers and stock trading by members of Congress.
‘All three GOP senators are locked in tough battles. Whether they win or lose in November could determine if Thune remains Senate majority leader in 2027. Democrats, however, are gearing up to defeat the bills. They argue the reforms are “watered down.”’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6119236-senate-republicans-thune-stock-data-center-votes/
Inside the Beltway hall of mirrors, tunnel vision Congress Clowns don’t get it: 95 percent of their ‘constituents’ know nothing about their votes on these data center and stock trading bills. All the American people know is that the cost of living is eating them alive.
Moreover, I know that just last week, Senator Thune’s quisling Repugniclown party rejected a war powers resolution to get the US the hell out of its lost war on Iran. This stinking war is what defines the warmongering, Israel-cucked foreign agent ‘Thune.’ It is why his party must be annihilated, his treasonous ‘leadership’ terminated, and his crimes against America prosecuted to scorched earth.
If voting actually mattered, it’s have been done away with LONG AGO.
At this point, voting for Republicans versus Democrats is like asking me if I would rather have my left leg removed or my right leg removed.
I have only two options: Vote for a third party as an impotent act of protest, or stay home.
I suspect Bryce that like Germany people will vote for the mainstream parties until things get really bad then they will vote for whomever has what sounds like a “plan” to fix things.
That Austrian with the funny mustache only became a choice when you needed a wheel barrel full of Reich Marks to buy a loaf of bread, hopefully that doesn’t happen here but I’m not holding my breath as spending money we don’t have on sh*t we don’t need never works out well in the end.
I see where you’re coming from: I have a sense that as bad as things are, things have to get A LOT worse—even worse than 1932, 1968, 1979, or 2008–before there’s real change.
And, at least the loaf of bread in your cautionary wheelbarrow tale, probably wasn’t some toxic loaf of gelatinous goy slop, like what’s on offer in most of these United States.
We got our democracy, big time, and as it always does, it has failed miserably. Once folks learn they can vote themselves money, the party is over.
This will be the first time since Reagan’s jellybeans were in the White House I shan’t be voting.
The empire has had one middle eastern clusterfuck after another for my entire adult life abetted by both factions of the uniparty on behalf of zionist joos. Millions dead, trillions spent, enemies created, “allies” in name only.
In the meantime my hope of drawing social security is pretty much gone. My retirement funds won’t get me far. My health care has become unaffordable. Gas, groceries, and day-to-day life is becoming unaffordable.
All so a bunch of kikes can claim a godforsaken desert bc gawd promised it to them.
Amen all that, MH –
I intend to grab my SS “benefits” as soon as I am old enough (62) but I fully anticipate that by the time I am old enough, SS “benefits” will either have been markedyl reduced or rendered worthless; or that the bastards will raise the minimum age to 70 – in the hope that we’ll be die before we can collect a cent.
Welcome to the club! I fortunately decided to stop voting prior to the 2024 (s)election so I have no blood on my hands from participating in the coronation of the Orange Douche, not that I would have voted for him (or Kumala) but the whole thing had become such a farce that even the Libertarian candidate was a complete clown.
If I could travel through a wormhole back in time I would go back to 1948 and show Truman the future of what the recognition of IsraHELL would cost the US.
Always loved the shit about consent of the governed. Government’s legitimacy comes from the approval of the people it governs. Screw them. Don’t remember ever signing up. However, participating in the voting process is giving tacit approval to it, regardless of the outcome.
100 percent, Pissed –
Worse, others give their approval to have you (and me) ruled.
It’s odd. They must approve on some level, as they do nothing about it. Despite whale shit-levels of polling approval, most congresspeople get re-elected time and again. And nothing improves. And some of them diddle kids. And no matter what, there is no accountability. What is to be concluded other than Amerikans like it all just fine. They consent. They abide. They approve.
‘Maybe it’s time to stop doing it?’ — eric
In 2021, yankee occupiers bailed out of Afghanistan, racking up a few more last-day casualties on their shambolic way out. Today, they’ve bailed the hell out of Iraq on the last day of the fedgov’s fiscal year. No more funding for you lot!
These imperial adventures, undertaken at the instigation of the Jew lobby, wasted trillions, killed prolifically, and achieved less than nothing. A near-forgotten sad clown — a retarded son of the Bush dynasty — ordered these bungles in the
jungledesert. Today he sits alone in his room all day, producing splotchy paint-by-number copies of original art by an Austrian painter, Adolf H, who eclipsed him in talent.Nobody voted for this debacle. In his campaign, the dimwitted Doofus Dubya promised a ‘more humble foreign policy.’ Nine months in, he turned rogue warmonger, just as Donnie Demento did this year.
Doofus Dubya and Donnie Demento constitute the bookends of a quarter century when the R-party totally whored itself out to a foreign country, Israel. Every fedgov Republican is a foreign agent, taking their orders from Jerusalem.
One doesn’t vote for traitors like these. Rather, one indicts, convicts, and hangs them by the neck until dead.
Neocons never learn:
‘In March, at a dinner in Athens attended by Greek and U.S. officials, US ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle got into an argument with Greece’s energy minister, Stavros Papastavrou, in front of the other guests.
‘Referring to the impending collapse of the Romanian government, Guilfoyle told the group, “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here,” according to a person who attended the dinner and others who were told about it.
‘The conversation became heated, with Papastavrou retorting that the U.S. couldn’t replace the government of Greece, which was elected by the people.’ — WSJ, quoted at Zerohedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-ambassador-sparks-firestorm-after-telling-greek-minister-washington-can-topple-any
A country that appoints a Fox News diseased twat like Guilfoyle as an ‘ambassador’ is literally gurgling down the drain. Greece should have declared the ghastly yankee harpie persona non grata and given
herit 48 hours to self-deport, never to return.But it’s hard to kick out obnoxious yankee viceroys when you’ve been ground under the hobnailed boot of their military occupation for decades, just like the rest of cucked Europa. This induces a sad state of learned helplessness among the euro-monkeys.
Sickening. These “people” are ghouls and should be kicked out of every country on earth, just like their (((masters))).
I am NOT proud to be an American. Is there a pile of flags (both American and Israeli) somewhere I can burn????
Second that MQ,
I’ll bring gasoline and a lighter.
One party is all talk and no action. The other party is batshit crazy and should never be given any power like an arsonist with matches.
All I want from the government is to leave me the hell alone. It costs them nothing to do so.
Yes. Though others here may ridicule me for it, I plan to vote straight Republican all the way down the ballot, just out of pure survival instinct.
Not because I think more than one or two of the remaining RepubliCAN’ts are equal to the worth of a turd (I don’t).
Not because I think even those remnants give two pieces of feces about me or anyone like me (they don’t — unless it’s costing them some money or effort of some kind).
It’s because the other party *does* take an interest in me — a hostile one. They’re straight up out to get me and mine and don’t even bother trying to hide it.
I’m a gonna vote fer the Reepooplicannz cause then I’ll git me a check fer 5 large. That should be enough to pay for one last fill-up on the twin-tank dually.
One big ol’ EMP should set things aright.
EMP, or…
https://youtu.be/6peD9Sa5kSs
By “coinky-dink”, in the 1959 Pat Frank novel, “Alas Babylon”, where a nuclear exchange takes place c. 1960, and it’s about how a Central Florida family and neighbors, though not too close to any places “nuked”, still find their lives altered dramatically as shortly they’re taken back to more or less a mid-nineteenth century level of technology, and, with the breakdown of civil government, dealing with disease, hunger, and lawlessness, the protagonist, one Randy Bragg, 1LT, US Army Reserve, just prior to the shite hitting the fan, takes a five grand check from his older brother, Mark, a bird colonel in the USAF (Mark is presumed killed when the SAC HQ at Offutt AFB, NE, is obliterated by Soviet missile strikes, shortly thereafter), somehow gets it cashed at the local bank (in a small town called Fort Repose, taken to be IRL Mt. Dora, FL, but the location suggests very western Volusia County along the Marion County border, some 25 or so miles east of Ocala), and Randy goes on a huge shopping spree at the local market. He’s noted as spending just under $400, which is a “record” for that establishment, so one can imagine the effect of inflation in some 66 years! Interesting that most of the five grand his brother gave him (Randy’s sister-in-law, nephew, and niece were flow from NE to FL, landing at McCoy airport, which then shared the runway with McCoy AFB, it’s a far cry from that NOW), and they make it home just a few hours before the nukes start going off) never accomplished its intended purpose.
The good news is that the clan of the Braggs et al appear that they’ve adjusted, and if anything, were “prospering” about as well as any American not in what the novel termed a “contaminated zone”, which, FWIW, all of Florida, due to its many military installations that got hit, was designated. Obviously DC and most of the major cities were gone, with Denver CO somehow being spared and becoming the new US capitol. The Soviet Union falls apart, breaking down into constituent republics, most of which ditch Communism altogether (the relatively few survivors have survival more than politics on their mind) and what’s left of the former Politburo operated for some time out of Mongolia, with some mid-level bureaucrat supposedly in charge. There’s even a KINGDOM of one of the Islamic former USSR republics. The World politics are dictated by the “Big Three” of who’s left, which in this case was Brazil, India, and Japan.