Our Mad King's Vainglorious Venezuelan Victory Lap Was Rudely Interrupted By A Newly Assertive Congress Yesterday

Simon Rosenberg

Morning all. I want to talk about three big, related stories today:

1) Our growing realization that our politics here in America, and increasingly the politics of the entire world, are now being held hostage to Trump’s maniacal, impulsive, addled quest to restore his STRENGTH, POWER, and MANLINESS that have been lost due to the failure of his domestic agenda and soaring unpopularity.

We got further confirmation of Trump’s failing domestic agenda as only 50,000 jobs were created in December. Job growth has essentially stalled since Trump’s tariffs were announced in early May, and consumer sentiment (via UMichigan) is currently at the lowest level in the last 65 years:

https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/files/chicsh.pdf

2) Trump declaring in recent days that a new Imperial, post-democratic age is upon us, and that he does not believe himself or his regime to be bound by the US Constitution, domestic US law, the UN Charter, international law, and Senate-ratified treaties.

3) Congressional Republicans are increasingly willing to challenge all this lunacy, and it appears that this week we may have found a pulse in America’s legislative branch.

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/our-mad-kings-vainglorious-venezuelan