Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:54
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THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!
Shut up, screen bitch.
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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.
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By
Peggy Noonan
A Republic, but Can We Keep It?
From the military and the Justice Department to the East Wing, there’s reason to wonder and worry.
Donald Trump’s supporters are feeling satisfaction after two astonishing achievements: He is the first president this century to establish order on the southern border, and he has secured some new possibility for a Mideast settlement. These are breakthroughs even if they don’t last. But the people in this White House, with every triumph, become wilder and wilder. Their triumphalism is accelerating my now-chronic unease over the sense that the strict lines of our delicately balanced republic are being washed away.
Ben Franklin, famously asked by a woman on the street in Philadelphia what sort of government the Constitutional Convention had wrought, is reported to have said, “A republic, if you can keep it.” The reply was wry and factual but also a warning: Republics are hard to maintain.
Are we maintaining ours?
Democrats worry about our democracy. Is that the area of greatest recent erosion? I doubt it. Donald Trump really won in 2016, you can trust those numbers, and he really lost in ’20, and really won in ’24. Your governor won, your congressman—you can pretty much trust the numbers even factoring in the mischief in any system built by man. When shocks happen—“I just want to find 11,780 votes”—the system has still held. The state of Georgia told the president to take a hike in 2020. If you’ve spent much of your adult life deriding the concept of states’ rights, that moment would have complicated your view.
It isn’t our democracy that I worry about, it is our republic. That’s where we’re seeing erosion, that’s the thing we could lose.
Quickly, obviously, broadly: A republic is a form of government in which power begins on the ground, with the people, and shoots (and is mediated) upward. Power doesn’t come from the top down. The people choose representatives who are protective of local interests while keeping their eye on the nation’s. The government of which they’re part is bound by laws, by a Constitution that is not only a document of enumerated laws but a mean, lean machine for preserving liberty.
The Constitution the founders devised was born of deep study of history, philosophy and human nature. Their understanding of the last was deeply conservative. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” James Madison said. They aren’t, so one is.
The American republic would consist of three branches, with each knowing and protecting its specific powers and duties. The legislative branch would have chambers representing the people and the states, holding the power of the purse and the power to make law. Congress would represent.
For the executive branch, the presidency. The holder of that office would be a single person elected by the nation and anticipated to be energetic. The president would act—declare a direction and lead.
The judiciary would be guardian of the Constitution and the rule of law. It would have the power to strike down laws judged unconstitutional. Alexander Hamilton: “No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.” An independent judiciary would judge.
All three would work together in a system of divided powers; no part would completely dominate. They’d be in constant tension with one another. Madison distilled it down: “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” This would tend to limit corruption and keep “eruptions of passion,” to borrow a phrase of Hamilton’s, from swaying things too immediately and dramatically. Madison especially thought pure direct democracy would prove unstable, a too-slight skiff heaved about in history’s seas. A rooted republic would be a mansion that could take heavy winds.
The republic they devised produced not efficiency but equilibrium. It established not only a system but a spirit. It has seen us through for 237 years.
Are we maintaining our republic? Is our equilibrium holding? The last nine months a lot of lines seem to have been crosse
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!
Shut up, screen bitch.
Jack, show us the screen bitch. Right...
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Repost my beautiful picture an average of at least 10 times per day for the next 3.5 years, screen bitch.
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Originally posted by THG:
Jack, you comrade signym and JSF are too ignorant to understand any of what is happening.
Says the guy with 3-dozen Tick Tock threads to nowhere that vary anywhere from a few months old to over 10 years old that are full of nothing but failed predictions and bullshit that never happened, to the guy who has been right about everything since election day.
Why should anybody take you seriously when you say something like this, Ted?
Your track record does not back up your words. It never does.
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tick tock...
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Trump voters get NIGHTMARE news in deep red state
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Point to the dipshit Jack. Agreed...
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And it just gets worse.
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Canadians feel 'Donald Trump is a big hoser'
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In Trump’s Casino Economy, You’ll Probably Lose
By Kyla Scanlon | Oct. 26, 2025
Ms. Scanlon is the author of “In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work” and Kyla’s Newsletter. Free download from https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Kyla+Scanlon
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/10/26/its-trumps-casino-economy-
now-and-you-will-probably-lose/
Step into the casino that now passes for the American economy.
Donald Trump campaigned on bringing back American manufacturing and rebuilding what America once was — factories, workers in hard hats — from the ground up. But the investment needed to get there, in both the factories and the workers, hasn’t happened.
What he has ushered in instead is a casino economy, built on speculation and risk. Across markets and policy, wagers on the future are being made with other people’s money at a cost that could prove catastrophic.
This economy is largely defined by froth. What was once a fluke has become the operating system of modern markets: like stock prices largely driven by sentiment rather than fundamentals (recall GameStop and AMC in 2021 and the dot-com boom), the overwhelming power of social media and the flurry of bets on something not quite real.
Look and you will see gambling throughout the economy — in markets, policy and how we talk about the future:
• The tech giants spending billions on A.I. data centers and the power grid to sustain them.
• A government shutdown over Americans’ ability to keep their health care.
• Tariffs used like poker chips to try to shrink the trade deficit.
• The increasingly erratic treatment of the U.S. dollar.
• The rise of over 13 million memecoins.
• JPMorgan now allowing institutional clients to use Bitcoin and Ether as loan collateral.
• Venture capital funding companies that let people “bet against their bills.”
• And the recent rumblings of bad loans from regional banks.
Public and private sectors are rolling dice that the foundations of the U.S. economy will hold under the pressure. Meanwhile, the institutions and programs that help cushion risk — like Medicaid and the social safety net, information systems, independent regulators and Federal Reserve independence, even the legal system — have come under attack.
As the public sector steps back from its role as a stabilizer, the private sector has rushed in as a gambler, betting that technology alone can hold the system together. Big Tech companies are wagering trillions on A.I. infrastructure that might revolutionize everything, chasing a jackpot that could reshape the world — or leave a mountain of empty data centers and broken promises.
The A.I. boom has grown into one of the largest speculative waves in market history. The sector value of A.I.-linked companies is 17 times larger than the market capitalization of the dot-com era at its peak and over four times as large as the subprime bubble, according to MarketWatch. Goldman Sachs says that A.I.-related firms have borrowed a record $141 billion to keep that dream alive. Microsoft, Apple and Nvidia alone now account for over 20 percent of the S & P 500’s total market cap, their valuations swelling on bigger and bigger A.I. promises, and creating a concentration so extreme that the entire index moves with them.
The promises are grand — such as curing cancer, personalizing vaccines and medical treatment optimization — yet many of those dreams have already devolved into next-generation social media apps, like OpenAI’s Sora and Meta’s Vibes.
The funding frenzy is turning inward. The companies are spending much of their money on one another. Nvidia and OpenAI have entered into a $100 billion deal where OpenAI would essentially use the Nvidia money to buy Nvidia’s chips. So it’s kind of like Nvidia paying themselves $100 billion for their own product. Many A.I. companies are starting to make their products free, too, with Perplexity offering its previously $200-per-month browser for the low price of $0.
The boom can’t last forever. According to Bob Elliott, chief executive at the
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