UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • What I think now is that the people in power are willing to take reckless bets in their thirst for even more power than they already have. In their hubris, they ignore the very real dangers and the very real fragility of a global hegemony that hinges on a very small number of factors, such as military power and a huge economic lever in the shape of the petrodollar. I believe that after more than half a century of nearly uncontested rule, the ruling classes have grown complacent and too entertained by playing with their financial toys to understand how tenuous their grip on the world has become.

    While I don’t think the Trump administration is uniquely evil, I do think it is uniquely stupid and incompetent. Trump himself has the brain of a toddler, but Hegseth is also nothing but a dumb chud. Trump appoints people to positions of power on the sole basis of “How much are they willing to debase themselves to please me” to an extent that I don’t think any president has done before. I don’t know how much we can extrapolate from this admin to past or future ones, for that matter.