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As species Ignoramus Americanus, our behavior during this century has been disastrous for the planet and its people.

We are breaking the heart of the world

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Apr 12, 2026

As species Ignoramus Americanus, our behavior during this century has been disastrous for the planet and its people. By the year 2000, we knew enough about the destruction humans had inflicted on the global environment during the previous century to have caused reasonable people to limit what we were already doing and to begin following a strategy of repair and reconciliation with the natural world we inhabit. We had done some of this in fits and starts, but not enough.

Our conduct as a nation has been disastrous even if we consider only our wars of choice, as we continued a pattern of picking on lesser countries for reasons that ranged from specious to pure, utter bullshit. We consistently justified our insane military adventurism with lies even when we had truth on our side. We wasted years and treasure and the lives of thousands of our own people, and the lives of tens of thousands more of the people we warred against. We fought our wars with weapons that were technological marvels costing tens of millions of dollars against people wielding weapons that cost a few hundred dollars, and when all our technology and money did not win us victories, we rewarded ourselves by buying ever more expensive weapons in greater numbers even as our own people suffered illnesses they couldn’t pay for, went hungry, and in increasing numbers lost their homes and lived on the streets.

And then it got worse. We elected, not once, but twice, a man who dedicated himself to ensuring that the planet and our own people got sicker, wealth was more inequitably distributed, races were driven further apart, control of women’s bodies was taken from them, and the least fortunate among us suffered more, not less.

And then it got even worse. This man, whose idea of history is the last social media message in which his name was mentioned, sought to increase his power by surrounding himself with wealth and glitz and persons and corporations that were, like himself, devoid of reason and morality. Having created a false bubble filled with privilege and ignorance, he proceeded to strip-mine our ailing planet and our fading nation of everything that wasn’t nailed down, including our Constitution and system of governance, ideals which have inhabited the laws and the minds and souls of our citizens for a quarter of a millennium, solely to enrich himself and those like him.

Because he wasn’t satisfied with the amount he had stolen and because the people of this country were increasingly unhappy with what he had done to them and to the places where they lived, he started another war of choice, this time against a nation with the capacity and the will to fight back. The war was brazenly illegal. He broke international treaties and laws, he violated the laws of war, he refused to seek the advice and counsel of allies, and when they failed to applaud the insanity of his war, he threatened them with the economic punishment of tariffs that his own Supreme Court had already declared to be illegal.

We did not have very much good will to squander after a majority of the voters returned this pariah to power. The world cringed in embarrassment when he rattled his saber about taking over Greenland, when he kidnapped the leader of a neighboring nation and used blackmail to enrich himself from its oil resources, when he attempted to blackmail the country of Norway into awarding him a Nobel Prize that they had no power to disburse, and when he slapped gold leaf all over the White House and then tore down a third of it so he could build a monument to himself on land that for more than two centuries had been sacrosanct and protected from mania such as his.

Now that his illegal war on Iran is threatening the world’s economy, seriously disrupting international trade, and no one is coming to his rescue, he is attempting something the world has never seen: the aggressor who started the war has sued for peace, exposing the soft white underbelly of our imperial power. We have wasted so many offensive weapons that we can no longer prevail over a country with an economy a tenth the size of our own. If we used every conventional missile and bomb left in our military stockpile, we would not be able to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, because they can keep it closed indefinitely for less than cost of his ballroom.

We have a lot of problems as a nation. We have had some of them since our founding 250 years ago. Others we have ginned up along the way. But one problem we have never faced is being led by a president who is as unserious and uneducated and as mentally unstable and corrupt as this one.

His corruption knows no bounds. It was just reported that he has told associates that he will pardon everyone “who has come within 200 feet of the Oval” on his way out of office.

The pardon power is a relic of the British monarchy that should never have been part of our founding document. We survived its incongruity to our democracy only because previous presidents have abided by a kind of democratic gentleman’s agreement to rein in their worst instincts in favor of the health of the nation. That is clearly no longer the case with this president or with his political party, a significant portion of which relies on his attempts at retribution against his enemies and the pardons of his friends to achieve power of their own.

We have not been betrayed by the idealism of our founders. We have disrespected their idealism as a force for good that has leavened the worst instincts of human behavior.

This administration has turned out the lights and plunged the country into darkness for which there is no pardon that can save us. We have broken our own hearts and the hearts of everyone who once believed in us as a beacon of freedom for the rest of the world. It is left to us to find a way to turn the lights on again and power them without killing ourselves and the living things around us.

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#194

How do you let go

just like that

seven years

reduced to a moment,

a blink,

a silence I still hear?

No “let’s try,”

no “we can fix this,”

just your mind made up

without me in it

a door closing

before I even knew

we were leaving.

You walked away,

and I stayed

in the space you left behind,

still holding conversations

that never happened,

still searching for answers

you never gave.

I tell myself to move on,

to keep walking,

to let time do

what it’s supposed to do

but I haven’t moved an inch.

Because the way you left me feeling…

it lingers

like a bruise no one can see,

like a question with no end,

like a love

that didn’t know

it was already over.

Yours Faithfully🌻

Guys, I was cleaning out my phone, and I forgot that I have a bunch of edits of Avid bc my mind decided that making videos was gonna be a coping mechanism for the next like 2 weeks😭

Anyways, here's one of them

I would show you the rest but there is abt 30 separate edits soooo😭

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