It’s like a funeral ceremony that does not at all represent the deceased.

So everybody is clear right? When the children start starving? It’s on Trump? And the 348 million Americans who decided they were unable “to stop him”? Like they had no agency in the matter? None of them? With all their “American exceptionalism”? Just stood there watching?

They just want to hurt people. The people running the US now just like harming people. It’s just what they like. We must not go along with any of this. They must be kept to harm only themselves.

Basically his polyvagal nervous system just continues to discharge.

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TIRED: “US: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave." WIRED: “Reward vice, punish virtue."

While everyone's watching Hormuz, the Epstein files are being buried. The law says release them. Trump is fighting it. Massie may lose his seat Tuesday for pushing it. And now a $1.7B slush fund for Jan 6 defendants? Don't go quiet. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Trump has spent the day angrily posting about Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert due to their role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. That says a whole lot. His latest post: "Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?"

So that’s what happens to “virtue” in America. Only “vice” is rewarded there now.

Lots of betting by people who know exactly what Trump will do a few hours later. “It’s one thing if you go after bread-and-butter insider trading and you catch an investment banker,”

Every single thing Trump does is “the most corrupt act in American political history.” Also the most depraved, while we’re at it. Also the most destructive. The mystery is why 348 million of them just sit there and let him. Well 1 in 3 approves, still. That shows you.

They still matter OUTSIDE the United States.

But where will Trump hole up, when Americans revolt and come for his skin?

If it doesn’t, it will not be for lack of trying.

Jeffrey Koterba, Omaha World Herald

You’ll probably be able to get a second clue when you see the attendance numbers for the World Cup in a couple of weeks. 80% of hotel owners say bookings are below expectations. Basically the same phenomenon. Stay away from the US.

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Everything about the US is “horrifying”. I think that’s supposed to be the idea. I think the idea is, can you turn a respected country into a pariah state in under four years and the answer is, unequivocally, yes.

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

A good study of how Trump's crude hostility to Europe and his obedience to Moscow have transformed US-EU relations. The Europeans understand that Trump is not an ally, but an enemy, and they need to build their own defense mechanisms, avoiding reliance on the US, but brining in the UK and Canada.

I mean, basically, if Trump were not a cartoon of a cartoon, and 2-dimensional at that, he would be an emperor. Luckily for the rest of us, the US is collapsing into a 1-dimensional point. God help us if anything as depraved as them were to survive.

All American men are menacing and unaccountable. Period.

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

I mean. How weak was Trump with China. It was like he needed a bib. —There was LITERALLY nobody in the entourage who could even pronounce “Thucydides”. Not an accident on the Chinese side. The Chinese KNEW nobody in the entourage would know who Thucydides was. Such a troll.

I mean, this is what the rest of the world sees. OUTSIDE the US, there is some normal world with normal physics. INSIDE the US is some sort of paranormal Bermuda Triangle where they have suspended truth, language, and logic. RIP AJ Ayer.

From the outside, watching the US believe that any of its internal structures still obtain, is sort of awful. It’s like watching something keen over a corpse.

Now do Canadian media. 🇨🇦 Because WE see some shit. 🇨🇦

The US has lost every battle and is losing the war. Also it has squandered its inheritance, made enemies of its freinds, chased away every opportunity, and poisoned it capital. Bye boy.

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

The prices at the grocery store every Saturday morning are a punch to the face Just brutal There will be unpredictable and transcendent political fallout in an election year.

So does Canada. 🇨🇦 We were among the first to see it. We see so much, over that back fence, don’t we.

They’ve turbocharged the decline. They could not have accelerated it more had they tried.

If you can’t rape language and meaning what fun is it?

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C-SPAN Trump Voter: “Before he went to war the strait was open and gas prices were beautiful… he put up gold statues of himself… I drank the kool-aid— when are people gonna wake up?” (From @nowthisimpact.bsky.social )

Trump is all but inviting China to invade and seize Taiwan.

“Oh so some fella with an Irish-sounding name has gone and desecrated The Odyssey, is that it? Homer’s own Odyssey? The absolute cheek. And tis the talk of the town, is that what I understand you to be saying to me? And people very upset altogether? Sure I never heard the like in all my born days.”

Still selling snake oil. It’s really all he’s ever done. Same pitch, different snake oil.

Donald Trump appeared both physically and metaphorically diminished beside Chinese President Xi Jinping as America’s stature seemed to shrink alongside him.

We are all watching him continually show his stinking ass. He thinks it makes him great.

He’d cut us all loose in two seconds. All of us. 🇨🇦 There is no such thing as an “ally” to the United States now. We mean nothing to them. We’re just prey. SO much less trustworthy than their adversaries. The US does not have a word of truth in its thin mouth.

Trump on saying he doesn't think about Americans' financial situation: "It's a perfect statement. I'll make it again. Everybody agrees."

That’s the US *I* remember. Today’s US is unrecognizable. There is literally nothing I recognize.

Only a depraved society does this.

It won't take a China specialist to see the shift in US policy on Taiwan from literally every other president of the modern era to Trump.

Spring field camera maintenance in Canada. 🇨🇦