Short, but well written.
You elected an imbecile, twice.
That says so much more about the American voters than it will ever about Trump or anyone in his admin.
“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." -George Carlin
We elected the imbecile, impeached him, witnessed his commission of countless crimes, then gave him immunity, then elected him even harder.
Impeached him also twice.
“I believe that the president has learned … a pretty big lesson.”
She’s a liar and a coward.
It’s pretty brutal to be surrounded by evil morons
If the rest of the world doesn’t learn from our example I’m gonna be very disappointed. Your government needs real checks and balances, actual power in the hands of citizens rather than billionaires.
Your government needs real checks and balances
For real. We (USA) thought we did. We don’t.
He needs to be tried for treason and punished accordingly.
his latest move could kill us all
This phrase could literally have been said at any point during Trump’s current term, and it will continue to be true for the rest of his term. Trump is regularly doing things that could kill us all.
If the dementia doesn’t get him first, he’s going to get a bomb dropped on US to stay in the White House.
I honestly think that just the damage that’s been done to climate change initiatives might be enough. We had a ton of steam going in to 2025, and this year has set us back by decades. I’m afraid that having such a prominent producer of GHG and pollution pull away so sharply will have knock on effects to other countries. After all, if the US doesn’t play ball, why should a smaller industrial country try to be cleaner?
Hopefully there’s still willpower and (more importantly) time to fix our shit before people start dying en masse. I kind of have my doubts at this point though. I’m pretty sure we will only start to truly prioritize it once it has a large impact on daily life, and that point will be far too late.
Preface: I am not pro-China by any means.
Interestingly, China might be a positive factor there, sort of? They seem to be aiming heavily for renewables, probably as much for economic as for climate change reasons. But with the way slightly more cleared for them to even more heavily reach out to developing countries, they might opt to invest in green energy in those developing countries. Undoubtedly to their own economic gain, again. But the net effect of China on global energy might be positive (good) from a purely greenhouse gas perspective.
Yeah, it’s really weird to look to china as a saving grace on anything, but I think you’re right. They’ve been going all in on renewables in the way that we should be. Hopefully that’ll drive prices down even further.
I also think that with their huge stakes in industrializing countries in Africa, many newly industrialized regions may just skip over the headache of transitioning off petroleum altogether.
Fingers crossed that china keeps pushing!
You could have said “rest of his life”
Hate you for infinity Amerikkka. No take backs.
Rest of the world here: WE FUCKING WARNED YOU, YOU MORONS!!!
Hardly, half of the world is currently considering electing just as moronic representatives.
Seriously. Everybody seems to be very eager to make our same mistake. It’s almost like there’s some kind of global disinformation campaign or something aimed at undermining democracy and installing ultra right wing leaders…
Well, goodnight.
American here: I warned them too, but they’re too stupid to listen to reason…and facts…and science.
Weird how the rest of the world hasn’t stopped him. Almost as if there are idiots and inaction everywhere.
Because that would require either a terrorist action or a bunch of Internationally illegal tampering with American Democracy or declaring war against the World power with the the largest standing army and deepest pockets for arsonal. The rest of the world is effectively held hostage while Americans solve their own problems.
It’s the reason why a lot of bad people in power stay in power. There can be tariffs and sanctions and all manner or soft power deals but the rules are rules. Sovereignty and a right to run your country mostly the way you want is protected as a right and and the US used its positioning as the least devastated megapower/millitary supremacy post WWII to basically bend the world over and get a lot of acceptions to a lot of rules.
Or electing your own leaders who are willing to stand up to him on a global stage. Half the country did not elect him. There are protests, there are grassroots movements. What else do you recommend? Pretty easy to sit outside and call millions of people morons, including all those who agree with you. Pretty small-minded if you ask me.
I did not call Americans morons nor was my intention to tell you what to do to solve the problem. I simply told you why there isn’t more help coming from the outside. It’s not a matter of people deliberately sitting on their hands.
Unless American leadership breaks the rules enough to get the sign on of multiple countries to work in concert against America in a world war you are on your own because of rules designed to allow countries to self govern. Other countries cannot alter another country’s government for good or for ill. This is not an indictment of the voting habits or a rebuke of the process of citizen power the American public.
Whether you or any other country solve your problem democratically or through violent collapse the world is handcuffed. There are civil wars going on right now in other countries and the rules are the same for them as they are for you. The world will recognize whatever government is effectively in power once the dust settles but outsiders cannot lawfully tip the scale and go kingmaking unless one side of the conflict violates the rules of war. War itself is not internationally illegal. The US falling into a full on civil war is kosher from an international law standpoint.
The USA has a historic tendency to ignore that international legality and go kingmaking themselves utilizing the resource of spies and subterfuge ONLY because they are singularly powerful enough on the world stage to get away with it. America essentially declared itself a world police force and the sheer infrastructure they have worldwide means that no individual country can compete. Look for yourself how many bases America has on foreign soil compared to every other country. How many armaments and millitary force and how, their ethics policies of their intelligence agencies differ. America is singularly unique. It may be why you believe the rest of the world will help you “fix” things but that’s not in the interests of the rest of the world.
Foriegn leaders are “standing up to America” but they are doing so by cutting themselves free of American coercion for the security and benefit of their own citizens. By framing America out of the picture and moving reliance to other countries and letting America starve itself once the supply chain contracts and treaties expire they will decrease American influence on world policy. It doesn’t benifit those countries to try and swoop in and shore up a crumbling empire which has held guns to their heads for generations. International help currently isn’t coming for American citizens. Unless your country fixes it’s problem fairly soon the “standing up to America” that is happening will level your economy and diplomatic power as other governments profit from the diminishing of American hard power for decades.
Not our fucking job to fix the US’s stupid problem. Land of the brave clearly don’t think it’s that big a deal so they’re on their own while we work out to take care of ourselves. Unfortunately there is still inaction, yes, but the US needs to actually do something about this instead of asking why no one is helping the country that actively fucked them over for decades upon decades.
Hate to tell you but Canada is next so hope you got your action pants ready. When the united states falls we take everyone with us so it’s kinda your job and your fucking problem too.
It is a stupid problem, you’re right. So how would you fix it? It’s lazy to call out an entire country, including those who actively work against him, as if they all voted in unison for the same thing. As long as you’re willing to sit on the outside slinging mud at many people who don’t deserve it, people will continue to do the same in return. Grow up.
I’m doing what I can to foment disgust from another country
What’s this “we” assertion bullshit?
Funny how when it’s Russia, every Russian must suffer for not overthrowing Putin, but when it’s the US, suddenly “oh no, it wasn’t me”.
the election was hacked and stolen…
Unfortunately I don’t believe it was. Go on Next door some time and you’ll see why.
Online aside, I meet plenty of MAGA out in the wild.
Crickey!!!
not sure what state you’re in but:
a) russian trolls can post on next door too.
b) election truth allianceFlorida and the people I’ve seen are real. Really stupid.
Florida is certainly chock full of stupid people.
i think nextdoor tends to concentrate a certain type of personHow many times did you let Florida Man vote?
Too god damned many.
it was. Election Truth Alliance has some compelling public data.
To the extent of discounting Muslims, latinos, white people, and non voting or third party voting tankies???
Election fraud, not voter fraud. There’s a difference.
Namely, voter fraud is the fake thing Republicans accuse the Democrats of in order to deflect from the election fraud they’re actually committing.
That’s to say nothing for the idea that if the election WERE stolen, it would be an uncharacteristic display of technical competence the likes of which we’ve never seen from this administration before or since.
nobody said the Trump administration was behind it and people like the ETA don’t make guesses. the information is clear: the election’s data was manipulated.
please look at the publicly available data. all i’m asking. check out what they are presenting.
Refusing to do anything against that scum was just as good as supporting him, in the end.
So yeah, I’d say that 2/3rds is enough to constitute a ‘we’ in this case.
Ugh, stupid webpage kept prompting me to pay despite telling me it was a free article shared by subscribers.
Can I get a trld please?
Too read, long didn’t
Don’t dead open inside
The word order wouldn’t even work as a ddoi.
It is paywall.
Wooosh !
Too read, long didn’t = trld
Too long ; didn’t read = tl;dr
Tl;dr - Trump ruining environment and economy for the whole world, not just the US.
Didn’t see any new stuff besides some stuff from Newsom and the Pope about how it’s probably wrong to let people die and poison the planet.
Thank you.
All in a day’s work, friend!
Thanks
We elected an imbecile
You’re only just figuring that out now?
the global south, including poor states in the US
Kek
Honestly? At this point I’d be OK with it, if it just happens fast (there’s a your mom joke in there, but I can’t be arsed)
Death doesn’t seem so bad as an American living in a psychological manipulated fake dystopian freedom hellscape.
It’s clear now nobody is going to actually fight back. Give me a quick death and I’m good.
