re: #9 freetoken

Our nation-state has a very spotty past. Tomorrow may be a bad day, but ever since 1776 we’ve been full of all sorts of things for which I could be ashamed.

In some ways Trump is very American. Very very American. He’s the Ugly American made flesh.

We can date the High Point of the American Empire to September 10th, 2001.

We bounced back a bit in 2008 and had a pretty good chance at recovering, but tomorrow we start the slide down.