🎥 Richard Wolfe speaks to Marc Lamont
The number of people in red hats that visit my timeline on X to be dicks, are often disparaging to Europe.
That’s OK because Europe has public toilets older than America and let’s face it, when it comes to art culture and architecture, there really is no comparison, but we’re fine with that.
America is a young country and all teenagers can be a little boisterous and do stupid things. It has to be said though, this latest prank of going scorched earth on Representative Democracy really takes the biscuit.
It really is often wiser to take advice from your elders, you know, the guys who have lived a little, experienced a holocaust and fascist dictators, seen revolution up close and personal. Countries that have gone through the rise and fall of empire.
As with all drunken teenagers you never seem to listen, preferring instead to throw your weight around believing you are the big I am. From one friend to another we can see where this is going, because we’ve lived it and it’s not going to end well. All this ‘my cock is bigger than yours’ is really silly. It really is not about how big it is, it’s what you do with it that matters. Yet you do things like sending your cock to Greenland to look every bit a big cock.
As with all bullies, there are always bigger and smarter bullies than you. And Lord knows you are being played by one in the Kremlin. Even more worrying, while you’re doing the Hokey Cokey with tariffs wiping trillions from the stock market, the real danger already owns almost a trillion dollars of your treasure notes and operates a global trade surplus of almost a trillion dollars.
They’ve built infrastructure in key locations where rare minerals exist, built direct trading routes to the biggest consumer market in the world and done it all without a military base in any of those nations. Who’s the idiot now? They are a decade ahead of you on infrastructure and nuclear power. Oh and did I mention probably have the most educated population on the planet? They’re simply waiting for the dollar to lose its position as the world’s reserve currency. Then you’re toast and you’ll have no friends to help you out.
Like all errant teenagers you spend more than you earn and are now running a debt to GDP ratio of 123.1% with a national debt of $36 trillion, which you want to raise to $40 trillion to hand tax breaks to those that bought you the White House. Based on that fiscal management, you should be grounded for a decade.
The bond markets and fund managers are loyal to no man. They will drop you at the drop of a hat. Investors have already started fleeing back to London. China will be waiting to fill the gap, as they are now you trashed USAID.
So it’s time to stop being an ass and recognise that as the Talking Heads said, ‘You’re on a road to nowhere’. Don’t make us have to tell you we told you so.
You can do things better if you just learn to read the room. Which is tricky I know when 21% of your population is illiterate and your president commits crimes against the English language every day.
