Trump threatened the Houthi terrorists in Yemen, "YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!" The less you know about a place, its history, its people, the easier it is to offer a solution to its problems. In this respect, Trump is uniquely equipped to lead the late, degenerate empire.
Typically, it relies more and more on brute force and less on gentle commerce. And it finds a leader who is up the challenge. He has to keep the empire on course, right to its own denouement. The invincible Spanish Armada sank; Napoleon retreated from Moscow; the sun set on the British Empire; and the Blitzkrieg bogged down in Stalingrad.
Nations get rich, like individuals, by offering goods and services to others. Most developed and developing nations have increased their trade over the last ten years, except the US, where trade as a percentage of GDP has dipped to around 25%. Now Tariff Man's foreign policy will make it lose even more trade. Tariff Man threatens, bullies, sanctions, tariffs, bombs, and the empire shuffles to its inevitable fate.
Not that it worries Tariff Man. He just wants to make headlines and be the most famous man in the world. Which is why he cringed when asked about this recent TIME cover, the same magazine that named him "Person of the Year" in December. "Is TIME magazine still in business?" Trump joked when asked about the provocative cover, sparking laughter.
Yes, Tariff Man, TIME magazine is still in business, and will still be in business long after you've become a tiny footnote in history and the USA has lost all its friends. "There is no enemy like a friend betrayed", reads a graffiti alongside a crossed-out image of an American flag in Canada.
I have heard people ask, "Is America ready for a woman president? Or a gay president?" Funny thing is I have never heard anyone ask if America is ready for an incompetent, vindictive, mentally unstable, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, traiterous egomaniac, and yet, here we are.
