Out in Prince George’s County, government employees queue for food while K Street lobbyists book lunch with senators. That’s America, 2025. The rich get meetings; the rest get waiting rooms.

Seven hundred million dollars buys a lot of silence. You can hear it echoing through the shuttered halls of the Capitol — no votes, no budgets, just lobbyists whispering to Republicans through the cracks.

Trump calls this a policy dispute. It isn’t. It’s arson with better PR. Families across red states — the same ones who cheered for freedom — are about to open bills bigger than their mortgages. The same leaders will shrug and call it a “market correction.”

This isn’t governance. It’s extortion. Lobbyists give money; politicians deliver chaos. A public mugging, wrapped in the language of democracy. When the lights finally flicker back on in Washington, the pundits will mumble about gridlock, as if it were accidental.

This was Republican choreography — crisis by design, performed by people who never lose a paycheck, never sit on hold with an insurer, never wonder which pill to skip tonight.It’s not a government in crisis. It’s a payoff with paperwork.

The same administration that can’t keep food aid flowing to hungry families can move billions for billionaires without breaking stride. The same president who cuts health subsidies and wages wars with the poor signs a pardon that sends crypto markets surging. Somewhere between

The old words — justice, democracy, integrity — sound like punchlines now. The press conferences are staged theater, the financiers are priests, and every law can be rewritten if your portfolio is large enough. They don’t even bother hiding it anymore. Pardons are stock tips.

Crime is a business model. The rest of us are spectators at a banquet we can’t afford to attend, watching the lights of our own country flicker while the rich toast each other for surviving yet another scandal of their own making.

So yes, the USA is doomed in my opinion. Not in some cinematic collapse, but in the slow normalization of rot. A president seemingly trades justice for liquidity. A nation trades dignity for distraction. And every day, the crowd gets smaller, the noise louder, and the truth

Reagan, for all his faults, at least understood cause and effect. He knew that tariffs jack up prices, strangle competition, and invite retaliation. He warned about trade wars because he’d seen one kill the world economy before.

Every historian, economist, and half-awake American knows that Trump is not being truthful. Reagan didn’t “love” tariffs — he treated them like chemotherapy: sometimes necessary, always toxic.

Reagan's tariff comments are available. Read them, see them yourself. You can watch the footage. It’s still on YouTube, uncut, preserved by the Reagan Library.

Truth is irrelevant in this new America of gold-plated delusion. Facts are treated like graffiti on the wall of a collapsing casino — scrubbed off by whichever press secretary draws the shortest straw.

When Trump says Reagan “loved tariffs,” he’s not just rewriting history; he’s betting you won’t check. He’s counting on the exhaustion of a country that no longer does its own homework, a population numbed by slogans and drowning in “official” numbers no one can trace.

Trump cancels trade talks. Not because of policy. Because of ego. He invents a fake fraud, shouts about “national security,” and pretends the ghost of Reagan is whispering in his ear.

This is what government by grievance looks like: impulsive, theatrical, allergic to evidence. And while Americans argue over which lie was “bigger,” the tariffs keep rolling, the debt keeps ballooning, and the administration keeps calling their chaos “strategy.”

So believe nothing they say — not the numbers, not the polls, not the “official statements.” Check the tape. Read the transcripts. The truth is still out there, buried under the noise, waiting for a country brave enough to stop swallowing the show and start doing its own damn

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