CNN's "Flying Car" Story: The Hype vs. The Absurd Reality

So, what’s on the doomscroll docket today? Let’s see. A former president is still trying to convince the highest court in the land that "no" doesn't mean "no." A Russian oil giant is telling an entire country, "Sorry, can't pay you, the Americans put us in time-out." And three astronauts are stuck in a tin can orbiting the Earth because they might have been dinged by some space garbage.

And in the middle of all that, someone, somewhere, watched a "flying car" and thought, "Yeah, that's the future."

Give me a break. We can't even manage the basics of gravity, justice, or international banking, and we're supposed to be excited about personal air taxis? It feels like we're living in a cartoon parody of the future. We were promised The Jetsons, and instead, we got a world run by the cast of Looney Tunes.

The Systems Are All Saying '404 Not Found'

Let’s start on the ground, where things are just as broken. Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn verdict that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll. After being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation to the tune of millions, and after losing appeal after appeal, his argument is basically, "Nuh-uh, the judge was mean to me." He’s complaining that the jury saw the Access Hollywood tape. You know, the one where he, in his own voice, described his preferred method of greeting women.

This isn't a legal strategy. This is a denial-of-service attack on the justice system. The goal isn't to win; it's to clog the pipes until everyone is too exhausted to care. How many taxpayer dollars and court hours are we going to spend re-litigating something a jury of his peers already decided? At what point does the system just hang up the phone?

Then you pivot to the global stage, and it’s the same story, just with bigger numbers. The US slaps sanctions on the Russian oil company Lukoil, and suddenly, the whole Rube Goldberg machine of global energy seizes up. It's a clear example of how a Russian oil firm’s multibillion-dollar assets overseas at risk as US sanctions begin to bite. Lukoil, with a 75% stake in a massive Iraqi oil field, just throws its hands up and declares "force majeure." That’s the fancy corporate way of saying, "It's not our fault the world is a mess."

This is a bad look. No, 'bad' doesn't cover it—this is a five-alarm dumpster fire of global finance. The Iraqi government can't work with them, payments are frozen, and hundreds of Iraqi employees are suddenly not getting paid. And for what? So a few politicians in Washington can look tough? It’s like watching two billionaires play chess, except they’re using real people’s livelihoods as the pawns. And offcourse, the guys at the top will be fine. They always are.

We Can't Even Get Off the Planet Properly

You’d think escaping Earth’s gravity would be a way to get away from the nonsense. Apparently not. We’ve got three Chinese astronauts stuck in orbit because their ride home might have a dent in it from space debris. They’ve been up there for six months, and now their return is just… a question mark.

Think about that. We have the technological prowess to launch humans into the void, to keep them alive in a vacuum, but the whole mission can be jeopardized by a stray fleck of paint or a loose bolt from some 30-year-old satellite. We’ve managed to export one of our planet’s worst habits—littering—to the final frontier. We’ve filled the heavens with so much of our junk that now we can't even safely leave our own cosmic backyard.

This is the perfect metaphor for 2025, isn't it? Trapped by our own mess, with no clear way home. And while these highly trained professionals are floating up there, wondering if their spaceship is compromised, some reporter on the ground is breathlessly watching a "flying car" that "looks wrong."

Yeah, no kidding it looks wrong. Everything looks wrong. The entire global infrastructure—legal, financial, even technological—feels like it’s being held together with spit and wishful thinking. We keep adding new features and promising upgrades, but the core operating system is riddled with bugs, and nobody seems willing or able to fix them. We’re just rebooting the same broken programs over and over again, hoping for a different result. And honestly...

This Whole Simulation is Glitching

None of this is a coincidence. A deadlocked court, a frozen supply chain, a stranded space crew—they aren't separate stories. They're all symptoms of the same disease: a profound, systemic failure. We've built towering, complex systems that no one fully understands and even fewer can control. And now, we're all just passengers, watching the warning lights flash red and hoping the whole thing doesn't come crashing down. Flying cars ain't gonna fix this.