Don’t trust us.
We put this fuckface in power twice, and did absolutely nothing effective to stop him for TWO YEARS of his second round, even with the countless easily impeachable offenses he committed and bragged about on public television.
Make that trust need to be earned back.
I still wouldn’t trust them, glad to see the Trumpists fail but I feel like Trump is more of a symptom.
American here: He is.
I can’t speak for the whole of Canada, let alone the world, but as far as I’m concerned as long as one monstrous Republican shill still draws breath and sits in Congress, it will never be safe to trust America. If it’s so easy for America to fall to fascism once, it can and will fall again until there is massive systemic reform. It will be a generation before people like me are willing to put the past behind us. You are still engaged in illegal wars, holding foreign heads of state hostage, keeping refugees in internment camps and every masked ice agent still walks freely on your streets.
Talk to me when the Dems actually do something about the incalculable harm America has done to the world. Boycott, divest, and sanction, for all genocidal rogue states, America included.
It’s been 3 minutes, what are you even talking about
I get the impression that a lot of Americans think that Trump merely ruffled some feathers on the international scene, and that a charm offensive will set things right once he’s gone.
From the outside, we watched you elect Trump twice, and have no reason to believe that the GOP won’t finish what he started. We’ve seen that Americans need to be pushed to the absolute brink before leaning into civic duty and voting. That’s fine and well, except for the fact that they’re a superpower, and the rest of the planet can suffer mightily, while Americans put in suboptimal effort into holding their government accountable.
Until proven otherwise, the United States is always one election cycle away of picking up right where the Trump regime left off.
The above is the undercurrent of my thoughts when getting into the profound fuckover inflicted on my country, while the entirety of the GOP went along with it gleefully.
The GOP barely exists now, because of Trump. This used to be a soft power game, lots of behind the scene back room deals. Obama even said corruption under Trump was better than before him because it was public, and in my opinion being done by incompetent idiots where before it was private and being done by very smart and very ruthless men. All of the real GOP has been slowly pushed out since the tea party came to power, if Europe was serious they’d be pointing to the tea party not Trump but that’s neither here nor there. Now it’s just a bunch of obviously stupid obviously incapable corporate puppets clearly unable to keep up the illusion that keeps the money faucets running. The GOP died and what’s left is eating its self. The real issue here is how obviously weak our left wing is, it doesn’t matter if our Conservative Party implodes if our “liberal” party can’t constitute something meaningful and long lasting. We need money out of politics now or the right will rise from the ashes cloaked in back room deals and run by ruthless competent men again.
Still an untrustworthy partner who is rotten at the core.
I think of them more like the wife of an abusive stepfather.
Like, they don’t like what’s happening, and they have the power to put an end to it, but it would be hard.
It would be a choice they’d have to make, and they’d have to live with the consequences, and they can’t quite convince themselves to do what they have to do in order to protect their kid.
They justify it to themselves saying that many times are good, and overlook the times where it’s horribly, horribly bad.
And I feel like the only way to solve the problem is for the kid to grow up and leave them behind, but there are many kids, and they are not in agreement as to how to do it, or if it’s even bad in the first place.
We have spent years demeaning and undermining our allies, you don’t just get that trust back because of one day of voting
Well, this has now happened once, now we know it could happen again. Trust has been broken.
Once? Trump was elected twice.
George Bush Jr. started an illegal war against Iraq, and claimed that if you aren’t with us, you are against us. He too was both war mongering and hostile towards allies.
Reagan stood for the worst weapons race of the cold war, and was corrupt with the Iran Contra affair, and he made many people very afraid of nuclear war.
Nixon too was a war criminal with what USA did in Vietnam, his first order was to increase war activity in Vietnam, and he and Kissinger decidedly sabotaged peace talks.This didn’t happen once, there is a clear pattern, and that pattern points towards the next Republican president will likely be even worse.
I won’t lie, there’s only a very moderate sigh of relief for me personally.
Trump will be a lame duck now, so the messes he can make will be fewer.
But I’m not sure I trust the American people quite yet. They still elected Trump twice.
As a European, I also don’t think we can return to business as usual, because USA is still an unreliable partner.
Even a new relatively good president in the next presidential election will not change that.Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr. 2 times, and now Trump 2 times, paints a pretty horrible picture of American politics.
And even Obama was a war criminal, even though he was better than average, and very liked in Europe. He was not the humanitarian he painted himself as in his speeches. He was still all about American exceptionalism.So I think we will have to wait about 12 years to know if USA is on a better path or not. Until then extreme caution is recommended.
America has a systemic issue, they were handed the tools to start fixing it. Abolishing the electoral college should be doable now for example. Also lying to congressional committees should carry a penalty.
I’ll see after the next presidential election if they’re worth forgiving.
Until the Epstein class is in prison, no difference.
Let’s at least wait until Russ Vought let’s them take the oath.
Oh honey…
The world is ~9B people. How should anyone know what they all think? However, I can tell you what I think: I hope he also catches Incurable Anal Itch.
Ask again once 60+ years of foreign relations have been rebuilt. It took less than four to ruin them.
