Søren AasIs The Us Liquidating While We Are Rage-Posting?
Is 2025 the birth of a new Reich, or just a coordinated fire sale?
I’ve been thinking about the “Trump is Hitler” trope. Honestly, it feels like it might be a distraction, like a lot of things about this administration. While we spend our afternoons arguing about Nazi parallels and fascism on social media, something much more modern—and potentially much more permanent—might be happening in the background.
What if we aren’t witnessing the rise of a new “Reich,” but rather the Suez Moment of the American superpower? What if 2025 is actually the year we decided to hold a coordinated fire sale of the empire?
A note to readers: This piece is a thought experiment, not investigative reporting. I'm not claiming to have uncovered a conspiracy or to possess insider knowledge. Instead, I'm proposing an alternative analytical framework—a different lens through which to view current events. The goal is to provoke thought and invite you to question dominant narratives, including this one. Take it as seriously as it deserves, which is to say: seriously enough to consider, lightly enough to debate.
The Tactical Smoke: Why we get stuck on Hitler
Does the Hitler comparison persists because it just feels familiar? We see the “enemy within” rhetoric, the attacks on judges, and the rapid hollowing out of the civil service—what the policy wonks call Schedule Policy/Career.
In 1933, the Nazis used that kind of speed to build a fortress. But look at what’s happening today. Does it look like anything of value is being built? Or is it more like the copper wiring being stripped out from the walls?
The “Media Shit Show”
Look at the media shit show of this last week. We have the Epstein files being released with redactions so bad that teenagers on X were un-masking names in minutes. Our feeds are full of people screaming, “They are so inept! They can’t even run a black highlighter!”
Consider what if the ineptitude isn’t a bug; it’s a feature. It’s the smoke screen for the liquidation. What if that’s the point? To keep us talking about shit.
In the world of sleight-of-hand, you give the dog a treat so you can grab its collar. While we are all hunting for names in a PDF, the “other hand” was using DOGE to delete the institutional memory of the state. It’s not just firing people; it’s the removal of the archives, the oversight committees, and the regulatory “plumbing” that keeps the fire sale legal.
The Liquidator-in-Chief
If you were going to strip a failing company, you wouldn’t hire a visionary builder; you’d hire someone with experience. If you look at Trump’s history, he might actually be qualified in all the right ways to head this operation.
Think about his Atlantic City years. He didn’t build those casinos to last for a thousand years. He loaded them with high-interest “junk bond” debt, extracted “incredible” management fees and salaries for himself, and then walked away while the shell of the business collapsed, leaving the small contractors and bondholders to hold the bag.
He has spent his entire life mastering the art of “Value Extraction”—socializing the losses while personalizing the gains. Why would the U.S. government be any different? He may indeed be proving he is good at his job.
The “Net-Profit” Extraction
Look at the data on undocumented immigrants through this “vulture capitalist” lens. While the “media shit show” on the border dominates the news, the numbers are showing a group of people that contribute close to $100 billion a year in taxes.
About $25 billion of that goes into the Social Security Trust Fund every year. It is essentially a permanent donation to a future they are legally barred from ever seeing. It’s paying the taxes without the benefits. In a liquidation scenario, they aren’t “invaders”—they’re a subsidized revenue stream used to keep the system’s heart beating just long enough for the owners to prepare the exit.
Suez Moment
Historians talk about the Suez Crisis in 1956 as the moment the world realized the British Empire could no longer afford its own teeth. Britain told its citizens it was “Returning to Greatness” even as it was retreating back to its island.
Is that what the retreat from NATO and the “America First” isolationism really is? It’s easy to frame it as “strength,” but it could also feel like imperial overstretch. We have a debt so high the interest alone rivals the defense budget.
Britain’s decline was accelerated because they lost control of the pound. The US “liquidating” is only possible as long as the dollar remains the worlds reserve currency, a currency that has been in decline for decades now. It was 70% of global foreign exchange reserves in 2000, but is down to 58% now.
The Warlords and the Rage
The “stress” we’re seeing in the MAGA camp this December—the public infighting between tech moguls and political loyalists—doesn’t look like a monolithic Nazi party. It looks like Warlord Corporatism. It looks like different factions arguing over who gets the rights to federal data, public lands, and government contracts as the business is being dismantled.
And the genius of it? We’re too busy rage-posting about the “media shit show” to notice the asset stripping of the republic. We’re looking for 1930s Brownshirts while the 2025 liquidators are simply using the “Delete” key.
Whether this is coordinated extraction or just opportunistic chaos hardly matters—the net effect is the same: public assets flowing into private hands while we argue about the spectacle.
Final thought
Are we watching a “reboot,” or are we just watching the last few assets of a Super Power being moved into private hands before the Super in Super Power becomes superfluous?
Is the ineptitude and controversy a sign of failure, or is it an effective distraction?
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