The end of the American century

[bilby]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/donald-trump-in-the-white-house-is-the-end-of-the-american-century-20170119-gtv1ae.html

On April 6, 1917, the United States officially entered World War I. Just ten weeks short of 100 years later, Donald Trump is being sworn in as President of the United States. And thus ends the "American Century".

You had your chance. And now you've blown it. Time for China's century. I'm not at all confident that their hegemony will be an improvement over yours.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/donald-trump-in-the-white-house-is-the-end-of-the-american-century-20170119-gtv1ae.html

On April 6, 1917, the United States officially entered World War I. Just ten weeks short of 100 years later, Donald Trump is being sworn in as President of the United States. And thus ends the "American Century".

You had your chance. And now you've blown it. Time for China's century. I'm not at all confident that their hegemony will be an improvement over yours.

Yep. We could have had a great partnership!

 

[TV and credit cards]

With a successful con, the mark doesn't realize he's been taken until long after the con man is gone. If he ever realizes it at all.
Trickle down economics. I'm going with, if ever.
There's no introspection. No lesson learned.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/bus...-of-the-american-century-20170119-gtv1ae.html

On April 6, 1917, the United States officially entered World War I. Just ten weeks short of 100 years later, Donald Trump is being sworn in as President of the United States. And thus ends the "American Century".

You had your chance. And now you've blown it. Time for China's century. I'm not at all confident that their hegemony will be an improvement over yours.

China's century? That place has been around for millennia. Sure, the Trump Admin may be the setting of our sun, but maybe, just maybe, the Constitution is too riddled with barriers that Congress may be a bit more self-preserving. Or intoxicated with their own propaganda and the Democrats will have to dig the US out of another mess in 4 to 8 years.

 

[rousseau]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/donald-trump-in-the-white-house-is-the-end-of-the-american-century-20170119-gtv1ae.html

On April 6, 1917, the United States officially entered World War I. Just ten weeks short of 100 years later, Donald Trump is being sworn in as President of the United States. And thus ends the "American Century".

You had your chance. And now you've blown it. Time for China's century. I'm not at all confident that their hegemony will be an improvement over yours.

What does this look like?

 

[rousseau]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/bus...-of-the-american-century-20170119-gtv1ae.html



You had your chance. And now you've blown it. Time for China's century. I'm not at all confident that their hegemony will be an improvement over yours.

China's century? That place has been around for millennia. Sure, the Trump Admin may be the setting of our sun, but maybe, just maybe, the Constitution is too riddled with barriers that Congress may be a bit more self-preserving. Or intoxicated with their own propaganda and the Democrats will have to dig the US out of another mess in 4 to 8 years.

What happens to the republican party and the polarization of politics in the US? Red seems to be getting redder, and blue more blue. Rural America increasingly a waste-land, urban America your savior.

If this keeps getting worse, Trump might just be the beginning?

 

[dismal]

Yeah before Trumps I never would have guessed we had so many whiny reality-challenged bitches.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Yeah before Trumps I never would have guessed we had so many whiny reality-challenged bitches.

Ya, but you do and they vote in swing states. What are you going to do?

 

[dismal]

Yeah before Trumps I never would have guessed we had so many whiny reality-challenged bitches.

Ya, but you do and they vote in swing states. What are you going to do?

Some do, but not enough to stop President Trumps from winning.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Ya, but you do and they vote in swing states. What are you going to do?

Some do, but not enough to stop President Trumps from winning.

Well, that's only because they were sitting at home in a huff because they thought that Hillary had used a trigger word inside their safe space.

That means it's clearly the fault of everybody except them.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

Yeah before Trumps I never would have guessed we had so many whiny reality-challenged bitches.

Really? Have you met the typical American? Are you aware of how the rest of the world views Americans, and have for decades now? These fat, self absorbed, "exceptional" people, many of whom can't find the USA on world map.... It is a far cry from what Americans were post WW2. USA peaked in the 70s and 80s and has been in decline since. It was and is only a matter of time before the US empire fades into obscurity and other world powers come to the front.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

China's century? That place has been around for millennia. Sure, the Trump Admin may be the setting of our sun, but maybe, just maybe, the Constitution is too riddled with barriers that Congress may be a bit more self-preserving. Or intoxicated with their own propaganda and the Democrats will have to dig the US out of another mess in 4 to 8 years.

What happens to the republican party and the polarization of politics in the US? Red seems to be getting redder, and blue more blue. Rural America increasingly a waste-land, urban America your savior.

If this keeps getting worse, Trump might just be the beginning?

Blue isn't getting bluer. The red isn't getting redder. The red is getting polarized to the point where they voted for an opulent sociopathic pathological liar to save the working white male. The blue is just beside themselves, incapable of communicating with people that thought voting for Trump was a good idea.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Wait...Americans are fat? I'm going to reality-check that by looking at just the people in this library and -- Oh Jesus Christ.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Wait...Americans are fat? I'm going to reality-check that by looking at just the people in this library and -- Oh Jesus Christ.

I'm obese and still the thinnest person I can see.

 

[dismal]

Wait, how do we blame Americans being fat on President Trumps again?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Wait, how do we blame Americans being fat on President Trumps again?

What is this bogus red herring you are putting forth?

 

[Jarhyn]

This is what we get for being early adopters of constitutional representative government and sitting in the old model for too long. Now everyone else has shiny new constitutional representative governments with all sorts of newer, more functional features and we're stuck with all the bugs and no support

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

The American Century was ending anyway. It has little to do with who is in the hot-seat on this particular term, and more to do with what happened over the course of that century.

 

[KeepTalking]

Yeah before Trumps I never would have guessed we had so many whiny reality-challenged bitches.

Really? Have you met the typical American? Are you aware of how the rest of the world views Americans, and have for decades now? These fat, self absorbed, "exceptional" people, many of whom can't find the USA on world map.... It is a far cry from what Americans were post WW2. USA peaked in the 70s and 80s and has been in decline since. It was and is only a matter of time before the US empire fades into obscurity and other world powers come to the front.

He says as he shoves another bite of poutine into his maw, and washes it down with maple syrup liberally doused with salt from the tears of realization that Canadia will never be that world power at the front of the line.

 

[Ford]

With a successful con, the mark doesn't realize he's been taken until long after the con man is gone. If he ever realizes it at all.
Trickle down economics. I'm going with, if ever.
There's no introspection. No lesson learned.

This is kind of the ultimate expression of trickle down economics. We had elected leaders dutifully handing all the money over to rich people, hoping that some of it would wind up in our pocketbooks. Now we've actually cut out the middleman, and put one of the billionaires in charge...hoping for a different result.

I was listening to Marketplace last night on the way home. It is NPR's business show. They're doing a series on Erie, PA, talking to the working class folks who voted for Trump hoping he'd bring back the manufacturing jobs that the city and county once counted on. They all believe he's going to do it, and without exception not a single one of them has a guess as to how. They just think that because he's a businessman, and because he's rich, he'll get it done.

None of them seem to realize that he's exactly the sort of person who is responsible for those jobs leaving in the first place. Oh, he didn't get rich in an industry that outsources jobs (though his products are made overseas) but he also didn't get rich by being nice to people and showering his employees with great pay and benefits. He's a ruthless, greedy scion of a ruthless, greedy slumlord, and has no actual history of helping out the little guy...or anyone but himself, for that matter.