5150 And 25th Amendment NOW! (AGAIN)

5150 and 25th AMENDMENT NOW!!!

Notice we didn't even need to say his name, for everyone to know exactly who we mean.

(NOTE:  Since he is now, for all intents and purposes, a "Florida Man", perhaps we should say "Baker Act" him instead of "5150".)

The Pax Americana Is Over

If there were ever any doubts about whether or not the "Pax Americana" is over, those doubts have evaporated completely in the past year and a half.  From Trump alienating our allies to picking unnecessary fights with our adversaries, what was left of it is now gone with the wind.  Though, to be fair, it was already slowly but steadily declining well before Trump took over.

The Pax Americana was a period from 1945 until roughly 2025, eight decades of largely unipolar American global hegemony (dominance), and even more so after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the Soviet Union, the only real rival superpower at the time, collapsed.  The very height of this supposed golden age was thus the 1990s.  This apex then came to an abrupt halt on the day of infamy that was September 11, 2001, and by the unnecessary wars of choice that followed under President George W. Bush, and became quagmires.  Meanwhile, America itself was being gradually hollowed out by neoliberalism since President Ronald Reagan and literally every single one of his successors (sorry, Clinton, and even Obama, you don't get a pass on this either).  And the ascendancy of other future superpowers (China for sure, and then India, Brazil, and possibly other countries too) and former superpowers temporarily experiencing a resurgence (Russia, I'm looking at you!) has made our world increasingly multipolar now.  This confluence of factors was already causing the Pax Americana to wane, but truly it was Trump (in both of his terms) that pushed it over the edge into the grave for good.

One could even call it, "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire", if that is a conversation we are ready to have yet.

This is truly the end of an era.  What comes next once Trump is out of power is not entirely clear.  While the Pax Americana was far from perfect, and was often quite costly and overzealous in terms of interventionism, looking back we can see that it did at least serve its purpose, for better or worse.  And the fact that it came to such an ignominious end under a wannabe fascist dictator like Trump, cannot really be a good thing on balance.

Stranger Than Fiction

It's stranger than fiction, how we've decayed......

Everything He Touches....

He really has the reverse Midas touch, apparently!

(Mic drop)

The Art Of The (Ransom) Deal

So much winning!  I mean, nothing says "winning" quite like paying Iran a "totally NOT a ransom" ransom, which will (at best) bring us back to the way things were before Trump ripped up the previous deal in 2017 just to spite his then arch-nemesis, Obama.  On June 17, 2026, the deal has been officially released, essentially confirming that (albeit with the requisite hedging).  He has succeeded only in making both the hawks AND the doves mad, all for naught.  To say nothing of all the needless deaths and injuries!

Granted, this was, realistically speaking, the least-worst possible outcome to this foolish war of choice, from the moment the war had begun.  Better still, of course, would have been not going to war in the first place, and even better would have been to simply leave the original 2015 deal intact and NOT ripped it up.

AND LEST WE FORGET.......

(Mic drop)

5150 And 25th Amendment NOW!

5150 and 25th AMENDMENT NOW!!!

Notice we didn't even need to say his name, for everyone to know exactly who we mean.

Iran: Another War America Lost Before The War Began

Two words:  QUAGMIRE ACCOMPLISHED!

Like Phil Ochs famously sang about Vietnam:  "Oh, we're fighting in a war we lost before the war began".  And that is just as true for Trump's latest military misadventure in Iran.  All in a vain attempt to "wag the dog" and distract from the Trumpstein Files.  But now the hyenas are FINALLY turning on "King" Scar.  Gas prices apparently speak louder than any semblance of morals.

The gig is up, Donald.  You are in WAY over your head now.  Do us all a YUUUUGE favor and RESIGN.  YESTERDAY.  As you like to say, "YOU'RE FIRED!"  Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

CEASEFIRE NOW!

CEASEFIRE NOW!  With NO asterisks or qualifications.  NOW.

To ALL sides of this war:  the life you save may be your own.

(Mic drop)

No Kings Day 3.0 Was A Monumental Success!

Even bigger than the last one!

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