Trump calls Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’ as US rift with Ukraine deepens
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They would simply blame Mexicans and DEI. Use it to garner more power. Who would be able to stop them, or prosecute in any meaningful way?
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We would. That's where the people have to step up. The military would. Political leaders not aligned with trump would.
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You have guns, fucking use them
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Strikes. The only thing that works and is non violent. The rest is just reminders that the working class can stop working. Or reminders that one can do a Luigi.
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Europe’s, who look down on rampant American capitalism and Trump?
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of fascist Europeans. Anecdotally, my mom recently told me her friend likes Trump, and that same person votes for our own far-right party whose leader has essentially been trying to emulate Trump.
One of my biggest fears that I think not enough people have though about, is that - due to how much more connect the world is with the internet - WW3 would devolve into a bunch of civil wars. WW2 was extremely different from WW1 and already had its far share of in fighting in some countries, this time it could be worse and happen in basically every country involved.
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I thought Trump loves dictators.
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as if the U.S. is an enemy state and an active threat
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On the Japan front, they were already fairly demoralized and the most important factor is simply that, while the US had nukes, no one else did. With mutually assured destruction, that's off the table.
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Mm it makes me very angry and sad to see peoples response to this. I feel like in Europe at least more and more people are becoming aware that it is not in fact just "the art of the deal", but serious. Still a lot of careful rethoric thrown around and a lot of people refuse accepting the situation (fascists in the white house) but it is getting better. I have no idea how it is in the US tho except for some news articles which don't tell me shit about what people think..
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Brexit wasn’t left/right wing. Eurosceptics on both sides. I’d also point out France where right-wing populism ultimately lost out despite an increase in protest votes.
There’s also a greater tradition of public service broadcasting, meaning politicians are more rigorously interrogated than in the highly commercial, partisan American system.
The EU and EC are somewhat stabilising influences too. An EU member government simply wouldn’t be allowed to do some of the stuff Trump is doing.
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If we are lucky this is only how bad it will be. I strongly suspect it is going to get much worse before it gets better.
The outright corruption and country-killing isn't really having that much impact yet, but it will. And just wait for the global economic crisis.
However, if things get bad enough there's a better chance of people rising up and things changing for the better. Or if things stay sane enough somehow, the midterm elections changing everything.
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No we can't. Nor unless republicans stop universally falling in line.
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I don't think he'll bother with amendments.
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You are making way more assumptions about functioning government than recent trends would predict.
He's consolidating all power in the executive. All bets are off on anything functioning the way it's "supposed" to.
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Did I miss an election that gave the Republicans 60 votes in the Senate?
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tell us what to do!! we tried voting and our educational system is so sabotaged that we do not know what else is possible
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I feel the same way. But TBF I live in a country that voted for brexit. Essentially voted for sanctions against ourselves FFS, even though it should clearly have seemed like a horrible idea to everyone at the time. It's not the same as electing an actual fascist but I'm just saying that Americans aren't the only electorate that makes terrible decisions based on ignorance, xenophobia and misinformation.
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There's a giant difference between hiring and firing in the civil service and declaring a new Constitutional Amendment without Congress or the States approving it.
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That's true. It is a human trait. But at the moment the ones making that mistake again are the Americans.
It it was unprecedented, would it be more or less forgivable? I don't know really.
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The “Day One” Dictator who idolizes Hitler, Pooh Bear, and Putin says what?
