Basically Trump is trying to harangue America into believing that everything was horrible a year ago and perfect now, which Americans, capable of observing America, have already made clear they don't find convincing.

Oh but they aren't actually making any money. They hope to, surely. But they most definitely are not at present.

Anyway China is absolutely kicking our ass. It has made a clear-eyed strategic decision to pursue a clean economy & is investing accordingly. We're flailing around like drunken dipshits, suppressing our domestic renewables, shoveling subsidies at coal, & killing random Venezuelan fishermen.

it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries