Watching a Superpower Die By Suicide

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2026/01/22/watching-a-superpower-die-by-suicide/

Watching a Superpower Die By Suicide
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

Garrett Graff: “Across the first three weeks of 2026, and especially yesterday, President Trump’s Mad King rantings about Greenland have accelerated into something far more stunning and alarming: We are watching in real-time as a superpower dies by suicide — an all-but unprecedented choice to self-immolate and torch the country’s remaining global trust and friendships.”

“The entire world order we built across eighty years, a never-before-seen geopolitical success that has been tended and fostered by Republican and Democratic administrations across a dozen presidencies, has been sacrificed this week on the altar of Donald Trump’s legacy-mad narcissism.”

[ret5hd]

1. let's face it: we live in the "suicene" era...

we, like the grasshoppers that turn to destructive locusts when too stressed, are now somehow psychologically driven to “thin the herd”…even if it means our own personal destruction.

that’s my take anyway.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. And 35% of its citizens are so up his orange ass, that they dont see or care

All that matters is that he "owns" the libs or immigrants ir brown people or Trans people.

[Justice matters.]

22. That 35% love to see others they "disagree with" (hate) beaten

physically beaten and killed: They ENJOY seeing others than themselves suffer injuries and death.

WWE government is FUN for them.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

23. NOT interviewed trump supporters for a segment yesterday, they lamented high orices

As they said stuff like "he needs more time"

[bluestarone]

3. Gonna be a whole lotn of DUMB BASTARDS if TSF succeeds.

RUMP America is gonna kill a shit pot of Americans. (THEM included)

[yellow dahlia]

4. Bookmarking.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. It's more a cancer.

We the People need to cut it out.

[cstanleytech]

6. It's not suicide, it's murder.

[ananda]

10. It's both. The GOP is a murder-suicide cult.

...

[erronis]

11. premeditated. intentional. planned and organized.

[GiqueCee]

33. And why do people persist...

... in leaving Putin's psychotic desire to destroy American from within out of any discussions regarding Trump's own psychoses? The vengeful motivations of the Orange Hellbeast dovetail neatly with Putin's interests, and by now, there can be no doubt that Trump is a Russian asset, and has been for decades. The proof of his perfidy is so obvious that it's ridiculous, but those with the power to address Trump's treason have been in on it from the git-go and have failed to lift a finger to rein him in on too many occasions for it to be ignored.
The July 4th, 2018 visit to the Kremlin by a delegation of Republican politicians was ostensibly to warn the Russians against any election meddling. Yeah. Right. I wouldn't believe a Republican any more than I would believe Putin himself. And I wouldn't trust any of 'em any further than I could throw my truck.

[erronis]

35. Well stated. Putin found the weak link, capitalized on it while slowly making it weaker.

Anti-social and psychotic tendencies just made trump a better tool.

Plenty of other people around the world and especially in the US are happy to get in on the looting.

[D_Master81]

7. Let's be honest

A lot of GOP people think THIS is how America should’ve always been acting. The whole speak softly and carry a big stick is overrated. The Trump era mantra is “shout at everyone and let them know you’re carrying the biggest stick”. It really is sad to see

[OldBaldy1701E]

40. The only issue with this is that it tends to make other countries want to prove that it is not the biggest stick. (n/t)

[hay rick]

8. Rain falls on the just and unjust alike.

The greater culpability of others offers grim satisfaction but no movement toward stopping the destruction and building a sustainable and more just society to replace that which has failed.

[markodochartaigh]

30. Charles Bowen:

The rain it raineth on the just

And also on the unjust fella;

But mainly on the just because

The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.

[Initech]

9. And it's because people were so brainwashed by Fox and social media...

That they wouldn't accept anything but the fucking asshole in charge, no matter how terrible of a job he was doing, and god forbid the "other guy" actually does something good for the country. Well guess what? It's a classic cause and effect situation - you vote for garbage, and you get garbage back in return. Elections have far, far greater consequences than which side gets "owned" on social media.

[FakeNoose]

12. This ... Faux Noise is doing Vladimir Putin's work for him

Rupert Murdoch has never had to answer for his ties to Putin, after all these years. May he burn in hell for the way he has ruined our country.

[Initech]

13. Yup! So many of the problems that we've faced in the last 25 years were directly caused by Fox.

9/11, Katrina, endless war, turning against COVID mandates, gerrymandering, the border "crisis" - all of this shit was the end product of the "we report, you decide" network. And hell even RT (the Russian state TV network) admitted that they copied Fox News' business model, and so did Hungarian state TV. So Fox's bullshit is spreading to other countries.

Fuck Rupert Murdoch - no circle of hell is good enough for that monster.

[Cosmocat]

18. AM radio, the politization of churches

The cancer has engulfed nearly every aspect of the country.

[popsdenver]

15. Agreed

Trump is serving TWO masters........2025 AND Putin.......

Much of what Trump does must be off a list Putin gives him daily, as well as the list that 2025/Stephen Miller gives him daily.

Both of his masters must be walking around with smiles on their faces, and 24/7 erections....

[ihaveaquestion]

14. Paywall !!!

And Paywallbuster couldn't find it.

[rubbersole]

16. Putin grins and feels a tingle up his leg.

[Javaman]

17. it would be bad enough it were suicide, but in our case it's assisted suicide. nt

[SergeStorms]

19. No shit.

[BaronChocula]

20. It's been a long slow poisoning

It's been brewing since reagan with a few key ingredients.
-Give more power to the powerful and greedy
-CULTivate devotion to the powerful and greedy
-Take away gains progressives won for the middle class and traditionally disenfranchised
-Disinvest from science and education
-Prioritize white supremacy

It's the kind of stuff that makes an underdeveloped country underdeveloped.

[pfitz59]

21. Was it Greenland or Iceland?

and do they speak German in Switzerland? Trump put his full dementia on display.

[alterfurz]

24. meanwhile, Presidunce PEDOnald has just ordered TripleSecDef "Whiskey Pete" Hogsbreath...

...to draw up battle plans for our new fleet of "Trump Class" battleships to spearhead the upcoming invasion of 🎼Graceland🎸

[GiqueCee]

34. I believe...

... they speak both German and French in Switzerland, as well as Italian and Romansh, depending on which part of the country you're in. Switzerland is officially a multilingual country.

[ColoringFool]

25. And Yet, Republicans In The Hearing Today Are Worshipping Trump....

INSISTING that 2020 was stolen; that Pelosi could have done more on 1/06/21; that Trump won Georgia; that BIDEN "weaponized" the DOJ; etc.

[JHB]

26. Not suicide. Eaten alive by parasites that have been allowed to fester

Specifically, the hard Right, the billionaire that fund them, propaganda entities masquerading as news channels, power-hungry religious zealots

[underpants]

27. He mentioned at first in his first term and couldn't give it up. Project 2025

also had this idea of not protecting the Western hemisphere FROM colonization but TO COLONIZE IT.

[C_U_L8R]

28. We win the Darwin Award

Trump will be all aflutter for another trophy.

[RoadRunner]

29. We're witnessing the collapse of our country

Like in "Stranger Things’, we’re now in the upside down.

[markodochartaigh]

31. As Will and Ariel Durant said,

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.

[Joinfortmill]

32. Rid us of this pestilence: IMPEACH HIM!

[IbogaProject]

36. Murder by the Wealthy

Those spoiled wealthy brats are mostly responsible for this mess.

But I hate to suggest the rest of the world might be better with our nation getting less power to harm. It sucks for us here and now but our prosperity has been built up using guns and heavier arms.

[ybbor]

37. Self Immolate by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Very heavy metal, but still good song. Sorry for link to YouTube, I’m old and don’t know how to do so otherwise.

?si=9SHudUsuf8iJqplU

Hope you enjoy! They are a pretty sick band and despise TSF! Aussie. ❤️

[Bread and Circuses]

38. I'm a positive and social person but, I think the US is done by summer.

There’s no rule of law, no decency, no compassion.

Yes, I will vote, donate, volunteer for good causes, etc. I’ve done this my entire life.

I feel the reality is that the Republican fascists are NOT going to give up the ground they’ve gained . Even if midterms bring about a blue wave. The fascist criminal syndicate has pulled off a coup and they feel powerful. They are chaos agents.

The evil is here. It’s grown and permeated into the backdrop.

We continue to bring love and light .

We are not giving up. We are going into survival mode. Resistance as long as we live.

I hope we have strong NEW socialist democrats running.

[Orrex]

39. He's a Russian asset.

It's not suicide; it's assassination by poisoning.

And it doesn't help that 35% of the population is eager to swallow whatever poison he gives them.

[NNadir]

41. I kind of wish I could recommend this post again.

[RainCaster]

42. The GOP must be held accountable for this

They need to be reminded every day of how they have destroyed our credibility around the world. Then they should remain out of power until that reputation has been restored.