Then I will expose it further by saying it looks like a DVD case, but I didn’t think people still cared about those in 2026. So I had to ask.

LE: and now I saw the accompanying text and I feel like an idiot. Thanks a lot, Voyager, I guess :/

What is it?

Take a historical perspective. Even with the muppets currently in power in some countries in the world, this is still the best time to be alive in the history of mankind. 100 years from now, 47 will be two paragraphs in a history book.

How many people know about the life and times of James Buchanan? How many people care? What about Herbert Hoover? Or Andrew Jackson?

And at least you get to talk about it. Imagine life under Stalin in the USSR, when a neighbour could report you for sedition and you would disappear into a gulag the next week. Or Pol Pot’s Cambodia, where wearing glasses was a death sentence (yes, really).

I’m in Europe, and from where I’m standing, Trump looks like a giant unflattering mirror. If America doesn’t like what it sees in it, maybe work and fix it. On our side is the same: this mirror shows decades of complacent bureaucracy and infighting. So here’s the other silver lining: now we know what needs fixing.