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Sun May 24, 2026, 10:00 PM Sunday

Nobody Wants To Come To America, Mate The night an Aussie economics professor told Trump's bagman to grow the fuck [View all]

The American century is over, and the obituary was just written on British television by an Australian economics professor and a Chinese game theorist while Trump’s own former economic advisor sat between them and tried to pretend he couldn’t hear it.
Nobody wants to go there now, mate.
Not for a holiday. Not for a job. Not for a degree. Not for a marriage. Not for a future.
You broke the brand. You can’t unbreak it. You can’t tariff your way back. You can’t drill your way back. You can’t bomb your way back. You can’t AI your way back. The trust is gone, and trust takes generations to rebuild, especially when the people who broke it are still in power and still being cheered on by 77 million dropkicks who think Sean Hannity is a journalist.
The Hollywood scripts have stopped working.
The audience walked out.
The lights are coming up on a very different theatre.

https://ifloz.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-to-come-to-america-mate

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