KOOL-AID, KOOL-AID, TASTES GREAT.

Rush Limbaugh might have crossed the final summit, and yet, his observation about Democrats and their lefty hangers-on getting wackier when they're out of power lives on.

At The American Prospect, Ryan Cooper writes that Musk and Trump Are Causing the Dumbest Imperial Collapse in History. Empires tend to collapse when they lose wars, or are attacked by barbarians, or suffer a series of debilitating crises, or maybe just stagnate over a period of years. What we’re seeing now, he says, may be the first time in history that an empire in “splendid condition” chose to deconstruct itself.

I'm not sure how "splendid" a condition the Rules Based Global Order is in, particularly when the real debt ceiling is likely to crash in on the Almoner in Chief, but go ahead, Maha, do you.