We’re very quickly going to be the most hated and isolated democracy on the planet. And we’ll deserve it. www.wsj.com/world/americ... - ThreadSky

radleybalko.bsky.social • 28 days ago

We’re very quickly going to be the most hated and isolated democracy on the planet. And we’ll deserve it.

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-says-colombia-will-face-25-tariffs-amid-fight-over-deportation-flights-e32dc497?mod=mhp

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dickjolliffe.bsky.social•27 days ago

“Democracy”?

tmoore88.bsky.social•28 days ago

Democracy?

terrypasta.bsky.social•27 days ago

Within a few months, it's going to be deeply embarrassing to come from any country that's not under US sanctions.

corozal39.bsky.social•27 days ago

We already are hated. But we will quickly be most hated.

lagloriacubano.bsky.social•27 days ago

Most flowers for Valentines Day come from Columbia. 🤔

happy2behere.bsky.social•28 days ago

Yup!

Congrats MAGA voters 🤬 Enjoy those coffee ☕️ prices. You want some eggs 🍳 with that? 📈

devereuxdd.bsky.social•27 days ago

The felon is having a hissy fit.

gimmecofferplz.bsky.social•28 days ago

Of course, with a petty toddler and destructive advisors leading the way down.

fiztig.bsky.social•27 days ago

I’m afraid the US is not a reliable ally anymore. We can’t keep lurching from dealing with a relatively normal sane govt to Crazytown, and certainly not the Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard type of insanity.

hopefulinthepeaks.bsky.social•28 days ago

Commiserations, you don’t all deserve it! It’s like the UK and Brexit, the people who didn’t want it and voted against it suffer at least as much as the idiots who did

rmappleby.bsky.social•27 days ago

And (from experience) the rest of the world won’t care how you personally voted, you’ll just be one of “Trumps Americans” ☹️

msles.bsky.social•28 days ago

Now coffee is going to join eggs in things we can't afford to buy.

veraloquor.bsky.social•27 days ago

I hear that ordinary folk are cheering the collapse of the woke elites, but that's just not true is it? I mean, we're the good guys, right?

camplink.bsky.social•28 days ago

Men are too emotional to be in positions of power.

henriksvendborg.bsky.social•27 days ago

You are no longer a democracy🤔

kajo503.bsky.social•28 days ago

Hilarious and stupid, i.e., FAFO. Independent coffee roasters all over the USA who import Columbian coffee beans are going to go out of business, or double their prices.

Of course, the MAGAs are going to pretend that those coffee entrepreneurs are all liberal hippies...

peoriabummer.bsky.social•27 days ago

Not only that, if even one country weathers this and comes out the other side, we’ll also be impotent. Hated, isolated, AND not taken seriously by anyone.

mockgod.bsky.social•27 days ago

democracy? going to be?

isolated? now, THAT is the truly interesting question, esp. coming from one of your puppydogs

gyost09.bsky.social•27 days ago

Soooo, I guess we’re just gonna blow off the whole drug enforcement/FARC insurgency support thing?

cv-danes.com•27 days ago

And the people who voted for Trump danced when he won. They literally danced.

kelpieracer.bsky.social•27 days ago

No problem. Seems like you won't be called 'a democracy' for long

aobmotomasa.bsky.social•27 days ago

Democracy for how much longer?

tekrantz.bsky.social•27 days ago

MAGA delenda est #magadelendaest

the-old-dog.bsky.social•27 days ago

Are we not there yet?

ronpluth.bsky.social•28 days ago

We are being “governed” by a mob boss.

shanti2.bsky.social•27 days ago

That's an insult to mob bosses.

khadzuki.bsky.social•27 days ago

The Italian mob would beat and or kill you for breaking the rules. Weird how one of NYs most notorious criminal organizations has more morals than something as "prestigious" as Presidency.

shanti2.bsky.social•27 days ago

Way more intelligent and disciplined, too.

themuttering.bsky.social•27 days ago

Except we are not a democracy anymore

grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social•28 days ago

Nothing more disproves the existence of some shadowy deep state or canal that runs the world than the fact that Trump is still alive. If such an entity existed they would have hit him with the secret heart attack/stroke/cancer gun sometime in 2021 just to be safe

cancelcultureclub.bsky.social•27 days ago

💯 whatever happened to quiet quitting??

cmit11.bsky.social•27 days ago

We tried but the dart could not penetrate the protective fat layer

keleven.bsky.social•27 days ago

You're really saying that after the deep state tried to have him killed twice? lol

mhaberman00.bsky.social•28 days ago

Not to go tinfoil hat, but if they were looking to trash the us led post ww2 order, it is hard to imagine any Manchurian candidate doing anything diff than what orange guy is going now.

fsherman.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yes I find the idea Putin is pulling the strings a lot more credible of late

iconoplasty.bsky.social•27 days ago

I've been saying that since 2017.

We both are right.

elonrusk.bsky.social•27 days ago

The Mandarin Candidate.

eriklevin.bsky.social•27 days ago

There is no democracy🤡just as Frump promised he and Worst lady Mask a dictatorship of insanity.

cindypestka.bsky.social•27 days ago

There's a typo..."democracy" should be spelled "dictatorship".

zbris.bsky.social•28 days ago

That’ll take the heat off us (uk)

johnqpublic.bsky.social•28 days ago

Same as it ever was.

Americans may forget Vietnam, Iraq, and Gaza, but the rest of the world doesn’t.

clairenf.bsky.social•27 days ago

We’re very quickly not going to be a democracy. As well as hated and isolated.

niceandinnocent.bsky.social•28 days ago

Don't worry, we probably won't be a democracy for much longer

theglassisempty.bsky.social•28 days ago

“Democracy” doing some serious lifting there.

mchristinalo.bsky.social•28 days ago

I know we're gonna hurt from it, but I fully support any country that pushes back against #Felon47.

usernamekelly.bsky.social•27 days ago

I hate that I laugh at it. But I love watching other countries telling that felon to f off.

sscardocchia.bsky.social•27 days ago

Democracy?

sandrineas.bsky.social•27 days ago

most isolated country on the planet for sure, but not a democracy...

stroligus.bsky.social•28 days ago

The guy will eventually start a war over this 💩

vultey.bsky.social•27 days ago

Enjoy your expensive coffee powered by maga

matthewsp.bsky.social•28 days ago

You mean the "most hated and isolated 'democracy' on the planet"

nostaticatall.bsky.social•28 days ago

Its hard when Israel is right there

gcnp58.bsky.social•27 days ago

If any country could "out Israel" Israel, the US could

nostaticatall.bsky.social•27 days ago

“The only democracy in North America” —someone has earnestly said this within the past month I’m sure of it

franksky.bsky.social•28 days ago

« Democracy »

whittlesworth.bsky.social•28 days ago

democracy?

iconoplasty.bsky.social•27 days ago

Just wondering when we expect to be a democracy again

arelious.bsky.social•27 days ago

Time for you to catch up on the news.

tomraftery.com•27 days ago

Democracy? 😆😆😆

jryanfish.bsky.social•27 days ago

The "democracy" part of this is starting to seem awfully optimistic to me.

vegantankgrrrl.bsky.social•27 days ago

first they came for the immigrants, and we spoke out a little bit.
then they came for DEI,
and we boycotted Target.
then they came for coffee,
AND EVERYONE RIOTED.

hatchback.bsky.social•27 days ago

We’re a democracy?

yojimbo1212.bsky.social•27 days ago

Elect a demented old man with self-regulation issues and this is what you get.

mizgekko.bsky.social•27 days ago

democracy? I guess we still qualify. for now.

elaren.bsky.social•27 days ago

Except by then (soon) we’ll no longer be a democracy

soonersean.bsky.social•27 days ago

So we can forget about eggs… get ready for your coffee to cost more.

mellowdeb.bsky.social•28 days ago

Are we still a democracy? 😔

soithinkicandance.bsky.social•28 days ago

...ermmmm....ahhh...well...

brienmcmullen.bsky.social•27 days ago

This is the sort of thing that causes currency collapse and then triggers a big wave of migrants at our southern border.

Trump wrecked Venezuela and then Biden was blamed when millions of Venezuelans arrived as refugees.

timglennroberts.bsky.social•27 days ago

Happy Valentine's Day... https://www.progressivepolicy.org/trade-fact-of-the-week-each-january-the-u-s-imports-11-million-roses-a-day/

hoosierdevil.bsky.social•27 days ago

The - ironic? Sad? - thing is that America has been so effective at dictating foreign and economic policies to its benefit around the world for 75 years using soft power, diplomacy, consensus building. The things MAGA abhors. Bullying will be far less effective and is not in our interests.

mtbpeter.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yes, its your own fault.

surprisedface.bsky.social•28 days ago

Should probably stop calling it a democracy too while we’re at it

nyc118.bsky.social•28 days ago

I honestly am not booking travel because I am embarrassed to be from the US.

nyc118.bsky.social•28 days ago

And heaven forbid people think I am ok with all this.

ophelia4now.bsky.social•27 days ago

My daughter has had an overseas trip planned for nine months. She supposed to leave next month. She actually asked if they were gonna let her back in.

nyc118.bsky.social•27 days ago

I am an old white cis woman but what if you are brown, black, trans, non-English speaking… ??? I remember being pulled out of the line at an airport in Spain (with our then tween daughter) and having to unpack under the gaze of soldiers with guns during Iraq war.

nyc118.bsky.social•27 days ago

We also were in the midst of an antiwar protest in Madrid. Daughter thought we should join. Had to explain that we were visitors.

ophelia4now.bsky.social•27 days ago

She going to Iceland. I think she’ll be ok there. If not we have friends in Scotland. She could there. She is a Caucasian young adult. She has traveled internationally before and has street smarts. I am preparing for anything tho

shanti2.bsky.social•27 days ago

I tell people that I'm from California.

craigwinston.bsky.social•27 days ago

What does the destabilization of Colombia bring Trump or his allies?

debgen.bsky.social•27 days ago

We’re really not a democracy right now.

ohgeejabari.bsky.social•27 days ago

Air-quotes “democracy”

davemc5192.bsky.social•27 days ago

Nah! He’s punishing Americans. They’re the ones who’ll pay 25% more for their coffee.

samchaffee.com•27 days ago

Maybe not for long, at least as far as the democracy part goes.

lizb59.bsky.social•28 days ago

Everything is retaliation. He doesn't see us as a country of 335,000,000 people, nor does he understand his personal affronts and slights to his ego affect ALL of us. It's just how do I teach so-and-so a lesson. You got old-ass peckerwood Chuck Grassley pushing back? He's going down, mark my words.

edlorah.bsky.social•28 days ago

We're a democracy?

jasonpaul.bsky.social•27 days ago

*democracy

1smith4theroad.bsky.social•28 days ago

Isolation is a feature, not a bug, of what trump is doing. Heck, it’s a primary feature.

akashicspy.bsky.social•27 days ago

You're no longer a democracy. You also no longer have friends or allies. You are surrounded by a world of enemies you expect to provide you with food and other resources. Can't see that relationship evolving in your favor. We're moving on without you. Sorry to those who didn't vote Trump.

garethllevans.bsky.social•27 days ago

Autocracy Radley, not democracy

jamesbradley59.bsky.social•28 days ago

Very quickly? I’d say you’ve already achieved that status.

Trump is such a spoilt child.

jarriesam.bsky.social•28 days ago

I’ve news for you, you live in a dictatorship not a democracy. There is no
Rule of law in the US

cmit11.bsky.social•27 days ago

That is my take on it. The whole world will hate us.

jbsibley.bsky.social•27 days ago

Well, a dying democracy.

twavster.bsky.social•27 days ago

We kinda deserve to be in time out for a little bit.

dmh-gd3.bsky.social•27 days ago

This past week seemed like a year …

lisadave.bsky.social•27 days ago

That’s a fact

2000manbelfast.bsky.social•27 days ago

Hate to break it to you but that happened a long time ago. This has all just reinforced it

crystalpepsi.bsky.social•28 days ago

We’re going to find out just how dispensable the United States actually is

aow.bsky.social•27 days ago

I would call it ‚fascist oligarchy‘ - democracy in the US died on November 5th 2024…

yellingattheclouds.bsky.social•27 days ago

We lost democracy status 3 months ago

scottwhitegloves.bsky.social•27 days ago

You already are

catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com•27 days ago

I don’t think they’ll miss us at the G8 summit this year

catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com•27 days ago

Unless we go as Putin’s plus one

catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com•27 days ago

airquotes “democracy”

imacanadianinusa.bsky.social•27 days ago

Dick being a dictator

waterblusky.bsky.social•27 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/waterblusky.bsky.social/post/3lgo7lsnoac2f

jasonpaul.bsky.social•27 days ago

It's also a crime against humanity.

gjb240.bsky.social•27 days ago

We are already there. I think very soon we will be the most mocked.

senorgreygoose.bsky.social•27 days ago

Who were the deportees? Any true criminals or just people trying to find a better life?

wakemeupwhenhedies.bsky.social•28 days ago

If not already. Denmark is going to need to deploy troops to Greenland.

camminati.bsky.social•28 days ago

Democracy?

johnnyblaze999.bsky.social•27 days ago

A functioning democracy would have thrown his ass into jail by now...

keleven.bsky.social•27 days ago

We aren't a democracy, we're a constitutional republic

godofdun.bsky.social•27 days ago

Absolutely. He's pushing everyone away, and the BRICS is waiting.

mcguinnessj.bsky.social•28 days ago

Pretty much.

jaymarose.bsky.social•27 days ago

We are not Russia, fascist Italy or New Jersey governors. We don’t bully, threaten allies, lie, wage wars of expansion, negate treaties, commit genocide & forced replacement in multiple countries, wage a trade war and bug out of the world community.

Do it. Trade security as needed but come at him.

flopsie.bsky.social•28 days ago

for an encore, he can start a war with the EU.

bryaninmt.bsky.social•27 days ago

What a petty, fragile, little man.

wopiti.bsky.social•27 days ago

Given time he won’t have to worry about migrants who would want to migrate to a country where even its citizens can’t afford to live

edwardtyler.bsky.social•27 days ago

Chump is a fucking toddler.
And if, oh I don’t know…. say….

COFFEE

Prices go through the roof, this caffeine addicted country may burn Casa del Orange Shit Goblin to the ground.

olivercorlett.bsky.social•27 days ago

Nah, they'll just blame Biden

jonty24.bsky.social•28 days ago

So sad to see this happening so quickly.

gatherdarkness.bsky.social•27 days ago

We are no Democracy.

potatobadger.bsky.social•27 days ago

Going to be? Oh sugar, you're already there

chrisgbedford.bsky.social•27 days ago

How soon do we start putting an asterisk after "democracy"?

lacydw.bsky.social•27 days ago

That was the plan. As a Baby Boomer, I only have +/- 25 years left on Earth 1...so I have to retain some level of self-preservation, and MAJOR sense of humor about it all. I didn't vote for this bozo et al.

welshborat.bsky.social•28 days ago

Democracy? You think?

maraleia.bsky.social•27 days ago

It can't come fast enough for me.

unburdened88.bsky.social•27 days ago

and the richest and most powerful because of sensible policies and showing strength

shauntla.bsky.social•27 days ago

You are no longer a democracy

anhos.bsky.social•28 days ago

What do we get from Colombia other than cocaine?That actually might effect him and his cabinet!

skt4.bsky.social•27 days ago

Most of our coffee is Colombian

anhos.bsky.social•28 days ago

I wouldn’t call us a democracy anymore.The next election will be a sham one I bet.

ophelia4now.bsky.social•27 days ago

There may not be another election

kenboulder.bsky.social•27 days ago

Democracy?

jcortazar.bsky.social•28 days ago

He *still* does not understand what tariffs are. He absolutely thinks this is like a fine Venezuela has to pay. If they don't comply, oh well, we'll make money from it. To be clear it does hurt Venezuela too, just not in the way Trump thinks

danielafanador.co•27 days ago

You mean Colombia?

jcortazar.bsky.social•27 days ago

Ha! Yes. Brain short-circuited

realitycheck.bsky.social•28 days ago

What I'm reading now: "The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization".

Quick summary: US isolationism will cause a global apocalypse. Everyone will suffer, but North America will suffer least.

Good uplifting read.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-end-of-the-world-is-just-the-beginning-peter-zeihan?variant=39663400648738

oasisbysea.bsky.social•27 days ago

Ending treating of HIV for child just seems some kind of extra cruelty. Like give them a years notice at least.

andyjabbour.bsky.social•28 days ago

Economic warfare is no way to make friends or have meaningful durable influence. Turns out people hate being threatened. Who’d think it? 🤷🏽‍♂️

jotatx.bsky.social•28 days ago

Hated and isolated yes, democracy... not anymore.

nerdlove.bsky.social•28 days ago

Correction? Oligarchy.

spudder78.bsky.social•27 days ago

All countries should do the same!

rhdefense.com•28 days ago

There's a part of me that wants to see how much pain those who supported Trump can endure for that support.

I'm fairly certain I can survive the pain (among other reasons because I don't need much).

I can still afford eggs.

andros-haldane.bsky.social•27 days ago

cool, awesome, glad you're doing fine mr *checks notes* white male lawyer

andros-haldane.bsky.social•27 days ago

I'm sure you're a great guy

i just struggle with the position of "I hope 'they' suffer because I'm gonna be ok"

rhdefense.com•27 days ago

Well, it wasn't meant to be cold-hearted, although I can see that it could look that way. I'm talking about people who essentially asked for this. If they'd not voted for him, we all wouldn't be dealing with the fall-out of it. And when it comes down to it, I'd prefer NONE of us had to deal with it.

maggiemcneill.bsky.social•27 days ago

Goodbye.

rhdefense.com•27 days ago

Yep. I think I asked to be born as something else, but apparently the Universe wasn't listening.

andros-haldane.bsky.social•27 days ago

"fuck you, got mine" isnt the greatest look

rhdefense.com•27 days ago

I don't believe that's what I said. But you do you. You want to trash me for the fact I didn't choose the life of a brown-skinned disadvantaged person? (You realize I don't get that choice, right?) Go for it.

Or you could get to know me, and see who I fight for, and how.

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