America was killed, by Americans, in a democratic election. And so many are still fondling the corpse, writhing with carrion bugs, and pretending it’s still alive.

Oh…

I can guaran-fucking-tee you my opinion of so-called “Americans” will never recover…

I’m more concerned if the country is ever able to recover.

FUCK!! IT’S ONLY BEEN A COUPLE MONTHS!!

Much worse is yet to be realized.

And, yes, I’m a suitably embarrassed US’ian.

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Twice. They did it twice.

You can almost (but not quite) forgive the first time. You could -maybe- write it off as an experiment, or that they were giving the ‘real politicians’ a scare to get them back in line. However that’s a lot of ‘almost’ and ‘maybe’.

But the second time, that’s fucking unforgivable.

Lol I wish we were a country. Orange man dreaming big ;)

The EU sort of is like a country in a sense though

He’s a socially stunted bully (wait is that repeating myself?, not sure up to a certain age anyways) so yes, I think one of most satisfying wishes to make these days would be to give Trump self awareness and empathy.

Quick edit, like in the 90s Bedazzled movie with Hurley and Fraser where he asks to be sensitive.

He thinks our economy is strong enough to stand on its own and that’s absolutely ridiculous.

Products get expensive, US consumers don’t buy as many products, countries which export those products see reduction in exports and thus taxes.

Theoretically.

America is the largest consumer state on planet earth. A huge amount of foreign economies rely heavily on export to the United States and tariffs can do a LOT of damage. Trump knows these tariffs are a huge bargaining chip, but it’s the type of chip you can only use to this degree once. And he’s cashing it in for… his own political clout. The natural response to this that we’re already seeing the beginning of, is countries restructuring their industry to be less reliant on the U.S. which will ultimately do far more damage to the U.S. than the U.S. can do to other countries. And once they’ve all done that, there won’t be a good reason to ramp that trade up again.

As an American this is going to suck a lot for us, but right now everything Trump is doing sucks for us. The shame of it is that no matter how bad it gets, I can’t realistically be mad at Canada, Mexico, or all of Europe over it. What other option have they been given?

From the same supporters who will shoot themselves in the foot to own the libs, this is at a much larger level.

Also, a classic facist move. Get everyone to turn on you, then propagate “the world is out to get us”, and once you instill that mentality on the people, it’s easier for people to believe we’re the victims, and we’re fighting for our liberation.

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It is not risking 30% of anything. 3% maybe.

The US could crack fusion and the world wouldn’t buy it from them at this point. They can ramp production, but everything they produce now is pretty must limited to domestic sales. If it does get exported, the world now has all kinds of reasons to negotiate the lowest fucking prices sustainable, if that.

I don’t think that’s true. I think the MAGAs have lived in such a comfortable bubble of American privilege that they don’t understand the implications of all this. They’re used to making jokes about Canada, “basically being the U.S.,” and having free and easy travel on the border that they don’t think about the fact that it’s a sovereign nation with it’s own culture and interests. I think they see this as politicians arguing, not America becoming a hostile foreign power.

Even the administration doesn’t seem to get this. They just had to cancel a, “cultural,” visit from the Second Lady to Greenland because both the government and public told them they were unwelcome. Apparently, they’re so steeped in American privilege (and probably used to people dismissing Trump ramblings as, “bluster,” or, “hot air,”) that it didn’t occur to them that you can’t just make a fun, friendly visit to a country the President threatened to invade.

They’re in for a lot of discomfort though. Like generations of it.

I’ve been seeing “comfortable” a lot, but I think honestly it’s less comfort and more confusion. I know it’s popular to portray us all as lazy, drinking our Big Gulp slushies and watching sportsball, but that’s not the whole picture.

We all know it sucks, we might call our reps, our friends might go wave some signs…but ultimately we’re culturally unaccustomed to organization, and that part cripples meaningful resistance. As the commenter below me stated, “lack of civic culture” and “hyper individualism” nails it.

Okay, we all want different things, we all struggle at wildly different randomized shifts because most of us are one missed paycheck away from disaster, how do we know who our friends are? No no, not the “Yeah man, that sucks lol idk.” friends, the ones who will actually fight with you?

Consequently, we’re suffering a massive lonliness epidemic where a lot of people not only have very little civic ties, they don’t even have a network of reliable companionship! A lot of this is simply thanks to suburban dominance and nowhere left to meet that’s not charging admission.

We’re supposed to have a new constitution every generation.

“There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.”

— Thomas Paine

It’s pretty wild that the median income before tax in the USA is less than the median income in Denmark after tax (based solely on income tax). Just to put things into perspective.

With that said, it will only get worse for the American people if they don’t get rid of this administatrion, and everything that has made it possible for this administration to do as it does. You think it’s hard to make ends meet now? What about when you don’t have any tradepartners anymore? Or when all your worker rights are stripped away?

Being anti-social and not organizing are bunk values. America will never get better until we admit the ways in which it sucks.

Unionize! Start by just talking to your coworkers about pay. You can make a difference, but it will take a long time to unfuck.

I guess but a lot of us have been fighting against this rise of Nazis but we’re up against a multibillion dollar brainwashing machine and billion dollar facist think tanks. I don’t think a lot of us deserve this because we have been trying. I don’t see this ending without violence and unfortunately our side is losing so we better get our shit together.

Chomp