He’s going to crash the whole world at this rate, but I’m not sure if he understands that the rest of the world will recover from the crash and will leave the US as the pariah that must be avoided under any circumstances.

For an idiot with such strong nationalist values, he really is working hard to screw his own country in ways that no enemy could dream for.

One would think he is not that worried about his country as he wants us to believe.

This is the right answer. People think that the people ruling the US now care about the country.

They don’t.

So absolutist monarchy it is.

You’re in for 4 awesome years of Musk in the gov, champs. But hey, you voted for it, so I don’t understand why are you now showing disagreement with what they told you they would do.

I wonder how much of that time was simply because of the time it took then to simply change things. Logistics were slow, as were coms. Changing trade routes and establishing new ones took years.

Now? If you want to start a new trade route with an alternative country, you need a phone call (hyperbole, I’m simplifying things for the sake of the discourse). Rome took centuries to fall, but nowadays, that could happen in a matter of months.

Wow America! You really are doing everything in your hand to become a new medieval monarchy.

You have the absolutist king, the feudal lords, the hate towards any progress…

You were missing the inquisition. WERE.