As Trump hijacks the Army’s 250th anniversary for his own glorification, retailers falter, FEMA vanishes, and Elon Musk melts down on camera, welcome to another week in the American decline parade.
Never been so happy to be a Canadian! The decent folks down south have their work cut out for them, and in the interim, thousands, perhaps millions of less fortunate Americans are going to find staying fed and housed extremely difficult. Elbows up, don’t back down.
Thank you so much for this well written accounting of the present disaster. It seems Trump and his buddy Putin are in competition for Dictator of the year! It is so disgusting that our USA is at its deepest low. And when we think it can't get any worse....I shudder!!!! Tanks...soldiers! Hitler!!! OMG!
Let’s start with the ending in the article: I will march, not watch the march. It is an obscenity too much like North Korea and too little like the America I grew up and served in the military.
As the phase FAFO goes, those folks awaiting FEMA aid discover. You elect a clown, you get a circus. Our country’s economy and prestige are in free fall. Yet the band plays on. It is academic for now. In short order it will be a kitchen table issue for all of us. I cannot decide if its incompetence or treason most foul.
Another excellent description of what's going on. Thought I'd add something about what friends of mine thinks are ultimate goals, of the wealthy who'll be paying fewer taxes, on money not offshore and or in bits of coin. Perhaps Mary can opine in upcoming communication to us.
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After all the dismantling and destruction, then what? What will be built to replace all that has been destroyed? A world where nations are obsolete? A world where people are networked by class via access to wealth and technology?
This is the Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elmo, Marc Andreessen world view.
With Hillbilly Eyeliner Dude as the agent of the future.
That's the default vision: enrich the rich, make nations less relevant, build back nothing, create more wealth from wealthy enclaves isolated from the growing poor and uneducated. Faster dystopia. Of course that's by default, they do not think of the future. Seemingly not at all. And when they do they know they and their familes are isolated and protected by wealth.
On the other side of the pond, we will be laughing our heads off at the sight of Commander in Chief Donny Bonespurs trying to look suitably pompous, commanding and regal saluting the obsolete military equipment on display (ask Ukraine about that). Will he wear a suit and red cap with gold braiding and fake medals? Perhaps he will create some fake military commanders to stand next to him or watch it whilst sitting in a mobile McDonald's unit. The possibilities for international disparagement are endless but absolutely no possibility of generating respect for himself or the GOP government.
Written with sincere apologies to my American friends who despise him as much as I do. That does, of course, exclude the 90 million voters who put him there by not voting for anyone.
I would lay bets you countries on the other side of the pond , below or above it , are going to point out clearly ,diversify even more and leave America in Donald’s Dust Ridden Creation, DDRC for short- here forth with. In fact teach the whores ..I mean hoards ..who insisted in two weeks , two months, two years what the protests claimed loudly. It’s happening ( hear our applause ..it’s started already). A thorough trouncing please …😌
Never been so happy to be a Canadian! The decent folks down south have their work cut out for them, and in the interim, thousands, perhaps millions of less fortunate Americans are going to find staying fed and housed extremely difficult. Elbows up, don’t back down.
Thank you so much for this well written accounting of the present disaster. It seems Trump and his buddy Putin are in competition for Dictator of the year! It is so disgusting that our USA is at its deepest low. And when we think it can't get any worse....I shudder!!!! Tanks...soldiers! Hitler!!! OMG!
Let’s start with the ending in the article: I will march, not watch the march. It is an obscenity too much like North Korea and too little like the America I grew up and served in the military.
As the phase FAFO goes, those folks awaiting FEMA aid discover. You elect a clown, you get a circus. Our country’s economy and prestige are in free fall. Yet the band plays on. It is academic for now. In short order it will be a kitchen table issue for all of us. I cannot decide if its incompetence or treason most foul.
A country in deep deep decline. Trying to imagine what things will look like 10 or 20 years from now….
Another excellent description of what's going on. Thought I'd add something about what friends of mine thinks are ultimate goals, of the wealthy who'll be paying fewer taxes, on money not offshore and or in bits of coin. Perhaps Mary can opine in upcoming communication to us.
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After all the dismantling and destruction, then what? What will be built to replace all that has been destroyed? A world where nations are obsolete? A world where people are networked by class via access to wealth and technology?
This is the Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elmo, Marc Andreessen world view.
With Hillbilly Eyeliner Dude as the agent of the future.
That's the default vision: enrich the rich, make nations less relevant, build back nothing, create more wealth from wealthy enclaves isolated from the growing poor and uneducated. Faster dystopia. Of course that's by default, they do not think of the future. Seemingly not at all. And when they do they know they and their familes are isolated and protected by wealth.
There is no satisfaction in “we told you” when the suffering for all but the wealthy begins with the flourish of a pen in the middle of the night.
On the other side of the pond, we will be laughing our heads off at the sight of Commander in Chief Donny Bonespurs trying to look suitably pompous, commanding and regal saluting the obsolete military equipment on display (ask Ukraine about that). Will he wear a suit and red cap with gold braiding and fake medals? Perhaps he will create some fake military commanders to stand next to him or watch it whilst sitting in a mobile McDonald's unit. The possibilities for international disparagement are endless but absolutely no possibility of generating respect for himself or the GOP government.
Written with sincere apologies to my American friends who despise him as much as I do. That does, of course, exclude the 90 million voters who put him there by not voting for anyone.
Thank you, Richard. 👏
I would lay bets you countries on the other side of the pond , below or above it , are going to point out clearly ,diversify even more and leave America in Donald’s Dust Ridden Creation, DDRC for short- here forth with. In fact teach the whores ..I mean hoards ..who insisted in two weeks , two months, two years what the protests claimed loudly. It’s happening ( hear our applause ..it’s started already). A thorough trouncing please …😌