Lutnick admitted under oath that they’ve only sold 1 Trump Gold Card. 1️⃣ 😂🤣 My bet they won’t sell 10,000 in a year let alone the 100,000 they were banking on is looking pretty safe

Until it gets moderated to death because muh safe spaces

Spot on. “Allies” first and when they lose them, it will turn inwards. It’s the best case scenario for the rest of us

If America was the best place to be wealthy, wealthy people would move there - they don’t. They move to Switzerland or Malta or Dubai or Hong Kong or Singapore, not the US. More cope. Gerrymandering has everything to do with mineral production. The US has enormous lithium deposits but can’t dig it or process it because of green tape, not red tape, because gerrymandering has led to political capture and thus the green tape. China beats US science and engineering hands down. It’s not even close any more. Look at California high speed rail compared to China. More cope. You imported the best software engineers, not engineers generally. That’s over thanks to AI and DeepSeek is beating the US there. More cope. > Your insistance that America will crumble is not a serious position based in reality. You don't like Trump, okay. Not my position, and not my position on Trump. More cope. Where does the US get Tungsten from for bullets? Tantalum for missile guidance systems? Gallium for radar? Antimony for ammunition? These aren’t leftist talking points; this is shit that has been talked about for years that the US doesnt have the supply chains for its own industrial base. More cope. > The greatness of the US is not derived from one man or the yes men who say mean things that surround him. The greatness of the US lives in the delusional brains of cope merchants like yourself. It’s not a great country, splitting it up alone would be a 10X improvement; it shouldn’t even be a country. It’s the greatest open air tax slave prison on the planet with the most propagandised, sycophantic, moronic people on earth who do nothing but cope because they refuse to believe they’ve been lied to their entire lives and don’t understand where they truly stand in the pecking order. Your ilk is why the US is falling, not Trump. Trump is merely a symptom of the mental sclerosis from believing your own hype too long; having to pander to you lot has destroyed the place.

I did student exchange in the US, I lived there, I worked 6 years for US companies and spent plenty of time there. Whereas you have played up the stereotypical American that I’ve been talking about in this thread. > The US has unlimited energy, minerals and raw materials. No it doesn’t. It has green tape, gerrymandered districts and a complete lack of processing facilities. Just because you have minerals in the dirt, doesn’t mean you can use them when it’s politically and economically infeasible. > The US has the best scientists and engineers. No it doesn’t. It has for decades imported the best scientists and engineers and now China holds this mantle today regardless of your importing. > The US still provides the best opportunity for poor people to become rich. No it doesn’t. Ranked 27th for economic mobility, way higher homeless and drug addiction rates than peer countries. Not even remotely true. This is what I mean - Americans out of all people are by far the worst for buying into their own propaganda. You don’t have minerals, you have deposits. You don’t have engineers, you have visas. You don’t make the poor into rich, that’s “the American dream” and it hasn’t existed for 60 fucking years at this point. It’s this inability to look critically and pretending like you’re still top of the heap which will be your undoing. You’re not in a great powerplay, you’re losing your global empire, retreating to hopefully hold a bloc and the way you’re going you won’t even manage to hold on to that. That’s reality. Not whatever hopium you are smoking.

Bit of both. The point being, the US has issues but there is an undercurrent of delusion amongst Americans who think they are truly special and can overcome anything but they don’t see how disconnected from reality that is.

They will take Greenland anyway. This isn’t narrative building to sell that idea, this is turning the screws on vassals to entrench their dependency and solidify the US economic sphere and it’s running a real risk of going very wrong.

People with power benefit from this setup; they don’t need to be bribed or corrupted, they’re acting in their own interests.

Reality always catches up eventually. Reality is undefeated.

The problem with the strategy is there is energy everywhere on earth, and the US doesn’t even make its own weapons any more.. It can work a while, but it’s not some impenetrable moat - it will just take time and will but it can be overcome. Most Americans including a ton of Bitcoiners don’t realise the exorbitant privilege that money printing has given the US. Even when they understand the money problem, there’s a patriotic streak which leads too many to believe they’re special and worthy of everything, that even in spite of the problems it’s still the greatest nation in the world. The US isn’t special though. It was 250 years ago, it still was 150 years ago, even 100; it’s not today. It’s living on past glory and the benefits of Bretton Woods. Its people have no concept what life will be like without that privilege, without having inflation as their number 1 export, but I think most will live long enough to find out.

The problem for the US and Americans with Trump’s rhetoric and positioning is everyone thought you were “allies”. Sure you were the stronger big brother in these relationships, but your jerk behaviour seemingly was directed externally allowing those allies to sell a narrative, which their people bought, that you were fundamentally their friends and acting in everyone’s best interests. The problem for the those “allies” and their people; Brits, Canadians, Australians, Kiwis, Koreans, Japanese, and the various European peoples, is without that veil, the narratives don’t hold. The people can’t pretend you’re friends when you’re bullying them relentlessly and actively making their lives worse. When the US was secretly funding anti-nuclear movements in the West to maintain their petrodollar system, you got away with it because you weren’t rubbing peoples noses in it. It was subtle. Only a few understood what you were truly doing. As a result, very few amongst those allied countries disliked or opposed the US. Now you’ve got Trump talking and acting like this and all subtlety is gone. Even retarded leftists can see what you’re doing. Nobody needs to connect dots anymore, they just need to listen to Trump and Friends and it’s immediately clear that you’re not allies, you’re Suzerains who are no longer able to bully the world but are unable to stop being bullies, and have decided to beat up on those kid brothers instead. US elites have determined that if you can’t have the global reserve currency, you can at least force the Dollar on your vassals under the assumption you’d be able to uphold a narrative like you used to, that US actions are actually good and in the interests of their allies too. I really don’t think it’s going to work any more. The pretences which shaped perceptions have been dropped and the jerk behaviour is now too obvious. Even if Obama came back for a third term, too much has shifted now. Yet they’re going to do it anyway and seem to think shoving it down peoples throats will work because you’ve still got aircraft carriers.. That’s not how the world works in 2026. Once the little brothers realise they don’t need to put up with your blackeyes any more, Americans are going to be the last ones left holding the bag for the dollar Ponzi. Sure it will be painful for those “allies”, they could even end up worse off with their own incompetent parasites in charge and I have already actively exited this sphere because I only see things getting worse. But Americans have by far the most to lose here yet they don’t seem to know it. When you’re on top, you’ve got farthest to fall. When you’ve alienated all your “friends” and can’t put on a friendly face between the beatings, no-one will care if you implode and tear yourselves apart. This will not be a good century to be an American.