We could be doomed, folks!  Already you can see the future.  And bleak, bleak, bleak does it appear!  We must do something to avert the bleakness.  Because if the whigs go down and the trolls keep declining in abilities and getting laid off and generally losing the ability to keep comments from being deleted, then where will TPM be?  If the Dems keep standing up and doing the right thing and people like them - and we finally get all the muck cleared and the criminals punished.... TPM will be doomed!  The need for TPM will disappear.  And with it - us!

What to do?  Well, some brave folks may need to start another party.  Even a Party party.  Where the purpose is to party.  They will have to do something to help TPM staff find things to write about.  Otherwise it will just be one big love-fest here!  And who wants a lovefest?  Who will come and read us?  Will even we cease to read us if we just like each other and help each other and have fun with each other?

No.... we must not let TPM down.  How, oh how, can we change with the times?  When the country is back on track and the good times roll.  When people reduce carbon and plant gardens and can food and shun sweets.  When people volunteer and get health care and even preventive care.  And teachers love to teach and kids feel proud to serve their country by finishing school.  And services get better and better and people line up for the privilege of paying taxes.  And everyone votes.  And people stop stealing and shooting each other and prisons empty.  When wars stop and and peace breaks out and weapons are no longer needed. 

Ok, suddenly, due to that link just above, I'm feeling a bit of relief here.  A little glimmer of hope, kind of like a bluebird in springtime.  And that sigh that says things could still come out ok.  For dd seems to have a limitless imagination - and stories, new and creative ones, will do their part.  Then we have the poets among us.  We have humor.  Surely humor can find topics, even if politics becomes one big lovefest.  But we must be prepared.  We must look down the road and consider how TPM can survive under conditions of hardship, of less muck, of people doing good deeds and random acts of kindness.  Neighbor helping neighbor.  Neighbor helping stranger!

Perhaps we should slack off on the Jindal posts.  Leave the guy alone.  To lick his wounds and practice doing speeches or something.  Give him some time... so repubs can have hope in someone.  If not him, someone else, like sarah palin or one of her kids.   Oh, those poor, poor folks in Lousiana and Alaska!  Maybe we can encourage a few trolls to run for office - but not in those states that are already suffering so much from these two presidential-seeking governors.  Or the trolls could at the very least polish up their acts for late night comedy shows.  That's it - they could pretend to run for office.  And do comedy routines to rival .... well, uh, some of those people we're gonna lay off - once they're defeated and their states are saved.

But I digress, for the real issue is TPM and our survival!  (once everything is peachy in America)   So I'm calling all loyal TPMers here.  Those who have strayed and those who have stayed.  I'm sure you will all do your part.  For I can see it:  Everything will get better.  Except for our addiction.  Stillidealistic put her finger on it:   Addicted to TPM.   And this place must not fold!  No matter how good things get!