my initial reaction to trump skipping out on the tpp was something like:

he has no understanding of what he's doing, but if he wants to go ahead and accelerate the decline of america as an empire, i'm not going to put up much of a fight.

this reaction is repeating itself around the world.

and, as i predicted in 2016, trump is, indeed, in the process of unravelling this empire.

it's not entirely his fault. all of these things were put in motion under obama. but, he is an example of the perils of electing exactly the wrong leader at exactly the wrong time. and, the results will reverberate across the centuries.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.