Fuck you, fuck America, fuck Americans.
Yanks out!
I’m sorry to tell you but he represents most of you. Most either didn’t vote or voted for him.
That’s how democracy works though! It will take many generations of active work to change how the rest of the world sees USA let alone how USA sees USA
Americans elect their president to represent America. Sure, everybody might not fully agree with him, but democracy (if there’s some left) speaks for itself.
If POTUS is unhinged, whole America is unhinged. If POTUS is corrupted, whole America is corrupted. If POTUS can’t be trusted, whole America can’t be trusted. I could go on…
We all agree that German civilians were complicit in the Holocaust right? There were of course brave ones who died fighting the Nazi party take over or worked to evacuate Jewish people in secret but the rest got swept up and went along with it. So what’s the difference here?
How can anyone ever trust us as a country again? We’ve proven that every 4 years is a gamble where an insane moron could be put in charge. We’ve gone back on our word and betrayed our allies multiple times. If I were another country, I wouldn’t trust us ever again either.
As an American, fuck this cowardly shit. Enough people voted for this or didn’t vote at all to make it happen. Americans walked right into fascism through laziness or complicity. Democrats in Congress are doing next to nothing to fight back against this regime because they don’t want to upset their SuperPAC donors. They’re relying on a windfall during the midterms so that they can get into power and then still do nothing like they have been doing since Reagan. A government is a reflection of the people in a democracy. We made our bed and now we have to lie in it. We cannot expect others to clean up the messes we create or to excuse our bad behavior when it’s inconvenient for us. This “but I’m one of the good ones” take isn’t good enough. Resistance has to be more than op-eds and impassioned speeches. We bombed a school. We killed innocent children. I have not heard a single other person in my life try to cope with the guilt of that. Our discussions lasted as long as the news cycle and everyone just moved on. My tax dollars help pay for a bloated military budget that was used to end the lives of little kids on the other side of the planet who were just trying to go to school. We as a people need to sit with the reality of that and process the guilt instead of immediately finding reasons we should be excused. Maybe after some self reflection on actions and consequences, will we make better choices.
I love Robert Reich, but he should know better. The world needs to deal with the US skeptically from now until we clean up our house. Until we get rid of Citizens United and big money in politics. Until we shore up our gerrymandered districts. Until we deal with healthcare in our country in a real, meaningful way. Until we start taking care of those who own the least and stop catering to those who own the most, we should be handled with a ten-foot pole by the rest of the world. How can we say anything about the splinter in any other country’s eye while we have a log in ours?
How about “NO!”
As an American, this gives me the ick. We can’t just go back to the way things were when Trump is gone and expect the world to be cool with us. We need some serious systematic reform before anybody should dare trust us again.
The Republican party and its enablers should be dismantled.
From a foreign point of view, your entire political system needs to be dismantled. It’s very obviously broken.
Exactly. The Democratic party is just as corrupt and beholden to special interests. Nothing is going to change until money is removed from politics and media owners removed, it’ll never get better.
Your spokesperson represents you as your voice and your image abroad.
And your image abroad is …not good.
You voted for him.
Most of us did not
And yet he is in for round two.
Regardless he wasn’t popular and isn’t considered a standards bearer. The system is broke which means it works against the people… doesn’t reflect the people.
Overthrow him and his whole crooked regime, then we’ll talk.
We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can
No you’re fucking not.
We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can
No you are not. You’re eating fried chicken and attending sports events. The Indy 500 has now turned into the Nuremberg rally.
No one even questions why tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are pissed away on car sponsorship while toilets don’t even work in theatre of war.
If what they are doing is really “their best” then they are truly fucked.
And, frustratingly, they’ll take the rest of us down with them.
What, have patience while the US and its sidekick beat the crap out of the Middle East and the world economy?
But they stand with us, hashtag, of course.
Theirs is not to stand with us, its for people at the level of this bloke to organise the national shutdown, it’s logistics and support circles and for those below to urge people like him then participate in it, so the houses can be forced to act.
Tired of virtue signalling Americans. Every day, we all hate you more and more and no, it is not on us to be patient and considerate of the g00d On3z.
The author completely misses the point. Trump does in fact represent you. That’s how your system works.
But beyond that, the problem is deeper than him. He’s a symptom, not the disease. If the vaunted checks and balances worked, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. If there were a meaningful opposition, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. There were countless failures along the way that allowed the situation to get to where it is.
Even if you elect someone sane next time, there’s no guarantee it won’t happen again.
