There's going to be total shock in the US in a few years when the first woman on the moon is Chinese.

The Japanese government is currently trying to deal with food shortages from a stupid agricultural policy that has sent the price up rice up 300%. Meanwhile, the US is busy blowing up its own economy while China dog walks Trump over tariffs, and on the military side, the US inventory is so depleted from Israel and Ukraine that they would run out of munitions within the first week of any actual shooting war.

They're fucking delirious with joy that the tech bubble popped in Trumps first week and can be blamed on him.

That said, I knew Trump would be a disaster , but I had no idea he would be able to go full Yeltsin in a way that hurts absolutely everyone, even his biggest backers.

That means an immediate price increases on oil, coffee and fruit, and anything made with oil, coffee or fruit.

This is amazing. I thought US hegemony was going to drag on for another twenty years, but we're really fucking blowing it all up.

"Turn out our own base"

what fucking turn out? They didn't even offer their own voters anything.

The funny thing is that Russia has kept moving into the Donbas this entire time, blasting through lines that have been fortified since 2014, because the Ukrainian reserves that might have held on there are currently getting blasted to shit trying to hold the salient in Kursk.

Someone high up must have really believed all the propaganda about Russian casualties, because the whole thing makes no sense otherwise.

they keep doing this psycho shit , bragging about brutalizing immigrants to try to get Pennsylvania, and all it's doing is pissing off their base in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado.

I still think that Trump fatigue and the repeal of Roe give him enough of a floor that there's no chance of a complete electoral teeth kicking, but if I still gave a shit about the Democrats I'd be worried.

If anyone is wondering why the POW/MIA flag is a thing in U.S. politics, you should really read up on it because its a fascinating example of boomer brainworms.

After the Vietnamese got good at shooting down U.S. aircraft, the U.S. tried to massage casualty figures by reporting the dead aircrews as missing. Except their families took the Pentagon at its word and believed they were truly prisoners, and began agitating to get a political deal to bring them home. As the war dragged on into the 70s the Pentagon started using the families as propaganda for a lost war, acting like they needed to prolong the war to save the thousands of imprisoned airmen. Subsequently, grifters started selling all kinds of POW merchandise to draw attention to the thousands of U.S. soldiers that Nixon claimed were still imprisoned in Vietnam.

Then the war ended, and the five hundred or so guys that really were prisoners came home, and you'd think the gravy train would end there as the truth came out, but no, Americans believed it was all a hoax. The government was covering something up, and there must really be more than a thousand US soldiers still held in Vietnam. More POW merchandise was sold than ever before, there were blockbuster movies about going back to Vietnam to free the prisoners, there were flyovers for the POWs at football stadiums. Ronald Reagan himself believed it and made threats to resume bombing if the soldiers weren't returned. Americans started traveling to Vietnam to buy information about the POWs and try to bribe people to secure their release, and a lot of Vietnamese people got free money selling bogus rumors and scraps of old US uniforms. This shit continued well into the 90s, with every president giving a big speech for the POW families every year, and the US being unable to normalize relations with Vietnam until almost the 2000s because of it.

That's pretty bad , damn, it took Trump the covid winter + January 6th to finally fall below 40%.

Probably doesn't help that Biden now looks like he belongs in a sarcophagus.

I keep thinking the situation can't get any more vile , but it keeps happening

Sherman? The guy who lead one of the greatest liberation forces in world history? That's who they have a problem with?