It's great to be a winner, even if we don't know what the measurement system was. America so desparately wants to be a winner, so naively assumes that we will always win, that our current murderous expedition to Iran is causing cognitive dissonance.
We have our mad king claiming victory every other day, even as tensions remain high. The goal posts shift with the mad king's mood and from afar it appears that everything about the Middle East is worse than it was two months ago.
Prices are up and only going higher. The strait is still closed and dangerous. Lebanon continues to be bombed by an Israeli military that must have endless weapons. Every country on the planet rightly distrusts American leadership.
The rich have found new ways to leverage even more profit from the chaos. And the vast majority of the world's citizens are forced to sit and observe the most powerful nation of the past 100 years burn reputation and treasure and ethics.
Trump had succeeded in pushing the Epstein files scandal off the news (not that tough in a goldfish-memory society, but it's something, I guess), and then his imported bride stepped out and bizarrely brought the whole mess back to the front page. The chaos presidency in action.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks!
Since no one prompted her to complain or make a statement, that certainly makes most people wonder if there is something there, after all. Of course she knew Epstein and many of this fellow perverts and reprobates. The whole point is that Epstein cast a wide net, knew everyone, gathered secrets, and offered a range of favors and services. Melania married into the obscenely wealthy class.
The rich are different from you and me, as F. Scott Fitzgerald reminded us a century ago. We have managed to create a society where one percent of the population possesses more in wealth than the bottom 90 percent. And the rich have manipulated the tax code to make that happen.
As is the way of humanity, extremely rich people order everyone else around and find ways to make us feel patriotic about it, even as we are all materially and psychically poorer. The U.S. military, only recently recovered from the debacle of Vietnam, is one entity that will need a generation to regain its professionalism and pride.
Our proud Christian leaders have tanked organized religion... and recoving will take another generation.
The media has no idea how to deal with a relentlessly irrational and angry and evil governmental leadership class.
And now Claude has created an AI so powerful that they can't actually let anyone use it. The company's own warning is that the AI can basically bring modern society across the planet to a halt.
So much winning.
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