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[Midnight Writer]

1. In surely unrelated news, the EU just made a massive free trade agreement with abloc of South American countries.

Canada forged an agreement with China.

Tourists and students and workers are redrawing their plans so they can avoid the US.

The rest of the world is starting to work around us, just as we would work around a mess on the sidewalk.

We've shown we can't be trusted as a trade partner, as a military ally, as a friend of freedom and democracy. Hell, we apparently can't even enforce child trafficking laws because our leaders may be embarrassed.

I wonder if we will ever get our reputation back. I'm afraid we may have already seen the peak of America.