When you remove bricks from random places on a structure, it’ll stand for a while, until too many are taken. Then it all comes apart at once. BRICS is looking like it could remove a cornerstone.

The end of USAID says that it isn’t just our close allies that will suffer. The end of NOAA, and our other scientific endeavors means the whole world will suffer to some extent.

Impending, incipient, in-progress.

Life isn’t a movie. The good guys rarely win irl.

Once the dollar is no longer the standard trade currency, the US will never, ever recover from that. It’s what put us in such a lofty position in the first place.

Shareholders of, but yes.

How fucking hilarious would it be if he took the Bible belt and seceded, because “judges are mean” and started civil war 2 as Jefferson Davis. I mean yeah, it sounds stupid, but this is by far the stupidest timeline. We haven’t even begun to see the levels of stupid that it’ll get to.

This is actually not a bad idea.