ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
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Jonathan V. Last
America is over. There is no coming back from this.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
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Broken trust does a LOT of damage. Could it be earned back? Sure. But it will take a long, long time.
It's wild to see the Bulwark guy doomposting about the viability of the United States as an entity.
And, looking from Canada, he is indeed 100% right.
Those ships have sailed. Like Brexit, we'll never have it as good as we did before
Sometimes I like to daydream of how much better off the entire world would be right now if they had just done that instead of abdicating their duty. It's nice to imagine, at least
His conviction would have then immediately led to a vote to disqualify, which would pass and allow us to move on with him never to return to office EVER.
I'm sick of Americans having to be begged and cajoled to do the right thing and then being too damn lazy and stupid to actually do it.
The only conviction by now we would have seen was the documents case BUT they let Airhead Aileen handle the case unchallenged.
*THAT* was a major fucking mistake.
And no, we don't need to hang any kids. They didn't do anything to justify punishment.
After they're gibbeted, step two would be a whole new Constitution not predicated on officeholders acting altruistic.
reminds me of MLK's "promissory note" line - just because international law has been used as cover for First World domination doesn't mean it's a false ideal that can't be reclaimed and improved.
US: "But we're a founding member and have veto power!"
The UN: "We've locked the door. Veto deez nutz."
Like, on the one hand, we did it for power, but nobody seemed to want to say or do much about it.
We cannot be trusted.
Everyone else who actually cares for America or was once its ally knows every word of it is true and is ashamed at what our nation has become.
Is that asking too much?
I'm so sorry, world. Some of us are trying to claw back our country, but you're right to lose faith in us.
International relations wise yeah we're fucked.
This is why Democrats MUST start calling it a coup & occupation.
We must show that this government is as illegitimate as the Vichy regime was.
A hostile occupation betrayed our allies with the consent of GOP congressional leadership.
We cannot recover if we do not charge them for this treason.
GOP Congressional leadership has openly admitted Trump’s acts aren’t constitutional, and all have ignored our own security agencies threat assessments on Musk, instead aiding Musk’s coup.
They’ve publicly committed treason
For better or worse, people only get hanged for being convicted of one of them.
We also can’t undo past actions, only advocate for the most productive current and future actions.
maybe then we'll be seen as an at risk nation and people can actually claim asylum easily to leave this fucking shithole.
Time may heal all wounds, but deep wounds take a LOT of time.
The current admin is the first to treat for.pol. as a personal whim of the office holder. But it will take decades of constancy to get trust back after this.
Canada strong 🇨🇦
Ukraine strong 🇺🇦
...wasn't about our alliances, but he is correct on the topic of how other countries should approach the USA. All short-term actions with immediate benefits. Nothing on good faith or long-term.
We are all just posting on bluesky and the people who can fix this shit will either do it or not, no matter what we post. Things are bad. Just the way it is.
Wisconsin is weird though. Lotta good progressives, lotta reeeeeeeely not-good reactionaries.
That's what Trump does. That's why he is such a problem. Other Presidents have been bound by earlier commitments out of respect for the office if nothing else.
From an American perspective, this is yet another example of why competence and character matter to the Presidency.
This belief is the result of the blind spot created by the delusions of American exceptionalism...
The US benefits (benefitted?) from being a favored trading partner in a way that pretty much no other country could.
They're more afraid of that than any consequence from their political opponents, the Dems are utterly useless and too decorum-brained to even object.
The instability just kills any trust & willingness to work with someone. It might not be fair but the democrats need to realize that and find some way to sort it out.
He's still right though. Every MAGAt who pulled the lever or stayed home instead of voting for Harris has fucked over the country. They might as well have dug Washington up and hanged him.
Joe Biden was conservatism, which is broadly, a love of the status quo.
By that I don’t mean incremental steps towards existing goals - that’s a conservative approach.
What new, forward-looking policy goals did he enact?
In any other developed country, Biden would be the center-right candidate.
Maybe regressivism would be a better fit, linguistically.
And I’ll give Biden credit where it is due, especially on labor, but his reaction to the railroad strike outed him as basically conservative.
Sure, we may be able to rebuild what is being torn down inside the country, but those alliances? They're gone. At least for the next several decades. Re-earning trust will take hard work and a lot of internal changes. That takes time.
I mean, {gestures widely}, look what just happened!
Ima go work for EU defense
At best we’re gonna have to make the right calls for the next, oh, 50 elections or so and then maybe, just maybe any other nation on Earth will feel bold enough to reach out.
But this despicable betrayal ... I think it was the proverbial straw
I don't think you can read this part as about foreign policy, this is very clearly directed at the idea of domestic politics, even if the rest is FP oriented.
So, it was our institutions who failed to uphold our Constitution who gave us this.
Colorado & other states RIGHTLY tried to keep him off their ballots, but corrupt SCOTUS made up out of whole cloth that states couldn't keep him off. Such BS. States can for age & citizenship disqual.
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We are making the world less safe - people see nukes as the only guarantee of sovereignty, and if nukes exist they will be used.
You know what, it's good that the mask is off, at least we aren't pretending it's just business as usual.
NONE of them are reachable, they'll continue to vote this way and they've ruined our country
Anything short of burning down the GOP and admitting fault for this is going to play heavily into any considerations our allies make.
A fluke, if will.
After 4 years in office, after 34 felonies, after Roe v. Wade, after EVERYTHING - it's a whole different matter.
The US cannot be trusted. Not for a generation.
The US is more prone to this because we have more stars but...
It started ages ago, honestly the last 8 years it accelerated
America is racist and misogynist, even Biden voters.
Forever if we let white racism and fragility roadblock that
Vote him in once? Hey, he fooled us, we didn't know, our bad.
We fucking voted him in AGAIN. Every fucking country out there is WELL within their rights to assume this is indeed what we are.
We've shown you that we are an abusive gaslighting boyfriend type over and over.
It's time to leave U.S.
People need to reckon with the fact this is NOT a blip on the radar. People KNEW who Trump is, and voted for him anyways. People WANTED this. For whatever reason, a majority here want fascism.