She described the U.S. Institute of Peace as “a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace.”

So, here's the thing about Trumpworld. The critiques themselves often aren't wrong.

The problem with Trumpworld is that you've got meatheads like Hegseth and Noem whining about how America's Gone Woke with mushy liberal institutions, when what they're complaining about is someone painting a rainbow flag on the side of a cruise missile.

The USIoP is practically sprouting from the hip of the IMF and World Bank, institutions notorious for their roles in global privatization of public commons, international arms dealing to US allies, and libertarian market-based propagandizing. They're outgrowths of American finance capital and heavily geared towards commoditizing foreign markets and prying them open for US banks and businesses to lay claim to the interior at deeply discounted rates.

The USIoP operates as a diplomatic core that can try and rationalize and institutionalize foreign occupation after the US has entered a region. And there's no better example of this than their role in authoring policy to pacify Iraqi resistance movements at the end of the Bush tenure.

A more objective observer might ask why we need Congress to continue to intercede in Iraqi politics five long years after we'd announced "Mission Accomplished" from the deck of a nearby aircraft carrier. But neoconservatives would sneeringly refute that Iraqis simply aren't ready to govern themselves and still need Americans to guide them towards a liberal democracy.

Obviously, Trumpworld disagrees. They think the solution to every foreign policy dispute is to murder dissidents en mass. And that's what we're seeing in Venezuela.

But USIoP hasn't done anything to keep us out of Venezuela. Or to expedite our exit from Iraq or Afghanistan. Or to prevent us from bombing Yemen or Iran. Or to avoid overthrowing the governments in Libya and Syria. Or to diffuse the conflict in Ukraine. Or to end the blockade and Israeli-induced famine in Gaza. So what role are they fulfilling?

We have. Every day. Whether we want to or not.

It feels like that fucking asshole has been raping our minds for years.

Oh, we have. The US is divided into two camps: (1) we see the insanity and we hate it or (2) we see the insanity but it hurts people we don't like more than us so it is still cool and we can mock the libs and trans folks and stuff for suffering.

we know

Criminally so. Yeah, a few billion people have noticed.

The world will, without a doubt, be a better place when he is no longer present. Though I hope his dementia holds on to him for a long while.

Lets not be picky.

Or wherever

I don't wish him death, but I also don't wish him a calm and peaceful one.

I would genuinely celebrate his death by any cause whatsoever

I'd natural causes him for you if I could get away with it. I should have natural causesed his whole inauguration.

And have jd vance? Id actually rather have this dementia patient.

Party at my place when it happens. Date TBD

I hereby nominate him for the Nobel Pizza Prize

It's gonna be 9 by next week.

I remember the two that he made up because his mind is addled:

• "Aberbaijan" and Albania
• Cambodia and Armenia

Dear leader hit 23 holes-in-one on his first round of golf.