The American Age Is Over

The United States is the best friend who had an affair with your SO. Even if you continue to have a relationship with them, which you probably won't, you're never going to fully trust them.

The world is moving on. The abandonment of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency will send unimaginable shockwaves through the American economy. At this point, the abandonment is inevitable, and the US is powerless to stop it. Look for that to happen over the next 10 years.

People joke about the Greatest Depression. It's not funny. What's coming our way as assuredly as next Tuesday is coming our way is economic ruin. There's not a thing now we can do about it. The world is abandoning us because we abandoned them and betrayed them. We done Fucked Around and now we're gonna Find Out.

> Europeans are moving ahead with their own security plans because they realize, as a French minister put it, “We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years.”

Hell, I'm tired of leaving the security of the United States in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years too. The disproportionate representation in Congress has become downright farcical.

Simply redrawing imaginary around the greater New York City area would let you create 14 entire new states, all of with more people than the smallest state we already have. (Wyoming.) 14 more Senators, and a trickier-to-calculate larger number of House of Representatives.

It's amusing that people don't understand what Trump and his team are doing and to watch Canadians and Europeans running like headless chickens. Not all change can happen gradually - often (like in Orthopedy) things need to be broken to grow healthy again!