Environment & Energy

The United States empire is in tatters and the debt is so high that it will end the empire completely if Trump doesn't do more damage first and accelerate the plunge further.

In EVs and battery technology the United States has fallen way behind. We seem to be convinced - by the billionaire nerd class - that AI will be our savior, and have dumped TRILLIONS of dollars into the effort. The truth is we won't 'win' there either. We have sacrificed the American spirit for pseudo-everything. Pseudo-machismo, Pseudo-toughness, Pseudo-intellectuals, Pseudo-journalism... all of it in service of an 80-year old embarrassment of a human being (term applied VERY loosely).

The videos and exposes detailing life in parts of China look like well made propaganda for sure. And there are massive human rights abuses there (as there are hear with ICE and Trump run amok), but on balance, the 21st century is clearly the decline and fall of the American Empire, we will never again attain such heights or power and simultaneously, the ascendency of China into the power vacuum we are leaving behind.