American "experts" constantly being shocked about the most predictable thing ever is like those phone ads where they play the game as badly as possible
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Or those infomercials where people are hopelessly clumsy.
Me: damb that game looks tough I'm not gunna download it
I live in Wyoming
Undermined the entire DOJ when he pre-emptively blanket pardoned his family going back to the 
Maidan Coup.
Yeah the only thing unprecedented about Trump is the lack of decorum lol
A couple of years from now:
Trump declaring himself "god emperor king" shocks experts, who warn it could undermine trust in the electoral system
I will never vote for anyone who declares themselves King instead of Cock of the Walk.
I believe he did tweet himself king shortly after his second inauguration. Or maybe even before it? The impact was diluted, they were doing too much stuff at once.
the trust system that taxes billionaires against loans as losses for them? that tax system? lmao
Remember when him not releasing his tax forms was a big deal? And remember when there was so much other bullshit in rapid succession that everyone stopped talking about it?
He may be a monster, but unfortunately he isn't stupid. This was the end game.
How can we fix it? I don't think we do. The lack of consequences then has become a lack of consequences in perpetuity.
Trump has rotted out US institutions from the inside. There is no more land they can conquer, and the treat machine is going to need to throttle down. The neoliberal institutions will be unable to manage this decline. I don't think fascism is popular or competent enough in the information age to fill the gap that will be left behind, but I'm also not ruling it out at the moment.
With sufficient resistance to exploitation (via drone warfare, and other means), the settlers colonial US identity won't have anything to bind it together. Us on the left should be prepared for this to happened over the coming decades.
The US institutions were already completely rotten, this is why Trump was able to become president at all.
I understand what you mean but I would say the capitalist institutions were structurally sound and able to perperetuate capitalism/imperialism effectively across the continent and the world. I am not implying that Trump is an aberration of the system, but there is a difference in both the public faith in and competency of these institutions since 2016.
The capitalist institutions were already partly dysfunctional as evidenced by the 2008 financial crisis, American-led world order was already slowly unravelling, which allowed Trump to get power and accelerate that process tenfold.
Yes exactly
<---- "experts"