This started as an email.
It was one sentence.
"The United States of America is over."
Then, since it became a blog post, there became more.
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As a brand it - the United States - could go for a lot more years.
More years than 250.
Maybe/probably.
Even a 100 or more.
More.
Or even another 250; what the hell, we've been on fumes for the last 40.
So maybe there's a 1000 left in the carcass.
I see Cadillacs all the time.
Not many, but I still see them.
Some appear to have only recently left the showroom.
So, I guess Cadillac still has a pulse.
That means, I guess, that General Motors as a brand is still alive with detectable life signs.
But the annual excitement of the new Oldsmobile models - they always were annually updated to be at the outer limits of what cars could be - is gone.
As is Oldsmobile.
And Pontiac.
And lots of others.
Brands are bullshit.
It just took time to reveal that fact.
They are gray/blue corpses kept alive by influencers, liars, con men and charlatans.
Like Ol' Mitch, Lindsey and don.
Sung to the tune of Abraham, Martin and John.
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