Americans: I use miles and pounds
Europeans: I use kilometres and kilograms
Canadians: [snorting a line of assorted measuring systems] I'm 5'8, I weigh 150lbs, horses weigh 1000kgs, my house is an hour away and I drive 80 km/h to get there, I need a cup of flour and 1L of milk
The President of the United States woke up this morning and posted a 150-word personal attack on Bruce Springsteen.
Not on Iran. Not on the tariffs crashing global markets. Not on the recession warnings. Bruce Springsteen.
There is a standard psychological tool called the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. It has 20 items scored on a scale from 0 to 40. The cutoff for a diagnosis of psychopathy is 30.  The average person scores around 4. The average maximum security prisoner scores 22.  A panel of eminent psychiatrists assessed Trump before his 2024 sentencing in New York. He scored 36 out of 40. 
The 25th Amendment exists precisely for this. Section 4 allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unable to carry out his duties.  It has never been used. In any normally functioning democracy, the bar would be far lower. Most leaders in that position resign themselves.
Instead, this one is on Truth Social at 7:58 AM calling a rock legend a dried-up prune.
America is fighting a war it cannot exit in Iran. Markets are in freefall. Allies are making alternative plans.
And the man with the nuclear codes is writing concert reviews.
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💀 The Trapped Animal
Let me tell you what happens when a narcissist with nuclear codes realizes he has lost.
He does not reflect. He does not adjust. He bites everyone within reach.
Before February 28th, Iran was sanctioned, isolated, and weak. The Strait was open. Oil flowed. The economy was functioning. The world was not perfect, but it was not on fire. Then Donald Trump, on impulse, without consulting allies, without a plan, without congressional authorization, assassinated a head of state and launched a war he was certain would be over in a week.
It was not over in a week. It is not over in a month. And now every number in his life is collapsing: 33% approval, the lowest of his presidency, only 29% support for the war, his own base abandoning him, 36 House Republicans already heading for the exits. He is the least popular wartime president in modern American history and the war is not even over.
And what is coming is the bill for everything he broke.
$5.2 trillion gone from the markets. Brent at $116. Consumer confidence below 2008. Bond market posting its worst outflows since the pandemic. Treasury auctions at their weakest demand since 2024. $52 billion fleeing Asia. Fertilizer chains broken. Famine approaching. Fourteen Americans dead. The Strait still closed. Iran still standing. And now he is willing to walk away with the Strait still shut, meaning the one stated reason for the war was a lie or a failure, and either way the dead are still dead and the money is still gone.
So what does a trapped animal do? He lashes out. Not at the enemy. At the friends.
This morning, from his phone, he told Britain to buy American oil and go fight for the Strait themselves. The Strait he closed. The crisis he created. He told them “the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore.” He threatened France because they would not let weapons fly over their territory for a war they were never consulted about. “The U.S.A. will REMEMBER,” he wrote, threatening the nation that gave America the Statue of Liberty.
He cannot beat Iran. So he beats up on NATO. He cannot reopen Hormuz. So he tells allies to “just TAKE IT,” something he could not do with three carrier strike groups in 28 days. He cannot lower gas prices. So he tries to sell American oil to the countries whose supply he cut off. The arsonist selling fire insurance.
And through all of it, while the world burns and the numbers collapse, his circle trades. Every fake peace announcement a buy signal. Every escalation a sell signal. The Financial Times documented it. Bloomberg confirmed it. A US Senator called it mind-blowing corruption. The war failed for America. It succeeded for the people close enough to the Situation Room to know what comes next.
That is what this is. A man who broke the world because he wanted to feel powerful, lost control of everything he touched, watched his numbers collapse, and is now thrashing at every ally within reach because he cannot admit what everyone else already knows: he got this catastrophically, irreversibly, historically wrong.
And the people who will pay for it, as always, are everyone except him.
THE SHATTERING OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: How One Persian Gulf Nation Is Exposing the Empire’s Fragility While Trump Suppresses the Truth
Barack Obama once famously declared that America is “exceptional” - not because it is perfect, but because it is “indispensable” and possesses a unique capacity to lead the world through strength, moral authority, and unmatched military power. That illusion is now collapsing in real time, dismantled not by a peer superpower, but by a single determined nation in the Persian Gulf: Iran.
As the war with Iran enters its most dangerous phase, the Trump administration has mastered the art of information suppression. While the mainstream media dutifully chases every Trump tweet, photo-op, and distraction, the real story - the steady erosion of American military superiority - is being buried.
The corporate press, acting less like the “fourth estate” and more like a stenography service, has largely ignored the mounting evidence that the United States is being systematically outmaneuvered by a country it once dismissed as a weak, backward adversary.
The most glaring example is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s most advanced and expensive aircraft carrier.
On March 12, 2026, the Ford suffered a catastrophic “fire” that took 30 hours to extinguish and displaced 600 sailors who lost their living quarters. The ship is now docked in Greece for what defense analysts warn could be a repair and maintenance period of 12 to 14 months.
This is not a minor setback. The U.S. Navy’s total carrier fleet stands at 11 ships. Three are currently deployed or in active service, two are in post-deployment maintenance, and four are in scheduled repairs. In other words, America’s “indispensable” global power projection now rests on a dangerously thin bench.
If Iran manages to damage or neutralize even one more carrier, the United States would be effectively neutralized in the region.
This is the brutal reality the Trump administration and its media allies are working overtime to obscure. Instead of honest reporting on these vulnerabilities, we get endless headlines about “productive Iran talks” and carefully staged optimism.
The same corrupt media that once celebrated American exceptionalism is now complicit in hiding its rapid decline.
Iran, a country that has spent decades preparing for exactly this kind of confrontation, is proving that determination, strategic depth, and patience can humble even the mightiest empire. What began as a war of choice by Washington is rapidly becoming a war of attrition that the United States is structurally ill-equipped to win.
The illusion of American exceptionalism - the comforting myth that the U.S. can project power indefinitely without consequence - has been shattered by a single nation in the Persian Gulf.
Trump, left with no viable off-ramp and no credible plan, is reduced to the only tool he has left: suppressing information and hoping the public never notices how badly the empire is bleeding.
The arc of history is not bending toward American dominance anymore. It is bending toward exposure. And the exposure is happening right now, in real time.
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Bob Marley was once asked if there was a perfect woman. He replies:
“Who cares about perfection?
Even the moon is not perfect, it is full of craters.
The sea is incredibly beautiful, but salty and dark in the depths.
The sky is always infinite, but often cloudy.
So, everything that is beautiful isn't perfect, it's special.
Therefore, every woman can be special to someone.
Stop being "perfect", but try to be free and live, doing what you love, not wanting to impress others”