I do not want to begrime my blog with the POOH* of Trumpistan. It is absolutely useless & futile to comment this bloody ridiculous farce, I have no inclination to waste precious vital energy & lifetime on this constant stream of disgustingly dumb uglyness. I just want to draw the attention of those people, who still understand themselves as citizens of the US, and do not identify as Trumpistan subjects, of those people I say, who have a brain and use it, to two recently published articles that are worth a read, in my humble opinion.
Here is the article in The Guardian about the findings of a Swedish institute for democracy research, here is the link to the download of their latest report (pdf, of course). The result is simple : “The US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey.”
Who would have thunk ?
The second article is an opinion piece on fortune.com, here. The subject is “the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025”. The result is this :

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Most people cannot relate to trillion-dollar figures on a government ledger. So consider this: divide every number by 100 million — drop eight zeros — and federal finances look like a household budget in freefall.
That household earns $52,446 and spends $73,378 — running a $20,932 annual deficit. Its total liabilities and unfunded promises amount to $1,361,788 against just $60,554 in assets, leaving it $1.3 million in the hole. Uncle Sam, by any accounting standard, is insolvent.

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I have sadly no real economic understanding, but I think over the last years US gouvernements reacted to the looming debt problem with printing more money, clever, eh ?! Finally this printed paper must become useless one day, simply because there is too much of it ; the sheer amount of “money” does not represent the value of the Trumpistani economic output, trust will be lost. This day may be near, I think chances are good that we will see this actually happen : A real, fully grown Staatsbankrott, national bankruptcy, in an already weakened democracy.
I seriously wonder how this could unfold. Fun finally.

* President Of Our Hearts

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