“A country cannot bluff its way to stable equilibria. And it cannot compel cooperation while actively dismantling the mechanisms that make cooperation rational. In 2025, the world is not guessing what America might do. It’s remembering what it already did, and playing accordingly.”
He doesn’t understand—or refuses to understand—that he is POTUS, ie of ALL of the US, regardless of party affiliation. If that office were as partisan as he wants it to be, those of us taxpayers on the other side, should stop paying federal taxes since he doesn’t want to provide us USG services.
He’s a billionaire like so many others in this administration. Sort of like Marie Antoinette, he can’t relate to everyday Americans. “No Kings” protests are against 47-&-company’s authoritarian policies and corruption in his administration.
Food prices are the great equalizer. Whether you eat in or you eat out, you can’t help but notice how much more limited the selections & how much more expensive food costs this year vs last year. Bread shortages contributed to the French Revolution & look how that turned out for Marie Antoinette.
It’s no longer the Rose Garden since you tore it out and poured concrete all over it.
🎼 “Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot..” —Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi” 🚕
“A country cannot bluff its way to stable equilibria. And it cannot compel cooperation while actively dismantling the mechanisms that make cooperation rational. In 2025, the world is not guessing what America might do. It’s remembering what it already did, and playing accordingly.”
Both can be true: he lies AND he hallucinates. Neither are good traits in a POTUS, especially one who’s already a convicted felon on 34 counts of fraud, an insurrectionist, an adjudicated rapist, an adulterer, a tax fraud…
“A country cannot bluff its way to stable equilibria. And it cannot compel cooperation while actively dismantling the mechanisms that make cooperation rational. In 2025, the world is not guessing what America might do. It’s remembering what it already did, and playing accordingly.”
Indeed, she did. Perhaps she was trying to mollify him? She’s running for president and seeing US blowing up Venezuelans at sea. I might not have done that and, then again, I’m not standing in her shoes.
Glad to see these news organizations standing firm on the side of freedom of the press. This administration needs to back off and realize they’ve overstepped…bigly (as 45 said in his first campaign)…
“Maria Corina Machado has shown…tools of democracy are also…tools of peace. She embodies…hope of a different future, one where…fundamental rights of citizens are protected, & their voices…heard. In this future, people will finally be free to live in peace.”—Announcement, Nobel Peace Prize 2025
Machado won. “Nobel Peace Prize winner…never been forced to give…prize away, & it [isn’t] possible to revoke it once awarded.” She won “for…promoting democratic rights for…Venezuela[ns] & her struggle to achieve a just/ peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”What’d 47 do to deserve it???
