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Clown-footed
Jan. 18th, 2026 02:46 pm The current President of the USA got a lot of mileage while on the stump out of his promise to "drain the swamp". Surprisingly it's a promise that's being kept. Only in these latter days he's been doing all he can to halt the process because it turns out that one of the biggest swamp monsters (did we ever doubt it?) is himself.
I forget where he used to stand on NATO, but the MAGA rhetoric sort of implied that the USA didn't need allies. Anyway, whether intended or not, he's currently in the process of taking the alliance apart- with the once unthinkable spectacle of European forces being mustered to deter the US invasion of a European country....
He has surrounded himself with incompetents, he appears to decide policy on a whim, he is only feared as a mad dog is feared. He gets no respect.
The USA has been an Imperial power since at least the end of WWII. We have seen it behave rapaciously and amorally and foolishly, but never with so much clown-footed, whitewash-slinging, buttonhole-flower-squirting slapstick as under it's current president. The nation will probably survive him but I doubt that its Empire will....
I forget where he used to stand on NATO, but the MAGA rhetoric sort of implied that the USA didn't need allies. Anyway, whether intended or not, he's currently in the process of taking the alliance apart- with the once unthinkable spectacle of European forces being mustered to deter the US invasion of a European country....
He has surrounded himself with incompetents, he appears to decide policy on a whim, he is only feared as a mad dog is feared. He gets no respect.
The USA has been an Imperial power since at least the end of WWII. We have seen it behave rapaciously and amorally and foolishly, but never with so much clown-footed, whitewash-slinging, buttonhole-flower-squirting slapstick as under it's current president. The nation will probably survive him but I doubt that its Empire will....
