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    America the Less — The “America Go Away” Movement Takes Hold

    January 18, 202614 Comments
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    By Bear Howard

    Sedona, AZ –Good evening, Americans.

    Relax—this isn’t an intervention. It’s a note on the fridge from the rest of the world. Written in Sharpie. With a smiley face that still feels judgmental.

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    Six or seven billion people are standing here, wearing the same red hat. Americans taught the world to notice red hats. This one reads: Make America Go Away.

    This isn’t hate. Hate takes effort. This is exhaustion—the tone reserved for the loud, overbearing father who never leaves the room, never stops talking, and insists his way is the only way. Eventually, Mom divorces him. The kids breathe easier. Life gets quieter. Better. New friends show up. Nobody misses the shouting.

    Americans are 4% of the world’s population. Four percent is not a mandate—it’s a sample size. Yet Americans turn it into a nonstop global performance where every season escalates, continuity disappears, and the writers stop coordinating.

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    Americans used to feel aspirational. Messy, arrogant, but believable. Freedom sounds sincere. Opportunity feels real enough that people pack their bags and forgive the noise.

    Now Americans arrive already drunk, lecture everyone about responsibility, break the lamp, then send a Venmo request for the damage.

    Americans say they’re exceptional. The world nods politely—the same way people do when someone brings a guitar to a dinner party.

    Americans say their system is the best system. The fact it needs constant explaining is noted.
    Americans ask the world to follow their lead. The world quietly puts the map down.

    Americans love talking about money. The world doesn’t want it anymore—not the kind labeled “aid” that comes with instructions, sermons, and surveillance.

    The planes are impressive. Also terrifying. Please stop circling.
    The products get tried. They break. Customer service thanks everyone for their patience and disconnects.

    The lectures play on repeat.

    What changes isn’t Americans.
    What changes is the world.

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    The world connects. It compares notes. It watches Americans argue with themselves in public and demand everyone else choose sides. It watches volume replace leadership, cruelty masquerade as honesty, and spectacle substitute for strength.

    So the world buys the hat. It’s more than a cute message—it’s a movement.

    Not because it’s clever—though it is.
    Not because it’s fashionable—though red endures.
    But because it says what remains after everything else gets tried:

    Please stop. Go sit down. America, go away—for a while.

    Not exile. A timeout.
    Still in the room, just not at the head of the table.
    Listening instead of narrating.

    The world doesn’t want Americans gone.
    It wants Americans to be better.

    Until then, the world moves on—quieter, calmer, more cooperative—relieved that the overbearing father steps out of the room and life, unexpectedly, feels more peaceful without him.

    History rarely ends in collapse. It ends in irrelevance.
    Not by invasion—but by choice. The 96% chooses stability over shouting, cooperation over dominance, partners over kings.

    America isn’t losing the world by accident.
    The world moves on deliberately.

    America the Great becomes America the Less—
    and the rest of the world doesn’t cheer, doesn’t gloat, just keeps going.

    America, go away.

    The world grows up. It chooses cooperation over chaos and keeps moving without you.

    Sit this one out. Learn.
    Then—maybe—return differently.

    In the meantime, we’re all taking Chinese lessons.

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    14 Comments

    1. JB on January 18, 2026 12:57 pm

      Sadly, Chyyyna is the new beacon of light and technological inspiration. M’erica is “hot”- a hot mess to be precise. We are the laughing stock of the free world although the free world knows better than taking on the most heavily armed, violent and hate filled, out of control nation on earth. MAGA wants M’erica First but in reality all they have done is isolate us and has driven away genuine long time allies into the Arms of Chyyyna while making us a pariah state nobody other than racists fascist want anything to do with us yet, they secretly desire to crush us.

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      • Alisa on January 18, 2026 8:57 pm

        I sadly stand in agreement. 🫤. Maybe the rest of the world putting ‘Merica in time out is necessary for the madness to cease. Not sure why they haven’t done it before now…

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      • Mr. Ed on January 19, 2026 7:49 am

        What nonsense. The children are better when father is away? The children are more depressed, anxious and confused about their gender. Mother is an emotional mess and will probably resort to showing her body in the internet for the price of a dozen donuts. Guess how the kids will end up.

        Homes need fathers. The world needs America. That’s why they do everything they can to break into the country! Despite our great experiment appearing to be wavering due to the lack of patriotism many of our fellow residents share apparent by the anti-ICE protest, I’m sure that no one who cries about this great nation would rather live in Beijing or Pyongyang.

        Don’t like how we do things? Think the grass is greener on the other side. Feel free to leave and “learn Chinese” while you’re at it. (But you won’t because you’re KNOW you won’t have the same freedoms here, snowflakes)

        We don’t need you anyway.

        Make AMERICA Great Again💪🏽

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    2. West Sedona Dave on January 19, 2026 7:00 am

      And for any of you who didnt pay attention. Every move is from Project 2025! You know that thing Trump never heard of?
      Good grief you have unleashed an didiot on the world, and now the world will push back!
      No more shinning light on top of the hill…..Just a gross disgusting living breathing 7 deadly sins!

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    3. Michael Schroeder on January 19, 2026 8:04 am

      America sat down and did a time out for 4 years.

      Guess you were off on a 4 year vacation.

      Drugs flowing like a broken dam, 100s of thousands dying in our own country, gangs, rapes, murders, and now one of the biggest frauds in history uncovered costing us billions by letting a culture permeate into our system that came from a “country” where cheating, theft and lawlessness is the norm.

      We got over 10 million illegals in 4 yeats sucking social services, housing, Food Stamps and other “freebees”. The land of opportunity for the Democrats, giving away billions to buy votes, and trying to keep illegals here.

      2 wars started, a million plus dead? The western hemisphere being invaded by the Chinese?

      Ya, we already did the “sleep thing”. When America sleeps people die, chaos insues, prices and our debt soars and our citizens suffer.

      The article is an incredible bubble filled with, I don’t know, hate for America?

      America’s problem is that we have a group of politicians that couldn’t hold a real job if their life depended on it. Many have become millionaires on a Senator’s or a House salary. How did that happen, Bernie and Nancy to name just 2. Buying votes with taxpayer money praying on the 50% who contribute less than 3% to the revenue of the country…by design. Keep em poor, keep em dependent keep ME in office.

      Many of the wold leaders dislike what is happening. But here is the real message, the people love it when America stands up to the oppressors and the bullies, the drug cartels, the sex traffickers.

      We are back, and the crazy left is doing everything to put us back in our box so they can continue to run amok.

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    4. TJ Hall on January 19, 2026 1:55 pm

      Trump ties Greenland demands to Nobel Prize in message to Norway leader

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7mev35x2lo

      Oh Boo hoo ya wanker! You lie and claim to have ended 8 wars and start nearly a dozen others so you don’t merit a Nobel or any other peace prize no matter how ridiculously made up to suck up like FIFA did. Greenland is not yours or America’s it belongs to Greenland and Denmark period. Get that through your over inflated pumpkin head!

      Guess blokes like you just enjoy chaos, ignorance and corruption from the top down? People with common sense enjoy a world with ignorance, corruption and hate.

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    5. Mr. Ed on January 19, 2026 2:59 pm

      They’re upset because the men can’t powder their noses in the women’s bathrooms anymore and the women can’t show off their naked bodies for the price of a latte and yell Freedom.

      America is back indeed💪🏽

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      • Jill Dougherty on January 19, 2026 6:15 pm

        Where’s America back from? Slavery? Jim Crow? Un regulated industrial waste and pollution? Greedy Billionaires? Pre- Suffragette?

        The country has some dark history most would like to forget and move on from. But folks like you live in the past and learn nothing from history. You live in a fantasy world created by haters for haters.

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      • Jill Dougherty on January 19, 2026 6:19 pm

        Mr Ed was an abused horse they drugged and attached wires to his mouth to make it appear as if he could talk. Seems like a fitting name for someone who has nothing but Trump’s ignorance to spew ad nauseam. .

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      • John McFarland on January 20, 2026 2:19 pm

        Sure glad a so called former LEO with such hatred of women and likely everyone else is off duty indefinitely. You’re exactly what is wrong with LE- Bad Cops!

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    6. Robert Bixby on January 19, 2026 4:15 pm

      “We are back, and the crazy left is doing everything to put us back in our box so they can continue to run amok”

      Seems you have dyslexia of Party affiliation. The only party breaking laws and violating the constitution on a daily basis is the MAGA party. We all see it with our own eyes. So try as you might nothing will change who the criminals truly are. The 4 years of Biden seem uneventful in comparison to MAGA’s 5 years of Insurrection, War, Poverty, Failed Economy, Failed Tariffs and a hate filled “Gestapo” (Joe Rodger’s words not mine) doing as they please. Yep, lawfulness is boring compared to war, violence and sheer hatred of one’s fellow man if your a lawless, war mongering, violence lover!

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    7. Steve Segner on January 20, 2026 9:41 am

      The End of the Great American Era
      Michael Schroeder’s version of the “Great American” era is over, much as Britain’s imperial and industrial dominance faded over the course of the 20th century. This is not a moral judgment; it is a historical pattern. Great powers rise, mature, and decline — and the United States is no exception.
      The American decline began after the post-war boom of the 1950s, a period that was historically unique and economically unsustainable. Coming out of World War II, the United States faced no serious industrial competition: Europe was rebuilding, Japan was shattered, and China was still agrarian. That moment — not capitalism itself — created the illusion of permanent American dominance.
      The charts tell this story clearly.
      U.S. manufacturing once accounted for roughly 30% of global output.
      Today, that share has fallen to the low teens.
      Meanwhile, China has become the world’s largest manufacturing power, producing close to 30% of global manufacturing output, more than the U.S., Japan, and Germany combined.
      This is not a temporary fluctuation. It is a structural shift.
      China Is Now the “Big Dog”
      China is no longer an emerging economy — it is the central manufacturing engine of the world.
      Since market reforms began in the late 1970s, China has lifted roughly 800 million to one billion people out of extreme poverty, the largest and fastest poverty reduction in human history. That transformation was driven by industrial policy, infrastructure investment, state-directed capitalism, and full participation in global trade.
      China today is best described as a capitalist–socialist authoritarian system — a hybrid model that has, by measurable outcomes, worked extraordinarily well for its population in terms of income growth, life expectancy, education, and material stability.
      The uncomfortable truth for Americans is this:
      China did not get rich by copying American ideology — it got rich by rejecting it where it didn’t work.
      America’s Decline Is Largely Self-Inflicted
      America’s problem is not competition — it is ideology calcified into dogma.
      The U.S. has spent decades dismantling its own industrial base, outsourcing production, hollowing out its middle class, and consolidating wealth at the top. Manufacturing jobs disappeared, not because Americans stopped working, but because policy favored financialization, consolidation, and short-term shareholder gains over long-term national resilience.
      The charts showing:
      the collapse of manufacturing as a share of GDP, and
      the loss of industrial employment
      are not signs of progress — they are warning signals.
      “War Capitalism” and the Illusion of Reversal
      The economic nationalism now being advanced by Donald Trump — what might be called war capitalism — will not reverse this decline. Tariffs, trade wars, and symbolic reshoring efforts may slow the rate of decline temporarily, but they do not rebuild ecosystems, supply chains, or social trust.
      At best, these policies buy time — likely only until the next general election.
      Structural decline cannot be solved with slogans or punitive trade measures. It requires systemic reform.
      America Is Neither Free Nor Christian
      Despite its rhetoric, America today is neither truly free nor genuinely Christian.
      It operates within a pseudo-Christian capitalist framework that sanctifies wealth, equates poverty with moral failure, and blocks upward mobility for those who do not conform to its economic mythology. This system does not reward work — it rewards ownership. It does not protect families — it protects capital.
      The result:
      a shrinking middle class,
      declining life expectancy,
      rising household debt,
      and a population increasingly aware that the system is rigged.
      The Coming Shift: Europe, Not America
      American capitalism is unlikely to survive in its current form.
      What replaces it will likely resemble a European-style mixed economy:
      stronger labor protections,
      universal healthcare,
      regulated markets,
      and limits on extreme wealth concentration.
      This transition will not be driven by ideology — it will be driven by necessity.
      At the same time, China will remain a dominant global player, economically and geopolitically. The United States can no longer pretend it is the center of the world. The future requires expecting, respecting, and negotiating with China, not fantasizing about its collapse.
      The Real Conflict: 2% vs. 98%
      This is not a battle between nations.
      It is a battle between classes.
      The American pseudo-Christian capitalist system is now being challenged from the bottom up, by people who can no longer survive under its rules. The idea that 2% of the population should rule the remaining 98% is no longer politically or socially sustainable.
      History is clear on this point:

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    8. JB on January 21, 2026 7:12 am

      The TRUTH and FACTS about Greenland during WWII vs. Peter Pumpkinhead’s “Alternative Facts” about how the US defended Greenland from endless German military aggression 🤡!

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_in_World_War_II

      The old windbag went to Davos to give a campaign speech full of his usual bullshit and lies as if the rest of the world gives a crap about “Sleepy Joe”! What they care about is the instability of the clown threatening Greenland. Not ours- Never was!

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    9. TJ Hall on January 21, 2026 8:36 am

      Whew! King Eggbert has decided not to use military force upon Greenland. At least not now. So now we can get back to Domestic matters like releasing the entirety of the Epstein Files, getting and an out of control DHS/ICE unlawfully terrorizing US cities and citizens under control and being “President of Venezuela”!

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