Washington is masking the reality of a crumbling economy and neoconservative war drums with UFC spectacles, direct-to-phone propaganda, and the ultimate vanity play: putting a politician’s signature on your devalued fiat currency.
The legendary French queen Marie Antoinette never actually told the starving peasants to eat cake, but the modern-day ruling class in Washington is currently shouting it through a taxpayer-funded megaphone. As Americans watch their purchasing power evaporate and the threat of global conflict climb, the Trump administration has responded not with relief, but with a series of high-gloss, ego-driven distractions that would make a Roman Emperor blush. It is a grotesque display of vanity, operating under the guise of American exceptionalism while the working class foots the bill.
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