Enough

“Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!”

More exclamation points please, just to underscore the ever-present devotion to serious discourse.

Whatever your stance on the issue, these aren't trade negotiations. We're just spinning in a never ending game of extortion, dealing with shadow secretaries, all feckless, all yielding to the changing whims of a would-be clown king whose word is utterly meaningless. A waste of time and a waste of money and a waste of spit. We aren't dealing with an America defending its commercial interests, working with a partner in good faith. The truth is, this isn't even America anymore. Didn't you hear the news? America died on July 3rd, 2025. I know because they celebrated it. They celebrated with caps and t-shirts and coffee mugs, AI slop and cruel memes. They branded the hell out it too   

Alligator

Alcatraz!

America the mythical shot in the Everglades
proud boys and girls full
of whitened
fangs
sang elegiac praise
as they choked
on unfurled flag
on blue-eyed Jesus
on cotton fields
and crocodile meat
and ICE.

Enough. At any other time in recent history, with any other government, the conversation would be over. Yes, Superpower. I know, I'm not naïve. Power and money and guns and economic might and juggernauts ready and willing to kill and abduct in the night. Threats of annexation, of attrition, wrapped in mocking grins and stupidity but just as dangerous.

Still, I don't care anymore. I just want one leader, a single one, I don't even give a damn who it is, to stand up, look Trump in the eye, and say: With all due respect, who the fuck do you think you are?

Masked men with assault rifles, threatening 12 year-old kids at baseball practice.
Keep your lessons and your morals.
Keep your Stormtroopers.