Still an untrustworthy partner who is rotten at the core.
I think of them more like the wife of an abusive stepfather.
Like, they don’t like what’s happening, and they have the power to put an end to it, but it would be hard.
It would be a choice they’d have to make, and they’d have to live with the consequences, and they can’t quite convince themselves to do what they have to do in order to protect their kid.
They justify it to themselves saying that many times are good, and overlook the times where it’s horribly, horribly bad.
And I feel like the only way to solve the problem is for the kid to grow up and leave them behind, but there are many kids, and they are not in agreement as to how to do it, or if it’s even bad in the first place.
It’s a lot simpler than that. If we stand up for ourselves we get shot.
I get the impression that a lot of Americans think that Trump merely ruffled some feathers on the international scene, and that a charm offensive will set things right once he’s gone.
From the outside, we watched you elect Trump twice, and have no reason to believe that the GOP won’t finish what he started. We’ve seen that Americans need to be pushed to the absolute brink before leaning into civic duty and voting. That’s fine and well, except for the fact that they’re a superpower, and the rest of the planet can suffer mightily, while Americans put in suboptimal effort into holding their government accountable.
Until proven otherwise, the United States is always one election cycle away of picking up right where the Trump regime left off.
The above is the undercurrent of my thoughts when getting into the profound fuckover inflicted on my country, while the entirety of the GOP went along with it gleefully.
The GOP barely exists now, because of Trump. This used to be a soft power game, lots of behind the scene back room deals. Obama even said corruption under Trump was better than before him because it was public, and in my opinion being done by incompetent idiots where before it was private and being done by very smart and very ruthless men. All of the real GOP has been slowly pushed out since the tea party came to power, if Europe was serious they’d be pointing to the tea party not Trump but that’s neither here nor there. Now it’s just a bunch of obviously stupid obviously incapable corporate puppets clearly unable to keep up the illusion that keeps the money faucets running. The GOP died and what’s left is eating its self. The real issue here is how obviously weak our left wing is, it doesn’t matter if our Conservative Party implodes if our “liberal” party can’t constitute something meaningful and long lasting. We need money out of politics now or the right will rise from the ashes cloaked in back room deals and run by ruthless competent men again.
I would say that Trump exists BECAUSE of the GOP.
Reagan existed BECAUSE of the GOP.
W Bush existed BECAUSE of the GOP.
We are at the apex of the Republican utopia, purchased by the rich, for the rich, where anything goes IF you are rich and the managed dolts keep cheering it on.
This is a minor disruption for the ruling elite. Nothing is going to change behind the scenes because really nothing has changed.
Don’t trust us.
We put this fuckface in power twice, and did absolutely nothing effective to stop him for TWO YEARS of his second round, even with the countless easily impeachable offenses he committed and bragged about on public television.
Make that trust need to be earned back.
America has a systemic issue, they were handed the tools to start fixing it. Abolishing the electoral college should be doable now for example. Also lying to congressional committees should carry a penalty.
I’ll see after the next presidential election if they’re worth forgiving.
We have spent years demeaning and undermining our allies, you don’t just get that trust back because of one day of voting
I still wouldn’t trust them, glad to see the Trumpists fail but I feel like Trump is more of a symptom.
American here: He is.
Same as last year and all the decades before it. Inconsistent, untrustworthy, and overwhelmingly self serving.
Like we did 3 days ago,
One change for a day doesn’t prove a thing
We’re a schizophrenic in a period of lucidity. That doesn’t mean you should trust us around the sharp objects.
No difference. It doesn’t matter who you have in charge of one part of your gov they all answer to the same money masters.
The same fascist laws will be passed and none will be repealed.
The dnc leadership, the neo-liberals, are definitely slaves to the same masters, but you absolutely can’t earnestly say with evidence that both parties pass the same fascist policies. Pretending or claiming they are the same after the Trump presidencies shows immediately the claimant is either ignorant and just parrots divisive rhetoric they read on edgy social media outlets, or they’re actively pushing destructive narratives to divide what has been shown to be a very cohesive movement when it needed to be. Both parties do not appoint the same quality Supreme Court justices, they don’t pass the same types of laws, the presidents don’t behave the same or treat people the same. Are there problems with both? Absolutely, big ones. But they are not the same, that’s obvious to anyone with two brain cells these days.
Because how may laws were repealed when the “blue” team were in charge last time?
Surely not signing away a strike by rail workers, maintaining ice funding put in place by previous congresses.
The last time? Dems didn’t have control of all three branches like republicans just did.
Obama had both the house and senate when he became president, and he did exactly NOTHING with it. So the advantage was lost.
Sure… I mean, other than “some of the most significant domestic legislation in modern U.S. history”, like -
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA / “Obamacare”): A comprehensive healthcare reform law that expanded Medicaid, created health insurance marketplaces, and prohibited insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA): An $831 billion economic stimulus package passed in response to the Great Recession, aimed at saving and creating jobs, investing in infrastructure, and providing tax relief.
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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: A massive overhaul of financial regulation designed to prevent another financial crisis, which included the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
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The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009: The first bill Obama signed into law, which loosened the statute of limitations for filing equal-pay lawsuits regarding wage discrimination.
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The Credit CARD Act of 2009: Fair lending legislation that established fairer practices for credit card companies, such as restricting arbitrary interest rate hikes and hidden fees.
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The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act: Legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco products.
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SCHIP Reauthorization: An expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to provide health coverage to millions of additional children from low-income families.
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010: A landmark civil rights law allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces.
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The New START Treaty: A bipartisan nuclear arms reduction treaty ratified with Russia to reduce the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers.
The Affordable Care Act
Did not result in healthcare for all, and was based on a concept designed by Mitt Romney. It also makes so more people join the program, saving cost for the public budgets, so in a way it’s also a tax on the poor. Not helping the economic balance much.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Helping the economy is also in the interest of wall street.
Wall Street reform to prevent a financial crisis happening.
Again is in everyones interest. That is in no way contrary to the interest of the 1% or Wall Street, despite their claims that any regulation is bad.
OK I never said they are equally bad, Republicans are clearly worse. What I’m saying is that Democrats as a party still work for Wall Street, and then throw some crumbs to the people, and protect rights of minorities and environment more.
So clearly the Democrats are better, but they are still very right wing by European standards. You could say just left of fascism.
If we take Germany as an example the AfD is as bad as the Republicans, And German traditional right wing parties are much like the Democrats.
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Biden changed almost none of all the shit Trump had done.
First I’d like to thank you for voting for the right choice of the two sides that you can choose from. Well done.
Then… I’d like to continue shaming USA for having such a close election. It might be the most clear election in recent history, but it should still not be this close. There obviously is a very large number of people in USA who are still dangerous idiots.
Putting a mark correctly on a ballot is just not going to cut it. I need to see action taken to redeem the many years of doing wrong.
I will continue boycotting products from USA until the day they no longer put children and other innocent people in concentration camps and until they come up to speed on at least attempting to save the climate from the obscene overconsumption and destruction that their idiotic lifestyle causes.
I hope to see a democratic president at the next election and I hope the democrats will finally get the power and clarity to start collaboration with the rest of the world.
Finally I would like to thank the republicans for showing the world and the population of USA that american exceptionalism does in fact not work.
It’s a bit early, isn’t it? Their election’s only just been.
Trump released the floodgates for conservatism and bigoted views. Trump gave my politicians, as a Canadian, an excuse to act against all social and environmental welfare in the name of this fucking ridiculous trade war. The democrats aren’t going to do shit to reverse the damage that’s been done in my country.
While I’m happy that people might suffer less in the US (I won’t hold my breath), the apathy, complacency, and outright hatred that created this situation has spread like a fucking virus and I will not forgive for that.
Nothing changed. Talk again in 2,5y and see if you keep it up.
Yes we are working on it, but Americans need to constantly tell their reps what they want and VOTE in future elections. Or the pendulum will just swing back to the right again in 2-4 years.
I won’t lie, there’s only a very moderate sigh of relief for me personally.
Trump will be a lame duck now, so the messes he can make will be fewer.
But I’m not sure I trust the American people quite yet. They still elected Trump twice.
As a European, I also don’t think we can return to business as usual, because USA is still an unreliable partner.
Even a new relatively good president in the next presidential election will not change that.Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr. 2 times, and now Trump 2 times, paints a pretty horrible picture of American politics.
And even Obama was a war criminal, even though he was better than average, and very liked in Europe. He was not the humanitarian he painted himself as in his speeches. He was still all about American exceptionalism.So I think we will have to wait about 12 years to know if USA is on a better path or not. Until then extreme caution is recommended.
