Something is Rotten in America
Lest anyone missed: The despicable one’s threats to annex Canada, Mexico, and Greenland gave his Best Bud Vladymir license for his invasion of Ukraine. “It’s OK if America does it.” This was no doubt cooked up during one of their chats.
Anne, he is bullying Denmark because he can — he doesn’t need a reason. This Supreme Court made that worse. It said there is no United States but him. The Supreme Court in its wisdom has given license to a megalomaniac. What could go wrong?
Someone who knows more than the experts, his advisers, than the world; is now president of the United States.
His threats take America, and the world, back to the 19th century. Were outlawed by the United Nations back in the 20th century — would be war crimes if carried out. Are batshit insane.
Best bud Putin is, de facto, the czar of Russia. His invasion of Ukraine violates international law — is a war crime — has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. He wants to take Russia, the world, back to the 15th century. The wasting of hundreds of thousands of lives invading a sovereign nation is very 15th century.
These two are attempting these warps in the 21st century. No Country, no one, has ever been able to turn back the clock. The sooner the both are replaced, the better for Russia, the United States, and the world.
Both are megalomaniacs (it’s a mental illness). Each is convinced that they alone know best. No legislature, no court, no cabinet needed.
The despicable one’s co-president (thanks again, John Roberts (genius)), too, is a wannabe time traveler.
Most ‘-readers’ are too young to remember Life, Look, Vanity Fair, Saturday Evening Post, Better Homes and Gardens, and Harper’s magazines (the Glossies). In the 1950s & 60s editions, one could still read about Antarctic, Arctic, and African explorers — the last of a long breed stretching back to the Silk Road and beyond. Back then, Edmund Hillary and Jacques Cousteau were household names.
Elon Musk wishes to join those legions.
With one foot in the 21st century and the other in the age of explorers. He wants to colonize Mars. He, being a character named after a character in a 1949 Werner Von Braun sci-fi novel about colonizing Mars, wants to exist in two centuries a hundred years apart simultaneously. (BTW: The novel was written in 1949; its character’s namesake was born in 1971).
Musk, too, alone knows best, is a megalomaniac.
While our planet is in the throes of Climate Change and the associated humanity crises; of transitioning from the industrial to the digital age and all that entails; we have a retro and a retrofuturist geeing us when we need to be hawing — pulling us back to the future when we need to be doing more about the problems at hand. Fantasy, a form of denial, isn’t what’s needed.
Webster says that politics is the art of governance. Profound! We Americans are so desperately in need of better practitioners. Instead, we have a dotard megalomaniac and a nerd megalomaniac with their court of fools.
Ken,
You may be correct, but I am fairly certain that these guys are sociopaths rather than megalomaniacs or even paranoid megalomaniacs, which is a common variant. Much of their most despicable behavior is merely misdirection from their even more despicable and more profitable antisocial endeavors. I suggest that you peer below the cover of cryptocurrencies to observe just what is the underlying asset base upon which the cryptocurrencies valuation is derived. What I see under that cover is the combined exchange and money laundry for black markets trading in fentanyl and underage sex slaves. It begins with Putin’s oligarchs and ends with vast wealth for Putin, Trump, and Musk.
Reminds me a bit of Kipling’s The Man Who Would be King.
We’ve always had megalomaniacs and psychopaths that are obsessed with power and lack empathy and disregard for social norms. The nightmare is trying to understand how these crazed individuals have indoctrinated and entrapped nearly half of the country including the brilliant, challenged, rich, poor, and those of various racial and ethnic backgrounds. Masses have abandoned their beliefs in right and wrong, ideology, and religion to be willingly sucked into this web of evil. How is that even possible in this age of ready facts and information. This is the stench of rotting, spoiled, and corrupted democracy that permeates the country. It’s a phenomenon that should keep researchers enthralled for all time. If we ever break the spell, it should provide an educational benchmark for intensive focus on critical thinking, history, and political science in our K-12 system.