This year marks the 250th anniversary of the thirteen colonies declaring their independence from King George III and Great Britain, and ultimately beginning the process of what would in time become the United States.
It should be a year to celebrate and reflect on the relative success of our experiment with democracy.
But right now, we have a dictator in the White House. Let's call a spade a spade: a dictator is what he is. Hell, he does not even back away from that description anymore. Instead, he says that is what "a lot of people want" and seems to suggest that enough Americans want him to be one that it justifies him becoming one.
Our American democracy has never looked so fragile.
Meanwhile, Trump has become a national embarrassment on a regular basis. Almost every headline is cringeworthy. He starts an economic war with the entire rest of the world early on, then he starts pulling those back when the economy goes into a tailspin. Then he starts pushing his tariffs again, and again backs off when the economy predictably sags. Over and over again, we see that having become a recurring theme.
Even more unsettling for the world is his apparent appetite for Empire building. He says that he intends to use the military to take over Panama, Gaza and of course, Greenland. He outright uses the military for an illegal invasion of Venezuela, then immediately suggests that Colombia might be next, and Cuba is also ready to go. He repeatedly and relentlessly (and pointlessly) makes a point of undermining the independent status of Canada, undermining it's sovereignty and referring to it as the "51st State" and then Prime Minister Trudeau as "Governor Trudeau."
Then he acts shocked - SHOCKED! - when there is backlash. Europe pools together and apparently threatens to collect the somewhere between $8-12 trillion in debt that the United States owes it, and he whines and backs off apparent plans to take over Greenland. Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney makes a speech during all of this saying that perhaps Canada and other middle power countries have indeed grown too reliant on the United States (something that Trump himself pointed out) and says that they will try to open up new trade routes with other countries. The White House balks and claims that Carney's speech is outrageous.
What is outrageous is to repeatedly "joke" about Canada being the "51st state." Seriously, how do Americans not see that this kind of behavior from an elected head of state is not okay? That the rest of the world does not view it as a "joke," especially after the invasion of Venezuela and Trump referring to himself as the "President of Venezuela."
Remember, Trump "jokes" about a lot of things that he actually wants to happen, like the United States having a "president for life" or running for a third term or becoming a dictator. He teases ideas and makes it seem like he is not being serious, when in fact it sure seems like he is testing the water and gauging the reaction.
And you know the mindless MAGA Moron cult will support their pedophile president no matter what, facts be damned.
So frankly, it hardly feels like there is too much to celebrate about this country right now. Trump and his supporters keep reminding us that it's not so bad, yet they are the ones who have and who continue to make things actively worse. With them in power, we can almost trust that they will in fact make things worse.
Personally, I am not going to be celebrating all that hard about the United States, when some of the faces and voices of the mindless patriotism (which is actually an ugly and narcissistic nationalism with these people) are Donald Trump and Kid Rock.
Somehow, despite the obvious damage that King Con Don and his MAGA minions are doing, people keep bending the knee to him. Whether it's national, with Congress continually giving him what he wants, or poll numbers which are not good, but nowhere near as disastrous as this particular president and his criminal administration deserve. Even internationally, people keep bending the knee to him, like FIFA and the Nobel Peace Prize winner giving her physical award to Trump.
The latest example of someone bending the knee is apparently the NFL in this year's Super Bowl. Trump apparently wanted a particular patch put on every uniform, and he got it.
Why? Why does everyone keep bending the knee to this failure of a man, and even worse failure as an alleged leader?
Frankly, why does Trump get involved in the minutiae of these kinds of things? Whether it's his grandiose Dance Hall which will dwarf the actual White House, or the huge arch which he wants to be the biggest in the world (of course he does) which is to be in his honor (of course) or whether it's wanting to control the Kennedy Center (which has since been renamed in his honor (of course) and which has closed like so many Trump run businesses before it, why does everyone bend their freaking knees to this guy?
Shame.
What absurd times we live in.
USA 250 patch to debut at the Super Bowl and be on uniforms in several sports leagues by the Associated Press, Updated 4:00 PM EST, January 30, 2026:
https://apnews.com/article/usa-250-super-bowl-patch-d7d6201dcbda91243ab7f445d86bfeee
USA 250 patch to debut at the Super Bowl and be on uniforms in several sports leagues | AP News
Gaudy Trump-backed patch to be on every Super Bowl jersey Story by Alex Simon • January 29, 2026:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/gaudy-trump-backed-patch-to-be-on-every-super-bowl-jersey/ar-AA1VgVNj?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=697c839b3be2471191e760b2a593e4e5&ei=28
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