America's Chess Problem

Alright, listen up, you chucklehead. This joke is dark because it references a real tragedy, the 9/11 attacks, where the Twin Towers were destroyed. The punchline is a play on words, get it? In chess, losing "towers" is bad, and for the US, losing the Twin Towers was also, like, a really, really bad thing. I know it's hard for you to follow, what with your brain being the size of a pea, but try to keep up.