The United States Has Become a Rogue State

We need to take our country back before it's too late.

\> The USA is being looted by the elites. They are literally running it into the ground. That's exactly what is happening. It was also the same modus operandi as the Reagan admin. I would invite everyone to look at the long list of criminals who worked in the Reagan admin and looted the treasury.

Billionaires are doing the same thing they did to Sears, Kmart, Toys R Us, and Radio Shack. They’re just applying those tactics to our entire country now.

meanwhile China is covering lakes with solar panels, haven't country wide unity events during Chinese New Years, and absolutely crushing us in the manufacturing of military arms. Meanwhile, we're over here trying to ban trans in sports, which out of 500k NCAA athletes represents about 10 potential people. The culture war that Russia and other foreign actors have stoked in line with their useful idiots like Bannon and the other godforsaken podcasters has paid off at least 1000x. It's insane how effective their disinformation campaign has been on an absolute dumbass populace. Meanwhile, like you said, the oligarchs in America are absolutely looting us blind. I f****** hate every second of this.

So much freedom, so much winning!

We don't have a government. It's a mob family, an international crime syndicate.

> For all this hype about how much we have to defeat China Amazon is directly responsible for the flood of low quality, unvetted, untested products into the United States. It's absolutely absurd how this gets left out of the discussion, and also how Amazon just ignored the law by doing through "marketplace sellers". Much like the CEOs of America have looted the pockets of their workers at every opportunity for the past 50 years.

Remember silicon valley? All those bright minds literally already gone to other countries years ago to whatever country was the highest bidder at the time. I feel like somewhere around that time things fell immediatly apart.

It feels like a private equity organization took over the government

They are trying to create a social condition called hypernormality: ’Hypernormalisation is a social condition where a fabricated, artificial, or dysfunctional reality is accepted as normal, because people cannot imagine an alternative. Coined by anthropologist Alexei Yurchak regarding the late Soviet Union, it describes a, society going through the motions of a fake system despite knowing it is failing’.

Nothing ellite about these people. Lets just be clear its insufferable dipshits with a numbers advantage.

Not the elites.... The extremists on the right-wing are literally stealing billions... The Uber wealthy are taxing the entire world..

Yeah I feel like we're basically in a state of "the bridge broke and nobody came to fix it"

If the country holding the world reserve currency goes down it's a bad f****** time for the rest of us being pulled down with it.

trump is still trying to protect his face while he can ,he will never agree thats his fault

More pertinently, a state with billionaire leaders who operate at will, unconstrained by laws. It's the classic libertian/"conservative" attitude: a system of laws that protect the interests of the hyper-monied elite, but constrain the interests of everyone else, at least in their enforcement.

Laws for us, not for for the 1%

Plenty of laws, for the poor.

No laws for Republicans.

The Wild wild West

And with a large percentage of the population so incredibly f****** dim witted they actually think they are in on it all, instead of the pathetic pawns they are.

A rogue state run by insane, evil, or delusional billionaires.

Except a certain portion of the country is incapable of realizing that.

Yeah it's not left vs. Right, but only the left recognizes that the rich are the problem, while the right still attacks the left because they're told by FOX "news" that they're the problem, which makes the left retaliate against the right. So it might as well still be left vs. Right until we can get through the right's thick skulls and single-digit IQs to see that the rich are the problem, but that'll never happen.

Except half the country is siding with the oligarchs

There is right wing, as someone from the south trust me

the oligarchy is the right (yes, even their poverty stricken sycophants)

it is left vs right still. nearly all billionaires are right wing. nor is it the super wealthy against everyone else, it’s the right wing versus everyone else.

But around 1/2 the country or more doesn’t realize it yet.

Super wealthy and super stupid vs everyone else

If only people realized it's only a handful of billionaires against literal millions, things would change in an instant. But Americans don't appear to have what it takes to turn things around. Red or Blue your representatives laugh at you all the way to the bank.

And the poorest for some reason think they’re one with the corpos

.. always has been.

I’ve noticed people that say “both parties are the same” scoff at the idea that it’s the super wealthy vs everybody else. It’s very weird. They recognize government corruption but don’t think about how the government got corrupt (rich people). Even if it were the other way around, and government officials approached rich people for bribes and corruption, *it’s still rich people saying yes that’s the problem*. If they said no then those government officials might just have to do their jobs lol

Mate, it always was this way, only it was the federal government that kept the wolves at bay. Citizens united put that all to paid.

You mean, it should be the super wealthy vs everybody else. But I don't think all of MAGA is super wealthy, yet they do seem support the super wealthy.

But the wealthy jerk off to the poor battling each other.

It's an oligopoly

Always has been

I've been saying this for years but nobody wants to hear it

Always has been

Ain't that the truth of it!

+ Kleptocracy.

This

Good article. Here’s part of it: U.S. foreign policy is now in the hands of a remarkably incompetent set of officials, from the president on down. International influence depends on many things, but one of the key ingredients is other states’ belief that the people they have to deal with are smart, well-informed, and generally know what they are doing. At this point, does anyone in the higher echelons of the Trump administration merit that description? Not that I can see. Conducting foreign policy is a difficult business, and no government gets everything right, but this administration commits own goals on a weekly basis while insisting that it is infallible. To make matters worse, some of these features are not going to be easy to correct after Trump leaves office, even if he is replaced by someone with very different views. The institutional capacity of the U.S. foreign-policy machinery is being hollowed out as experienced civil servants retire or are dismissed (include some senior military officers) and are either not replaced or superseded by Trumpian loyalists. And because the U.S. body politic remains deeply polarized, other states must also worry that the pendulum will simply swing back and forth between extremes. Americans elected Trump not once but twice and could elect someone similar again. Given that reality, how can any country trust any commitment that Washington might make today, or under a Democratic president? The bottom line is that the rest of the world is going to be dealing with a powerful, probably predatory, and highly erratic United States for at least three more years and probably longer. If that is the case, then what should other countries do, bearing in mind that the United States is not the only dangerous predator out there (and for some states, more immediate dangers lie closer to home).

Paywalled though

And admits in the first sentence: “The second Trump administration has been far more disruptive, damaging, and dangerous than most observers—**including me**—expected, and the tragically inept war with Iran is driving that point home in spades.”

with a pineapple cactus.

And a very dumb population that has the power to vote

Same old same old. It’s been happening for decades

Sounds like classic end of empire overextension.

That’s an interesting prediction and would be extremely shrewd, cynical ambition! The main problem is that I think most of the people pulling the strings genuinely don’t see the brick wall we’re heading for. I think they’re accumulating resources and power, but not to survive the looming collapse. They’re actively undermining so many institutions and projects that would help the US persist.

Has been for many decades. This isn’t news 📰

Not something new.

You could simplify to "USR" - United States of Russia

China isn't that evil. I'd say they are jerks, but not evil. 

USA are not signatories. ICC indictments mean nothing.