If it has real consequences, they will have been entirely avoidable. I guess you could say that that makes it both theater and real at the same time, which is fittingly postmodern.
The video on this page now redirects to a much more recent one about the Ukraine-Russia war, but the image of Obama saying "we are still a triple-A country" is burned in my brain from when our credit rating got downgraded and... nothing happened. I'm not sure that any financial consequences can ever alter the trajectory of the current US government, since financial consequences require a larger financial institution to enforce them and there is no financial institution in the world larger than the US Federal Reserve.
If it has real consequences, they will have been entirely avoidable. I guess you could say that that makes it both theater and real at the same time, which is fittingly postmodern.
The video on this page now redirects to a much more recent one about the Ukraine-Russia war, but the image of Obama saying "we are still a triple-A country" is burned in my brain from when our credit rating got downgraded and... nothing happened. I'm not sure that any financial consequences can ever alter the trajectory of the current US government, since financial consequences require a larger financial institution to enforce them and there is no financial institution in the world larger than the US Federal Reserve.