Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Kakistocracy is now

Get involved before you are isolated and picked off by the robber barons

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Jan 22, 2025
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The adults never showed up and fixed things, despite all my secret hopes. I guess we need new adults, because a convicted felon and rapist is also the president of the USA!

For all of Trump’s buffoonery, and there was plenty, just off-camera were billionaires busy earning passive income and pulling the strings. This is their government now. They’ve owned it for a long time, have enjoyed getting historically rich feeding off of the needs and resources of empire, but this current push is an attempt to finalize the deal. Musk bought MAGA for a relatively measly sum. The rest are investing as the sham continues and grows.

A kakistocracy is rule by the least competent, the least principled, and the most unscrupulous people available. That is the present reality in the former democracy of the USA. It is very likely that America will not come out the other side in any form that we can imagine.

“There is a very good chance that the American dollar will collapse in the foreseeable future.” — Ron …

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