He does something illegal on a practically daily basis and everyone just kisses his ass. Now I guess he can just continue on and conquer the whole world and kidnap world leaders. Why doesn’t anyone stand up to this asshole?
He does something illegal on a practically daily basis and everyone just kisses his ass. Now I guess he can just continue on and conquer the whole world and kidnap world leaders. Why doesn’t anyone stand up to this asshole?
What about all the world leaders, tech leaders, democrats, liberals, other countries? It feels like no one is doing anything except maybe Schumer sending a strongly worded letter.
World Leaders/Other Countries : Mostly cowed by the US military and money. Those that aren’t are mostly happy to watch the US self immolate.
Tech Leaders: Combination of either agreeing with him or willing to go along so he doesn’t turn on their companies.
Democrats: Don’t have control of any part of any branch of the federal government, tend to play by the rules and don’t know how to handle someone who doesn’t.
Liberals ( assuming colloquial US definition) : Have been protesting, voting, and otherwise opposing him, but haven’t reached critical mass to convince Republican politicians to stop supporting trump.
They have an unwavering devotion to a terminally flawed system.
The system has been rewarding them handsomely so far, but getting votes AND corporate money is a thin rope to walk on, and Trump has grabbed it mostly for himself and now has both.
The Democratic party, as it has existed until now, is dead.
The “popular” Dems (Bernie, AOC, Mandani, etc) need to jump ship and create a true “fuck the rich” party. They’ll win.
Where I live most liberals are too busy thought-policing each other and trying to ‘out’ eat other as closeting trump supporters to do anything effectively. They are scared of their own shadows.
I used to be part of a few community orgs, I left last year because I was so done with people telling me how if I’m not foaming at the mouth angry at working-class white people and virtue signalling constantly about how pure I am, then I’m a nazi. It was so petty to the point I got screamed at for wearing a trucker hat that I was secretly a Trump supporter, because ONLY TRUMP SUPPORTERS WEAR HATS. Shit was utterly insane.
It’s hard to organize and get together with people when they won’t accept your support/efforts if its anything less than their ideal.
They are. World leaders are just as horrified/pissed off as Democrats. China is pushing back, and you see what the cost is to our economy. Republicans don’t care. They have the mindset that their only responsibility is to benefit themselves, ie. greed is good.
Speaking as “other countries”. Not our circus not our monkeys.
We are avoiding the USA as much as we can. We’re trying to route around the problem. But what can we really do?
At the moment we’re feeling betrayed, but we have to manoeuvre to protect ourselves and try to avoid a world war. But we’re making plans which increasingly don’t include the USA and just hoping for the best and that you guys don’t pull us under with you. You can only let a former friend hurt you so many times.
It’s very sad to see what you guys are going through but sad things have happened to good people throughout history unfortunately. And we’re philosophical about it that it’s your turn now and we’re secretly relieved it isn’t us.
We do hope you guys can turn things around but we’ve kinda made peace with that fact that the world has changed and we’re trying to move on with things we actually can control.
Sorry. And good luck! 🤷♂️
Lol. Australians still haven’t decided whether Aboriginies or Torres Islanders count as human beings. You live in a nanny state that has some of the most restrictive Internet censorship laws in the world. Your Parliment has enacted 76 pieces of “counter-terrorism” legislation since 2001 that have tacitly ended any protections for the free press. You’re income inequality is at a 20 year high.
You don’t need our help to go under, ratbag.
Brexit showed that it is the same circus
Stopped being not your circus not your monkeys when he invaded Venezuela. Greenland, Panama, or Colombia is next. Appeasement only ends one way.
consider how the other world wars started.
rich guys wanting war to increase trade and decrease national class-struggle within the nation’s borders (including foreign support)
Serious reverse question: what about them? Like what do you genuinely think they’re supposed to do against America?
Boycott, storm the capital, revolt, sanction, impeach, stop taking the high ground and start fighting dirty. There’s probably a lot of things that could be done.
Boycott what exactly? Sanction America? Do you think countries will jeopardize their economies or safety over Maduro? Do you understand how dangerous and serious American threats are?
Storm the capital and revolt? You first buddy, also do you mean the capitol in DC or mar a lago? Half the country support him and almost everyone are hundreds or even thousands of miles away from either capitol.
Impeachment requires 2/3 of the senate so why even suggest that if you know how it works
Stop taking the high ground and fight dirty? What does this mean? Republicans control the supreme court, the house of representatives, the senate, the executive branch, and 31 of the 50 states. This is not some fluke this is the America a LOT of people want.
I hope you’re going to vote in the next election
Impeachment requires a simple majority in the House, conviction and removal requires 2/3 of the Senate.
If he’s not removed it doesn’t matter
It’s still impeachment if he isn’t removed is my point.
Impeachment without removal is no different than Senator Collins saying, "He learned his lesson "
That’s still what the term means.
I think most people mean removed when they say impeach otherwise it literally doesn’t matter at all
Then “most people” are wrong.
Trump was already impeached twice.
Crap, I’m probably on a watchlist now. Nice knowing you all.
everyone’s on a watchlist when it’s this level of paranoia in state mate
the only bad thing for you to do is shutting up and sitting down.
that’s the only end goal, along with misdirection into paranoia of your own
Boycott: Good news! There are a lot of those happening, but it hasn’t shifted things enough yet.
Storm the capital: To what end? Seriously, assuming a large enough group of people took over the capital building or White House, what next? Trump would be evacuated elsewhere and still have full control of the military which could easily put down the crowd.
Revolt: What would this entail? Yes, if a critical mass of Americans organized to get Trump and rewrite the constitution then maybe we could get somewhere but that large of a critical mass doesn’t exist yet. Remember, that would be a fight against about 1/3 of the US population plus the military.
Sanction: The US is the largest economy in the world and is in control of the most important currency. It’s impossible to sanction the US until both of those change.
Impeach and Remove: Requires a majority of representatives and 2/3 majority of senators. You need to convince a lot of republicans to make that happen.
Fight dirty: What does that mean, exactly?
I don’t know, but something has to be done or we could just watch western civilization crumble along with the end of democracy .
Start disregarding their side of the treaties they have with the USA that Trump has effectively torn up. Sell off their US bonds. Strengthen political and trade alliances that don’t include the USA. Stop sharing intelligence with the USA. Boycott US goods and services and switch infrastructure away from US companies.
I think you will find that most countries didn’t really have a choice in buying bonds from the US. Selling them would not end well for the respective countries