re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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.
I have a good friend who argues that the US died on November 22, 1963 and that the corpse has simply been on life support ever since. Trump is merely pulling the plug.