If Gen Z is perplexed, Roy Keane, the legend behind Manchester United’s Roy Kent, when summed up Sir Alex Ferguson’s inherent ability to read the room and lead his team by recalling a specific game when United were hosting Tottenham Hotspur, and how the carpenter merely entered and said,” Boys, it’s Tottenham,” putting together a narrative that the opposition needed no other advantages. In Premier League history,” Lads, it’s Tottenham” was as much a leitmotif as” Prawn Sandwich Brigade,”” Parking the Bus,” and” Doing an Arsenal,” capturing the height and height that Manchester United and Tottenham once represented. The latest Europa League final between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, where those glory days are long gone, shows how unapologetically old those days are. Rather of” Ladies, it’s United,” could now serve as the joke. Since Sir Alex Ferguson’s pensions in 2013, Manchester United has been a workshop in incompetence, whether it was selecting managers, cutting people, choosing people to work for, or even choosing what foods should be served in the restaurant. And at this time, there is only one institution in the world that you meet that level of incompetence. However, it has access to the largest nuclear arsenal and is the most powerful person in the so-called free earth. It’s not difficult to refute the claim that Washington, the living, breathing capital that has been renamed St. Petersburg, is no longer that. The Peter Principle refers to the idea that, in a business layout, every person rises to their level of stupidity for those who didn’t attend business class. Washington, which has turned into a lake unlike any other, is currently experiencing an unprecedented rise in its level.
Let’s consider a quick tour of the Trump lake. We have a director of homeland security who believes habeas corpus means the president has the authority to remove people from the country and can’t defend her own bag from being shot by her own dog ( trained apparently not in the job description ). A minister of knowledge, for the uninitiated, believes AI is a sirloin soup, and whose claim to fame is running an organization of make-believe athletes. Next off, a secretary of defense who may have a drinking problem, leaked classified attack strategies to his family, brother, and attorney, and reportedly struck a person with an axe on live TV. A National Security Advisor ( since removed ), who added the editor of a major publication to a Signal group discussion about dropping bombs because he was so confident in his operational security.
A director of National Intelligence who was raised in a mysterious cult, and an FBI director who writes children’s books with himself as the protagonist, ostensibly prefers nightclubs to offices and has questioned ties to Chinese companies. Then there is the national BFF, who left his company in disrepair and quickly became so toxic that the swamp decided to eject him, destroying much of American soft power in one fell swoop, losing a lot of his wealth as a result of his BFF’s random tariff formulas, and becoming so toxic that even the swamp decided to eject him.
Finally, there’s the selfie-obsessed millennial Vice President, who has gained a reputation that would make Death reconsider meeting him in Samarra and who repeatedly asks foreign leaders for favors. If it weren’t for the fact that this motley crew now runs a machine with untold wealth and power in the service of a leader whose principles can be purchased with a luxury jet or a Happy Meal, one capable of starting a world war or collapsing the global economy on a whim. Old Trafford, Manchester United’s home ground, was in its prime as the Theatre of Dreams. Washington is the Theatre of Nightmares today. Not just for America, but for the entire world as well. Welcome to St. Petersburg, where incompetence is a quality rather than an accident.
