Blame Canada

We used to joke back in 2015 how unbelievable it was that the real-life embodiment of Eric Cartman’s personality – thankfully lacking in his intellect and ambition – was gaining traction as a contender for the most powerful post in the world.

Fast-forward ten years – much suffering later – and placating of that individual’s ego by the greedy and powerful is dragging everyone down a degenerative path. A bitter pill to swallow considering that nonvoting citizens continue to outnumber those whose ballots elect winning candidates across democratic nations.

This gangrene will affect the soul as much as it does the body politic.

Your Measures entry for a daily news cycle fueled by tariffs, trade wars, and nonsense: a twenty-six-year-old cartoon satirizing censorship, unintentionally reflecting the zenith of U.S. foreign policy in 2025.

Carrying prescience as darkly comical today as it was at the turn of the millennium.