A Ghost in the Machine

A Ghost in the Machine

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The United States of Enron, Part I

The Sun is setting on this morally and economically bankrupt globohomo empire; so what comes next, and what should we do in the meantime?

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Mar 01, 2023
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When will The United States of Enron collapse? Some, like Niccolo Soldo, say the American Empire has never been stronger, because despite the cultural and political divisions among America’s rubes, her elites are mostly united on all the things that matter most to them (which is raping and pillaging the world, including America). Others, like John Carter, believe the U.S.A. is already on shaky legs, and that if World War III ever kicks off (something the Brandon Administration seems hell bent on bringing about), then “whoever emerges victorious from the radioactive rubble, it will not be Washington.”

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Which view is correct? Are we more like Rome in 27 B.C., in that our Republic may be practically dead, but it’s about to be reborn as history’s greatest empire? Or are we more like the Soviet Union circa 1990, mere months away from attempted coups in D.C., the sudden disintegration of N.A.T.O., and the complete collapse of the federal governm…

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