You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn’t want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named ‘Bush’, ‘Dick’, and ‘Colon.’

Structured as a rapid-fire list of apparent “role reversals,” the joke plays on cultural expectations about race, nationality, and power in early-2000s America. Each clause points to a then-top figure or headline—Eminem in rap, Tiger Woods in golf, Yao Ming in the NBA, Alinghi (Switzerland) winning the America’s Cup, and the post‑9/11 geopolitical climate—before landing on a punchline built from the names of U.S. leaders (“Bush,” “Dick,” “Colon”). The humor comes from juxtaposing stereotypes with real-world counterexamples, suggesting that public life feels disorienting when familiar categories no longer predict who excels or who leads.